Tuesday, July 7, 2015

RSN: Death Toll Climbs as Weather Experts Link Pakistan Heatwave to Climate Change, NYPD Destroyed, Evidence Showing Cops Issued 850,000 Bogus Summonses to Meet Quotas, The Choice Ahead: A Private Health-Insurance Monopoly or a Single Payer





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Robert Reich | The Choice Ahead: A Private Health-Insurance Monopoly or a Single Payer 
Robert Reich. (photo: Robert Reich) 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog 
Reich writes: "The Supreme Court's recent blessing of Obamacare has precipitated a rush among the nation's biggest health insurers to consolidate into two or three behemoths." 
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FIFA's Sexist Shadow Looms Over US Women's World Cup Victory 
Joanna Robinson, Vanity Fair 
Robinson writes: "The U.S. women's national team beat Japan in a tremendous 5-2 victory Sunday night during the 2015 Women's World Cup final. Nothing could put a damper on the sheer exuberance pouring off the national team as they celebrated their first win since 1999." 
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Hacktivist Releases 400GB From Government Hacking Contractor Tied to Repressive Regimes 
Andy Greenberg, WIRED 
Greenberg writes: "Few news events can unleash more schadenfreude within the security community than watching a notorious firm of hackers-for-hire become a hack target themselves. In the case of the freshly disemboweled Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team, the company may also serve as a dark example of a global surveillance industry that often sells to any government willing to pay, with little regard for that regime's human rights record." 
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Extended Interview With Bree Newsome, Who Climbed Flagpole & Took Down SC Confederate Flag 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "We speak with Bree Newsome, who scaled the 30-foot flagpole at the South Carolina state Capitol on Saturday and brought down the Confederate flag." 
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Thomas Piketty Explains Why the Germans Are Being Massive Hypocrites About Greece's Debt 
Jordan Weissmann, Slate 
Weissmann writes: "Sure, Thomas Piketty comes up a lot in conversations about income inequality. But the man is good at putting economic issues into world-historical context and has some very strong opinions about the madness currently transpiring in Europe over Greece." 
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NYPD Destroyed Evidence Showing Cops Issued 850,000 Bogus Summonses to Meet Quotas 
Stephen Rex Brown, New York Daily News 
Brown writes: "The NYPD has no communications from then-Commissioner Raymond Kelly containing terms related to the word 'summons,' which one lawyer says is proof the department has destroyed evidence." 
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Death Toll Climbs as Weather Experts Link Pakistan Heatwave to Climate Change 
Saleem Shaikh, Climate News Network 
Shaikh writes: "Pakistan's lack of preparedness in the face of increasingly intense weather events is being blamed for a growing death toll following what has been one of the most sustained heatwaves in the country since records began." 
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