Sunday, July 19, 2015

RSN: Here We Go Again: Fracking Industry Mangles More Facts, Is the Political Imperative to Be 'Tough on Crime' Finally Over?,




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Eve Ensler | On Bill Cosby: Let the Mythical Daddy Die 
Eve Ensler. (photo: Brigitte Lacombe/TIME) 
Eve Ensler, TIME 
Ensler writes: "It is up to everyone to call out the behavior of perpetrators whether they be famous or not. We must, regardless of their status or fame or wealth or talent hold them to the same standards." 
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Bill Cosby 'Offered Women Money' for Silence After Sex 
BBC 
Excerpt: "American comedian Bill Cosby admitted trying to pay women to keep quiet after having sex with them, according to testimony obtained by the New York Times." 
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Trevor Timm | Is the Political Imperative to Be 'Tough on Crime' Finally Over? 
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK 
Timm writes: "President Barack Obama this week became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison, where he sounded more like a prison rights activist than a law-and-order president in his fantastic speech on the injustices faced by incarcerated Americans." 
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Black Lives Matter Disrupts Martin O'Malley, Bernie Sanders Event 
Ned Resnikoff, Al Jazeera America 
Resnikoff writes: "A town hall for Democratic presidential candidates turned chaotic on Saturday when protesters affiliated with the Black Lives Matter campaign took over the stage and confronted two prominent 2016 hopefuls." 
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio Won't Resign, Says His Deputies Don't Discriminate: Mexican Protesters Disagree 
Clark Mindock, International Business Times 
Mindock writes: "A stream of about 500 people came together to demand the resignation of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a controversial character in the debate over U.S. immigration policy known to his supporters as 'America's Sheriff' and to his opponents as an instigator of inhumane and racially biased policing." 
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US Border Patrol Violated Agency Rules in Deporting Thousands of Children 
Amanda Holpuch, Guardian UK 
Holpuch writes: "US border patrol agents violated agency rules in deporting thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children from 2009 to 2014, according to a federal audit released this week." 
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Here We Go Again: Fracking Industry Mangles More Facts 
Mark Brownstein, Environmental Defense Fund 
Brownstein writes: "A new set of peer-reviewed scientific papers pointing to 50 percent higher than estimated regional methane emissions from oil and gas operations in Texas were published this week. And like clockwork, the oil and gas industry's public relations machine, Energy In Depth (EID), proclaimed that rising emissions are actually falling." 
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