Monday, August 3, 2015

RSN: 6 Governors Who Refuse to Comply With Obama's Clean Power Plan, Court's "User Fees" Trap Ex-Felons in a Prison of Debt,




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Russell Brand | Death Takes Small Bites 
Russell Brand. (photo: Guardian UK) 
Russell Brand, Russell Brand's Blog 
Brand writes: "Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain in their recent documentaries, Amy and Montage Of Heck, are crowned as underworld deities in the 'they died too young' panoply." 
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Meet an Architect of Police Gun Violence 
Matt Apuzzo, New York Times 
Apuzzo writes: "The shooting looked bad. But that is when the professor is at his best. A black motorist, pulled to the side of the road for a turn-signal violation, had stuffed his hand into his pocket. The white officer yelled for him to take it out. When the driver started to comply, the officer shot him dead." 
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Trump: Barack Obama Will Be The Last Black President For Generations 
Goldie Taylor, Blue Nation Review 
Taylor writes: "Gilded gaffe machine Donald Trump is at it again. Not only does the casino mogul turned 2016 GOP hopeful think he will win over African American voters, he says President Barack Obama will likely be the last black president for generations to come." 
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Greek Stock Market Bloodbath as Exchange Reopens 
Derek Gatopoulos, Associated Press 
Gatopoulos writes: "Greece's stock market plunged over 22 percent as it reopened Monday after a five-week closure, giving investors their first opportunity since late June to react to the country's latest economic crisis." 
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Court's "User Fees" Trap Ex-Felons in a Prison of Debt 
E. Tammy Kim, Al Jazeera America 
Kim writes: "Jason Hill has been free, sober and out of trouble for six years, working, raising a son with his fiancée and seeing his mother through her last days. Yet he maintains the nervous hands and simmering gaze of a man just released from prison. His record seems to cast a permanent gloom over his prospects." 
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Over 100 Journalists Killed in Mexico in 15 Years 
teleSur 
Excerpt: "In the last 15 years 103 journalist have been killed in Mexico including the most recent homicide of photojournalist Ruben Espinosa who had fled the southeastern state of Veracruz fearing for his life after receiving death threats from the government of Javier Duarte." 
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6 Governors Who Refuse to Comply With Obama's Clean Power Plan 
Elliott Negin, Union of Concerned Scientists 
Negin writes: "Next week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce what may be the Obama administration's most far-reaching climate change initiative: its final rule for cleaning up existing electric power plants, the single largest source of U.S. carbon pollution." 
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