Saturday, August 8, 2015

RSN: New Documents Show Authorities in British Columbia Are Monitoring Environmental Activists in Act of "Intimidation", Police 'Execution' of Jonathan Ferrell Video Roils Trial of Officer, The GOP Debate Almost Completely Ignored America's 45 Million Poor





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Andy Borowitz | Trump More Heinous Than Previously Thought
Scott Walker, Donald Trump and Jeb Bush. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "According to the poll, viewers who went into tonight's debate thinking that Trump was one of the most horrible people that they had ever seen were still totally unprepared for the depths of awfulness he displayed during the televised contest."
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The GOP Debate Almost Completely Ignored America's 45 Million Poor
Terrence McCoy, The Washington Post
McCoy writes: "Few real answers relating to poverty emerged in the course of the debate - and one of them carried wildly inaccurate information."
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Police 'Execution' of Jonathan Ferrell Video Roils Trial of Officer
Associated Press
Excerpt: "A forensic pathologist testified in graphic detail on Thursday about the 10 bullet wounds suffered by Jonathan Ferrell, an unarmed black man who was shot dead by a white Charlotte police officer."
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James Risen: APA to Vote on Barring Psychologists From Interrogations
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter James Risen, who has extensively reported on the APA's ties to the CIA and Pentagon's torture program and is in Toronto to cover the American Psychological Association's annual meeting."
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David Swanson | US Movies and TV Shows Have US Army Ratings
David Swanson, David Swanson's Blog
Swanson writes: "The U.S. Army and Air Force public relations offices have responded to a Freedom of Information Act request by releasing huge lists of movies and television shows that they have assessed and, at least in many cases, sought to influence. Here's the Army's PDF. Here's the Air Force's PDF."
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After Friday Prayers, the Murder of Another Secular Blogger
The Hindu
Excerpt: "A 40-year-old secular blogger was hacked to death at his flat here on Friday by five machete-wielding assailants. This is the fourth such brutal murder in Bangladesh this year."
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New Documents Show Authorities in British Columbia Are Monitoring Environmental Activists in Act of "Intimidation"
Travis Lupick, Al Jazeera America
Lupick writes: "Newly released documents show that police in British Columbia are monitoring opponents of oil pipeline development."
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