Wednesday, August 5, 2015

RSN: Speed of Glacier Retreat Worldwide 'Historically Unprecedented', Cops Gun Down Unarmed Journalist's Career, Cop Plotted to Murder Black Man, Kept Job




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Greg Palast | Cops Gun Down Unarmed Journalist's Career 
Portrait Ted Rall. (photo: Barnes and Nobel) 
Greg Palast, Reader Supported News 
Palast writes: "Ted Rall is a lying, fantasist scum bag. Or maybe, just maybe, the LA Times, complicit with the Los Angeles police, have slandered and slimed America's toughest critic of police violence." 
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Jeb Bush Questions Need to Spend $500M on Women's Health Annually 
Sabrina Siddiqui, Guardian UK 
Siddiqui writes: "Jeb Bush on Tuesday questioned the need for the federal government to spend $500m on women's health annually - and despite his best efforts to clarify the remark, Democrats seized the moment to cast the Republican presidential candidate as anti-women." 
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Judge: Idaho's 'Ag-Gag' Law Is Unconstitutional 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "A federal judge ruled Monday that Idaho's law banning secret filming of animal abuse at agricultural facilities is unconstitutional." 
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US Prosecution of White Collar Crime Hits 20-Year Low: Report 
David Sirota, Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Andrew Perez, International Business Times 
Excerpt: "Federal prosecution of white-collar crime has hit a 20-year low, according to a new report on Department of Justice data." 
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Cop Plotted to Murder Black Man, Kept Job 
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK 
Swaine writes: "A police officer in Alabama proposed murdering a black resident and creating bogus evidence to suggest the killing was in self-defence, the Guardian has learned." 
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Exploding the Myth of Sanctuary Cities 
Ruben Navarrette Jr., The Daily Beast 
Navarrette writes: "Congress is all set to crack down on 'sanctuary cities' where illegal immigrants are supposedly free to roam. These cities do not exist in reality." 
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Speed of Glacier Retreat Worldwide 'Historically Unprecedented' 
Tim Radford, Guardian UK 
Radford writes: "In the past year or so, researchers have identified rapid rises in meltwater and alarming cases of glacial retreat in Greenland, West Antarctica, the Canadian and Alaskan coastal mountains, in Europe and in the Himalayan massif. They have also watched glaciers pick up speed downhill." 
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