Thursday, September 3, 2015

RSN: Canada Denied Asylum for Drowned Syrian Boys Aylan and Galib Kurdi, Science-Based Solutions Reject Boyan Slat's Approach to Rid the Ocean of Plastic, Guatemalan President Resigns After Arrest Warrant Issued




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Andy Borowitz | Party That Mocked President's Lack of Experience Favors One With No Experience Whatsoever 
Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson. (photo: Darren McCollester/Andrew Burton/Getty) 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "Republicans, who mercilessly mocked Barack Obama's lack of government experience before he became President, now favor Presidential candidates with no experience whatsoever, the head of the Republican National Committee has confirmed." 
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Guatemalan President Resigns After Arrest Warrant Issued 
Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "Guatemala's President Otto Pérez Molina has resigned days before an election, after the attorney general obtained a warrant for his arrest amid a corruption scandal." 
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Canada Denied Asylum for Drowned Syrian Boys Aylan and Galib Kurdi 
Terry Glavin, Ottawa Citizen 
Glavin writes: "The two small boys whose bodies washed up on a Turkish beach Wednesday were Kurdish refugees from Kobane, Syria, whose family had been desperately trying to emigrate to Canada." 
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Did 'Ferguson Effect' Cause Murder Wave? No. Is There a Murder Wave? Unclear 
Jim Naureckas, FAIR 
Naureckas writes: "There's a more fundamental problem with the Times story than suggesting that criticizing police violence is (maybe) responsible for a rise in homicides: It's not clear that the rise in homicides that the story is pegged to actually exists as a nationwide phenomenon." 
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Plan Targets Health Care Bias Against Transgender People 
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press 
Alonso-Zaldivar writes: "The Obama administration proposed Thursday to ban discrimination against transgender people throughout the health care system, carrying out anti-bias provisions in the president's health overhaul." 
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Sandra Bland Activists Maintain Jail Vigil Despite Dimming Media Spotlight 
Tom Dart, Guardian UK 
Dart writes: "Bonner said she has made the journey from Houston on all but four or five days since activists started showing up at the jail 50 days ago, emphasising that she is not a protester but part of a 'peaceful prayer vigil here to honour Sandra Bland's life and to ask the questions in person that her family and friends are asking.'" 
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Science-Based Solutions Reject Boyan Slat's Approach to Rid the Ocean of Plastic 
Marcus Eriksen, EcoWatch 
Eriksen writes: "There are no islands of plastic, rather a smog of plastic that pervades the oceans. The last four years have produced more research publications on plastic marine pollution than the previous four decades. We understand the problem differently." 
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