Saturday, September 5, 2015

RSN: Conservationists Protest Killing of Endangered North Carolina Red Wolves, In Baltimore, 2,000 Cases May Be Overturned Because Police Used Secret Stingray Surveillance, Sony Altered 'Concussion' Film to Prevent NFL Protests, Hacked Emails Show




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Robert Reich | What Happened to the Moral Center of American Capitalism? 
Robert Reich. (photo: Richard Morgenstein) 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog 
Reich writes: "An economy depends fundamentally on public morality; some shared standards about what sorts of activities are impermissible because they so fundamentally violate trust that they threaten to undermine the social fabric." 
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There's More to Obama's Arctic Trip Than Just Hypocrisy 
Steve Horn, Al Jazeera America 
Horn writes: "Obama just completed what in many ways was a historic trip: the first sitting President to visit Alaska's Arctic. He was there to bear witness to climate change's impacts." 
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In Baltimore, 2,000 Cases May Be Overturned Because Police Used Secret Stingray Surveillance 
Nicky Woolf, Guardian UK 
Woolf writes: "More than 2,000 cases could be overturned in Baltimore as the first motion for a retrial is filed accusing the state's attorney's office and the police of 'deliberate and willful misrepresentation' of the use of the secret surveillance equipment known as Stingrays." 
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Sony Altered 'Concussion' Film to Prevent NFL Protests, Hacked Emails Show 
Ken Belson, The New York Times 
Belson writes: "When Sony Pictures Entertainment decided to make a movie focusing on the death and dementia professional football players have endured from repeated hits to the head - and the N.F.L.'s efforts toward a cover-up - it signed Will Smith to star as one of the first scientists to disclose the problem. It named the film bluntly, 'Concussion.'" 
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Rising Up Against Police Violence, From the Black Panthers to #BlackLivesMatter 
Juan Thompson, The Intercept 
Thompson writes: "I turned away more than once while watching Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. I averted my eyes from the screen when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's nefarious mug first appeared. I turned away once more when the charismatic and admirable Fred Hampton was first shown, knowing that eventually he would be murdered by Chicago police and federal agents." 
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When Drivers in China Hit Pedestrians, They Make Sure to Kill Them 
Geoffrey Sant, Slate 
Sant writes: "In April a BMW racing through a fruit market in Foshan in China's Guangdong province knocked down a 2-year-old girl and rolled over her head. As the girl's grandmother shouted, 'Stop! You've hit a child!' the BMW's driver paused, then switched into reverse and backed up over the girl." 
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Conservationists Protest Killing of Endangered North Carolina Red Wolves 
Barbara Liston, Reuters 
Liston writes: "The federal wildlife service on Thursday stood by its decision to authorize recent killings of two highly endangered North Carolina red wolves on private property, despite plans by conservationists to sue." 
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