Wednesday, October 21, 2015

RSN: ALABAMA: For Offenders Who Can't Pay, It's a Pint of Blood or Jail Time, GOP Congressman [Rep. Mo Brooks [R-Alabama] Wants to Impeach Hillary Clinton the 'Day She's Sworn In'



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Charles Pierce | GOP Congressman Wants to Impeach Hillary Clinton the 'Day She's Sworn In' 
Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama. (photo: The Huntsville Times) 
Charles Pierce, Esquire 
Pierce writes: "Ron Fournier is going to have to remind me again how the dysfunction of the Congress is the fault of both political parties." 
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Obama Misled the Public on Drones 
Arjun Sethi, Al Jazeera America 
Sethi writes: "New documents leaked to The Intercept show that Obama's claims on the drone wars were at best misleading and at worst false. In fact, the U.S. drone program is imprecise and arbitrary and a grave risk to civilians everywhere. It is also a program over which the president exercises little control." 
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For Offenders Who Can't Pay, It's a Pint of Blood or Jail Time 
Eyder Peralta, NPR 
Peralta writes: "The actions of a circuit judge in Marion, Ala., are raising all kinds of questions about the ethics of essentially sentencing someone to have a medical procedure." 
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Teen: My CIA Hack Was Pretty Easy 
Kim Zetter, Wired 
Zetter writes: "A hacker who claims to have broken into the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan says he obtained access by posing as a Verizon worker to trick another employee into revealing the spy chief's personal information."
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United Nations Downplays Drug-Policy Document Leaked by Richard Branson 
Dell Cameron, The Daily Dot 
Cameron writes: "The United Nations is backtracking from a document outlining a health- and human-rights-based approach to drug policy shortly after Virgin founder Richard Branson leaked it online." 
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For the First Time, Fukushima Worker Diagnosed With Cancer 
Yuki Oda and Justin Wm. Moyer, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "When meltdowns struck Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the wake of a devastating tsunami in 2011, more than 44,000 workers were deployed to take the facility safely offline. And for the first time, one of the workers involved in that cleanup has been diagnosed with cancer related to his job, as Japan's NHK reported." 
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Trudeau Win Marks New Era in Canada Green Policies, but Not on Keystone 
Ned Resnikoff, Al Jazeera America 
Resnikoff writes: "Liberal leader Justin Trudeau's resounding victory in Canada's election may signal the beginning of a new era in the nation's climate change policy, but anyone hoping for a reversal on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline may be disappointed." 
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