Friday, October 2, 2015

RSN: Julian Assange: 'We Are Winning Because Secrets Breed Incompetency', The 264th Mass Shooting of the Year




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Tim Dickinson | The 264th Mass Shooting of the Year 
Students, staff and faculty are evacuated from Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, after a deadly shooting Thursday, October 1, 2015. (photo: Michael Sullivan/AP) 
Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone 
Dickinson writes: "This problem is unique to the United States in the developed world. It is a level of carnage that our national political system will not and cannot address, because of the strength of the NRA." 
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right' 
NPR 
Excerpt: "Everybody's coming around also to recognizing that any back door means a back door for bad guys as well as good guys. And so a back door is a nonstarter. It means we are all not safe. ... I don't support a back door for any government, ever." 
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Julian Assange: 'We Are Winning Because Secrets Breed Incompetency.' 
TeleSUR 
Excerpt: "Julian Assange is 'winning' in his conflict with the United States intelligence agencies, the WikiLeaks founder told a Latin American conference for the progressive left on Wednesday." 
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The Rock-Star Appeal of Bernie Sanders 
Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post 
Robinson writes: "First came the big crowds, now comes the big money. At this point, anyone who doesn't take Bernie Sanders seriously must not be paying attention." 
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Congress Fails to Reauthorize Funding for 9/11 First Responders and Survivors 
Marisa Taylor, Al Jazeera America 
Taylor writes: "Funding for the World Trade Center Health Program expired at midnight on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of its beneficiaries, who have health problems resulting from exposure to toxic chemicals at Ground Zero, wondering how they will continue their medical treatment." 
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Why Russia Has Started Bombing Syria Now - And What It Hopes to Achieve 
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent 
Cockburn writes: "President Vladimir Putin sought to portray the airstrikes as a pre-emptive attack against the Islamic militants who have taken over large parts of Syria and Iraq. Here's what we know about why Russia would want to target Isis groups." 
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Shell Has Given Up on Arctic Ocean Drilling, but Big Oil Still Wants to Get Into the Arctic Refuge 
Krista Langlois, Grist 
Langlois writes: "Even as green groups urge the oil industry to abandon its Arctic dreams, some analysts are predicting the world's growing population will require an additional 10 million barrels of oil a day between 2030 and 2040. And Alaska's politicians are determined to get a piece of the pie." 
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