Monday, October 5, 2015

RSN: Retired Miners Screwed Over in Coal Bankruptcy Plan, Planned Parenthood President Slams Fiorina for Video 'Lie'




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Andy Borowitz | Jeb Bush Declares War on Stuff 
Jeb Bush. (photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "Hoping to stem the fallout from his comment in the aftermath of the Oregon rampage that 'stuff happens,' former Florida governor Jeb Bush said today that as President he would declare an ambitious 'war on stuff.'" 
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Laura Flanders | Cheney, Bush, Time to Give Your Homes to Refugees! 
Laura Flanders, TeleSUR 
Flanders writes: "Waterfront sunsets, oysters, cool breezes on white sails; I hope the Bushes and the Cheneys enjoyed their long vacation, because now it is time for them to hand over their vacation homes to refugees." 
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Trump: Mass-Shooters Are 'Sick as Hell and Geniuses in a Certain Way' 
Ben Jacobs, Guardian UK 
Jacobs writes: "Three days after a gunman killed nine people at an Oregon community college and then shot himself dead, the Republican presidential frontrunner, Donald Trump, seemed to accept the inevitability of mass shootings in the US." 
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Planned Parenthood President Slams Fiorina for Video 'Lie' 
Bradford Richardson, The Hill 
Richardson writes: "Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards took Carly Fiorina to task for her 'lie' about a video that purports to show a live-birth abortion at a women's health center." 
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Volkswagen: EPA to Investigate Other Automakers in Wake of Emissions Cheating Scandal, Report Says 
Mark Hanrahan, International Business Times 
Hanrahan writes: "The U.S. regulator that exposed German automaker Volkswagen's cheating on emissions testing is expanding its investigations into the sector and will scrutinize diesel vehicles produced by BWM, Chrysler, General Motors, Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz, to see if other manufacturers were engaged in similar deceptive practices." 
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Barack Obama: US Congress Will 'Inevitably' Lift Cuba Blockade 
TeleSUR 
Excerpt: "The United States Congress will 'inevitably' lift the economic blockade it has maintained against Cuba for more than half a century, President Barack Obama told the United Nations General Assembly Monday." 
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Retired Miners Screwed Over in Coal Bankruptcy Plan 
Alec MacGillis, Grist 
MacGillis writes: "As coal companies go bankrupt or shut down throughout Appalachia and parts of the Midwest, the immediate fallout includes lost jobs and devastated communities. But the Indiana case stands out as an example of how financial deals hatched far from coal country can also endanger the future safety net." 
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