Monday, November 2, 2015

RSN: Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice, Sanders's First TV Ads in Iowa and New Hampshire Promise 'a Future to Believe In'




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Andy Borowitz | Billionaire Acquires Rubio Pending Physical 
Senator Marco Rubio. (photo: marcorubio.com) 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "In the biggest free-agency acquisition of the 2016 Presidential contest, the billionaire investor Paul Singer has acquired Florida senator Marco Rubio for a rumored eight-figure sum, pending a physical." 
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Sanders's First TV Ads in Iowa and New Hampshire Promise 'a Future to Believe In' 
John Wagner, The Washington Post 
Wagner writes: "Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders plans to launch his television advertising campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire this week with a 60-second spot that highlights his biography and promises 'a future to believe in.'" 
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Nick Turse | US to Send Special Operations Forces to Syria 
Nick Turse, The Intercept 
Turse writes: "President Obama has authorized the deployment of a small contingent of elite U.S. troops to northern Syria as part of the campaign against the Islamic State, also known as ISIL." 
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We Won't Torture Anymore: APA Tells US to Withdraw Psychologists From Nat. Sec. Interrogations 
Democracy NOW! 
Excerpt: "The American Psychological Association has officially notified the U.S. government of its new policy barring psychologists from participating in national security interrogations." 
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Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice 
Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Robert Gebeloff, The New York Times 
Excerpt: "By inserting individual arbitration clauses into a soaring number of consumer and employment contracts, companies like American Express devised a way to circumvent the courts and bar people from joining together in class-action lawsuits, realistically the only tool citizens have to fight illegal or deceitful business practices." 
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Historic Election Could Return Sovereignty to Native Hawaiians 
Brittany Lyte, Al Jazeera America 
Lyte writes: "In 1893, Queen Liliuokalani, the last monarch of Hawaii, yielded power to a group of businessmen backed by Marines in order to avoid the bloodshed of her people. She did so believing that the U.S. government, when presented with the facts, would eventually restore the Hawaiian kingdom. Instead, the coup led to the dissolution of Hawaiian sovereignty." 
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Mississippi's Gold Dust: Can Sediment Save Louisiana's Disappearing Coastline? 
Richard Grant, Al Jazeera America 
Grant writes: "According to most scientists and environmentalists, sediment from the Mississippi is the best hope of saving Louisiana's disappearing coast. They support projects, now in the planning stages, that will divert river water into the eroding coastal marshes, in the hope that sediment will settle, accumulate and form land." 
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