Saturday, November 7, 2015

RSN: [Dirty Energy] Koch Brothers Seek a Kinder, Gentler Public Image, 67 Prominent US Latinos Sign Scathing Letter Condemning Trump




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Andy Borowitz | Carson Plummets in Polls Amid Reports He Did Not Stab Anyone 
Ben Carson. (photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty) 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "New reports indicating that Ben Carson might not have actually stabbed anyone during his youth have sent the retired neurosurgeon plummeting in the latest Republican Presidential polls." 
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Bernie Sanders Takes a Progressive Stand on Marijuana 
Jon Levine, Mic 
Levine writes: "Last month, Bernie Sanders staked out what is perhaps the boldest marijuana policy position of any serious presidential candidate when he announced that he would seek to remove marijuana from the federal government's official list of dangerous drugs. On Wednesday, the candidate took the first steps toward making that promise a reality." 
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Koch Brothers Seek a Kinder, Gentler Public Image 
Jonathan Swan and Kyle Plantz, The Hill 
Excerpt: "Long caricatured by Democrats as shadowy billionaires who buy Republican politicians so they can grow their profits and destroy the environment, Charles and David Koch did on Tuesday something they have never done before: a joint television interview." 
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How Occupy Wall Street Paved the Way for Black Lives Matter and Bernie Sanders 
Arun Gupta, teleSUR 
Gupta writes: "Far from fizzling, the Occupy Wall Street movement has a legacy that continues to shape the political landscape." 
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67 Prominent US Latinos Sign Scathing Letter Condemning Trump 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "A group of prominent Latin American intellectuals and artists released a scathing letter Tuesday denouncing the 'hate speech' employed by U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump against Mexicans as part of his efforts to secure the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential race." 
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In New Approach to Tackling Segregation in Schools, Minnesota Attorneys Sue the State 
Anthony Lonetree and Alejandra Matos, Star Tribune 
Excerpt: "Civil rights attorneys suing the state of Minnesota for failing to educate poor and minority children called Thursday for a metro-wide integration plan and other remedies to address increasingly segregated schools." 
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Half of Weather Disasters Linked to Climate Change 
Randy Lee Loftis, National Geographic 
Loftis writes: "From a deadly snowstorm in Nepal to a heat wave in Argentina that crashed power supplies, at least 14 extreme weather events last year bore the fingerprints of human-induced climate change, an international team of scientists reported Thursday." 
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