Wednesday, December 16, 2015

RSN: California Has a Huge Gas Leak, and Crews Can't Stop It Yet, The Big Differences Between Bernie and Hillary




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Robert Reich | The Big Differences Between Bernie and Hillary 
Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, listens as Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont speaks during the CNN Democratic presidential debate Tuesday. (photo: John Locher/AP) 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page 
Reich writes: "'I don't see much difference between Bernie and Hillary,' a friend said this morning over breakfast. 'Wrong,' said my other friend, also at breakfast. She then went through the list." 
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Bringing Socialism Back: How Bernie Sanders Is Reviving an American Tradition 
Joseph M. Schwartz, In These Times 
Schwartz writes: "Socialism. For most of recent U.S. history, the word was only used in mainstream discourse as invective, hurled by the Right against anyone who advocated that the government do anything but shrink, as anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist once put it, 'to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." 
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Looking at Violence in America With a Financial Lens 
NPR 
Excerpt: "Pain, grief and emotional loss follow mass shootings in America, and there are also other costs that add up to violence's financial toll. It's Ted Miller's job to crunch numbers on social ills like mass shootings. He's a health economist with the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation." 
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Medea Benjamin | Is Saudi Women's Vote a Step Forward? 
Medea Benjamin, Reader Supported News 
Benjamin writes: "The global press has been heralding the December 13, 2015, vote in Saudi Arabia as a breakthrough for women, since it's the first time in history that Saudi women have been allowed to vote. But is this vote really a significant step forward?" 
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In Flint, Michigan, There's So Much Lead in Children's Blood That a State of Emergency Is Declared 
Yanan Wang, The Washington Post 
Wang writes: "For months, worried parents in Flint, Mich., arrived at their pediatricians' offices in droves. Holding a toddler by the hand or an infant in their arms, they all have the same question: Are their children being poisoned." 
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Guatemala to Investigate Cases of Secret US Medical Testing 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "The Guatemalan government has said that it will look further into cases of secret medical testing by the United States on Guatemalan citizens in the 1940's, after victims of the tests said they did not see fair compensation or justice for their suffering." 
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California Has a Huge Gas Leak, and Crews Can't Stop It Yet 
Sarah Zhang, Wired 
Zhang writes: "While the world was hammering out a historic agreement to curb carbon emissions - urged along by California, no less - the state was dealing with an embarrassing belch of its own. Methane, a greenhouse gas 70 times more potent than carbon dioxide, has been leaking out of a natural gas storage site in southern California for nearly two months, and a fix won't arrive until spring." 
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