Thursday, December 17, 2015

RSN: Lifting Crude Oil Export Ban Locks In Fossil Fuel Dependency for Decades to Come, 7,000 Honduran Child Migrants Deported. A GOP Debate ISIS Would Love




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A GOP Debate ISIS Would Love
Sen. Elizabeth Warren. (Photo: ElizabethWarren.com)
Tim Mak and Jackie Kucinich, The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "If one of the goals of ISIS is to scare the American people, the GOP did them a service on Tuesday night - ratcheting up the fearful rhetoric, and combining it with ideas that were at times ignorant or illegal."
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Lawmakers Have Snuck CISA Into a Bill That Is Guaranteed to Become a Law
Jason Koebler, Vice
Koebler writes: "To anyone who has protested the sweeping, vague, and privacy-killing iterations of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Protection Act or the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act over the last several years, sorry, lawmakers have heard you, and they have ignored you."
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Terrorism Attacks Since 9/11 Have Involved US Citizens, Not Immigrants, Despite GOP Debate Claim
Abigail Abrams, International Business Times
Abrams writes: "As you might be able to guess, the claim that every terrorist attack over the past 15 years has been carried out by someone who legally immigrated to the U.S. is not true."
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New York Announces 'Dramatic Reform' of Solitary Confinement Rules
Bill Chappell, NPR
Chappell writes: "Finalizing the settlement of a class-action lawsuit that alleged overuse of solitary confinement, New York will change the way it handles such confinement in its prison system. The changes center on improving prisoners' socialization and rehabilitation."
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7,000 Honduran Child Migrants Deported From US and Mexico
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Immigration authorities in the U.S. and Mexico deported a total of 6,986 underage Honduran migrants in the first 11 months of this year, as the number of unaccompanied minors apprehended on the U.S.-Mexico border continues to soar."
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Michelle Goldberg | The Worst Year for Abortion Rights Since Roe v. Wade
Michelle Goldberg, Slate
Goldberg writes: "As the Republican Party has grown more extreme, it has expanded its reach in the states. 2015 was a milestone year for Republican control of state legislatures, with the party dominating both houses in 30 states, the highest number since at least 1978."
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Lifting Crude Oil Export Ban Locks In Fossil Fuel Dependency for Decades to Come
Wenonah Hauter, EcoWatch
Hauter writes: "One year ago this week, Gov. Cuomo banned fracking in New York, listening to the growing movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground. So it's especially disheartening that Congress, through a provision included in the omnibus appropriation, has just lifted the decades-old crude oil export ban - locking us into fossil fuel dependence for decades to come."
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