Scott Galindez | Bernie Sanders Drawing Huge Crowds and Contrasts With Clinton
Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News
Galindez writes: "The Clinton campaign in recent days has been trying to claim that Bernie is saying he has influenced the stock market. But as you can see in the video above, it was a Wall Street CEO who made the claim, and Bernie was just happy that his campaign was making that CEO nervous."
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Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News
Galindez writes: "The Clinton campaign in recent days has been trying to claim that Bernie is saying he has influenced the stock market. But as you can see in the video above, it was a Wall Street CEO who made the claim, and Bernie was just happy that his campaign was making that CEO nervous."
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Ammon Bundy Orders Stand Down of Oregon Armed Occupation
Tony Hernandez, The Oregonian
Hernandez writes: "Ammon Bundy is calling on those who remain at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to go home and 'please stand down,' his attorney said Wednesday on the steps of the federal courthouse in downtown Portland."
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Tony Hernandez, The Oregonian
Hernandez writes: "Ammon Bundy is calling on those who remain at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to go home and 'please stand down,' his attorney said Wednesday on the steps of the federal courthouse in downtown Portland."
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Sami Al-Arian | I Was the Target of Jeb Bush's Vicious Political Dark Side
Sami Al-Arian, Counter Punch
"John F. Kennedy once said, 'Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.' Unfortunately, politicians have generally acquired a reputation for being dishonest, deceitful, hypocritical, and power hungry. Perhaps most, but not all."
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Sami Al-Arian, Counter Punch
"John F. Kennedy once said, 'Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.' Unfortunately, politicians have generally acquired a reputation for being dishonest, deceitful, hypocritical, and power hungry. Perhaps most, but not all."
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Sanders Slams Clinton for Finance Industry Fundraiser
Gabriel Debenedetti, Politico
Debenedetti writes: "Bernie Sanders threw one of his most direct rhetorical punches yet at Hillary Clinton over her financial-industry ties on Wednesday night, telling a packed crowd, 'My opponent is not in Iowa tonight. She is raising money from a Philadelphia investment firm.'"
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Gabriel Debenedetti, Politico
Debenedetti writes: "Bernie Sanders threw one of his most direct rhetorical punches yet at Hillary Clinton over her financial-industry ties on Wednesday night, telling a packed crowd, 'My opponent is not in Iowa tonight. She is raising money from a Philadelphia investment firm.'"
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Donald Trump Is Skipping the GOP Debate Because He Hates Women
Jesse Berney, Rolling Stone
Berney writes: "Unless he changes his narrow mind in the next day and a half, Donald Trump won't be on the stage at Thursday night's final Republican debate before the Iowa caucuses, because he hates women."
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Jesse Berney, Rolling Stone
Berney writes: "Unless he changes his narrow mind in the next day and a half, Donald Trump won't be on the stage at Thursday night's final Republican debate before the Iowa caucuses, because he hates women."
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Hundreds Vanishing in Egypt as Crackdown Widens, Activists Say
Amina Ismail and Declan Walsh, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Mr. Khalil is one of hundreds of Egyptians who have recently been subjected to what human rights groups call 'enforced disappearance,' a harsh tactic that has become increasingly prevalent in Egypt as the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi widens its crackdown on opponents, real or imagined."
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Amina Ismail and Declan Walsh, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Mr. Khalil is one of hundreds of Egyptians who have recently been subjected to what human rights groups call 'enforced disappearance,' a harsh tactic that has become increasingly prevalent in Egypt as the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi widens its crackdown on opponents, real or imagined."
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The Growth of Coal Plants in Asia Is Causing Acid Rain in US
Kate Yoder, Grist
Yoder writes: "Catching a snowflake on your tongue just isn't as fun when mercury-tainted precipitation enters the equation."
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Kate Yoder, Grist
Yoder writes: "Catching a snowflake on your tongue just isn't as fun when mercury-tainted precipitation enters the equation."
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Clouds of smoke and steam billow from chimney stacks as a man pulls a trolley through a
neighbourhood next to a coal fired power plant in Shanxi, China. (photo: Kevin Frayer/Getty)
atching a snowflake on your tongue just isn’t as fun when mercury-tainted precipitation enters the equation.
In central areas of North America, mercury levels in rain appear to be rising, according to a recent study from The Science of the Total Environment, despite the fact that mercury emissions — the bulk of which come from coal-fired plants — have been decreasing in the U.S. over the past 20 years.
It looks like the growth of coal plants in Asia may be partly to blame for the problem. Like its namesake, the Roman god Mercury known for speed and mobility, the heavy metal has managed to travel from far around the world to our North American backyards. The University of California Santa Cruz Newsletter reports:
Emissions from Asia have been increasing … and are transported over long distances in the upper atmosphere. The influence of the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains on weather systems results in mercury from the upper atmosphere being deposited in precipitation in western states such as Nevada and Idaho and in the central United States, [Peter] Weiss-Penzias [environmental toxicologist at UC Santa Cruz] said.
An average unregulated coal plant emits about 170 pounds of the toxic stuff per year, but don’t worry, East Coasters. You’re reaping the benefits — that is, reduced levels of mercury in rain — of decades of environmental regulation in the U.S. and Canada.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/34861-the-growth-of-coal-plants-in-asia-is-causing-acid-rain-in-us
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