Saturday, March 12, 2016

RSN: Carbon Dioxide Levels 'Exploded' in 2015, Highest Seen Since End of Ice Age, The GOP's Demographic Demise Was on Full Display at the Miami Debate




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FOCUS: Donald Trump Now Has an Anti-Protester Intelligence Squad 
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Eric Levitz, New York Magazine 
Levitz writes: "Donald Trump now employs 'plainclothes private intelligence officers,' who are tasked with preempting the expression of anti-Trump sentiments." 
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Elizabeth Warren | Senate Republicans: Do Your Job 
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Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News 
Warren writes: "There's a vacancy on the most important court in America, and the message from Senate Republicans is crystal clear: forget the Constitution." 
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The GOP's Demographic Demise Was on Full Display at the Miami Debate 
Alice Ollstein, ThinkProgress 
Ollstein writes: "On Thursday night, as the four remaining candidates debated, hundreds of people from across Florida took to the streets outside the University of Miami to protest the GOP's rhetoric on immigration, women's health, the Puerto Rican debt crisis, and the minimum wage." 
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The Country's Largest Veterans' Charity Fires Top Executives After Wasting Millions in Donations 
Chip Reid and Jennifer Janisch, CBS News 
Excerpt: "Americans donate hundreds of millions of dollars each year to the charity, expecting their money will help some of the 52,000 wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, Wounded Warrior Project spends 40 to 50 percent on overhead, including extravagant parties. Other veterans' charities have overhead costs of 10 to 15 percent." 
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Scalia's Death Clouds US Supreme Court Decision on Colorado's Legal Weed 
Keegan Hamilton, VICE 
Hamilton writes: "Scalia's death will likely affect several divisive, high-profile cases that are currently pending before the court - including ones that deal with abortion, unions, voting rights, affirmative action, and immigration - but marijuana activists and some legal experts are paying particularly close attention to Nebraska and Oklahoma v. Colorado." 
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Survey Finds Freddie Gray's Neighborhood Is Rife With Police Brutality 
Colin Daileda, Mashable 
Daileda writes: "According to a survey conducted by Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development and the No Boundaries Coalition, which describes itself as a resident-led advocacy group based in west Baltimore, 453 out of 1,500 survey respondents in Sandtown-Winchester had experienced or witnessed 'police misconduct.'" 
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Human Rights Groups Blame US, UK, France and Russia for Fueling the Violence in Syria 
Peter Kenyon, NPR 
Kenyon writes: "The fifth year of the Syrian conflict was the worst yet for civilians - and Russia, the U.S., France and Britain are partly to blame. That's according to a new report from 30 aid and human rights groups, including Oxfam and Care International." 
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Carbon Dioxide Levels 'Exploded' in 2015, Highest Seen Since End of Ice Age 
Climate Nexus 
Excerpt: "The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose 3.05 parts per million in 2015, the largest year-to-year increase ever recorded, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports." 
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