Reader Supported News | 29 April 16
April Fundraiser Did Not Quite Make It
For the first time in 2016 we failed to meet our budget. April came up pretty short. Although it should be noted, many people did come through with donations large and small. In fact it was the money that was short, not the donors. We actually saw a significant increase in the number of donations. So that was encouraging.
We need to get back on track in May. Please put something aside for RSN.
Thank you sincerely.
Marc Ash
Curator, Reader Supported News
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Andy Borowitz | Cruz Hopes to Tap Into Immense Popularity of Carly Fiorina
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "In choosing the former Hewlett-Packard C.E.O. Carly Fiorina as his running mate, Senator Ted Cruz hopes to tap into the immense popularity of one of the most beloved public figures in America."
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Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "In choosing the former Hewlett-Packard C.E.O. Carly Fiorina as his running mate, Senator Ted Cruz hopes to tap into the immense popularity of one of the most beloved public figures in America."
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Michael Klare | The Coming World of "Peak Oil Demand," Not "Peak Oil"
Michael Klare, TomDispatch
Klare writes: "The petroleum-fueled world we've known these last decades - with oil demand always thrusting ahead of supply, ensuring steady profits for all major producers - is no more. Replacing it is an anemic, possibly even declining, demand for oil that is likely to force suppliers to fight one another for ever-diminishing market shares."
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Michael Klare, TomDispatch
Klare writes: "The petroleum-fueled world we've known these last decades - with oil demand always thrusting ahead of supply, ensuring steady profits for all major producers - is no more. Replacing it is an anemic, possibly even declining, demand for oil that is likely to force suppliers to fight one another for ever-diminishing market shares."
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FBI Would Gain New Hacking Power if Search Warrant Rules Change
Dustin Volz, Reuters
Volz writes: "U.S. judges will be able to issue search warrants giving law enforcement agents power to access computers in any jurisdiction, potentially even overseas, under a controversial rule change likely to be approved by the Supreme Court by May 1."
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Dustin Volz, Reuters
Volz writes: "U.S. judges will be able to issue search warrants giving law enforcement agents power to access computers in any jurisdiction, potentially even overseas, under a controversial rule change likely to be approved by the Supreme Court by May 1."
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Birmingham Workers Sue Their Governor for Blocking Minimum Wage Hike
Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress
Covert writes: "In February, the state legislature quickly pushed through a bill that was signed by the governor that bans cities from increasing their own wages and rolled back Birmingham's hike. Workers are now claiming that move was illegal. They say the law violates the Constitution's equal protection clause, and is loaded with 'racial animus,' given that the city is about three-quarters black. Around a third of the black population lives in poverty."
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Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress
Covert writes: "In February, the state legislature quickly pushed through a bill that was signed by the governor that bans cities from increasing their own wages and rolled back Birmingham's hike. Workers are now claiming that move was illegal. They say the law violates the Constitution's equal protection clause, and is loaded with 'racial animus,' given that the city is about three-quarters black. Around a third of the black population lives in poverty."
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Ex-Reserve Deputy Who Confused Gun With Taser, Killing Suspect, Is Convicted
Dana Farrington, NPR
Farrington writes: "A former reserve deputy in Oklahoma who said he mistook his gun for his Taser when he shot and killed a suspect has been convicted of second-degree manslaughter."
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Dana Farrington, NPR
Farrington writes: "A former reserve deputy in Oklahoma who said he mistook his gun for his Taser when he shot and killed a suspect has been convicted of second-degree manslaughter."
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How the Transgender Community Is Fighting Bathroom Laws
Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post
Somashekhar writes: "Balentine is part of a new wave of transgender people stepping out of the shadows to fight a surge in state bills requiring people to use the bathrooms, locker rooms and dressing rooms that differ from their gender identity - measures they consider unnecessary, dangerous and rooted in offensive stereotypes."
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Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post
Somashekhar writes: "Balentine is part of a new wave of transgender people stepping out of the shadows to fight a surge in state bills requiring people to use the bathrooms, locker rooms and dressing rooms that differ from their gender identity - measures they consider unnecessary, dangerous and rooted in offensive stereotypes."
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Pregnant Palestinian Woman Shot 15 Times by Israeli Forces
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Maram Abu Ismail and her 16 year-old brother Ibrahim were killed 'without cause' at a West Bank checkpoint, according to their family and witnesses."
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Excerpt: "Maram Abu Ismail and her 16 year-old brother Ibrahim were killed 'without cause' at a West Bank checkpoint, according to their family and witnesses."
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A Palestinian woman argues with an Israeli policeman near the scene of the shooting by
Israeli police near Qalandia checkpoint, April 27, 2016. (photo: Reuters)
Maram Abu Ismail and her 16 year-old brother Ibrahim were killed “without cause” at a West Bank checkpoint, according to their family and witnesses.
he family of Maram Abu Ismail, a 25-year old Palestinian woman who was believed to be five-months pregnant, said Thursday that Israeli troops shot both her and her 16-year old brother Ibrahim Taha dead Wednesday.
Speaking to Palestinian media, the family said Maram was five months pregnant at the time of her death as Palestinian authorities confirmed the two were on their way to a medical appointment in Jerusalem after obtaining an Israeli permit to do so.
However, Israeli police claim the woman was holding a knife and was rapidly walking toward police and other Israeli security personnel in a vehicles-only lane at the Qalandia checkpoint outside Jerusalem.
In an official statement, the Palestinian Information Ministry said the siblings entered the vehicles-only lane by accident and their killing was a "brutal daylight crime" by Israeli forces.
Witnesses also refute the Israeli sides claims, saying the two Palestinians began moving away from the lane when the troops asked them to. One witness told local media that Maram was shot 15 times by an Israeli soldier.
Alaa Soboh, a Palestinian bus driver who said he witnessed the incident, told Reuters the pair appeared to be unfamiliar with crossing procedures.
"As soon as the two crossed, (Israeli forces) started screaming 'Go back, go back,' and then they began shooting. The first one they shot was the girl ... the boy tried to go backward when they fired seven bullets at him," Soboh said.
A Palestinian local and witness to the incident, Ahmad Taha, told the Ma’an news agency that Israeli officers approached the two after they had been shot before opening fire on them again “to ensure that they were dead,” adding the officers “could have moved the two away without opening fire.” Taha also claimed the officers planted knives on the scene.
More than 200 Palestinians have been killed since last October as part of renewed violence in the Palestinian occupied West Bank. Many of those killed did not pose a threat to Israeli troops and were mostly shot during clashes and protests.
Sarit Michaeli of the Israeli rights group B'Tselem said Thursday his group often finds the "degree of threat posed by the individual was much lower than was claimed by security forces."
The latest round of unrest between Israel and Palestine was sparked by successive incursions by hard-line Israeli groups into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the third-holiest site in Islam, as well as the struggling peace process and the continued illegal expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Aid groups say Israeli troops are using excessive force against alleged Palestinian attackers, saying they could easily neutralize any threat without having to apply deadly force.
Even Israel’s biggest ally, the United States, has accused the Israeli army of “excessive use of force” in the Palestinian territories as well as “arbitrary arrest and associated torture and abuse, often with impunity,” in a U.S. State Department report released last week.
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