Reader Supported News | 22 May 16
Can Anyone Help With a Donation, Please
We are way behind where we should be at this point in the month. Really because only a precious few of you are donating. The rest are not but can.
Now would be a great time.
Marc Ash
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William Boardman | Clinton to California: "Drop Dead"
William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "By now, anyone paying the least attention knows that the dishonest Democratic establishment and dishonest mainstream media have created a false narrative of bad behavior by Bernie Sanders supporters at the Nevada State Democratic State Convention on May 14."
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William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "By now, anyone paying the least attention knows that the dishonest Democratic establishment and dishonest mainstream media have created a false narrative of bad behavior by Bernie Sanders supporters at the Nevada State Democratic State Convention on May 14."
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The "Patriots" Primed to Fight the Government
Kevin Sullivan, The Washington Post
Sullivan writes: "Law enforcement officials and the watchdog groups that track the self-styled 'patriot' groups call them anti-government extremists, militias, armed militants or even domestic terrorists. Some opponents of the largely white and rural groups have made fun by calling them 'Y'all Qaeda' or 'Vanilla ISIS.'"
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Kevin Sullivan, The Washington Post
Sullivan writes: "Law enforcement officials and the watchdog groups that track the self-styled 'patriot' groups call them anti-government extremists, militias, armed militants or even domestic terrorists. Some opponents of the largely white and rural groups have made fun by calling them 'Y'all Qaeda' or 'Vanilla ISIS.'"
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How Big Pharma Uses Charity Programs to Cover for Drug Price Hikes
Benjamin Elgin and Robert Langreth, Bloomberg
Excerpt: "This is not a feel-good story. It's a story about why expensive drugs keep getting more expensive, and how U.S. taxpayers support a billion-dollar system in which charitable giving is, in effect, a very profitable form of investing for drug companies-one that may also be tax-deductible."
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Benjamin Elgin and Robert Langreth, Bloomberg
Excerpt: "This is not a feel-good story. It's a story about why expensive drugs keep getting more expensive, and how U.S. taxpayers support a billion-dollar system in which charitable giving is, in effect, a very profitable form of investing for drug companies-one that may also be tax-deductible."
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Drones and the Conscientious Objector
John Kaag and Clancy Martin, The Boston Globe
Excerpt: "Over the course of American warfare, the battlefield has grown increasingly less intimate. If the soldiers at Lexington and Concord had to be within 100 feet to seriously injure their British foes, killing by drones allows US troops to be half a world away from their targets. The psychological toll, however, has not necessarily dissipated in kind."
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John Kaag and Clancy Martin, The Boston Globe
Excerpt: "Over the course of American warfare, the battlefield has grown increasingly less intimate. If the soldiers at Lexington and Concord had to be within 100 feet to seriously injure their British foes, killing by drones allows US troops to be half a world away from their targets. The psychological toll, however, has not necessarily dissipated in kind."
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The Canine Terror: Dogs and the Repression of African Americans
Tyler Parry and Charlton Yingling, Jacobin
Excerpt: "In 2014, twenty-four-year-old Maurice McCreary was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison after fatally shooting a police dog that had latched onto his arm as McCreary ran from the police. Federal law now states that a person can receive up to ten years in prison for assaulting, maiming, or killing a police dog."
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Tyler Parry and Charlton Yingling, Jacobin
Excerpt: "In 2014, twenty-four-year-old Maurice McCreary was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison after fatally shooting a police dog that had latched onto his arm as McCreary ran from the police. Federal law now states that a person can receive up to ten years in prison for assaulting, maiming, or killing a police dog."
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Mexico Says Yes to Marriage Equality
Vanessa Calva Ruiz, The Hill
Ruiz writes: "Even though the legislative process will now have to take its due course, this announcement is an enormous step towards the inclusion and defense of the Mexican LGBT community."
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Vanessa Calva Ruiz, The Hill
Ruiz writes: "Even though the legislative process will now have to take its due course, this announcement is an enormous step towards the inclusion and defense of the Mexican LGBT community."
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Toxic Battery Plant Has to Tell Its 12,000 Neighbors in Los Angeles They Might Get Cancer
Aura Bogado, Grist
Bogado writes: "A smelter in the Los Angeles area has 30 days to tell its 12,000 neighbors that the plant's arsenic emissions put them at a high risk for developing cancer. It also has to come up with a plan to reduce those emissions - but that could take years, if it happens at all."
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Aura Bogado, Grist
Bogado writes: "A smelter in the Los Angeles area has 30 days to tell its 12,000 neighbors that the plant's arsenic emissions put them at a high risk for developing cancer. It also has to come up with a plan to reduce those emissions - but that could take years, if it happens at all."
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A smelting plant. (photo: iStockphoto)
smelter in the Los Angeles area has 30 days to tell its 12,000 neighbors that the plant’s arsenic emissions put them at a high risk for developing cancer. It also has to come up with a plan to reduce those emissions — but that could take years, if it happens at all.
Quemetco operates a lead-acid battery recycling plant in City of Industry, a largely Latino community in the San Gabriel Valley, east of downtown L.A. The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) notified the company on Tuesday that it must inform neighbors of the high cancer risk its operation poses in City of Industry and three adjacent communities. As it happens, all four are neighborhoods full of people of color, mostly Latino and Asian.
The arsenic, a carcinogen, gets into the air as a byproduct of Quemetco’s lead smelting. But health officials didn’t consider the level at which the plant emits arsenic life-threatening until about a year ago, when the state updated its health risk assessment standards. After an extensive evaluation, the state determined that previous guidelines had underestimated the consequences of toxic emissions such as arsenic, especially for children.
Aside from having 30 days to inform its neighbors of the high cancer risk, Quemetco has 180 days to come up with a proposal to reduce its arsenic emissions in line with AQMD’s standards. Once regulators approve its new proposal, the plant then has another three years to implement it. That means it could take nearly four years for Quemetco’s neighbors to finally breathe a small sigh of relief. And that’s only if things go according to plan.
Quemetco’s lead-acid battery recycling plant – the only one operating in the western U.S. – hasn’t had a great record of complying with air-pollution regulations. California’s toxic substances agency outlined a plan to test for arsenic and lead within a half-mile radius to Quemetco last October. The company opposed the plan, claiming that it was impossible to know whether Quemetco or another company was polluting the area. The two struck a deal, which initially limits the scope of testing to a smaller, quarter-mile area Quemetco suggested.
The AQMD confirms that Wayne Nastri, who took over as the agency’s top executive last month, recused himself from any decisions on the plant because Quemetco is his former client.
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