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Monday, June 20, 2016

RSN: Robert Parry | The State Department's Collective Madness, The Gay Rights Movement Could Take on the NRA - and Actually Win




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Robert Parry | The State Department's Collective Madness 
Syrian women and children refugees at Budapest railway station. (photo: Wikipedia) 
Robert Parry, Consortium News 
Parry writes: "The fact that such a large contingent of State Department officials would openly advocate for an expanded aggressive war in line with the neoconservative agenda, which put Syria on a hit list some two decades ago, reveals how crazy the State Department has become." 
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The Gay Rights Movement Could Take on the NRA - and Actually Win 
Jennifer Carlson and David Pettinicchio, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "This time, things might be different. Not because of the record number of people killed in Orlando or because this heinous act was a terrorist attack, a hate crime and a mass shooting. It's because the victims were part of a social movement with infrastructure and political know-how largely unmatched within the gun-control movement. It's because the attack targeted gays - and their community is organized." 
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Black Lives Matter Activist Convicted of 'Lynching' Leaves Jail 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Black Lives Matter activist Jasmine Richards, convicted of 'lynching' for interfering in an arrest in Pasadena, California, is no longer behind bars after posting bail, local activists reported on Saturday." 
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Former Vanderbilt Football Player Again Convicted of Rape 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "A jury has convicted a former Vanderbilt football player on all counts after finding that he encouraged his teammates to rape an unconscious woman he had been dating. It took jurors a little more than four hours of deliberation before finding Brandon Vandenburg guilty on five counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery." 
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Smile, You're in the FBI Face-Recognition Database 
David Kravets, Ars Technica 
Kravets writes: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation has access to as many as 411.9 million images as part of its face-recognition database. The bulk of those images are photographs of people who have committed no crime, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO)." 
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Turkish Police Crackdown on Istanbul LGBT Rally 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "The Turkish police began cracking down Sunday on a scheduled LGBT pride parade in Turkey's biggest city of Istanbul as they fired teargas and water cannon at those gathering in and around the city's central Taksim square." 
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What Freedom Could Look Like for SeaWorld's Killer Whales 
David Kirby, TakePart 
Kirby writes: "Corky is the longest-held captive orca. She is one of 56 killer whales confined to tanks in the U.S., Canada, Russia, China, Japan, France, Spain and Argentina. Their lives are vastly different from those of orcas in the ocean, which typically stay with their families for life; captive orcas are often removed from their mothers, sometimes at very young ages. " 
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