Thursday, August 4, 2016

RSN: Louisiana Parish Hit by Third Oil Spill in Ten Days As Pressure Grows to Hold Oil and Gas Industry Accountable for Coastal Damage, Obama Authorizes 30 Days of Air Strikes on Libya




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Robert Reich | Why the Shake-Up at the Democratic National Committee Is Doomed 
Robert Reich. (photo: AP) 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog 
Reich writes: "Purging the DNC of top officials won't remedy the DNC's problems. Those problems aren't attributable to individuals who didn't do their jobs. To the contrary, those individuals probably fulfilled their responsibilities exactly as those jobs were intended to be done." 
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Three Paths Citizens United Created for Foreign Money to Pour Into US Elections 
Jon Schwarz and Lee Fang, The Intercept 
Excerpt: "Before the 2010 Supreme Court decision known as Citizens United, all money spent in federal elections urging the election or defeat of a candidate had to originate from identifiable human beings." 
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Obama Has Now Commuted More Sentences Than the Past 9 Presidents Combined 
Alex Zielinski, ThinkProgress 
Zielinski writes: "President Obama just commuted the largest number of federal prisoners in one day in more than a century. Of of the 214 prisoners, 71 were serving life sentences - most for a nonviolent crime related to drug possession or intent to sell." 
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Kids Are Collateral Damage When Police Decide to Shoot 
Carimah Townes, ThinkProgress 
Townes writes: "To date, there are no nationally-enforced guidelines for how to safeguard children present during an arrest or police standoff. Likewise, there isn't a nationally-required protocol for police to abide by when a parent is brought into custody - or killed. Without formal guidance, cops are generally allowed to use their intuition, and kids ultimately pay the price." 
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A Short History of Trump's Bad Deals and Business Failures 
Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek 
Eichenwald writes: "Lost contracts, bankruptcies, defaults, deceptions and indifference to investors - Trump's business career is a long, long list of such troubles, according to regulatory, corporate and court records, as well as sworn testimony and government investigative reports. Call it the art of the bad deal, one created by the arrogance and recklessness of a businessman whose main talent is self-promotion." 
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Obama Authorizes 30 Days of Air Strikes on Libya 
Jamie Merrill, The Middle East Eye 
Merrill writes: "President Barack Obama has authorized a month-long bombing campaign against the Islamic State group in Libya, as questions remain over possible UK and European military involvement in the country." 
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Louisiana Parish Hit by Third Oil Spill in Ten Days As Pressure Grows to Hold Oil and Gas Industry Accountable for Coastal Damage 
Julie Dermansky, DeSmog Blog 
Dermansky writes: "Yesterday, an estimated 4,200 gallons of crude oil was discharged from a well owned by the Texas Petroleum Investment Company into the mouth of the Mississippi River, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard and other state agencies are now responding to the third oil spill in two weeks." 
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