Tuesday, August 9, 2016

RSN: Ukraine, Instability, and the US Election - No Way Out?, Google Sparks Outrage by Abolishing Palestine on Maps




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William Boardman | Ukraine, Instability, and the US Election - No Way Out? 
The perimeter of Independence Square, known as Maidan in Kiev in 2014. (photo: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images) 
William Boardman, Reader Supported News 
Boardman writes: "A possible invasion has been as true for decades as it is now, and it will be just as true as long as Russia and Ukraine share a border." 
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Republican Evan McMullin to Launch Presidential Run Against Trump 
Sabrina Siddiqui, Lauren Gambino and Amber Jamieson, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "Evan McMullin, a little-known former CIA operative, is launching a third-party bid for president as a conservative alternative to Donald Trump." 
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Former KKK Leader Has More Support Among Black Voters Than Trump 
Jessie Hellmann, The Hill 
Hellmann writes: "Donald Trump's support among black voters is lower than a white supremacist running for the U.S. Senate." 
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Unholy Secrets: The Legal Loophole That Allows Clergy to Hide Child Sexual Abuse 
Jack Jenkins, ThinkProgress 
Jenkins writes: "Clergy-penitent privilege, sometimes called 'priest or pastor-penitent privilege,' in the United States dates back as far as 1813, when the Court of General Sessions of the City of New York refused to force a priest to testify." 
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Who Decides Who Competes as a Woman? 
Daniel Engber, Slate 
Engber writes: "Sex-verification policies in sports have more to do with politics than science. If researchers start studying the right things, that could change." 
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Google Sparks Outrage by Abolishing Palestine on Maps 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Journalists and activists have excoriated Google for wiping Palestine completely off its map app, depicting the entire occupied Palestinian territories as part of the state of Israel." 
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Chernobyl Could Become World's Largest Solar Farm 
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch 
Chow writes: "Three decades after the worst nuclear power plant catastrophe in history, a site in Chernobyl is being reimagined as a solar energy farm - one that would be the world's largest once built." 
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