Friday, September 16, 2016

RSN: Study: Scientists That Won't Link Pesticides to Bee Deaths Are Often Funded by Agrochemical Industry, Julian Assange to Accept Time in US Prison if Chelsea Manning Granted Clemency




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Garrison Keillor | Hillary Clinton's Concrete Shoes 
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves after leaving daughter Chelsea Clinton's Manhattan apartment on Sunday, September 11, 2016. (photo: AP) 
Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post 
Keillor writes: "The woman who does not conceal her own intelligence is a fine American tradition, going back to Anne Bradstreet and Harriet Beecher Stowe and my ancestor Prudence Crandall, but none has been subjected to the steady hectoring and jibber-jabber that Clinton has." 
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Columbus Police Shoot and Kill Black 13-Year-Old, Tyree King, Who Was Holding a BB Gun 
Mark Berman, The Washington Post 
Berman writes: "Early Thursday morning, police said the person killed was 13-year-old Tyree King. Detectives processing the area where the shooting occurred found what they said appeared to be a handgun, but 'upon further inspection, it was determined to be a BB gun with an attached laser site,' according to a statement from the Columbus police." 
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Sandra Bland's Family Reaches $1.9 Million Settlement 
Merrit Kennedy, NPR 
Kennedy writes: "The family of Sandra Bland, who was found dead in a Texas jail cell in July 2015, has reached a $1.9 million settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit, according to one of the family's lawyers." 
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Bill O'Reilly Insists Voter ID Laws Are Not a Problem, Cites His Extensive Knowledge of Black People 
Aaron Rupar, ThinkProgress 
Rupar writes: "According to Bill O'Reilly, all the African Americans he knows have photo IDs, so there's no reason to worry about voter ID laws disenfranchising black voters." 
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Julian Assange to Accept Time in US Prison if Chelsea Manning Granted Clemency 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange offered to turn himself over to the United States and serve a prison sentence if President Barack Obama pardons Chelsea Manning, the whistleblower who leaked military and diplomatic documents while working as an intelligence analyst in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in 2010." 
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Inmates on Strike: Will It Shift the Conversation About US Prisoners' Rights? 
Ben Rosen, The Christian Science Monitor 
Rosen writes: "On the 45th anniversary of the Attica Prison riots, in which inmates demanded political rights and better living conditions, prisoners across the United States staged a work stoppage that started last Friday in one of the first prison strikes ever coordinated on a national level." 
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Study: Scientists That Won't Link Pesticides to Bee Deaths Are Often Funded by Agrochemical Industry 
MintPress News 
Excerpt: "Pesticide manufacturers have spent millions influencing researchers who are investigating the role of neonicotinoids, a nicotine-like chemical found in many major pesticides, in bee die-offs, according to a recent analysis by Greenpeace." 
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