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Saturday, September 10, 2016

RSN: US Cluster Bombs Kill Children for Decades in Laos, and Now Yemen


The Incompetent Christine Todd Whitman remains the Typical Ignorant Republican who held an office for which she was grossly unqualified! 
Never let science or FACTS inform your decision. 

Even the search dogs used in the rubble to locate body parts, exposed to the smoldering piles of hazardous chemicals,  died prematurely. 

Apologies for health risks to which people were unnecessarily exposed don't work at this late date. 

Pity she couldn't be sued!  



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William Boardman | US Cluster Bombs Kill Children for Decades in Laos, and Now Yemen 
The wreckage of a car destroyed by a U.S. drone strike in Azan, Yemen, February 2013. (photo: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
William Boardman, Reader Supported News 
Boardman writes: "The preposterous ironies of President Obama's unapologetic visit to Laos on September 6 have not yet generated the attention they deserve, but they provide an excellent measure of the self-righteousness of the monstrous continuity of American violence inflicted on the world from Viet Nam in the 1950s to Yemen more than sixty years later." 
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Moments After Judge Denies Dakota Access Pipeline Injunction, Federal Agencies Intervene 
Valerie Taliman, Indian Country 
Taliman writes: "Shortly after federal Judge James Boasberg denied the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's request for an injunction against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Department of Justice and Army Corps of Engineers issued a joint statement that, in effect, temporarily halts all construction bordering Lake Oahe on the Missouri." 
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Joint Statement From the Department of Justice, the Department of the Army and the Department of the Interior Regarding Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. US Army Corps of Engineers 
U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Department of the Army 
Excerpt: "We appreciate the District Court's opinion on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act. However, important issues raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribal nations and their members regarding the Dakota Access pipeline specifically, and pipeline-related decision-making generally, remain." 
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Whistleblower Chelsea Manning Begins Hunger Strike 
Denver Nicks, TIME 
Nicks writes: "Chelsea Manning, the U.S. army private convicted in 2013 for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks, has announced she has started a hunger strike to protest what she calls 'constant and overzealous administrative scrutiny by prison and military officials.'" 
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Who's Left at Guantanamo? Fates of Dozens of Prisoners Are Undecided 
Cora Currier and Margot Williams, The Intercept 
Excerpt: "The Last Guantanamo detainee to make the case for his release before a panel of senior administration officials is also the youngest man left at the island prison." 
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Honduras Arrests Sixth Suspect in Berta Caceres Murder Case 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Honduran authorities arrested Thursday another suspect accused of involvement in the murder of high-profile environmentalist and Indigenous leader Berta Caceres." 
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Former EPA Head Admits She Was Wrong to Tell New Yorkers Post-9/11 Air Was Safe 
Joanna Walters, Guardian UK 
Walters writes: "Christine Todd Whitman, who as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under George W Bush at the time of the 9/11 attacks told the public the air around Ground Zero in New York was safe to breathe, has admitted for the first time she was wrong." 
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