Sunday, October 2, 2016

RSN: Pentagon Paid Millions to Create Fake Terrorist Videos, Timber Company Tells California Town, Go Find Your Own Water




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Pentagon Paid Millions to Create Fake Terrorist Videos 
Still image from ISIS propaganda video. (photo: PA)
Crofton Blackand and Abigail Fielding-Smith, The Daily Beast 
Excerpt: "The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda program in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal." 
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Cops Abuse Power by Using Databases to Get Information for Their Benefit 
Eric Tucker, Tom Hays and Joshua Replogle, Associated Press 
Excerpt: "Police officers across the country misuse confidential law enforcement databases to get information on romantic partners, business associates, neighbors, journalists and others for reasons that have nothing to do with daily police work, an Associated Press investigation has found." 
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Trump Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for 18 Years, Report on Tax Records Says 
David A. Fahrenthold, Rosalind S. Helderman and Jose A. DelReal, Washington Post 
Excerpt: "Donald Trump declared a loss of $916 million on his income tax returns for 1995, and - because of tax rules that favor wealthy real estate investors - he could have used that loss to avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, according to a report in the New York Times." 
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Wells Fargo Illegally Repossessed Hundreds of US Military Members' Cars 
Jackie Wattles, CNN 
Wattles writes: "Wells Fargo will pay $24 million to settle allegations that it mistreated members of the military - including illegally repossessing their cars."
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Man Who Filmed Eric Garner's Death Heading to Jail 
Anealla Safdar, Al Jazeera 
Safdar writes: "On July 17, 2014, Ramsey Orta took out his mobile phone and filmed a police officer in New York killing his friend, Eric Garner. But as soon as he stopped recording, Orta says his own life also took a dramatic turn for the worse." 
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US Court Protects 'School of the Assassins' Graduates 
TeleSUR 
Excerpt: "A U.S. court has sided with the Pentagon that it does not have to publicly release the names of attendees from the training school, formerly known as the School of the Americas, on Friday." 
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Timber Company Tells California Town, Go Find Your Own Water 
Thomas Fuller, The New York Times 
Fuller Writes: "The water that gurgles from a spring on the edge of this Northern California logging town is so pristine that for more than a century it has been piped directly to the wooden homes spread across hills and gullies." 
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