Thursday, October 6, 2016

RSN: UN Makes Power Play Against Trump on Climate Deal, Tim Kaine, John Negroponte and the Priest Who Was Thrown From a Helicopter





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Jeremy Scahill | Tim Kaine, John Negroponte and the Priest Who Was Thrown From a Helicopter 
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine. (photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty) 
Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept 
Scahill writes: "A story published this week by the Daily Beast about the nine months Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine spent working as a volunteer in a Jesuit community in Honduras in 1980-1981 has been making the conservative rounds. The Beast's tabloid headline is a cheap exercise in red-baiting: 'Tim Kaine's Time with a Marxist Priest.'" 
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Yahoo Offers Non-Denial Denial of Bombshell Report 
Sam Biddle, The Intercept 
Biddle writes: "This is an extremely carefully worded statement, arriving roughly 20 hours after the Reuters story first broke. That's a long time to craft 29 words." 
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Ivy League Professor: 'I Would Much Rather My Own Children Interact With Drugs Than With the Police' 
Carl L. Hart, The Washington Post 
Hart writes: "Drug effects are predictable; police interactions with black people are not. In encounters with police, too often the black person ends up dead. That is why I would much rather my own children interact with drugs than with the police." 
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Amid Water Crisis, Flint Faces a Shigellosis Outbreak 
Sara Ganim, CNN 
Ganim writes: "Flint, Michigan, is dealing with another outbreak. This time it's an infectious bacterial disease called Shigellosis, which can cause bloody diarrhea and fever and typically spreads when people don't wash their hands." 
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Workers to Protest at McDonald's Stores Across US Over Sexual Harassment Claims 
Jana Kasperkevic, Guardian UK 
Kasperkevic writes: "Workers in more than 30 US cities are planning to join a lunchtime protest at their local McDonald's stores on Thursday to draw attention to 15 different sexual complaints that have been filed against the company and its franchisees over the past month." 
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Crew of All-Women Freedom Flotilla Heading to Gaza Reportedly Detained by Israeli Forces 
Ma'an News Agency 
Excerpt: "The all-women solidarity ship 'Zaytouna' has reportedly been intercepted by Israeli naval forces while on its way to the besieged Gaza Strip, with the crew members reportedly detained, according to live updates released by the group on social media." 
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UN Makes Power Play Against Trump on Climate Deal 
Devin Henry, The Hill 
Henry writes: "International governments have made a power play against Donald Trump by ratifying an international climate deal earlier than expected, effectively preventing him from 'canceling' the deal as he has promised to do." 
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