Wednesday, November 2, 2016

RSN: Alabama: 1 Dead, 5 Injured in Gas Pipeline Explosion, Frank Rich | Trump's Appeasers




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The cover of 'TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald' by Timothy O'Brien. (photo: Warner Books)
Frank Rich, New York Magazine 
Rich writes: "In 2016, springtime for Hitler has been held over by popular demand to summer and fall. 'It's difficult to say when the Hitler analogies got out of control,' observed the writer Michael Lind in Politico way back in March, after the somewhat unexpected trilogy of Bill Maher, Louis C.K., and Glenn Beck found common ground in likening Donald Trump to the Fuhrer." 
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Why Police From 7 Different States Invaded a Standing Rock Camp - and Other Questions 
Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn, YES! Magazine 
Dunn writes: "On Thursday, scores of law enforcement officers from seven different states showed up with riot gear, armored vehicles, and military weaponry to clear away Standing Rock's newest camp, the '1851 Treaty Camp.'" 
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How a Theory of Crime and Policing Was Born, and Went Terribly Wrong 
Tara Boyle, Jennifer Schmidt, Maggie Penman and Shankar Vedantam, NPR 
Excerpt: "In 1969, Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist from Stanford University, ran an interesting field study. He abandoned two cars in two very different places: one in a mostly poor, crime-ridden section of New York City, and the other in a fairly affluent neighborhood of Palo Alto, Calif. Both cars were left without license plates and parked with their hoods up." 
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Donald Trump Used Legally Dubious Method to Avoid Paying Taxes 
David Barstow, Mike McIntire, Patricia Cohen, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner, The New York Times 
Excerpt: "Donald J. Trump proudly acknowledges he did not pay a dime in federal income taxes for years on end. He insists he merely exploited tax loopholes legally available to any billionaire - loopholes he says Hillary Clinton failed to close during her years in the United States Senate." 
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Man's Death Hints at the Wretched Medical Care in Private Immigration Prisons 
Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK 
Laughland writes: "Theodula Jaramillo had kept vigil over her son's deteriorating body for seven years before he died on Independence Day." 
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US Food Justice Activists Call for Wendy's Fast Food Boycott 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Farmworkers, food justice activists and other supporters protested Sunday against U.S. fast food giant Wendy's in Washington, D.C., calling for a nationwide boycott of the company until it agrees to clean up its act when it comes to food sourcing and workers' rights." 
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1 Dead, 5 Injured in Gas Pipeline Explosion
Samantha Page, ThinkProgress 
Page writes: "A gasoline pipeline in central Alabama exploded Monday night, killing one pipeline worker and injuring five others. The ensuing fire burned 32 acres of nearby woodlands, and residents in a 3-mile radius were evacuated Monday afternoon, according to a statement from Gov. Robert Bentley (R)." 
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