Sunday, November 13, 2016

RSN: The Republican Healthcare Plan: Gut Medicare and Blame Obama, FDA Suspends Testing Foods for Glyphosate Residues, Will Trump's Immigration Crackdown Be a "Cash Machine" for Military and Private Prison Contractors?





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Charles Pierce | The Republican Healthcare Plan: Gut Medicare and Blame Obama 
President Barack Obama. (photo: Getty Images) 
Charles Pierce, Esquire 
Pierce writes: "My Walk To Work, November 11, 2016: Part Two. Every few days, when I walk to the BlogCave, I stop at a local McDonald's for one of their Triglyceride Festival breakfasts. Every time I've done this, there has been a table full of elderly gents sitting at the same table by the side door." 
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Protests Erupt After Mistrial in Ray Tensing Police Murder Case 
David Boroff and Laura Bult, New York Daily News 
Excerpt: "Protesters filled the streets outside the Cincinnati courthouse where a judge declared a mistrial Saturday in the case of a white University of Cincinnati police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black motorist." 
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Donald Trump's Victory Followed by Wave of Hate Crime Attacks Against Minorities Across US - Led by His Supporters 
Lizzie Dearden, The Independent 
Dearden writes: "Police are investigating a wave of alleged hate crimes against Muslims, Hispanic Americans, black people, ethnic minorities and the LGBT community in the wake of the US election." 
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Bottled Water Must Be Delivered to Flint Residents in Lead Crisis, Judge Rules 
Ryan Felton, Guardian UK 
Felton writes: "Residents of Flint, Michigan, who are facing the risk of lead contamination in their water are entitled to water bottle delivery to their home, a federal judge ruled this week." 
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Thousands of Potentially Wrongful Convictions, Years of Delayed Action 
Patrick G. Lee, ProPublica 
Lee writes: "In August 2012, Annie Dookhan, a veteran chemist with a Massachusetts state drug lab, admitted to contaminating samples and faking test results during her 8 1/2-year career. More than 20,000 drug convictions, as a result, could have been flawed. Those cases involved defendants from eight different counties, and in many instances people had been sent to jail and some even deported." 
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Will Trump's Immigration Crackdown Be a "Cash Machine" for Military and Private Prison Contractors? 
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez and William Hartung, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Stocks of some companies surged, including the largest private prison contractor, Corrections Corporation of America - which recently changed its name to CoreCivic - whose shares are up 43 percent since Trump's victory. GEO Group, another private prison contractor, is up 21 percent. Meanwhile, stocks also surged for many military contractors, including Raytheon, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Boeing." 
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FDA Suspends Testing Foods for Glyphosate Residues 
Carey Gillam, U.S. Right to Know 
Gillam writes: "Government testing for residues of glyphosate has been put on hold, slowing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) first-ever endeavor to get a handle on just how much of the controversial chemical is making its way into U.S. foods." 
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