Wednesday, November 16, 2016

RSN: Slashed Budgets and Toxic Chemicals: Planning for Environmental Carnage Under Donald Trump's EPA, Europe Reacts to Trump: 'The World Is Crumbling in Front of Our Eyes'




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Rebecca Solnit | Don't Call Clinton a Weak Candidate: It Took Decades of Scheming to Beat Her 
'Years of Republican plots, an opponent deified by television, and FBI smears stood in her way - and she still won the popular vote by more than Kennedy did.' (illustration: Andrzej Krauze) 
Rebecca Solnit, Guardian UK 
Solnit writes: "Sometimes I think I have never seen anything as strong as Hillary Clinton. That doesn't mean that I like and admire everything about her. I'm not here to argue about who she is, just to note what she did." 
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Nancy Pelosi Could Be in Trouble as House Democrats Delay Vote 
Deirdre Walsh, Tom LoBianco and Jeff Zeleny, CNN 
Excerpt: "House Democrats decided Tuesday to delay their leadership elections until after Thanksgiving - a move that will give reeling Democrats time to nurse their wounds and could spell trouble for longtime leader Nancy Pelosi." 
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Europe Reacts to Trump: 'The World Is Crumbling in Front of Our Eyes' 
Der Spiegel 
Excerpt: "As is often the case with earth-shaking events, it was the financial markets that reacted first. The DAX, Germany's blue-chip stock index, quickly plunged upon opening on Wednesday morning in response to the news that Donald Trump had won the US presidential elections. But despite expectations by some financial experts that the index would drop by up to 4 percent against Tuesday, the DAX quickly stabilized after opening down just over 1 percent." 
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#NoDAPL Day of Action to See Hundreds of Protests Nationwide 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "We know that elections and individuals alone don't create change - movements do. This is the maxim guiding the massive nationwide action planned for Tuesday that will see nearly 200 protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, the largest since the U.S. government halted the project in September." 
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Could a Trump Administration Overturn Roe v. Wade? 
Lisa Ryan, New York Magazine 
Ryan writes: "In a November 13 interview with 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl asked President-elect Donald Trump to clarify whether he planned on going after Roe v. Wade as he had threatened during his campaign." 
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Obama Will Not Restrict Drone Strike 'Playbook' Before Trump Takes Office 
Spencer Ackerman and Patrick Wintour, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "Barack Obama will not tighten the rules governing US drone strikes ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration, the Guardian has learned." 
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Slashed Budgets and Toxic Chemicals: Planning for Environmental Carnage Under Donald Trump's EPA 
Sharon Lerner, The Intercept 
Lerner writes: "Environmentalist who were hoping that somehow a Donald Trump presidency wouldn't be as catastrophic as they feared had those hopes dashed on Friday, when the president-elect announced Myron Ebell as his choice to oversee the transition at the Environmental Protection Agency." 
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