Tuesday, December 6, 2016

RSN: Fake News Tries to Blame Human-Caused Global Warming on El Niño, Dakota Access Pipeline Halted by Obama in 11th Hour





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Jane Ayers | Dakota Access Pipeline Halted by Obama in 11th Hour 
Water Protectors protect each other on the front line from riot Police on Thanksgiving. (photo: Rob Wilson Photography/Facebook)
Jane Ayers, Reader Supported News 
Ayers writes: "The Obama administration stepped in on Sunday to permanently halt and reroute the construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, the site of a seven-month standoff with tribal water protectors of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe." 
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Trump Nominates Neurosurgeon With no Housing-Related Experience to Lead Department of Housing 
Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate 
Mathis-Lilley writes: "Donald Trump announced early this morning that he's going to nominate Ben Carson to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development." 
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The Numbers That Tell the Story of This Standing Rock Victory 
Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn, Yes! Magazine 
Loeffelholz Dunn writes: "There are 6,000 total water protectors on average occupying camps. Weekend numbers are higher." 
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The Supreme Court Hears Two Cases Today That Could Entrench Republican Rule for a Generation 
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress 
Millhiser writes: "A pair of cases the Supreme Court will hear Monday could quietly hobble efforts to combat partisan gerrymandering - destroying, in the process, the Democratic Party's hopes of undoing any legislation signed into law by President Trump." 
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Man Fires Assault Rifle in DC Restaurant at Center of Fake-News Conspiracy Theories 
Faiz Siddiqui and Susan Svrluga, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "A North Carolina man was arrested Sunday after he walked into a popular pizza restaurant in Northwest Washington carrying an assault rifle and fired one or more shots, D.C. police said." 
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Egypt Kills 4 Palestinians After Flooding Gaza Tunnel 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "At least four Palestinian were killed when a tunnel under the border with Egypt and the Gaza Strip collapsed after Egyptian authorities deliberately flooded it with seawater to destroy it, the local Palestinian civil defense said Sunday after finding their bodies." 
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Fake News Tries to Blame Human-Caused Global Warming on El Niño 
Dana Nuccitelli, Guardian UK 
Nuccitelli writes: "Sadly, we live in a post-truth world dominated by fake news in which people increasingly seek information that confirms their ideological beliefs, rather than information that's factually accurate from reliable sources." 
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