Thursday, December 1, 2016

RSN: Greg Palast | The No-BS Inside Guide to the Presidential Recount, Donald Trump Is Assembling the Richest Administration in Modern American History




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Greg Palast | The No-BS Inside Guide to the Presidential Recount 
Line to cast a ballot in Wisconsin. (photo: Reuters) 
Greg Palast, Reader Supported News 
Palast writes: "There's been so much complete nonsense since I first broke the news that the Green Party would file for a recount of the presidential vote, I am compelled to write a short guide to flush out the BS and get to just the facts, ma'am." 
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Donald Trump Is Assembling the Richest Administration in Modern American History 
Jim Tankersley and Ana Swanson, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "Trump is putting together what will be the wealthiest administration in modern American history. His announced nominees for top positions include several multimillionaires, an heir to a family mega-fortune and two Forbes-certified billionaires." 
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Watergate-Era Church Committee Staffers Urge Leniency for Snowden 
Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept 
McLaughlin writes: "Fifteen staff members who worked on a well-known bipartisan intelligence watchdog committee wrote to President Barack Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday requesting the administration negotiate a plea agreement with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden." 
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Ace Hardware Stores Near Standing Rock Stopped Selling Supplies to Protestors After Police Requested It 
Megan Reynolds, Jezebel 
Reynolds writes: "On the heels of an emergency evacuation order from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and North Dakota governor Jack Dalrymple and fines of $1,000 set for those who would deliver supplies like water and food, it seems like Ace Hardware has fallen in line with law enforcement and is refusing to sell supplies to protestors." 
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Cybersecurity Expert Bruce Schneier: American Elections Will Be Hacked 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "A lot of our voting machines are basically computers. And especially computers without any paper audit trail are vulnerable to hacking and errors in ways that can't be corrected. And my worry is that we're going to have an election where there is credible evidence of a hack, and we're literally not going to know the actual results and have no way to figure it out. And that, right now, will be disaster for our system." 
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Does What Happened to This Journalist at the US-Canada Border Herald a Darker Trend? 
Hugh Handeyside, ACLU 
Handeyside writes: "The recent abusive border search of a Canadian photojournalist should serve as a warning to everyone concerned about press freedom these days." 
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Deforestation of the Amazon Up 29 Percent From Last Year, Study Finds 
Camila Domonoske, NPR 
Domonoske writes: "An annual study released by the Brazilian government estimates that the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has increased by 29 percent over last year." 
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