Friday, December 2, 2016

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Bernie Sanders | Carrier Just Showed Corporations How to Beat Donald Trump 
Bernie Sanders. (photo: Karen Bleier/Getty Images) 
Bernie Sanders, The Washington Post 
Sanders writes: "Today, about 1,000 Carrier workers and their families should be rejoicing. But the rest of our nation's workers should be very nervous." 
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Killing Afghans 'Fun' Says Trump's New Pick for Secretary of Defense 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Smashing hopes for a less interventionist and aggressive U.S. foreign policy, President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he will appoint retired General James Mattis, known as 'Mad Dog Mattis' who once said he found it 'a hell of a lot of fun' to kill people in Afghanistan, as the next U.S. defense secretary." 
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Hillary Clinton Catches Up by 23,700 Votes in Pennsylvania Before Recount Begins 
Bill Palmer, Palmer Report 
Palmer writes: "With a recount effort now underway in the three razor-tight swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, it turns out Hillary Clinton has already moved closer to winning those states than had originally been announced." 
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Thousands of Veterans to Form a Human Shield Around Standing Rock Protestors 
Charley Lanyon, New York Magazine 
Lanyon writes: "More than 2,000 U.S. veterans are planning to descend on North Dakota this weekend, where they will make a human shield around the protesters there. More than 7,000 people are camped out in a massive months-long demonstration organized by the Standing Rock Sioux in opposition to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which they say threatens tribal lands." 
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Civil Rights Group Documents Nearly 900 Hate Incidents After Presidential Election 
Moriah Balingit, The Washington Post 
Balingit writes: "In Sarasota, Fla., someone pulled a 75-year-old gay man from his car and beat him, saying: 'You know my new president says we can kill all you f------ now.' In San Antonio, a man told an Asian girl: 'When they see your eyes, you are going to be deported.' A teacher in Wesley Chapel, Fla., told black students: 'Don't make me call Donald Trump to get you sent back to Africa.'" 
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Women the World Over Have Shown the US How to Deal With Sexism and Racism 
Yifat Susskind, Guardian UK 
Susskind writes: "Many in the US are emerging from their initial shock at the outcome of the presidential election to confront its likely impacts: a legitimation of right-wing identity politics, worsening climate change and militarism, assaults on women's rights and LGBT rights, and the gutting of basic public services." 
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Ivanka Trump: Climate Believer and a Vocal One 
Annie Karni, Politico 
Karni writes: "In September, as Donald Trump railed against the media and sold himself as the candidate of the forgotten man, Ivanka Trump ventured into the lair of the liberal media and power elite that was laughing at her father." 
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