Thursday, December 22, 2016

RSN: What the US Economy Doesn't Need From Donald Trump, Donald Trump on Tape Saying 'Every Racist Thing Ever', Claims Actor Tom Arnold




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Joseph Stiglitz | What the US Economy Doesn't Need From Donald Trump 
Donald Trump of the cover of a magazine in China. (photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty) 
Joseph Stiglitz, Guardian UK 
Stiglitz writes: "While he routinely accuses others of lying, many of his economic assertions and promises - indeed, his entire view of governance - seem worthy of Nazi Germany's 'big lie' propagandists." 
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Repeal of North Carolina's HB2 Law Fails as Legislature Adjourns Special Session 
Camila Donomoske, NPR 
Donomoske writes: "The North Carolina Legislature began a special session on Wednesday morning to vote on the repeal of a controversial state law that limits civil rights protections for LGBT people, but the effort failed by day's end as the Legislature adjourned without passing any bill." 
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The Obama Administration Is Trying to Re-Interpret the Fourth Amendment to Allow More Domestic Spying 
Joseph Menn, Reuters 
Menn writes: "Yahoo Inc's secret scanning of customer emails at the behest of a U.S. spy agency is part of a growing push by officials to loosen constitutional protections Americans have against arbitrary governmental searches, according to legal documents and people briefed on closed court hearings." 
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Donald Trump on Tape Saying 'Every Racist Thing Ever', Claims Actor Tom Arnold 
Rory Carroll, Guardian UK 
Carroll writes: "The actor Tom Arnold has claimed to have video of Donald Trump using racist language, obscenities and denigrating his own son in outtakes of The Apprentice." 
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3,000 US Cities Have Lead Poisoning Rates Higher Than Flint's 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "As news of criminal charges against the architects of the poisoning of Flint's water system broke on Tuesday, a new report shows that almost 3,000 communities across the U.S. have lead poisoning rates higher than the beleaguered Michigan city, reflecting the devastating impacts of 40 years of neo-liberal neglect." 
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US 'Got It so Wrong' on Saddam Hussein, Says CIA Interrogator of the Iraq Dictator 
Will Worley, The Independent 
Worley writes: "John Nixon had numerous conversations with the deposed leader and now says that America was critically mistaken about their intervention Iraq in a number of ways." 
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Canada's Trudeau Plans to Work With Trump Admin to Approve Keystone XL, Pump Exxon-Owned Tar Sands Into US 
Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog 
Horn writes: "At a speech given to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he intends to work with President-elect Donald Trump to approve the northern leg of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline." 
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