Thursday, June 6, 2019

Biden Climate Plan Appears to Plagiarize Multiple Sources




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Biden Climate Plan Appears to Plagiarize Multiple Sources 
Former Vice President Joe Biden. (photo: Asahi Shimbun/Getty)
Joe Perticone, Business Insider
Perticone writes: "Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden released on Tuesday a comprehensive proposal to combat global climate change, adding to the mix of candidates who have made rolling back dangerous emissions a central tenet of their campaigns."
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Roger McNamee | A Brief History of How Your Privacy Was Stolen
Roger McNamee, The New York Times
McNamee writes: "In 1982, when I began my career as a technology investor, privacy was not a concern. The denizens of Silicon Valley shared a goal: to improve the lives of the people who used technology."
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Sanders Crashes Walmart Meeting, Blasts 'Starvation Wages'
Cara Korte, CBS News
Korte writes: "Bernie Sanders went to the shareholder meeting of Walmart, the largest private employer in the world and told the company it pays its workers 'starvation wages.'"
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2020 Census Could Lead to Worst Undercount of Black, Latinx People in 30 Years
Hansi Lo Wang, NPR
Wang writes: "Challenges threatening the upcoming 2020 census could put more than 4 million people at risk of being undercounted in next year's national head count, according to new projections by the Urban Institute."
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Before Stonewall, if You Were Attacked for Being Gay, You Were the Criminal
James Polchin, Slate
Polchin writes: "In January of 1943, 31-year-old playwright Tennessee Williams wrote in his journal about the first time he was physically struck by another man."
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Honduras Deploys Security Forces as Doctors and Teachers Demand President's Resignation
Nina Lakhani, Guardian UK
Lakhani writes: "Honduran security forces with teargas and live bullets have been deployed to quell a wave of nationwide protests led by doctors and teachers demanding the resignation of the country's president."
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People Eat at Least 50,000 Plastic Particles a Year, Study Finds
Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic
Gibbens writes: "The tiny pieces of plastic scientists call microplastics are everywhere. They sit at the bottom of the sea, mix into beach sand, and blow in the wind. They're also inside us."
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