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Matt Taibbi | Late Is Enough: On Thomas Friedman's New Book 
 
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone 
Taibbi writes: "With apologies to Mr. Micklethwait, the hands that typed these lines implying Thomas Friedman is a Mick Jagger of letters should be chopped off and mailed to the singer's doorstep in penance. Mick Jagger could excite the world in one note, while Thomas Friedman needs 461 pages to say, 'Shit happens.'" 
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I, Barrett Brown, Have Returned 
Barrett Brown, D Magazine 
Brown writes: "Prison was a formative experience. Thank you, Department of Justice!" 
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Jill Stein Campaign Plans to Take Pennsylvania Recount Effort to Federal Court 
Emma Bowman and Colin Dwyer, NPR 
Excerpt: "The Jill Stein campaign plans to bring her fight for a statewide ballot recount in Pennsylvania to federal court." 
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Authorities to Conditionally Move From Bridge Near DAPL Protest 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "North Dakota authorities have said they'll move away from a key bridge near the main Dakota Access pipeline protest camp by Sunday afternoon if demonstrators agree to certain conditions." 
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The 'War on Drugs' Doesn't Work. It's Time for a Grown-Up Conversation 
Alan D. Miller, Guardian UK 
Miller writes: "People will always take drugs, regardless of personal risk and the legality of it. Our laws should be amended to reflect that." 
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Patrick Cockburn | This Is Why Everything You've Read About the Wars in Syria and Iraq Could Be Wrong 
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent 
Cockburn writes: "It is too dangerous for journalists to operate in rebel-held areas of Aleppo and Mosul. But there is a tremendous hunger for news from the Middle East, so the temptation is for the media give credence to information they get second hand." 
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Climate Scientists Condemn Article Claiming Global Temperatures Are Falling 
Alan Yuhas, Guardian UK 
Yuhas writes: "Climate scientists have denounced the House committee on science, space and technology after the Republican-held panel promoted a misleading story expressing skepticism that the earth is dangerously warming." 
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Barrett Brown | Greetings From Disciplinary Segregation 

Barrett Brown, The Intercept 
Brown writes: "Getting put back in Disciplinary Segregation was actually in some ways fortuitous, as I'm now able to make a long-overdue inspection tour of this institution's Special Housing Unit. (I'm very much the Eleanor Roosevelt of the federal prison system.)" 
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Target to Pay $2.8M to Applicants Rejected Based on Race, Gender 
Paul Walsh, Star Tribune 
Walsh writes: "The payout was announced Monday by the Minneapolis Area Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and will be disbursed among more than 3,000 people." 
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New Missouri Judge Orders Sweeping Changes in Ferguson's Municipal Court 
Reuters 
Excerpt: "Municipal Court Judge Donald McCullin, appointed in June, ordered the withdrawal of all arrest warrants issued in the city before Dec. 31, 2014." 
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21 Questions for Trump on Kickbacks, Busting Unions, the Mob and Corporate Welfare 
David Cay Johnston, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Donald Trump is not at all who people think he is, and I'm very surprised that conservatives are embracing him." 
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Only Three of 116 Guantánamo Detainees Were Captured by US Forces 
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK 
Ackerman writes: "The foundations of the guilt of the remaining 113, whom US politicians often refer to as the 'worst of the worst' terrorists, involves a degree of faith in the Pakistani and Afghan spies, warlords and security services who initially captured 98 of the remaining Guantanamo population." 
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Saudi Arabia's 175 'Mass Judicial Executions' in 1 Year Condemned by Amnesty International 
RT 
Excerpt: "Amnesty International has slammed Saudi Arabia in a report for its flagrant use of the death penalty, which has seen 175 people executed in the space of 12 months, while adding that a number of crimes did not warrant the use of capital punishment." 
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US Researchers Develop a Drug That Mitigates the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation 
Guneet Bhatia, International Business Times 
Excerpt: "The study, which appears in the Laboratory Investigation, a journal in the Nature publishing group, shows that taking a single dose of a regenerative peptide called 'Chrysalin' significantly increases the survival rate." 
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Andy Borowitz | Trump Says He Heroically Avoided Capture in Vietnam by Staying in US 
 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "Presidential candidate Donald Trump revealed a little-known episode of personal heroism from his youth on Saturday, telling an Iowa audience that he narrowly avoided capture in Vietnam by remaining in the United States for the duration of the war." 
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Barrett Brown | Review of Arts and Letters and Prison: A Visit to the Sweat Lodge 
Barrett Brown, The Intercept 
Brown writes: "Back in the go-go days of 2011 I got into some sort of post-modern running conflict with a certain declining superpower that shall remain nameless, and shortly afterwards found myself in jail awaiting trial on 17 federal criminal counts carrying a combined maximum sentence of 105 years in prison. Luckily I got off with just 63 months, which here in the Republic of Crazyland is actually not too bad of an outcome." 
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Bernie-Mania Spreads to Texas as Sanders' Speech Draws 5,000 
Tom Dart, Guardian UK 
Dart writes: "Over the weekend, the Vermont senator also attracted more than 8,000 people to a rally in Dallas and 11,000 in Phoenix, the highest turnout of his campaign." 
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David Sirota and Andrew Perez | Jeb Bush Slams Lobbyists Despite His Close Relationship With Them 
David Sirota and Andrew Perez, International Business Times 
Excerpt: "Jeb Bush on Monday returned to the Florida capital to deliver a speech slamming lobbyists as a corrosive influence on public policy, and railing on the practice of public officials becoming professional influence peddlers." 
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Wesley Clark Calls for Internment Camps for "Radicalized" Americans 
Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept 
Hussain writes: "Retired general and former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark on Friday called for World War II-style internment camps to be revived for 'disloyal Americans.'" 
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Obama Aide: 'Virtually Impossible' for Iran to Hide Nuclear Activity 
Tim Devaney, The Hill 
Devaney writes: "One of the Obama administration's top negotiators is defending the controversial Iranian nuclear agreement from critics who say it does not go far enough to protect the West." 
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James Hansen Warns of 'Apocalyptic' Climate Scenario 
Mark Hertsgaard, The Daily Beast 
Hertsgaard writes: "James Hansen's new study explodes conventional goals of climate diplomacy and warns of 10 feet of sea level rise before 2100. The good news is, we can fix it." 
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| Six Weeks' Paid Leave Opposed by People With Thirty-Three Weeks' Paid
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Andy Borowitz, The New
Yorker
Borowitz writes: "President
Obama's proposal to give workers six weeks of paid leave is meeting strong
opposition from a group of people who annually receive thirty-three weeks of
paid leave."
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Murtaza
Hussain | Saudi Arabia's Tyrant King Misremembered as Man of
Peace
Murtaza Hussain, The
Intercept
Hussain writes: "After nearly
20 years as de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah
ibn-Abdulaziz al-Saud died last night at the age of 90."
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Barrett Brown
Sentenced to 63 Months for 'Merely Linking to Hacked Material'

Nicky Woolf, Guardian
UK
Woolf writes: "In a rebuke to a
legion of online supporters and what the journalist and one-time member of
Anonymous called a 'dangerous precedent', Barrett Brown was sentenced to 63
months in prison by a federal judge in Dallas on Thursday."
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Tariq Ali on
Greece's Fight Against European Austerity
Tariq Ali, CounterPunch

Tariq Ali writes: "If SYRIZA wins it will mark
the beginnings of a fightback against austerity and neo-liberalism in
Europe."
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New Jersey
Police Release Video of Cop Shooting Man With Hands Up
Jonathan Allen, Reuters

Allen writes: "A New Jersey police department
released a video this week of a man being fatally shot by police as he got out
of a car with his hands raised during a traffic stop, heightening calls for an
independent investigation into the death."
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As He Exits,
Hagel Warns of Limits to Military Power
Jon Harper, Stars and Stripes

Harper writes: "As he prepares to hand over
the reins of the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is warning that
military power has its limits and Americans should avoid believing that force
alone can transform conflict-riven societies in the Middle East and
elsewhere."
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Senate Says
Climate Change Real, but Not Really Our Fault
Ron Elving, National Public
Radio
Elving writes: "Breathtakingly
broad as its jurisdiction may be, the U.S. Senate does not usually vote on the
validity of scientific theories."
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Six tons of radioactive water leak at Fukushima No. 1 18 Dec 2014 Up to 6 tons of radioactive water has leaked into the ground at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co. The water, which had been scrubbed by Units A and C of the advanced liquid processing system (ALPS), leaked from pipes while being transported to storage tanks on Wednesday afternoon, the utility said. The ALPS system can remove all radioactive substances except tritium. It wasn't clear how radioactive the water was before the spill.

Drone strikes counterproductive, says secret CIA report 19 Dec 2014 Drone strikes and other "targeted killings" of terrorist and insurgent leaders favoured by the US and supported by Australia can strengthen extremist groups and be counterproductive, according to a secret CIA report published by WikiLeaks. According to a leaked document by the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence, "high value targeting" (HVT) involving air strikes and special forces operations against insurgent leaders can be effective, but can also have negative effects including increasing violence and greater popular support for extremist groups. The leaked document is classified secret and "NoForn" (meaning not to be distributed to non-US nationals) and reviews attacks by the United States and other countries engaged in counter-insurgency operations over the past 50 years.

Leaked CIA docs teach operatives how to infiltrate EU 21 Dec 2014 Wikileaks has released two classified documents instructing CIA operatives how best to circumvent global security systems in international airports, including those of the EU, while on undercover missions. The first of the documents, dated September 2011, advises undercover operatives how to act during a secondary airport screening. Secondary screenings pose a risk to an agent's cover by focusing "significant scrutiny" on an operative via thorough searches and detailed questioning.

Investigators Said to Seek No Penalty for C.I.A.'s Computer Searches 19 Dec 2014 A panel investigating [sic] the Central Intelligence Agency's search of a computer network used by staff members of the Senate Intelligence Committee who were looking into the C.I.A.'s use of torture will recommend against punishing anyone involved in the episode[s], according to current and former government officials. The panel [appointed by Mr. Brennan] will make that recommendation after the five C.I.A. officials who were singled out by the agency's inspector general this year for improperly ordering and carrying out the computer searches staunchly defended their actions, saying that they were lawful and in some cases done at the behest of John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director...The panel's decision not to recommend anyone for disciplinary action is likely to anger members of the Intelligence Committee, who have accused the C.I.A. of trampling on the independence of Congress and interfering with its investigation of agency wrongdoing.

CIA's No. 2 tapped to be deputy national security adviser 18 Dec 2014 Avril D. Haines will become deputy to national security adviser Susan E. Rice, returning to the White House just 18 months after she left to be CIA Director John Brennan's second in command, administration officials said Thursday. Haines will succeed Antony Blinken, confirmed by the Senate this week as deputy secretary of state.

Obama authorizes 'economic embargo' on Russia's Crimea 19 Dec 2014 US President Barack Obama has authorized sanctions against individuals and entities operating in Russia's Crimean peninsula, according to the White House statement. Obama has issued an executive order that "prohibits the export of goods, technology, or services to Crimea and prohibits the import of goods, technology, or services from Crimea, as well as new investments in Crimea," according to the statement. The executive order also authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to impose sanctions on "individuals and entities operating in Crimea."

Lavrov: US is organizing a coup d'etat in Russia 18 Dec 2014 There are serious reasons to believe that the US is using its sanctions in an attempt to destabilize Russia and change its current political system, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview to France 24. "I have serious reasons to believe that it is so. Some politicians don't even hide the fact," Lavrov said answering a question. He said Russia would not only survive the sanctions but would come out even stronger afterward.

Western nations want to chain 'the Russian bear' - Putin [Not gonna happen. Bears will NOT be chained.] 18 Dec 2014 Western nations want to chain "the Russian bear," pull out its teeth and ultimately have it stuffed, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned. He said anti-Russian sanctions are the cost of being an independent nation. Putin used the vivid metaphor of a "chained bear" during his annual Q&A session with the media in Moscow in response to a question about whether he believed that the troubles of the Russian economy were payback for the reunification with Crimea. "It's not payback for Crimea. It's the cost of our natural desire to preserve Russia as a nation, a civilization and a state," Putin said. The president said that even if "the Russian bear" started "sitting tight...and eating berries and honey," this would not stop pressure being applied against the country.

US seeks to overthrow Venezuela government: official 20 Dec 2014 Tighter new US sanctions against Venezuela are aimed to foment violent unrest to try to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro, his defense minister said Saturday. "This US interference is aimed at promoting violence...against our institutions" to oust staunch US critic Maduro, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino told Telesur television. US President Barack Obama signed a law on Thursday to allow sanctions against senior Venezuelan officials accused of violating the rights of protesters during [CIA-fomented] anti-government demonstrations that rocked the country earlier this year.

Raul Castro confirms to participate in Summit of Americas 21 Dec 2014 Cuban leader Raul Castro confirmed here Saturday his participation in the seventh Summit of the Americas, scheduled for April 10-11, 2015, in Panama. "I confirm that I will participate to express our positions with sincerity and respect for the heads of state and government, without exception," said the Cuban leader in his speech closing the fourth Ordinary Session of the eighth Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power (unicameral parliament).

South Korea prosecutors investigate data leak at nuclear power plants 21 Dec 2014 Seoul prosecutors have launched an investigation into a leak of non-critical data at South Korea's nuclear power operator, the prosecutors' office said on Sunday, as worries mount about nuclear safety and potential cyberattacks from North Korea. An official with the prosecutors' office confirmed media reports that they had traced the location of an IP address linked to the leak and had dispatched investigators to the site.

US-Israel Stuxnet Attack on Iran's Nuclear Plant 'Far More Dangerous' Than Previously Thought 20 Nov 2013 The Stuxnet virus that ravaged Iran's Natanz nuclear facility "was far more dangerous than the cyberweapon that is now lodged in the public's imagination," cyber security expert Ralph Langer writes in Foreign Policy. Stuxnet, a joint U.S.-Israel project, is known for reportedly destroying roughly a fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges by causing them to spin out of control. But the exploit had a previous element that was much more complicated and "changed global military strategy in the 21st century," according to Langer. The lesser-known initial attack was designed to secretly "draw the equivalent of an electrical blueprint of the Natanz plant" to understand how the computers control the centrifuges used to enrich uranium, Peter Sanger of The New York Times reported last June.

North Korea says it's not involved in Sony hack; proposes joint probe with US 20 Dec 2014 North Korea says it can prove it is not behind the massive Sony Pictures cyberattack that has led to several e-mail leaks, threats on movie theaters and the cancellation of the release of the movie "The Interview." The country has also said it proposes a joint investigation with the U.S. on the attack and if the U.S. does not agree, North Korea warns of "grave consequences," state [as opposed to corporate] media says. The announcement comes as a response to the FBI's statement saying it has enough information to "conclude that the North Korean government is responsible" for the actions.

U.S. blames North Korea for Sony cyberattack 19 Dec 2014 The U.S. government on Friday blamed North Korea for a devastating cyberattack against Sony Pictures, calling it an unacceptable act of intimidation and vowing to impose "costs and consequences" on those responsible. It was the first time the United States has directly accused another country of a cyberattack of this nature on American soil. [What about the Stuxnet attack by the US and Israel on Iran's Natanz nuclear facility? Where's the FBI investigation of those events?]

Ah, then came the dawn. The dreaded cybersecurity [aka Internet suppression] bill: Obama condemns Sony's decision to drop film, says US must retaliate and pass cyber bill 19 Dec 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment should have touched base with the White House before deciding to cancel the release of a controversial movie, United States President Barack Obama said Friday. Weighing in on the major Sony scandal only hours after federal investigators attributed the recent hack to North Korea, Pres. Obama said the Hollywood studio was wrong to pull "The Interview," a satirical film containing a plot to kill North Korean Pres. Kim Jong Un that was scheduled to be released on Christmas Day. At the same time, though, Obama said the attack should serve as a wake-up call to Congress and prompt lawmakers in Washington, DC to get serious about implementing cybersecurity legislation in the wake of what is only the latest hack to be endured by a major American company.

Assange: US prosecuting Barrett Brown for quoting assassination threats against me 18 Dec 2014 The charges against journalist and activist Barrett Brown, accused of threatening an FBI agent, are partially based on his quoting another person's threat to assassinate the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange said. Brown, 33, whose sentencing was delayed until January on Tuesday, faced federal charges including computer-related crimes, obstruction of justice and publicly threatening an FBI agent performing his duty. He’s now looking at up to eight years in prison for aiding hackers in breaching corporate computers, after pleading guilty in April to being an accessory.

Protesters shut down part of Mall of America in Minnesota 20 Dec 2014 More than 1,500 protesters against police violence shut down part of the Mall of America in Minnesota on Saturday, resulting in about 25 arrests during the final weekend before Christmas...at one of the nation's largest shopping centers, officials said. The protest and a smaller action at the King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania were the latest in a series of U.S. demonstrations in recent weeks over grand jury decisions not to charge white police officers in the killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City. Police at the Mall of America in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington arrested about 25 demonstrators, mostly for trespassing and failure to disperse, said Bloomington police spokesman Commander Mark Stehlik.

2 NYPD officers were working during an anti-terrorism drill when they were shot 21 Dec 2014 Two uniformed NYPD officers were shot dead Saturday afternoon as they sat in their marked police car on a Brooklyn street corner — in what investigators believe was a 'crazed gunman's assassination-style mission to avenge Eric Garner and Michael Brown.' "No warning, no provocation -- they were quite simply assassinated, targeted for their uniform," Police Commissioner William Bratton said. Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were working overtime as part of an anti-terrorism drill in Bedford-Stuyvesant just before 3 p.m. when they were 'shot point-blank in the head by lone gunman Ismaaiyl Brinsley,' 28, who had addresses in Georgia, Maryland and Brooklyn.

Boston Police Department on high alert after killing of two NYPD cops 21 Dec 2014 Boston police brass issued a warning to all officers last night to be on high alert after a gunman who posted online that he was planning to shoot "two pigs" in retaliation for the [also brutal] chokehold death of Eric Garner brutally assassinated two New York City police officers as they sat in a patrol car in Brooklyn before turning the gun on himself, authorities said. "Almost ever since Ferguson we stepped up to make sure officers are aware," Boston police Commissioner William B. Evans said hours after the double murder.

Two New York cops shot dead execution style 'in revenge for Eric Garner': Gunman crept up on car an opened fire after boasting 'they take one of ours let's take two of theirs' --Investigators reportedly investigating social media posts explaining death --Man posted that he was going to take 2 NYPD lives in revenge for Garner 20 Dec 2014 This is the man who shot dead two New York police officers in an apparent act of revenge for Eric Garner's death, law enforcement believes. Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, 28, shot his girlfriend in Baltimore on Saturday morning then traveled to Brooklyn, New York City, to kill police officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos before turning the gun on himself. According to witnesses, Brinsley walked out of his home with a gun in his hand at 3pm, crept up behind a patrol car, and systematically shot both men in the head - then walked to a subway station and shot himself.

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Scott Galindez | Obama Finally Acts Like a Nobel Laureate

Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News
Galindez writes: "Normalizing relations with Cuba was an act worthy of consideration for the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm not saying he deserves the prize, too many other actions by Obama led to more violence and suffering in the world."
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FARC Guerillas Announce Cease-Fire With Colombian Government After 50-Year Civil War
Steven Cohen, VICE Magazine
Cohen reports: "Starting midnight December 20, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the hemisphere's longest-standing leftist insurgency, will enter an indefinite, unilateral - albeit conditional - ceasefire, rebel commanders announced in Havana."
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'Stand Your Ground' Defense Fails in Montana Murder of German Exchange Student
Kathryn Haake, Missoulian
Haake reports: "A collective cry erupted on the third floor of the Missoula County Courthouse on Wednesday as a jury of eight women and four men found Markus Hendrik Kaarma guilty of deliberate homicide."
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Iran Unveils Monument to Jewish Soldiers Killed in Iran-Iraq War
Haaretz and Associated Press
Excerpt: "Iran this week unveiled a monument to Jewish soldiers killed in the Iran-Iraq War, which lasted from 1980 to 1988 and saw both countries suffer millions of casualties and billions of dollar in damage."
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The Latest Twist in the Bizarre Prosecution of Barrett Brown
Michelle Garcia, The Intercept
Garcia reports: "The hearing followed a plea deal negotiated with prosecutors last spring, in which Brown agreed to plead guilty to charges related to threats he made in a YouTube video against an FBI agent named Robert Smith."
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6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World
Jose Martin, Rolling Stone
Martin writes: "While law enforcers have existed in one form or another for centuries, the modern police have their roots in the relatively recent rise of modern property relations 200 years ago, and the 'disorderly conduct' of the urban poor."
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Largest Tar Sands Pipeline to US Shut Down Indefinitely After Spill of 50,000+ Gallons
Scott Haggett, Reuters
Haggett reports: "Enbridge Inc said on Thursday it has no restart date yet for its 796,000-barrel-per-day Line 4, the largest oil-export pipeline to the United States, after it was shut a day earlier after a spill of 1,350 barrels."
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