RSN: Right-Wing 'Crusaders' Militia Group Plotted Terror Attack on Muslim Immigrants, FBI Charges, Students in Colorado Expelled After Facebook Group Calls for 'Execution' of Jews, Black People, In Alaska, Indigenous Voices Raised in the Struggle Between Life and Oil, Students in Colorado Expelled After Facebook Group Calls for 'Execution' of Jews, Black People

The angry chubby man who hasn't found a group he can't insult, has successfully united the venom Republicans have stoked for decades.

A disgraceful reminder of the Dumbing Down of America and the GOP's perpetuation of IGNORANCE. 

Donald Trump, first generation American,  has inspired and inflamed HATE and INTOLERANCE among the poorly educated with tragic consequences.  . 

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THE CULT OF IGNORANCE IN THE UNITED STATES: ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM AND THE "DUMBING DOWN" OF AMERICA

These words are striking in these times: 

FIRST THEY CAME - PASTOR MARTIN NIEMOLLER

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

http://hmd.org.uk/resources/poetry/first-they-came-pastor-martin-niemoller

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Paul Krugman | The Clinton Agenda 
 
Paul Krugman, The New York Times 
Krugman writes: "It ain't over until the portly gentleman screams, but it is, as intelligence analysts say, highly likely that Hillary Clinton will win this election. Poll-based models put her chances at around 90 percent earlier this week - and that was before the campaign turned totally X-rated." 
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Right-Wing 'Crusaders' Militia Group Plotted Terror Attack on Muslim Immigrants, FBI Charges 
Ali Younes, Al Jazeera 
Younes writes: "US federal authorities have announced the arrest of three men charged with attempting to set off a bomb in Kansas City suburbs." 
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Unions Picket Outside Trump's Hotel in Washington DC 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Hundreds of workers protested outside Donald Trump's newly-opened hotel in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to demand he recognize and negotiate with the union at Las Vegas' Trump International Hotel." 
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ACLU and Human Rights Watch Call to Decriminalize Drug Use and Possession After Documenting Arrests Every 25 Seconds 
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt writes: "A new report on the devastating harm of policies that criminalize the personal use and possession of drugs finds that in 2015 police booked more people for small-time marijuana charges than for murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault combined." 
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Students in Colorado Expelled After Facebook Group Calls for 'Execution' of Jews, Black People 
Sam Levin, Guardian UK 
Levin writes: "A Nazi-themed Facebook group that called for the 'execution' of Jews and African Americans has led to the expulsion of five Boulder, Colorado, high school students in an unusual case of 'alt-right' hate speech spreading to teens in a liberal city." 
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There's Still Time for Peace in Colombia 
Kieran Duffy, Jacobin 
Duffy writes: "The past couple weeks have been full of ups and downs for Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos." 
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In Alaska, Indigenous Voices Raised in the Struggle Between Life and Oil 
Stephen Miller, YES! Magazine 
Miller writes: "As a child, Princess Lucaj was mystified by the oil wells she saw while visiting Los Angeles and the La Brea Tar Pits. She imagined they were dinosaurs and wondered what they could be up to." 
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RSN: Tar Sands Pipeline Shut Down, US Military Operations Are Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds, Man-Made Global Warming Root Cause of Relentless Forest Fires,

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BREAKING: Tar Sands Pipeline Shut Down 
 
Afrin Sopariwala, Tim DeChristopher's Website 
DeChristopher writes: "This morning, 5 activists have successfully shut down 5 pipelines across the United States delivering tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada in support of the call for International Days of Prayer and Action for Standing Rock. Activists employed manual safety valves, calling on President Obama to use emergency powers to keep the pipelines closed and mobilize for the extraordinary shift away from fossil fuels now required to avert catastrophe." 
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US Military Operations Are Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds 
Murtaza Hussain and Cora Currier, The Intercept 
Excerpt: "A secret FBI study found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited motivation for individuals involved in cases of 'homegrown' terrorism. The report also identified no coherent pattern to 'radicalization,' concluding that it remained near impossible to predict future violent acts."
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Donald Trump's Open Disdain for the Rule of Law 
Bridgette Dunlap, Rolling Stone 
Dunlap writes: "Trump acts like he's running to be America's dictator rather than the president of a nation of laws." 
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Federal Government Files Criminal Charges Against Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio Over Racial Profiling 
Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress 
Yu Hsi Lee writes: "U.S. Department of Justice officials say that they will file criminal contempt-of-court charges against Arpaio because he wouldn't stop targeting immigrants and Latinos in spite of a judge's order, the Associated Press reported." 
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Divest From Prisons, Invest in People - What Justice for Black Lives Really Looks Like 
Liza Bayless, Yes! Magazine 
Bayless writes: "Instead of addressing the roots of uncomfortable issues such as drug addiction, mental illness, and poverty, we've come to accept policing and incarceration as catch-all solutions. This disproportionally affects African Americans." 
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Yes to Peace! Colombians Occupy Bogota for an End to War 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Protesters have pledged to keep occupying the square in front of Colombia's Congress until a political solution to the stalemate on peace is confirmed." 
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Man-Made Global Warming Root Cause of Relentless Forest Fires 
Paul Brown, Climate News Network 
Brown writes: "Climate change has already doubled the number of forest fires in the western U.S. since the 1980s - and it is a trend that will continue to increase, according to new research." 
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RSN: BP Platform Leaks Oil Into North Sea With No Plans to Clean It Up, Wishful Thinking: First Hundred Days After November 8

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Robert Reich | Wishful Thinking: First Hundred Days After November 8 
 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog 
Reich writes: "1. Hillary Clinton is elected President. 2. Democrats take over the Senate, and reduce the Republican margin in the House to just 3 votes." 
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Police Unions Reject Charges of Bias, Find a Hero in Donald Trump 
Alice Speri, The Intercept 
Speri writes: "At a time when law enforcement is perhaps the only issue that divides Americans more than the presidential election itself, a notable number of police and immigration officers are throwing their weight behind his candidacy - at least through their unions and associations." 
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Half of Black Youth Face Job Discrimination 
Jesse J. Holland and Emily Swanson, Associated Press 
Excerpt: "Qymana Botts saw white colleagues with the same amount of experience getting promoted to cashier ahead of her at the Indiana discount store where she worked. When she asked her supervisors why, they told her she didn't project the image that they wanted from their cashiers: straight hair - not her natural Afro - and more makeup." 
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More Cities Ditch Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples' Day 
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Excerpt: "Nearly a century after the first proposals to celebrate perhaps the architect of arguably the worst genocide in history, Christopher Columbus, cities, states and universities in the U.S. are beginning to abandon the national holiday to instead honor Columbus's victims." 
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'Call Me a Racist, but Don't Say I'm a Buddhist': Meet America's Alt Right 
Sanjiv Bhattacharya, Guardian UK 
Bhattacharya writes: "Between them they represent two poles of a racist spectrum, young and old. And judging from this lunch, it's the millennials who are the more extreme." 
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Second Peace Plebiscite Possible in Colombia 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "The surprise defeat of the peace plebiscite in Colombia has left the country scrambling to figure out what comes next, however one advisor to the peace talks suggested in an interview with Semana magazine that a second plebiscite could be held in order for the population to reconsider the question." 
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BP Platform Leaks Oil Into North Sea With No Plans to Clean It Up 
Dan Zukowski, EcoWatch 
Zukowski writes: "About 95 metric tons of oil leaked into the North Sea on Sunday from BP's Clair platform, and it will be left in the ocean. BP says the oil is moving away from land and dispersing naturally, but the spill is a reminder that accidents happen as more oil development is eyed for the Arctic." 
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RSN: 'America Divided': New TV Series Explores Inequality From Water to Housing to Mass Incarceration, We Have Money to Fight Climate Change. It's Just That We're Spending It on Defense, 'America Divided': New TV Series Explores Inequality From Water to Housing to Mass Incarceration,

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The Presidential Election Is Over, Donald Trump Will Never Be President 
 
David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post 
Fahrenthold writes: "Donald Trump bragged in vulgar terms about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women during a 2005 conversation caught on a hot microphone, saying that 'when you're a star, they let you do it,' according to a video obtained by The Washington Post." 
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Excerpts of Hillary Clinton's Paid Speeches to Goldman Sachs Finally Leaked 
Lee Fang, Zaid Jilani, Alex Emmons and Naomi LaChance, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "Excerpts of Hillary Clinton's remarks during paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, and other groups were leaked online Friday afternoon by WikiLeaks." 
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'America Divided': New TV Series Explores Inequality From Water to Housing to Mass Incarceration 
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Actress Rosario Dawson travels to Flint, Michigan, to investigate the man-made disaster behind the city's water crisis. And legendary TV producer Norman Lear investigates gentrification and displacement in New York City and goes undercover to expose racial discrimination in housing." 
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The Dangers of 'Humanitarian' Wars 
Conn Hallinan, Consortium News 
Excerpt: "The West is rushing toward another major war in the Middle East, in Syria, behind the 'responsibility to protect' banner, which may justify endless U.S. military interventions, says Conn Hallinan at Foreign Policy in Focus." 
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Hurricane Matthew Devastates Haiti, Nearly 900 Killed 
Al Jazeera 
Excerpt: "The full scale of the devastation in rural parts of storm-hit Haiti became clear as the death toll soared to nearly 900 three days after Hurricane Matthew leveled huge swaths of the country's south." 
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Protesting Colombians Not Impressed as President Juan Manuel Santos Wins Nobel Prize 
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Excerpt: "Thousands of Colombians continued to protest in major cities to demand peace after Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC-EP, being completely ignored at the award ceremony." 
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We Have Money to Fight Climate Change. It's Just That We're Spending It on Defense 
Kenneth Pennington, Guardian UK 
Pennington writes: "One year ago this week, I was sitting in a cramped hotel room with 15 other staffers in Las Vegas for Bernie Sanders' first debate for the presidential nomination. The question came from CNN: 'What is the greatest national security threat?' Pundits criticized and mocked him for weeks after he answered 'climate change.' But he was right." 
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RSN: Operation Brass Tax: Corrupt Chicago Police Were Taxing Drug Dealers and Targeting Their Rivals, Monsanto's Toxic PCBs Lurking in 26,000 US Public Schools, Report Says

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Robert Reich | The Trump Campaign Is Tearing Fox News Apart 
 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page 
Reich writes: "I'm not overly worried about the unwinding social fabric of Fox News. In fact, it's the only good thing to come out of the Trump campaign." 
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Operation Brass Tax: Corrupt Chicago Police Were Taxing Drug Dealers and Targeting Their Rivals 
Jamie Kalven, The Intercept 
Kalven writes: "A CPD sergeant named Ronald Watts was running an elaborate criminal enterprise within the department, extorting a 'tax' from drug dealers and targeting their rivals." 
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Bernie Sanders Vows to Close Tax Loophole That Lets Trump Avoid Taxes 
Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress 
Covert writes: "Earlier this week, Sanders promised to introduce legislation in the next session of Congress that would change a number of things in the tax code, including the exemption that the real estate industry carved out for itself from rules regarding passive losses." 
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How 10 Mega-Donors Already Helped Pour a Record $1.1 Billion Into Super PACs 
Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "Super PACs seeking to influence the 2016 elections have collected more than $1 billion, a record haul driven by jumbo-sized contributions from rich donors on both sides of the aisle." 
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15 Years After the US Invasion, Afghanistan's Opium Production Is at Near-Record Levels 
Reuters 
Excerpt: "Opium production in Afghanistan increased this year to one of the highest levels on record as efforts to eradicate the crop in a country that provides much of the world's heroin collapsed, the United Nations said Wednesday." 
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Power Over Peace in Colombia 
Forrest Hylton, Jacobin 
Hylton writes: "Proponents of Colombia's peace deal underestimated their opponents' strength and failed to mobilize their own base." 
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Monsanto's Toxic PCBs Lurking in 26,000 US Public Schools, Report Says 
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch 
Chow writes: "On the same day that the agribusiness giant announced plans to set aside a whopping $280 million in PCB personal injury settlements, a study from scientists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that up to 14 million students in 26,000 schools in the U.S. could be exposed to unsafe levels of the highly toxic chemicals even though they were banned several decades ago." 
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for US Intelligence 
 
Joseph Menn, Reuters 
Menn writes: "Yahoo complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI." 
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RNC Declares Mike Pence Winner Hours Before Vice Presidential Debate 
Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone 
Blistein writes: "The Republican National Committee declared Mike Pence the winner of the vice presidential debate in a post on its website that accidentally went up over an hour before the Indiana governor's showdown with Tim Kaine." 
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Supreme Court to Address Duane Buck's 'Racially Tainted' Death Sentence 
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK 
Pilkington writes: "Lawyers acting for Buck from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Texas Defender Service will call on the nation’s highest court to reverse what they will argue was a flagrant case of racial discrimination, demanding a new and this time fair and colour-blind sentencing hearing." 
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Undocumented Immigrants Could Teach Trump a Few Things About Paying Taxes 
Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress 
Hsi Lee writes: "While Trump often likes to associate the undocumented immigrant population with criminality and economic burden, they are also a group of people who have contributed billions in taxes." 
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They are makers, not takers.

epublican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed a $916 million loss on his income tax returns, theNew York Times reported after receiving three pages from his filings in 1995. His tax deduction could have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for about 18 years.

While Trump often likes to associate the undocumented immigrant population with criminality and economic burden, they are also a group of people who have contributed billions in taxes.

Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton took to Twitter on Sunday to criticize Trump’s tax returns, pointing out that the people he scapegoats have contributed more in taxes than he has.

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According to @NYTimes, Trump may contribute less to our military and college students than the undocumented immigrants he wants to deport.

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According to the fact-checking publication Politifact, the American workforce includes 3.1 million undocumented immigrants who paid and contributed about $13 billion in Social Security taxes in 2010. After taking out about $1 billion in benefits that some may have received, it still appears that the undocumented population contributed $12 billion. Similarly, a 2016 Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report found that undocumented workers are a net positive to the economy, contributing roughly $11.64 billion every year, or an average eight percent of their incomes in state and local taxes.

That counters what Trump has claimed in the past. The GOP presidential candidate has cited erroneous figures that undocumented immigrants cost $113 billion in local, state, and federal taxes—a figure lifted from the Federation for American Immigration Reform website, an anti-immigrant organization founded by white nationalist John Tanton.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/39516-undocumented-immigrants-could-teach-trump-a-few-things-about-paying-taxes

Chicago Teachers Prepare for Battle 
Lee Sustar, Jacobin 
Sustar writes: "Chicago teachers have voted overwhelmingly to strike in the face of concession demands and austerity." 
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Colombian President Declares Ceasefire With FARC Over on October 31 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, to the apparent surprise of the FARC-EP, unilaterally announced Tuesday night during a televised address that 'the ceasefire with the FARC only runs until Oct. 31.'" 
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Ethanol in US Gas Tanks Is Backfiring for Climate Change 
John Upton, Climate Central 
Upton writes: "It may have seemed apparent to members of Congress a decade ago that if a motorist pumped a gallon of fuel made from corn into their gas tank, a gallon of fossil fuel would be left in the ground — hopefully on a foreign shore. But real life is not so simple." 
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