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Top 5 Planks of GOP 2016 Platform? Torture, War, Bank Corruption, Paid-For
Elections
Juan Cole, Informed
Comment Cole writes: "This week, the
release by the Senate of a report on torture as practiced in the zeroes by the
CIA, along with Thursday night's dramatic vote on an omnibus spending bill, laid
bare the shape of the GOP platform in 2016." READ
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Major Protests
Over Police Violence Planned in Washington and Manhattan Today
Tom Brune and Nicole
Fuller, Newsday Excerpt: "Thousands of
people are expected to join marches in Washington and New York City Saturday to
demand that police be held accountable for their use of force in cases that led
to the deaths of unarmed black men and a 12-year-old boy." READ
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Bernie Sanders
Will Be Ranking Member on Senate Budget Committee Next Year
Rebecca Shabad, The
Hill Shabad writes: "Sen. Bernie
Sanders (I-Vt.) will be the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee next
year, Democrats announced Friday. The self-proclaimed socialist replaces Sen.
Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who is moving over to become ranking member on the
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee." READ
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Democrats Who
Voted for Spending Bill Received Twice as Much From Financial Industry Than NO
Voters Philip Bump, The Washington
Post Bump writes: "We'll start with the
thing that will catch your attention, as is the way: Democrats who voted for the
giant spending bill on Thursday night received, on average, twice the campaign
contributions from the finance/insurance/real estate industry as their
colleagues who voted against it." READ
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New Orleans
Aims to End Homelessness for Veterans in Three Weeks Kira Lerner, ThinkProgress
Lerner writes: "While the group has made
steady progress on finding homes for the 193 homeless veterans identified in the
count in the beginning of the year, the effort has ignored many chronically
homeless and others sleeping on the street, a UNITY outreach worker
said." READ
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Report:
Americans Are Poorer Since the Recession Ended, Wealth Inequality Continues to
Rise Ashlee Kieler, Consumerist
Kieler writes: "While it could be debated to
no end whether or not the Great Recession is over, a new report points out that
consumers are still worth less money than they were before the bottom fell out
of the economy." READ
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Move Over,
California: Oklahoma Now Leads the Nation for Most Earthquakes
The Inquisitr
Excerpt: "Oklahoma is best known, in the realm
of natural disasters, for an abundance of tornadoes. However, it appears the
state has a new natural disaster on its hands and it comes in the form of
earthquakes. As of December, Oklahoma official outranks California for the most
earthquakes in the nation." READ
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