RSN: Republicans Hankering for Ground War Against ISIS. What Could Go Wrong?, ISIS Commits Cultural Destruction, Our Society Commits Environmental Destruction

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Andy Borowitz | Congress's Approval Rating No Longer Detectable by Current Technology

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "After a challenging week for the legislative body, the approval rating of the United States Congress has shrunk to a point where it is no longer detectable by the technology currently available, a leading pollster said on Friday."
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Joseph Stiglitz on the Trans Pacific Partnership: "This Is a Big Deal"
Alexandros Orphanides, In These Times
Orphanides writes: "Trade agreements are about more than business - they're about who has final say in the way people around the world live, what they eat, how much they are paid, what medicines they can buy and whether they have jobs."
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Why Was an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Tracking a Black Lives Matter Protest?
Lee Fang, The Intercept
Fang writes: "Members of an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force tracked the time and location of a Black Lives Matter protest last December at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, email obtained by The Intercept shows."
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NYPD Edited Wikipedia Entries on Eric Garner and Other Cases of Police Brutality
Kelly Weill, Capital New York
Weill writes: "Computers operating on the New York Police Department's computer network at its 1 Police Plaza headquarters have been used to alter Wikipedia pages containing details of alleged police brutality, a review by Capital has revealed."
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Republicans Hankering for Ground War Against ISIS. What Could Go Wrong?
Paul Waldman, The American Prospect
Waldman writes: "A new Quinnipiac poll finds that 62 percent of Americans, including 72 percent of Republicans, favors the use of ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria."
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US-Backed Iraqi Security Forces Committing Same Atrocities as ISIS
James Gordon Meek, Brian Ross and Rym Momtaz, ABC News
Excerpt: "U.S.-trained and armed Iraqi military units, the key to the American strategy against ISIS, are under investigation for committing some of the same atrocities as the terror group, American and Iraqi officials told ABC News."
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ISIS Commits Cultural Destruction, Our Society Commits Environmental Destruction
George Monbiot, Guardian UK
Monbiot writes: "Militants' bulldozing of cultural treasures in northern Iraq has parallels in the destruction of natural wonders around the world, and both should be denounced."
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RSN: In US, There Are Twice as Many Solar Workers as Coal Miners, Republican Net Neutrality Bill Would Gut FCC's Authority Over Broadband, The CIA's Willingness to Lie About Our Torture Regime

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Charles Pierce | The CIA's Willingness to Lie About Our Torture Regime

Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "In the most recent New York Review Of Books, there's an excellent interview about the now-largely-forgotten report from the Senate about how the United States government's regime of torture was developed, and about how it was operated, with Mark Danner."
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NYPD Under Investigation for Routinely Planting Guns on Suspects and Fabricating Circumstances of Arrests
Stephanie Clifford, The New York Times
Clifford writes: "A Brooklyn man who claimed the police manufactured gun-possession charges against him had his case dismissed on Thursday, amid two investigations into the practices of a group of police officers in the 67th Precinct in East Flatbush."
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Republican Net Neutrality Bill Would Gut FCC's Authority Over Broadband
Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica
Brodkin writes: "Net neutrality legislation unveiled by Republicans today would gut the ability of the Federal Communications Commission to regulate the broadband industry."
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North Miami Police Chief Suspends Training Program After Mug Shots of Black Males Had Been Used as Targets
Union Gazette
Excerpt: "The North Miami Beach Police said Friday that it has suspended the sniper education program till a evaluation is conducted, right after reports showed that mug shots of African-American men have been becoming applied as targets at a shooting range for police instruction."
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Pope Makes Anti-Gay Marriage Comments in Philippines
Francis X. Rocca, Catholic News
Rocca writes: "Appealing to the traditional values of Filipino Catholic families, Pope Francis made one of his strongest calls as pope against movements to recognize same-sex unions as marriage."
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In US, There Are Twice as Many Solar Workers as Coal Miners
Kirsten Korosec, Fortune
Korosec writes: "SolarCity, the largest installer of residential solar systems in the U.S., nearly doubled its workforce last year, hiring 4,000 people to do everything from system design and site surveys to installation and engineering."
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Items Lost From Stone Age Found in Melting Glaciers
Marianne Nordahl, ScienceNordic
Nordahl writes: "Mittens, shoes, weapons, walking sticks - lost in the high mountains of Norway thousands of years ago - are now emerging from melting ice."
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