RSN: Robert Reich | The New Truth About Free Trade, In Stunning Admission, NFL Official Affirms Link Between Football and CTE

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Robert Reich | The New Truth About Free Trade 
 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog 
Reich writes: "I used to believe in trade agreements. That was before the wages of most Americans stagnated and a relative few at the top captured just about all the economic gains." 
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Apple Fight Could Escalate With Demand for 'Source Code' 
Joseph Menn, Reuters 
Menn writes: "The latest filing in the legal war between the planet's most powerful government and its most valuable company gave one indication of how the high-stakes confrontation could escalate even further." 
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Former Judges Challenge Official Who Said 3-Year-Olds Can Represent Selves in Immigration Court 
Jerry Markon, The Washington Post 
Markon writes: "Three former federal immigration judges are publicly challenging a senior Justice Department official who argued that 3- and 4-year-olds can learn immigration law well enough to represent themselves in court." 
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Valeant Swears Off Aggressive Drug Pricing Strategy 
Dan Gorenstein, Marketplace 
Gorenstein writes: "A handful of pharmaceutical companies have been in the crosshairs over the last six months or so, both for the price of their products and for their practices." 
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In Stunning Admission, NFL Official Affirms Link Between Football and CTE 
Des Bieler, The Washington Post 
Bieler writes: "A top official with the NFL made a stunning admission Monday, agreeing with a neuropathologist before a Congressional panel that a link exists between football-related brain injuries and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The league had never before publicly acknowledged such a connection." 
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DARK Act Vote in Senate Imminent: Will Congress Protect American's Right to Know? 
Wenonah Hauter, EcoWatch 
Hauter writes: "Last night, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) filed a new version of the anti-GMO labeling bill widely known as the DARK Act, which would prevent states from requiring labeling of genetically engineered (GMO) foods and stop pending state laws that require labeling from going into effect." 
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Obama Administration Will Not Allow Oil Drilling in Atlantic Ocean 
Matthew Daly, Associated Press 
Daly writes: "In a major reversal, the Obama administration says it will not allow oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean." 
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RSN: Clinton Tops List of Arms Company Donations, Marco Rubio Pushes to Block Low-Cost, High-Speed Broadband, At This Point, If You Deny Climate Change, You Are a Traitor to Your Species

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Charles Pierce | At This Point, If You Deny Climate Change, You Are a Traitor to Your Species 

Charles Pierce, Esquire 
Pierce writes: "The representatives of the world's governments got together and agreed that the climate crisis is real and that is largely caused by human beings who burn fossil fuels. What that means is that ignorance is no longer an excuse." 
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Do Republicans Really Want the Black and Latino Vote? 
Leah Wright Rigueur, The Root 
Rigueur writes: "From the campaign of Barry Goldwater in 1964 to the antics of Donald Trump today, all signs point to 'not really.'" 
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Clinton Tops List of Arms Company Donations
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Hillary Clinton has received more money from arms and military service companies than any other candidate during the 2016 presidential campaign, data from Open Secrets shows." 
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Marco Rubio Pushes to Block Low-Cost, High-Speed Broadband 
Lee Fang, The Intercept 
Fang writes: "In a rare senatorial act, full-time Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio joined with a handful of fellow legislators on Friday in an attempt to block local municipalities from undercutting big telecom companies by providing cheap, fast internet service." 
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NBA Referee Bill Kennedy: "I'm Proud to Be a Gay Man" 
Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports 
Wojnarowski writes: "'I am proud to be an NBA referee and I am proud to be a gay man,' Kennedy told Yahoo Sports on Sunday night. 'I am following in the footsteps of others who have self-identified in the hopes that will send a message to young men and women in sports that you must allow no one to make you feel ashamed of who you are.'" 
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Saudis Push Back Yemen Cease-Fire 
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Excerpt: "'A cease-fire to end the nine-month conflict in Yemen was pushed back by 12 hours after two senior Saudi-allied military officers were killed near Taiz, Monday. The news comes as Riyadh unites 34 countries in a Sunni-led coalition to fight international 'terrorism.'" 
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Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp: Help Us Stop the DARK Act
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch 
Chow writes: "The famous musicians, who serve as board members of Farm Aid, signed a joint letter calling on President Obama to stop the DARK Act rider, which some lawmakers in Congress are trying to sneak onto to the year-end omnibus spending bill." 
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RSN: Boston Cop Beats Unarmed Woman on Bus, Pulls Gun on Witnesses, Pope Francis's Philadelphia Prison Visit Highlights Crisis in US Justice System

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Glenn Greenwald | The Anti-Muslim Controversies of the Last Week, Reimagined

Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "Those who justify bigotry against Muslims are typically fond of cherry-picking passages from the Quran to depict Islam as an ideology of evil, as though all Muslims interpret those passages and apply them to their lives the same way."
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US Soldiers Told to Ignore Afghan Allies' Abuse of Boys
Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times
Goldstein writes: "Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene - in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records."
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Pope Francis's Philadelphia Prison Visit Highlights Crisis in US Justice System
Alan Yuhas, Guardian UK
Yuhas writes: "Some 80% of the inmates at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility have not yet been convicted of the crime with which they were charged. Most of them are behind bars because they have not paid or cannot afford to pay bail while awaiting trial."
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Teamsters Protest as Treasury Debates Allowing Pension Cuts for 1.5 Million Retirees
Bruce Vail, In These Times
Vail writes: "About 300 angry Teamsters descended on Washington, D.C., September 10, demanding federal action to protect the pensions of union members threatened with benefit cuts."
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Boston Cop Beats Unarmed Woman on Bus, Pulls Gun on Witnesses
Carimah Townes, ThinkProgress
Townes writes: "The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police Department in Boston is currently under fire, after video of an officer hitting an unarmed black woman with a baton on a bus went viral Friday. When witnesses - the majority of whom were black - attempted to de-escalate the situation, the unnamed officer pulled his gun on them."
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Immigration Reform: Obama Helping Immigrants to Become Citizens and Vote Ahead of 2016 Elections
Elizabeth Whitman, International Business Times
Whitman writes: "The White House is urging 8.8 million legal U.S. residents eligible for naturalization to do precisely that: become U.S. citizens and gain the right to vote."
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Four Ways Monsanto Might Launch 'Sneak Attack' to Get DARK Act Passed in Senate
Ronnie Cummins and Alexis Baden-Mayer, EcoWatch
Excerpt: "Could Monsanto be cooking up another 'sneak attack,' similar to the one it conducted in 2013, that led to passage of the Monsanto Protection Act? Only this time, the sneak attack would be aimed at stomping out the GMO labeling movement?"
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This, that....Monsanto buys Congress, Pat Robertson's Madness, Wave Energy,

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Don't let it pass Senate.

House Passes DARK Act, Banning States from Requiring GMO Labels on Food...

While the House of Representatives approved a bill that preempts state and local authority to label and regulate genetically engineered, a Senate...

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Got from old Army buddy, Thanks Steve Vaughn

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IF THIS DOESN'T MOVE YOU TO TEARS, OR MOVE YOU IN SOME KIND OF WAY, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW YOU, AND YOU'RE NOT AN AMERICAN!!!
Video Credits: Kristin Coryell ‪#‎GodBlessTheUSA‬ ‪#‎UnitedWeStandDividedWeFall‬‪#‎AmericaStrong‬

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Pat Robertson: Sex with Animals and Children to Become Legal Because of Gays

Evangelicals have a strange obsession with homosexuality, bestiality, and pedophilia. Right-wing nutjob Pat Robertson said the Supreme Court’s ruling...

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AJ+'s video.

 

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A Virginia police officer tased and used pepper spray on a man who was reportedly having a stroke because he wasn't responding.

StoryCorps's video.

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Did not argue, asked to see a search warrant when they wanted to open the trunk, was almost beaten to death.

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"I was almost another dead black male."

In our new ‪#‎Animation‬ TRAFFIC STOP, Alex Landau remembers a night he was severely beaten by the Denver Police following a traffic stop in 2009. Alex talks with his mother, Patsy Hathaway about how that night changed both their lives. Watch:‪#‎TrafficStop‬

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Pat Buchanan, with a message to President Obama. Get ready to be pissed off.

By Patrick J.. Buchanan

Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America. Fair enough. But this time, it needs to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.... This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, No people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.

Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants.

Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?

Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona, and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids...?

Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?

Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago. This needs to be passed around because, this is a message everyone needs to hear!!!

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According to Rick Perry, gun-free zones are a "bad idea."

Rick Perry: It 'makes sense' to bring guns to the movies

GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry instructs Americans to utilize their second Amendment right to bear arms.

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An Inconvenient Truth

Here's why it doesn't—yet.

Wave Power Could Supply Half the U.S. With Cheap Electricity

The technology works, but surviving harsh ocean conditions and securing funding has proved tough.

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"Last week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court dismissed an investigation into whether Gov. Walker violated the law during the 2012 recall election. It was later exposed that the four state Supreme Court justices who voted for the case to be dismissed also received campaign funds from the same business groups that Walker was suspected of coordinating with during the recall. The Court also ruled that all evidence related to the case be destroyed."

Petition Being Circulated Demanding Obama Have Federal Investigation into Scott Walker Rigging...

The Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative (WCMC) launched a petition urging President Obama and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) to reopen an...

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Mitch McConnell Crushed As Senate Democrats Block Amendment To Repeal Obamacare

Senate Democrats have blocked an amendment to repeal Obamacare that Mitch McConnnell attached to the transportation bill.

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God Bless the President of the United States viaPoliticusUSA

Seriously, get over it!
Senate Democrats have blocked an amendment to repeal Obamacare that Mitch McConnell attached to the transportation bill. The final vote was 49-43, which was 11 votes short of 60 needed for passage. The McConnell amendment was overshadowed by the looming procedural move that was going to be pulled by Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee to try to use the nuclear option to repeal Obamacare with 51 votes. Senate Republicans like Orrin Hatch argued against the move that Cruz and Lee tried to pull by claiming that if they were successful, Senate leaders would lose control of the calendar and agenda. In other words, if Cruz and Lee were successful, the Senate would become the House.