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Sunday, August 14, 2016
RSN: How Are Things Going in Newly Insane North Carolina? Glad You Asked., Here's the Latest Community to Crack Down on Fossil Fuel Shipments
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Charles Pierce | How Are Things Going in Newly Insane North Carolina? Glad You Asked.
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "We get the word, 'gerrymander,' although, to be true to its origins, it ought to be pronounced with a hard-G sound, like 'Gary Cooper,' or 'Gosh, the North Carolina legislature is Getting its brains beaten out for being Garishly, Grotesquely, and Gutlessly racist aGain.'"
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "We get the word, 'gerrymander,' although, to be true to its origins, it ought to be pronounced with a hard-G sound, like 'Gary Cooper,' or 'Gosh, the North Carolina legislature is Getting its brains beaten out for being Garishly, Grotesquely, and Gutlessly racist aGain.'"
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Violence Erupts After Officer-Involved Shooting in Milwaukee
Aaron Mak, Jacob Carpenter and Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Excerpt: "A standoff between police and an angry crowd turned violent Saturday night in the hours after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed an armed suspect during a foot chase on the city's north side."
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Aaron Mak, Jacob Carpenter and Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Excerpt: "A standoff between police and an angry crowd turned violent Saturday night in the hours after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed an armed suspect during a foot chase on the city's north side."
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Gunman Kills Two Muslims, Including an Imam, in New York City
Reuters
Excerpt: "A Muslim imam and a second man were fatally shot on Saturday while walking home from afternoon prayers at a mosque in the New York borough of Queens."
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Reuters
Excerpt: "A Muslim imam and a second man were fatally shot on Saturday while walking home from afternoon prayers at a mosque in the New York borough of Queens."
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Rupert Murdoch Promotes Roger Ailes Loyalists to Run Fox News
Gabriel Sherman, New York Magazine
Sherman writes: "Roger Ailes may be out of Fox News, but he continues to cast a long shadow over the network."
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Gabriel Sherman, New York Magazine
Sherman writes: "Roger Ailes may be out of Fox News, but he continues to cast a long shadow over the network."
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The World Is Getting Better at Paid Maternity Leave. The US Is Not.
Melissa Etehad and Jeremy C.F. Lin, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "In the United States bearing a child comes at a high price for many women. Despite having one of the world's most advanced economies, the United States lags far behind other countries in its policies for expectant mothers."
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Melissa Etehad and Jeremy C.F. Lin, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "In the United States bearing a child comes at a high price for many women. Despite having one of the world's most advanced economies, the United States lags far behind other countries in its policies for expectant mothers."
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Twitter Refuses to Explain Censorship of Verified Journalist Accounts in Post-Coup Turkey
The Daily Dot
"Twitter has made a name for itself as a champion of free speech around the world. Following the recent coup attempt in Turkey, however, something has changed in the way it approaches censorship, and the company refuses to talk about it."
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The Daily Dot
"Twitter has made a name for itself as a champion of free speech around the world. Following the recent coup attempt in Turkey, however, something has changed in the way it approaches censorship, and the company refuses to talk about it."
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Here's the Latest Community to Crack Down on Fossil Fuel Shipments
Katie Herzog, Grist
Herzog writes: "Whatcom County, Washington, a mostly rural area in the upper northwest corner of the country, has become the latest community to crack down on fossil fuel shipments."
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Katie Herzog, Grist
Herzog writes: "Whatcom County, Washington, a mostly rural area in the upper northwest corner of the country, has become the latest community to crack down on fossil fuel shipments."
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016
RSN: Chevron Won't Have to Pay for Its Own Version of Chernobyl, US Documents on Argentina Dirty War Show Conflict Between Carter Administration and Kissinger
US actions in South America have created brutal dictatorships, killings, human rights atrocities and created to immigration flood that is criticized.
The solutions are simple and complex.
Allow these people to live in PEACE, free of violence and killings, with stable governments that elevated their people.
And YES! Henry Kissinger is a WAR CRIMINAL!
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US Documents on Argentina Dirty War Show Conflict Between Carter Administration and Kissinger
teleSUR
Excerpt: "In a much-awaited step toward uncovering the historical truth of the U.S.-backed Dirty War in Argentina in the 1970's and 80's, the United States has delivered over 1,000 pages of classified documents to the South American country."
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The files include grisly descriptions of torture, rape, assassinations, and forced disappearances carried out by the military regime under General Jorge Rafael Videla, installed after the 1976 coup against left-wing President Isabel Peron.
The documents also detail Henry Kissinger’s applause of the Argentine dictatorship and its counterinsurgency strategy, including during a visit to General Videla during the 1978 World Cup. National Security staffer Robert Pastor wrote in 1978 that Kissinger's “praise for the Argentine government in its campaign against terrorism was the music the Argentine government was longing to hear.”
Argentina’s so-called anti-terrorism policy was in reality a brutal crackdown on political dissidents, human rights defenders, academics, church leaders, students, and other opponents of the right-wing regime. It was also part of the regional U.S.-backed Operation Condor, a state terror operation that carried out assassinations and disappearances in support of Sout America's right-wing dictatorships. In Argentina, up to 30,000 people were forcibly disappeared during the Dirty War.
The documents also detail how then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter raised concern over the human rights situation in Argentina, including in a letter to General Videla rather gently urging him to make progress with respect to human rights. At the time, Kissinger reportedly demonstrates a “desire to speak out against the Carter Administration's human rights policy to Latin America,” according to a memo by National Security’s Pastor.
The further confirmation of Kissinger's atrocious legacy in Latin America comes as U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton courts an endorsement from Kissinger, widely condemned as a war criminal by human rights groups.
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Glenn Greenwald | Bernie Sanders Denounces Brazil's Impeachment as Undemocratic, Calls for New Elections
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders yesterday denounced in harsh terms the impeachment of Brazil's democratically elected president. As the Brazilian Senate heads toward a final vote later this month, Sanders described his position, set forth in a statement posted on his Senate site, as 'calling on the United States to take a definitive stand against efforts to remove Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff from office.'"
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Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders yesterday denounced in harsh terms the impeachment of Brazil's democratically elected president. As the Brazilian Senate heads toward a final vote later this month, Sanders described his position, set forth in a statement posted on his Senate site, as 'calling on the United States to take a definitive stand against efforts to remove Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff from office.'"
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US Documents on Argentina Dirty War Show Conflict Between Carter Administration and Kissinger
teleSUR
Excerpt: "In a much-awaited step toward uncovering the historical truth of the U.S.-backed Dirty War in Argentina in the 1970's and 80's, the United States has delivered over 1,000 pages of classified documents to the South American country."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "In a much-awaited step toward uncovering the historical truth of the U.S.-backed Dirty War in Argentina in the 1970's and 80's, the United States has delivered over 1,000 pages of classified documents to the South American country."
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Highest-Ranking Officer Cleared in Freddie Gray's Death to Get $127,000 in Back Pay
Luke Broadwater, The Baltimore Sun
Broadwater writes: "Baltimore police Lt. Brian S. Rice, who was acquitted of manslaughter, misconduct and other charges in the death of Freddie Gray, is set to receive about $127,000 in back pay."
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Luke Broadwater, The Baltimore Sun
Broadwater writes: "Baltimore police Lt. Brian S. Rice, who was acquitted of manslaughter, misconduct and other charges in the death of Freddie Gray, is set to receive about $127,000 in back pay."
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Activists: Facebook Removes Potential Evidence of Police Brutality Too Readily
Alice Speri and Sam Biddle, The Intercept
Excerpt: "As more details emerge about last week's killing by Baltimore County police of 23-year-old Korryn Gaines, activists have directed growing anger not only at local law enforcement but also at Facebook, the social media platform where Gaines posted parts of her five-hour standoff with police."
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Alice Speri and Sam Biddle, The Intercept
Excerpt: "As more details emerge about last week's killing by Baltimore County police of 23-year-old Korryn Gaines, activists have directed growing anger not only at local law enforcement but also at Facebook, the social media platform where Gaines posted parts of her five-hour standoff with police."
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A Chipotle Manager Discriminated Against a Pregnant Employee, Demanding to Approve Her Bathroom Breaks
Nora Caplan-Bricker, Slate
Caplan-Bricker writes: "Chipotle Mexican Grill owes $550,000 in damages to a former employee who was fired from a restaurant in downtown Washington, D.C., because she was pregnant."
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Nora Caplan-Bricker, Slate
Caplan-Bricker writes: "Chipotle Mexican Grill owes $550,000 in damages to a former employee who was fired from a restaurant in downtown Washington, D.C., because she was pregnant."
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Venezuelan Activist Claims Twitter Killed His Account After He Posted Rio Olympic Videos
Glyn Moody, Ars Technica
Moody writes: "Venezuelan free software activist Luigino Bracci Roa has claimed that his Twitter account was closed down permanently by the US company without any prior warning, after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) complained about videos he had posted on the micro-blogging service."
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Glyn Moody, Ars Technica
Moody writes: "Venezuelan free software activist Luigino Bracci Roa has claimed that his Twitter account was closed down permanently by the US company without any prior warning, after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) complained about videos he had posted on the micro-blogging service."
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Chevron Won't Have to Pay for Its Own Version of Chernobyl
Katie Herzog, Grist
Herzog writes: "In 1993, Ecuadorians filed suit against American fossil fuel giant Chevron, arguing that the company was responsible for contaminating that land and sickening people through decades of drilling in the Lago Agrio oil fields."
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Katie Herzog, Grist
Herzog writes: "In 1993, Ecuadorians filed suit against American fossil fuel giant Chevron, arguing that the company was responsible for contaminating that land and sickening people through decades of drilling in the Lago Agrio oil fields."
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