RSN: Indiana Officials Are Trying to Block Almost 45,000 Black Citizens From Voting, DAPL Mississippi Stand Update: Protesters Arrested on False Pretenses and Illegally Searched

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Oliver Stone | I Believe Edward Snowden Is Misunderstood by Americans 
 
Oliver Stone, Oliver Stone's Facebook Page 
Stone writes: "I still believe the Snowden affair is misunderstood by most Americans. He's still the guy who 'gave away secrets.' I don't really think his message got through in 2013. It'll take time to sink in as we drift more and more into an era of mass surveillance, drone and cyber-warfare with our regime-change, global-policeman policies." 
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Indiana Officials Are Trying to Block Almost 45,000 Black Citizens From Voting 
Kira Lerner, ThinkProgress 
Lerner writes: "Roughly 45,000 newly registered voters in Indiana - almost all of whom are black - may not be allowed to vote next month after state police targeted the state's largest voter registration drive, forcing it to shut down its operation." 
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US Sits Out Historic Cuba Blockade Vote for First Time, Effectively Passing Resolution 
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Excerpt: "In a historic step toward lifting the blockade on Cuba, the United States abstained Wednesday in the United Nations general assembly vote unanimously calling for the end of the Cold War measure for the 25th consecutive year." 
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AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal 
Kenneth Lipp, The Daily Beast 
Lipp writes: "Hemisphere isn't a 'partnership' but rather a product AT&T developed, marketed, and sold at a cost of millions of dollars per year to taxpayers." 
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Schools Closing Over Poll Violence Fears 
Patrick Whittle and David Sharp, Associated Press 
Excerpt: "Rigged elections. Vigilante observers. Angry voters. The claims, threats and passions surrounding the presidential race have led communities around the U.S. to move polling places out of schools or cancel classes on Election Day." 
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DAPL Mississippi Stand Update: Protesters Arrested on False Pretenses and Illegally Searched 
Mississippi Stand 
Excerpt: "These are the first known DAPL related arrests in Illinois and it sets a clear precedent about whose side of this battle the police are on." 
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Meet the Tiny Towns Taking on Climate Change 
Kate Yoder, Grist 
Yoder writes: "Take some inspiration from the tiny communities around the world that are taking the fight against climate change seriously, sluggish politicians and pessimistic couch potatoes be damned." 
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RSN: Retired Miners Screwed Over in Coal Bankruptcy Plan, Planned Parenthood President Slams Fiorina for Video 'Lie'

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Andy Borowitz | Jeb Bush Declares War on Stuff 
 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "Hoping to stem the fallout from his comment in the aftermath of the Oregon rampage that 'stuff happens,' former Florida governor Jeb Bush said today that as President he would declare an ambitious 'war on stuff.'" 
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Laura Flanders | Cheney, Bush, Time to Give Your Homes to Refugees! 
Laura Flanders, TeleSUR 
Flanders writes: "Waterfront sunsets, oysters, cool breezes on white sails; I hope the Bushes and the Cheneys enjoyed their long vacation, because now it is time for them to hand over their vacation homes to refugees." 
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Trump: Mass-Shooters Are 'Sick as Hell and Geniuses in a Certain Way' 
Ben Jacobs, Guardian UK 
Jacobs writes: "Three days after a gunman killed nine people at an Oregon community college and then shot himself dead, the Republican presidential frontrunner, Donald Trump, seemed to accept the inevitability of mass shootings in the US." 
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Planned Parenthood President Slams Fiorina for Video 'Lie' 
Bradford Richardson, The Hill 
Richardson writes: "Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards took Carly Fiorina to task for her 'lie' about a video that purports to show a live-birth abortion at a women's health center." 
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Volkswagen: EPA to Investigate Other Automakers in Wake of Emissions Cheating Scandal, Report Says 
Mark Hanrahan, International Business Times 
Hanrahan writes: "The U.S. regulator that exposed German automaker Volkswagen's cheating on emissions testing is expanding its investigations into the sector and will scrutinize diesel vehicles produced by BWM, Chrysler, General Motors, Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz, to see if other manufacturers were engaged in similar deceptive practices." 
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Barack Obama: US Congress Will 'Inevitably' Lift Cuba Blockade 
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Excerpt: "The United States Congress will 'inevitably' lift the economic blockade it has maintained against Cuba for more than half a century, President Barack Obama told the United Nations General Assembly Monday." 
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Retired Miners Screwed Over in Coal Bankruptcy Plan 
Alec MacGillis, Grist 
MacGillis writes: "As coal companies go bankrupt or shut down throughout Appalachia and parts of the Midwest, the immediate fallout includes lost jobs and devastated communities. But the Indiana case stands out as an example of how financial deals hatched far from coal country can also endanger the future safety net." 
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