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World: USA: Michael Moore [ Geolocation ] (Laatste update: vrijdag 13 augustus 2021 17:48:33)
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Bill Moyers Essay: What Happened to Obama's Promised Net Neutrality?
BILL MOYERS: Barack Obama told us there would be no compromise on Net neutrality. We heard him say it back in 2007, when he first was running for president. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: To seize this moment we have to ensure free and full exchange of information and that starts with an open Internet.
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Former Counterterrorism Czar: Bush, Cheney Committed War Crimes
Richard Clarke, the nation's top counterterrorism official under former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, accused Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney of committing war crimes in their 2003 invasion of Iraq during an interview Tuesday with Democracy Now! that will air next week.
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Women's rights activist Sandra Fluke heads to Calif. general election
Sandra Fluke, the women's rights activist who gave Rush Limbaugh heartburn, is one step closer to becoming an elected official in California. Fluke finished second behind Ben Allen, a fellow Democrat, in Tuesday's primary race for a state Senate seat in southern California. They both advance to the Nov.
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Thomas Piketty Is Absolutely Right
Income inequality in the United States and elsewhere has been worsening since the 1970s. The most striking aspect has been the widening gap between the rich and the rest. This ominous anti-democratic trend has finally found its way into public consciousness and political rhetoric.
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Billionaire Blasts Companies That Jump Overseas To Duck Taxes: 'I'm Selling Your Stock'
" Billionaire Blasts Companies That Jump Overseas To Duck Taxes: 'I'm Selling Your Stock'" Share: CREDIT: AP As more and more American corporations have used mergers and shell companies to shift profits and shrink their U.S. tax liabilities over the past few years, there has generally been a sharp divide between populists who decry the maneuvers and investors who celebrate them.
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Tesla Releases Patents in Unprecedented Move to Advance Electric Vehicles
Other automakers, you, too, can build like Tesla. CEO Elon Musk says so. Tesla is now an open-source company, allowing its electric vehicle patents for outside use. Musk made the unprecedented announcement Thursday on his company's blog. "Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport," he wrote.
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Mother of Seven Dies in Prison Over Unpaid Fines
A mother of seven children was serving a two-day sentence in prison when she was found dead in her cell. An autopsy is being conducted and jail officials say they "don't suspect foul play," but that isn't really the point. The tragedy here is what led the woman to be placed into prison in the [...]
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Rumor and Leaks Fill a Void as Israel Silences Press Over Killings
Israeli intelligence officials used gag orders in recent weeks to stifle reporting on the initial investigations into both the abduction and the killing of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, and the apparent revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager in East Jerusalem.
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Asia Times Online :: How Israel turned tragedy into opportunity
SPEAKING FREELY How Israel turned tragedy into opportunity By Justin Schwegel Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are interested in contributing. On June 12, three Israelis settlers [1] were murdered by two Palestinian extremists.
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Who Bears More Responsibility for the War in Gaza?
Like almost all conflicts that have occurred in Israel, this latest war in Gaza has provoked a furious debate. Was Israel's ground and air assault on the Gaza Strip justified by Hamas's rocket attacks? Or were Hamas's rocket attacks a justifiable response to Israel's arrest of hundreds of Hamas supporters and officials?
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The strange relationship between global warming denial and... speaking English
Here in the United States, we fret a lot about global warming denial. Not only is it a dangerous delusion, it's an incredibly prevalent one. Depending on your survey instrument of choice, we regularly learn that substantial minorities of Americans deny, or are sceptical of, the science of climate change.
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EXCLUSIVE: EMTs who stopped NYPD cops from beating handcuffed, emotionally disturbed patient turn officers in
Two FDNY EMTs who had to intervene to stop four police officers beating a handcuffed patient on a stretcher have turned the cops in to authorities, the Daily News has learned. The emotionally disturbed patient was punched multiple times in the face by the cops on July 20, according to FDNY documents obtained by The News.
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Huge. President Obama comes out for Net Neutrality
This is big. And you helped make it happen. We've been calling on President Obama to stand up and stop the FCC from killing the Internet. And this week he spoke up loud and clear for the first time since his FCC chairman announced a disastrous plan to end the Internet as we know it.
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American police kill one suspect every day
The problem, you see, is that America is exceptional. The police in and around Ferguson have shot and killed twice as many people in the past two weeks (Mr Brown plus one other) as the police in Japan, a nation of 127m, have shot and killed in the past six years.
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To Terrify and Occupy
This piece originally ran on TomDispatch and was completed before Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo. Police, rather than keeping the peace, have reacted to largely peaceful protests demanding justice for Michael Brown in an agg...
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Pope to install showers at St Peter's Square for homeless
Updated November 14, 2014 10:24:55 Pope Francis has ordered the installation of showers for the homeless next to St Peter's Square after a street dweller declared himself too smelly to eat with a bishop.
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Saudis Lobbied John McCain & Lindsey Graham to sell War.
Bin Laden said he intentionally goaded America in to a war in the middle east to " bleed America to the point of bankruptcy." Well, as it turns out, ISIL and Saudi Arabia are trying to goad America into another war in the middle east and they've enlisted John McCain and Lindsey Graham to sell us that war.
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Low Pay is NOT Okay
Most fast-food workers these days are adults with families to support, and the federal minimum wage of $7.25 just doesn't cover basic needs like food, health care, rent and transportation. McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, KFC, and others are making billions in profit, but pay poverty wages.
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The U.S. Government Can Brand You a Terrorist Based on a Facebook Post
The US government's web of surveillance is vast and interconnected. Now we know just how opaque, inefficient and discriminatory it can be. As we were reminded again just this week, you can be pulled into the National Security Agency's database quietly and quickly, and the consequences can be long and enduring.
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New Ice Bucket Challenge? Gazans Launch 'Rubble Bucket Challenge' - NBC News
An appeal to garner support for Gaza which imitates the wildly popular ALS Ice Bucket Challenge but uses rubble and dirt instead of cold water is picking up steam on social media. "I have to do something and to send a message all over the world about Gaza," said Ayman al Aloul, a journalist who started the so-called Rubble Bucket Challenge on Saturday.
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How a Century of Racist Policies Made Ferguson Into a Pocket of Concentrated Despair | BillMoyers.com
Ferguson, Missouri, was a powder-keg waiting for a match long before August 9 and Michael Brown's fateful encounter with Police Officer Darren Wilson. It is one of many predominantly black communities across the United States plagued by highly concentrated poverty, and all of the social problems that accompany it.
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Obama Admin. Announces Plans to Open Atlantic & Arctic to Offshore Drilling
Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management released its draft five-year program for oil and gas development on the Outer Continental Shelf. The plan, which covers all potential leasing from 2017 to 2022, includes parts of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans.
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Walmart Canned Food Drive For Its Own Employees Hits Alice Walton Right Where She Lives
It's that time of year again when the the magnanimous folks at Walmart ask the company's hard-working employees to dig deep into their low-wage pockets to give, give, give to each other, on account of how hard-working employees of Walmart can't even afford to eat that bargain Walmart food on their Walmart wages.
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Is it OK to Bring a Loaded Rifle into an Airport? This Guy Did It
Jim Cooley and his daughter. (Photo: Jim Cooley/Facebook) The story of a man who walked into Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Friday carrying a loaded AR-15 semiautomatic rifle has gone viral. And here's the most amazing part of it: his actions were completely legal, thanks to Georgia's gun laws.
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Texas grand jury indicts trooper who arrested Sandra Bland
A grand jury in Texas indicted the state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old black woman who was arrested and later died in a county jail last summer. The grand jury indicted Trooper Brian Encinia, who arrested Bland during a traffic stop, on a perjury charge, Lewis White, one of the special prosecutors, said Wednesday afternoon.
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