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The Facts You Need To Fight The Republican Lies About Obama’s Clean Power Plant Plan

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Republicans are doing the bidding of their fossil fuel masters by distorting President Obama’s historic clean power plant plan, but here are the facts that you need to know in order to fight back.
The White House has released a Fact Sheet that delivers the truth about the President’s plan:
Today at the White House, President Obama and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy will release the final Clean Power Plan, a historic step in the Obama Administration’s fight against climate change.

We have a moral obligation to leave our children a planet that’s not polluted or damaged. The effects of climate change are already being felt across the nation. In the past three decades, the percentage of Americans with asthma has more than doubled, and climate change is putting those Americans at greater risk of landing in the hospital. Extreme weather events – from more severe droughts and wildfires in the West to record heat waves – and sea level rise are hitting communities across the country. In fact, 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have all occurred in the first 15 years of this century and last year was the warmest year ever. The most vulnerable among us – including children, older adults, people with heart or lung disease, and people living in poverty – are most at risk from the impacts of climate change. Taking action now is critical.

The Clean Power Plan establishes the first-ever national standards to limit carbon pollution from power plants. We already set limits that protect public health by reducing soot and other toxic emissions, but until now, existing power plants, the largest source of carbon emissions in the United States, could release as much carbon pollution as they wanted.
The final Clean Power Plan sets flexible and achievable standards to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, 9 percent more ambitious than the proposal. By setting carbon pollution reduction goals for power plants and enabling states to develop tailored implementation plans to meet those goals, the Clean Power Plan is a strong, flexible framework that will:
· Provide significant public health benefits – The Clean Power Plan, and other policies put in place to drive a cleaner energy sector, will reduce premature deaths from power plant emissions by nearly 90 percent in 2030 compared to 2005 and decrease the pollutants that contribute to the soot and smog and can lead to more asthma attacks in kids by more than 70 percent. The Clean Power Plan will also avoid up to 3,600 premature deaths, lead to 90,000 fewer asthma attacks in children, and prevent 300,000 missed work and school days.
· Create tens of thousands of jobs while ensuring grid reliability;
· Drive more aggressive investment in clean energy technologies than the proposed rule, resulting in 30 percent more renewable energy generation in 2030 and continuing to lower the costs of renewable energy.
· Save the average American family nearly $85 on their annual energy bill in 2030, reducing enough energy to power 30 million homes, and save consumers a total of $155 billion from 2020-2030;
· Give a head start to wind and solar deployment and prioritize the deployment of energy efficiency improvements in low-income communities that need it most early in the program through a Clean Energy Incentive Program; and
· Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy-wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26-28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.
KEY FEATURES OF THE CLEAN POWER PLAN
The final Clean Power Plan takes into account the unprecedented input EPA received through extensive outreach, including the 4 million comments that were submitted to the agency during the public comment period. The result is a fair, flexible program that will strengthen the fast-growing trend toward cleaner and lower-polluting American energy. The Clean Power Plan significantly reduces carbon pollution from the electric power sector while advancing clean energy innovation, development, and deployment. It ensures the U.S. will stay on a path of long-term clean energy investments that will maintain the reliability of our electric grid, promote affordable and clean energy for all Americans, and continue United States leadership on climate action. The Clean Power Plan:
– Provides Flexibility to States to Choose How to Meet Carbon Standards: EPA’s Clean Power Plan establishes carbon pollution standards for power plants, called carbon dioxide (CO2) emission performance rates. States develop and implement tailored plans to ensure that the power plants in their state meet these standards- either individually, together, or in combination with other measures like improvements in renewable energy and energy efficiency. The final rule provides more flexibility in how state plans can be designed and implemented, including: streamlined opportunities for states to include proven strategies like trading and demand-side energy efficiency in their plans, and allows states to develop “trading ready” plans to participate in “opt in” to an emission credit trading market with other states taking parallel approaches without the need for interstate agreements. All low-carbon electricity generation technologies, including renewables, energy efficiency, natural gas, nuclear and carbon capture and storage, can play a role in state plans.
– More Time for States Paired With Strong Incentives for Early Deployment of Clean Energy: State plans are due in September of 2016, but states that need more time can make an initial submission and request extensions of up to two years for final plan submission. The compliance averaging period begins in 2022 instead of 2020, and emission reductions are phased in on a gradual “glide path” to 2030. These provisions to give states and companies more time to prepare for compliance are paired with a new Clean Energy Incentive Program to drive deployment of renewable energy and low-income energy efficiency before 2022.
– Creates Jobs and Saves Money for Families and Businesses: The Clean Power Plan builds on the progress states, cities, and businesses and have been making for years. Since the beginning of 2010, the average cost of a solar electric system has dropped by half and wind is increasingly competitive nationwide. The Clean Power Plan will drive significant new investment in cleaner, more modern and more efficient technologies, creating tens of thousands of jobs. Under the Clean Power Plan, by 2030, renewables will account for 28 percent of our capacity, up from 22 percent in the proposed rule. Due to these improvements, the Clean Power Plan will save the average American nearly $85 on their energy bill in 2030, and save consumers a total of $155 billion through 2020-2030, reducing enough energy to power 30 million homes.
– Rewards States for Early Investment in Clean Energy, Focusing on Low-Income Communities: The Clean Power Plan establishes a Clean Energy Incentive Program that will drive additional early deployment of renewable energy and low-income energy efficiency. Under the program, credits for electricity generated from renewables in 2020 and 2021 will be awarded to projects that begin construction after participating states submit their final implementation plans. The program also prioritizes early investment in energy efficiency projects in low-income communities by the Federal government awarding these projects double the number of credits in 2020 and 2021. Taken together, these incentives will drive faster renewable energy deployment, further reduce technology costs, and lay the foundation for deep long-term cuts in carbon pollution. In addition, the Clean Energy Incentive Plan provides additional flexibility for states, and will increase the overall net benefits of the Clean Power Plan.
– Ensures Grid Reliability: The Clean Power Plan contains several important features to ensure grid reliability as we move to cleaner sources of power. In addition to giving states more time to develop implementation plans, starting compliance in 2022, and phasing in the targets over the decade, the rule requires states to address reliability in their state plans. The final rule also provides a “reliability safety valve” to address any reliability challenges that arise on a case-by-case basis. These measures are built on a framework that is inherently flexible in that it does not impose plant-specific requirements and provides states flexibility to smooth out their emission reductions over the period of the plan and across sources.
– Continues U.S. Leadership on Climate Change: The Clean Power Plan continues United States leadership on climate change. By driving emission reductions from power plants, the largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, the Clean Power Plan builds on prior Administration steps to reduce emissions, including historic investments to deploy clean energy technologies, standards to double the fuel economy of our cars and light trucks, and steps to reduce methane pollution. Taken together these measures put the United States on track to achieve the President’s near-term target to reduce emissions in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, and lay a strong foundation to deliver against our long-term target to reduce emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. The release of the Clean Power Plan continues momentum towards international climate talks in Paris in December, building on announcements to-date of post-2020 targets by countries representing 70 percent of global energy based carbon emissions.
– Sets State Targets in a Way That Is Fair and Is Directly Responsive to Input from States, Utilities, and Stakeholders: In response to input from stakeholders, the final Clean Power Plan modifies the way that state targets are set by using an approach that better reflects the way the electricity grid operates, using updated information about the cost and availability of clean generation technologies, and establishing separate emission performance rates for all coal plants and all gas plants. .
– Maintains Energy Efficiency as Key Compliance Tool: In addition to on-site efficiency and greater are reliance on low and zero carbon generation, the Clean Power Plan provides states with broad flexibility to design carbon reduction plans that include energy efficiency and other emission reduction strategies. EPA’s analysis shows that energy efficiency is expected to play a major role in meeting the state targets as a cost-effective and widely-available carbon reduction tool, saving enough energy to power 30 million homes and putting money back in ratepayers’ pockets.
– Requires States to Engage with Vulnerable Populations: The Clean Power Plan includes provisions that require states to meaningfully engage with low-income, minority, and tribal communities, as the states develop their plans. EPA also encourages states to engage with workers and their representatives in the utility and related sectors in developing their state plans.
– Includes a Proposed Federal Implementation Plan: EPA is also releasing a proposed federal plan today. This proposed plan will provide a model states can use in designing their plans, and when finalized, will be a backstop to ensure that the Clean Power Plan standards are met in every state.

Since the Clean Air Act became law more than 45 years ago with bipartisan support, the EPA has continued to protect the health of communities, in particular those vulnerable to the impacts of harmful air pollution, while the economy has continued to grow. In fact, since 1970, air pollution has decreased by nearly 70 percent while the economy has tripled in size. The Clean Power Plan builds on this progress, while providing states the flexibility and tools to transition to clean, reliable, and affordable electricity.

Senate Democrats Successfully Block Republican Cabal Efforts To Defund Planned Parenthood

Senate Dems Successfully Block GOP Efforts To Defund Planned Parenthood The Republican cabal's war on women continues, as they go on a crusade to remove all government funding from  Planned Parenthood. This new attack on the women’s...

The New Holy Grail Of The Republican Cabal Primaries

The New Holy Grail Of GOP Primaries

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Republican Claims House Has Enough Votes To Reject Iran Deal

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Jeb Threatens To Unilaterally Cut Members Of Congress’ Pay If They Don’t Do What He Wants

Jeb Threatens To Unilaterally Cut Members Of Congress’ Pay If They Don’t Do What He Wants

Jeb tells senior he's serious about killing Medicare!

Boy, does Jeb want to win the Koch lottery or what? Because he just wrote off the votes of millions of senior citizens by telling them he really does mean it when he says he wants to end Medicare. And Social Security to boot.
At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, an elderly woman blasted Bush. "We're not going to have adequate coverage for our children or our grandchildren without Medicare," she told him. "I paid into that for years and years, just like all these other seniors here, and now you want to take it away?" Why, she asked, is he "always attacking the seniors."
"Well, I'm not," Jeb responded. "Here's what I said: I said, 'We're going to have to reform our entitlement system.' We have to."
"It's not an entitlement," the woman shot back. "I earned that."
"It's an actuarial unsound health care system," said Jeb, who said something must be done before the system burdens future generations with $50 billion of debt. "Social Security is an underfunded retirement system; people have put money into it, for sure.
"The people that are receiving these benefits, I don't think that we should touch that; but your children and grandchildren are not going to get the benefit of this that they believe they’re going to get, or that you think they're going to get, because the amount of money put in compared to the amount of money the system costs is wrong."
Um, let's just revisit what Jeb actually said about Medicare that set this protest off. He said, "we need to figure out a way to phase out this program." Now, "phasing out" could be construed as "reform," if you're a Republican. But for the rest of us, it pretty much means "ending."
Jeb says all of this is just the media using "words taken out of context — exactly what I predicted would happen." His team tried to spin this as their candidate trying to address "the way we look at entitlements," and said that it shouldn't be considered a policy pronouncement, because why would he do that by just dropping it into an answer at a town hall meeting. Which, pretty much, it seems like he just did. As the Politico reporter on this story puts it, "it appears Jeb is more frustrated that Democrats took his words literally, not 'out of context.'"
Jeb has said that Medicare has to end and he thinks his brother's idea to privatize Social Security needs to be brought back. Any context Jeb tries to put that in is still bad.

Robert Reich: There’s a revolt against the ruling class brewing — and elites don’t see it coming

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In two very different ways, Trump and Sanders are agents of this revolt.

Gawker Wants You To Call Donald Trump, And They Published His Cell Phone Number To Help You

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Gawker is suggesting that readers call Donald Trump with their political questions, and, as a public service, they’ve provided his cell phone number.

Trump Supporters Embrace ‘Cuckservative’, Turn Republican Cabal Into The Cabal Of Open White Supremacy

Trump Supporters Embrace ‘Cuckservative’, Turn GOP Into Party Of Open White SupremacyWe didn’t think it was possible, but this new “cuckservative” slur just upped the ante on the wingnuts' open racism and sexism.

Trump Has Lost It: ‘Waterboarding Doesn’t Sound Very Severe’

Donald Trump Has Lost It: ‘Waterboarding Doesn’t Sound Very Severe’ (VIDEO)Donald Trump took a bold stand on waterboarding — It’s really not all that bad…

Trump: Blacks ‘Worse Than Just About Ever’ Because Of Obama

Donald Trump: Blacks ‘Worse Than Just About Ever’ Because Of Obama (VIDEO)Donald Trump can’t speak about anything to do with minorities without saying something racist. His focus this time? “The Blacks.”

How Walker Caused The John Doe Investigation

How Scott Walker Caused The John Doe Investigation

Wisconsin Republicans Want To Hand Henhouse To The Foxes

WI Republicans Want To Hand Henhouse To The Foxes  

CNN grills man behind Faked Planned Parenthood videos over his ties to violent extremists

David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress, who was behind the recent deceptively edited anti-Planned Parenthood videos, insisted to CNN host Alisyn Camerota on Tuesday that he was not personally a violent person even though his organization was tied to violent extremists.
“Critics of your organization say that you’re not journalists as you purport to be on your website, but rather you’re violent extremists,” Camerota noted. “They say that you are operating under the guise of investigative reporting, but really you’re trying to shut down all Planned Parenthoods and women’s access to things like birth control and other services that they provide.”
“Do you have any ties to Operation Rescue?” the CNN host asked.
“I’m not a violent person and I never have been and I never will be,” Daleiden insisted. “Troy Newman is one of the board members of the Center for Medical Progress.”
“And Troy Newman is the president of Operation Rescue,” Camerota pointed out, adding, “Operation rescue does have a history of threatening violence against abortion clinics.”
“You know, I don’t think that’s true at all,” Daleiden replied. “You would have to talk to Troy specifically about, you know, the full history of Operation Rescue and some of those details. But I don’t think that’s a fair characterization at all.”
In fact, lawsuits against Operation Rescue for using physical force against people trying to enter abortion clinics date back to the 1980s. And the group has been linked to numerous violent actions over the years. Operation Rescue member James Kopp admitted to the 1998 murder of abortion doctor Barnett Slepian. In 2009, the words “Op Rescue” were found on an envelope inside the car of the man who murdered abortion doctor George Tiller.
During the interview with Daleiden on Tuesday, Camerota pointed out that biotech companies had confirmed that Planned Parenthood never sold fetal tissue and that the group was only reimbursed for the cost of storage and processing as allowed by federal law.
Daleiden called it “really cute” that the biotech companies would back up Planned Parenthood. And he promised that the group would release a new video later on Tuesday even though they were already facing two restraining orders.
“You’re going to see evidence in it of Planned Parenthood is actually willing to sell fully intact fetuses to buyers of aborted fetal tissue,” Daleiden said. “It’s prima facie evidence of born alive infant cases.”

Anti-Public School Evangelicals Now Control Alabama and Texas Education Boards

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It is obvious that the owner of a professional sports franchise, say a National Football League team, would only hire a hair-stylist who detests, and has never played football …
Someone who is qualified for a job is generally expected to have sufficient capacity, passion, knowledge, experience and skill that matches or suits the position they seek and makes them eligible for an office or position. In fact, qualification can be thought of as denoting fitness for a job through the fulfillment of necessary conditions such as education, training, and a high degree of experience in the appropriate discipline. It is obvious that the owner of a professional sports franchise, say a National Football League team, would only hire a hair-stylist who detests, and has never played, the game of football as a general manager and head coach if they wanted their team to fail miserably. That is an absurd idea, but it is precisely what two religious Republican governors who want to decimate their state’s public education system did in appointing evangelical anti-public education fanatics to run their state’s public school systems.
There is a predilection among Republican governors devoted to a theocratic America to transfer taxpayer money set aside for public schools to private evangelical madrassas to both keep their residents ignorant and indoctrinate them in 'neo-christian' dogmata and superstition. This week, Alabama Republican Governor Robert Bentley followed Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s lead and appointed a fiercely anti-public school 'christian' fundamentalist to lead the Alabama Board of Education to transform the state’s public education system into a 12-year 'christian' indoctrination camp for Alabama children. But, one might say, at least the Alabama governor chose an evangelical freak who has passion, knowledge, and at least a decade of experience in public education that qualifies him to control the state’s public education system, but that is not the case.
The 28-year old fundamentalist 'christian', Matthew Brown, who is running Alabama’s public school system is a highway designer who attended a 'christian' - and we use the term loosely ... 'college'. He has never set foot in or attended a public school in his evangelical life. He also believes public education is an abomination before his dog and says he will never allow his children to get near a public school. Brown is also renown for his illegal campaign to defund Alabama’s public education system; what Alabama governor Bentley considers excellent qualifications to run the Board of Education. According to Bentley, the leader of the Board of Education’s fundamentalist christian ‘education’ and hatred of public schools is consistent with the Republican cabal’s political philosophy that will allow him to “bring a unique perspective to the Board of Education.” Last year, the new Education leader was successful in a drive to cut education funding and defeat an education improvement tax to purposely put a monumental strain on Alabama’s education resources. Brown also fits nicely with Republican philosophy because according to Alabama’s Secretary of State, he violated several provisions of the state’s Fair Campaign Practices Act like any proper and highly motivated evangelical Republican.
Regardless Brown’s record of religious bias against the public education system, and against the advice of his staff and state education leaders, Governor Bentley appointed the unqualified, inexperienced, openly hostile 28-year-old in charge of public education because “Brown is a young man after Bentley’s own heart.” Since being elected in 2010, Bentley has signed legislation transferring over $30 million a year away from public schools to private evangelical school voucher programs. Bentley signed another law that allows private religious charter schools to open across Alabama and gave them sole authority to approve new religious charter schools over the objection of local school boards. Plus, despite his new Education chief has no education experience except attending a 'christian' so-called 'college', Bentley is enamored with Brown because “he believes in jesus.” That “jesus qualified” designation is tantamount to allowing an fourth grader to perform brain surgery because they saw a microscope on television, but in Alabama and Texas belief in jesus qualifies one to lead the public schools.
The new head of Texas Education Department is as unqualified as Brown with stellar qualifications amounting to being a 'christian' fundamentalist who home-schooled her children in the biblical arts. Texas Governor Greg Abbott appointed the 'christian' home-school mom and (Jerry Fallwell’s) 'Liberty University' and again we use the term loosely ...  'graduate' Donna Bahorich because her experience with public schools is abhorring public education not founded on bible superstition. Apparently, Abbott felt the need to replace former evangelical creationist Don McLeroy because he failed to completely abolish science education in Texas schools. He did, however, approve textbooks teaching that biblical Moses helped the Founding Fathers write the U.S. Constitution along with several other gems of 'christian' revisionisms regarding the role of the bible in America’s founding and history.
The president of the Texas Freedom Network, Kathy Miller said that “If Gov. Abbott wanted to demonstrate that he won’t continue his predecessors’ efforts to politicize and undermine our state’s public schools, this appointment falls far short. This is the person who’s ultimately responsible for decisions that’ll affect children across the state. She’s someone who doesn’t understand science or history and whose own background has little to do with education policy. The governor appointed an ideologue that guarantees the board will continue to put culture war agendas ahead of educating more than 5 million Texas kids.”
Even a prominent Republican from Mt. Pleasanton who is also on the state school board, Thomas Ratliff, was critical of Abbot’s appointment and condemned the choice of a fundamentalist with absolutely no experience whatsoever in public education. Ratliff said, “Public school isn’t for everybody, but when 94-percent of our students in Texas attend public schools I think it ought to be a baseline requirement that the chair of the State Board of Education have at least some experience in that realm, as a parent, teacher, something.”
One pundit summed up Abbott’s choice to lead the state’s Education system by saying, “What did you expect Abbott to do? Appoint someone who actually knows what he or she is doing? He doesn’t have that in him. He’d rather screw over millions of teenagers trying to get an education comparable to what kids get in other more competitive states than upset his religious base.” Abbott has quickly established a record of not standing up to his “base” whether they are anti-science and anti-education religious fanatics or conspiracy-freaks afraid that President Obama is sending the United States military to overthrow and conquer Texas.
Both Abbott’s and Bentley’s appointments of highly unqualified religious fanatics with no experience in public education is founded on their desire to abolish public schools and replace them with a taxpayer-funded evangelical madrassa system; a two-fold assault on America. First, misappropriating taxpayer dollars for biblical instruction is patently unconstitutional, and second, it is another tactic to wipe out America’s public education system as part of their crusade toward government by theocracy. A crusade, by the way, that most in government are terrified of challenging because dog, jesus, and bible apparently supersede the U.S. Constitution, or government officials would put a stop to it.
In Texas’ case, an incompetent religious fanatic as Board of Education chairperson is a certain means of perpetuating the indoctrination of 5 million children every year to deny history and science and remain as ignorant and stupid as the current generation. Republicans thrive on perpetuating incompetence and ignorance in their crusade to keep Americans in poverty because children without an education are doomed to low-wage jobs. Even Republicans are well-aware that employers looking for prospective employees competent in superstition and archaic mythos are few and far between; except in Texas and Alabama where inexperience and belief in fairy tales will get one appointed head of the state Board of Education.

Citizens Not United

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In A Rare Twist, Koch Brothers Let Press Into Donors’ Gathering, But With One Strange Condition

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The secretive Koch brothers actually invited the press to this particular gathering. However, they could only attend on this one condition.

Billionaire Koch Brothers Set Sights On Very Surprising Issue Ahead Of 2016

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Since they benefit from keeping this particular problem in existence, why on earth would they do this? There has to be something more to it.

Kochs 'Rebrand' Themselves As Champions Of Poor As They Fight To Slash Wages And Eliminate Their Health Care

Kochs 'Rebrand' Themselves As Champions Of Poor As They Fight To Slash Wages And Eliminate Their Health Care

The Republican Cabal: Reaping What It Sowed

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The 2016 Republican pretender contest has barely begun and it has already grown alternately tiresome and old or just downright scary. As a Democrat, I might be pleased, but as an American, I am deeply troubled. I just want it to end.

The Bitter Old Bigot Caucus Still Going Strong

The Bitter Old Bigot Caucus Still Going Strong

The 'Smartest' Dumbasses and the Dumbest Dumbasses

Computer via ShutterstockWhich Republican candidates have the 'smartest' dumbass, dumbest dumbass and most devoted commenters?
The results may not surprise you.

Indiana public school punishes 7-year-old with ‘banishment’ for not believing in dog

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A second grade teacher interrogated the student about his religious beliefs after he told his classmates on the playground that he did not go to cult because he did not believe in dog.

Republican Idiot Who Thinks Gays Molest Kids Praised ‘New Friend’ — A Convicted Child Molester

GOPer Who Thinks Gays Molest Kids Praised ‘New Friend’ — A Convicted Child Molester (VIDEO)Gordon Klingenschmitt says that all gay people molest children and should be drowned, but he sure loves his “new friend” — a convicted child molester.

New York City rape victim blasts police who asked if she was a drunk ‘party girl’

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A woman who was sexually assaulted at a bar on New York City’s Lower East Side says that the police have been condescending and unhelpful, so now she is going public in order to help other women who have been silently suffering.

Viral photo shows Cleveland cop pointing gun at two unarmed black women at scene of hit-and-run

Cleveland police officer pulls weapon at scene of traffic accident (Reddit/RunninOnStalin)A photo that went viral over the weekend showed an officer pulling his weapon on two black women who were at the scene of a hit and run, a spokesperson for the Cleveland Police Department explained on Monday.

Americans are dying from contaminated food — but Congress doesn’t care

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A sweeping food safety reform bill was passed five years ago, but not a single new rule has yet been implemented — and people continue to die.


Israelis Threaten Their President With Death For Condemning The Burning Alive Of A Palestinian Baby

Israel's version of our wingnuts 
Israelis Threaten Their President With Death For Condemning The Burning Alive Of A Palestinian Baby (IMAGES)
To quite a few Israelis, that Palestinian baby deserved to be burned to death.
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