Koch-Funded Think Tank at Public University Uses Private Email Server, Because Of Course It Does
David Dayen | theintercept.com | 2018-09-22
We asked for records related to its "Medicare for All" study, and learned that the university doesn't have access to the Mercatus Center email server. | The post Koch-Funded Think Tank at Public University Uses Private Email Server, Because Of Course It Does appeared first on The Intercept.
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Sex Columnist Dan Savage Calls BS On the Bad Fantasies That Make Relationships Even Harder
Caitlin Schiller, Salon | alternet.org | 2018-09-22
The venerable sex and love columnist points out the unhealthy "fictions" that keep us from being happier in love | Some people want to be ravished by a home intruder. Others struggle to make sense of their fetish for leather boots. Some even reckon with a sexual attraction to centaurs or sphinxes or fish-tailed demigods. As The Stranger's sex and love advice columnist, Dan Savage has been reading letters from writers like these for 27 years and affirming their f. . .
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Proposal to List Chlorpyrifos as a Toxic Air Contaminant Opens for Public Comment
Charlotte Fadipe | indybay.org | 2018-09-22
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) today announced a proposed regulation that would pave the way for increased restrictions on the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos in California.It would designate chlorpyrifos as a "toxic air contaminant," which California law defines as an air pollutant that may cause or contribute to increases in serious illness or death, or that may pose a present or potential hazard to human health. The move comes after an extensive period of scientific and public review.
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There's Nothing Natural About Puerto Rico's Disaster
Naomi Klein | theintercept.com | 2018-09-21
Alma Morales Rosario poses for a portrait between the beams of her home being rebuilt after it was destroyed by Hurricane Maria one year ago in the San Lorenzo neighborhood of Morovis, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 8, 2018. | textbook example. Before those fierce winds came, the debt — illegitimate and much of it illegal — was the excuse used to ram through a brutal program of economic suffering, what the great Argentine author Rodolfo Walsh, writing about four decades earlier, famously called miseria planificada, planned misery. | This program systematically attacked the very glue that holds a society together: all levels of education, health care, the electricity and water systems, transit systems, communication networks, and more. | It was a plan so widely rejected that no elected representatives could be trusted to carry it out. Which is…
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Cuts to Cancer Research, Head Start, and Women's Shelters Among $226 Million Diverted to Pay for Child Detention
Julia Conley | mintpressnews.com | 2018-09-21
Yahoo News reported that in order to continue detaining more than 13,000 children currently in the custody of the ORR, the Health and Human Services Secretary is proposing that up to $266 million be taken from other government health programs. | The post Cuts to Cancer Research, Head Start, and Women's Shelters Among $226 Million Diverted to Pay for Child Detention appeared first on MintPress News.
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Watch: Beto O'Rourke Slams Ted Cruz for His Unquestioning Loyalty to Donald Trump
Matthew Chapman, AlterNet | alternet.org | 2018-09-21
At the first Texas Senate debate, Cruz tried to defend his rubber stamp for the Trump agenda. O'Rourke shamed him powerfully. | At the first Texas Senate Debate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Beto O'Rourke clashed on a number of issues, from guns to health care to the fate of the federal judiciary. But on one question in particular, Cruz tried to answer for his humiliating about-face on President Donald Trump. "Senator Cruz,. . .
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Updated: "Israeli Army Kills One Palestinian, Injures 312, In Gaza"
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-09-21
Israeli soldiers killed, Friday, a young man, and injured 312 other Palestinians, including 54 with live fire, after the army attacked the Great Return March processions, in several parts of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has confirmed that the soldiers killed Karim Mohammad Kollab, 25, after …
Updated: "Israeli Army Kills One Palestinian, Injures 312, In Gaza"
Department of Health and Human Services lost track of another 1,500 immigrant children
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-09-21
In addition to the "lost" children, funds are being diverted from AIDS and cancer research to jail immigrant children and ICE held nearly 1,500 US citizens as "aliens."
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Department of Health and Human Services Lost Track of Another 1,500 Immigrant Children
WSWS | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-21
HHS lost track of another 1,500 immigrant children | For the second time this year, the Department of Health and Human Services has notified Congress that it cannot locate about 1,500 children taken into custody by immigration authorities and transferred to … | The post Department of Health and Human Services Lost Track of Another 1,500 Immigrant Children appeared first on Global Research.
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Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All at Risk
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-09-21
Excluding institutions such as Blackrock and Vanguard, which are composed of multiple investors, the largest single players in global equity markets are now thought to be central banks themselves. An estimated 30 to 40 central banks are invested in the stock market, either directly or through their investment vehicles (sovereign wealth funds). According to David Haggith on Zero Hedge: | Central banks buying stocks are effectively nationalizing US corporations just to maintain the illusion that their "recovery" plan is working . . . . At first, their novel entry into the stock market was only intended to rescue imperiled corporations, such as General Motors during the first plunge into the Great Recession, but recently their efforts have shifted to propping up the entire stock market via major purchases of the most healthy companies on the market. | The US Federal…
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South Carolina: Two Women from Mental Health Facility Drown in Flood During Transport by Deputies
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-20
Two women being transported by sheriff's deputies to a mental health facility drowned Tuesday in South Carolina when the van they were riding in was overcome by floodwaters. The two sheriff's deputies in the vehicle survived. Forty-five-year-old Windy Newton and 43-year-old Nicolette Green are two of at least 37 people killed by Hurricane Florence since the storm made landfall. Both women had gone to hospitals Tuesday morning when they were involuntarily committed and detained. Less than 24 hours later, they were dead. "There are a lot of questions remaining about why this had to occur then, why there couldn't ha…
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Rev. William Barber: Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court Would Endanger Rights of Women, Workers & Voters
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-19
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh have cast doubt on whether President Trump's Supreme Court nominee will be confirmed by the Senate. "The process was bad from the beginning," says Rev. Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign and president of Repairers of the Breach. "We are poised to have two presidents that did not win the popular vote, now will have appointed four extreme members to the Supreme Court." Barber says Kavanaugh will be dangerous to voting rights, to labor rights, to healthcare and to women's rights.
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New Bill Would Ensure No Woman Is Forced to Give Birth in Chains
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-09-19
The practice of shackling pregnant women who are incarcerated is as shocking as it is widespread. | When a woman becomes pregnant, the nature of her health care by necessity becomes tailored to her being pregnant. This is no less true when a pregnant woman is incarcerated. But corrections officials across the nation would often rather ignore the fact and needs of incarcerated pregnant women than address their health care needs or even their basic rights. For example, pregnant prisoners are often shackled during childbirth in this country as well as put in solitary confinement, practices that are as shocking as th…
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For Black College Students, Balancing Activism and Mental Health Takes Work
Brianna Reddick | thenation.com | 2018-09-18
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SPLC: Alabama's prison system violated court order to increase mental health staffing
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2018-09-18
The SPLC will argue in court today that the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) violated a federal court order to provide more mental health workers for people who are incarcerated in the state's prison system.
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Make Nutrition an Issue in Food Drives
Dean Cottrill | progressive.org | 2018-09-18
How healthy is the food you donate?
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Palm Oil Is Everywhere in India–and Public-Health Experts Are Concerned
Jocelyn C. Zuckerman | thenation.com | 2018-09-17
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Venezuela Denounces Regional Anti-Migrant 'Xenophobia' as Brazil Militarises Border
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-08-30
The Maduro administration contrasted the recent attacks against Venezuelan migrants to its own open door policy which has seen foreigners benefit from free health, housing, education, and food programs.
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