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Charles Koch thinks Hillary Clinton might be a better president than the Republican can... - 0 views

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  • Charles Koch thinks Hillary Clinton might be a better president than the Republican candidates
  • billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch, arguably two of the United States's most influential big-money donors in conservative politics, have kept quiet this presidential cycle.
  • They unveiled a budget of up to $900 million for the 2016 presidential election cycle at their donors' retreat in January.
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  • , Koch said, "it's possible" that a Clinton presidency would be better than anyone currently in the Republican nomination race
  • As a result, in the past months, Clinton has shifted some positions to the left, including endorsing the $15 federal minimum wage during the Democratic debate in New York.
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Missing Mexican Students Suffered a Night of 'Terror,' Investigators Say - The New York... - 1 views

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  • Missing Mexican Students Suffered a Night of ‘Terror,’ Investigators Say
  • With a military intelligence official looking on and state and federal police officers in the immediate vicinity, witnesses said, the students were put into police vehicles and taken away.
  • Despite apparent stonewalling by the Mexican government in recent months, the panel’s two reports on the case, the most recent of which was released on Sunday, provide the fullest accounting of the events surrounding the students’ disappearance, which also left six other people dead, including three students, and scores wounded.
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  • The plan for the outing that evening was to secure several buses to carry students to a march in Mexico City several days later to commemorate a student massacre that had occurred in 1968.
  • At another point, a student sneaked up behind a police officer and tried to disarm him
  • The police had left by then, and the students sought to record the evidence of the attack while trying to communicate with their classmates in the other buses.
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U.S. Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Drop to Lowest Level Since 1973 - Bloomberg - 0 views

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  • U.S. Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Drop to Lowest Level Since 1973
  • New applications for unemployment benefits fell by 6,000 to 247,000 in the week ended April 16
  • The number of Americans already on benefit rolls declined to a more than 15-year low.
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  • The four-week moving average of claims, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, decreased to 260,500 from 265,000
  • Last week included the 12th of the month, which coincides with the period the Labor Department surveys employers to calculate monthly payroll data. The average was little changed from the 259,500 during the comparable period in March.
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Justices divided on Obama immigration actions - POLITICO - 0 views

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  • Justices divided on Obama immigration actions
  • The Obama administration struggled to find a critical fifth vote at the shorthanded Supreme Court Monday to allow President Barack Obama to revive his foundering immigration legacy by moving forward with a new round of executive actions granting quasi-legal status and work permits to millions of immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally.
  • Kennedy said Obama's drive to authorize broader use of "deferred action" for immigrants seemed to be dictating immigration policy rather than following Congress' lead in that area.
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  • The chief justice also appeared to accept the state of Texas' view that increased costs for drivers licenses were enough to give the states standing to sue over Obama's actions.
  • Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller called the DAPA program "an unprecedented, unlawful exercise of executive power," arguing that DAPA amounted to "one of the largest changes in immigration policy in our nation's history."
  • Kagan pressed Keller on whether the administration had the right to tell so-called “low-priority” immigrants that they weren’t likely to get deported
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Why Local Unions Are Endorsing Bernie Sanders, While National Organizations Like the SE... - 0 views

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  • Bernie Sanders, Union-Buster
  • While Hillary Clinton quickly secured endorsements from a slew of large labor organizations in 2015, more than a dozen local and regional union groups have broken with their national leadership and voted to support Bernie Sanders instead.
  • Many of the Clinton endorsements were decided by national executive boards, which are often small groups of professionals based in Washington, D.C. Sanders has largely won his support among locals, as well as at regional committees.
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  • If the labor movement’s strength is unity, its weakness is a reflexive worship of hierarchy: Locals supply the labor, and the national leadership sets the direction. That’s the way it has been for years, but it may be changing. Locals have signaled they want a bigger say in national political decisions. Until they get it in a meaningful way, divided unity will continue.
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Dilma Rousseff Is Impeached by Brazil's Lower House of Congress - The New York Times - 1 views

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  • Dilma Rousseff Is Impeached by Brazil’s Lower House of Congress
  • Brazilian legislators voted on Sunday night to approve impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, the nation’s first female president, whose tenure has been buffeted by a dizzying corruption scandal, a shrinking economy and spreading disillusionment.
  • Its 81 members will vote by a simple majority on whether to hold a trial on charges that the president illegally used money from state-owned banks to conceal a yawning budget deficit in an effort to bolster her re-election prospects.
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  • If the Senate accepts the case, Ms. Rousseff will step down temporarily while it deliberates her fate. Vice President Michel Temer, a constitutional law scholar and seasoned politician, will assume the presidency.
  • They note that the budgetary sleight of hand that Ms. Rousseff is accused of employing to address the deficit has been used by many elected officials, though not on such a large scale.
  • The vote to impeach is a crushing defeat for Ms. Rousseff and her Workers’ Party, a former band of leftist agitators who battled the nation’s military rulers in the 1980s and who swept to power in 2002 with the election of one its founders, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to the presidency.
  • Ms. Rousseff and her supporters have likened the impeachment drive to a slow-rolling coup by her political rivals, among them Mr. Temer, her vice president, who last month joined those calling for her impeachment.
  • In recent months, her once-favorable approval ratings have dipped below 8 percent.
  • only 61 percent of Brazilians support impeachment, down from 68 percent last month
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Chip, Implanted in Brain, Helps Paralyzed Man Regain Control of Hand - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Chip, Implanted in Brain, Helps Paralyzed Man Regain Control of Hand
  • So in 2014, a surgical team at Ohio State operated. They used brain imaging to isolate the part of Mr. Burkhart’s brain that controls hand movements. The area is in what is known as the motor cortex, on the left side of his brain and just above the ear.
  • On Wednesday, doctors reported that Mr. Burkhart, 24, had regained control over his right hand and fingers, using technology that transmits his thoughts directly to his hand muscles and bypasses his spinal injury.
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  • After a year of training, Mr. Burkhart was able to pick up a bottle and pour the contents into a jar, and to pick up a straw and stir. The doctors, though delighted, said that more advances would be necessary to make the bypass system practical, affordable and less invasive, most likely through wireless technology
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Zika Virus Causes Birth Defects, Health Officials Confirm - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Zika Virus Causes Birth Defects, Health Officials Confirm
  • The conclusion should settle months of debate about the connection between the infection and these birth defects, called microcephaly, as well as other neurological abnormalities
  • The announcement may increase pressure on Congress to allocate more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding that President Obama requested for prevention and treatment of the outbreak
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  • Dr. Rasmussen and her colleagues also reviewed the biologically plausible explanations for how the virus might cause damage to the brain, and the absence of other explanations that make sense.
  • About 700 people in the United States have been infected with the Zika virus as of last week, including 69 pregnant women, Dr. Anne Schucat, the deputy director of the C.D.C., said on Monday at a White House briefing. About half of the cases are in Puerto Rico, where the virus is circulating locally.
  • C.D.C. officials said they were not ready to confirm that Zika can cause neurological conditions in adults, including Guillain-Barre syndrome, cases of which have increased in some countries in the Zika outbreak.
  • Beyond microcephaly, Dr. Rasmussen said, the authors concluded that Zika causes some other fetal brain problems, such as calcifications inside the skull.
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Boko Haram Using More Children as Suicide Bombers, Unicef Says - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Boko Haram Using More Children as Suicide Bombers, Unicef Says
  • One of every five suicide bombers deployed by Boko Haram in the past two years has been a child, usually a girl, according to a report released Tuesday by Unicef.
  • The youngest bomber so far was thought to be 8 years old.
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  • The report seeks to quantify one of the most chilling elements of Boko Haram, an Islamist extremist group that has assaulted the Lake Chad region of Africa for years with thievery, beheadings, kidnappings and the torching of entire villages.
  • According to Unicef, the overall number of suicide bombings increased from 32 in 2014 to 151 last year. In 2015, 89 attacks were carried out in Nigeria, 39 in Cameroon, 16 in Chad and seven in Niger.
  • Cameroon has had the highest number of attacks involving children, Unicef said.
  • In its report, Unicef said it needed $97 million to provide vaccinations, schooling, drinking water, mental health aid and other assistance to families affected by Boko Haram
  • It said that between 2009 and 2015, attacks by the group destroyed more than 910 schools and forced at least 1,500 more to close.
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Panama Papers Scandal Brings Down Iceland's Prime Minister - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Panama Papers Scandal Brings Down Iceland’s Prime Minister
  • Mr. Gunnlaugsson’s resignation was announced on television by Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, a government minister and the deputy chairman of his Progressive Party, and it was confirmed by the state broadcaster, RUV.
  • Mr. Gunnlaugsson had insisted on staying in office after the leaked documents revealed that he and his wealthy partner, now his wife, had set up a company in 2007 in the British Virgin Islands through the law firm, Mossack Fonseca.
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  • As prime minister since 2013, Mr. Gunnlaugsson was involved in reaching a deal for the banks’ claimants, so he is now being accused of a conflict of interest.
  • When asked by Swedish and Icelandic television journalists about Wintris before the publication of the leaks, Mr. Gunnlaugsson stormed out, saying that the journalists had obtained the interview “under false pretenses.”
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Who Will Become a Terrorist? Research Yields Few Clues - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Who Will Become a Terrorist? Research Yields Few Clues
  • Not long after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, for instance, Alan B. Krueger, the Princeton economist, tested the widespread assumption that poverty was a key factor in the making of a terrorist. Mr. Krueger’s analysis of economic figures, polls, and data on suicide bombers and hate groups found no link between economic distress and terrorism.
  • Rather, the murky science seems to imply that nearly anyone is a potential terrorist. Some studies suggest that terrorists are likely to be educated or extroverted; others say uneducated recluses are at risk
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  • Many studies seem to warn of the adolescent condition, singling out young, impatient men with a sense of adventure who are “struggling to achieve a sense of selfhood.”
  • Such generalizations are why civil libertarians see only danger in government efforts to identify people at risk of committing crimes.
  • “The people with guns and badges are so eager to have something. The fact that they could actually do harm? This doesn’t deter them.”
  • That has spurred debate abroad, and has raised questions in the United States about whether the Constitution would allow the government to keep tabs on lawful political or religious speech.
  • Researching terrorism is admittedly difficult. It involves tough questions about who qualifies as a terrorist, or as a rebel or a soldier
  • A 2012 National Counterterrorism Center report, for instance, declared that anxiety, unmet personal needs, frustration and trauma helped drive radicalization.
  • Research linking terrorism to American policies, meanwhile, is ignored.
  • As a practical matter, scientists note, checklists are mathematically certain to fail. Even a test with 99 percent accuracy would be wrong far more often than right.
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Veteran Burned Himself Alive Outside VA Clinic - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • Veteran Burned Himself Alive Outside VA Clinic
  • Self-immolation accounted for 0.04 percent of all suicides in the United States in the past 15 years on record. (By comparison, firearms were used in approximately 50 percent of suicides.) The act is most commonly associated with protest, as in the iconic images of Buddhist monks in Tibet and South Vietnam
  • The VA’s Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) serve patients in rural or remote locations who may not be able to travel to main hubs as a result of physical disabilities or psychiatric illnesses.
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  • The approach is not intended to work like “phoning it in,” though: The VA’s guidelines for telehealth prescribe an intensive outpatient regimen of weekly sessions taking about five hours each.
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Trump University's Shady Faculty - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • The Shady Faculty of Trump University
  • According to seminar transcripts filed in one class-action lawsuit against Trump University and reviewed by The Daily Beast, Harris told students that at 19, he found himself homeless and was forced to seek shelter in the grimy New York City subway. But his life changed, he said, when he met a “nice gentleman” who taught him about the real estate business.
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  • From the outset, Trump University’s roster of brainy professors was a selling point. In a promotional video
  • When he was hired in 2008, he was already a convicted felon—for aggravated assault, recent depositions in the Trump University case reveal. And according to 2011 divorce filings in Gwinnett County, Georgia, Harris threatened to kill his ex-wife and tried to have her Range Rover repossessed the day after she filed for a restraining order.
  • The school, which has been defunct since 2011, is currently the subject of two class-action lawsuits in California and a $40 million suit brought by Eric Schneiderman, the Attorney General from New York.
  • Trump University began in earnest on May 23, 2005, a for-profit venture with a website, TrumpUniversity.com, and a collection of courses—on entrepreneurship, real estate, and marketing—available on CD-ROM for $300 a pop.
  • Despite becoming the top instructor at an institution that billed itself as a university, he didn’t have a background in education or even, according to his story, a college degree.
  • Sonny Low, who paid $25,000 for a Trump mentorship in 2010, reported that Nowlin didn’t even “appear knowledgeable” about real estate or investing, according to one class-action lawsuit against Trump University.
  • Attendees were required to sign a waiver promising not to sue the company if they later faced legal troubles, the Enquirer reported.
  • Students started with a $1,495 three-day seminar, before some instructors, according to court papers, goaded them into buying mentorship packages totaling up to $34,995.
  • The lawsuits against Trump University claim some pupils, encouraged to increase their credit limits and to max out their credit cards, paid twice as much.
  • Trump decided to go in another direction, according to Schank. There would be no more online courses, no more lectures from ivy league professors, no more books—just seminars, with speakers like Harris
  • On social media, he posed for photos in a plush, white bathrobe on a manicured lawn, flanked by a shiny silver Hummer and Mercedes-Benz. He told students they could live like him, too, and vowed to teach them to earn $25,000 a month, according to court filings.
  • At some point, Harris was also employed by Armando Montelongo Seminars, a venture similar to Trump University and also facing lawsuits from disgruntled students who claim they were scammed.
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Money Given to Kenya, Since Stolen, Puts Nike in Spotlight - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Money Given to Kenya, Since Stolen, Puts Nike in Spotlight
  • What followed — according to email exchanges, letters, bank records and invoices, provided by a former employee of Kenya’s athletics federation — has led to a major scandal in Kenya, a country in the midst of its biggest war against corruption in years.
  • In a contract signed several years ago, Nike agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in honorariums and a one-time $500,000 “commitment bonus,” which the former employee called a bribe.
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  • John Githongo, one of Kenya’s leading voices against corruption, said the American government should pick up this case and “run with it.”
  • For more than 20 years, Nike Inc. has been paying the Kenyan national runners’ association millions of dollars in exchange for the Kenyans wearing Nike’s signature swoosh
  • Several professional runners said they had heard of signing bonuses for individual athletes, but never such a large one-time bonus for a national federation.
  • The fallout from the Nike deal hit just as Western embassies were coming down hard on Kenya for corruption.
  • Several analysts said Nike could not afford to lose the Kenyans. Running is integral to Nike’s brand
  • Several analysts said the chairman’s asking for the money to be wired to his personal account and then sending a follow-up email labeled “Urgent!!” should have been a tipoff to Nike that something was untoward.
  • Analysts said this case was especially tricky because it did not appear to fall under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the American law that covers crimes involving American companies and foreign government officials.
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Students of Color Are Much More Likely to Attend High-Poverty Schools - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • The Concentration of Poverty in American Schools
  • That assessment points to one overwhelming conclusion: economic isolation and the concentration of poverty among students of color afflicts not only a few struggling cities, but virtually all cities—including many that have seen the most robust growth in jobs, incomes and population since the Great Recession.
  • In about half of the largest 100 cities, most African American and Latino students attend schools where at least 75 percent of all students qualify as poor or low-income under federal guidelines.
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  • Following federal guidelines, the National Equity Atlas defines low-income students as those eligible for the federal free- and reduced-lunch program.
  • Educational reformers are quick to underscore that in individual schools around the country dedicated teachers and principals have produced impressive results even for students submerged in communities of pervasive poverty. But, overall, concentrated poverty is tightly correlated with gaps in educational achievement.
  • Researchers have found that the single-most powerful predictor of racial gaps in educational achievement is the extent to which students attend schools surrounded by other low-income students.
  • But the weight of socioeconomic disadvantage—or, on the other side of the scale, of advantage—is really quite big. We don’t have much evidence of places that have been systematically successful when they serve very large populations of low-income students. It’s a big lift.“
  • In Chicago, 96 percent of both black and Latino students attend majority-poverty schools. In New York City, 96 percent of black and 95 percent of Latino students attend majority low-income schools.
  • Figures are available for whites in 95 cities. Only in 35 of them (or almost 37 percent) do most white students attend schools where a majority of their classmates qualify as poor
  • Socioeconomic integration is a legal alternative to racial reintegration—ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2007 in the case of Parents Involved v. Seattle—that largely produces the same effect. It is also more popular option among parents than citywide busing because they want their children to attend nearby schools, said Brad Lander, a member of the New York City Council.
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Chapter Two: She's the face of a $200 million scam - but does she exist? - 0 views

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  • Chapter Two: She's the face of a $200 million scam - but does she exist?
  • Her operation has raked in all this money -- more than $200 million in the United States and Canada alone, according to the U.S. government -- through a pretty simple scheme: sending heartfelt, personalized letters selling psychic readings, lucky numbers and trinkets that she promises will change people's lives.
  • One victim, whose letter is included as evidence in a U.S. government lawsuit, sent Duval more than $1,000 -- hoping her psychic abilities could help them win much-needed money.
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  • Despite repeated investigations and plenty of evidence that her psychic claims are pure fiction, we have not been able to find a single government agency -- in the U.S. or abroad -- that has ever been able to corner Duval for questioning
  • She signed a settlement with the U.S. Postal Service in 2007 in which she denied any wrongdoing, but no one associated with the case would tell us where the signature came from.
  • One of the last recorded sightings of this same woman was a high-profile appearance in Russia in 2008. It was there that she predicted that an African-American would become president of the United States (just a few weeks before the election took place).
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Welcome to the GOP civil war - POLITICO - 0 views

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  • Welcome to the GOP civil war
  • “The party will not fracture but will likely splinter,” says former Minnesota Rep. Vin Weber, a senior party strategist. “The question is: How big will the piece that splinters off actually be?”
  • He tried to make that pivot this week, releasing his health care plan and defending Planned Parenthood, but was forced to battle a growing insurrection in his own ranks – led by the party’s 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, who labeled him “a fraud” and “a phony” who represented “a brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.”
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  • Several senior GOP operatives who spoke to POLITICO on condition of anonymity believe that the remaining non-Trump candidates – Cruz, Rubio and John Kasich – will start coordinating their anti-Trump attacks soon
  • They compare a Trump autumn to the no-win situation Democrats faced in 2010 and 2014, when House and Senate candidates – like Arkansas’ doomed duo Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor – tried to run away from Obama, only to lose support from the party’s base of progressives and African Americans.
  • Theory No. 1 is that two of the three remaining Trump rivals drop out and unite behind the lone surviving contender, allowing that person take on the New York businessman, mano à mano
  • Theory No. 2 is that the three Trump rivals should stay in the race to collectively rob him of delegates in upcoming primary states, while attacking him as a group.
  • The Arizona Republican endorsed a Wednesday letter, co-signed by former GOP defense officials, warning against Trump’s “vision of American influence and power in the world,” which they said “swings from isolationism to military adventurism within the space of one sentence.” Referring to the missive, McCain dinged Trump for making “uninformed and indeed dangerous statements.”
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In Guatemala, Military on Trial for Sexual Slavery | Al Jazeera America - 0 views

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  • In Guatemala, military stands trial for sexual slavery
  • According to the prosecution, in August 1982, Guatemalan soldiers responded to a Maya land-rights campaign by raiding valley communities and taking many men — including the husbands of six of the women in the courtroom — to Finca Tinajas, never to be seen again.
  • During that war, which lasted from 1960 to 1996, battles between the state and Marxist guerrillas often served as impetus and cover for massacres that left an estimated 200,000 people dead and another 45,000 missing — the vast majority of them civilians.
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  • Sitting at the defense table, Asig sat with his head tilted toward the floor in apparent boredom. Reyes Giron flipped through case documents with one hand, his other arm clasped tight over his gut. A former lieutenant in the Guatemalan army, Reyes Giron is accused of leading what the prosecution has described as a strategic effort to crush peasant resistance.
  • They said the soldiers knew their husbands had been taken and the women were defenseless. “The soldiers said, ‘No one asks about you anymore. No one cares about you. You belong to us now,” said Petrona Choch Cuc.
  • Since 2007, the U.S. and U.N. have funded the Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, an international mission dedicated to help Guatemala’s independent prosecutor’s office, the Ministerio Publico, prosecute difficult cases of corruption and organized crime.
  • Rios Montt and Byron Lima Oliva, who was convicted of murdering one of the authors of a report published by the Catholic Church that laid out a detailed and fact-checked record of wartime atrocities, including mass rape.
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The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is absolutely stunning - Vox - 0 views

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  • The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is absolutely stunning
  • On November 21, 1922, the New York Times published its fvery first article about Adolf Hitler. It's an incredible read — especially its assertion that "Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so violent or genuine as it sounded."
  • But the really extraordinary part of the article is the three paragraphs on anti-Semitism. Brown acknowledges Hitler's vicious anti-Semitism as the core of Hitler's appeal — and notes the terrified Jewish community was fleeing from him — but goes on to dismiss it as a play to satiate the rubes
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  • Now, Brown's sources in all likelihood did tell him that Hitler's anti-Semitism was for show. That was a popular opinion during Nazism's early days.
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Hillary Clinton Had a Very Super Tuesday | VICE | United States - 0 views

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  • Hillary Clinton Had a Very Super Tuesday
  • On one of the most decisive nights of the presidential race so far, Clinton scored resounding victories over her democratic socialist rival Bernie Sanders in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and her former stomping grounds in Arkansas.
  • Crucially, the results translated into a huge delegate haul for Clinton, pulling her a tiny bit closer to the 2,383 delegates needed to win the Democratic Party's nomination.
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  • The key test for Clinton Tuesday was whether she could activate the broad coalition of voters who rejected her eight years ago—the so-called "Obama coalition" comprised of black and Latino voters who make up a huge bloc of the Democratic primary electorate, especially in the South. In the end, she crushed that test, beating Sanders by huge margins in states like Georgia, where she pulled in nearly three-quarters of the vote.
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