Greg Palast | Poor People's Non-Profit Bank Sues Trump Over Illegal Seizure Of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau




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Greg Palast | Poor People's Non-Profit Bank Sues Trump Over Illegal Seizure Of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 
Investigative reporter, Greg Palast. (photo: BBC) 
Greg Palast, Greg Palast's Website 
Palast writes: "Medal of Honor for the Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union - the poor people's non-profit bank that's suing Donald Trump over the illegal seizure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (see story). This is the same little bank that took on Goldman Sachs (see my Democracy Now! report above) and kicked ass." 
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Ceridwen Dovey | Mapping Indigenous Massacres 
Ceridwen Dovey, The New Yorker 
Dovey writes: "In Australia, historians and artists have turned to cartography to record the widespread killing of Indigenous people." 
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GOP Senator Pat Roberts Is Helping the Kochs Get a Tax Break for Pushing Money to 'Dark Money' Groups 
David Sirota and Josh Keefe, The International Business Times 
Excerpt: "With Republican megadonors like Charles Koch, 82, and his brother David, 77, advancing in age, a top GOP senator from the Kochs' home state has proposed a special tax break for moguls who bequeath their riches to so-called 'dark money' groups that advocate for policies and bankroll lawmakers' election ads." 
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Roy Moore: The Last Time America Was Great Was When "We Had Slavery" 
German Lopez, Vox 
Lopez writes: "The quote comes from a Los Angeles Times report published in September, but it was recently resurfaced by a viral tweet from former Obama administration official Eric Columbus." 
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On Eve of Trump Visit, Mississippi Blacks Say He's Brought Back Troubles of the Past 
Marc Fisher, The Washington Post 
Fisher writes: "The president is coming to America's poorest, blackest state to open a civil rights museum on Saturday, and people in the neighborhoods surrounding that gleaming tribute to the past would rather have Donald Trump visit their present." 
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Israeli Police Pour Into Jerusalem to Face Palestinian 'Day of Rage' 
Lubna Masarwa, Middle East Eye 
Masarwa writes: "Israeli police and Palestinian protesters clashed for a second day in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza, leaving one dead and hundreds injured as anger boiled over on the streets over Donald Trump said Jerusalem was the capital of Israel." 
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Trump Will Suspend a Rule to Limit a Pollutant Far Worse Than Carbon 
Darryl Fears, The Washington Post 
Fears writes: "The Trump administration will suspend a rule to limit methane leaks from oil and gas operations on federal land, but its true aim may be to kill the Obama-era requirement." 
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