{"id":17832,"date":"2015-12-01T05:51:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17832"},"modified":"2015-12-01T05:51:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T13:51:36","slug":"terse-tuesday-tidbits-december-1-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/01\/terse-tuesday-tidbits-december-1-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Terse Tuesday Tidbits December 1, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"statue-of-liberty\"<\/a>Isis shouldn’t dictate how we address refugees: op-ed by Chelsea Manning<\/span><\/strong>
\n\t"We must not let Isis’s crimes dictate how we address the refugee crisis – or privacy
\n\tSome want to exploit the Paris attacks in order to justify seizures of power to meet their own political ends. We should not let that happen"<\/span>
\n\thttps:\/\/www.chelseamanning.org\/featured\/refugee<\/a><\/p>\n

France Puts 24 Climate Activists Under House Arrest Ahead of COP21<\/span><\/strong>
\n\t'A gross abuse of power that risks turning the summit into a farce'<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2015\/11\/28\/france-puts-24-climate-activists-under-house-arrest-ahead-cop21<\/a><\/p>\n

People's Global Climate March 2015: Taking to the Streets for Our Future<\/strong><\/span>
\n\tMillions expected to take to streets ahead of COP21 – the Paris climate summit<\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2015\/11\/29\/peoples-global-climate-march-2015-taking-streets-our-future<\/a><\/p>\n

When The Mountains Started Exploding: Devastation In Coal Country (VIDEO)<\/strong><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/when-the-mountains-started-exploding-devastation-in-coal-country-video_5658ad33e4b079b2818a6e60<\/a><\/p>\n

Are these four stories connected by the thread of relationships to fossil fuels?  Do they support Manning's perspective?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Supreme Court Halts Historic Hawaiian Election<\/span><\/strong>
\n\tOpponents of the election say the process is unconstitutional and racially exclusive.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/supreme-court-halts-hawaiian-election_5658c6e8e4b08e945feb3ecc?utm_hp_ref=politics<\/a><\/p>\n

Mindboggling…hard to even frame a question<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Should domestic policy issue debates impact foreign policy like this?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Skewed Media Coverage Of The Abortion Debate Is Giving The U.S. A Bad Rap Abroad<\/span><\/strong>
\n\tThe only voices that are heard come from the fanatics.<\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/media-abortion-debate-planned-parenthood-kenya_565c986ce4b072e9d1c29b69?vtjra4i<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ending with a Petition from Karen Feridun:<\/span><\/span> "This isn't your typical petition with the option to add a message. This is all about the message, your message to President Obama. I'll be heading to Paris for COP 21 in a few days. I'd like to take with me your messages to President Obama on fracking and climate change. I can't promise that I'll be able to use them all in actions while I'm there, but I'll do my best and will definitely make sure that they are delivered electronically to him and to PA Governor Wolf…."President Obama, I asked people to write messages on fracking and climate change they'd like me to bring to Paris. Here's what they wrote. "<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/petitions.moveon.org\/environmental-action\/sign\/taking-your-messages-1?source=s.fwd&r_by=491007<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Isis shouldn’t dictate how we address refugees: op-ed by Chelsea Manning "We must not let Isis’s crimes dictate how we address the refugee crisis – or privacy Some want to exploit the Paris attacks in order to justify seizures of power to meet their own political ends. We should not let that happen" https:\/\/www.chelseamanning.org\/featured\/refugee France […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}