{"id":18920,"date":"2016-01-12T11:20:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T19:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18920"},"modified":"2016-01-12T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T00:20:25","slug":"terse-tuesday-tidbits-january-12-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/terse-tuesday-tidbits-january-12-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Terse Tuesday Tidbits January 12, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

The real American retirement crisis<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\n\t"Too many seniors are working or poor"  <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/em>\"money\"<\/a>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/the-real-american-retirement-crisis-too-many-seniors-are-working-or-poor\/?utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=23894b81a4-EPI_News_01_08_161_8_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-23894b81a4-58013205&mc_cid=23894b81a4&mc_eid=44e02bf5b1<\/a><\/p>\n

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Essure Problems (video and text)<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\n\t“The horrors of a women's contraceptive device called Essure could be a harbinger for what a new bill called the 21st Century Cures Act does more broadly to our medical regulatory system – January 8, 2016 “<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15409<\/a><\/p>\n

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Saudi Arabia Fueling Sectarianism to Destabilize the Region and Suppress Domestic Dissent (2\/2) (video plus transcript)<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\n\t“Toby Craig Jones says Saudi Arabia is beholden to sectarian violence and it is not a stabilizing force in the Middle East – January 7, 2016 “<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15400<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cow-Bombing the Public Lands of the American West (video plus transcript)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Conservationist, activist and writer Andy Kerr says that the militiamen "occupiers" in Oregon are misrepresenting
\n\tthe law and too few <\/em><\/span><\/span>\"cow\"<\/a>recognize the impact on the environment involved in grazing and raising livestock – January 7, 2016 “<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=15389<\/a><\/p>\n

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Guns Leathalize Anger and Despair<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.childrensdefense.org\/newsroom\/child-watch-columns\/child-watch-documents\/GunsLeathalizeAngerAndDespair.html#comment<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gun Logic                                                                                  <\/strong><\/span><\/span>\"man<\/a>
\n\thttp:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/component\/hwdvideoshare\/viewvideo\/80124<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Death Penalty’s Last Stand<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\n\t"Capital punishment is collapsing under the weight of its own corruption and cruelty."<\/em><\/span><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/jurisprudence\/2016\/01\/data_and_charts_show_few_states_impose_the_death_penalty.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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An email I received, filled with good news (hat tip Joanne).<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/01\/09\/1467743\/-An-email-I-got-filled-with-good-news?detail=email<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The real American retirement crisis "Too many seniors are working or poor"  http:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/the-real-american-retirement-crisis-too-many-seniors-are-working-or-poor\/?utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=23894b81a4-EPI_News_01_08_161_8_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-23894b81a4-58013205&mc_cid=23894b81a4&mc_eid=44e02bf5b1   Essure Problems (video and text) “The horrors of a women's contraceptive device called Essure could be a harbinger for what a new bill called the 21st Century Cures Act does more broadly to our medical regulatory system – January 8, 2016 […]<\/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-18920","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\/18920","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=18920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}