{"id":21805,"date":"2016-05-12T20:44:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T03:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21805"},"modified":"2016-05-12T20:44:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T03:44:13","slug":"terse-tidbits-this-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/12\/terse-tidbits-this-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Terse Tidbits This Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waterkeeper Alliance Opposes “Monsanto Shield” Provision in Chemical Safety Reform Legislation<\/strong><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/waterkeeper.org\/waterkeeper-alliance-opposes-monsanto-shield-provision-in-chemical-safety-reform-legislation\/?utm_source=Waterkeeper+Alliance+Master+List&utm_campaign=8fc2174e18-May_2016_Currents5_5_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e059bc1919-8fc2174e18-72814965<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pentagon quietly sends troops to Yemen to fight al-Qaeda — which U.S. strengthened by backing destructive Saudi war<\/strong><\/span>
\n\t“The U.S. is intervening in yet another Middle Eastern country where extremist groups benefited from its policies.”<\/strong><\/em>
\n\thttps:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/05\/07\/pentagon_quietly_sends_troops_to_yemen_to_fight_al_qaeda_which_u_s_strengthened_by_backing_destructive_saudi_war\/?source=newsletter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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El Salvador arrests people who pushed for peace in gang war<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2016\/05\/05\/el-salvador-arrests-people-who-pushed-for-peace-in-gang-war\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Photo gallery: Once a child soldier, now seeking a path as Colombia contemplates peace<\/strong><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/nation-world\/photo-gallery-once-a-child-soldier-now-seeking-a-path-as-colombia-contemplates-peace\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Colombia restaurant cooks up recipe for peace<\/strong><\/span>
\n\t“El Cielo, one of Latin America's top restaurants, assembles kitchen staff of army veterans and former rebel fighters.”<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/04\/colombia-restaurant-cooks-recipe-peace-160401150959377.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Meet Mr. Ticker<\/strong><\/span>                                                                                     <\/span>\"Money-Armload-Bundles_Wall-St\"<\/a>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.citizenvox.org\/2016\/05\/02\/meet-mr-ticker\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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This huge, ugly fruit is a surprisingly good meat substitute<\/strong><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/grist.org\/food\/this-huge-ugly-fruit-is-a-surprisingly-good-meat-substitute\/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=weekly-static<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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His hotel didn't understand what 'wheelchair accessible' meant. So he built an app.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/his-hotel-didnt-understand-what-wheelchair-accessible-meant-so-he-built-an-app?c=upw1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Meet the Young Coding Stars Rising From India’s Largest Slum<\/strong><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2016\/05\/12\/young-girls-india-s-largest-slum-are-learning-code?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2016-05-12<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The middle class is shrinking just about everywhere in America<\/strong><\/span>
\n\t“The great shrinking of the middle class that has captured the attention of the nation is not only playing out in troubled regions like the Rust Belt, Appalachia and the Deep South, but in just about every metropolitan area in America, according to a major new analysis by the Pew Research Center.”<\/strong><\/em>
\n\thttps:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/05\/11\/the-middle-class-is-shrinking-just-about-everywhere-in-america\/?hpid=hp_rhp-more-top-stories_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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9 reasons to be a little obsessed with elite gymnast Simone Biles. (text and brief video)<\/strong><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/9-reasons-to-be-a-little-obsessed-with-elite-gymnast-simone-biles?c=reccon3<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waterkeeper Alliance Opposes “Monsanto Shield” Provision in Chemical Safety Reform Legislation http:\/\/waterkeeper.org\/waterkeeper-alliance-opposes-monsanto-shield-provision-in-chemical-safety-reform-legislation\/?utm_source=Waterkeeper+Alliance+Master+List&utm_campaign=8fc2174e18-May_2016_Currents5_5_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e059bc1919-8fc2174e18-72814965   Pentagon quietly sends troops to Yemen to fight al-Qaeda — which U.S. strengthened by backing destructive Saudi war “The U.S. is intervening in yet another Middle Eastern country where extremist groups benefited from its policies.” https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/05\/07\/pentagon_quietly_sends_troops_to_yemen_to_fight_al_qaeda_which_u_s_strengthened_by_backing_destructive_saudi_war\/?source=newsletter   El Salvador arrests people who […]<\/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-21805","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\/21805","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=21805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}