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WATCH How the second-busiest U.S. fishing port is powered by wind and water

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-the-second-busiest-u-s-fishing-port-is-powered-by-wind-and-water

Kodiak, Alaska, is not only home to abundant fishing grounds, but also to one of the most innovative power grids in the country. As the cost of diesel rose a decade ago, a local electric co-op decided to aim for 100 percent renewable energy by harnessing the wind and water. Special correspondent Rachel Waldholz of Alaska Public Media reports on their engineering feat...

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Next governor will get to veto gerrymandered districts

http://www.fredericksburg.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-next-governor-will-get-to-veto-gerrymandered-districts/article_6043a742-fb3b-516f-af2e-5b760c9c0f68.html

Virginia’s gubernatorial elections, coming a year after the presidential ones, present opportunities and problems.

The prime opportunity is the chance to have a star turn in the national political spotlight. With only Virginia and New Jersey choosing governors this year, much will be made of our selections...

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New York residents usually vote against holding a constitutional convention. This year could be different, one expert says.

http://dailyorange.com/2017/10/new-york-residents-usually-vote-holding-constitutional-convention-year-different-one-expert-says/

While New York state voters have traditionally voted to not hold state constitutional conventions, one expert said she thinks this year could be different.

Kristi Andersen, a professor emerita of political science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, said President Donald Trump’s administration has helped spur a growing desire among people to protect the environment and women’s reproductive choices...

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1237300.The_Shock_Doctrine

In her ground-breaking reporting from Iraq, Naomi Klein exposed how the trauma of invasion was being exploited to remake the country in the interest of foreign corporations. She called it "disaster capitalism." Covering Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, and New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment" losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. By capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, Klein argues that the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years...

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Zehra Doğan, One Year into the Ban on JINHA

http://www.kedistan.net/2017/11/01/anniversary-jinha-zehra-dogan/

In March 2012, Zehra Doğan became one of the co-founders of JINHA, the all-female press agency banned and shut down since by Turkish State decree in October 2016.

Sadık Çelik, a Kedistan editor, met her in Istanbul in 2013 during the Gezi events. So it was only natural that he interview Zehra about JINHA for our magazine, in the beginning of 2016...

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I am the corpse of the Other

http://www.kedistan.net/2017/10/18/i-am-the-corpse-of-the-other/

I am the corpse of the Other…
The Kurd you call “terrorist”.
The Armenian you insult.
The Greek whose home you confiscated,
The Rom you throw out, the Arab you despise.
The Alevi whose door you mark with an X,
The Christian whose windows you break with stones, the Chaldean you threaten.
The Other against whom you discriminate.

I am the corpse of the Other…
I am the woman you attack, the child whose rapist you set free.
The LGBTI you knife down.
The homeless man you shove around…
The old man you abandon to his solitude,
The orphan you lock into a room...

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HSBC 'complicit' in South Africa scandal, House of Lords told

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/01/hsbc-investigated-fund-transfers-south-africa-corruption-row-zuma-gupta

Lord Hain alleges bank ignored suspicious activity related to row surrounding Jacob Zuma’s links to Gupta family

HSBC has been accused of “possible criminal complicity” in a money laundering scandal involving South Africa’s wealthy Gupta family...