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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Cheat Sheet - Oliver Stone on the ‘Tyranny’ of Obama’s America

Today: Obama: No Shutdown 'Winners' , Obamacare Is Winning in Kentucky, Thanks to Steve Beshear , WHO: Air Pollution Causes Cancer
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

October 17, 2013
CRITIC

Oliver Stone has a lot to say about what's unfolded since his liberal revisionist documentary The Untold History aired. From eavesdropping to exceptionalism, the filmmaker explains why America is a sick country.

Come Together

Fresh off his eleventh hour debt deal victory, President Obama spoke from the White House on his frustration over what he called a "manufactured crisis" caused by the lawmakers who pushed for the shutdown in the name of saving the American economy. "Nothing has done more to hurt the economy," he said, nor has anything done more to damage the U.S.'s credibility in the world economy. "There was no economic rationale for any of this," he said of the government shutdown. Going forward, Obama said the three most important things Congress can do for the country now are to pass a rational budget, "fix our broken immigration system," and pass a farm bill. "There's no good reason why we can't govern responsibly, despite our differences," he said.

SURPRISE

Kentucky, a bastion of anti-government ire, is the top state for Obamacare enrollment. Jonathan Miller, its former state treasurer, on the governor responsible for the unlikely red-state enthusiasm.

NO HOPE

This will be hard to avoid. Joining asbestos, tobacco and UV rays, air pollution has been declared a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The agency, which is part of the World Health Organization, declared that air pollution is more important than second-hand smoke in terms of cancer-causing materials.

NO SECOND CHANCE

This is multiple levels of messed up. Amnesty International is pressing Iran to not go through with a second attempt to hang a man after he survived the first. The man, Alireza M., who was sentenced to death for drug smuggling, survived the initial botched hanging and was found alive in a morgue. He is currently being nursed back to health just so he can be hanged again. Despite please from Human Rights groups, an official told the BBC that "The verdict was the death sentence, and it will be carried out once the man gets well again." Iran is believed to be only second to China in using the death penalty.


BOOKER PRIZE
Booker Winner Eleanor Catton Responds to Critics
Says detractors mostly "men over about 45."
UP IN SMOKE
Florida Man Sets Self on Fire
Creating burning cross display at the time.
Readers
One in 10 Icelanders Will Publish a Book
Country in the middle of "literary boom."
WOMEN IN THE WORLD
Nebraska Foster Teen Denied Abortion
Inside the case fueling national outrage.
OUCH
Michael Bay Attacked on Set
While filming "Transformers 4" in Hong Kong.

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