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Syngenta’s hazardous pesticides are oh so profitable

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A new report shows Syngenta makes a lot of money selling dangerous pesticides, with low to middle income countries bearing the brunt of the hazards. Learn more

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NYPD Officer On Trial For Eric Garner’s Death Will Testify Via Secret Document, Won’t Be Questioned

NYPD Officer On Trial For Eric Garner's Death Will Testify Via Secret Document, Won't Be Questioned

Five years after Eric Garner was killed during a violent arrest in Staten Island, on the sixth day of an NYPD disciplinary trial that has spread languorously over 24 days, New Yorkers learned that the NYPD officer charged with killing Garner with an illegal chokehold won’t have to say anything publicly about his conduct, and won’t have to answer any questions either. [ more › ]

YouTube says homophobic abuse does not violate harassment rules

wtf – When Trans people are bing killed by those who are inspired by such videos?

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Video-sharing site defends American user who called journalist ‘lispy queer’

YouTube has sparked outrage by defending an American man who subjected a journalist to repeated homophobic abuse in videos presented to millions of people, arguing that his “criticism” was debating rather than harassment.

Carlos Maza, a video journalist for the US news site Vox, went public last week with a complaint that the rightwing YouTube personality Steven Crowder was engaged in a long-term homophobic harassment campaign. In a compilation video Maza created of some of his mentions on Crowder’s show, the host attacks Maza as a “gay Mexican”, “lispy queer” and a “token Vox gay atheist sprite”.

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Why do US evangelicals support Trump? They’re giving Christianity a bad name | Tim Farron

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The politicisation of evangelicals is dangerous – especially when they’re supporting a loveless, graceless amoralism

• Tim Farron is the former Lib Dem leader

In the UK, the United States president is dismissed or condemned from almost all quarters, and most of us struggle to get our heads around the idea that millions of people voted for Donald Trump. One significant group of these voters were white evangelical Christians. According to the exit polls from the 2016 US election, white “evangelical Christians” voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by 81% to 16%.

It has not been unusual for presidential candidates to court the so-called “evangelical Christian vote” in recent history. If you vote for a president, it doesn’t necessarily mean you support everything they stand for. I recognise that: the 81% represents a whole host of motivations and degrees of support rather than a united mass gathering under Trump’s banner. But it’s still a big number.

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