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Monday, September 22, 2014

Cheat Sheet - White House at War With ISIS Victim's Family

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September 22, 2014
BLAME GAME
The Obama administration is taking aim at the family of Steven Sotloff, the journalist beheaded by ISIS. Josh Rogin reports the White House rejected the family's claims that Sotloff was kidnapped by a Syrian rebel group, which then sold him to ISIS. If such a claim proves true, it calls Obama's entire anti-ISIS strategy for training Syrian rebels into question.
NEW FRONTIER

After traveling 442 million miles in more than 10 months, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft began orbiting Mars on Sunday. MAVEN's mission is to study how the Red Planet's climate changed over time from warm and wet to cold and dry—an undertaking that resonates right now, as hundreds of thousands joined the People's Climate March in New York City to focus on climate change right here on Earth. The unmanned MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) will take a first-of-its-kind look at the planet's upper atmosphere. NASA hopes that data it collects will help scientists understand what happened to the water on Mars and the carbon dioxide in its atmosphere billions of years ago.

WE COME IN PEACE
Thousands of people poured into the streets of Moscow on Sunday to protest the war in Ukraine. "Forgive us, Ukraine," read flags at the Peace March while others chanted "If there is no Putin, there is no war," reports Anna Nemstova. It may be wishful thinking, but for one day, there was the genuine sense in Russia that Putin could be stopped.
MAKING A POINT

The Rockefeller family, whose legendary fortune was built by John D. Rockefeller through Standard Oil, announced that its $860 million philanthropic foundation is joining the divestment movement and abandoning fossil fuels. The announcement comes just ahead of the United Nations climate-change summit that starts Tuesday in New York City, and is part of a broadening divestment initiative in which people commit to selling shares of energy stocks. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has already eliminated investments involving coal and tar sands, while increasing its investment in alternative energy sources, the fund's president said. Unwinding other investments in a complex portfolio involving a broader range of fossil fuels will take longer, he noted.

CHURCH AND STATE
The Texas State Board of Education is wreaking havoc with history, and the consequences for students are dire, writes Edward Countryman. Under the state's new educational standards, textbook companies seeking lucrative Texas contracts have been made to distort history. Moses, John Calvin, and Thomas Aquinas have suddenly replaced Enlightenment thinkers as the critical influences on the Founding Fathers. Native Americans and African Americans are treated only as victims rather than history-makers.

AWOL
Afghan Army Officers Go Missing in U.S.
They were supposed to be training.
DEADLY TRAVEL
2 Dead, 48 Injured on Bus to New York
Overturned in Delaware
Encouraging
Ebola Lockdown Declared a Success
As Sierra Leone ends 3-day curfew.
PUSHBACK
Kurds Halt ISIS in Syria Near Turkey
As 130,000 Kurds flee to Turkey.
KIWI REVOLT
New Zealand May Cut Union Jack From Flag
Referendum next year.

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