Midday open thread: Making solar affordable for more Americans; Apology from Japan's PM for WWII?

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Monday August 10, 2015 · 12:00 PM PDT

2015/08/10 · 12:00

Today's comic by Tom Tomorrow is The Simulacron:
Here's what you may have missed on Sunday Kos ...

Police lie and cover up all too often. It's time to take that into account, by Laura Clawson
Many Democrats miss the point about Bernie Sanders' brand of democratic socialism, by Egberto Willies

2013 GOP: Need 'welcoming, inclusive message' to attract Hispanics. 2015 GOP: Trump has other ideas, by Ian Reifowitz

Congress to DOJ: Enforce the laws we wrote, not the laws you wish we wrote, by Susan Grigsby

Aliens and video games agree: You don't exist, by Mark Sumner

Racial violence and restorative justice, by Denise Oliver Velez

Lions and tigers and bears, by DarkSyde
North Korea isn't the only nation to make a mess of its time zone(s). See China and Venezuela.
Undercover filmers at Planned Parenthood aren't telling women any big secret about abortion they don't already know:
Sixty-one percent of women who seek abortions already have at least one child. More than a third already have at least two children. Women know what pregnancy is and what abortion does. Perhaps it’s this common calculation that keeps so many women (and men) grateful to an organization dedicated to the maintenance of women’s bodies. An NBC News–Wall Street Journal poll, released after the fetal-parts videos, showed Planned Parenthood with a net favorability rating of 45 percent, higher than Donald Trump, the Democratic and Republican parties, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, the Supreme Court, and the National Rifle Association.
The Rosenbergs' sons want their mother exonerated:
The newly released 46-page transcript — along with previously released testimony and other records — demonstrates conclusively that our mother was prosecuted primarily for refusing to turn on our father. We now call on President Obama to acknowledge that Ethel Rosenberg was wrongly convicted and executed.
Making solar affordable to millions more Americans:
A nonprofit aims to bring the benefits of affordable solar to the 90 million Americans who are effectively “locked out” of the solar market, through the development of shared and community solar initiatives.
Going solar at home is easier now than ever before, and solar PV installations are booming because of it, but if you don’t own your home or have the necessary capital or credit record to secure the financing for a home solar array, you’re missing out on the solar revolution. But a relatively new nonprofit organization, called the Solstice Initiative, is working to bring more solar to more people, by funding and developing more community solar projects, using a combination of power purchase agreements and ‘solar shares’ to make it work financially for everyone involved.
11 billion of us by 2100 says new report:
The human population of planet Earth will likely exceed 11 billion by 2100, according to an analysis being presented today at the 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings by John R. Wilmoth, director of UN's Population Division. The upshot is that, no, human population growth will not chill any time this century, barring unexpected fertility declines in regions of sub-Saharan Africa with still-exploding birth-rates.
Japan's prime minister will include the words "apology" and "aggression" in his speech on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
On today's Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin describes the lingering effects of the "debate," and the Gop foreign policy shambles. Bernie's disrupted again. MI Teabagger legislators prove way worse than thought. KS Gov's nightmare brother is everyone's nightmare.

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