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Sometimes justice gets done, even in Texas. What is really interesting are some of the comments made by the police department about the jury.
http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/not-guilty-in-shooting-of-corpus-christi-swat-officers/14887
Warming Earth Thaws Diseases Dormant within Frozen Permafrost
Many people imagine there will be wars over resources though on other "less civilized" continents but nothing that really threatens us. It's likely true that Americans don't yet picture social and political chaos that "comes home" in the form of violent retribution, nor do they imagine social dislocations on our soil that end in bloodshed.
And they certainly don't imagine the ravages of plague and epidemic of diseases that can start anywhere in the world and travel as far and as fast as humans can carry them of diseases so old and dormant that humans have no natural immunity to them, or medicines to treat them with.
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2016/11/warming-earth-thaws-diseases-dormant.html
The Death of the Two-State Solution
Another reason to claw-back the Nobel Peace Prize?For two decades, Israeli leaders and their neoconservative backers in this country, hell-bent on building and expanding settlements on Palestinian land, have worked to undermine Americas stated efforts and paid no price. Now, with that record weapons package, the U.S. has made it all too clear that they wont have to. Ever.
http://lobelog.com/the-death-of-the-two-state-solution/
An ‘Epidemic of Graft’ – Anti-Corruption Efforts in Afghanistan Fail Hard
This is a bipartisan effort and not only a total waste of money but also doing damage to our reputation and efforts to marginalize and reduce the effects of terrorist organizations.
Of course USAID and the Department of Defense are who spends that $5 billion a year in Afghanistan that drives the corruption
http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2016/10/18/anti-corruption-efforts-in-afghanistan-fail-hard/
The Wells Fargo Scandal Was by Design
The stockholders take the hit and the executives keep their bonuses. What deal!
Financial fraud of this sort always follows this pattern: Executives get rich doing it, the company takes a hitbut not the executivesand the executives have no reason not to go on to their next fraud or even go back to what they were doing (sub-prime loans are a thing again, and well find out many of them were based on fraud, again.)
Social Security Is NOT a Main Driver of the Country's Long-term Budget Problem!
http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/contrary-to-what-ap-tells-you-social-security-is-not-a-main-driver-of-the-country-s-long-term-budget-problem
The Jude Cause And The Ferguson Effect
We have all heard that police are likely to be less effective when under observation. This blog post explores the idea that there may be other causes for the spike in violence and crime in some areas then monitoring police behavior.
One, there is now some evidence that when all eyes are on police misconduct, crime may edge up. Progressives should acknowledge that this idea isnt far-fetched.
Far-fetched? Nobody said it was far-fetched, but correlation doesnt prove causation.
http://blog.simplejustice.us/2016/10/01/the-jude-cause-and-the-ferguson-effect/
The (Bill) Clinton Team’s Secret Meeting on CEO Compensation
This piece seems to support the premise of the book "Listen Liberal" about who the democratic party represents.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/09/the-bill-clinton-teams-secret-meeting-on-ceo-compensation.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29
The WTO and free trade
What this shows is that free trade comes at a big cost. Right now the US is in WTO Arbitration with a cost on 1.5 billion dollars over the cancellation of the trans Canadian pipe line.
http://economyincrisis.org/content/what-the-u-s-gave-up-by-joining-the-wto
There is more then one way to skin Second Amendment cat
There are a number of perfectly lawful businesses that sit at the edge of political acceptability. The most obvious is the marijuana biz, in states where its lawful. But try to use that cool credit card with the magic chip and you might get a shock. You see, the feds, who hate cash because only criminals use cash (and they cant track your every purchase), wont let banks maintain accounts for weed sellers and have a program, a quiet program, to prevent credit card companies from processing payments.
But marijuana is a Schedule I drug, so why should they? Fair enough. What about knives?
A major knives manufacturer from central California says his company was denied access to an internet payment processing service because they sell weapons online, raising questions about whether an anti-fraud program called Operation Choke Point is continuing to block legal businesses in the firearms and weapons industries from accessing basic banking services.
It was pretty simple and straightforward, Aaron Hogue, co-owner of Hogue Inc., said of the situation he faced with Wells Fargo bank. They called my controller, and said, Sorry, but were not going to be able to process any credit card transactions for the sale of weapons online.
http://blog.simplejustice.us/2016/08/16/dont-bank-on-it/
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