What's wrong in the US
It's a place to aggregate examples of culture, attitude, excess etc. that has got us to where we are now. If we do not acknowledge the past, we can't make a better future or speak out and speak intelligently about complex issues and out and out dick moves by Americans. I want to do this to show my international friends that not all Americans are cluess consumers that are forever accumulating crap. Sep 20
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Trayvon Martin Case
It was a good year for strawberries in Monterey County, and also for the pesticides that make them a nearly $1 billion crop. The quantity of pesticides applied locally to all crops rose to nearly 9 million pounds, a 12-percent increase from 2009 to 2010, according to figures released last week by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation.
Pick Your Poison | MontereyCountyWeekly.com
Hackers who stole thousands of credit card numbers from U.S. security firm Stratfor are now set to release 2.7 million of its confidential emails. The loose-knit Anonymous movement vowed to heap further embarrassment on the intelligence company, dubbed the 'Shadow CIA', it hacked over Christmas.
Anonymous hackers to publish U.S. security firm's 2.7m client emails... providing a 'smoking gun for number of crimes' | Mail Online
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Pulls Ad That Blames Women For Getting Date-Raped | ThinkProgress
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board provoked an enormous backlash by airing ads that tell women who are date-raped that they have only themselves and their friends to blame. The ad was part of a $600,000 campaign aimed at curbing excessive drinking. After hearing from hundreds of rape victims that the ads were extremely upsetting, even traumatizing, the board has decided to pull them :Aida Hillen: Lobbed Christian Pamphlet at Kid She Ran Over, Then Drove Away (Allegedly) - Houston News - Hair Balls
What would Jesus do if he hit a youth with His car, asked the kid if he was okay and got "no" for an answer? If you answered, "Toss him a book about Himself, peel out and haul ass like the Dukes of Hazzard," you are cut from the same religious cloth police say Aida Hillen comes from. According to court documents, the victim, a Milby High School student, told police he was crossing Broadway near the school on October 14 at around 5:15 p.m. when he was struck by the 58-year-old Hillen's 1996 Honda Accord.
One of the most pernicious practices in which the nation’ biggest banks engaged during the lead up to the financial crisis was pushing minority borrowers into subprime loans, even when many of them qualified for prime loans.
Former Chase Banker Admits His Bank Pushed Minorities Into Subprime Mortgage Loans | ThinkProgress
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Rocrast Mack's Murder At Alabama Prison Followed Trail Of Violence By Guards
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Late on the night of August 4, 2010, a badly beaten young man arrived at the trauma ward of Jackson Hospital here. Although the patient was hardly a flight risk, security was tight and prison guards crowded into the emergency room as doctors began treatment. The patient's limp body spoke to the savagery of an assault that had left deep contusions on his legs and torso, and inflamed knots bulging from his head and face.The Raw Story | America's #1 completely independent news and politics source
Eric Fehrnstrom, a top aide and political strategist to Mitt Romney, outed Massachusetts Rep.
Rich New Yorkers Are Driving Custom-Designed Cargo Vans - NYTimes.com
“I have two big-screen televisions; I have a couch in the back that goes into a bed,” Mr. Kantor said.
Brooklyn, New York - Next to Clarence Thomas , Antonin Scalia is the most conservative justice in the Supreme Court.
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Tim Dickinson: The Tax Policies That Increased Economic Inequality : NPR
Enlarge Jim Cole / AP The eight Republican presidential candidates sitting at the table listen as a video of former President Ronald Reagan is played during a debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., on Oct. 11. Jim Cole / APThe Official Website of Michael Crook
Learn even more about this story in the book "Don't Dunk Me When I'm Gone," my new book, which is out now . UPDATE APRIL 7, 2012- This confirmation letter brings to close a 25-year mistake on my part: getting involved with the LDS Church in the first place. UPDATE APRIL 5, 2012-- At approximately 7:15 p.m., I was finally excommunicated from the LDS Church.Cement plant pollution leads to a fight in Chanute, Kansas - Slate Magazine
In fact, state and federal regulators express no concerns about the plant. It stays within limits on emissions, they say, and has not run afoul of the law. It is, by all appearances, a good corporate citizen.CBS, Google, Levi's, Starbucks, New Balance, and Xerox are among the 70 companies and cities that have signed an amicus brief stating that DOMA, the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, hurts business. -- NCRM.com
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Jack Abramoff: ‘The whole system’ is corrupt | The Raw Story
Notorious former lobbyist Jack Abramoff is a free man again, after serving three and a half years in prison for corruption and fraud.XL Pipeline
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman Travel WayBack to 1953 - A History of Iraq -
I grew up watching this cartoon. Written by the same sly devils that wrote for Rocky & Bullwinke. This re-write explains the insane US Foreign Policy over the decades that leaves off at the present day Iraq.
As his boy Sherman astutely notes:" We (that is the twisted white men behind to politcal curtain) always seem to be backing the wrong horse." by Oct 30
Which Bank Is the Worst for America? 5 Behemoths That Hold Our Political System Hostage | | AlterNet
The American Dream - FULL LENGTH - YouTube
A good explaination of the debt=money equation and the dirty secret of the Federal Reserve. Also read "It came from Jeckyll Island" by Oct 16
History of Glass-Stegall
IMO, this was the last straw that tipped the economy into a deep dark hole that dragged the world after it. It made those banks "too big to fail" by allowing them to gamble along with the hedgefunds and over-leverage themselves. by Oct 15
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An example of excess. The seeming rewards for being an asshole. by Sep 20
Picking out articles documenting the insideous nature of super rich neo cons etc influencing democracy; twisting legislation to their preferences; circumvention of law and our Constutional rights... by kathologist Oct 16