Charles Pierce
| This One May Be Worse, (than Michael Brown)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "The shooting death of Michael Brown was more than worth every word and every pixel expended on its coverage. However, for sheer brass-balls police bullshit, what's going on down in New Iberia may be even worse than what happened in Ferguson."
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "The shooting death of Michael Brown was more than worth every word and every pixel expended on its coverage. However, for sheer brass-balls police bullshit, what's going on down in New Iberia may be even worse than what happened in Ferguson."
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IMF Chief to
Be Investigated for Alleged Role in Political Fraud Case
Anne Penketh, Guardian UK
Penketh writes: "The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, has been charged with 'simple negligence' over her handling of a controversial €400m payout to French business tycoon Bernard Tapie when she was finance minister."
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Anne Penketh, Guardian UK
Penketh writes: "The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, has been charged with 'simple negligence' over her handling of a controversial €400m payout to French business tycoon Bernard Tapie when she was finance minister."
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McConnell
Promises Billionaire Donors He Won't Waste Time On 'Gosh Darn' Minimum Wage
Increases
Josh Israel, ThinkProgress
Israel writes: "At a Koch Brothers-hosted secret strategy conference of right-wing millionaire and billionaire political activists in June, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) promised that if his party wins control of the United States Senate this November, the Senate will not waste time on things like increasing the minimum wage for people making only about $15,000 annually."
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Josh Israel, ThinkProgress
Israel writes: "At a Koch Brothers-hosted secret strategy conference of right-wing millionaire and billionaire political activists in June, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) promised that if his party wins control of the United States Senate this November, the Senate will not waste time on things like increasing the minimum wage for people making only about $15,000 annually."
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ATM Helps
Indian Women Quietly Report Rape Without Going to the Police
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress
Culp-Ressler writes: "In December, a 16-year-old girl in Calcutta was burned alive. Authorities believe she was targeted as punishment for reporting her gang-rape to the police. Two months earlier, on her way home from the police station after notifying cops about the six men who raped her, she was accosted and raped again. The next time the men came for her, they killed her."
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Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress
Culp-Ressler writes: "In December, a 16-year-old girl in Calcutta was burned alive. Authorities believe she was targeted as punishment for reporting her gang-rape to the police. Two months earlier, on her way home from the police station after notifying cops about the six men who raped her, she was accosted and raped again. The next time the men came for her, they killed her."
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The Dangers of
Deputizing Google to Bust Child Pornographers
Jack Shafer, Reuters
Shafer writes: "'Don't be evil' - the first sentence of Google's 'Code of Conduct' - has served as the technology company's corporate motto since its earliest days. But given Google's role in the arrest late last month of a Houston man on child pornography charges, perhaps we've been misreading it. Perhaps the motto is aimed at its customers, as in, 'Don't you be evil or we'll have you busted.'"
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Jack Shafer, Reuters
Shafer writes: "'Don't be evil' - the first sentence of Google's 'Code of Conduct' - has served as the technology company's corporate motto since its earliest days. But given Google's role in the arrest late last month of a Houston man on child pornography charges, perhaps we've been misreading it. Perhaps the motto is aimed at its customers, as in, 'Don't you be evil or we'll have you busted.'"
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Missouri US
Senator Wants to Tie Federal Funding of Police Departments to Body
Cams
Jonathan Shorman, USA Today
Shorman writes: "No police department should get federal funds unless they put cameras on officers, Sen. Claire McCaskill says."
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Jonathan Shorman, USA Today
Shorman writes: "No police department should get federal funds unless they put cameras on officers, Sen. Claire McCaskill says."
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Karl Grossman
| Earthquake Risk Makes California's Diablo Canyon a Fukushima in
Waiting
Karl Grossman, The Ecologist
Grossman writes: "As aftershocks of the 6.0 Napa earthquake that occurred Sunday in California continued, the Associated Press revealed a secret government report pointing to major earthquake vulnerabilities at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plants which are a little more than 200 miles away and sitting amid a webwork of earthquake faults."
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Karl Grossman, The Ecologist
Grossman writes: "As aftershocks of the 6.0 Napa earthquake that occurred Sunday in California continued, the Associated Press revealed a secret government report pointing to major earthquake vulnerabilities at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plants which are a little more than 200 miles away and sitting amid a webwork of earthquake faults."
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