Tuesday, December 2, 2014

RSN: State Department Keystone XL Contractor Bribed Chinese Agency to Permit Project, Putin Funds Far Right in France. "It's No Secret," says Marine Le Pen



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Ferguson Activists Meet With President Obama to Demand an End to Police Brutality Nationwide
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Ferguson Action
Excerpt: "It has been one week since a St. Louis County grand jury failed to indict Officer Darren Wilson for shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, six times in the head, chest and arms. Communities nationwide have responded to the miscarriage of justice by carrying out more than 150 sustained, coordinated and intense protest actions that show no signs of letting up."
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A Prominent Legal Expert Eviscerates the Darren Wilson Prosecution, in 8 Tweets
German Lopez, Vox
Lopez writes: "Following the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri, prominent lawyer and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Bloom argued on Twitter that St. Louis County prosecutors did a bad job questioning Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson about the shooting of Michael Brown."
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Four Dead in West Virginia Mass Shooting
Matt Stroud, Associated Press
Stroud writes: "After fatally shooting four people, setting off an hours long manhunt and putting schools and residents on alert for an armed man, the owner of a small towing business was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his truck in the woods, state police said Monday."
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Poor Kids in Baltimore Have It Worse Than Those in Nigeria
Elizabeth Kulze, Vocativ
Kulze writes: "When a teenager from East Baltimore was asked to describe his neighborhood, he spoke of 'big rats going around in people's trash, vacant houses full of squatters and needles on the ground.'"
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Former Ohio Deputy Treasurer and Friend Sentenced for Roles in Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme
The Department of Justice, Reader Supported News
Excerpt: "Ohio's former deputy treasurer and a Chicago businessman were sentenced to federal prison today for their roles in a bribery and money laundering scheme involving the Ohio Treasurer's Office."
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State Department Keystone XL Contractor Bribed Chinese Agency to Permit Project
Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog
Horn writes: "Environmental Resources Management (ERM Group), the consultancy selected by TransCanada to conduct the environmental review for Keystone XL's northern leg on behalf of the U.S. State Department, is no stranger to scandal."
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FOCUS: Steve Weissman | Putin Funds Far Right in France. "It's No Secret," says Marine Le Pen
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Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News
Weissman writes: "While the US and its NATO allies compete with the Kremlin in a nuclear-tinged and very Orwellian Cold War, Vladimir Putin is bankrolling Marine Le Pen's Front National (FN) in France."
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