Thousands march to Mall to mark ‘Dream’ anniversary Washington Post ...Saturday was a day to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington, and a vision one man delivered so forcefully that five decades later, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech ranks with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Day of Infamy” speech to Congress as among the most memorable in U.S. history...
In Paper War, Flood of Liens Is the Weapon New York Times ...liens, legal claims on property to secure the payment of a debt, were just the earliest salvos in a war of paper, waged by a couple who had lost their home to foreclosure in 2009 — a tactic that, with the spread of an anti-government ideology known as the “sovereign citizen” movement, is being employed more frequently as a way to retaliate against perceived injustices...
NSA abuses include Stalking ex-Girlfriends Informed Consent ...now we have LOVEINT or NSA analysts occasionally reading the emails of ex-lovers. It doesn’t happen a lot, the NSA told the WSJ, but often enough that there is a word for it...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is not about free trade. It's a corporate coup d'etat--against us! Hightower Lowdown ...The nullification of our people's right to direct expenditures of our own tax dollars is but one of the horror stories being quietly packed into a political-and-economic bombshell benignly labeled TPP --the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
Bloomberg, Health Experts Denounce Obama's Gift to Big Tobacco in the TPP Public Citizen ...The Obama administration has drawn sharp criticism from leading health organizations, U.S. state representatives, and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg by caving to pressure from Big Tobacco to abandon safeguards for tobacco control policies in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the pending "free trade" deal with 11 Pacific Rim countries...
New Jersey Senate Candidate To Single Mothers: Stop Relying On Food Stamps And Go To Work! ThinkProgress ...Lonegan, who is the former New Jersey head for the Koch Brothers’ Americans for Prosperity, encouraged single mothers to roll up their sleeves and go to work, adding that free market policies and less government will free “individuals to achieve their best potential..."
Drawing Down: How To Roll Back Police Militarization In America (opinion) Huffington Post ...Today in America, SWAT teams are deployed about 100 to 150 times per day, or about 50,000 times per year -- a dramatic increase from the 3,000 or so annual deployments in the early 1980s, or the few hundred in the 1970s. The vast majority of today's deployments are to serve search warrants for drug crimes...
Who Are the Long-Term Unemployed? The Atlantic ...The long-term unemployed tend to be people who 1) are a little bit older, and 2) got laid off from their last job...
Mark Leibovich on Glitz and Greed in Washington Bill Moyers ...The tragic story is that what has grown up in this city that was supposedly built on public service is this permanent feudal class of insiders, of people who are not term limited. Of people who never leave and never die, figuratively never die. And who are there and who are doing very, very well for themselves, very, very well for Washington, and not very, very well for the United States...
Feds: PA Cyber Charter School founder Trombetta schemed to steal $1 million Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ...For more than a year, federal investigators pursued suspicions about Nicholas Trombetta, a high-flying educator with small-town origins who created the biggest, richest cyber school in the state...
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