in georgia cotton candy will send you to jail for months;
Monroe County, GA — An innocent grandma, Dasha Fincher, was kidnapped
by police and thrown in a cage for months—not because she did anything
wrong—but because police couldn’t tell the difference between cotton
candy and meth. Now, this innocent new grandma is going after the police
who did this to her as well as the company who manufacturers the
dangerously inaccurate tests cops used to take her freedom. This gross negligence and kidnapping is all due to a flaw in the
system stemming from prosecutors and police being unconcerned with
actually testing evidence. A new report from
CBS uncovered this problem in dozens of states in which innocent people
are rotting in jail because police departments don’t send the evidence —
that could potentially free them — into the lab to get tested.
According to the report, the average lab turn around time is around
100 days. This happens to be roughly the same amount of time Fincher
spent in a cage for cotton candy.
This horror movie for Fincher started back on New Year’s Eve of 2016, a day this innocent grandmother says she’ll never forget...........https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cotton-candy-meth-grandma/
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
surprisingly buchanan sees the reality of what the empire has, and is, creating in the mid east;
Visualizing 150 Iranian dead from a missile strike that he had ordered, President Donald Trump recoiled and canceled the strike, a brave decision and defining moment for his presidency.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, John Bolton and Vice President Mike Pence had signed off on the strike on Iran as the right response to Tehran’s shootdown of a U.S. Global Hawk spy plane over the Gulf of Oman.
The U.S. claims the drone was over international waters. Tehran says it was in Iranian territory. But while the loss of a $100 million drone is no small matter, no American pilot was lost, and retaliating by killing 150 Iranians would appear to be a disproportionate response.
Good for Trump. Yet, all weekend, he was berated for chickening out and imitating President Barack Obama. U.S. credibility, it was said, has taken a big hit and must be restored with military action.
By canceling the strike, the president also sent a message to Iran: We’re ready to negotiate.Yet, given the irreconcilable character of our clashing demands, it is hard to see how the U.S. and Iran get off this road we are on, at the end of which a military collision seems almost certain.
Consider the respective demands.
Monday, the president tweeted: “The U.S. request for Iran is very simple — No Nuclear Weapons and No Further Sponsoring of Terror!”.........https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/06/patrick-j-buchanan/trump-war-president-or-anti-interventionist/
Visualizing 150 Iranian dead from a missile strike that he had ordered, President Donald Trump recoiled and canceled the strike, a brave decision and defining moment for his presidency.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, John Bolton and Vice President Mike Pence had signed off on the strike on Iran as the right response to Tehran’s shootdown of a U.S. Global Hawk spy plane over the Gulf of Oman.
The U.S. claims the drone was over international waters. Tehran says it was in Iranian territory. But while the loss of a $100 million drone is no small matter, no American pilot was lost, and retaliating by killing 150 Iranians would appear to be a disproportionate response.
Good for Trump. Yet, all weekend, he was berated for chickening out and imitating President Barack Obama. U.S. credibility, it was said, has taken a big hit and must be restored with military action.
By canceling the strike, the president also sent a message to Iran: We’re ready to negotiate.Yet, given the irreconcilable character of our clashing demands, it is hard to see how the U.S. and Iran get off this road we are on, at the end of which a military collision seems almost certain.
Consider the respective demands.
Monday, the president tweeted: “The U.S. request for Iran is very simple — No Nuclear Weapons and No Further Sponsoring of Terror!”.........https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/06/patrick-j-buchanan/trump-war-president-or-anti-interventionist/
mr whitehead will show you herein that things ain't as groovy as your tv tells you they are;
Guest Post by John W. Whitehead
Anyone who believes that the injustices, cruelties and vicious callousness of the U.S. government are unique to the Trump Administration has not been paying attention.
No matter what the team colors might be at any given moment, the playbook remains the same. The leopard has not changed its spots. Scrape off the surface layers and you will find that the American police state that is continuing to wreak havoc on the rights of the people under the Trump Administration is the same police state that wreaked havoc on the rights of the people under every previous administration................https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/06/25/how-evil-wins-the-hypocritical-double-standards-of-political-outrage/
Guest Post by John W. Whitehead
“She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.”—Kurt VonnegutPlease spare me the media hysterics and the outrage and the hypocritical double standards of those whose moral conscience appears to be largely dictated by their political loyalties.
Anyone who believes that the injustices, cruelties and vicious callousness of the U.S. government are unique to the Trump Administration has not been paying attention.
No matter what the team colors might be at any given moment, the playbook remains the same. The leopard has not changed its spots. Scrape off the surface layers and you will find that the American police state that is continuing to wreak havoc on the rights of the people under the Trump Administration is the same police state that wreaked havoc on the rights of the people under every previous administration................https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/06/25/how-evil-wins-the-hypocritical-double-standards-of-political-outrage/
the economy isn't doing near as well as your tv tells you and pcr, a former member of reagans treasury tells you about it here;
The Diminishing American Economy
Paul Craig Roberts
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Since June 2009 Americans have lived in the false reality of a recovered economy. Various fake news and manipulated statistics have been used to create this false impression. However, indicators that really count have not supported the false picture and were ignored.
For example, it is normal in a recovering or expanding economy for the labor force participation rate to rise as people enter the work force to take advantage of the job opportunities. During the decade of the long recovery, from June 2009 through May 2019, the labor force participation rate consistently fell from 65.7 to 62.8 percent. https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm
Another characteristic of a long expansion is high and rising business investment. However, American corporations have used their profits not for expansion, but to reduce their market capitalization by buying back their stock. Moreover, many have gone further and borrowed money in order to repurchase their shares, thus indebting their companies as they reduced their capitalization! That boards, executives, and shareholders chose to loot their own companies indicates that the executives and owners do not perceive an economy that warrants new investment.
How is the alleged 10-year boom reconciled with an economy in which corporations see no investment opportunities?..........https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/06/25/the-diminishing-american-economy/
The Diminishing American Economy
Paul Craig Roberts
Support Your Website https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/pages/donate/
Since June 2009 Americans have lived in the false reality of a recovered economy. Various fake news and manipulated statistics have been used to create this false impression. However, indicators that really count have not supported the false picture and were ignored.
For example, it is normal in a recovering or expanding economy for the labor force participation rate to rise as people enter the work force to take advantage of the job opportunities. During the decade of the long recovery, from June 2009 through May 2019, the labor force participation rate consistently fell from 65.7 to 62.8 percent. https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm
Another characteristic of a long expansion is high and rising business investment. However, American corporations have used their profits not for expansion, but to reduce their market capitalization by buying back their stock. Moreover, many have gone further and borrowed money in order to repurchase their shares, thus indebting their companies as they reduced their capitalization! That boards, executives, and shareholders chose to loot their own companies indicates that the executives and owners do not perceive an economy that warrants new investment.
How is the alleged 10-year boom reconciled with an economy in which corporations see no investment opportunities?..........https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/06/25/the-diminishing-american-economy/
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
the lowest common denominator is where we're heading;
The social media that were originally going to set opinion free and give voice to everyone will end by stifling expression and creating fear. Denunciation combines the delights of self-righteousness with those of revenge, sadism, and the contemplation of the discomfort or worse of other people. It requires no courage and is within the capacity of all. The day cannot be far off, one imagines, when people will viscerally understand the danger to themselves of saying certain things on social media and will censor themselves automatically. If this continues long enough, certain things will not only become unsayable but unthinkable, for habit eventually is transformed into character. This is the whole point of political correctness........https://www.takimag.com/article/the-bland-leading-the-bland/
The social media that were originally going to set opinion free and give voice to everyone will end by stifling expression and creating fear. Denunciation combines the delights of self-righteousness with those of revenge, sadism, and the contemplation of the discomfort or worse of other people. It requires no courage and is within the capacity of all. The day cannot be far off, one imagines, when people will viscerally understand the danger to themselves of saying certain things on social media and will censor themselves automatically. If this continues long enough, certain things will not only become unsayable but unthinkable, for habit eventually is transformed into character. This is the whole point of political correctness........https://www.takimag.com/article/the-bland-leading-the-bland/
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Constitutional rights stand through time holding fast through the ebb and flow of current controversy. Bad political ideas cannot be stopped by criminalizing bad political speech. Crime waves cannot be broken with warrantless searches and unreasonable seizures. Neither can the government response to a few mad men with guns and ammunition be a law that turns millions of responsible, law-abiding people trying to protect themselves into criminals.
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