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Steve Sack | Nixon and Obama / media.cagle.com

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 19:42 — Dave Culver

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Holder Says Leak Required "Very Aggressive Action"... Bank Crimes, Not So Much

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 19:34 — Dave Culver
  • Apparently leaks which keep the public informed require "very aggressive action" -- but crimes which shatter the economy, leaving millions without homes and millions more without jobs aren't worth lifting a finger to investigate.
  • An Itty Bitty Pity Party for the Associated Press

Richard (RJ) Eskow, Huffington Post

 

05/14/2013 | Apparently it never occurred to Attorney General Eric Holder that the Associated Press might be "too big to fail." If it had,then his Justice Department probably never would have investigated it.

 

The AP isn't just any news agency. It's the largest one in the United States and one of the three largest in the world, along with Great Britain's Reuters and Agence France-Presse. And it is, understandably enough, angry.

 

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An Itty Bitty Pity Party for the Associated Press, William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

 

 
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Corporate Win: Supreme Court Says Monsanto Has 'Control Over Product of Life.'

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 15:35 — Dave Culver
  • Indiana farmer must pay agribusiness giant $84,000 for patent infringement.
  • Monsanto Wrote Monsanto Protection Act
  • Monsanto Rules 

Jacob Chamberlain, Common Dreams

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Indiana grain farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman walks past the US Supreme Court on February 19, 2013 in Washington (AFP/File, Mandel Ngan)

May 13, 2013 | The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of biotech giant Monsanto, ordering Indiana farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman, 75, to pay Monsanto more than $84,000 for patent infringement for using second generation Monsanto seeds purchased second hand—a ruling which will have broad implications for the ownership of 'life' and farmers' rights in the future.

In the case, Bowman had purchased soybean seeds from a grain elevator—where seeds are cheaper than freshly engineered Monsanto GE (genetically engineered) seeds and typically used for animal feed rather than for crops. The sources of the seeds Bowman purchased were mixed and were not labeled. However, some were "Roundup Ready" patented Monsanto seeds.

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Monsanto Wrote Monsanto Protection Act, Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society

No longer can we sit idly by while corporate juggernauts like Monsanto triumph over the people through swindling and deceit. Share this article and publicly denounce all politicians willing to sell their souls to Monsanto.

 

 

 

 

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Why Cops Bust Down Doors of Medical Pot Growers, But Ignore Men Who Keep Naked Girls on Leashes

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 15:14 — Dave Culver

  • Thanks to the drug war, police have much more incentive to go after drug crimes than more heinous crimes.
  • How Americans Lost the Right to Counsel, 50 Years After 'Gideon'
  • The Hypocrisy of 'Justice for All'

Kristen Gwynnne, AlterNet

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May 8, 2013  |  Earlier this year, men wearing black ski masks whipped out their guns and raided the home of 62-year-old Cathy Jordan, a medical marijuana patient and activist in Florida. They seized 23 of her plants, two of which were mature enough to be used for her medicine. Police officers with the Manatee County Sheriff's Department, the team of armed men, made no arrests, but later charged Jordan and her husband with marijuana cultivation. A district attorney later dropped the case.

In Colorado this year, a 13-person SWAT raid on two medical marijuana users began with a kicked-in door and a flash bang grenade.

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How Americans Lost the Right to Counsel, 50 Years After 'Gideon' Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic 

  • Over the past half- century, lawmakers have refused to fund public defenders' offices adequately. And, as it has become more conservative since 1963, the Supreme Court has refused to force them to do so.
  • The Hypocrisy of 'Justice for All'

The Hypocrisy of 'Justice for All' Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company

  • Bill reports on the hypocrisy of “justice for all” in a society where billions are squandered for a war born in fraud while the poor are pushed aside. 
  • The next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance - remember: it's a lie. A whopper of a lie.
  • The Legacy of Gideon v. Wainwright
 
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Nick Anderson | Military Justice / www.truthdig.com

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 11:34 — Dave Culver

 

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How Americans Lost the Right to Counsel, 50 Years After 'Gideon'

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 11:30 — Dave Culver

  • Over the past half- century, lawmakers have refused to fund public defenders' offices adequately. And, as it has become more conservative since 1963, the Supreme Court has refused to force them to do so.
  • The Hypocrisy of 'Justice for All'

Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic

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Clarence Earl Gideon after his release from prison in 1963, AP

 

March 13, 2013 | In the end, 50 years after one of the most glorious chapters in the history of the Supreme Court, we tell ourselves that we are a nation of laws, and we praise ourselves for rulings like Gideon, and we extol the virtues of the Constitution in theory, but the truth is we are just lying to ourselves and each other when we pretend that there is equal justice in America.

You have a right to an attorney in a criminal case, even if you cannot afford one. The Supreme Court said so half a century ago. But today that precious right is systematically ignored or undermined.

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The Hypocrisy of 'Justice for All' Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company

  • Bill reports on the hypocrisy of “justice for all” in a society where billions are squandered for a war born in fraud while the poor are pushed aside. 
  • The next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance - remember: it's a lie. A whopper of a lie.
  • The Legacy of Gideon v. Wainwright

 

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