Monthly Archives: January 2018

Despite Marijuana Reform, the War on Drugs Still Targets People of Color

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“Over 50 people a day are still being arrested for it in New York City alone.  Most of those arrests, predictably, are happening in communities of color. The new numbers for New York City’s 2017 marijuana arrests just came out and they hardly budged — arrests declined by about 1 percent, disappointing many advocates and attorneys who took the mayor’s word on this issue.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/25/marijuana-legalization-weed-drug-arrest/

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Even Organic Banana Republics Need Capitalism, Not Central Planning

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“In August 2013, men with bulldozers arrived in Tru-du-Nord, Haiti, to confiscate land for their government’s vision of growth in the region — organic bananas. There have been zero banana exports since July 6, 2016.  The Haitian government has failed to maintain the property, and it is a wasteland.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/haiti-needs-capitalism-not-more-central-planning/

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Extortion, Police Raids and Secrecy: The Venezuelan Bitcoin Mining World

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“Who would have ever thought that Bitcoin mining would be a cat and mouse game of trying to outwit and deceive government and police task forces? Then again who would’ve thought that Bitcoin mining would be so lucrative to where families are living off the Bitcoin ecosystem.”

Read more: https://hackernoon.com/extortion-police-raids-and-secrecy-inside-the-venezuelan-bitcoin-mining-world-6e97a25e7402

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Mexico’s drug cartels now hooked on stealing fuel from state refineries

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“Because of government offensives that toppled narco kingpins in recent years, Mexico’s drug cartels have splintered and are eager for new sources of revenue. Now, their increasingly dominant role as fuel thieves pits two of the country’s biggest industries – narcotics and oil – against one another. A May 2017 study, commissioned by the national energy regulator and obtained by Reuters via a freedom of information request, found that thieves, between 2009 and 2016, had tapped pipelines roughly every 1.4 kms (0.86 mi) along Pemex’s approximately 14,000 km pipeline network.”

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/mexico-violence-oil/

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How One New Tariff Could Cost You $5,000 This Year

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“You probably won’t save $5,000 in energy costs in three years with solar panels. So you might as well wait until the tariff expires.  This won’t help American solar companies, it will just make people delay installing solar. This could end up slaughtering the entire solar industry. It almost makes you wonder if the real reason is to protect coal and oil energy producers.”

Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/how-one-new-tariff-could-cost-you-5000-this-year/

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Republicans want ‘dreamers’ to live under permanent suspicion

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“Instant criminalization of millions of people. That’s a lot of new customers for those privatized immigration detention centers.  The private prison industry, incidentally, donated handsomely to Trump’s campaign and inauguration.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2018/01/25/republicans-praise-dreamers-publicly-but-want-them-to-live-under-permanent-suspicion/

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Why going to 7-Eleven has become a political act

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“On Jan. 10, U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents descended on 98 7-Elevens in 17 states, including California. It was a show of force that must have played well with the president’s anti-immigrant base.  21 workers suspected of being in the country illegally were arrested nationwide.  The raids were nothing but political theater, intended to terrify the most vulnerable.”

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ulin-7-eleven-ice-raids-20180123-story.html

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Undocumented and disillusioned, I left America. This loss is mutual.

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“I left behind great friends. I left behind most of my belongings. I left behind my illusions of ever becoming a U.S. citizen. I take with me the fond memories of the college that gave me my education. I carry no grudges. The way I see it, this loss is mutual: I lost the chance to have a life in America. America lost the chance to have me.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/undocumented-and-disillusioned-i-decided-to-leave-america-this-loss-is-mutual/2018/01/25/a41fec10-f655-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html

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Army veteran ran Filipino child abduction and pornography ring

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“Authorities say Clemans sent Lyan Tandeg, one of his co-conspirators, $6,000 to buy film equipment and instructed her to photograph a selection of naked children. Clemans allegedly used the images to decide which child he would rape when he next traveled to the Philippines.  Clemans also paid Tandeg to seek out young, vulnerable victims from orphanages and paid Shellina Atad, another co-conspirator, to legally obtain custody of the children in order to make pornography, ABC News reported.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/army-veteran-bought-children-sex-pornography/

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FBI fatally shoots victim of kidnapping trio, alone and with his hands bound

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“A kidnapping victim was shot to death Thursday during an FBI investigation at a northeast Houston home.  Investigators said FBI agents were conducting an operation at a home in the 7300 block of Elbert Street when the victim, 47-year-old Ulises Valladares, was shot and killed.  Court records indicate that authorities found Valladares’ with his hands bound tape.  According to sources, FBI agents accidentally shot Valladares. He was taken to LBJ Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.”

Read more: https://www.click2houston.com/news/fbi-investigating-at-scene-of-deadly-shooting-in-northeast-houston

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