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The Walmart Heirs Are Worth More Than Everyone in Your City Combined
By: Josh Harkinson
Mother Jones
Monday, October 6, 2014
Everybody knows that middle-class incomes have stagnated while those of the richest Americans have skyrocketed, but the trend is even more pronounced when you look at the relative fortunes of the super-duper rich. Consider the Walmart heirs: Since 1983, their net worth has increased a staggering 6,700 percent. According to a report released today by the union-backed Economic Policy Institute, here's how many American families earning the median income it would have taken to match the Waltons' wealth in a given year:
In 1983, the Walton family's net worth was $2.15 billion, equivalent to the net worth of 61,992 average American families, about the population* of...
Peoria, Arizona
In 1989, the Walton family's net worth was $9.42 billion, equivalent to the net worth of 200,434 average American families, about the population of...
Albuquerque, New Mexico
In 1992, the Walton family's net worth was $23.8 billion, equivalent to the net worth of 536,631 average American families, about the population of...
San Antonio. Texas
More here: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/walmart-walton-heirs-net-worth-cities
Bernie Sanders: The Supreme Court's decision today...
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/519172775655665666
No doubt heads are exploding in these states....
ISIS Claims to Have Killed Another Hostage
October 3, 2014 The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria released a video Friday afternoon purportedly showing the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning, the Associated Press reports.
Henning, a 47-year-old cab driver from Manchester, had been held hostage in Syria since last December. He had been in the country on an aid convoy to bring medical supplies to refugees.
In the video, a disguised member of ISIS also threatened the life of Peter Kassig, an American, according to BuzzFeed. Kassig, a former U.S. soldier, had been treating Syrian refugees in a Lebanese hospital, but it's unclear whether he had been abducted. ISIS claims to have at least two other hostages—an American aid worker and a British freelance journalist. U.S. or British officials have not yet verified the authenticity of this latest video.
Henning, a father of two, is the fourth Western hostage to be killed by ISIS militants this year. In August, the extremist group released a video showing the murder of American journalist James Foley. At the time, the White House called Foley's murder "a terrorist attack." On Sept. 2, ISIS released footage of the murder of Steven Sotloff, another American journalist. On Sept. 13, a video showed the execution of David Cawthorne Haines, a British aid worker. Henning was shown at the end of that video.
Earlier this week, Henning's wife, Barbara, made a televised plea to ISIS to set her husband free.
More here: http://www.nationaljournal.com/defense/isis-claims-to-have-killed-another-hostage-20141003
Bernie Sanders: Isn't there a lesson here that we should be learning from Germany?
Isn't there a lesson here that we should be learning from Germany? #Germany
FBI: U.S. now has one active shooter incident every three weeks...
Active shooter incidents are becoming more common, according to an FBI report released Wednesday.
The study defines "active shooter incident" as one involving "an individual or individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area." An active shooter incident at least three fatalities. Only 40 percent of the incidents in the FBI report would qualify as mass killings. (Sidebar: How sad is it that our official vocabulary of killing has grown so complex and precise in recent years?)
Over the past seven years, we've averaged 16.4 active shooter incidents per year -- that's roughly one every three weeks. The study underscores just how fast these things typically isn't exactly the same thing as a mass killing, which according to a new federal definition involves happen: Among shootings whose duration could be ascertained, 69 percent were over in five minutes or less, and 36 percent were over in two minutes or less.
The majority of the incidents in the report -- 60 percent -- were over before police could arrive on the scene.
More here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/25/fbi-u-s-now-has-one-active-shooter-incident-every-three-weeks/
Check out this tweet about the Sunflower State...
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Sorry ISIS but we already have a religious state that nobody likes and is full of people that hate modern thinking: it's called Kansas.
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California Teens Arrested in 920 Chicken Deaths
Fresno County sheriff's officials acting on several tips Wednesday tracked down 18-year-old Gabriel Quintero of Riverdale. Also taken into custody were two 17-year-olds and a 15-year-old.
All have been booked on charges of burglary and felony cruelty to animals.
Fresno Sheriff's Department spokesman Christian Curtice said he cannot release information about what prompted the killing of the chickens. He didn't anticipate any more arrests and said he did not know if the suspects had attorneys.
Investigators say the suspects pulled back a fence on Sept. 20 to break into a barn south of Fresno. Once inside they beat 920 chickens to death with a golf club and possibly another blunt instrument, investigators said.
The suspects were caught by detectives from a special Fresno-based agriculture task force, a sheriff's unit established to investigate farming-related crimes in the nation's leading agra-business county, with $5 billion in annual revenues.
More here: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/california-teens-arrested-920-chicken-deaths-25914123
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