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Calculating's JournalZuma's Radical Transformation: South Africa Will Allow Expropriation Of Land Without Compensation
IDK about this being a good idea....
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2017/02/24/zumas-radical-transformation-south-africa-will-allow-expropria/
South Africa will amend its laws to allow expropriation of land without compensation for owners as it tries to speed up the redistribution of land to its black majority, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
Expropriation without compensation would mark a radical policy departure for Zuma's ruling African National Congress (ANC), shifting from a willing buyer-willing seller approach to more radical alternatives.
Most of South Africa's land remains in white hands over two decades after the end of apartheid.
"We need to take bold steps that will transform our economy, including land ownership, very fast," Zuma said in a speech outlining agricultural policy.
"We are busy amending (laws) to enable faster land reform, including land expropriation without compensation as provided for in the constitution."
Not that I have anything against mentally ill people, but...
They shouldn't be the president of the USA. Trump's mental illness is as clear as day. IDK if it's from the hair meds, or old age, but he's clearly coming unhinged.
Trump threatens to destroy lawmaker opposed to police civil forfieture
Just keeps getting better with this madman as POTUS. He continues to threaten to 'destroy the careers' of his enemies.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-quips-d-destroy-career-193347486.html
President Donald Trump offered to inflict political damage on lawmakers who try to limit civil asset forfeiture, making a joke about a practice that has come under serious criticism in recent years from Democrats and libertarian-minded Republicans.
During a meeting at the White House with county sheriffs, Trump said he would “destroy” the career of a Texas state legislator who had proposed restrictions on seizures of property belonging to suspected criminals.
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“Do you want to give his name?” Trump asked Rockwall County, Texas, Sheriff Harold Eavenson after he complained about the legislator. “We’ll destroy his career.”
The comment prompted laughter from participants in the meeting.
The nightmare continues with unreal pats win
I feel like this is some kind of bizzaro world lately where evil always wins. First Trump, and now the cheating, lucky, all around dislikeable pats win the SB with the largest comeback of SB history. Feels like the world won't give me a single damn thing to feel good about lately.
Learning to live with severe anthropogenic climate change
At this point it's looking more and more hopeless on the climate change front. Action has not only stalled, but will effectively be going in reverse for the next 4 years. Obviously we as a species will just need to mitigate the issue and live with it the best we can. I'm thinking we'll need a combination of geoengineering solutions combined with moving food production to cooler climates. We'll possibly need to relocate large numbers of people from coastal areas, but all of this should be doable.
Mother and her boyfriend rape, murder, and dismember their 14 year old adopted daughter
What the hell is wrong with people these days? How do ideas like this even come up? "Oh honey, you know what would be wild? Raping and murdering my adopted kid!" These people are filthy evil freaks who tarnish the imagine of humanity. Hope they get the death penalty honestly.
An arrest and allegations of a rape-murder fantasy in Abington teen's dismemberment
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20170108_Arrest_expected_tonight_in_Abington_teen_s_dismemberment.html
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Update: The Bucks County District Attorney's Office announced Sunday morning that it was charging Sara Packer, the adoptive mother of 14-year-old Grace Packer, with homicide and related offenses in the death of her daughter.
This is a breaking news story that will be updated. Here is our earlier report.
The missing 14-year-old Abington teen found dismembered in Luzerne County was killed by her adoptive mother and mother's boyfriend as part of a rape-murder fantasy the two shared, authorities alleged early Sunday morning.
Sullivan and Packer planned Grace's murder for more than a year, killed her in July, stored her body in the attic of their rented home in Quakertown for nearly four months and later cut it up, according to the affidavit of probable cause against Sullivan. But first, Sullivan raped Grace while her mother watched, the criminal complaint says.
"This was a sexual fantasy that was shared between Jacob Sullivan and Sara Packer, and Grace Packer was the object of that rape-murder fantasy," Bucks County District Attorney Matthew D. Weintraub said.
http://media.philly.com/images/1200*800/gracepacker_sarapacker_jacobsullivan1200.jpg
4 children die in Texas gas poisoning; others injured
God damn, by all means keep using deadly chemicals around homes. Freaking idiots! So tired of people and their love of pesticides and poisons. My neighbor lost his dog just last year because it got into some god damn rat poison that somebody had put in their back yard. There are non-toxic ways to deal with pests....
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/4-children-die-in-texas-gas-poisoning-others-injured/ar-BBxP6MN?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
AMARILLO, Texas — A poisonous gas believed to have been released when someone tried to wash away a pesticide that had been sprayed under a Texas home killed four children and left six other people hospitalized, officials said Monday.
Phosphine gas was likely released when water mixed with the pest control chemical, Amarillo fire officials said. A specific cause of death had not been released for the four children Monday afternoon. The other six people who were in the home are "not out of the woods yet," fire officials said.
Crews who responded to a 5 a.m. call to the home originally thought it was related to carbon monoxide poisoning, Amarillo fire Capt. Larry Davis said in a statement. One child died at the scene and three others died at a hospital.
Officials didn't release any identifying information, including the children's ages or whether they were related. Davis said all four people who died were residents of the home.
Davis told the Amarillo Globe-News (http://bit.ly/2ivHgHv ) he wasn't sure how long the residents had been exposed to the phosphine gas before a visitor arrived Monday and found everyone sick and called 911. Phosphine gas can cause respiratory failure and in severe cases can cause a pulmonary edema, which fills the lungs full of fluid, he said.
Davis said about 10 first responders from the police, fire and medical response departments were also taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure, but none had shown symptoms of illness.
Jeff Sessions to face tough questions over civil asset forfeiture
If any of Trumps Appointees need to be opposed, it's this guy. This guy is truly a racist, bigoted, closed-minded, police-state loving dinosaur dug up from the swamps of Alabama. Apparently the new head of the DOJ is fine with robbing people of their possessions without due process because "it only effects people who sit around selling dope for a living". I guess he's completely ignorant of all the innocent people who get caught up in this perversion of justice. Better not travel with a large amount of cash. Cops can basically just take it without even trying you in court.
Looks like the department of justice is about to become the department of INjustice.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/jeff-sessions-face-tough-questions-over-civil-asset-forfeiture
Since Donald Trump announced his plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be the next Attorney General, Sessions’ critics have largely focused on his controversial civil-rights record. It’s not a bad idea – the Alabama’s Republican’s background on race is deeply problematic – though there’s little to suggest it’s likely to derail Sessions’ confirmation process.
There is, however, a different issue that Sessions and his backers may not be fully prepared for. As the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page noted today, the senator’s position on civil asset forfeiture deserves much closer scrutiny.
The all-too-common practice allows law enforcement to take private property without due process and has become a cash cow for state and local police and prosecutors. Under a federal program called “equitable sharing,” local law enforcement can team up with federal authorities to seize property in exchange for 80% of the proceeds.
Assets are often seized—and never returned—without any judicial process or court supervision. Unlike criminal forfeiture, civil forfeiture doesn’t require a criminal conviction or even charges…. Civil-rights activists have campaigned for years to end forfeiture abuses. But in a 2015 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Sessions defended the practice.
In fact, Sessions expressed his support for civil forfeiture with great enthusiasm, insisting last year that he’s “very unhappy” with the bipartisan criticism of the practice, which he said only adversely affects people who have “done nothing in their lives but sell dope.”
Turns out Joe McCarthy was right
His ideas just weren't relevant at the time. If only he knew what would happen half a century later.
New DEA Rule Says CBD Oil is Really, Truly, No-Joke Illegal
Great going DEA, ban a substance that LITERALLY doesn't get people high and only helps sick people. Was it cutting into big pharma profits too much or something?
https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/new-dea-rule-says-cbd-oil-really-truly-no-joke-illegal
Note: This article contains an update on the legal status of CBD products, below the original text.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) made CBD oil a little more federally illegal in a little-noticed bureaucratic maneuver this morning.
Today’s Federal Register (Dec. 14, 2016) contains an item (21 CFR Part 1308) that establishes a new drug code for “marihuana extract.”
“This code,” wrote DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg, “will allow DEA and DEA-registered entities to track quantities of this material separately from quantities of marihuana.” The move, the Register entry explained, is meant to bring the US into compliance with international drug-control treaties.
There is no major change in law brought about by the Register item. Rather, it serves to clarify and reinforce the DEA’s position on all cannabis extracts, including CBD oil. That position is: They are all federally illegal Schedule I substances. “Extracts of marihuana will continue to be treated as Schedule I controlled substances,” the notice says.
CBD oil derived from hemp is now commonly available nationwide via web sites and mail order services. Those operations survive on the assumption that cannabidiol products below the legal threshold for THC percentage in hemp (0.3 percent or less) are technically legal.
Not so, says the DEA.
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