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Racial Profiling at Boston Airport, Officials Say
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At a meeting last month with T.S.A. officials, officers at Logan provided written complaints about profiling from 32 officers, some of whom wrote anonymously. Officers said managers’ demands for high numbers of stops, searches and criminal referrals had led co-workers to target minorities in the belief that those stops were more likely to yield drugs, outstanding arrest warrants or immigration problems.
The practice has become so prevalent, some officers said, that Massachusetts State Police officials have asked why minority members appear to make up an overwhelming number of the cases that the airport refers to them.
“The behavior detection program is no longer a behavior-based program, but it is a racial profiling program,” one officer wrote in an anonymous complaint obtained by The Times.
Bridge collapses during protest for better roads in India
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Kashmiri Muslims stand on the remains of a collapsed bridge as volunteers and rescue workers search for missing people in water in Dal Lake in Srinagar, India, Saturday, Aug. 11. Dozens of people were injured, when the wooden bridge collapsed during a protest in demand for proper roads, in downtown Srinagar Saturday, according to local reports.
First person to find a fossil wins!
US will not prosecute Goldman Sachs for fraud
The US Justice Department has said it will not prosecute Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs or its employees in a financial fraud probe.
In a written statement on Thursday, the department said it conducted an exhaustive investigation of allegations brought to light by a Senate panel investigating the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
“The department and investigative agencies ultimately concluded that the burden of proof to bring a criminal case could not be met based on the law and facts as they exist at this time,” the department said.
Well, bless my little cotton socks! That’s a surprise!
Olympics 2012
Iran‘s Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi (R) and Jordan Ernest Burroughs of U.S. pose at the podium of the Men’s 74Kg Freestyle wrestling at the ExCel venue during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 10, 2012.
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The Coming Democratic Attack Barrage
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The likely script of the next attack ad. A woman in her later 40s, looking worried at a kitchen table. She’s probably vaguely Latino; the photos on her refrigerator (kids, no dad) suggest a single mom.
A woman’s voice over. “You’ve worked hard all your life. You’ve paid Medicare taxes for almost 30 years. But under the Republican plan, Medicare won’t be there for you. Instead of Medicare as it exists now, under the Republican plan you’ll get a voucher that will pay as little as half your Medicare costs when you turn 65—and as little as a quarter in your 80s. And all so that millionaires and billionaires can have a huge tax cut.”
That ad will draw blood and will—as Henry Kissinger used to say—have the additional merit of being true.
The guy who wrote this is considered to be a conservative pundit…
“…the burden of proof to bring a criminal case could not be met based on the law and facts as they exist at this time.” So – that means off to Guantanamo, amirite?
What a surprise indeed!