By a 5-4 vote, the US Supreme Court has ruled that the police can forcibly take the DNA of suspects arrested for serious crimes and add it to a national DNA database. This supposedly does not violate the Fourth Amendment restriction on unreasonable searches because DNA swabbing of inside the cheek is “not very intrusive.” Yet if you stuck your finger into a stranger’s mouth, you would be arrested…and presumably swabbed.
Manufacturing is dead. The Internet is unmonetizable. Next comes an economy based on fear. But when does the bubble burst?
Apple’s sleazy tax dodge is saving lives and keeping America safe. Don’t give those billions to the feds – they’ll just use it to buy killer drones! Cash is much safer in the Caymans.
From a great McClatchy piece:
Obama’s drone speech appeared to expand those who are targeted in drone strikes and other undisclosed “lethal actions” in apparent anticipation of an overhaul of the 2001 congressional resolution authorizing the use of force against al Qaida and allied groups that supported the 9/11 attacks on the United States. In every previous speech, interview and congressional testimony, Obama and his top aides have said that drone strikes are restricted to killing confirmed “senior operational leaders of al Qaida and associated forces” plotting imminent violent attacks against the United States. But Obama dropped that wording Thursday, making no reference at all to senior operational leaders. While saying that the United States is at war with al Qaida and its associated forces, he used a variety of descriptions of potential targets, from “those who want to kill us” and “terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent threat” to “all potential terrorist targets.”
Needless to say, Americans won’t notice the Lawyer-in-Chief’s masterful linguistic manipulation.
Bangladesh isn’t some crappy Third World country like the United States, where capitalists can crash the economy and get away clean – and loaded.
According to an analysis by Congress, Apple evaded $13.8 billion in US federal taxes using complicated foreign shelters and loopholes.
According to credulous media accounts, a teacher saved her students from the Category 5 tornado that destroyed her school in Moore, Oklahoma by lying across them. While she is no doubt brave, there is – of course – no way that this is possible. Just another example of the media grasping for straws in their perpetual search for “heroes” in the wake of tragedy.
As the Republicans talk about impeaching Obama over Benghazi, the IRS and AP scandals, we see the difference between the two parties: guts.
The IRS admits that it targeted the Obama Administration’s right-wing political foes for extra scrutiny when they applied for non-profit status. You can’t trust government – except when they’re droning people.
