https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article228099269.html
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That is disturbing on so many levels
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800,000/year arrested for non-toxic cannabis, a medicinal herb, meanwhile millions of kids, including me, spent their childhood getting lead poisoning at school, along with fluoride from if they’re lucky enough to be on city water.
So lead in gasoline and house paint wasn’t banned until Jimmy Carter was in the White House:
EDITORIAL: Speed up response to lead in school water
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That whole North Africa boondoggle & Arab Spring thing… brought to you by Google & Facebook.
Gulf War 1… enabled by Cisco Systems
I’d abandon 'merica if I didn’t have clueless family & friends here. 25 years ago. 
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There’s a minor face-slap with this: i think they mean 
-icide 
Presuming it’s accuracy, the map is interesting to me; How do the 4 corners, Oregon & Wyoming, &c. stay so virginal. 
No debate with me that most of that is bad shit, but when I saw “paraquat” listed as a “pesticide” that’s a red-flag to me. 
'Paraquat is classified as a non-selective contact herbicide. ’ – wikipedia
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Lol, yeah.
This is the source of that data: 2016 Pesticide Use Maps -
The government classifies herbicides as a pesticide, apparently.
1992:
2016:
Areas of use look the same, quantity appears to have increased. Thank you Monsanto.
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remember Monsanto is now “Bayer”…they’ve actually merged with a Nazi corporation - unbelievable!
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Utah government: Medical cannabis is too dangerous to grow - but toxic air pollution is good for you, and we need to be more like China
At a public meeting Thursday that ran nearly two hours long, multiple members of that committee, including Chair Tony Cox and Steven Packham of the Utah Division of Air Quality, said they do not agree that breathing air polluted with soot can lead to an early death.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/prison-van-death.html
Johnny Smith spent almost 24 hours shackled in the back of a prison van — barely conscious and muttering incoherently — before he died there in 2011. A private company was hauling Mr. Smith, 48, to Florida from Kentucky to face a drug charge: possession of a single oxycodone pill.
A judge ruled that the company’s “carelessness and gross negligence” had caused the death of Mr. Smith, a disabled construction worker, and awarded his children nearly $650,000 in damages.
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One thing I heard from Subcool about: The corporate prisoner transport business. They get paid by the hour or some shit like that. The bus/grey goose will drive around unsuperivsed forever just to get more billable time. It might stop at McDonalds for the driver but everyone else is shackled in their own waste until, whenever.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/inside-americas-black-box.html
Many convincing arguments have been made that our penal system was at least partly designed to extend control of black people and their labor, particularly in the South, where after slavery ended black men were conscripted into chain gangs for offenses like vagrancy and “selling cotton after sunset.”
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black box & penal code got my attention. 
wake up in the mornin slave fo’opressa 
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So in the USA the secret police are allowed to essentially become terrorists, calling in bomb threats which is a felony under US law. Remember “entrapment”…that protection against police lying built into the Constitution? Which they still have in Europe? how quaint. The Supreme Court wiped that out in the 70’s for the “War on Drugs”
We even have a cutesy name for secret police terrorism in the USA: “Sneak and Peak”
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Alabama’s Gruesome Prisons: Report Finds Rape and Murder at All Hours
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/alabama-prisons-doj-investigation.html
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Machine Learning / AI in your automated set-up? Coming your way soon…
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