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article  Radley Balko wrote the book "Rise Of The Warrior Cop: The Militarization Of America's Police Forces." Surplus military equipment dumped onto  police depts., DHS anti-terrorism grants to buy more military hardware, no knock raids with SWAT teams used to serve...

article Medical records are oriented towards billing, not to diagnosing the problems.  Financial incentives are given when more tests, shots, etc are giver.  For example, 100x more can be charged to patient if a Cat scan is prescribed.  So some hospitals...

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article  Often in Monopoly, No Bid contracts.  This increases the costs and gives the war profiteers tons of money to lobby and fund politicans.

article  These secret pro-corporate judges rule in favor of bogus claims filed by polluting oil, pipeline, mining, toxic chemical,  waste dump,  and such companies.  It was inserted into trade deals (NAFTA, TPP,...)to overrule national laws in favor of large pollution causing...

He wrote the book about Eric Garner.  In the Current Rolling Stone, he says that prosecutors and District Attorneys intentionally delay the cases against police misconduct until the public fervor has moved on. They do this  by assemblying lots of...

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article  We need limits on the interest rates for loans.  States used to have such rules banning interest rates above some low percentage such as 20%. the deregulation  of banking and the take-over of local state regulations allowed Big Banks...

Here is comprehensive Ed Yong article on the Corona virus.  He says that we need to emphasize  disease prevention and science; to have leadership from the top on wearing masks, testing, gloves, aprons, contact tracing, quarantining- not self-centered blaming, distraction , and...

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/27/multiple-crises-signal-need-change-course

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/29/louisiana_formosa_plastics_cancer_alley

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/23/racism-yes-what-about-militarism-and-materialism    “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.”

They share nutrients with neighboring trees, They emit phermones and wrnings about insect attacks and herbivore attacks. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/17/879255417/amid-confusion-about-reopening-an-expert-explains-how-to-assess-covid-risk He mentioned that over 400 health care workers have died from treating Covid patients.  Also, he said it will take a long time before herd immunity would limit the spread, and that that will not help individuals.  

"We must curb the high risk trade and consumption of wildlife, halt deforestation and land conversion, as well as manage food production sustainably."   https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/17/top-global-experts-say-humanity-must-heal-our-broken-relationship-nature-prevent "If we do not do things differently, we are finished," she said. "We can't go...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/10/new-mexico-fracking-navajo-indian-country?CMP=share_btn_tw&fbclid=IwAR2X7O6A2NqP52II67Q2aI_WaPlMzzu8NcYlUa6Shyw0rCnaYGeDsQNEPlQ

article on 1252 black people shot and killed by police since 2015. https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/865261916/a-decade-of-watching-black-people-dievideo of "tombstones" made in Minneapolis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhyKBEPoWAs

https://www.bluezones.com/2020/06/covid-19-straight-answers-from-top-epidemiologist-who-predicted-the-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR3fwzCO_TMSat35dP8nc1zHSGd2rYYaUi2OPtBHeY_FOsVxzEKUWjBZM8o   Michael Osterholm, leader of MN public health and of CDC, explains the details of what we face.