Johannes Mehserle, a Bay Area Rapid Transit cop, killed Oscar Grant by shooting him in the back while Grant was lying stomach down on the ground and not resisting. BART has agreed to pay $1.5 million to Grant’s survivors. Mehserle goes on trial for murder in May.
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They’re not angry, just terribly, terribly hurt. Taibbi rightfully rips a NYT Op-Ed by David Brooks, “The Populist Addiction,” for its slimy attempt to portray populism as racist, divisive, as well as just altogether icky. Much better, Brooks opines, that the rabble outside the door knows its place and lets the wise ones continue their plundering. Elites always pull this kind [...] The development of a “stealth” turbine blade, based on military technology, may help overcome the problem of wind farms interfering with aviation radar systems, its developers said. One solution: Wrapping the blades in glass cloth impregnated with a special ink traps the radar. But only for undocumented immigrants. So far. Because it would save money and stuff. Well heck, let’s just outsource the entire California public employee infrastructure to someplace else then. I was underwhelmed. And you? Chart from the fine folks at Clusterstock, who also brings us news that just-released AIG documents show Goldman was deeply involved in the collapse of AIG. These are the very same documents that the SEC ordered sealed on the utterly bogus grounds of “national security” but which got released because on the ongoing Congressional [...] From CNet Greentech comes news of Ice Energy’s Ice Bear creates ice during hours of lower demand, then uses it to pump cold refrigerant to the air conditioner during the day. The Southern California Public Power Authority says this could move 53 MW of electricity consumption from peak times to off hours, lowering stress [...] Curzon at Coming Anarchy explains the history with maps showing that the two conflicts in Yemen are quite separate yet US media (and maybe even our government) doesn’t seem to understand this. There are two major yet unrelated conflicts taking place in Yemen—the Sunni and Al Qaeda-linked separatist threat in the central south of [...] From 2000 – 2008 poverty grew at a rate twice that of population growth. Not surprising, really. During that period, there was a massive transfer of wealth from us to a few elites. Of course, the economy got even worse in 2009, so the poverty rate is certainly even higher now – as Wall [...] |
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