“Editorial demagoguery against “predatory” lending might well be called predatory journalism — taking advantage of other people’s ignorance of economics to score ideological points, and promote still more expansion of government powers that limit the options of poor people especially, who have few options already.”

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/10/21/predatory-journalism-n1907589/page/2

Africa’s most-populous country, Nigeria, which had 20 Ebola cases and eight deaths. Lagos, with some 21 million residents, is the continent’s biggest city.

In addition, 49 percent of Lagos state’s population lives in poverty in slums with little sanitation. Making matters worse is that doctors discovered an Ebola case in Port Harcourt, another extremely poor area where the majority of people live in shanties with almost nonexistent sanitation (keep in mind, the disease is spread by bodily fluids).

And it was not just lives at risk. As FP reported in August, an outbreak in Nigeria had the potential to devastate West Africa’s economy.

The WHO called it a “spectacular success story” that prevented “potentially the most explosive Ebola outbreak imaginable.”

ccording to the WHO, the public-health community knew an outbreak in Nigeria was a potential disaster. As soon the first case was discovered, the WHO, the CDC, and other government officials “reached 100 percent of known contacts in Lagos and 99.8 percent at the second outbreak site, in Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s oil hub.”

Isolation wards were then created, followed by treatment facilities. People who tried to escape were digitally tracked and returned to isolation. Doctors Without Borders and the WHO quickly trained local doctors to treat the disease. And while Nigeria’s public-health system is poor, it’s not nonexistent; aid groups have been working to eradicate polio there for years.

In an interview with Time magazine, Faisal Shuaib, a doctor at Nigeria’s Ebola Emergency Operation Center, also said that stopping public panic was instrumental.

“People began to realize that contracting Ebola was not necessarily a death sentence,” Shuaib said. “Emphasizing that reporting early to the hospital boosts survival gave comfort that [a person] has some level of control over the disease prognosis.” Shuaib added that keeping Nigerian borders open — the opposite of a strategy being thrown around in Washington right now — helped to contain panic.

On the other hand, the United States has done almost the complete opposite of Nigeria. It took 11 days to diagnose Thomas Eric Duncan with Ebola after he was turned away from a hospital six days after the Liberian’s arrival in Dallas.

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http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/10/20/in_fight_to_stop_ebola_nigeria_got_right_everything_america_got_wrong?wp_login_redirect=0

Here’s what the clown parade of Pa State police,local LEO’s,and the FBI have so far…

Rev. Al Sharpton spoke this morning by phone to the Associated Press. After a candid exchange Sharpton has called on black Americans and others to boycott the American White People’s Awards.

“I told AP that I was outraged by what I have seen on the American White People’s Award’s website. This is overtly racist and a slap in the face of all African-Americans!” Said Rev. Al Sharpton, President of the National Action Network, “We want to solve the problem, and this is a big problem… White people should be ashamed.”

Th American White People’s Awards celebrates contributions by white people in the areas of sports, arts, and entertainment.

http://americanwhitepeoplesawards.com/about-us.html

H/T Wirecutter

I do not forsee anyone topping this guy for the title…

“Most Americans probably believe that the government must first convict you of a crime before it can impose a sentence on you for that crime. This is incorrect: When federal prosecutors throw a bunch of charges at someone but the jury convicts on only some of those charges, a federal judge can still sentence the defendant on the charges for which he was acquitted. In fact, the judge can even consider crimes for which the defendant has never been charged.”

“Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Jones v. U.S., a case that would have addressed the issue. The National Law Journal summarizes the facts:

[A] District of Columbia jury found Antwuan Ball, Desmond Thurston and Joseph Jones guilty in 2007 of selling between two and 11 grams of cocaine, relatively small amounts. They were acquitted on racketeering and other charges that they were part of an extensive narcotics conspiracy.

Yet, when U.S. District Judge Richard Roberts sentenced the three, he said he “saw clear evidence of a drug conspiracy,” and sentenced Ball, Thurston and Jones to 18, 16 and 15 years in prison, respectively — four times higher than the highest sentences given for others who sold similar amounts of cocaine, according to filings with the Supreme Court.

There have been other cases like this, including at least two in which federal judges sentenced defendants for murders for which they were never even charged, never mind convicted. So not only can a judge sentence a defendant for crimes for which a jury acquitted, he can sentence a defendant for crimes for which prosecutors didn’t have enough evidence to charge.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/20/think-the-government-must-convict-you-of-a-crime-before-it-can-punish-you-for-it-think-again/

Cases where judges sentence people based on their own interpretations of the events,rather than the findings of jury are clearly a violation of rights,and unconstitutional as well.

This kind of shit has to stop. The problem is it will never stop as long as most of the population remains clueless about the evil done on a daily basis by team .gov.

Most people find out just how fucked our “justice” system is when they,or a family member is charged by overzealous prosecutors who have obtained grand jury indictments based on trumped up charges.

The charges read as if the accused is Atilla the Hun,or Genghis Khan, or Sherman on his march through Georgia-burning everything on his way to Atlanta.

The cops write up reports that are pure fiction,prosecutor looks at reports and assumes the person is a huge threat to society,and writes up charges that are so far removed from the truth that what the grand jury gets is not even remotely close to what happened.

The grand jury hears the police and prosecutor’s version of events,and assumes that the cops and prosecutors are telling the truth-how else would the grand jury have indicted this person?

What usually happens next is prosecutor and defendant’s  court appointed attorney-or public defender-otherwise known as the public pretender-tell the defendant that the best thing they can do is plead guilty to the lowest level felony of the multiple felony charges the police and prosecutors dreamed up in their works of fiction.

The defendants family usually believes the defendant must have done something illegal to cause the grand jury to indict him or her on all these charges-so the defendant pleads guilty.

The only way to make this bullshit stop is for every person accused of a crime-any crime-to demand their right to a trial by jury, as the 6th amendment guarantees.

“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.”

To make this bullshit stop,as I said,everyone needs to demand a trail by jury.

Doing so would shut down the court system,and team .gov would be forced to stop with the games,and only charge people with actual crimes,not all this administrative law bullshit used to enhance charges.

Team .gov regularly charges people for violating obscure federal laws and regulations,everyone commits at least three felonies day-according to current federal laws-what this means is that team .gov can at any time they choose-indict anyone they choose for some obscure bullshit and send them-(YOU !)- to prison.

This bullshit is so far removed from being constitutional that at least half of federal laws and regulations must be abolished. It’s likely way more than half-but half would be a good start…

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