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Pussy Riot & Dave Sitek – Bad Apples

you thought that i just made this for the club / no way
i got this microphone to wake you up / and say
that i can do just what i want right here / today
and i don’t hear those sirens anyway / ok

damn fools
drunk on power
dirty thieves, tiny cowards
you wouldn’t act like this in front of your kids / NO !
you wouldn’t act like this in front of your kids / NO !

you say that you don’t like my attitude / it’s true
i made its just for me and not for you / boo hoo
you can cry until your face turns blue / you knew
that i would be the one to watch you lose / woo hoo

your back’s against the wall what will you do? doo doo
i would join our gang if i were you / oo oo
we always stick together like a glue / it’s true
there are many more of us than you

damn fools
drunk on power
dirty thieves, tiny cowards
you wouldn’t act like this in front of your kids / NO !
you wouldn’t act like this in front of your kids / NO !

bad apples are good for something
when’re 6 feet underground x2

killer cops – lock em up
the death machine – just lock it up
all this violence – lock it up
the rest of us have had enough
hatred – lock it up
populism – lock it up
fuck corruption – lock it up
enough

bad apples are good for something
when’re 6 feet underground x2

no! don’t need no bad apples
no! won’t eat those bad apples

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Email Shows Texas DA Had Phone Records Showing Alfred Brown Was Innocent, But Prosecuted Him Anyway

According to newly disclosed records, the Harris County assistant district attorney who prosecuted Texas death-row exoneree Alfred DeWayne Brown was aware of phone records that corroborated Brown’s assertion of innocence long before the case went to trial, but withheld the records from the defense and intimidated a witness who original testimony was supported by the records into falsely testifying against Brown. Brown was convicted and sentenced to death in 2005 for the murders of a Houston police officer and a store clerk during a 2003 robbery. No physical evidence linked him to the murders and he consistently maintained that he had been at his girlfriend’s apartment when the murders occurred. Brown won a new trial in 2014 after police investigator Breck McDaniel discovered copies of the phone records in his garage. At the time, prosecutors said that the records had been inadvertently misplaced. However, an email that was released by the Harris County district attorney’s office on March 2 in response to a civil suit filed by Brown shows that McDaniel alerted former Harris County prosecutor Dan Rizzo to the existence of the records on April 22, 2003, the day after his girlfriend, Erica Dockery, had told the grand jury that Brown had called her from her apartment. McDaniel told Rizzo in the email that he had obtained Dockery’s phone records “hoping that it would clearly refute Erica’s claim that she received a call at work” from Brown. Instead, McDaniel said, “the call detail records from the apartment shows that the home phone dialed Erica’s place of employment” twice on the morning of the killing and that Dockery had called Brown back from work. A Pulitzer-Prize-winning Houston Chronicle investigation revealed in July 2014 that, after her testimony, a police officer who served as the grand jury foreman in the case threatened Dockery with perjury for supporting Brown’s alibi. Then—after Rizzo had received the email confirming the truthfulness of Dockery’s testimony—prosecutors jailed Dockery for seven weeks until she changed her testimony to implicate Brown. After Brown was exonerated, he applied for approximately $1.9 million in cash and annuity payments under Texas’ exoneration compensation law. Prosecutors claimed that the court proceedings leading to Brown’s release did not constitute a determination that he was “actually innocent,” and his application was rejected in April 2016. Cate Edwards, Brown’s lawyer in the civil case, called the email revelations “horrifying.” Brian Stolarz, who represented Brown in the appeals leading to his exoneration, called the disclosures “[v]indication.” He said he was “sickened and disheartened” that “[o]nly now, after a civil lawsuit, does the whole truth finally come out.’ But he said he he was “encouraged that Dewayne is vindicated and his long journey to justice is near the end.” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg, who took office in November 2016 on a platform of criminal justice reform, issued a statement saying that “The Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct require that ‘the appropriate disciplinary authority’ shall be informed when a lawyer becomes aware that another lawyer has committed a violation of applicable rules of professional conduct that raises a substantial question as to the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in all other respects.” The statement said “the Harris County District Attorney’s Office will notify the State Bar of Texas of the newly discovered evidence so that it may investigate the prosecutor’s professional conduct while handling the Brown case.”

(Margaret Downing, DA Ogg Finds Email Evidence That Prosecutor Did Know About Phone Records in Alfred Brown Case, Houston Press, March 2, 2018; St. John Barned-Smith and Keri Blakinger, DA: Former prosecutor withheld key email in death row case, Houston Chronicle, March 3, 2018.) Read the email here. See Innocence, Prosecutorial Misconduct, and Texas.

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Interior E-mails Reveal Interior Shrinking of Bears Ears was for Oil, Uranium and Sports Hunters

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Interior e-mails reveal Interior Sec. Zinke planned a private dinner with the head of the Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife. The connection came from the head of the sportsmen group, who went on hunts with Donald Trump Jr Photo from Interior e-mail: Bison range free north of Lake Powell near Bear Ears, a target of sports hunters. 

Article by Brenda Norrell
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Atlanta Fed chief: Trade wars not easy

raphaelbosticpressportraithires*100xx150Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic warned Wednesday that erecting trade barriers is unlikely to help the U.S. economy, the Wall Street Journal reported, and that the threat of these restrictions is adding uncertainty to the central bank’s interest-rate-rise outlook.

Asked if a trade war with other nations would be easy and winnable, as President Donald Trump has said, Bostic answered, “No.”

Protectionism “is often not helpful for the broader economy,” and while trade…

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Arctic has warmest winter on record: ‘Never seen anything like this’

Oops… gets harder to deny

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Sea ice has hit record lows for time of year as experts say global warming probably fueled big storms in Europe and north-eastern US

The Arctic winter has ended with more news that is worrying even the scientists who watch the effects of climate change closely.

The region experienced its warmest winter on record. Sea ice hit record lows for the time of year, new US weather data revealed on Tuesday.

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Israeli forces fire tear gas at primary school in Jerusalem

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Israeli occupation forces fired tear gas at Anata Primary School in the occupied city of Jerusalem on Monday morning, harming most of the students and teachers inside the school, local sources reported.

Deputy Headmaster Imad Eliyan said that the Israeli occupation forces “suddenly” fired a barrage of tear gas canisters at the school “without any justification.”

Speaking to the Press, Eliyan said that most of the students, who were in the playground of the school, along with the teachers, suffered from breathing difficulties and received first aid treatment due to the heavy tear gas.

He noted that the tear gas attack took place at 11am local time, when all the 340 young boys were in the schoolyard during the break.

Eliyan said that students and teachers of the neighbouring school were also affected by the tear gas attack.

Israeli occupation forces frequently attack Palestinian schools, arrest young students and teachers and cause panic among students.