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Michigan Politician Compares Gays To Nazis, Rejecting Anti-Discrimination Bill
HP | Lila Shapiro | 05/22/14

The city council in Saginaw, Michigan, spent a few hours this week debating an ordinance that would have banned local businesses from firing or refusing to serve gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people because of their sexuality or gender identity.

Supporters argued that the measure would benefit the local economy by sending friendly signals to LGBT entrepreneurs and, more generally, to young people, who overwhelmingly support gay rights, according to polls. ... Read more

Fractional-Reserve Banking: From Goldsmiths To Hedge Funds To... Chaos
ZeroHedge | author | 05/23/14

Banking didn't start out as a reckless, parasitical plaything of a moneyed and politically-connected aristocracy. In the beginning, in fact, bankers weren't even bankers. They were jewelers and goldsmiths who had to maintain their inventory with vaults, guards etc., and offered storage services to others with valuables to protect. So the original banks were, in effect, very safe warehouses. ... Read more

The 95 Percent Doctrine: Climate Change as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Bill Moyers | Tom Engelhardt | 05/23/14

Who could forget? At the time, in the fall of 2002, there was such a drumbeat of "information" from top figures in the Bush administration about the secret Iraqi program to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and so endanger the United States. And who -- other than a few suckers -- could have doubted that Saddam Hussein was eventually going to get a nuclear weapon? The only question, as our vice president suggested on "Meet the Press," was: Would it take one year or five? And he wasn't alone in his fears, since there was plenty of proof of what was going on. For starters, there were those "specially designed aluminum tubes" that the Iraqi autocrat had ordered as components for centrifuges to enrich uranium in his thriving nuclear weapons program. ... Read more

Elliot Rodger's fatal menace: How toxic male entitlement devalues women's and men's lives
Salon | Katie Mcdonough | 05/25/14

We don't yet know much about the six innocent women and men who were killed in Isla Vista, California late Friday night, but we have come to know a few things about the man who is alleged to have murdered them. Hours before he is believed to have fatally stabbed and shot six people and wounded 13 others in that coastal college town, Elliot Rodger filmed a video of himself -- palm trees behind him, the glow of an orange sun highlighting his young face -- and vowed to get "revenge against humanity." ... Read more

A Guide to Mass Shootings in America
MotherJones | Mark Follman | 05/24/14

America's latest mass shooting took place in Santa Barbara on Friday night. The New York Times reports: "A college student who posted videos that documented his rage against women for rejecting him killed six people and wounded 13 others during a spasm of terror, the police said. He stabbed three men to death in his apartment and shot the others as he methodically opened fire on bystanders on the crowded streets of this small town." According to the LA Times, the guns he used—two Sig Sauer p226 model handguns and a Glock 34—were legally purchased from federally licensed dealers and were registered to the killer, who after a shootout with police ended his own life with a bullet to the head. ... Read more
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