Left Side of the Aisle #99

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of March 14-20, 2013

This week:
The murder of Marco McMillian
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/marco-mcmillian-dead_n_2780698.html
http://abcnews.go.com/US/miss-mayor-candidate-marco-mcmillian-found-dead/story?id=18614617
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/04/marco-mcmillian-beaten-burned_n_2806435.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/26/17103321-a-year-after-killing-trayvon-martins-father-says-parents-will-never-move-on?lite

Clown Award: Wall Street bankers
http://www.gallup.com/poll/1720/work-work-place.aspx#2
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/03/06/americans-stressed-underpaid-overworked-survey/
http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2013/03/employee-needs.aspx
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/bankers-underpaid_n_2853961.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/wall-street-average-salary_n_1952352.html

Update #1: Deepwater Horizon; BP knew the risk
http://www.salon.com/2013/02/27/bp_exec_admits_knew_of_big_risk_of_explosion/?source=newsletter
http://grist.org/news/bp-knew-of-deepwater-risk/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tweet&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=mill
http://www.salon.com/2013/02/25/trial_begins_for_bp_over_gulf_oil_spill/
http://business.time.com/2013/03/08/bp-warns-of-rising-costs-from-spill-settlement/#comments

Update #2: Bradley Manning
http://www.bradleymanning.org/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/bradley-manning-pleads-guilty_n_2781855.html
http://www.salon.com/2013/02/28/manning_offers_his_plea/
http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2013/03/bradley-manning-nominated-for-nobel.htmlhttp://www.globalresearch.ca/bradley-manning-nobel-peace-prize-nomination-2013/5325138

Bradley Manning's statement:
http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/update-3113-bradley-mannings-statement-taking-responsibility-for-releasing-docs

Update #3: Antonin Scalia is a scumbag
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/03/insensitive-remarks-led-to-young-scalias-firing-by-kinkos.html

Hero Award: Google reveals having received National Security Letters
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/03/06/fbi-ecretly-spying-on-google-users-company-reveals/
http://www.aclu.org/national-security-technology-and-liberty/national-security-letters
https://epic.org/privacy/nsl/
https://www.eff.org/issues/national-security-letters

Global warming: new scary graph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Floyd
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/03/new-hockey-stick-graph-scarier
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/recent-heat-spike-like-nothing-in-11000-years.php
http://www.wisegeek.org/how-did-agriculture-begin.htm

Outrage of the Week: Death by drone?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/10/paul-filibuster-drones-progressives
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/03/06/rand_paul_is_waging_an_epic_mr_smith_style_filibuster_right_now.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2013/03/something-i-never-thought-id-be-saying.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2010/04/its-just-question.html
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/rand-pauls-paranoid-rant-they-called
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/03/rand-paul-drones-filibuster-fundraising-campaign
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/democrats-give-excuses-for-not-joining-anti-drone-filibuster
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/paul-13-hour-filibuster-word-reply-article-1.1282182