Left Side of the Aisle #222

I HOPE WE'RE BACK ON TRACK AFTER MY HARD DRIVE CRASH. NEW COMPUTER WITH A NEW OS WHICH IS NOT HAPPY ABOUT RUNNING MY OLD SOFTWARE, SO THERE MAY STILL BE SOME CHANGES NEEDED.

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of October 1-7, 2015

This week:

Good News: Planned Parenthood cleared again
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/09/28/missouri-ag-finds-no-evidence-planned-parenthood-mishandled-feta/21242016/

Good News: Yes, there are police searches that some courts will not justify after the fact
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/massachusetts-high-court-cops-search-vehicles-pot-possession?akid=13523.1084699.hUqo-e&rd=1&src=newsletter1043075&t=10
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/09/22/mass-police-are-banned-from-stopping-drivers-issue-marijuana-possession-citations/NElouAgDnNmLLJTNuoLh9K/story.html

Good News: Shell Oil abandoning the Arctic
http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/shell-says-it-will-cease-alaska-offshore-arctic-drilling/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/28/royal-dutch-shell-suspends-arctic-drilling-indefinitely/

Not Good News: Georgia woman executed
http://abcnews.go.com/US/high-courts-deny-georgia-woman-kelly-gissendaners-stay/story?id=34131249
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/09/29/georgia-considering-whether-the-state-will-execute-kelly-gissendaner-the-only-woman-on-its-death-row-as-pope-francis-asks-for-mercy/
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lethal-injection/pope-urges-halt-execution-georgia-woman-kelly-gissendaner-n435566
http://www.people.com/article/female-death-row-prisoner-geaorgia-denied-clemency
http://abc7.com/news/parole-board-denies-clemency-for-lone-woman-on-georgias-death-row/1008174/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/09/29/the-u-s-has-six-executions-scheduled-over-the-next-nine-days/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/12/18/how-the-death-penalty-continued-its-slow-steady-decline-in-2014/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/03/28/five-things-to-know-about-the-death-penaltys-decline/
http://www.pewforum.org/2014/03/28/shrinking-majority-of-americans-support-death-penalty/

Volkswagen caught cheating
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/6424ac1caa800aab85257359003f5337/dfc8e33b5ab162b985257ec40057813b!OpenDocument
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/business/international/volkswagen-emissions-pollution-regulations.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/business/international/volkswagen-diesel-car-scandal.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/volkswagen-emissions-scandal-german-prosecutors-open-investigation-into-ceo-martin-winterkorn-a6670206.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/25/let-vw-face-the-same-penalties-as-we-do-or-let-us-go-unpunished-too/
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/23/martin-winterkorn-resigns-as-volkswagen-ceo.html
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/25/conservative-media-are-trying-to-blame-air-poll/205788

Martin Shkreli is a poster child for what's wrong with capitalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrimethamine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/epi.html
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/toxoplasmosis/basics/symptoms/con-20025859
http://www.who.int/medicines/publications/essentialmedicines/EML2015_8-May-15.pdf
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/turing-pharmaceuticals-ceo-martin-shkreli-defends-5000-percent-price-hike-on-daraprim-drug/

The pursuit of profit is the baseline cause of economic injustices
http://inthesetimes.com/article/18441/the-1s-houses-are-getting-bigger-and-swankier-while-average-americans-strug
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/grades/
http://www.epi.org/blog/in-virtually-every-state-the-poverty-rate-is-still-higher-than-before-the-recession/
http://www.epi.org/blog/income-stagnation-in-2014-shows-the-economy-is-not-working-for-most-families/
http://ycharts.com/indicators/corporate_profits
http://www.dailycensored.com/39-of-us-children-spend-at-least-one-year-in-poverty-75-of-black-children-demanding-obvious-reforms-and-arrests-or-need-more-pain/
http://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/alfresco/publication-pdfs/2000369-Child-Poverty-and-Adult-Success.pdf
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-shocking-reach-of-us-child-poverty/
http://www.nccp.org/topics/childpoverty.html