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Tuesday, December 02, 2014

There is a provision of Missouri Law -- MO Rev Stat § 56.110 -- that empowers "the court having criminal jurisdiction" to "appoint some other attorney to prosecute" if the prosecuting attorney "be interested." (The term "be interested" is an awkward legal way to refer to conflict-of-interest or bias. The statute dates from the turn of the 20th century.)

The court with jurisdiction over Darren Wilson's case is the 21st Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri. That means the power to appoint a special prosecutor is held by Maura McShane, the Presiding Judge of the 21st Circuit.


Monday, December 01, 2014

During the grand jury in the shooting of Michael Brown, Assistant District Attorney Kathi Alizadeh instructed grand jurors on how to decide the case based on a statute that was invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court two decades ago. As MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell points out, that statute had not been valid for the entirety of Alizadeh's legal career. That statute said that officers can use any force they deem necessary to achieve the arrest of a fleeing suspect. It does not preclude deadly force, saying only that officers are "justified in the use of such physical force as he or she reasonably believes is immediately necessary to effect the arrest or to prevent the escape from custody." read more


Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Let's start with McCulloch's refusal to step aside in this case. The people in and around Ferguson gave a vote of no confidence, in effect, to McCulloch when 70,000 of them signed a petition demanding that he recuse himself. McCulloch's history is problematic, at best, and his alignment with the cops unquestioned. His father was a cop, who was killed in the line of duty by an African-American person. When the county police clearly were overreacting in handling the protests immediately following the killing, and Gov. Jay Nixon called in the state highway patrol to try to calm the situation down, McCulloch loudly and publicly criticized him for "denigrat[ing] the men and women of the county police." McCulloch's bias going into this grand jury proceeding was unquestioned, certainly in the community, and his refusal to step aside guaranteed that there would be a high level of distrust in the proceedings.


Sunday, November 23, 2014

President Barack Obama decided in recent weeks to authorize a more expansive mission for the military in Afghanistan in 2015 than originally planned, a move that ensures American troops will have a direct role in fighting in the war-ravaged country for at least another year. Obama's order allows American forces to carry out missions against the Taliban and other militant groups threatening American troops or the Afghan government, a broader mission than the president described to the public earlier this year, according to several administration, military and congressional officials with knowledge of the decision. The new authorization also allows American jets, bombers and drones to support Afghan troops on combat missions.


Thursday, November 13, 2014

Health care economist Jonathan Gruber recently claimed at a policy conference that lack of political transparency helped Congressional Democrats pass the health care bill into law, attributing its success to "the stupidity of the American voter." The comments have caused a firestorm of criticism and may even spark a Congressional investigation into the law. But despite the uproar, Gruber's analysis does not reflect reality.


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LarryMohr - We never had a war for Oil in Iraq. If that was the case we would control the Iraqi oil through a puppet regime. That never emerged. In fact a pretty anti-American regime did emerge. That's just a political wet dream for some. IMHO - It was still Jr wanting to finish the job.

#10 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2014-12-07 12:07 PMFlag: | Newsw

Your ignorance is mind blowing.

www.msnbc.com

Map: International oil development in Iraq
03/07/14 01:57PM

Despite years of war and continued instability, Iraq's oil fields, which were once state-owned and controlled by Saddam Hussein, are now being developed by international oil companies, completely free from the sanctions that had held back their full potential. In 2012, Iraq produced more oil per day than it had at any point in the previous three decades. read more

www.foxnews.com

However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to provoke the most controversy. "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil," he says.

There were barely any actual AQ in either country before we made a half-assed attempt to support moderate rebel groups rather than following through. Had we done so, ISIL might never have formed.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2014-12-06 05:14 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag:

No such thing as a moderate rebel. They are oxymoronic.

www.washingtonpost.com

Posted at 03:38 PM ET, 11/30/2012
Al-Qaeda affiliate playing larger role in Syria rebellion

Syrian opposition leaders report an alarming growth within their ranks of fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra, an extremist group linked to al-Qaeda.

The Jabhat group now has somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 fighters, according to officials of an non-governmental organization that represents the more moderate wing of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). They say that the al-Qaeda affiliate now accounts for 7.5 percent to 9 percent of the Free Syrian Army's total fighters, up sharply from an estimated 3 percent three months ago and 1 percent at the beginning of the year.

NOTE THE DATE 2012

#13 | Posted by Dalton at 2014-12-05 10:40 AM | Reply | Flag:

www.politico.com

But here's the strange thing: Down on Wall Street they don't believe it for a minute. While the finance industry does genuinely hate Warren, the big bankers love Clinton, and by and large they badly want her to be president. Many of the rich and powerful in the financial industry -- among them, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman, Tom Nides, a powerful vice chairman at Morgan Stanley, and the heads of JPMorganChase and Bank of America -- consider Clinton a pragmatic problem-solver not prone to populist rhetoric. To them, she's someone who gets the idea that we all benefit if Wall Street and American business thrive. What about her forays into fiery rhetoric? They dismiss it quickly as political maneuvers. None of them think she really means her populism.

www.cnn.com

Many liberal and progressive activists don't trust Clinton because they think she sides with big banks and big money instead of the middle class and they're wary of her on national security. With a Clinton presidential campaign a possibility, they want the same treatment New York voters got.

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