For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions - The New York Times

For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions - The New York Times:



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"With inequality at its highest levels in nearly a century and public debate rising over whether the government should respond to it through higher taxes on the wealthy, the very richest Americans have financed a sophisticated and astonishingly effective apparatus for shielding their fortunes. Some call it the “income defense industry,” consisting of a high-priced phalanx of lawyers, estate planners, lobbyists and anti-tax activists who exploit and defend a dizzying array of tax maneuvers, virtually none of them available to taxpayers of more modest means."

In Texas, a Struggle to Pay Drug Costs | Al Jazeera America

In Texas, a Struggle to Pay Drug Costs | Al Jazeera America:
"But all these studies agree that Texas leads the nation with the highest percentage of uninsured people. And the Episcopal Health foundation and Baker Institute study noted, "For the first time, Texas now has the largest number of uninsured residents"

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They Are Us - The New York Times

The families fleeing Syria aren't terrorists, they are the VICTIMS of terrorism, that's why they are leaving there.

They Are Us - The New York Times:

Donald Trump, Meet a Syrian Refugee Named Heba

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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Anyone in Death of Sandra Bland - The New York Times

One more example of justice denied based on a person's color.

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In Arbitration, a ‘Privatization of the Justice System’ - The New York Times

If you get the feeling that there is less and less fairness in this country and that the deck is stacked against you, you're absolutely right!

In Arbitration, a ‘Privatization of the Justice System’ - The New York Times: "Presiding over the case was not a judge but a corporate lawyer, Vasilios J. Kalogredis, who also handled arbitrations. When Dr. Pierce showed up one day for a hearing, she said she noticed Mr. Kalogredis having a friendly coffee with the head of the medical group she was suing."



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Spymasters: CIA documentary sheds little light on drones, 9/11 or torture | Television & radio | The Guardian

If you watched this piece of crap and thought the CIA was just amazing, you are completely wrong. This "special" produced by CBS is pure propaganda for the CIA. Every former Director who is interviewed in it is lying their sorry asses off.

If you want to see an authentic Doc about intelligence services watch The Gatekeepers.

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The War Hero and the Chicken Hawk - NYTimes.com

Dick Cheney should be tried for war crimes in the international court.



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The dirty motivation behind Gilead’s hepatitis C agreement | Al Jazeera America

The only difference between drug cartels and these international pharmaceutical criminal syndicates is the number, skill, political connections and ability of the scumbag lawyers they have.



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GlaxoSmithKline ex-boss to be deported back to UK from China | Business | theguardian.com

All of the major pharmaceutical companies are essentially international criminal syndicates.

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End-of-Life Care Needs Sweeping Overhaul, Panel Says - NYTimes.com

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When I was an emergency room doctor I saw the catastrophe that ensues when someone is dying and the family has to make complex end of life decisions. Most of the time the patient who was dying had been housed in a nursing home and essentially left to die. They would be emaciated, severely dehydrated and comatose with their internal organs failing. There was essentially, no "person" left.

Enter the family. Those who had cared for and loved the parent almost always asked us to do nothing and let them pass peacefully. But, invariably, the problem child of the family would strenuously object to that outcome. "Doc, I want you to do EVERYTHING possible to keep my mother alive, everything! You hear me Doc?" Of course this would be the same one who had broken his mother's heart time and again, stolen money from her, gone to jail and lived off of her pitiful pension. Euthanasia should be legal in this country, especially for the guilt ridden family members who would put their parent through the excruciating procedures required to "Do everything possible". In medicine we say there is a huge difference between prolonging life and prolonging death. As a society we routinely spend a huge percentage of our medical resources prolonging death, in the most macabre ways.