Massive, widespread, deadly riots and seizures and sit-ins and counter-attacks overwhelmed Egypt yesterday after a month of all these, on a smaller scale. In Cairo, after a month of protests and sit-ins by the Muslim Brotherhood Party and their supporters, the Egyptian military stepped in yesterday, it must be said, like only a well-entrenched military state can. Reports of over 500 people have been killed with over 1700 wounded, with more reports coming in all the time. The military seems to have foucused their forces on the Muslim Brotherhood supporters, Islamist parties and those being out at the wrong time. The curfew overnight established by the military is reminiscent of the Mubarak days. Muslim Brotherhood spokespeople have warned of continued protests until their party's President Morsi is reestablished. Which will not happen. There are those that say the hard-hitting forces were justified, others call it an unnecessary massacre. Interim vice-president Mohamed El-Baradei has resigned in protest to yesterday's military response, which, along with the harshness of these actions, will make resolution to this emergency more difficult as many Muslims feel completely disenfranchised now from any democratic process toward civil society. This does not bode well for the Egyptian revolution of Feb 2011.
Major crime runs rampant in Honduras. One author says they should try the Guatemala method to reduce it.
Federal District Court judge rules New York City's 'Stop and Frisk' policy is unconstitutional. Jessica Williams on the Daily Show 'gets it' better than anyone else I've heard.
David Dayen points out that mortgage documents have been falsified and created falsely which makes those mortgage manufacturers the generators of fraud. And they are still doing it.
Meanwhile, as many remain optimistic despite the announced rise in foreclosure rates, even sceptics can only say the unknown real estate future, or cycle, may yet prove less than virtuous than some are currently predicting. So, it may get better for some, but they ask, why should it just because there is tension in anticpation?
James 'Whitey' Bulger found guilty of 11 murders.
Cpl Bradley Manning apologized in a statement during his sentencing hearing yesterday, 'if his actions hurt anyone or hurt the US gov', asks 'to return to a productive place in society'.
Carbon neutral farming methods in Costa Rica produces a great deal in a small plot without chemical fertilizers, limiting livestock flatulence etc. Redifining sustainability and subsistence, and even brought to being thru a governmental education project. The economy of it reminds me of chinampas in the Valley of Mexico 500 years ago, where small plots could produce an excess that could be sold for other local and imported goods.
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