August 30, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Police bully young drug offenders into becoming informants with few legal protections, massive danger.
- NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board is institutionally imbalanced, lets down people treated as customers.
- Syrian émigrés in America fundraise for rebels, help provide intel to U.S.
- Syria is at the point of no return, sitting on a political fault line that threatens the whole Middle East.
- Fact-checking the speeches of Paul Ryan and other RNC speakers reveals fabrications.
- Secession is withdrawal into enclaves, an internal immigration, whereby the rich disconnect themselves from the civic life.
- After Guatemalan president threatens to legalize drugs, U.S. sends in the Marines to pursue the cartels.
- Following the collapse of eight bridges since 2011, Chinese blame corrupt elites.
- Aung San Suu Kyi's silence on vilification of Muslim Rohingya shows she's becoming a politician.
- Gold's price rise has led miners to take more risks, destroy the environment, break laws—at cost to locals.
- Cambodian forestry activist Chut Wutty killed while fighting deforestation—700 in the last decade suffered the same fate.
