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Judge sends woman to jail for 30 days for giving him the finger

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A woman facing a drug possession charge got a harsh lesson in justice after a Miami-Dade judge sentenced her to 30 days in jail for flipping him the bird at a hearing Monday.

Penelope Soto, 18, was arrested for possession of Xanax and was brought before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat Monday, where she was asked about her assets.

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There’s An Easy, Fair Solution To The Global Debt Crisis — Too Bad No One Ever Talks About It: It’s Called “Bankruptcy.”

The global debt crisis, of course, is nothing new.

Since the dawn of time, men have been lending other men money (or other things of value) and not getting them back.

But it’s only recently that the solution to this state of affairs has gotten so complicated that even PhD economists can’t figure it out.

In most situations in which people or companies can’t pay their debts, a simple thing happens.

It’s called “bankruptcy.”

The [...]

There were 22 warnings from major market figures starting in 2000 till the 2008 meltdown…the cover-up cost Americans trillions!

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) —

We have hard evidence Washington and Wall Street knew the 2008 crash was coming years in advance. Yes, they could have prevented it. But didn’t. And, yes, the cover-up cost Americans trillions.

Was their Reaganomics ideology so rigid, so blinding, they couldn’t (and still cannot) admit they were wrong? Forcing them to lie to America? Cover up the [...]