Warren police officer assaults arrested suspect in the city jail

By Detroit Free Press June 20, 2023 12:31 PM EDT (Yahoo News)

A Warren police officer is being charged with misdemeanors after assaulting an arrested suspect in the city jail booking area on June 13, 2023

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Symbolic Hijacking: Swastika vs Confederate Flag Meanings?

In a recent news article regarding a homeowner’s use of his yard to create landscaping into the shape of a swastika, many have criticized the man for using Hitler’s symbol – therefore, promoting hatred?

The man, has claimed the swastika was a Tibetan symbol before Hitler’s use of it for his war campaign. Yet, many believe the man should not display it because of Hitler’s use “hijacking” of the graphical symbol. 

Well, lets see here.

Historically, this graphic does have multiple historical usages. A search online will reveal it as so.

So the argument is: If a graphical image previously defined in time to symbolize a particular meaning, as what the Tibetan’s used it for, and then another individual or entity such as Adolph Hitler comes around and uses the same image very different than the previous user, that is for his war campaign, then, the image is forever enslaved to represent Hitler’s later use, of that graphical image. That is, hijacking the meaning?  

Now, just because Hitler’s symbolic use of the swastika was flown while he committed terrible acts, does that necessarily mean one is to surrender the previous symbolism of the swastika accordingly?

I think not.

To permit Hitler’s particular use of the swastika to “hijack” the previous or alternate use of the swastika symbol appears to be a surrendering one’s belief and use of the swastika symbol over another’s, albeit more popularly marketed and historically recorded use of that symbol. What does that say about the strengths of one’s believe of any symbol, to have the symbolism of a graphic image taken over merely by another’s use of that symbol. What if it were a use not so terrible, such as to promote a food chain?  

Along those same lines. Remember when Travon Martin, while wearing a hoodie walking around a Florida neighborhood, was targeted by George Zimmerman years ago as a suspicious character, which ultimately led to a deadly confrontation whereby Zimmerman killed Martin after a confrontation? From that point forward, the hoodie garment took on, all kinds of meanings after that.

Along the same lines. What about the Confederate flag?

Some people interpret the Confederate flag as having a certain meaning. Others claim the flag represents a negative time in history. So, just as the argument that claims the swastika image should never mean anything else but Hitler’s use of it, the same logic should be therefore applied toward any display of the Confederate flag.

Hum? To permit one’s self to be “locked” into a particular mindset of how to interpret a graphical image, due to another’s use of that symbol, indicates perhaps one may need to build a more resilient integrity of his or her thinking strengths so has not to be lulled into how to interpret a particular graphic.

Admissions scandal reveals why America’s elite colleges are under fire

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By By BENJAMIN WERMUND 03/12/2019 07:30 PM EDT (Politico)

Elite colleges already serve as some of President Donald Trump’s favorite targets. Their fat endowments took a hit in the 2017 GOP tax law. A sweeping admissions cheating and bribery scandal the FBI uncovered Tuesday is the latest blow to the nation’s most expensive and selective American universities, which are also battling allegations of misusing race in deciding who will be invited to enroll.

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Judge reverses order that barred reporting on search warrant in case of Newport Beach surgeon

Judge reverses order that barred reporting on search warrant in case of Newport Beach surgeon

By HANNAH FRY , RICHARD WINTON and JULIA SCLAFANI (LATimes.com)

(October 23, 2018 19:20) – An Orange County Superior Court judge Tuesday reversed an order barring journalists from reporting on a search warrant filed in the case against a Newport Beach surgeon facing felony charges of drugging and raping seven women dating to 2009.

Grant Robicheaux, 38, once dubbed Orange County’s most eligible bachelor, and his girlfriend, Cerissa Riley, 31, are accused of rape by drugs, kidnapping, oral copulation by anesthesia, assault with intent to commit sexual offenses and other crimes. They have denied all accusations of nonconsensual sex.

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Democrats dilute the power of superdelegates in historic party vote

(August 25, 2015 13:25) — In a move aimed at getting past the acrimony from the 2016 presidential primary and unifying the party, the Democratic National Committee voted Saturday to dramatically reduce the role of superdelegates in choosing its presidential nominee.

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Bernie Sanders: Big Pharma a health hazard

Bernie Sanders: Big Pharma a health hazard
By Bay Area News Corp

(Aug. 15, 2016 1:38 p.m.) — The pharmaceutical industry has become a major health hazard to the American people.

Our nation pays — by far — the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. As a result, nearly one in five Americans cannot afford to fill their prescriptions. That is unacceptable. A lifesaving product does no good if patients cannot afford it.

A new report from Americans for Tax Fairness explains how a pharmaceutical company, Gilead Sciences, games the system to charge high prices and then shifts the profits offshore to avoid billions in U.S. taxes.

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Bernie Sanders buys a lake home, igniting Twitter snark

Bernie Sanders buys a lake home, igniting Twitter snark
By Dan D’Ambrosio, Free Press

(August 14, 2016 23:00 p.m. ) — BURLINGTON, Vt. — Earlier this month, real estate agent Franz Rosenberger closed a deal with Bernie and Jane Sanders for a $575,000 lakeside home in North Hero — a second home where the Sanders family could gather with children and grandchildren for weekends on the water, the Realtor said.

“It has a nice gradual pebble beach that’s protected, which was important for them, for their grandkids,” he said. “It has big views of the lake and the Green Mountains. They really wanted to be looking at Vermont.”

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2016 Candidate Stances On Marijuana Legalization: Clinton Would Reschedule Pot, She Says

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By Alex Garofalo, Int’l Business Times

(August 12, 2016 10:14 a.m.) — Hillary Clinton says that as president she would support decriminalizing marijuana.

The Democratic nominee released a statement Thursday saying that she would reschedule marijuana from a Schedule 1 drug to a Schedule 2 drug. The reclassification would remove major restrictions to academic research into the effects of marijuana use and reduce the criminal penalties associated with possessing the drug. The statement came the same day as an announcement from the DEA that organization was removing some restrictions to research, but keeping marijuana in the Schedule 1 category.

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Bernie Sanders Slams Decision Not To Reclassify Marijuana

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By Daniel Marans, HuffingtonPost.com

(August 11, 2016 12:16 p.m.) — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) threw some shade at the Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday.

The DEA announced it would end the federal government’s monopoly on marijuana cultivation, but to the disappointment of many drug reform proponents, the agency declined to reclassify pot from its list of “most dangerous” narcotics.

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Bernie bucks keep pouring in for Wasserman Schultz rival Canova

20160810_1610 Bernie bucks keep pouring in for Wasserman Schultz rival Canova (MH).jpg Bernie bucks keep pouring in for Wasserman Schultz rival Canova
By Patricia Mazzei, MiamiHerald.com

(August 10, 2016 4:10 p.m.) — What is Bernie Sanders’ endorsement worth?

For Florida congressional candidate Tim Canova, the answer so far is more than half-a-million bucks.

Sanders’ campaign told the Miami Herald on Wednesday that it has helped raise more than $637,000 since May 22, when the Vermont senator and former Democratic presidential candidate began asking supporters to chip in for Canova.

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