{"id":347799,"date":"2018-02-11T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T13:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-stop-making-nonsense\/"},"modified":"2018-02-11T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T13:44:36","slug":"roaming-charges-stop-making-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-stop-making-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Roaming Charges: Stop Making Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>+ As warped and fragmentary as the Nunes memo on FISA warrants may be, it provides a brief peak into the sleazy tactics used by law enforcement at every level of government, practices that go unlamented when they are used almost hourly to obtain wiretaps, search warrants and grand jury indictments against blacks, Hispanics and working class whites.<\/p>\n<p>Most members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat, are former prosecutors, who regularly used Confidential Informants and jail house snitches for warrants. Biased and purchased testimony is endemic to the prosecutorial state.<\/p>\n<p>+ What will they come up with next? Republicans in Congress are clamoring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/716e2a6e6ff14f1b8920c17e61c64353\">strip funding<\/a> for cancer research at the World Health Organization unless the outfit reverses its ruling that the active ingredients in Monsanto\u2019s killer herbicide RoundUp is a carcinogen. Next thing you know they\u2019ll be reclassifying RoundUp as a vitamin and making it a required supplement to school lunch menus.<\/p>\n<p>+ The most grotesque presidential scalp shot since the Zapruder film?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vHwOMWGAg_o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>+ In addition to the cruel new work requirements for Medicaid, Trump now wants <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/02\/07\/are-there-no-workhouses-3.html\">lifetime caps<\/a> on Medicaid payments for Alzheimer\u2019s, the chronically ill and the disabled. Just one more reason our health care system is the \u201cenvy of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0That <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/2\/6\/16980834\/tsunami-warning-false-alarm-east-coast-nws-noaa-science\">tsunami warning<\/a> the other day on the East Coast was triggered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/feb\/07\/first-modern-britons-dark-black-skin-cheddar-man-dna-analysis-reveals?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Nigel Farage jumping<\/a> off the Dover Cliffs\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0When do they ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/free-speech\/rights-protesters\/6-ways-government-going-after-environmental-activists\">go after<\/a> oil and gas activists?<\/p>\n<p>+ As I\u2019ve advised Trump&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/09\/roaming-charges-stop-making-nonsense\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>+ As warped and fragmentary as the Nunes memo on FISA warrants may be, it provides a brief peak into the sleazy tactics used by law enforcement at every level of government, practices that go unlamented when they are used almost hourly to obtain wiretaps, search warrants and grand jury indictments against blacks, Hispanics and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}