This Investor Presentation For A Private Prison Is One Of The Creepiest Presentations We've Ever Seen
This morning we came across a rather interesting piece of research.
It was from Barclays' analyst Manav Patnaik, and it was on the private prisons business.
Specifically, it was a "virtual tour" of the Metro Davidson County Detention Facility, which is managed by Corrections Corp of America (CXW) one of two companies that that has a "duopoly" on the private prisons business.
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Sorry Ron Paul, You Don't Get To Abuse Trademark Law To Unveil Anonymous Internet UsersThis was shockingly stupid, I really don't understand how they could file such an idiotic lawsuit. - Chris |
Two More Drug Raids, Two More Deaths Two drug raids Wednesday, one in Miami Lakes, Florida, and one in New Orleans, have resulted in the deaths of two men, one in each raid. Michael Ray Santana, 26, of Miami Lakes and Wendell Allen, 20, of New Orleans become the 14th and 15th persons to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year.
In Miami Lakes, according to police, Santana was shot and killed after he confronted m... (more)
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Fort Worth Police Captain Fired After Searching For Porn At Work, Accused of 'Self Gratification' While On Duty22-year veteran of the Fort Worth Police Department, police captain L.A. Harris has been fired after investigators found he was browsing porn at work, he was also accused of "self-gratification while on duty and in a city facility and in uniform."
Another example of America's finest at work!
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Assassination as Speech Suppressor As most everyone knows, after President Obama’s election, most liberals went silent with respect to the defense of civil liberties and condemnation of the war on terrorism. Of course, there have been a few notable exceptions, such as Glenn Greenwald and the ACLU and others, but by and large liberals ended up doing what conservatives do when their man is in office. They sealed their lips.
But there is another factor that Americans now have to consider with respect to critic... (more)
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The Fed Does the Figure-Four Three-Quarter LeglockThe money masters at the Federal Reserve have done a splendid job, haven’t they? Well, no, and all the more reason to End the Fed, in the legendary slogan of Ron Paul.
Every few months since the great meltdown of 2008, there’s been some announcement that appears in the financial press about the latest f... (more)
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Ben Bernanke Says That His Son Will Graduate With $400,000 Of Student Loan DebtWho ever imagined that Ben Bernanke would become a poster child for the student loan debt problem in America? Recently Bernanke told Congress that his son will graduate from medical school with about $400,000 of student loan debt. For most Americans, such a staggering amount of debt would almost certainly guarantee a lifetime of debt slavery. Unfortunately, Bernanke'... (more)
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Oil and the PentagonLate last month, Bloomberg reported that British Petroleum continues to experience substantial growth in the amount of money it receives from the Pentagon for its oil services. From 2010 to 2011, Pentagon contracts with BP increased by one-third from about 1 billion to 1.35 billion.
This was presented by some in the media as a scandal, since presumably, BP... (more)
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Law's Millionaires, Bernanke's BillionairesBeing a billionaire isn't such an exclusive group anymore. Back in 1998, there were reportedly 230 billionaires worldwide. Now, according to Forbes magazine, the number has grown to 1,226. The United States still has the most with 425, but now 58 countries have billionaires. Russia and China have nearly 100 each.
Nobody seems too excited about billionaires, likely because a billion is an unimaginable number--a thousand million. There was once a time when being a millionaire... (more)
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Rogers' "Cybersecurity" Bill Is Broad Enough to Use Against WikiLeaks and The Pirate BayCongress is doing it again: they're proposing overbroad regulations that could have dire consequences for our Internet ecology. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, allows companies or the government1 free rein to bypass existing laws in order to monitor communications, filter content, or potentially even shut down access to onlin... (more)
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Buffett's Bursting Bubble The gold doomsayers have found their champion in the media's favorite financial advisor and one of the world's richest men. Warren Buffett, the man dubbed the "Oracle of Omaha," has repeatedly and publicly denied that gold is an investment, and called gold buyers "speculators" and people "who fear almost all other assets." In fact, Buffett claims that gold's rise has the same characteristics as the housing and dot-com bubbles, and it is only a matter of time before it reverses course. ... (more)
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Crony capitalism: Green firms burn through taxpayer dollars, pay huge executive bonuses, then go bankruptThe Obama Administration's green energy development program, which has leveraged billions of taxpayer dollars into high-risk green energy startups, is rapidly turning out to be one of the biggest financial scams on the American people in recent history. A new investigative report by ABC News has revealed that many of the now-bankrupt green energy companies that received massive taxpayer-funded loan infusions from the Department of Energy (DOE) awarded huge cash bonuses to their exe... (more)
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