Sunday, November 30, 2014

Links To End November

Here are some things recently in the news, including a few Ferguson-related items:

From Fox News, former policeman Darren Wilson, who recently resigned, will not receive any severance package.

From Yahoo News, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) gives his opinion of the grand jury proceeding arising from the death of Michael Brown.  He thinks that there should not have been any.

Speaking of opinions, Bernard Goldberg says that Michael Brown is not a civil rights martyr.

From Newsbusters, in a panel discussion on Ferguson, Rich Lowry of the National Review dares to confuse the issue with facts.

From gotnews, the marketing director of United Blackout, a movement to "boycott capitalism" that arose in 2008 in response to the shooting of a black commuter by a transit officer in Oakland, and which more recently urged blacks to avoid shopping on Black Friday in response to the non-indictment of Officer Wilson, is very white and very much a capitalist.

From KMOV, 16 people were arrested outside the Ferguson Police Department Friday night, of which 15 are from out of town.  (via The Blaze)

From the Washington Examiner, the Brown family attorney has indicated possible plans for a civil suit.

From Reuters, the Chinese company Fosun has increased its bid to buy Club Med.

From The Guardian, Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, wants to put his office in charge of the city's criminal justice system.

From the New York Post, New York is the third worst state in which to get caught speeding.

From the Sunday Express, American intelligence officers have uncovered a plot by al Qaeda to blow up five European passenger airplanes.

From UPI, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that this year's October is the warmest October on record.

From CBS News, the body of missing Ohio State University football player Kosta Karageorge has been found in a dumpster, with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

From the Star Tribune, a small town in Texas has enacted a ban on fracking, which takes effect on Tuesday.

And from The New York Times, pro-democracy protesters and police clash in Hong Kong.

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