Just keeping this blog alive with some news links

I neglected this blog for a long time. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it because I thought 'Coffee Coup' was kind of clever, but it turns out that coffee producing countries are prime targets of some industrial force working behind the the U.S. government.

• Safety
  • Big Ag Fights to the Bitter End to Keep Pesticide From Being Banned
  • Federal Toxics Law Still Protecting the Chemical Industry’s Dirty Secrets
  • Secret outbreak investigation targeted packaged salads in April
• Politics
  • Obama Shreds Trump In Powerful Message To Graduates: ‘Ignorance Is Not A Virtue’ (VIDEO)
  • Ben Carson Accidentally Reveals Trump’s Top VP Choices And The List Will Leave You ROTFL
  • Ted Cruz (R – The Moon) leaves door open for restarting presidential bid
  • Internet excoriates Green Party’s Jill Stein for calling Hillary bad mom
• Employment
  • More Mexican Immigrants Are Returning to Mexico Than Coming to the U.S.
  • The Top 10 Best and Worst Cities to Start a Career
• Class Warfare
  • How Trump Brought the Republican Establishment to Its Knees
  • Chomsky: The Majority of Today's Elected Democrats Are Moderate Republicans
  • Caymans, Bermuda lash out at U.S. 'hypocrisy’ during anti-corruption summit
  • Rich people have access to high-speed Internet; many poor people still don't
  • Where broadband access is unequal
• The Police State
  • WATCH: Girl On Bike Brutally Beaten By Cops And Then SHE Is Charged With Assault
  • New York Gun License Broker Paid Off Cops To Approve Client Licenses
  • Twitter Should Refuse to Sell Your Tweets to Local Law Enforcement
  • Why Government Use of Social Media Monitoring Software Is a Direct Threat to Our Liberty and Privacy
  • VIDEO: Cops Brutalize Triple Amputee, Remove his Prosthetic Limbs, then Leave Him Stranded
• Empire
  • Leaks Show Senate Aide Threatened Colombia Over Cheap Cancer Drug
  • The Real Story of Our Decades-Long Foreign Policy Disaster That Set the Middle East on Fire
  • Venezuela Accuses US of Plotting Coup, Declares State of Emergency
  • At Break Free Protests Around the World, Climate Activists Put Bodies on the Line
  • The Great Leap Backward: America’s Illegal Wars on the World
  • CIA provided tip leading to Nelson Mandela's arrest and 27 year long imprisonment
• Sociopaths In The News
  • 5 Worst Right-Wing Moments This Week: Trump and Shkreli Induce Gagging
  • WATCH: Fox News' Vile Jesse Watters Gets Humiliated by the Very People He's Trying to Humiliate
  • Peter King: Women Will Vote For Trump If They're Worried About Their Kids Being Killed By Terrorists
  • WATCH: Ex-NC Lawmaker Rants About 'LGBTTQQIAA' Activists Ruining America