John & Ana hosting. Another botched execution has taken place, this time in the state of AZ. The condemned inmate, Joseph Wood, took almost 2 hours to die while gasping for air 640 times. Witnesses like Troy Hayden of Fox 10 News  said “it was very disturbing watching him, it was like a fish on shore gulping for air”. An Air Algerie flight disappeared from radar over Mali. In Taiwan a Transasia flight attempted to land 2 times but unfortunately crashed due to weather killing 48 people and injuring 10. The FAA lifted its ban on US flights to Tel Aviv with the agency continuing to monitor the situation in the Middle East. Michael Bloomberg on CNN says it was an “overreaction” from the State Department to give out a travel advisory along with the ban from the FAA. A humanitarian group in Israel attempted to put a radio ad out on the list of children who have died recently from Gaza, with the Israel Broadcasting Authority objecting to the ad saying it is “politically controversial”. Mallory Loyola  tested positive for crystal meth while pregnant and could be prosecuted under a law in Tennessee which criminalizes drug use while being pregnant. Jeremy Schall and Ryan Deveraeux of The Intercept has leaked a guidebook on who gets placed on the terrorist watchlist. Due process and concrete facts get thrown out the door with this guidebook. Postings on social media or relatives deemed as a terrorist can be considered in placement on the terrorist watchlist. Data on the correlation of CEO performance and pay, courtesy of Eqular, is discussed with surprising observations. During the last 30 years, CEO pay has risen 127 times faster than the average worker.

Show notes by Bart Kyle