“North Korea staged gruesome public executions of 80 people this month, some for offenses as minor as watching South Korean entertainment videos or being found in possession of a Bible, a South Korean newspaper reported Monday.*” Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks discusses this shocking story. Read more: http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-north-korea-executes-80-20131111,0,2954869.story#axzz2kXaD0UjS Let’s Build It Together! Join us for the next …
Super Typhoon Haiyan and the Climate Change Link
Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/AcronymTV The scale of death and destruction is hard to wrap your head around. Several days after Super Typhoon Haiyan slammed the Philippines, we still do not have a full picture of the scale of death and destruction that lay in its wake. Estimates put the number of dead in the city of Tacloban alone at 10,000, …
Man Dies In Jail Cell After Misdemeanor Pot Offense
Join #FOWLERNATION!! http://bit.ly/14crV4D Today’s story is part drug war, part police indifference and callousness, part police cover-up. It comes by way of a lawsuit filed by the family of Michael Saffioti. Saffioti failed to make a court date on a misdemeanor charge for pot possession. In July of last year, he surrendered himself to Snohomish County, Washington authorities, who …
Jimmy Carter Calls For Death Penalty Abolition
Four decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court imposed a moratorium on the death penalty, finding that its imposition at the time was so arbitrary and “pregnant with discrimination” that it was a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. As governor of Georgia at the time, former President Jimmy Carter helped to reinstate the death …
Family Gets $20,000 Bill From Private Fire Department
As time goes on, more and more services that used to be provided by the government are being placed in the hands of private corporations. The military, prisons, schools, and public safety services are all being sacrificed at the Republican alter of privatization. Recently, an Arizona couple learned firsthand how this move to privatize services can have a real …
Family Rescues Kidnapped Woman, Kills Kidnapper
–A family rescues kidnapped member and then kills the kidnapper –On the Bonus Show: Restaurants spiking meals with opiates, Is it illegal to create memes in Australia, A voicemail with show criticism, more… http://www.davidpakman.com Become a Member: http://www.davidpakman.com/membership Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/davidpakmanshow TDPS Gear: http://www.davidpakman.com/gear 24/7 Voicemail Line: (219)-2DAVIDP Subscribe to The David Pakman Show for more: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=midweekpolitics Support …
Gun Rights Group Terrorizes Mothers Advocating for Gun Safety
Four mothers of the gun safety group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America were eating at a restaurant this weekend when 40 armed men showed up outside the establishment to intimidate them… This clip from the Majority Report, live M-F at 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM Subscribe to us on YouTube: http://youtube.com/user/SamSeder