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Major US Banks Found to Facilitate Movement of Weapon and Drug Money

“The world’s most powerful and successful banks moving large networks of dirty money from the likes of drugs cartels and organized crime rings affiliates sounds like a plot taken straight from a Netflix original series. While such an idea might seem a little hard to conceptualize in real life, a recent Buzzfeed News investigation uncovered that many big name U.S. and international banks have been moving trillions of dollars for two decades in suspicious transactions, and in the process enriching themselves off the dirty money.”

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Mail-in voting could be a logistical disaster - but we must vote anyway

“The U.S. postal service has warned 46 states that it cannot guarantee all ballots sent by mail for the November election will arrive in time to be counted. This has the potential to disqualify tens of millions of votes. But if we let that get in the way of us actually casting our ballots then that means we have given up on our democracy.”

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California Takes Steps to Eliminate For-Profit Prisons

The situation in California is especially complicated as GEO Group, one of the largest for-profit prison companies in the U.S. and one that owns four facilities in California, operates two Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the state… The question still remains of what what will happen to ICE detainees currently housed in state for-profit facilities in California after their contracts expire in 2020.

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