Links of the Union

Iceland didn’t bail out its banks. The result is they’re now contemplating the challenge of getting to 98 percent employment.
•The FDA may have known of possible risks from giving antibiotics to farm animals for a while.
•You may have heard that game apps such as Angry Birds give the NSA information. Here’s the details.
•Inequality doesn’t happen unless people (the rich, corporations, the government) make it happen. But don’t criticize the wealthy, even if you own shares in their companies. Just accept they’re not perfect and stop being mean.
•As I mentioned recently, the government has discouraged armored car companies from doing business with pot businesses in Washington and Colorado. But at least the DoJ is looking at new rules so businesses can put money in the bank.
•The Justice Department is suing a hospital chain for allegedly inflating bills by pushing doctors to (for example) push E/R patients into taking a hospital bed, even if they don’t need one.
•Car dealers charge non-whites more.
•Confederate groups freak out when a Florida battlefield considers putting up a monument to the Union dead.
•A man placed on the federal no-fly list can sue the government.
•In 2009, Glenn Beck predicted the state of the USA 2014. He was wrong. Much the way one religious right group predicted the apocalypse if Obama won in 2008.