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The TV assembler that you are referring to was called Element Electronics, in South Carolina. They were kind of a fraud. https://www.postandcourier.com...

But the trade group heard about Element, and it bought a couple of sets. When they opened their boxes — draped with pictures of the American flag — they were startled to see “made in China” stamped on the back.

So in 2014, they filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, accusing Element of misleading marketing. They described the company’s practices as “red, white and blue-washing,” since a product can’t be called “made in America” if its parts are all foreign.

Basically, they had the entire TV manufactured and assembled, then shipped to their South Carolina plant already in the box in which it would be sold. American workers opened the box, tested the TV to ensure that it worked, and packaged it back up. For this, they tried to imply on the packaging that it was made in the USA. And they also took government subsidies.

I agree they aren't exactly the poster child for US assembly; but they do illustrate the broader impact of tariffs as the cost of materials and components used to build things in the US make US companies uncompetitive with imports. This is happening when raw material prices rise; such as for a nail manufacturer, and finished products come in tariff free or at a lower rate. The government could slap on more tariffs, but that is just a tax increase on everyone and lead to bad economic results.

But the trade group heard about Element, and it bought a couple of sets. When they opened their boxes — draped with pictures of the American flag — they were startled to see “made in China” stamped on the back.

So in 2014, they filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, accusing Element of misleading marketing. They described the company’s practices as “red, white and blue-washing,” since a product can’t be called “made in America” if its parts are all foreign.

Basically, they had the entire TV manufactured and assembled, then shipped to their South Carolina plant already in the box in which it would be sold. American workers opened the box, tested the TV to ensure that it worked, and packaged it back up. For this, they tried to imply on the packaging that it was made in the USA. And they also took government subsidies.

According to this, the coral is 1/2 mile deep

This is especially interesting in that this occured in a cult-like atmosphere, considered very difficult to get accusations out of victims at all, much less timely ones. Almost certain that this creep will spend the rest of his life in jail.

Justice delayed is justice denied. Which doesn't fit in your narrative.

Respectfully submitted from a part of the problem, Ol Olsoc.

No the police claimed the person was physically resisting. Or reaching for their weapon. Or waving around what appeared to be a weapon.

But we've seen enough cases in which video surfaces that contradicts the police claims to be forced to doubt those claims. Sure sometimes there really is a wolf, but given a documented history of crying wolf the police don't have the benefit of the doubt.

The shooting of Walter Scott was a pretty textbook example. Before the video surfaced of him being shot in the back while slowly running away we had all the usual claims:

"during the struggle the man gained control of the Taser and attempted to use it against the officer" - http://www.postandcourier.com/...

"felt threatened and reached for his department-issued firearm and fired his weapon" - http://www.postandcourier.com/...

And sure there was a struggle involved and if he hasn't been resisting he probably wouldn't be dead - but the point of that one is that we have a police officer saying the standard "I felt threatened", "I feared for my life", "he went for my weapon" lines they use to justify killing people when clearly it wasn't actually the case.

No the police claimed the person was physically resisting. Or reaching for their weapon. Or waving around what appeared to be a weapon.

But we've seen enough cases in which video surfaces that contradicts the police claims to be forced to doubt those claims. Sure sometimes there really is a wolf, but given a documented history of crying wolf the police don't have the benefit of the doubt.

The shooting of Walter Scott was a pretty textbook example. Before the video surfaced of him being shot in the back while slowly running away we had all the usual claims:

"during the struggle the man gained control of the Taser and attempted to use it against the officer" - http://www.postandcourier.com/...

"felt threatened and reached for his department-issued firearm and fired his weapon" - http://www.postandcourier.com/...

And sure there was a struggle involved and if he hasn't been resisting he probably wouldn't be dead - but the point of that one is that we have a police officer saying the standard "I felt threatened", "I feared for my life", "he went for my weapon" lines they use to justify killing people when clearly it wasn't actually the case.

Because someone (presumably the lawyer) gave a copy of it to the New York Times.

Prior to the video, the media was spinning the situation as a case of self-defense by a military veteran police officer against a ten-time convicted criminal. Never mind that he served in the Coast Guard and that the victim hadn't been convicted of anything violent since 1987. After the video, no one can deny that that account is quite incorrect. Moreover, the video makes it clear that evidence was planted (the officer can be seen picking up what we assume is his Tazer and then dropping it next to the victim), that he lied on the police report (he claimed that CPR was administered; it wasn't), and that his partner was in on all of it (his partner is standing next to him as he plants the evidence).

There's this thing called the "court of public opinion", and the lawyer probably recognized that it was important to get ahead of the issue, stop the spin the media was putting on it, and put national public pressure on the police and DA to deal with this correctly, otherwise it would have turned into another nameless guy getting killed in self-defense by the police. Instead, they now have a real chance at winning their case against the officer.

Don't know why you were downmodded. Prison farming works very well in South Carolina.

http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20100727/PC1602/307279946

In some areas, higher than average usage is reported to authorities. So, your power may not be packet inspected... but if you happen to be keeping persistent cloud based backups of your data and using up a TON of bandwidth... you may have your house raided in the middle of the night under suspicion of sharing data with people.

Yes, we call those lobbyists. Especially the ones supposedly elected to keep the peoples' interests at heart. Of course, when legislation magical gets framed to help the IPO Speaker of the House Pelosi benefited by where are all the economists then? Do they think that economies should be run by insider trading at the highest levels of government? From the reaction I've witnessed so far, apparently.

I watched a inventor's pre-carb unit allow a Cadillac get over 100 mpg on a test track back in the late 70's. There's plenty of evidence that energy cartels remove these products from the market one way or another.

Gasoline is somehow our number one export in America right now but I paid $3.79 at the pump today.

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/dec/31/for-gas-guzzling-us-fuel-is-now-top-export/

http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/05/news/economy/gasoline_export/index.htm

Just keep your head in the sand. Ignore the man behind the curtain.

Perhaps the "seven feet" derives from a photo like this.

Some of the schools in the "Corridor of Shame" are falling apart so badly that they have to beg private companies for basic furniture. The education department should at least get the basic facilities of the schools functioning before they start getting this extravagant. There are schools in the lowcountry that still don't have air-conditioning (in a state where it can get into the 100's, and a wet heat to boot) and have holes in the classroom walls you can see daylight through.