Biden Commutes Sentences Of Dozens On Death Row

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by Tyler Durden

Monday, Dec 23, 2024

President Joe Biden on Monday announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 out of 40 prisoners currently sitting on the federal government's death row - which will reclassify their sentences to life without the possibility of parole.

The three men who were not spared for "terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder" are: "Robert D. Bowers, 52, who in 2018 gunned down 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh; Dylann Roof, 30, who opened fire on Black parishioners in 2015 at a church in Charleston, SC, killing nine people; and Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 31.

The decision comes weeks before Biden is set to leave office.

"I’ve dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system," Biden said in a statement - before suggesting that the US must abolish the death penalty at the federal level except in cases of terrorism and mass murder.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-commutes-sentences-dozens-death-row

Visualizing The $115 Trillion World Economy In One Chart

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by Tyler Durden

Monday, Dec 23, 2024

There’s nothing quite like a big chart to really get into the data. In this edition, Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao takes a look at the massive $115 trillion world economy in 2025, along with how it breaks down per country.

Ranked: Every Country by GDP in 2025

The U.S. has been the world’s largest economy for over 100 years, and in 2025 will maintain its lead, at $30.3 trillion.

Rank Countries 2025 GDP (Billions USD)

1 🇺🇸 U.S. $30,337.2

2 🇨🇳 China $19,534.9

3 🇩🇪 Germany $4,921.6

4 🇯🇵 Japan $4,389.3

5 🇮🇳 India $4,271.9

6 🇬🇧 UK $3,730.3

7 🇫🇷 France $3,283.4

8 🇮🇹 Italy $2,459.6

9 🇨🇦 Canada $2,330.3

10 🇧🇷 Brazil $2,307.2

11 🇷🇺 Russia $2,195.7

12 🇰🇷 South Korea $1,947.1

13 🇦🇺 Australia $1,881.1

14 🇪🇸 Spain $1,827.6

15 🇲🇽 Mexico $1,817.8

16 🇮🇩 Indonesia $1,492.6

17 🇹🇷 Türkiye $1,455.4

18 🇳🇱 Netherlands $1,273.0

19 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia $1,136.6

20 🇨🇭 Switzerland $999.6

21 🇵🇱 Poland $915.5

22 🇹🇼 Taiwan $814.4

23 🇧🇪 Belgium $689.4

24 🇸🇪 Sweden $638.8

25 🇮🇪 Ireland $587.2

26 🇦🇷 Argentina $574.2

27 🇦🇪 UAE $568.6

28 🇸🇬 Singapore $561.7

29 🇦🇹 Austria $559.2

30 🇮🇱 Israel $550.9

31 🇹🇭 Thailand $545.3

32 🇵🇭 Philippines $507.7

33 🇳🇴 Norway $506.5

34 🇻🇳 Vietnam $506.4

35 🇲🇾 Malaysia $488.3

36 🇧🇩 Bangladesh $481.9

37 🇮🇷 Iran $463.7

38 🇩🇰 Denmark $431.2

39 🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR $422.1

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https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/visualizing-115-trillion-world-economy-one-chart

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1944–1956: Radioactive nutrition experiments on retarded children by Harvard and MIT

In December of 1993, Scott Allen, a journalist at the Boston Globe, uncovered documents showing years of ethically dubious experiments conducted on Fernald Center youth. The day after Christmas, he published an article, “Radiation Used on Retarded,” noting that “Records at the Fernald State School list them as “morons,” but the researchers from MIT and Harvard University called the retarded teen-age boys who took part in their radiation experiments ‘the Fernald Science Club.'”

Developmentally disabled children at the Fernald State School and a state School in Waltham, Massachusetts were subjected to radioactive nutrition experiments sponsored by the AEC conducted by Harvard University and MIT researchers. The children were fed Quaker Oats breakfast cereal containing radioactive tracers to test absorption of plant minerals and calcium. Parents were never informed that radioactive elements were involved in the tests.

https://ahrp.org/1944-1956-radioactive-nutrition-experiments-conducted-by-harvard-and-mit-on-disabled-children/