December 19, 2021

Poland's Top Analyst: 4 of 6 Russian Scenarios End in Collapse

https://www.clarksvillian.com/post/russia-china-collapse-balkanization-ccp

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University of Warsaw's Eastern European specialist, Kazimierz Woycicki, has concluded there are six potential scenarios for Russia’s future. From Moscow’s perspective, four are disastrous; and two are more hopeful, although apparently, in the Polish scholar’s view, less likely.

The four negative scenarios include:

the territorial collapse and dissolution of the Russian Federation

the gradual but peaceful succession of regions within Russian

the Balkanization of Russia

the fall of Russia under the influence of China

December 7, 2021

Audio of a former slave explaining how personal debt and expenses work

This man gives amazing advice for managing your personal expenses.

https://www.clarksvillian.com/post/slave-hughes-interview-money

December 4, 2021

"Why do old people hate new music?"

http://www.clarksvillian.com/post/music-parents-kids-popular-hate

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November 25, 2021

Personal Property & Asset Seizure: Policing for Profit

https://www.clarksvillian.com/post/asset-seizure-policing-profit

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Civil asset forfeiture, or seizure, is one of the most shocking powers of the government. This power occurs when law enforcement confiscates private property with or without charging the owner with a crime.

In Tennessee, the betting odds are more likely law enforcement will take personal property than being a victim of theft. Scary, isn't it? Going back slightly more than a decade you will find Tennessee law enforcement has taken more than $150 million in cash and personal property – without criminal charges or legal accusations of criminal activity. The proceeds from these types of seizures are applied to policing budgets for equipment, computers, facilities, vehicles, or training. The concerns for these abuses are highly visible after The Institute for Justice released a study scoring Tennessee with a “D- “for “appalling civil forfeiture laws” at the state level. That’s not a statement made from a lack of facts or understanding. In late 2019, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wrote to Tennessee officials stating our civil asset forfeiture laws were among the least protective of property owners in the entire United States. Tennessee is unique to nearly all other states by requiring property owners to pay a Cost Bond to start the process necessary to have wrongfully seized property returned. That fee? $350.

November 17, 2021

Delta-8 Skirts TN Cannabis Laws

[http://www.clarksvillian.com/post/thc-tennessee-marijuana-delta8|

"While Tennessee sits on the sidelines of marijuana legalization, Tennesseans are choosing Delta-8, a psychoactive cannabis product nearly identical to marijuana. The two are isomers—chemical compounds with the same formula but different atomic arrangements—that offer similar mental effects with medicinal and recreational applications.

Since legalizing CBD oil in 2015, the Tennessee state legislature has failed to pass any laws legalizing medical or recreational cannabis. Tennessee has become a national outlier, one of five states in which marijuana is not legal for any purpose, not decriminalized, and potentially a felony. The state continues to widely enforce consequences for possession, reporting 30,781 marijuana-related arrests in 2019. Meanwhile, neighbors like South Carolina and Alabama are poised to legalize medical marijuana this year. Mississippi did it last November. While Tennessee stalls, residents turn to alternatives."

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