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Fox 13 Salt Lake City – by Gene Kennedy
MIDVALE, Utah — Two University of Utah students say Unified Police officers had no business handcuffing them in their Midvale apartment.
They said they were treated like criminals in their own home. Police entered the residence a week ago because the front door was open. Cops said they have a duty to investigate if they’ve announced themselves and no one responds. Continue reading “Students say cops entered residence, handcuffed occupants without cause”
Our “pen and phone” president is at it again.
The Department of Commerce, in a Friday night release, signaled that it was going to give up American control over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which assigns and maintains domain names and web addresses for the Internet. Continue reading “Why would Obama risk Internet freedom? Time for Congress to step up”
The Kansas City Star – by TONY RIZZO
The mother of a 21-year-old man shot to death last year by Kansas City police officers filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday.
The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City says police used unreasonable and excessive force when they shot Waylen Wealot while they were in the 4000 block of East 11th Street. Continue reading “Federal lawsuit is filed over fatal shooting by Kansas City police”
Global Research – by Colin Todhunter
The Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) between the US and EU aims to ‘protect’ investment and remove ‘unnecessary regulatory barriers’. Corporate interests are driving the agenda, the public have been sidelined and unaccountable, pro-free-trade bureaucrats are facilitating the strategy (1).
There is growing concern that the negotiations could result in the opening of the floodgates for GMOs and shale gas (fracking) in Europe, the threatening of digital and labour rights and the empowering of corporations to legally challenge a wide range of regulations which they dislike. Continue reading “The US-EU Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA). Devastating Social and Environmental Consequences”
Free-Man’s Perspective – by Paul Rosenberg
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
– Albert Einstein (attributed)
The insane dream has streamed endlessly through my lifetime. I saw it as a boy, and I see it still. It has never really produced any results, and it certainly shows no promise of doing so in the near future. Continue reading “The Insane Dream”
Townhall – by Sarah Jean Seman
The grievous shooting at Fort Hood Wednesday claimed three innocent lives and left 16 wounded—the deaths occurred in a gun-free zone due to former president Clinton’s 1993 policy to disarm soldiers on military bases.
The attack at Fort Hood lasted 15 minutes before military police arrived and exchanged fire with the shooter who then shot himself, according to the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading “GOP Rep. Stockman Urges House to Repeal Gun Ban on Military Bases”
Everything is rigged. That’s what we have found out over the last two years. Stock markets, forex, interest rates, the price of gold, silver, oil, aluminum…. After battling that rigged world all day, you finally get home or rest your elbows on the bar of a watering hole, and all you want is chill out, go back to basics, and take that first big gulp of your favorite beer. It would heal the wounds of the day, and you’d feel good, knowing that it’s the one thing left in this world – something so fundamental to life that it goes back thousands of years – that hasn’t been rigged against you yet. Continue reading “Turns Out, Even The Price Of Beer Is Rigged”
Defense One – by Elahe Izadi, National Journal
In a closed hearing Thursday, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted 11-3 to declassify portions of a CIA report detailing post-9/11 interrogation tactics.
The lawmakers sent their request to the White House to declassify more than 500 pages of a 6,200-page report, including an executive summary, findings, and conclusions about an interrogation program involving more than 100 detainees. Continue reading “Senate Votes to Declassify Report on CIA Interrogations”
Business Insider – by HAYLEY PETERSON
UPS is firing 250 Queens, N.Y., drivers for walking off the job during a 90-minute protest in February.
The company dismissed 20 of the workers after their shifts Monday and issued notices of termination to another 230 employees, notifying them that they will be fired once the company has trained their replacements, UPS spokesman Steve Gaut told Business Insider. Continue reading “UPS Fires 250 Employees For Staging A 90-Minute Protest To Defend Co-Worker”
SALT LAKE CITY, April 2, 2014 – On Monday, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill which thwarts some of the effects of the growing surveillance state.
HB0128, which previously passed the state senate by a vote of 28-0 and the house by a vote of 71-2, makes any electronic data obtained by law enforcement without a warrant inadmissible in a criminal proceeding. Continue reading “Banning Warrantless Data: Utah Governor Signs Privacy Bill into Law”
Brietbart – by AWR HAWKINS, Sept 17, 2013
It hasn’t always been the case that only MPs can carry firearms on U.S. military bases. A mere twenty years ago, “gun free zones” made their way to these facilities under the watch of President Bill Clinton.
According to a Washington Times editorial written days after the Nov. 5, 2009 attack on soldiers at Fort Hood, one of Clinton’s “first acts upon taking office… was to disarm U.S. soldiers on military bases.” Continue reading “When did Military Bases become ‘Gun-Free Zones’?”
A U.S. government office has the power to approve exports of an abundant type of petroleum and help energy companies begin to partially bypass a 40-year ban on crude exports, according to a report released on Tuesday by Lisa Murkowski, the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
The ban on crude exports the government put in place after the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s includes a prohibition on exports of unprocessed condensate, a light petroleum that appears in oil reservoirs as a gas, but condenses to a liquid when it leaves the well. Continue reading “Key senator says U.S. office can lift part of oil export ban”
A shooting has occurred at Fort Hood, Texas, the same base where a military psychiatrist killed 13 people 4½ years ago, an Army official told NBC News.
The base was locked down, and all personnel on the base were ordered to shelter in place immediately. Continue reading “Shooting Reported at Fort Hood, Texas”
Portland, Oregon – March 31, 2014 – A decision in the civil case against John Brennan, the man who disrobed in the April 17, 2012 protest of TSA’s passenger screenings, is expected this week. The Hon. George J. Jordan heard the civil case which includes a proposed $1,000 fine against Mr. Brennan.
The Hon. George J. Jordan, United States Coast Guard Administrative Law Judge heard the Transportation Screening Agency’s case against Mr. Brennan on May 14, 2013, for the protest that occurred in April, 2012. Continue reading “TSA to Disrobe Legal Decision in Protester Case”
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) introduced a bill Tuesday to repeal the 1970s ban on exporting crude oil, a move he said would create jobs and provide an energy alternative for United States allies.
The prohibition was enacted in response to OPEC’s oil embargo, but the ban is now outdated, McCaul said. Continue reading “House rep wants to lift ban on crude exports”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court struck down limits Wednesday in federal law on the overall campaign contributions the biggest individual donors may make to candidates, political parties and political action committees.
The justices said in a 5-4 vote that Americans have a right to give the legal maximum to candidates for Congress and president, as well as to parties and PACs, without worrying that they will violate the law when they bump up against a limit on all contributions, set at $123,200 for 2013 and 2014. That includes a separate $48,600 cap on contributions to candidates. Continue reading “High court voids overall contribution limits”
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