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Tech News World – by Chris Maxer
Movie star Anna Kendrick managed to say something in a single tweet that instantly nails anyone who would buy a gold Apple Watch Edition: “We should be thanking Apple for launching the $10,000 ‘apple watch’ as the new gold standard in douchebag detection.”
Right on. Continue reading “Apple Sinks to Selling a $10K ‘Douchebag Detector’”
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Outpost of Freedom – by Gary Hunt
Shortly after I posted Camp Lone Star – More like Wonderland, K. C. Massey provided me with his analysis of the Response by the government to his motions for suppressing evidence and dismissal. I have made minor edits for clarification. Otherwise, these are Massey’s own evaluation of the Response.
In all fairness, if anybody from the government side wants to rebut, or refute, either Massey’s or my post, I will be happy to accommodate them. Continue reading “Camp Lone Star – Massey says”
Natural Society – by Christina Sarich
It is time for some outdated, unconstitutional laws to be scrapped. Informally sharing seed with a neighbor who gardens down the street is illegal in multiple states in the US. The penalty for violating this ridiculous law is a fine of up to $7,500 a day. Like so many other senseless laws, this rule needs to be put to rest.
You can’t even give away seeds to someone in your own neighborhood under certain laws. For example, in Minnesota, where seed laws on the books are so laughable that unless you buy an annual permit and submit each lot of seeds for germination testing, you are defying the law. You even have to attach an appropriate label, even if you aren’t sharing the seeds with a local seed sharing library and just want to give them to your daughter-in-law for her new garden. Continue reading “Patented Life: Sharing Gardening Seeds Illegal in 30% Of US States”
Low oil prices are good for America according to President Obama. In fact, he has personally taken credit for the savings you’re experiencing.
In a normal economy lower prices at the pump would certainly help to spur growth in other sectors. The problem, of course, is that the new normal means that oil companies and banks leveraged heavily as prices rose. They assumed, like real estate speculators ahead of the 2008 crash, that the price of oil could only go in one direction. As we’ve seen in recent months, however, oil speculation is exactly that and despite our dependency on black gold the energy industry is not immune from massive price swings. Continue reading “Pink Slips: 100,000 Jobs Wiped Out Amid Oil Price Collapse: “Spreading Like Cancer””
Information Liberation – by Chris
Former Orange County, Florida sheriff’s deputy Jeff Iannuzzi was fired for lying and using excessive force, yet Ocoee, Florida police just hired him, telling the media he’s a “nice guy” who just has some “anger issues.”
From WFTV: Continue reading “FL Police Hire Cop Fired For Lying And Excessive Force, Say He’s A ‘Nice Guy’”
All Gov – by Noel Brinkerhoff, Steve Straehley
In some respects the Keystone XL project has been about more than just building a pipeline to carry toxic tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The controversial plan also has served as a sleight-of-hand trick for an industry that has quietly built other pipelines in recent years.
In fact, the U.S. system of oil pipelines has grown in size by nearly 25% over the past 10 years, according to the Associated Press. This expansion has resulted in more than 11,600 miles of pipeline being laid, much of it in the western half of the country. Compare that to Keystone, which would stretch only 1,179 miles. Continue reading “Keystone Pipeline Controversy Distracts Attention from Major Growth of other Oil Pipelines”
Something stunning took place earlier this week, and it quietly snuck by, unnoticed by anyone as the “all important” FOMC meeting was looming. That something could have been taken straight out of the playbook of either Cyprus, or Greece, or the USSR “evil empire”, or all three.
This is how the WSJ explained it:
The U.S. Justice Department’s criminal head said banks may need to go beyond filing suspicious activity reports when they encounter a risky customer. Continue reading “Justice Department Rolls Out An Early Form Of Capital Controls In America”
LONDON (AP) — One of the world’s most popular weed-killers — and the most widely used kind in the U.S. — has been labeled a probable carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
The decision was made by IARC, the France-based cancer research arm of the World Health Organization, which considered the status of five insect and weed killers including glyphosate, which is used globally in industrial farming. Continue reading “Popular Weed-Killer Is Probably Carcinogenic, WHO Says”
In the wake of Al Gore’s recent speech to the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, attention is being focused on the increasing trend among global warming activists to want to punish those who disagree with the concept of a manmade climate change.
“We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” Gore told the attendees, referring to a proposed federal cap-and-trade system that would penalize companies which exceed their carbon-emission limits. “And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics.” Continue reading “New Inquisition: Punish climate-change ‘deniers’”
Huffington Post – by Ryan J Reilly
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to grant clemency to federal offenders “more aggressively” during the remainder of his presidency, he said in a sit-down interview with The Huffington Post on Friday.
Obama has faced criticism for rarely using his power to grant pardons and commutations. In December, he commuted the sentences of eight federal drug offenders, including four who had been sentenced to life. That brought his total number of commutations to 18. Continue reading “Obama: I’ll Use Clemency Power ‘More Aggressively’”
Med Page Today – by Joshua Cohen MD, MPH
When President Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substance Act (CSA) in 1970, a wide array of substances, natural and manufactured, instantly became illegal. Categorized as Schedule I drugs, they are those substances determined by the Drug Enforcement Agency (also created by the CSA) to have a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S., and a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision. Continue reading “Cohen’s Brain Bits: Magical Mystery Medicine”
Islamic State has posted online what it says are the names, U.S. addresses and photos of 100 American military service members, and called upon its “brothers residing in America” to kill them.
The Pentagon said after the information was posted on the Internet that it was investigating the matter. “I can’t confirm the validity of the information, but we are looking into it,” a U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Saturday. Continue reading “Islamic State calls on backers to kill 100 U.S. military personnel”
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Outpost of Freedom – by Gary Hunt
In Camp Lone Star – “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree” and Camp Lone Star – “a Fundamental Right”, I discussed the motions filed by K. C. Massey’s attorney, Louis Sorola, the former being a motion to suppress evidence and the latter a motion to dismiss the charges. The government, surprisingly, managed to respond to those motions within the statutory time (20 days), when they filed the Continue reading “Camp Lone Star – More like Wonderland”
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Psychedelic mushrooms are a banned substance, and are legally in the same category as some of the most dangerous drugs.
But as CBS2’s Kristine Johnson reported, they’re making a comeback under the supervision of doctors who are giving patients the “magic mushroom medicine.”
The ’60s counterculture decade was an era of rebellion and experimentation with drugs– including psychedelics. But now, doctors want to bring them back. Continue reading “‘Magic Mushrooms’ Making A Medical Comeback”
The chairman of the congressional committee probing the Benghazi terror attacks has formally asked that Hillary Clinton turn over her personal server — warning that the House could take steps to pressure her if she refuses.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sent a letter, released Friday, to Clinton’s attorney requesting that the former secretary of state “relinquish” the server to a “neutral, detached and independent third-party” for review. Continue reading “Benghazi panel head Gowdy asks Clinton to ‘relinquish’ personal server”
Last week we reported that as part of the latest “check kiting” bailout scheme, Greek pensioners (and now utility companies) are being raided by the Greek government so that it can repay its debts to the IMF, which in turn would go ahead and fund a part of the recently approved $17.5 billion bailout of Ukraine, which then would have the money to pay its debts to Russia… and the IMF. And, as we also noted, “The only question is how long will it take the current puppet government to syphon off enough funds into various illegal ventures and offshore accounts before the IMF has to step back in a la Greece with bailout #2.” Continue reading “US Taxpayers To Fund Ukraine Bailout With Bond Guarantee”
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