Month: December 2016

Ars Technica – by CYRUS FARIVAR

OAKLAND, Calif.—Most pieces of software don’t have the power to get someone arrested—but Tyler Technologies’ Odyssey Case Manager does. This is the case management software that runs on the computers of hundreds and perhaps even thousands of court clerks and judges in county courthouses across the US. (Federal courts use an entirely different system.)

Typically, when a judge makes a ruling—for example, issuing or rescinding a warrant—those words said by a judge in court are entered into Odyssey. That information is then relied upon by law enforcement officers to coordinate arrests and releases and to issue court summons. (Most other courts, even if they don’t use Odyssey, use a similar software system from another vendor.)   Continue reading “Lawyers: New court software is so awful it’s getting people wrongly arrested”

Video Rebel’s Blog

Unpayable Debts are never paid.      Dr Michael Hudson

Dr Michael Hudson wrote Super Imperialism in 1972. That was the year after President Nixon took us off the gold exchange standard and the year before Henry Kissinger launched the Petro-Dollar. Hudson went to the State Department and the Pentagon to explain his book. He told them that the US was incapable of balancing its trade deficit.  All those foreign wars and military bases were too expensive. By replacing gold with the US Dollar as the world’s reserve currency, America was capable of printing dollars to pay for the occupation of foreign nations. These were dollars that the occupied nations needed to conduct trade. It is as if we were paying nothing for everything we bought. When a general in the audience finally understood how this system worked, he said, “Wow! We’re ripping people off.”   Continue reading “Donald Trump Vs The Debt Bomb”

Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

When we talk about declining jobs and economic burdens, the narrative conditions many to blame some “other” political or cultural group. But perhaps the least talked about threat to jobs comes from the government itself in the form of occupational licensing.

A new analysis from the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) found that in Wisconsin alone, the rapid expansion of licensing requirements over the past 20 years caused 31,000 fewer jobs to be had, and cost consumers almost $2 billion.   Continue reading “Study Shows Govt Licensing Kills 31,000 Jobs & Costs Consumers $2 billion – In 1 State Alone”

New York Times – by Daniel Victor

The man held in the fatal shooting of the former N.F.L. player Joe McKnight in Louisiana admitted to investigators that he had pulled the trigger, the authorities said, but he was allowed to walk free without charges on Friday while they investigated the case.

The man, Ronald Gasser, 54, was released overnight, hours after Mr. McKnight was shot three times about 2:45 p.m. Thursday in an apparent “road rage” episode in Terrytown, La., about five miles southeast of New Orleans, the sheriff’s office said.   Continue reading “Man Who Police Say Admitted Shooting Joe McKnight Is Freed Without Charge”

USA the Republic

A CONSTITUTION FOR THE NEWSTATES OF AMERICA, from the book, THE EMERGING CONSTITUTION by Rexford G. Tugwell, published 1974 (Harper & Row: $20.00) illustrates with chilling clarity the final objective of regional governance conspirators. The goal is a corporate state concentrating economic, political and social powers in the hands of a ruling elite. “A Constitution for the Newstates of America”, is the fortieth version of this revolutionary document prepared by a team of social experimenters at the CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, Fund for the Republic (Ford Foundation), Post Office Box 4068, Santa Barbara, California 93103.   Continue reading “Proposed Constitution for the Newstates of America”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A man who took a rifle into a Washington pizza restaurant on Sunday “to self-investigate” a fake news report that it was operating a child abuse ring has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, police in the U.S. capital said.

Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement that Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, of Salisbury, North Carolina, was charged after the incident at Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington near the Maryland border on Sunday afternoon.   Continue reading “Gunman charged after threatening DC restaurant hit by fake news”

Silent Crow News – by Timothy Alexander Guzman

What President-elect Trump says and what he will actually do, still remains to be seen. However, Trump had made statements in the past regarding Israel and the Palestinians do raise some important questions. The Palestinians whether in the West Bank, the Gaza strip and elsewhere have legitimate concerns regarding the Trump administration that is set to begin on January 20th, 2017. Trump will begin his term not only as the commander-in-chief of a global empire, but as a friend to Israel, probably its “best friend” after some of the statements he made in the past.  The New York Times reported what right-wing members of the Israeli government thought about Trump’s victory on November 14th, ‘Israel’s Right, Cheering Donald Trump’s Win, Renews Calls to Abandon 2-State Solution’:   Continue reading “Three Reasons Why Trump will be Good for Israel and Bad for the Palestinians”

WSWS – by Joseph Kishore

US President-elect Donald Trump expressed his support for the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) ahead of an evacuation order, due to go into effect on Monday, against thousands of people protesting the oil pipeline project.

Trump’s transition team released a statement reaffirming his support for the $3.8 billion project and claiming that this position is not related to his personal investment of $500,000 in Energy Partners, the Texas-based company that is leading the project. In his speech in Cincinnati on Tuesday, Trump pledged to “eliminate every single wasteful regulation” and remove all “restrictions on the production of shale energy, oil, natural gas and clean coal.”   Continue reading “Trump declares support for Dakota Access Pipeline ahead of evacuation order against protesters”

Craig Roberts

Terry Yeakey was a giant of a man with a heart as big as the rest of him. I
wish I had known him. He was a crusader for truth. Whenever his name is
mentioned, I think of the news photo of him sprinting down NW 5th Street
toward the Murrah Building on another of the many rescue missions he
performed that ugly day. In his blue uniform, he tends to remind us of a NFL
linebacker about to put the sack on an unfortunate quarterback, but this is
quickly overridden by the grave concern on the face of a policeman in a
panic to save lives.
Continue reading “Who Killed Terry Yeakey?”

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Jurist

California’s 5th District Court of Appeals[official website] on Thursday reversed and remanded [opinion, PDF] a lower court ruling which rejected a challenge to a state law requiring gun microstamping. In 2007 then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger [official profile] signed a bill[materials] intended to combat gun trafficking and ease crime investigations involving bullet casings. The bill required [AP report] gun manufacturers to double-mark semiautomatic pistols with “a microscopic array of characters” that would identify the weapon and imprint on inserted cartridges when fired. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute (SAAMI) [advocacy websites] later challenged the law, stating that microstamping guns on two different areas is technologically impossible. Continue reading “California appeals court remands challenge to gun microstamping law”