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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

15 February - New Blog Picks

CIA Special Activities Division "Afghanis...Image by Jamiecat * via Flickr
 Aangirfan
CIA and NED
In 1979, in Nicaragua, the Sandinista Party took over from Somoza.

Carter and Reagan then got the CIA to use terrorism against the Sandanistas.


information liberation
Police beat the hell out of innocent students during botched raid
Police in New Brunswick raided the home of some young college students and beat the absolute hell out of them. The police failed to press any charges against the students and failed to even arrest them, indicating they knew they had no legal right to do so.


Former San Jose Police Chief Paid $534,000 Taxpayer Money in 2010  

140 people per day are arrested for marijuana possession in NYC  
As the economy is in a slump and the national unemployment rate is at a horrendous 9.8 percent as of January 2011, it would seem there are better ways to use taxpayer money than marijuana enforcement – which crowds jails with non-violent offenders, imposes substantial costs on non-violent ... (more) 

Atlanta police won't hinder citizens who videotape cops after dispute with Copwatch 
As part of Thursday's settlement, reached before a civil rights lawsuit was filed, the city will pay Kautz and Copwatch of East Atlanta $40,000 in damages. APD will also adopt an operating procedure that prohibits officers from interfering with citizens who are taping ... (more)

Obama Pencils In $37 Billion Budget Increase For DHS, Naked Body Scanners 
( Remember the scanners - which don't work effectively - are supplied by a company owned by the former head of 'Homeland Security' - Mike Chertoff )

Tomorrow the Federal Trade Commission will publish a decision denying William Isely’s application for an award of attorney fees after he previously defeated the Commission’s effort to hold him liable for allegedly false advertising claims made on a foreign website. Isely, a retiree in his mid-80s, spent two years fighting false FTC charges that he participated ... (more)

http://www.informationliberation.com

Cover of Cover of Police Beat




The Egyptian Crisis and Libertarian Class-Conflict Theory
For weeks, Egyptians long frustrated by decades of stifling, autocratic rule have taken to the streets. The unity of their demonstrations has been centered on what they are against more than what they are for. The demands that have arisen from the crowds, the prescriptive messages for change, have been very general, asking for fair elections and a civilian rather than military government. Now that erstwhile president Hosni Mubarak has finally made his exit from Cairo, the immediate future... (more)


Obama Sends $3.7 Trillion Budget to Congress  
President Obama sent Congress a $3.73 trillion budget Monday, a spending plan for 2012 that projects $1.1 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade but also continues adding to the national debt for years to come. ... (more) 



"At no point in the president's 10-year projection would the U.S. government spend less than it's taking in."


Turns out Toyota hysteria was overblown  



Let's Play "Name That Arab Despotism"!
There is a large and powerful Arab state ruled by a Soviet-trained military dictator. The figure he has chosen as a successor, the head of the secret police, was also trained in the Soviet Union, and the apparatus of terror and repression he s... (more)


 Conning Slaves
Seems John "The Perv" Pistole, chief deviant at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), "wants to hear our [ideas]" on "transportation security."

Indeed.

Haven’t outraged passengers shrieked ideas a-plenty at airports as The Perv’s underlings sexually abuse them? Yet this sociopath not only ignores the clamor, he refuses to change "screening procedures" however heart
... (more)
 



POLICE STATE - Atlanta Police Conducting Public Strip & Cavity Searches On Citizens


Wikileaks Wasn't The Only Operation HBGary Federal, Palantir And Berico Planned To Defraud  

Leaked HBGary Documents Show Plan To Spread Wikileaks Propaganda For BofA... And 'Attack' Glenn Greenwald

The Tea Party and civil liberties  Glenn Greenwald
It's long been clear that the best (and perhaps only) political hope for civil liberties in the U.S. is an alliance that transcends the standard Democrat v. GOP or left v. right dichotomies.  Last night's surprising (and temporary) failure of the House to extend some of the most controversial powers of the Patriot Act -- an extension jointly championed by the House GOP leadership and t...
The Constitution in PerilImage by Renegade98 via Flickr
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Amazon fights off North Carolina government parasites  
In a settlement signed with the American Civil Liberties Union, North Carolina has agreed not to seek personal information related to consumers’ online purchases. The state said it wanted the information so taxing officials could determine how much sales tax North Carolina was owed for web purchases.

The settlement follows a ruling in the U.S. District Court in Seattle last fall in a lawsuit brought by Amazon.com against the North Carolina Department of Revenue. The court said th
... (more)
 
 
US Chamber Of Commerce Wants More Censorship, More IP Protectionism


IMF discusses plan to replace dollar as reserve currency  

Paul Supporters Hijack Cheney-Rumsfeld Reunion, Call Cheney a War Criminal  

43% Say Government Policy Mistakes Created Great Depression of 1930s, 26% Disagree  
( Guess I disagree...because deliberate sabotage is not an accident ) 
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