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Posted on 12.19.10 by Mary Lou Seymour
As of today, Liberty Action News, a service of Rational Review News, will be moving to a new site at http://rationalreview.news-digests.com/land Last week’s stories can still be found at the old site http://www.rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 12.19.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on Bill of Rights Day, Trapped in Bank of America hell, Terrorism by association, WikiLeaks as this century’s Upton Sinclair, The assault on Assange is an assault on liberty, “V” for Vigilante, Copsuckers, Gun Owners Year in Review — 2010, Six companies that haven’t wussed out of working with WikiLeaks, DoJ preps for ominous expansion of “anti-terrorism” Law targeting activists and more! In the news, Assange (relatively) free on bail, UK Transit thugs to begin random searches, Suspicious” ornament shuts Pentagon train station, Lawyers in gun case argue for $3.13 million attorney fees, Assange still committed to publishing secret documents: mother, Australian Police who broke man’s leg over taunt may cost taxpayers $200,000, Limits of free speech tested by off-the-cuff online remarks Til next week For freedom Mary Lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Montreal Gazette [Canada] Posted on 12.16.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “A British court granted bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Thursday after rejecting an appeal to keep him in jail while he fights extradition to Sweden to answer allegations of sex crimes. … The judge endorsed the stringent bail conditions imposed by the lower court, which included a 240,000-pound ($374,000) surety and the requirement that Assange wear an electronic tag and abide by a curfew. When he is released, Assange will swap the stark surroundings of Wandsworth prison in London for a friend’s country mansion in Suffolk, eastern England, and report regularly to police as conditions of the bail.” (12/16/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/3xtohoq Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Agence France-Presse Posted on 12.16.10 by Steve Trinward “Riders on the Washington metro system were warned Thursday to expect random checks of carry-on items two days after the government disclosed the arrest of an Afghan man for allegedly threatening to bomb the system. The stepped-up security [sic] measures at the height of the Christmas shopping season also coincided with a warning by Interpol that it had received information about possible Al-Qaeda attacks in the United States and Europe.” (12/16/10) Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/dc-subway-random-searches/ Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 12.15.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A blinking Christmas ornament in a Pentagon subway trash can caused the station to be shut down Wednesday during morning rush hour, diverting hundreds of passengers in frigid temperatures while authorities investigated the ’suspicious object.’” (12/15/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2cmfw9v Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Legal Times Posted on 12.14.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Lawyers for the District of Columbia residents who successfully challenged the city’s ban on handguns were in court today defending their request for nearly $3.13 million in legal fees and costs. Alan Gura, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, urged a Washington federal trial judge to award the team the prevailing market value for attorneys who handle complex federal litigation. Gura called the fee request reasonable, citing his efficiency and his overall success in the case.” (12/13/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2vmght6 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Reuters Posted on 12.14.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told his mother from his prison cell in London that he remained committed to publishing secret U.S. cables, despite condemnation from Washington and elsewhere, Australian television reported Tuesday.” [editor’s note: The picture accompanying this story is, well, you gotta see it … -MLS] (12/14/10) Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL3E6NE0H420101214 Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: News.com.au [Australia] Posted on 12.13.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Police who broke a man’s leg after he taunted them about not being able to park a car could end up costing taxpayers $200,000 in compensation. The leg of Martin Francis, 46, was badly broken in two places, he lost his job and was out of work for eight months after he was wrongfully arrested in August last year and jammed into a police vehicle outside a Mount Isa nightclub.” (12/09/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/3xlqqxf Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 12.12.10 by Steve Trinward “What’s a tweet, between friends? The law says sometimes it’s a threat. One man thought he was just bantering with his pals when he joked about blowing an airport sky-high. Another was reacting to a radio phone-in when he mused about stoning a journalist to death. Because they made their throwaway comments on Twitter, both are in legal trouble. Their cases have outraged civil libertarians and inflamed debate about the limits of free speech in a Web 2.0 world. The Internet makes private jokes, tastes, and opinions available for public consumption, blurring the line between public and private in a way that has left the law gasping to keep up.” (12/12/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24afj8y Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 12.12.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on Power and force in “Crash”, Radical muslims aren’t alone, Nightmare with Child Protective Services, Problems in communications and political activism, End the FCC, Pushing a right to bear arms: The sharp kind, Homeland Security “messages” coming to Walmart, Government forced to release docs on spying program, and Wikileaks (What can one person do to help , Acid test,From Jefferson to Assange, Wikileaks vs. the empire, Wikileaks mirrors, Truth in chains, How WikiLeaks altered the way we see the world in just a week, Anatomy of a DDOS and why it matters to you, Hands off Assange, WikiLeaks no threat to free society, How denial works and Wanted by the empire, dead or alive.) In the news, Pro-WikiLeaks cyber army gains strength, Protests shake Haiti after vote, We Won’t Fly billboard campaign takes off, Ohio Town debates dropping flag for pole-dancing Santa, Evidence for ET is mounting daily, but not proven, on again off again “Free Brian Aitken” Rally, Poll paints a bleak picture for the West in Afghanistan, Tennessee Efforts to copy Arizona Know-Nothing appeasement law , UK Santa faces littering rap, DoT exploring technology that would disable cell phones in cars, Three injured as police clash with protesters in Greece, PayPal joins Internet backlash against WikiLeaks, and Mississippi Supreme Court grants Corey Maye new trial til next week Fopr freedom! Mary lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Computer World Posted on 12.09.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “The retaliatory attacks by pro-WikiLeaks activists are growing in strength as hackers add botnets and thousands of people download an open-source attack tool, security researchers said today. … Most of those participating in the attacks are using the LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) DDoS tool, said researchers with Imperva and Sophos. The open-source tool, which is sometimes classified as a legitimate network- and firewall-stress testing utility, is being downloaded at the rate of about 1,000 copies per hour, said Tal Be’ery, the Web research team lead at Imperva’s Application Defense Center.” (12/09/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/27my9r7 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: New York Times Posted on 12.09.10 by Steve Trinward “Violent protests, ignited by preliminary presidential election results in Haiti that were widely considered suspect, shut down this troubled country yesterday and threatened the fragile stability that has held since the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. Businesses and schools were closed, streets emptied of traffic, and the international airport was closed. Protesters set fire to the party headquarters of President Rene Preval’s chosen successor, and many hundreds marched on the Electoral Council offices, where United Nations peacekeeping troops repelled them with tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash-bang grenades.” (12/09/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2fwopct Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Libertarian News Examiner Posted on 12.09.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “If you thought the airport Opt Out Day demonstrations on the day before Thanksgiving was a one-shot showdown against abusive TSA tactics you thought wrong. The We Won’t Fly team of Jim Babb and George Donnelly has launched a follow-up protest — placing giant billboards outside America’s airports.” (12/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/26ar9z3 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 12.08.10 by Steve Trinward “For more than a decade, as Christmas approached and a bone-chilling cold held the Midwest in its grip, officials in Willoughby, Ohio, would take down the most prominent American flag in town and replace it with … a pole-dancing Santa Claus. The illuminated Santa is part of an elaborate holiday light display in a downtown park, and leaders in the city located 18 miles northeast of Cleveland say Saint Nick has been swinging on that same 100-foot flagpole for about 12 years. But this year, for the first time, some residents of the town of 23,000 are saying the tradition is unpatriotic, especially in a time of war.” (12/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/23othn9 Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 12.08.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Lately, a handful of new discoveries make it seem more likely that we are not alone — that there is life somewhere else in the universe. In the past several days, scientists have reported there are three times as many stars as they previously thought. Another group of researchers discovered a microbe can live on arsenic, expanding our understanding of how life can thrive under the harshest environments. And earlier this year, astronomers for the first time said they’d found a potentially habitable planet.” (12/08/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101208/ap_on_sc/us_sci_alien_life Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: SAF Press Release Posted on 12.07.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation will travel to New Jersey Dec. 12 to join speakers at a rally in Toms River in support of Brian Aitken. The New Jersey man has been imprisoned for essentially having two legally-owned handguns in his car, parked at his parents’ home, along with other belongings he was moving to a new residence in another city.” (12/06/10) Link: http://www.saf.org/viewpr-new.asp?id=347 Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News | |
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Source: Globe and Mail [UK] Posted on 12.07.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Most Afghans want foreign troops out sooner rather than later because life is worse, rather than better, since the surge of tens of thousands of troops thrown into the fight by U.S. President Barack Obama a year ago. Big majorities want Hamid Karzai’s government to negotiate with the Taliban, regard corruption as endemic and believe Afghan government officials are pocketing much of the billions earmarked for aid and development.” (12/06/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/25k7vxa Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Tennessean Posted on 12.06.10 by Steve Trinward “State Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, is working on a Tennessee version of the controversial Arizona law that made it a state crime to be in the country illegally [sic]. It also gave local police power to question and detain anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant. Ketron said he expects to file his bill by Thursday. ‘You can’t deny how (illegal immigration) is affecting us, from education to health care to the judicial system to incarceration, and more importantly the number of jobs it’s taken away,’ he said.” [editor’s note: Yes you can deny it; xenophobia, scapegoating and racism are the only purpose of this nonsense - SAT] (12/06/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/29k7n68 Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Orange News [UK] Posted on 12.06.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Council officials are threatening to prosecute a secret Santa for leaving Christmas gifts for children in a park. The mystery man, who signs himself The Woodland Santa, creeps into Pembrey country park, near Llanelli, at night to hang gift-wrapped books and toys from trees. But Carmarthenshire council warned the man that he could land in court for fly-tipping, reports The Mirror.” (12/02/10) Link: http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Santa_faces_littering_rap Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: The Hill Posted on 12.06.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “The Transportation Department is looking into technology to disable cell phones in vehicles, according to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. ‘There’s a lot of technology out there that can disable phones and we’re looking at that,’ LaHood said on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe.’” ( 12/03/10 ) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24hlo4b Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Reuters Posted on 12.06.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Greek police clashed with youths hurling petrol bombs in Athens on Monday during protests to mark the anniversary of the 2008 police killing of a teenager that triggered the country’s worst riots in decades. Three people were injured as thousands marched through the Greek capital in protests the authorities had feared would turn violent amid rising public discontent as Greece battles a debt crisis with stringent austerity measures.” (12/06/10) Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B53J820101206 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Guardian [UK] Posted on 12.05.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “The backlash against WikiLeaks intensifed today after payments site PayPal revealed it had frozen WikiLeaks’ account, saying it was being used to ‘encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity.’ The company, owned by auction website eBay, revealed it had cut access for donations to WikiLeaks amid unsubstantiated speculation that the decision may have been inspired by heavy political pressure.” (12/04/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/27fzk8d Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: State of Mississippi Court Opinions Posted on 12.05.10 by Mary Lou Seymour From the decision: “We vacate the judgment of the Court of Appeals. We also reverse Maye’s judgment of conviction, because the trial court committed reversible error by refusing Maye’s requested defense-of-others jury instruction. Therefore, we remand this case to the trial court for a new trial consistent with this opinion. On remand, Maye is entitled to reassert his right to be tried in Jefferson Davis County.” [PDF] (12/02/10) Link: http://www.mssc.state.ms.us/Images/Opinions/CO65411.pdf Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 12.05.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on Letter to Amazon, Ideas to die for, Wikileaks and the New Global Order, The FBI’s Stalinist Homeland Security theater, DHS declare war on the Net — let’s fight back, 10 skills needed to survive post-collapse, The pushy parents of modern-day radicalism, When will Americans take to the streets?, FBI thwarts own car bomb, Power grabs at the airport, the Sickly state of 1st Amendment and more! In the news US military tries to intimidate soldiers in Iraq into not reading Wikileaks, PayPal joins Internet backlash against WikiLeaks, High school player flagged for TD nod to God, WikiLeaks, hammered by attacks, loses Amazon host, Abuse expert: TSA gropers prep kids for predators, December 4 is Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry Day in Ohio, Idiot pol wants to label Wikileaks a “foreign terrorist organization”, Chinese Woman adopts 1500 stray dogs, government steals land, Thousands protest against Irish bailout Til next week For freedom Mary Lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Gawker Posted on 12.05.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “U.S. soldiers in Iraq who try to read about the Wikileaks disclosures — or read coverage of them in mainstream news sites — on unclassified networks get a page warning them that they’re about to break the law.” (12/05/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/347grfb Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 12.02.10 by Steve Trinward “A high school football player in Tacoma, Wash., got flagged for dropping to his knee and pointing to the sky after scoring a touchdown during a playoff game. ‘It’s just something I do every time I get in the end zone,’ said Ronnie Hastie, a Tumwater High School running back. ‘To honor my Lord because I play for him. I give him the glory because he’s the one that gives me the strength.’ Although Hastie’s strength may be divine, high school referees are apparently not.” (12/01/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/235gglk Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: New Zealand Herald [New Zealand] Posted on 12.01.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Amazon, after coming under fire for hosting WikiLeaks, booted it from its servers on Wednesday, prompting the whistleblower website to shift to Web-hosting services in Europe. … The WikiLeaks website was sluggish and periodically unavailable on Wednesday but it was not immediately clear if this was due to its hosting issues or if it had again come under cyberattack as in previous days.” (12/02/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/3xzu2vv Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Raw Story Posted on 12.01.10 by Steve Trinward “An expert in the fight against child sexual abuse is raising the alarm about a technique the TSA is reportedly using to get children to co-operate with airport pat-downs: calling it a ‘game.’ Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention, says the TSA’s recommendation that children be told the pat-down is a ‘game’ is potentially putting children in danger. Telling a child that they are engaging in a game is ‘one of the most common ways’ that sexual predators use to convince children to engage in inappropriate contact, Wooden told Raw Story. … The TSA policy could ‘desensitize children to inappropriate touch and ultimately make it easier for sexual offenders to prey on our children,’ he added.” (12/01/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2v58kd4 Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Buckeye Firearms Association Posted on 12.01.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “With the opening day of Ohio’s deer-gun season on November 29, hunters are reminded that donating a deer is free at meat processors participating in the Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH) venison donation program. Although venison donations are accepted any day during the deer hunting season, September 25-February 6, 2011; Saturday, December 4 has been designated as FHFH Day. Participating meat processors can be found by visiting the FHFH Web site at www.fhfh.org. Last year, hunters showed they cared by donating nearly 116,750 pounds of venison which equates to 467,000 meals for Ohioans in need.” (11/30/10) Link: http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/7535 Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News | |
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Source: New York Daily News Posted on 11.29.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Rep. Pete King (R-L.I.) urged U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to designate WikiLeaks a ‘foreign terrorist organization,’ saying it ‘posed a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States,’ and to prosecute founder Julian Assange for espionage.” [editor’s note: For “national security of the United States,” read “Pete King’s cockamamie megalomaniacal schemes” - TLK] (11/29/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/39rsy3s Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Orange [UK] Posted on 11.29.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A Chinese woman has given up her job, her home and her car to adopt more than 1,500 stray dogs. Ha Wenjin gave up her business career and sold her house, car and jewellery to set up her unofficial dog rescue centre in Tangquan County, Nanjing. … But her project was put at risk when local government officials, who don’t recognise her work, reclaimed [sic] the land for redevelopment. ‘I had to find a new place which was deserted and not close to any human habitat, as 1,500 dogs are not quiet,’ she said.” (11/29/10) Link: http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Woman_adopts_1500_stray_dogs Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Guardian [UK] Posted on 11.28.10 by Mary Lou Seymour ‘More than 100,000 Irish citizens took to the streets of Dublin today to protest against the international bailout and four years of austerity. Despite overnight snow storms and freezing temperatures, huge crowds have gathered in O’Connell Street to demonstrate against the cuts aimed at driving down Ireland’s colossal national debt.” (11/27/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2cj8xfb Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 11.28.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Web only this week … hope everyone had a happy and safe Thanksgiving! Til next week For freedom Mary Lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Gizmodo Posted on 11.25.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “According to tweeting travelers, many backscatter and millimeter-wave AIT scanning machines at airports are not in use at all, making opting out impossible. We’ve asked DHS/TSA for comment, but you can help us confirm. … The presumption by some is that the TSA has deactivated the AIT machines in an effort to both increase throughput of travelers through the scanning process and to diffuse protest by the grassroots National Out-Out Day movement.” [hat tip — Frank, in comments on previous story about the alleged “opt out protest flop”] (11/24/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/38se7dq Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Tucson Sentinel Posted on 11.21.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Tucsonan David F. Nolan, one of the founders of the Libertarian Party, died Sunday just two days before his 67th birthday. Nolan, influenced by the works of Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein, helped found the Libertarian Party in 1971, following President Richard Nixon’s implementation of wage and price controls.” (11/21/10) Link: http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/112110_nolan_obit Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Raw Story Posted on 11.21.10 by Steve Trinward “It’s too early to say for sure, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden could very well go down in the history books as the man who saved the Internet. A bill that critics say would have given the government power to censor the Internet will not pass this year thanks to the Oregon Democrat, who announced his opposition during a recent committee hearing. Individual Senators can place holds on pending legislation …. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) would have permitted a blanket takedown of any domain alleged to be assisting activities that violate copyright law, based upon the judgment of state attorneys general.” (11/21/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/23sjhow Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 11.21.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on the TSA abound this week … Groping toward Gomorrah, TSA pervs get no love, Put up a fight for flight, Let markets civilize airport security, The power of exit: Boycott air travel, TSA and America’s zero risk culture, National Opt Out Day set for November 24th, Daedalus shrugged: The mounting resistance to the TSA’s grope gauntlet …. other commentaries … “Winning firearms freedom, one lawsuit at a time”, pain treatment activist Siobhan Reynolds, When smoking becomes freedom of expression, Let’s blow free speech restrictions sky-high , DoJ prepares for expansion of law prohibiting “material support” for terrorism and Nullification is statism. In the news this week … lots of stories about the TSA …. NC Airport director wants private security, not TSA, Protesting TSA patdowns? Go commando & kilted, Anti-gay group says “Homosexual” TSA staff “turned on” by patdowns, TSA says Religious objections to groping? Tough!…. in other news, An alliance of opposites [sic] takes on Pentagon, Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill, Liberty on Tour’s Mueller arrested in Wisconsin, Swedish Court issues arrest warrant for Wikileaks’ Assange, Boycott over Know-Nothing appeasement law cost Arizona $141 million, Anti-UN protests erupt in Haiti , Ukrainian Topless group widens political role, freeed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to joyous crowds in Myanmar, Catholic church needs more exorcists and celebrate National Ammo Day November 19th. May you all have a safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday … hopefully, you won’t have to FLY and undergo the ‘grope gauntlet’…. Til next week For freedom Mary Lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: WSOC-TV Posted on 11.21.10 by Steve Trinward “After recent controversy surrounding the Transportation Security Administration’s security screenings, the director of Charlotte’s airport said he wants a private company to take over the job. Federal law allows airports to replace TSA agents with private security guards. Right now, 17 airports across the country do this, and the Orlando Sanford Airport in Florida plans to be the 18th in January. Charlotte Douglas International Airport Director Jerry Orr said he’s wanted a private firm to do security screenings since 2001, when the TSA was created.” (11/21/10) Link: http://www.wsoctv.com/news/25855378/detail.html Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 11.21.10 by Steve Trinward “Earlier this year, Representatives Barney Frank, the unabashedly liberal Democrat from Newton, and Ron Paul, an outspoken libertarian Republican from Texas, formed an unlikely alliance aimed at slashing the defense budget to trim the deficit. Initially, their proposed 16 percent cut over a decade got a cold reception on Capitol Hill, where many Democrats and even the most fiscally conservative Republicans view the Pentagon budget as basically off-limits. But now, with talk of deep cuts in Social Security and Medicare, and as a Tea Party-infused strain of the Republican party grows more powerful, their views are gaining traction.” [editor’s note: I added the [sic] for 2 reasons; (1) Frank and Paul are NOT “opposites” on war (nor on ending the War on (Some) Drugs, nor on most other civil liberties matters); (2) a consistent “liberal” (which Frank basically is) SHOULD be on the libertarian side, at least in this arena! - SAT] (11/21/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/28m7976 Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Libertarian News Examiner Posted on 11.21.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Adam Mueller was arrested on an outstanding warrant in Jackson WI yesterday and his Liberty On Tour partner Pete Eyre caught it all on video. The warrant apparently stemmed from an earlier incident in which another police officer, whose ‘integrity as an officer has been called into question,’ had ticketed Mueller for an offense which neither the officer nor any witness had actually seen.” (11/18/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/269359r Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: CNN Posted on 11.18.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “The Stockholm Criminal Court on Thursday issued an international arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on probable cause, saying he is suspected of rape, sexual molestation and illegal use of force. … Assange has maintained he is innocent, telling the Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera the accusations were a ’smear campaign.’” (11/18/10) Link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11/18/sweden.wikileaks.assange Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Bloomberg Posted on 11.18.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “A business boycott of Arizona over its immigration law may have cost the state’s economy as much as $141 million, a Washington-based policy group estimated. Convention bookings for July and August fell 35 percent from a year earlier, cutting lodging revenue by $45 million, the Center for American Progress said in a report today. Lost spending on food, beverages, entertainment, local transportation and retail goods brought the total cost to $141 million, the report said.” (11/18/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2ax6md8 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: CNN Posted on 11.18.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Like cholera itself, Haiti’s protests against the United Nations spread to the capital, Port-au-Prince, as angry people took to the streets on Thursday, demanding the global body get out of their country. Demonstrations began earlier this week in the northern city of Cap Haitien, after assertions that U.N. peacekeepers were responsible for starting the cholera outbreak that has claimed more than 1,100 lives.” (11/18/10) Link: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11/18/haiti.cholera/ Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Raw Story Posted on 11.17.10 by Steve Trinward “The head of an anti-gay group is warning travelers that homosexual agents of the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) may be getting secret satisfaction out of airport security pat-downs. His warning adds a homophobic spin to the controversy surrounding new security procedures enacted by the TSA, which have been described as little short of molestation. ‘Is it fair to travelers who may end up getting ‘groped’ by homosexual TSA agents who are secretly getting turned on through the process?’ asks Peter LaBarbera, President of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), an anti-gay group based in Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.” [editor’s note: Ummm,= … no, this one’s just too easy! (Though I’m tempted to ask if we could at least choose the “groper” … I’d pick Aniston, or if she’s busy, Angelina) - SAT] (11/17/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2a7a5ut Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 11.16.10 by Steve Trinward “The Transportation Security Administration says airline passengers won’t get out of body imaging screening or pat-downs based on their religious beliefs. TSA chief John Pistole told the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday that passengers who refuse to go through a full-body scanner machine and reject a pat-down won’t be allowed to board, even if they turned down the in-depth screening for religious reasons. ‘That person is not going to get on an airplane,’ Pistole said in response to a question from Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., on whether the TSA would provide exemptions for passengers whose religious beliefs do not allow them to go through a physically revealing body scan or be touched by screeners.” (11/16/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/386sxwg Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Raw Story Posted on 11.15.10 by Steve Trinward “‘You want to feel up my junk, mister air security worker? Let me help you with that.’ That’s the basic idea behind a clever twist to the ‘National Opt-Out Day’ campaign, which seeks to backlog the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) with as many forced frisks as possible on Nov. 24. Campaigners are calling for the national day of action as a response to the TSA’s use of backscatter x-ray machines that take nude pictures of flyers at security checkpoints. Since the Department of Homeland Security ordered enhanced screening measures, anyone who refuses their random assignment to the backscatter machines has been subject to invasive pat-downs that, in many cases, have seen screeners groping passengers’ genitals and breasts. Not even children are exempt.” (11/15/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24eavgw Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 11.15.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Brazenly provocative, the bare-breasted young women of Femen are becoming an eye-catching — if unsolicited — fixture on Ukraine’s political scene. Anna Hutsol, Femen’s spikey-haired 26-year-old leader, says she commands a small army of 300 mainly student activists ready to peel off in public to support Ukrainian women’s rights.” (11/15/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101115/od_nm/us_ukraine_femen Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Los Angeles Times Posted on 11.14.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “A day after her release from detention, opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi met dozens of ambassadors, hundreds of journalists and thousands of Burmese citizens Sunday, underscoring the importance of dialogue, strength and determination in the battle for democracy in Myanmar. … Suu Kyi, 65, had been detained by the military-led government for 15 of the last 21 years. She was freed days after a controversial parliamentary election in which the pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development party garnered about 80% of parliamentary seats.” (11/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/37f7lbd Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 11.14.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Wanted: a few good men to cast out devils. Overwhelmed with requests for exorcists, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops are holding a special training workshop in Baltimore this weekend to teach clerics the esoteric rite, the Catholic News Service reported. The church has signed up 56 bishops and 66 priests for the two-day workshop that began on Friday, seeking to boost the small group of just five or six American exorcists that the church currently has on its books.” (11/12/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101112/od_nm/us_romancatholic_exorcists Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: AmmoLand Posted on 11.14.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “The next National Ammo Day is November 19 2010, National Ammo Day has been an unofficial grassroots holiday since 2002 and is growing in celebration each year.” (11/12/10) Link: http://www.ammoland.com/2010/11/12/national-ammo-day-november-19-2010/ Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action news Digest Posted on 11.14.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on TSA, the airport molester protesters, America’s devolution into dictatorship, the ‘Ground Zero mosque’ row, Laying down arms, Dinner with the militia, The story of Twelve, GOD-Dess Capital-ISM, New Hampshire Dreamin’, Remember remember and What if advocating libertarianism is a mistake? In the news, Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to joyous crowds, general strike in Bangladesh, German Judge lets speeders off the hook, your medicine is watching you, Violence at Tory HQ overshadows student fees protest and EU proposes “right to be forgotten” online, a third-world state of America Til next week For freedom Mary lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Monsters & Critics Posted on 11.14.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “At least 100 people were injured and many more arrested Sunday in a general strike called by Bangladesh’s main opposition party over the eviction of former prime minister Khaleda Zia from her leasehold in a military zone. Police said they arrested some 140 activists trying to disrupt public life to enforce the stoppage, organized by the Zia-led Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).” (11/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/34sabh4 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 11.11.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A German judge has shot to popularity after letting 42 speeding drivers off without charges in the last week because he thinks speed controls merely serve to fill the state’s coffers rather than prevent accidents. Bernd Kahre, spokesman for Herford court in northwestern Germany where judge Helmut Knoener works, told Reuters the 62-year-old wanted to make a stand against the current practice of prosecuting speeders. He said Knoener believed speed controls were not conducted to ensure greater road safety, but rather to provide the cash-strapped state with an additional source of income.” (11/11/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2bnh2z4 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Reuters Posted on 11.10.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Novartis AG plans to seek regulatory approval within 18 months for a pioneering tablet containing an embedded microchip, bringing the concept of ’smart-pill’ technology a step closer.” (11/08/10) Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A754720101108 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: BBC News [UK] Posted on 11.10.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “There have been violent scenes as tens of thousands of people protested against plans to treble tuition fees and cut university funding in England. Demonstrators stormed a building in Westminster housing the Conservative Party head quarters, smashed windows and got on to the roof. Outside, a crowd of thousands surged as placards and banners were set on fire and missiles were thrown. Student leaders condemned the violence as ‘despicable.’” (11/10/10) Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11726822 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Tech Dirt Posted on 11.07.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “As a bunch of folks have sent in, there’s a proposal making the rounds in the EU for a ‘right to be forgotten,’ which would require websites to delete all information about a person at their request. We’ve actually seen something like this in the past, in Germany, where last year we noted that a convicted German murderer, was using such a law to demand details of his conviction be removed from various websites. It’s not difficult to recognize how problematic this concept can be. As Adam Thierer notes, a ‘right to be forgotten,’ is a clear restriction on free speech.” (11/05/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/27bgx2f Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 11.07.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on Desert Solitaire, Revisited, Watchdog Blogger arrested for filming in public, Who’s an Ⓧ Voter?, How to vote on election day, Bring back the fifties!, Voting is even more worthless than you think, Firesheep for the shearing, The war on commuters, Hyping fear, Protest works. Just look at the proof, What is to be done?, A fireworks-free society?, Protest met with rubber bullets and My Tea Party. In the news, Fierce battles as “nuclear train of death” held up in Germany, Oklahoma Mom upset over son’s Pledge assignment, YouTube bows to pressure, pulls jihad videos, Prop 19 backers plan new marijuana legalization effort, California Law curbs Happy Meal toys, Oregon Man wins right to give police the finger, SCOTUS won’t hear USA PATRIOT Act challenge, Study: Alcohol more lethal than heroin, cocaine, Thousands attend “Rally to Restore Sanity”, and UK Government plans Net censor service Til next week For Freedom Mary Lou Link: http://rationalrevioew.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Telegraph [UK] Posted on 11.07.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “A nuclear waste train inching through Germany was unlikely to reach its destination until Monday after massive protests along every foot of railway line. During running battles with police, demonstrators torched a police armoured car, chained themselves to stretches of line, tried to undermine tracks by kicking out stones and fought with officers in woodland leading to the train in a day of tense drama.” (11/07/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2g5afne Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 11.04.10 by Steve Trinward “Melissa Taggart says she was delighted that her son was learning a foreign language in the eighth grade — until she learned he was expected to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish. And that he’d receive a zero if he didn’t. … She said she couldn’t begin to understand why her son’s teacher would choose the Pledge for her class. And she was upset that her son was told he would receive a zero if he did not complete the assignment.” [editor’s note: As a special extra-credit project, chosen by some students and not others, this makes some multicultural sense; as a requirement, with a zero if you don’t do it, it’s just another imposed mandate and should be illegal - SAT] (11/04/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/26zj63v Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: New York Times Posted on 11.04.10 by Steve Trinward “Under pressure from US and British officials, YouTube yesterday removed from its site some of the hundreds of videos featuring calls to jihad by Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born, Yemen-based cleric who has played an increasingly public role in inspiring violence directed at the West. … The requests [sic] took on greater urgency after two powerful bombs hidden in air cargo planes were intercepted en route from Yemen to Chicago on Friday, with the prime suspect being the Yemen-based group with which Awlaki is affiliated, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.” (11/04/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/22t5ln3 Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Los Angeles Times Posted on 11.03.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Supporters of legalizing marijuana in California spent the day after the election laying the groundwork to rebound from their 54%-to-46% defeat and return to the ballot in two years.” (11/04/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/275olyp Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 11.03.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant meals for children. San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed the law on Tuesday on a veto-proof 8-to-3 vote. It takes effect on December 1, 2011. The law, like an ordinance passed earlier this year in nearby Santa Clara County, would require that restaurant kids’ meals meet certain nutritional standards before they could be sold with toys.” (11/03/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101103/od_nm/us_mcdonalds_toys_odd Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 11.02.10 by Steve Trinward “An Oregon man has settled a federal lawsuit over what he says was his First Amendment right to express himself by giving the finger to sheriff’s deputies. The Oregonian reports Robert Ekas settled the suit for $4,000. In his lawsuit, Ekas said that in July 2007, he flipped off a Clackamas County deputy while driving, and the deputy gave him tickets for illegal lane change and improper display of license plates. Ekas was acquitted on the citations. A month later, he gave the finger to another deputy, who detained him but wrote no tickets. Ekas alleged he was being harassed. … County officials say it was cheaper to settle the case than to proceed with defending the suit.” (11/02/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/255xs4p Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 11.01.10 by Steve Trinward “The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Brandon Mayfield’s challenge to FISA provisions adopted under the Patriot Act that allowed the government to bypass the usual constitutional safeguards and authorize surveillance and covert searches of his home and office. A federal court judge had agreed with Mr. Mayfield’s claim. Mayfield, a lawyer in Portland and a US military veteran, was subjected to an extensive counterterrorism operation after FBI experts matched a Mayfield fingerprint in the FBI database with a single print found on a bag containing detonators near the Madrid terror attack site.” (11/01/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2aukazb Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 11.01.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, according to a new study. British experts evaluated substances including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana, ranking them based on how destructive they are to the individual who takes them and to society as a whole. … Heroin, crack cocaine and methamphetamine, or crystal meth, were the most lethal to individuals. When considering their wider social effects, alcohol, heroin and crack cocaine were the deadliest. But overall, alcohol outranked all other substances, followed by heroin and crack cocaine. Marijuana, ecstasy and LSD scored far lower.” (11/01/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2vw9tty Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Telegraph [UK] Posted on 10.31.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Hosted by Jon Stewart, a television comedian, the Rally to Restore Sanity was part comedy show, part pep talk and part pure entertainment. … People carried signs protesting the existence of protest signs. Some dressed like bananas, wizards, Martians and Uncle Sam. Stewart, a satirist who makes his living skewering the famous on the late-night cable TV satirical news program ‘The Daily Show,’ decried the ‘extensive effort it takes to hate’ and declared ‘we can have animus and not be enemies.’ Co-host Stephen Colbert, who poses as an ultraconservative on his Comedy Central cable TV show ‘The Colbert Report,’ played the personification of fear at the rally.” (11/01/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/27zhbqk Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: The Register [UK] Posted on 10.31.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “The minister responsible for internet regulation is planning a new mediation service to encourage ISPs and websites to censor material in response to public complaints.” (10/29/10) Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/29/intenet_mediation_vaizey/ Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 10.31.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on arresting photographers, secession, the anti-war movement, WikiLeaks, arrests for ’sedition’ in Kashmir, The faith-based vote, Oppose the porno-scanners, banning the burqa, FBI: Bureau of Frame-Ups, Bullying, and Intimidation and more! In the news, German Vending machines sell miniature art in boxes, A “Tea Party beauty pageant”, Soros donates $1 million to campaign for marijuana, Police seek Rand Paul supporters who assaulted MoveOn activist, New Zealanders rally in defense of The Hobbit, and Wikileaks “Iraq War Logs” are largest leak in history Til next week For freedom Mary lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 10.28.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “An artist who wanted to make art more accessible has installed vending machines across Germany offering unique art miniatures in small boxes. Lars Kaiser, a 35-year-old artist from Potsdam, said he came up with the novel idea to give art lovers the chance to buy the inexpensive art samples from vending machines around the clock.” (10/28/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101028/od_nm/us_art_vending_machines_odd Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: The Week Posted on 10.28.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “The conservative young women of America had better get into training now, says Tim Murphy at Mother Jones. Registration has opened for Miss Liberty America …. Would-be queens will parade in a one-piece swimsuit (adhering to the ‘minimum standards of modesty’) and an evening gown, demonstrate a talent, answer questions regarding the documents of America’s founding fathers, and compete in marksmanship. … ‘This will be the first pageant of its kind to introduce competency in the handling, safety and use of firearms, and CPR,’ say the organizers. ‘The contestants must be able to save a life as well as defend one.” (10/27/10) Link: http://theweek.com/article/index/208650/a-tea-party-beauty-pageant Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 10.27.10 by Steve Trinward “Billionaire financier George Soros has thrown his weight behind California’s marijuana legalization measure with a $1 million donation a week before the vote. The contribution reported yesterday by The Sacramento Bee is the single biggest donation from an individual other than Proposition 19’s main sponsor, Oakland medical marijuana entrepreneur Richard Lee. The high-profile liberal has long backed a drug law overhaul.” (10/27/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/23nzdoz Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Miami Herald Posted on 10.26.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Police are seeking the public’s help identifying people involved in the assault on liberal activist Lauren Lizabeth Valle, 23, outside the studios of Kentucky Educational Television before a debate Monday night between U.S. Senate candidates Rand Paul Paul and Democrat Jack Conway. … Police spokeswoman Sherelle Roberts said Tuesday that detectives were reviewing videos of the altercation that show two men tackling the activist.” (10/26/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/36txvjd Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: AOL News Posted on 10.25.10 by Steve Trinward “The battle for Middle Earth spread to the real world today, with hordes of New Zealanders taking to the streets to protest possible plans to move production of Peter Jackson’s upcoming movie The Hobbit overseas. Thousands of demonstrators — some of whom were dressed as Bilbo Baggins and other characters from J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy series — marched through the cities of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch with the aim of reassuring Hollywood executives that it was safe to film the Lord of the Rings prequel in their country. Although the island nation’s rugged and breathtaking landscape proved the perfect backdrop for the Rings trilogy, New Line Cinema, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers, announced on Friday that it was considering filming outside New Zealand after acting unions threatened to strike over wages and working conditions.” (10/25/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/22smzwt Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Scoop [New Zealand] Posted on 10.24.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports (’The Iraq War Logs’), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a ‘SIGACT’ or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.” (10/24/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2eg76mm Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 10.24.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on Why I went from gun scoffer to armed liberal, the Spaniards fighting to stub out authoritarianism, Artist resistance in Honduras, How can New Jersey imprison a gun owner who broke no laws?, Not without a fight, Just say no!, it’s not really about the Second Amendment, Fallujah, USA, Tyranny goes global, Linux community strikes back against thuggery, On the occasion of Libertopia 2010, Equal access does not guarantee equal outcome and The detention of Xie Chaoping In the news, Wikileaks “Iraq War Logs” are largest leak in history, Groups challenge Massachusetts obscenity law scope, Anti-abortion group: “Lies” about candidates should be legal, Wisconsin Freedom Rally draws 500 in search for information, NC Elementary student brings pot to school to turn in his parents, German Entrepreneur outwits EU light bulb ban, and Gay couples take on immigrant divide Til next week For freedom Mary lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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