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“A German dairy farmer has come up with a novel way to drum up new business — he opened a ‘milk filling station.’ The ‘Milchtankstelle’ near Cologne in the town of Neunkirchen-Seelscheid dispenses the output of 78 cows from a stainless steel vending machine. Customers can either bring their own empty containers or buy milk bottles to fill up. … ‘Customers say that the milk on sale in supermarkets doesn’t taste good any more,’ he said. ‘Supermarkets work on improving the shelf life, but people just want fresher milk. People come from as far away as Cologne to buy milk from my station.’” (09/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/279p3ck | |
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“The government turned up the pressure Tuesday on the head of a small Florida church who plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, warning him that doing so could endanger U.S. troops and Americans everywhere. But the Rev. Terry Jones insisted he would go ahead with his plans, despite criticism from the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, the White House and the State Department, as well as a host of religious leaders.J ones, who is known for posting signs proclaiming that Islam is the devil’s religion, says the Constitution gives him the right to publicly set fire to the book that Muslims consider the word of God.” (09/07/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100908/ap_on_re_us/quran_burning | |
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Web only this evening … hope y’all had a great Labor Day holiday! News on : NOPD under fire for Katrina killings and Brazilians given permission to laygh at elections ….Commentaries on a Scary back to school future in California , Instead of marching, lets end the war on drugs, The fake TV challenge , running for justice, Civil Disobedience and more! Til next week For freedom Mary lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land | |
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“The New Orleans Police Department is reeling from allegations of murder, conspiracy and civil rights violations in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina. When the storm hit dozens of police abandoned their posts. CBS News cameras caught others apparently looting stores. More than 500 officers were fired or disciplined for their actions. Sherrel Johnson’s son, 17-year old James Brissette, seen here in the only photo to survive the storm was shot six times by police while crossing the Danziger bridge five days after the storm. The police claimed self-defense. Five officers have pleaded guilty to covering up the shooting. Four others could receive the death penalty if convicted.” (08/30/10) Link: http://wdef.com/news/department_under_fire/08/2010 | |
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“Carlos Ayres Britto, vice president of the country’s Supreme Court, late Thursday suspended a rule banning TV and radio programs from poking fun at candidates in the country’s October 3 elections. The ban hurts constitutional principles of free expression and creates programing restraints, Britto said. His ruling, which came in response to a complaint by an association of TV and radio broadcasters, will be deliberated by a full session of the court most likely next week.” (08/27/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100827/od_nm/us_election_comedy_odd | |
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Commentaries on Latino activist Ramsey Muniz (guilty of being Latino and activist in America), Julian Heicklen (arrested for handing out FIJA flyers), HR 45 DOA but gun registry looms, Open Carry: How to assert your rights, Slow violence and the BP coverups (you didnt really believe the oil spill had disappeared, did ya?), Is the Muslim my neighbor? (Good Samaritan 2010), and A self educated chicken (the evolution of an average housewife). In the news, Ebonics translator wanted for DEA job, Judge refuses to block ban on guns in Georgia church; case moves forward, Minneapolis to pay $165,000 to zombies, typo vigilantes correct errant signage, ACLU questions “enhanced patdowns”, Idiot pols try to levy tax on Philly bloggers…. And please take the anonymous JPFO survey on What is your line in the sand? Til next week for freedom Mary lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land | |
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“The U.S. Department of Justice is looking for fluent Ebonics speakers to fill nine drug enforcement jobs, giving merit to a dialect that experts say is often mimicked and little understood. The federal Drug Enforcment Administration translators would work out of the Atlanta field office according to a Justice Department request, posted online today by The Smoking Gun. ” (08/23/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2cfnyju | |
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GA: Judge refuses to block ban on guns in church; case moves forward
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A federal judge on Monday declined to block enforcement of a new Georgia law that bans guns in places of worship. ‘It’s not at all discouraging,’ said John Monroe, the attorney who filed a lawsuit on behalf of a minister at a Thomaston church and GeorgiaCarry.org, gun-rights advocacy group. U.S. District Judge C. Ashley Royal, in a 30-minute hearing, said he would base his final decision on the outcome of the lawsuit only on the writings submitted by Monroe and the attorney for the state and Upson County …. Royal’s ruling on the case likely won’t occur this summer. Whatever his decision, legal analysts expect it to be taken to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and eventually to the U.S. Supreme Court.” (08/23/10) Link: http://www.ajc.com/news/judge-refuses-to-block-597481.html | |
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“Minneapolis will pay seven people who were jailed after a street theater protest. The Minneapolis city attorney’s office has decided to pay seven zombies and their attorney $165,000. The payout, approved by the City Council on Friday, settles a federal lawsuit the seven filed after they were arrested and jailed for two days for dressing up like zombies in downtown Minneapolis on July 22, 2006, to protest ‘mindless’ consumerism. When arrested … most of them had thick white powder and fake blood on their faces and dark makeup around their eyes. They were walking in a stiff, lurching fashion and carrying four bags of sound equipment to amplify music from an iPod when they were arrested by police, who said they were carrying equipment that simulated ‘weapons of mass destruction.’” (08/23/10) Link: http://www.startribune.com/local/101273159.html | |
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“‘The Great Typo Hunt’ describes a nationwide mission by Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson, both 30, to rid America of signs that add an extra ‘n’ to ‘dining,’ or insist that ’shipping’ is spelled with one ‘p.’ Deck, a magazine editor, and Herson, a bookseller, drove across the country in the spring of 2008 armed with sharpies, pens and whiteout, correcting spelling, removing surplus apostrophes and untangling subject-verb disagreement on signs outside stores, gas stations, parks and public buildings.” (08/23/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100823/od_nm/us_book_typos_odd | |
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“The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is questioning the propriety of stepped-up security checkpoint procedures at airports in Boston and Las Vegas. The Boston Herald reports that Transportation Security Administration screeners at Logan International Airport are testing what one official called an ‘enhanced patdown.’ It lets screeners use a palms-forward, slide-down search procedure on passengers’ bodies.” (08/22/10) Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/22/national/main6794734.shtml | |
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“If you’re a blogger in the city of Philadelphia, get out your checkbook. Just like everyone else, Philadelphia is struggling to get through the tough economy, and city officials want bloggers to do their fair share and pay up. There’s no specific blogger tax, as some media outlets reported today. But the cit[y] does have a business tax that covers any Philadelphia-based bloggers who are now making any money from their online efforts. Maura Kennedy, a spokesperson for the city, told Computerworld that officials want money-making bloggers to register their business and start paying the tax.” (08/23/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2f3mpnc | |
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Commentraries on Why Wikileaks must be protected, CS Lewis on the evils of statism, Booing the goose, The ugly truth, The prison state, intellectual roperty rights, Freedom and illusion, Free the monks, free entrepreneurs nationwide and Cyberwar against Wikileaks? In the news, Anti-liberty bigots protest, freedom supporters counter at Islamic center site, Six hurt in fresh clashes in Kashmir, Antigay church can protest military funerals, judge rules, Hundreds bear arms at rally in NC, Gun activists take aim at metro Detroit …. Royal Oak to allow guns at Ford Arts, Beats & Eats festival, Levin has his military-industrial complex cake, eats anti-war pie too, “Tea Party” Know-Nothings rally at border to support terror state, and FBI police harass student for photographing “sensitive” area. Til next week For freedom1 Mary lou Link: http://rationalrevioew.com/land | |
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NY: Anti-liberty bigots protest, freedom supporters counter at Islamic center site
Source: BBC News [UK] “Hundreds of people took part in rival protests over plans for a mosque [sic] near the site of the 9/11 terror attacks. Police kept the banner-waving groups apart, although there were no reports of violence between supporters and opponents of the scheme in New York. Opponents chanted ‘No mosque, no way’ as supporters responded with ‘Say no to racist fear.’” (08/22/10) Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11054868 | |
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“Six people were hurt Sunday when police fired pump action shotguns at stone-throwing protesters in Kashmir, where more than 60 people have died during anti-India protests. Police said the incident took place in Srinagar, the main town in Indian Kashmir, when police were conducting a flag march. ‘Some miscreants pelted stones heavily on the police. The police used (teargas) and pump action ammunition to chase them away,’ a police statement said, adding that six people were hurt. Doctors said one was in a critical condition. Witnesses said the police used force on worshippers who were coming out of a mosque and that there was no stone pelting.” (08/22/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24qpggd | |
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“A federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional a Missouri law aimed at preventing members of a Kansas-based religious group from conducting inflammatory protests outside the funerals of fallen US service members.Chief US District Judge Fernando Gaitan said the state statute violated free speech protections guaranteed in the First Amendment by imposing excessive restrictions on the ability to conduct protests outside funerals….“Although plaintiff’s speech may be repugnant to listeners, the court finds that, at a minimum, some of plaintiff’s speech is entitled to constitutional protection,” Judge Gaitan said in a 19-page decision announced Monday.” (08/17/10) Link: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2010/0817/Antigay-church-can-protest-military-funerals-judge-rules | |
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“Hundreds brought their guns to a Tea Party rally in Greensboro, North Carolina on Saturday to peacefully demonstrate that the Constitution protects the right to own and carry a firearm. Two hundred attended the Restore the Constitution Rally at the Guildford Courthouse in Battleground Park, openly carrying their pistols and rifles in recognition of a new law allowing people to carry guns at federal parks. ‘We want to remind Americans that they have a basic human right to keep and bear arms — both for self-defense and to preserve individual freedom — that is not only enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but is protected only by Americans’ willingness to actually exercise that right,’ wrote rally organizer Randy Dye in a statement.” (08/17/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/243u9e8 | |
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“Gun owners will be able to openly carry their weapons at next month’s Ford Arts, Beats & Eats festival in downtown Royal Oak.Officials lifted the gun ban after hours of public comment on Monday night.On one side were gun-rights activists who pointed to state law that allows them to openly carry their guns. On the other side were residents and families worried about safety.The festival, expected to draw tens of thousands to Royal Oak over Labor Day weekend, is now ground zero for the gun debate in Michigan.” (08/17/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24oj3eo | |
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“Gun-rights activists are not only demanding that Royal Oak officials drop the city’s ban on openly carrying guns at the Ford Arts, Beats & Eats festival over Labor Day weekend, they also are going after Clawson, Pontiac, Taylor and Flint for local rules they say infringe on gun rights. Members of Michigan Open Carry plan to visit the Pontiac City Council on Aug. 26 to protest that city’s gun ordinance. Besides the Constitution’s Second Amendment — establishing the right to bear arms — Michigan activists rely on state law. In 2003, the state Supreme Court ruled against Ferndale and affirmed Michiganders’ right to carry guns in libraries and other public buildings.” (08/15/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/3xw5akk | |
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MI: Levin has his military-industrial complex cake, eats anti-war pie too
Source: Detroit Free Press “U.S. Sen. Carl Levin got an apple pie — no whipped cream or ice cream on top either — in the face this morning during a question-and-answer session for the Mecosta County Democrats at a Big Rapids deli after being criticized by a young man for his stance on foreign policy and defense of Israel. Witnesses at Pepper’s Cafe and Deli said as the Detroit Democrat who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee asked the audience to let the man have his say, a young woman circled behind him and squashed a pie into the 76-year-old Levin’s face.” (08/16/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/39mlty5 | |
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“Tea party groups converged on a remote section of the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday to show support for Arizona’s controversial immigration law. More than 400 people gathered about 70 miles west of Nogales on a private ranch where the steel posts of the Arizona-Mexico border wall are set closely together to prevent people from crossing the border. Demonstrators attached hundreds of U.S. flags with messages about curbing illegal immigration [sic] to the 15-foot posts, and chanted ‘U-S-A’ when spectators gathered on the Mexico side of the border.” (08/15/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/34lapwr | |
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“Jerome Vorus, who is becoming a full-fledged photo rights activist while still in his teens, had yet another confrontation Friday over his photography. The 19-year-old college student was taking pictures outside the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington DC when an FBI police officer ordered him not to take her photo. First he turned on the video camera on his cell phone. Then he informed her that that she didn’t have an expectation of privacy. ‘I wasn’t even taking her photo in the first place,’ he said in a phone interview with Photography is Not a Crime. As he was walking away, another FBI cop pulled up in a car and ordered him to stop.” (08/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/356xxa2 | |
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Commentaries on The War Party’s new torchlight parade,You can stir up fear — just don’t cause offence, Mike Gogulski on Antiwar Radio, Why is the bible of capitalism cheering on Chinese workers?, Book review: Black Maverick, A world without mosquitoes, War against Wikileaks, Honouring SEK3 abd Weed weirdness. In the news, “Tea Party” Know-Nothings rally at border to support terror state, Anarchists defend lemonade stand, Michigan town changes firearms ordinance, UK bans offensive Anti-Terrorist Hotline radio ads, Families can’t send tobacco to soldiers overseas, Photojournalist wins settlement after frightening altercation with police chief, and Wet t-shirt leads to arrest Til next week For freedom Mary Lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land | |
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“It’s lucky that Julie Murphy and her mom, Maria Fife, set up a lemonade stand at Portland, Oregon’s Last Thursday art walk, right next to the anarchists. Because when the Multnomah County Health Department officials came through cracking down on lemonade stands and other fly-by-afternoon ‘food establishments’ wildly flouting the rules requiring a $120 temporary restaurant license, they told Julie and Maria to stay put. Their idea: slightly alter the sign to read ‘free Lemonade, 50-cents — suggested donation.’ As fond as anarchists are of flouting arbitrary government rules, they encouraged the crowd walking past to support Julie’s stand.” (08/07/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24s35hv | |
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“A Marysville ordinance banning firearms from parks has gone against state law for more than 20 years. However, that ordinance has been amended since city officials were educated about Michigan’s open-carry law by two men flexing their rights at Marysville Days in June. The ordinance previously barred any person from carrying firearms … within any public park without special permission. … The City Council voted Monday to remove the word ‘firearms’ from the ordinance … City Manager Jack Schumacher said the city attorney reviewed the municipality’s ordinances after it was found that the two men — Rob Harris and Scott Webb — had the right to carry holstered firearms in the city park.” (08/11/10) Link: http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20100811/NEWS01/8110303 | |
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“Britain’s advertising watchdog said on Wednesday it had banned a police advertisement encouraging people to report neighbors whose activities raised ’suspicions,’ saying it could offend innocent citizens.The radio advert for the Anti-Terrorist Hotline listed as suspicious behavior activities which could also describe law-abiding people, the Advertising Standards Authority said.” (08/11/10) Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67A3G320100811 | |
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“Family and friends have suddenly found themselves blocked from shipping cigarettes and other tobacco products to American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq because of a new law meant to hamper smuggling and underage sales through the mail. The Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act of 2009 quietly took effect June 29. It cut off those care packages by effectively requiring that tobacco be sent with one particular kind of U.S. Postal Service shipping that requires a signature for delivery but does not deliver to most overseas military addresses. April Woods, the 26-year-old wife of a Fort Campbell soldier in Afghanistan, used to regularly send him packages of snacks, drink mixes, pictures and cartons of his favorite variety of Marlboros.” (08/10/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2c3wa2t | |
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CA: Photojournalist wins settlement after frightening altercation with police chief
Source: Carlos Miller.com “An Oakland Tribune photojournalist is now $99,000 richer thanks to the jackass who was school district police chief at the time. In November 2008, Jane Tyska was covering an immigration demonstration when Oakland School District Police Chief Art Michel side-swept her with his car. Michel then stopped the car, jumped out and began threatening to arrest Tyska for hitting his car with her elbow. That’s right, her elbow. You really have to hear the exchange in the above video to believe it.” (08/07/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2b8j4hd | |
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“A Lake County mother was arrested at a children’s splash park after her white shirt got wet. Now, she’s suing the city of Tavares over her arrest. … A park employee asked Lovett to leave, because the white t-shirt she was wearing had become wet and her padded bra was showing. She says she left, but outside the park gate a police officer approached her and asked her for ID and her name. … The police report indicates Lovett didn’t give her name fast enough. The mom says she was scared and wanted to know why she was getting arrested. Lovett’s attorney, Howard Marks, is demanding those same answers from the city. He says the police had no legal right to ask Lovett for ID, because no crime had been committed.” (08/05/10). Link: http://www.wftv.com/news/24515173/detail.html?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rss | |
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Commentaries on illegal arrests, Miranda warning rights trimmed bit by bit by high court, “Good cause” lawsuit in NY, Young Palestinians with cameras, 1776 Part Deux — is it time?, online gambling, Do disclosures of atrocities change anything? and more! In the news, Activists rally to free Wikileaker Bradley Manning, Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images, Ohio Cops attempt to justify arrest by calling themselves cowards and idiots, ACLU seeks records in racial profiling case, Sex job ads banned at UK employment offices, Prayer outside clinic gets disorderly conduct charge, Nine die in Kashmir protest clashes Til next week for freedom1 Mary Lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land | |
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“Anti-traffickers promiscuously use the s-word in order to present themselves as heroic rescuers of fallen women.” (09/07/10) Link: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9496/ | |
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“The biggest risk created by bus travel used to be nothing worse than having a talkative, strange person in the next seat. Today a bus passenger in western New York might be awakened in the wee hours by a Border Patrol agent, flashlight in hand, who asks, ‘Where were you born?’ If the passenger in question is white, that will probably be the end of the conversation, if not a search, an arrest or a deportation may take place.” (09/08/10) Link: http://counterpunch.org/kimberley09082010.html | |
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“Carlos Arredondo, a native Costa Rican, stands in a parking lot of a Holiday Inn in Portland, Maine, next to his green Nissan pickup truck. The truck, its tailgate folded down, carries a flag-draped coffin and is adorned with pictures of his son, Lance Cpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, 20, a Marine killed in Iraq in 2004. … Military recruiters, who often have offices in high schools, prey on young men like Alex, who was first approached when he was 16. They cater to their insecurities, their dreams and their economic deprivation.” (09/07/10) Link: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/they_kill_alex_20100906 | |
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“Any discussion about whether the United States is being overcome by ‘creeping socialism’ is ludicrous. The United States has operated as a socialist dictatorship — albeit, until recently, a dictatorship with velvet gloves on its iron fists — since that cursed year of 1913.” (09/06/10) Link: http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle586-20100905-02.html | |
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“Classes have started again, and military recruiters are out in full force. Students spill onto the quad, the August sun blazes down on the sea of people rushing off to class or lounging in the grass. And there are my fellow students, standing tall in their uniforms, underneath a military tent where they pass out literature, start conversations, or just smile at passersby.” (09/06/10) Link: http://counterpunch.org/lazare09062010.html | |
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Scary back to school future in California
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation Author: Rebecca Jeschke “Scary news from California’s Contra Costa County — school officials there have reportedly decided to track some preschoolers with RFID chips, thanks to a federal grant supplying the funding. According to a story from the Associated Press, the students will wear a jersey at school that has the RFID tag attached. The tag will track the children’s movements and collect other data, like if the child has eaten or not.” (08/30/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/263n3zv | |
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“Changing the policy that has broken up families and put thousands of men in prison would have a far more positive impact on the black community than any number of symbolic marches.” (08/30/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2vt2v4j | |
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“In spite of my opposition to The War on Certain Kinds of Drugs, I wish to inaugurate a new war against another one. I have good reasons for doing so. This drug is cheap. It is everywhere. It is insidious. Once it is in your bloodstream, it is nearly impossible to extricate. It becomes infused with the cells of your body, and permanently damages the brain. The FDA refuses to do anything about it. Tellingly, given its death-grip on those who become addicted, it’s one drug that the government won’t condemn, in spite of their throwing billions of dollars at narcotics that are far less powerful, though not nearly as subtle.” (09/02/10) Link: http://www.strike-the-root.com/fake-tv-challenge | |
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“The early morning barrio runs have a powerful effect, especially upon onlookers when they see the ceremonial staffs we run with. Onlookers might think that this is how we protest in Tucson, but we run not for the media nor for or against politicians. As the youngsters say, we speak with our feet and our feet do leave huellas or footprints.” (09/02/10) Link: http://counterpunch.org/rodriguez09012010.html | |
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What is the state of things and where do we go from here?
Source: The Libertarian Enterprise Author: Edwin E. Smith “Civil Disobedience … is the only group action that has ever in the history of mankind effected the greatest political change for the least amount of bloodshed. The best example I can think of is the British occupation of India. One simple individual by the name of Mahatma Gandhi never raised a hand against the British occupiers yet his simple refusal, along with millions of followers, to comply with the rules or pay the taxes placed upon them drove the British to eventually give up and go home.” (08/30/10) Link: http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle585-20100829-05.html | |
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“This September 11, let’s help to change the ‘meme’ that has been used by the U.S. government to terrorize Americans into submission and to cynically manipulate the grief of those who lost loved ones in the 9-11 attack of 2001. This year in your community, join hands with others who understand the meaning of the event. Carry signs and wear black armbands. Remind people that the civilian victims of September 11, 2001 were the inevitable result of blowback from the U.S. government’s policy of international meddling.” (08/31/10) Link: http://www.strike-the-root.com/declare-9-11-government-blowback-day | |
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“The Justice Department, in its recent lawsuit against Arizona, claimed that the Constitution gives the federal government nearly exclusive authority to make the nation’s immigration laws. Accordingly, states have no right to pass their own enforcement laws that are more stringent than federal policy, especially if such laws might infringe on the rights of other citizens, or the rights of the aliens themselves. But what if a state wants to pursue an enforcement approach that is far less strict than current federal policy?” (08/31/10) Link: http://counterpunch.org/lawrence08312010.html | |
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“The bloody wake left by the Mavi Marmara after the May 31 Israeli commando raid has not deterred 50 female activists from trying to break the four-year-old siege of Gaza. To hear Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak speak of their planned relief effort, one would think the very existence of Israel was at stake.” (08/29/10) Link: http://counterpunch.org/amiri08272010.html | |
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“The resisting-arrest conviction last week of Felicia Gibson has left a lot of people wondering. Can a person be charged with resisting arrest while observing a traffic stop from his or her own front porch? Salisbury Police Officer Mark Hunter thought so, and last week District Court Judge Beth Dixon agreed. Because Gibson did not at first comply when the officer told her and others to go inside, the judge found Gibson guilty of resisting, delaying or obstructing an officer. Gibson was not the only bystander watching the action on the street. She was the only one holding up a cell-phone video camera. But court testimony never indicated that Hunter told her to stop the camera; he just told her to go inside.” (08/26/10) Link: http://www.salisburypost.com/Opinion/082610-edit-resisting-arrest-qcd | |
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It’s fine for police to kill people, so long as there’s no “ill will”
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal Author: Vin Suprynowicz “Do we live in a free country or a police state? In a free country, police live under and must obey the same laws as the rest of us. In a police state, government police enjoy special laws and protections that allow them to do things that would be considered crimes if done by the rest of us.” (08/29/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/39j5uc8 | |
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“The tenacity of the meme, that government is here to help us and protect us, is hard to understand. All evidence throughout history points in the opposite direction — that government is here to prey on us, and that if there is anything we need protection from, it is our own governments. Why do people cling to this harmful meme?” (08/27/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/33xz5gp | |
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“Encouraged by its success in breaking the law, the executive branch early this year announced that the Obama regime has given itself the right to murder Americans abroad if such Americans are considered a ‘threat.’ ‘Threat’ was not defined and, thus, a death sentence would be issued by a subjective decision of an unaccountable official. There was hardly a peep out of the public or the media. Americans and the media were content for the government to summarily execute traitors and turncoats, and who better to identify traitors and turncoats than the government with all its spy programs.” (08/29/10) Link: http://counterpunch.org/roberts08272010.html | |
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Ramsey Muniz — guilty of being Latino and activist in America
Source: Freedom's Phoenix Author: Stephen Lendman “On March 10, DEA Agent Kimberly Elliott tracked Muniz to the Lewisville Ramada Inn, checked his telephone toll calls, and recorded his license plate number in the parking lot. The following day, he was entrapped after agreeing to return a prospective client’s car (in fact, a government agent) to a rental company. It was a sting, 39 kilograms of cocaine planted in the trunk, uncovered by drug-sniffing dogs when he was confronted.” (08/30/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2e2berg | |
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“‘Officer Kirsch informed me that I could not distribute literature in front of the courthouse and asked me to move. Several more times he asked me to leave, but I did not respond. Then he placed me under arrest and reached for my JURY INFO sign. I fell to the wet sidewalk and did not move a muscle or make another sound. The officers called the Emergency Medical Service Ambulance 1108.’” (08/26/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/37escbr | |
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“Due to your grassroots activism, we’re happy to report that the momentum behind H.R. 45 has disappeared. Capitol Hill insiders are highly doubtful that H.R. 45 will even get a committee hearing before the election. … While this is certainly good news — and a fine example of the power of grassroots activism — a far more onerous prospect could be just around the corner.” (08/24/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2bnzlwr | |
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“Michigan Open Carry recently scored a victory in Royal Oak. The pressure group forced the city to reexamine and, eventually, rescind a firearms ban for its Eats, Beats and Arts festival. I contacted one the prime players in the saga: Paul Dalrymple. I asked him to create a ‘playbook’ for those who wish to repeat the feat. Here are his tips.” (08/24/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2ajcsxv | |
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“Please take our latest survey anonymously and tell the world what your line in the sand is. When does the Second Amendment become your tool of choice for rebellion to bring back a Bill of Rights culture to America?” (08/23/10) Link: http://www.jpfo.org/alerts2010/alert20100823.htm | |
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“‘Why do they go out at night?’ I ask. ‘They are hiding the oil with dispersants,’ Steve said. ‘They don’t want people to know how much oil there is out there. And they don’t want people to know how much dispersants they are spraying. It’s one of the big secrets down here.’” (08/23/10) Link: http://counterpunch.org/mcclintock08232010.html | |
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“As violence raged through Gaza, Esther Najjar feared that her family — which included two young girls — would be the next target of the mob that had just firebombed the local Catholic church. Riled up through the expert ministrations of professional agitators, the mob of Palestinian Muslims assaulted several Christian houses of worship in protest of papal remarks taken as an affront to those who revere Mohammed. Esther, like many other members of Gaza’s embattled Christian minority, was all but helpless. If not for the intervention of their neighbors, she and her daughters may well have been massacred.” (08/22/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2br37e6 | |
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“Then one day someone said I was not a libertarian, I was an anarchist, Me? An anarchist? How can a chicken be an anarchist? Talk about out of the mainstream.” (08/22/10) Link: http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.3463 | |
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IL: ACLU sues Illinois over absurd law forbiding recording of cops
Source: CarlosMiller.Com Author: staff “There’s been a misconception in the media lately about it being illegal to videotape cops in three states; Maryland, Massachusetts and Illinois. That’s not exactly true. In Massachusetts, it is illegal to secretly record anybody without their consent, but there is no law against openly videotaping anybody in public …. In Maryland, state police and a certain prosecutor treat it as if it is illegal but another state attorney as well as the attorney general disagree that it is illegal to videotape cops in public. … That leaves us with Illinois where Radley Balko reported that it is illegal to audio record cops, even if they happen to be in public with no expectation of privacy.” (08/20/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2dgb2z8 | |
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“In one sense, the WikiLeaks revelations shame the dominant section of journalism devoted merely to taking down what cynical and malign power tells it. This is state stenography, not journalism. Look on the WikiLeaks site and read a Ministry of Defense document that describes the ‘threat’ of real journalism. And so it should be a threat. Having published skillfully the WikiLeaks expose of a fraudulent war, the Guardian should now give its most powerful and unreserved editorial support to the protection of Julian Assange and his colleagues, whose truth-telling is as important as any in my lifetime.” (08/19/10) Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26192.htm | |
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“For decades, some Christians, both ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal,’ have unfortunately embraced an ill-conceived ‘progressive’ (i.e., authoritarian) vision to wield intrusive government powers as an unquestionable and even sanctified calling for both domestic and international matters, abandoning the Christian, natural-law tradition in moral ethics and economics. In contrast, the Oxford/Cambridge scholar and best-selling author C. S. Lewis did not suffer such delusions. … Lewis’s aversion to government was clearly revealed in 1951 when Winston Churchill, within weeks after he regained office as prime minister of Great Britain, wrote to Lewis offering to have him knighted as ‘Commander of the Order of the British Empire.’ Lewis flatly declined the honor because he, unlike the ‘progressives,’ was never interested in politics and was deeply skeptical of government power and politicians.” (08/11/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2dqwh4s | |
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“Chapter 8 of my Transition to Liberty shows that I foresee the time — in the mid-2020s, for reasons it explains — when widespread civil disobedience will play a valuable part in hastening the end of the government era. It will be a period when around one in four of the population has learned what liberty means (and what government means) and so is eager to experience it and ready to quit any government job in disgust. Simultaneously and as a result of that great walkout, a staffing crisis will be crippling government.” (08/17/10) Link: http://www.strike-the-root.com/booing-goose | |
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“Let’s get something straight: to be an enemy of American occupation, bombing, and ‘nation building’ is not the same thing as being an enemy of America or its people. It’s time Americans understood that. When you invade another country and people there object, even forcibly, they are not aggressors. You are. To understand this, imagine our being invaded by a foreign military force. Would resistance be aggression?” (08/18/10) Link: http://counterpunch.org/richman08182010.html | |
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“It is easy now to forget that the agents of repression — the police, the FBI, the courts, the government itself — consciously and actively targeted those who were active in and led the civil rights and Vietnam war resistance movements. They infiltrated and acted as provocateurs in movement organizations; they arrested innocent people; they enacted and enforced draconian laws; they illegally tapped phones and spied on any and all persons suspected of ’subversive’ activity; and they tortured and murdered those who they deemed to be the most dangerous radicals.” (08/17/10) Link: http://counterpunch.org/yates08172010.html | |
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“I’ve been puzzling for some weeks now over the purpose of the vehement attacks on the notion of intellectual property rights (IPR) being mounted by some who call themselves Austrian economists. My confusion comes, in part, from watching those around me (three of them at this point) struggle for days, weeks, months, and even years laboring to produce an original work of fiction.” (08/15/10) Link: http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle583-20100815-02.html | |
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2010 National 5th Annual New Hampshire State Live Free Or Die Rally
Source: Live free or Die Rally Event Date(s): August 25-August 29 “The LFOD Rally is the only all free true first amendment event in the U.S. ” (08/20/10) Link: http://livefreeordierally.com/ | |
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“We want to remind Americans that they have a basic human right to keep and bear arms — both for self-defense and to preserve individual freedom — that is not only enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but is protected only by Americans’ willingness to actually exercise that right. Just as is true with free speech, freedom of assembly, and every other right guaranteed by the Constitution — if you don’t insist on your Constitutional freedoms by exercising them in public, you will lose them.” (08/03/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/28zjwl6 | |
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Petition: any member of Congress who votes for ObamaCare should be forced to participate themselves
Source: Congressman Fleming Website Congressman John Fleming [LA] is proposing an amendment to the ObamaCare bill : sign petition here if you believe any member of Congress who votes for a government run health care plan should be forced to participate in the plan themselves. [editor’s note: Spread this little gem far and wide-MLS] (08/09) Link: http://fleming.house.gov/index.html | |
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NH: 2009 National 4th Annual Live Free Or Die Rally
Source: Live Free or Die Rally Event Date(s): 08/21/09 - 08/23/09 “The All Free, Only TRUE First Amendment Rally in the U.S. AUGUST 21, 22, 23, 2009 …. The National Annual N.H. State Live Free Or Die Rally is a non partisan, non aligned, non profit, all free true First Amendment event advocating freedom of speech, rights to redress with gathering and providing opportunity for the public, appropriate advocacy groups, legislators, politicians of all parties to come together on Common ground under one tent with tolerance once a year to discuss, share or review controversial topics.” Link: http://livefreeordierally.com/node/1 | |
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“Monolithic agribusiness & biotech corporations like Monsanto are gaining more and more power over our food supply, thanks in part to Congress creating policies that give them competitive advantage while harming small farmers & competitors, but also because we consume their products every day, without knowing….Accept the Challenge:I will not buy Roundup weed killer, and will instead use an alternative method of weed control. (Please fill out the form below to accept the challenge and see your impact added to our calculator).” (06/22/09) Link: http://bytestyle.tv/node/55 | |
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“The Motorhome Diaries is the story of three friends who took to the road in April 2009 to search for freedom in America. Along the way the friends — Jason, Pete and Tom — interact with individuals and groups from diverse backgrounds and viewpoints at college campuses, homes, businesses and organizations that are united by one thing: increasing individual freedom and responsibility and decreasing the scope of government.” [editor’s note: Every day a new adventure-MLS](04/09) Link: http://motorhomediaries.com/ | |
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“Scarecrow is an attempt to unify libertarians behind one presidential candidate in the 2012 election cycle. The fact that Scarecrow isn’t running, or even real, is a bonus. … If you want liberty and smaller government, electoral politics is a loser’s game. Still, it’s the game we play in America, and it’s so entrenched in our culture that any attempt to break free of it must first involve a widespread acknowledgment of its failings. … Scarecrow For President is a movement through which libertarians can announce to the world that we’re here, we’re correct, we’re huge in number, and we’re done with Washington’s game. … The intent of this site is to kick off a movement. It is the webmaster’s hope that the movement will grow much larger than this site. I am just an anonymous blogger with an idea. You are Scarecrow For President. You should make your own Scarecrow For President site, market it, and update it constantly. You should steal all my readers and become the center of the movement.” (02/09) Link: http://scarecrowforpresident.blogspot.com/2009/02/faq.html | |
