Monthly Archives: February 2013

FL cops raid home of wheelchair-bound Rx-marijuana activist who’s to have legislation named for her

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“Cathy Jordan’s celebrity in the area of medical cannabis, including her conviction that the herb has helped her battle her Lou Gehrig’s disease, does not insulate her from existing marijuana laws.  Jordan’s husband, Robert, told the Herald that his Parrish home in Beck Estates on 98th Avenue in Parrish was raided shortly after 2 p.m. Monday by deputies and detectives with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office drug intervention unit who wore ski masks.  No arrests were made Monday but a total of 23 marijuana plants, including two waist-high nearly mature plants that Cathy Jordan uses for her treatment plan, and a crop of seedlings, were confiscated by authorities.”

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2013/02/fl-cops-raid-home-of-wheelchair-bound-rx-marijuana-activist-whos-to-have-legislation-named-for-her.html

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Jury Nullification Activist Jailed 145 Days for Distributing Info

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“Vietnam Era Veteran, peaceful freedom activist, and local small businessman, Mark Schimdter, has been jailed for 145 days by Judge Belvin Perry. Schmidter’s sentence began Thursday after he was found guilty for distributing jury nullification info outside of Perry’s self-imposed ‘free speech zone’ during the Casey Anthony trial.  Furthermore, the very rule he was found to be in violation of has been overturned.”

http://libertycrier.com/government/jury-nullification-activist-jailed-145-days-for-distributing-info/

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Girls: Follow Joe Biden’s Shotgun Advice, Or Buy An AR-15?

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Girls: Follow Joe Biden’s Shotgun Advice, Or Buy An AR-15?

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Philadelphia Cop Who Punched Woman On Video Found Not Guilty

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“The former Philadelphia Police lieutenant, who was on trial for punching a woman in an incident that was caught on video, has been found not guilty.  The verdict was handed down Tuesday morning. It was a bench trial for Jonathan Josey, which means the ruling was solely up to the judge, who deliberated for two weeks.  Josey broke down in tears as the courtroom, packed with police officers, erupted in applause.”

http://libertycrier.com/front-page/fmr-philadelphia-cop-who-punched-woman-on-video-found-not-guilty/

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City Wants Power to “Disarm Individuals” During Crisis

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City Wants Power to “Disarm Individuals” During Crisis

“Guntersville authorities would confiscate guns of ‘unruly’ individuals during disasters.”

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Why Should Taxpayers Give Big Banks $83 Billion a Year?

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“Banks have a powerful incentive to get big and unwieldy. The larger they are, the more disastrous their failure would be and the more certain they can be of a government bailout in an emergency. The result is an implicit subsidy: The banks that are potentially the most dangerous can borrow at lower rates, because creditors perceive them as too big to fail.  Economists have tried to pin down exactly how much the subsidy lowers big banks’ borrowing costs. In one relatively thorough effort, researchers put the number at about 0.8%. Multiplied by the total liabilities of the 10 largest U.S. banks by assets, it amounts to a taxpayer subsidy of $83 billion a year.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-20/why-should-taxpayers-give-big-banks-83-billion-a-year-.html

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Conan – Media Reacts: Rising Gas Prices Edition

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Conan – Media Reacts: Rising Gas Prices Edition

“The local news is in complete agreement that you don’t need them to tell you something.”

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Airlines made windfall profits after EU freeze on carbon taxes

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“Airlines made up to half a billion euros in windfall profits last year by passing on a carbon surcharge to travellers despite an EU decision to freeze its controversial carbon tax, environmentalists said on Tuesday.  Green group Transport and Environment said airlines chalked up extra revenues estimated at 486 million euros ($650 million) even though EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard in November decided to ‘stop the clock’ on an EU carbon tax angering the global aviation industry.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/22/airlines-made-windfall-profits-after-eu-freeze-on-carbon-taxes/

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Airlines Merger: Competition vs. the Great Trusts

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“The new American Airlines resulting from the deal would boast revenues of close to $40 billion and offer nearly 7,000 flights per day. Interested observers should ask what makes such mergers possible and whether they are the results of legitimate, free market competition, or something else entirely.  Airlines epitomize a system of big business cartelization that grows up out of huge cost barriers to potential market challengers created by legal and regulatory requirements. Contrary to the rhetoric of ‘unbridled’ markets, airlines are among the corporations most entangled in federal regulatory structures — and that’s just the way they like it.”

http://c4ss.org/content/17209

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Homeland Security training TSA workers to save themselves in shooting?

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“Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint screeners are [reportedly] receiving training to prepare them for the possibility of a mass shooting at one of the agency’s airport checkpoints, and those TSA personnel are being instructed to ‘save themselves’ should a shooting occur.  It is unclear whether the TSA is conducting the reported mass shooting scenario training at airports around the nation or only at the airport where our source, a veteran of the TSA, is assigned.”

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/freedom-press-not-free/2013/jan/26/homeland-security-training-tsa-workers-save-themse/

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