Monthly Archives: April 2013

California: Audit Finds Nearly Non-Existent Yellow At Red Light Camera Intersection

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“Red light camera opponents often charge municipalities exploit intersections that have dangerously short yellow times for the purpose of issuing tickets. An outside audit of the Sacramento, California red light camera program confirmed that tickets were issued at an intersection where the yellow warning period on occasion flashed by faster than the eye could see. The Redflex camera system reported seeing yellows as short as 0.056 seconds on July 11, 2012 at around 9:30am.  The report also chided officials for not trimming trees when the limbs hide the cameras and legally required warning signs.”

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/40/4084.asp

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Google shows requests for censorship have reached new highs

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“Google on Thursday released data showing that requests by governments to censor the Internet giant’s content have hit new heights, with Brazil and the United States leading the way.  Google received 2,285 government requests to remove content from it properties, including YouTube and search pages, in the second half of last year as compared to 1,811 requests in the first six months, according to its latest Transparency Report.  The requests related to 24,179 pieces of content, up from 18,070 items, the California-based Internet giant said.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/25/google-shows-requests-for-censorship-have-reached-new-highs/

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Thatcher’s funeral cost British taxpayers $2.5 million

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“Margaret Thatcher’s funeral cost British taxpayers an estimated £1.6 million, with a further £2 million spent on police who would have been on duty anyway, Downing Street said Thursday.  Though never likely, back-of-an-envelope newspaper guesses in the run-up to the former prime minister’s funeral last week estimated the cost at £10 million.  That inflamed far-left activists, angry at the expenditure on the Conservative titan amid the public spending cuts aimed at reining in Britain’s budget deficit.  Of the £1.6 million figure, £1.1 million went on policing and security, Downing Street said.  The remaining £500,000 was spent on ceremonial costs.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/25/thatchers-funeral-cost-british-taxpayers-2-5-million/

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Bloomberg News Writes About Americans ‘Paying Up’ Wherever They Reside…

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“Why not renounce you say? Because, I never had a clue until now (at age 50) that USA even considered me a taxpayer. Why would I? It makes no sense to tax people who DO NOT LIVE in USA, never worked there, never earned income there, and never plan to live there. No other country does this. Since all the publicity surrounding FATCA, I discover I am in big trouble for not filing all these years, even though I have always paid taxes to the Canadian government. USA will not let me renounce unless I can prove 5 years of US tax compliance which requires paying 10′s of thousands in lawyers and accounting fees and risking PENALTIES for previous non-filing.”

http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2013/04/25/bloombergnews-writes-about-americansabroad-paying-up-wherever-they-reside/

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Bill Bonner: Is the economy is weaker than we think?

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“We don’t like the looks of it.   Advisors are too bullish. Investors are too complacent. The financial authorities are too confident.  All up and down Wall Street, in central banks and in Washington, the stuff that goeth before the fall is thick, sticky, and stinky.  The economy is recovering, they say. The Fed has the situation in hand, they add. Don’t worry, we know what we’re doing, they assure us.   Barron’s says the Dow is going to 16,000, illustrated with a picture of a bull on a pogo stick. Abe says he’ll revive the Japanese economy with more money. And speculators take each hint from the Fed as though it were a whisper from God Himself.”

http://www.equitymaster.com/dailyreckoning/detail.asp?date=04/25/2013&story=1&title=Is-the-economy-is-weaker-than-we-think

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Michigan House Unanimously Passes NDAA Nullification Bill

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“On Thursday, April 18, the Michigan House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill prohibiting state agents and law enforcement from participating with the federal government in the indefinite detention of its citizens. By a vote of 109-0, state representatives joined their colleagues in the state senate in protecting citizens of the Wolverine State from being apprehended and detained in federal prisons without trial. The state senate unanimously approved an identical measure in March.”

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/15153-michigan-house-unanimously-passes-ndaa-nullification-bill

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Feds spend at least $890,000 on fees for empty accounts

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“It is one of the oddest spending habits in Washington: This year, the government will spend at least $890,000 on service fees for bank accounts that are empty. At last count, Uncle Sam has 13,712 such accounts with a balance of zero.They are supposed to be closed. But nobody has done the paperwork yet.  So even as the sequester budget cuts have begun idling workers and frustrating travelers, the government is required to pay $65 per year, per account to keep them on the books.  In this time of austerity, the accounts are a reminder of something that makes austerity hard: expensive habits, built into the bureaucracy in times of plenty.”

http://libertycrier.com/forum/feds-spend-at-least-890000-on-fees-for-empty-accounts/

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Tax Money: One Man Shot a Million Photos of President George W. Bush

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“The staff photographer for President Bush took a million photos. The President kept all of them.  This week, the GWB Presidential library opens in Dallas. If someone wants to view a million photos of Bush, he can.  I don’t know who goes to a Presidential library. There are 13 of these libraries. Bush’s cost $250 million. It has 15 acres of fake prairie. It has 227,000 square feet. To house what?  They cost millions a year to run. They are built by private donors. No one knows who. No one knows why.  What we do know is that taxpayers funded a full-time photographer who spent 8 years taking pictures of George W. Bush.”

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/04/25/tax-money-one-man-shot-a-million-photos-of-president-george-w-bush/

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The Corruption of Capitalism in America Excerpt: Chapter 17, Serial Bubbles

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“Never before in history had the nation’s financial system been pummeled by two gigantic bubbles and two devastating crashes in such a brief interval. That Greenspan’s heir apparent managed to detect the Great Moderation at the midpoint of this cycle of financial violence was only added testimony to the degree to which monetary policy had become unhinged.  It was no longer plausible, therefore, to describe the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and the various venues for equity derivatives as a free market for raising and trading equity capital issues. Instead, they were violently unstable casinos, ineptly stage-managed by a central bank.”

http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/corruption-capitalism-america

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Again, Reuters Compares Central Bankers to Superheroes!

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“Another day, another editorial in Reuters about central banking superheroes.  Are you convinced yet that this is a dominant social theme?  And how exactly does this work? Is it coincidence?  Do all the Reuters columnists sit down in a room together and decide that they will write editorials, serially, comparing central bankers to Superman?  Lord, help us. Good things come in threes, and since this is the second article in a week comparing bankers to superheroes, we expect at least one more.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/29029/Again-Reuters-Compares-Central-Bankers-to-Superheroes

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