Monthly Archives: June 2013

IRS cracks down on family land gifts not declared at tax time [2011]

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“The Internal Revenue Service is looking at land-transfer records state-by-state for evidence of people neglecting to report within-family real-estate gifts. This year, large family land gifts were popular because of a new tax rule that established $5 million as the amount someone can give in a lifetime before having to pay a gift tax. However, any property worth more than $13,000, gifted to one person, is still supposed to be reported to the IRS. To be precise, Form 709 reports U.S. gifts and generation-skipping transfer taxes.”

http://news.consumerreports.org/money/2011/05/irs-cracks-down-on-family-land-gifts-not-declared-at-tax-time.html

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“You’re Sick, Fatso. I’m Billing Your Insurance Company.”

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“Physicians are not paid by health insurance companies to treat people with behavior ‘problems.’ They get paid only to treat diseases. So, understanding where their bread is buttered, and by whom, the American Medical Association has now identified obesity as a disease. The Los Angeles Times had spotted the economic nature of the re-definition.  You know what an incurable disease is, don’t you? A permanent stream of income. The patient does not die, so he keeps coming back for ‘treatment.’ Treatment means billable procedures. Think of this as lowering the bar. People who are over a BMI of 30 are now called fat.”

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/06/19/its-fat-city-for-doctors-youre-sick-fatso-im-billing-your-insurance-company/

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Survey Finds that 41 Percent of Small Business Owners Have Frozen Hiring Because of Obamacare

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“Forty-one percent of the businesses surveyed have frozen hiring because of the health-care law known as Obamacare. And almost one-fifth—19 percent— answered ‘yes’ when asked if they had ‘reduced the number of employees you have in your business as a specific result of the Affordable Care Act.’  The poll was taken by 603 owners whose businesses have under $20 million in annual sales.  Another 38 percent of the small business owners said they ‘have pulled back on their plans to grow their business’ because of Obamacare.  More than half—55 percent—said they expected Obamacare to result in higher health care costs.”

http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/21/survey-finds-that-41-percent-of-small-bu

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The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant

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“Top secret documents submitted to the court that oversees surveillance by US intelligence agencies show the judges have signed off on broad orders which allow the NSA to make use of information ‘inadvertently’ collected from domestic US communications without a warrant.  The previously revealed bulk collection of domestic call records takes place under rolling court orders issued on the basis of a legal interpretation of a different authority, section 215 of the Patriot Act.  On Thursday, two US congressmen introduced a bill compelling the Obama administration to declassify the secret legal justifications for NSA surveillance.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-without-warrant

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Petition To Pardon Edward Snowden Reaching 100,000 Signatures

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“WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:  Pardon Edward Snowden. Edward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a a full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs.”

http://libertycrier.com/u-s-constitution/petition-to-pardon-edward-snowden-reaching-100000-signatures/

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US steps up efforts to break Guantánamo hunger strike

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“Shaker Aamer claims that the US authorities are systematically making the regime more hardline to try to defuse the strike, which now involves almost two-thirds of the detainees. Techniques include making cells ‘freezing cold’ to accentuate the discomfort of those on hunger strike and the introduction of ‘metal-tipped’ feeding tubes, which Aamer said were forced into inmates’ stomachs twice a day and caused detainees to vomit over themselves.  The momentum behind efforts to release Aamer – who has spent more than 11 years without trial inside the camp – mounted sharply last week with David Cameron raising the issue directly with Barack Obama.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/22/us-efforts-guantanamo-hunger-strike

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Military Police Officers Sit, Join Protesters In Brazil

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Military Police Officers Sit, Join Protesters In Brazil

“A dramatic video that has gone viral since being posted Tuesday shows a small group of military police officers joining a protest in Sao Paulo. In the video, a large crowd of mostly young activists erupts into applause when the six military officers, clad in light blue uniforms and helmets, decide to sit on the ground with them.  The protests in Brazil began on June 13 when a small group of mostly students demonstrated against an increase in the fare of public transportation. Since then, the protests have ballooned to include other grievances, including corruption and the high cost of hosting the World Cup in 2014.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/police-join-protesters-brazil_n_3474354.html

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What Cop T-Shirts Tell Us About Police Culture

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“The Village Voice reports that the quote was also printed on t-shirts worn by NYPD’s infamous Street Crimes Unit, which was disbanded after shooting unarmed immigrant Amadou Diallo 41 times in 1999 as Diallo reached for his wallet. The Voice also reports that at least two NYPD police commissioners have used the phrase ‘hunter of men’ to describe police work — Bernard Kerik and Howard Safir.  There have been a number of other incidents over the years in which cops have donned t-shirts that reflect a mentality someone less lofty than ‘protect and serve.'”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/what-cop-tshirts-tell-us-_n_3479017.html

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7-Year-Old Aiyana Stanley’s Home-Invasion Murderer Walks Free, Since He’s A Cop

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“Joseph Weekly, who shot 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones in the head during a home invasion on May 17, 2010, is free after a jury deadlocked. Nobody disputes that Weekly was the killer, or that Aiyana was an entirely innocent victim. Weekly was exonerated by virtue of the fact that his home invasion crew bore the insignia of the criminal syndicate that claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of force within Detroit.  The Detroit Police Department’s Special Reaction Team (SRT) staged a midnight raid on the home where Aiyana was sleeping. This was done entirely for the benefit of a camera crew from a cable ‘Reality TV’ show called ‘The First 48.'”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/140038.html

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Official: Water quality complaints could be ‘act of terrorism’

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“A Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation deputy director warned  residents that unfounded complaints about water quality could be considered an ‘act of terrorism.’  ‘We take water quality very seriously. Very, very seriously,’ said Sherwin Smith, deputy director of TDEC’s Division of Water Resources, according to audio recorded by attendees. ‘But you need to make sure that when you make water quality complaints you have a basis, because federally, if there’s no water quality issues, that can be considered under Homeland Security an act of terrorism.’  Smith went on in the recording to repeat the claim almost verbatim.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/21/official-says-water-complaints-act-of-terrorism/2445071/

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