Monthly Archives: June 2013

Feds want mental health records, float plan to ban guns from legal pot smokers

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“The Department of Justice now wants to be notified of any mental health concerns and commitments ‘for other reasons’ for Americans so their names can be added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System list of people banned from owning guns. But it appears the requirements of the privacy rule for medical records will be a barrier to that quick transfer of personal details, so the Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a change. Attorneys Todd Garvey and Brian Yeh wrote that federal firearms regulators will be aggressive about banning anyone who uses marijuana from buying – or possessing – a weapon.”

http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/now-feds-want-your-mental-health-records/

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Boy Who Refused to Take Off NRA Shirt Facing 1 Year in Jail

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“Today, 14-year-old Jared Marcum appeared before a judge and was officially charged with obstructing an officer. A $500 fine and up to a year in jail, that’s the penalty that Jared could face, now that a judge has allowed the prosecution to move forward with it’s obstructing an officer charge against him.  Prosecuting attorney Michael White refused to respond to any questions, as did Logan Police.  The arresting officer from the Logan City Police Department, James Adkins, claims that when Jared refused to stop talking during the arrest and that hindered his ability to do his job, hence, the obstruction charge.”

http://libertycrier.com/channels/boy-who-refused-to-take-off-nra-shirt-facing-possibility-of-1-year-in-jail/

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Law enforcement demands smartphone ‘kill switch’

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“A coalition of law enforcement officials, political leaders and consumer groups, called the Secure Our Smartphones (S.O.S) Initiative, wants a ‘kill switch’ installed on all new smartphones that would make them useless anywhere in the world if they are reported stolen. They want all smartphones equipped with a kill switch by early next year and they don’t want customers to foot the bill for this security technology. The S.O.S. Initiative is spearheaded by Gascon and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. The two prosecutors hosted a ‘Smartphone Summit’ in New York City on Thursday with the major mobile device manufacturers.”

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/law-enforcement-demands-smartphone-kill-switch-6C10315942

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Man Helping Sick Wife Charged With Marijuana Trafficking

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“The resident, a 66-year-old man named Frank Dennis Peters, turned himself in to the authorities. Peters claims he has been growing the marijuana to assist his wife of 40 years who suffers from fibromyalgia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Peters added, ‘I have a moral obligation to make my wife as comfortable as possible.’  Under current law, medical marijuana is legal, but only if it is purchased from South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental Control. However, the Department has never actually distributed any marijuana according to department spokesman. The law is 33 years old.”

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/drug-law/man-charged-marijuana-trafficking-help-sick-wife

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Welcome to Utah, the NSA’s desert home for eavesdropping on America

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“The $1.7bn facility, two years in the making, will soon host supercomputers to store gargantuan quantities of data from emails, phone calls, Google searches and other sources. It was designed to be largely anonymous. Instead, after Guardian disclosures of data-mining programs involving millions of Americans, the Utah Data Center provokes an urgent question: what exactly will it do?  ‘Revelations about surveillance did not prove abuse of power,’ said Bluffdale’s mayor, Derk Timothy. ‘I don’t think they crossed the line. They’ve been good partners to us, especially when it comes to water. They’ve been building that facility as if they’re going to stay forever.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/14/welcome-to-utah-the-nsas-desert-home-for-eavesdropping-on-america/

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Naomi Wolf: My creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be

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“I hate to cast any skepticism on what seems to be a great story of a brave spy coming in from the cold in the service of American freedom. And I would never raise such questions in public if I had not been told by a very senior official in the intelligence world that indeed, there are some news stories that they create and drive — even in America (where propagandizing Americans is now legal). But do consider that in Eastern Germany, for instance, it was the fear of a machine of surveillance that people believed watched them at all times — rather than the machine itself — that drove compliance and passivity.”

https://www.facebook.com/notes/naomi-wolf/my-creeping-concern-that-the-nsa-leaker-is-not-who-he-purports-to-be-/10151559239607949?_fb_noscript=1

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Facebook releases government surveillance data

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“Several Internet companies have struck an agreement with the U.S. government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive, two sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters. Facebook became the first to release aggregate numbers of requests, saying in a blog post that it received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data in the second half of 2012, covering 18,000 to 19,000 of its users’ accounts. Other Internet companies are expected to release numbers of government requests without breaking out how many originate from the National Security Agency, the sources said.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/14/facebook-releases-government-surveillance-data/

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Eric Holder ‘confident’ of bringing NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden ‘to justice’

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“The United States is confident it will bring Edward Snowden to justice for ‘extremely damaging’ leaks about secret internet surveillance programmes, US Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday.  ‘The national security of the United States has been damaged by those leaks. The safety of the American people and safety of people in allied nations is at risk,’ he said. Holder also said that he had agreed to share details with the European Union about the so-called PRISM programme, which was exposed after Snowden spoke to British and American newspapers.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/14/eric-holder-confident-of-bringing-nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-to-justice/

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Hong Kong protesters back Edward Snowden, denounce allegations of U.S. spying

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“A few hundred rights advocates and political activists marched through Hong Kong on Saturday to demand protection for Edward Snowden, who leaked revelations of U.S. electronic surveillance and is now believed to be holed up in the former British colony.  ‘Arrest Obama, free Snowden,’ protesters shouted outside the slate grey building as police looked on. Many waved banners that said: ‘Betray Snowden, betray freedom’, ‘Big brother is watching you’ and ‘Obama is checking your email’. The city reverted to Chinese rule in 1997 but enjoys far more liberal laws on dissent and freedom of expression.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/15/hong-kong-protesters-back-edward-snowden-denounce-allegations-of-u-s-spying/

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Bill Gates Buys into Massive Security and Prison Management Company

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“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and Cascade Investment, an asset management firm owned by Bill Gates, increased their combined holding in G4S to 3.2 percent last week.  G4S is the world’s largest securities firm and which runs services such as cash transportation and prison management in over 125 countries. According to their web site, they have more than 50,000 employees across the United States and Canada. alone. Worldwide, G4S has around 657,000 employee. G4S services include providing supplies security equipment and services for use at Israeli prisons, checkpoints and settlements in the West Bank.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/06/bill-gates-buys-into-massive-security.html

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