Monthly Archives: July 2013

8 arrested in Huntington Beach as surfing crowd trashes porta-potties after event

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“Eight people were arrested Sunday night in Huntington Beach, California after a rash of mob violence following the conclusion of a surfing competition, KABC-TV reported. Local police told KABC the unrest began around 7:15 p.m. local time, about two hours after the end of the annual U.S. Open of Surfing event, when large fights broke out among the crowd of spectators, with the disturbances moving into the city’s downtown area as police moved in to disperse the revelers. Departments from nearby cities were called in for assistance, forcing streets to be closed down until the crowd was cleared out around 10 p.m.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/29/8-arrested-as-surfing-crowd-trashes-porta-potties-after-event/

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Hundreds of fast food workers strike in New York for a ‘living wage’

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“Hundreds of workers at McDonald’s and other fast food outlets across New York went on strike Monday for higher wages in a movement organizers hope will spread nationwide. Sporadic walkouts left managers to serve customers at flagship McDonald’s outlets on Times Square and 5th Avenue in Manhattan. Organizers said the strike had hit around 60 restaurants operated by McDonald’s, Wendy’s, KFC and Burger King across the New York area. The striking workers are demanding the introduction of a standard wage of $15/hour, more than twice the $7.25 minimum wage that many fast food employees earn here.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/29/hundreds-of-fast-food-workers-strike-in-new-york-for-a-living-wage/

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Shield Mutual: Adam Kokesh Legal Defense Fund Update

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“As regular readers of the Shield Mutual blog know, Adam Kokesh is a customer of ours. We acted in his defense upon his instructions after his 18 May 2013 arrest, very briefly after his 8 June 2013 arrest and again recently after his 9 July 2013 arrest. Adam Kokesh is a valued customer of Shield Mutual.  Here is a rundown of the legal defense fund we created, promoted and administered for Adam. Money is a sensitive topic and Shield Mutual is committed to operating with transparency and integrity.”

http://shieldmutual.com/2013/07/adam-kokesh-legal-defense-fund-update/

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Independent journalist Ben Swann now accepts Bitcoin for episode funding

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“For two and half years I have heard day after day about media blackout, about corporations having too much control over media, about the need for honesty and truth.  I have heard about how the American public is asleep and there is no one in MSM speaking about the issues of our disappearing liberties, no one to push back against the left/right paradigm. What I have done is stepped out in response to what millions of Americans from the Tea Party and Occupy movements, from independents to the fast growing Liberty movement have been crying out for.  The opportunity is here… not MY opportunity, YOUR opportunity.”

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1j9fwm/independent_journalist_ben_swann_now_accepts/

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Ex-Obama Aide (Stupidly) Dismisses Glenn Greenwald as a Fake Journalist

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Ex-Obama Aide (Stupidly) Dismisses Glenn Greenwald as a Fake Journalist

“Steven Rattner, a former member of Barack Obama’s Treasury Department, appeared on the news show Morning Joe on Monday offering an opinion about The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke the story about NSA spying. Rattner’s opinion? Greenwald isn’t a journalist. This is apparently because Rattner may not have seen how Greenwald’s reporting has shifted public opinion and moved public policy. Rattner may actually be unaware of what journalists do. Perhaps this blind spot is because the journalists he hangs out with work for Morning Joe.”

http://news.yahoo.com/ex-obama-aide-stupidly-dismisses-greenwald-fake-journalist-135200030.html

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Life as a US drone operator: ‘It’s like playing a video game for four years’

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“‘It is a lot like playing a video game,’ a former Predator drone operator matter-of-factly admits. ‘But playing the same video game four years straight on the same level.’ His bombs kill real people though and, he admits, often not the people he is aiming at. What Omer Fast’s film does brilliantly is evoke the weirdness of people in Nevada endlessly trawling foreign countries for ‘bad guys’, whom they then get permission to fire on. A former US air force drone operator admits to making mistakes: ‘You see a lot of death,’ he says before pondering why he carries on – perhaps because if it was not him then it might be some ‘new kid doing it badly’.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/28/life-us-drone-operator-artist

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Police blame ‘poor lighting’ after killing innocent grandfather, 72, while searching the wrong home

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“Fort Worth, TX., police have blamed poor lighting after responding May 28 to a burglary alarm, searching the wrong home and shooting dead beloved husband Jerry Waller. The city of Fort Worth has had more than one incident involving misidentified homes this year, the second resulted in the wrong house being bulldozed. Mr. Waller’s home is across the street from the home the police should have been responding to. ‘We were disturbed by suggestions that the police may have felt threatened by a man in his own garage faced with unknown trespassers yielding flashlights,’ Waller’s daughter Angie told media the following day.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2379252/Fort-Worth-police-shot-dead-beloved-72-year-old-husband-father-searching-wrong-home-responding-burglar-alarm.html

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‘It was like a firing squad’: Deputies shoot Florida man in his own front yard

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“Middleton told the News Journal that two deputies shot him early Saturday morning when he turned to face them while getting a cigarette out of his mother’s car, saying he was bent over inside the car when he was ordered to ‘get your hands out where [the shooter] could see them.’ The News Journal reported that a neighbor called authorities after seeing someone reaching into the car, prompting the unidentified deputies to respond to what they thought was a burglary in progress. The two deputies have been put on paid leave.  Middleton told the News Journal the deputies did not check the license plate on the car or provide an explanation for their actions.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/29/it-was-like-a-firing-squad-deputies-shoot-florida-man-in-his-own-front-yard/

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Democratic establishment unmasked: prime defenders of NSA bulk spying

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“Now, a bill to ban the government from collecting the telephone records of all Americans, while expressly allowing it to collect the records of anyone for whom there is evidence of wrongdoing, is – in the language of the House Democratic Leadership – a bill to Protect The Terrorists. This is the same Nancy Pelosi who spent years during the Bush administration pretending to be a vehement opponent of the illegal Bush NSA warrantless eavesdropping program after it was revealed by the New York Times, even though (just as was true of the Bush torture program) she was secretly briefed on it many years earlier when it was first implemented.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/25/democratic-establishment-nsa

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A History of Cronyism and Capture in the Information Technology Sector

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“Not only does it deny consumers more and better products and services, but they also may pay higher prices or higher taxes extracted by the corporate-government agreement. Moreover, economic growth slows as entrepreneurs pursue unproductive influence and capture activities rather than productive entrepreneurship. Cronyism also raises the specter of greater government control of the Internet and of the digital economy more generally. When policymakers dispense favors, they usually expect something in return. They may also become accustomed to having greater informal powers over the sector receiving favors.”

http://mercatus.org/publication/history-cronyism-and-capture-information-technology-sector

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