Monthly Archives: March 2014

FBI investigates private prison company’s Idaho ‘Gladiator School’

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“The FBI has begun an investigation of Corrections Corporation of America for the private prison company’s maintenance of Idaho’s largest prison. The company was found to have severely understaffed the violent prison dubbed ‘Gladiator School.’  Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) acknowledged last year that it had violated its $29 million contract with the state by understaffing the Idaho Correctional Center by thousands of hours. An external audit showed CCA fell short of full staffing at the prison by 26,000 hours in 2012 alone. CCA admitted after an AP investigation that employees falsified staffing reports, sometimes claiming guards worked for 48 straight hours.”

http://rt.com/usa/fbi-cca-prison-idaho-566/

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Inside America’s First Bitcoin-Friendly Gun Store

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“Bitcoin has long been the currency of choice for the dark web’sanonymous black market trade in firearms. Now Michael Cargill wants to offer Bitcoin fans a more legal way to buy a deadly weapon with cryptocurrency.  In January, Cargill’s Austin firearm shop and training center Central Texas Gunworks began accepting Bitcoin as an alternative to dollars for all sales, making his store the first legal Bitcoin-friendly firearm retail business in the country, if not the world. He also sells guns for Bitcoin online, opening up his business to bitcoiners around the country. And he’s even installed a Bitcoin ATM in the store’s front room that allows anyone to instantly trade dollars for Bitcoin or vice versa.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/09/inside-americas-first-bitcoin-friendly-gun-store-video/

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Supreme Court Rejects NRA’s Bid to Block Sunnyvale Gun Law

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“The Supreme Court announced this afternoon that Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, who handles emergency appeals from California and other states in the 9th Circuit, rejected the National Rifle Association’s bid for an injunction to block enforcement of Sunnyvale’s ban on large-capacity firearms magazines.  Last week’s decision by U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte of San Jose, an order rejecting the NRA’s challenge to the magazine ban and upholding the Sunnyvale law, will stand. The NRA, representing five Sunnyvale residents, argued that the ban on magazines holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition violates the Second Amendment-guaranteed right to bear arms.”

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2014/03/07/nra-appeals-sunnyvale-gun-law-to-supreme-court

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13,000 Military War Vehicles Up for Grabs to Local Police Forces?

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“Bloomberg published a flashy video pitching that 13,000 Mine Resistant Armor Protected vehicles will go to law enforcement agencies across the United States, but the numbers are a little off.  ‘To date, 200 requests for law enforcement support have been filled, and 800 are pending,’ a Department of Defense spokesman told TheBlaze.  So only several hundred military war vehicles are actually slated for transfer to law enforcement agencies.  Within the United States, any federal or state law enforcement agency whose officers have arrest and apprehension authority can request and potentially receive excess DoD personal property through the 1033 program.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/27/13000-military-war-vehicles-up-for-grabs-how-many-will-end-up-going-to-local-police-forces/

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Teen Spends 13 Days in Jail for a Pocketknife in a School Parking Lot

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“‘There are all these school occurrences where people are shot, people are killed by other students,’ the prosecutor, Harold Specht, said. ‘We see it every day … so we don’t take these things lightly. … We have to be sure that we don’t have a potential for something like that to happen here.’  Jordan Wiser said he’s offended by Specht’s characterization.  ‘I was enlisted in the Army and went to school to be [a] police officer and fireman,’ he said. ‘Why are they trying to paint me as a potential school shooter? I never had any intentions of hurting a soul.’  ‘Never in my life did I think this would happen,’ Wiser said. ‘I dedicated my life to public service, and now a four-inch pocketknife could ruin everything.'”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/12/teen-jailed-for-13-days-after-emt-kit-pocketknife-and-found-in-his-car-and-thats-just-scratching-the-surface-of-jordan-wisers-nightmare/

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Cop shoots elderly man after mistaking cane for gun

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“After stopping his car the war veteran exited the vehicle and reached for his cane in the tray of his ute.  As he reaches over the officer yells ‘Sir’ a few times before shooting at the elderly man six times, hitting him once in the chest.  The officer then tells the 70-year-old to ‘drop the gun’ – when he replies that it is a walking stick the officer swears and races over to help his victim.  Sheriff Bruce Ryan described the shooting as ‘unfortunate’ in a statement and defended the officer involved.  ‘It does appear, at this time, that Deputy Knox’s actions were an appropriate response to what he reasonably believed to be an imminent threat to his life,’ he said.”

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2014/03/15/12/43/cop-shoots-elderly-man-after-mistaking-cane-for-gun

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Why Is the United States So Hypocritical in Foreign Policy?

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“In the current crisis over the Russian ‘invasion’ of Crimea (is it an invasion when the population seems to want to be invaded and no violence occurs?), U.S. protests seem rather hypocritical to the world. After all, recently, the United States has attacked or invaded six countries—Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya using ground troops or manned aircraft and Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia using unpiloted drone aircraft dropping bombs. Spain, Britain, and Canada are all protesting Russia’s detachment of Crimea from Ukraine while resisting their own separatist movements and helping their NATO ally, the United States, detach Kosovo from Serbia using armed force in 1999.”

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=4948

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Why I’m burning my last bridge with Obama

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“Join me as I wreck my last artifact of support for the war criminal-in-chief!”

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Random Drug Testing for All? Chilling Proposal Could Eradicate Privacy

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“The practice of random drug testing has become popularized in both the workplace and in public schools. But according to a recently released paper by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), the controversial practice is, at present, ‘underutilized’ and ought to be expanded to include people of all ages in virtually all aspects of daily life.  ASAM’s paper calls for the expanded use of random drug screening among patients undergoing palliative care as well as those seeking emergency medical treatment, psychiatric treatment or obstetric care.  Adolescent patients, as well as geriatric patients also ought to be targeted for increased drug test monitoring.”

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/random-drug-testing-all-chilling-proposal-key-addiction-journal-major-invasion?paging=off

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World Health Organization: Daily sugar intake ‘should be halved’

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“People will be advised to halve the amount of sugar in their diet, under new World Health Organization guidance.  The recommended sugar intake will stay at below 10% of total calorie intake a day, with 5% the target, says the WHO.  The suggested limits apply to all sugars added to food, as well as sugar naturally present in honey, syrups, fruit juices and fruit concentrates.  UK campaigners say it is a ‘tragedy’ that the WHO has taken 10 years to think about changing its advice.  The recommendation that sugar should account for no more than 10% of the calories in the diet, was passed in 2002.  It works out at about 50g a day for an adult of normal weight, said the WHO.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-26449497

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