Monthly Archives: July 2014

A Ceasefire in the IRS’ War on US Citizens?

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“Effective immediately, expats who agree to disclose their foreign accounts and pay US taxes for the previous three years won’t need to pay any penalties. They’ll owe just back taxes and interest (if any). The IRS even extended an olive branch to resident Americans. They’ll be able to come forward and disclose their offshore accounts for the previous three years and pay only a 5% penalty, not 27.5%.   If the IRS decides your failure to comply with these obligations was willful, you could be socked with a 50% penalty.  In addition, a recent US court decision made it clear that the 50% penalty could be imposed for each year you had an undisclosed international account.”

http://www.nestmann.com/a-ceasefire-in-the-irs-war-on-us-citizens

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US military wants a portable, bullet-resistant wall that fits in a can

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“The group suggested the idea, which is nicknamed Block Access to Deny Entry (BlockADE), in a request for information that was spotted by io9. In short, it asks for a way to ‘construct a barrier without human intervention,’ meaning no touching anything. You just hit a button, or pull a tab and it should expand into a barrier that DARPA says would be ‘orders of magnitude’ in size. That barrier would then need to keep — or at least slow — somebody from getting through it using a saw or other hand tool. Better yet, DARPA suggests it could offer resistance from ballistic devices (like bullets or rockets), be see-through, and be reversible back down to a smaller state if need be.”

http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/21/5829024/darpa-wants-to-make-a-portable-bullet-resistant-wall-that-fits-in-a-can

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Cops Can’t Search Cell Phones Without a Warrant, SCOTUS Rules

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“The court released a landmark decision in the case of Riley vs. California, forbidding warrantless police searches of the contents of arrestees’ cell phones. The ruling opinion notes that cell phones have in fact become tiny computers in Americans’ pockets teeming with highly private data, and that gaining access to them is now fundamentally different from rifling through someone’s pockets or purse.  The court also rejected prosecutors’ notion that the ability to remotely wipe or lock a phone required police to search the devices immediately upon arrest before evidence could be destroyed–an ironic argument given that police pressed for those same remote ‘kill switch’ abilities.”

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/supreme-court-rules-cops-cant-search-cell-phones-without-a-warrant/

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U.S. promises to phase out landmines that target people

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“The United States will phase out its stockpiles of landmines designed to target people, moving closer to joining a global ban on a weapon that kills more than 15,000 people a year — most of them civilians.  Activists have long pressured the United States to join the international treaty banning the production, stockpiling and use of anti-personnel landmines — the kind meant to kill or maim when someone steps on them.  Such mines are easily triggered when stepped on, unlike anti-vehicle mines. Those weapons can still kill, but only go off when heavy vehicles pass over them.  Some criticized the United States for failing to commit to a ban on the use of its current stockpiles of mines.”

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/27/us/u-s-landmines/

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Ron Paul on the Evolution of Freedom in the 21st Century

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“Fewer people depend on regular TV and you see more programs being deleted from TV. So the Internet is the wave of the future and that’s one of the reasons the freedom movement is growing, because it’s not dependent on the establishment. When I got interested in these ideas in the ’50s and ’60s it was very, very difficult to get any information but today it’s so easy and it spreads like a wildfire.  It is worldwide. I’ve said it so many times – this is not a Republican deal. If the ideas are correct they will be pervasive.  Interventionist foreign policy and Keynesian economics was endorsed by the Republicans and Democrats; they just argued over who got to be the managers.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/exclusive-interviews/35418/Anthony-Wile-Ron-Paul-on-the-Evolution-of-Freedom-in-the-21st-Century/

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Ron Paul: Celebrate Independence Day By Opposing Tyranny

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“The idea of opposing — by force if necessary — a tyrannical government has been turned into a celebration of tyrannical government itself! The evidence is all around us. How would the signers of the Declaration of Independence have viewed, for example, the Obama Administration’s ‘drone memo,’ finally released last week, which claims to justify the president’s killing American citizens without charge, judge, jury, or oversight? Is this not a tyranny similar to that which our Founders opposed? And was such power concentrated in one branch of government not what inspired the rebellion against the English king in the first place?”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35434/Ron-Paul-Celebrate-Independence-Day-By-Opposing-Government-Tyranny/

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Government Civil Liberties Panel Endorses NSA Surveillance

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“The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) issued a legally flawed and factually incomplete report late Tuesday that endorses Section 702 surveillance.  Hiding behind the ‘complexity’ of the technology, it gives short shrift to the very serious privacy concerns that the surveillance has rightly raised for millions of Americans. The board also deferred considering whether the surveillance infringed the privacy of many millions more foreigners abroad.  Rather than rein in government communications searches, the PCLOB simply asks the NSA to study the issue.”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/flawed-oversight-board-report-endorses-general-warrants

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U.S. Court Authorized the NSA to Spy on 193 Different Countries

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“The FISA court certified a list of 193 countries deemed to be of ‘valid interest’ to the U.S. along with a raft of international organizations, too. That certification gave the NSA permission to to gather intelligence about all of the countries on the list, as well as entities as diverse as the World Bank, the European Union and the International Atomic Energy Agency.  The U.S. is part of a no-spying arrangement with four countries—Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand—but clearly others aren’t so lucky. From Belize to Bhutan, Ireland to Iraq, this list shows that Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court sees, and has since 2010, any other country as fair game for the NSA.”

http://gizmodo.com/u-s-courts-authorized-the-nsa-to-spy-on-193-different-1598453310

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