Monthly Archives: August 2015

Mississippi Cops Hogtie and Kill ‘Widespread Panic’ Concertgoer

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“A video has surfaced of Mississippi Police killing a concertgoer attending the Widespread Panic performance Saturday night in a story covered earlier today by PINAC News.  The video below shows the last moments Troy Goode is seen in public, dead or alive. The witnesses recorded this video and made commentary indicative of a less than serious moment, until seeing that the 30-year-old engineer was hogtied, which their video confirms visually.  Then Southhaven police demanded they stop recording.  The witnesses even expressed fear that recording the incident would cause police to arrest them as bystanders. And they did not have the sense to record horizontally.”

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/07/video-mississippi-cops-hogtie-and-kill-widespread-panic-concertgoer-demand-witness-put-the-camera-down-next/

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Jeffrey Tucker: How Can We Protect Ourselves from the Police State?

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“With the rise of the police state, the stakes are finally dawning on people. If you don’t comply, or even give the impression that you are anything less than a supplicant, you can be shot dead, right in your own community, or home, with weapons provided by the federal government and funded by you and me.  It will only make the news if a community uproar follows. Otherwise, you are another statistic.  Even under the best conditions, there will be no justice. Those in power will wait it out and eventually get back to building their unquestioned power backed by their increasingly deadly arsenal.  Yes, this is what’s it’s come to. It’s the revelation that could change everything.”

https://tucker.liberty.me/join-us-in-the-free-world/

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There’s a Good Chance Your Bank Is Committing a Major Crime Right Now

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“You probably will be very surprised to learn who aided and abetted the drug operation: it was US banking giant Wachovia.  After an investigation that took years, Wells Fargo, which now owns Wachovia, paid a $160 million fine to settle the case. You might also be surprised to hear that Wachovia’s fine wasn’t an isolated case.  Citibank was caught laundering money for a Mexican drug kingpin in 2001.  American Express Bank admitted to laundering $55 million in drug money in 2007.  And the FBI accused Bank of America of helping a Mexican drug cartel hide money in 2012.  You’ve probably never heard these stories before. The big banks pay a lot of money to keep it that way.”

http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/theres-a-good-chance-your-bank-is-committing-a-major-crime-right-now

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The Fed Joins the War on Drugs

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“The Federal Reserve is now in the business of enforcing the US government’s drug laws, even if that means making a mockery of both state governments’ right to set their own drug policies and the Fed’s own governing statutes.  The Fed’s involvement in drug prohibition became official last month, when the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City informed Denver’s Fourth Corner Credit Union — a non-profit cooperative formed by Colorado’s state-licensed cannabis manufacturers — of its decision to deny its application for a master account. The Fourth Corner Credit Union isn’t taking this sitting down. On the contrary: it is suing the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/the-fed-joins-the-war-on-drugs

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Drug dog that’s barely more accurate than a coin flip is good enough

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“In U.S. v. Bentley, we see just how damaging the Harris decision really was. Lex, the drug dog that searched Bentley’s car, had a 93 percent alert rate. That is, when Lex was called to search a car, he alerted 93 percent of the time. He was basically a probable cause generator. His success rate was much lower, at 59 percent. That is, the police actually found drugs just six of the 10 times Lex told them they would. That means that four of every 10 people Lex alerted to were subjected to a thorough roadside search that produced nothing illegal.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/08/04/federal-appeals-court-drug-dog-thats-barely-more-accurate-than-a-coin-flip-is-good-enough/

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Court Rules Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Violates Fourth Amendment

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“A divided appellate court panel in Richmond, Virginia, ruled on Wednesday that citizens do not give up their privacy rights just because their mobile-phone providers know where to reach them.  The decision is the strongest assertion of the Fourth Amendment rights of mobile phone users out of three appellate court decisions on the matter, setting up a likely Supreme Court hearing. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling rejected the ‘third party doctrine,’ a legal theory that private information held by a company is not protected by the Fourth Amendment’s prohibitions against unreasonable search and seizure.”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/05/court-rules-warrantless-cell-phone-tracking-violates-fourth-amendment/

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The Gig Economy Makes Karl Marx’s Dreams Come True

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“Marx should be delighted — oh, except that it’s capitalism, not communism, that’s allowing Joe to be a fisherman and a critic on his own terms.  The sharing or ‘gig’ economy is not only disrupting the way people live and work; it’s dividing the left considerably.  On the one hand, you have the nostalgic leftists who want Joe to work a nine-to-five job and skip the fishing. You know, like people did in the 1950s. [..] Should we be upset that the guy who founded Lyft is getting rich from the tech? Some people see the accumulation of wealth as taboo. But Joe’s life is better than it would have been in the absence of Lyft. The company allows him to live more of the life he wants to live.”

http://fee.org/freeman/detail/the-gig-economy-makes-karl-marxs-dreams-come-true

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Clinton’s Startup Tax Will Crush New Businesses

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“Hillary Clinton has announced that she will, if elected, raise the capital-gains tax to a maximum that equals the highest income tax bracket. She hopes to promote long-term investments by penalizing short-term ones with a tax rate that gets lower the longer an investment is held, reaching the current 20% rate only after six years.  This, Ms. Clinton says, would allow a CEO to focus on the company’s true interests rather than just making the next quarter. It is, unfortunately, exactly the sort of plan you would expect from someone who has never started a company — and who doesn’t seem to know anyone who has.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/clintons-startup-tax-will-crush-new-businesses

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Once a sure bet, taxi medallions becoming unsellable

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“Until recently in America’s big cities, purchasing a taxi medallion—the city-issued license to operate cabs —was about as sound of an investment as they come.  But with the rise of Uber and other ridesharing services, the value of taxi medallions are plummeting, leading cabbies and fleet owners throughout the USA worried that their industry will be decimated if local and state government doesn’t intervene. Charles Goodbar, a Chicago attorney who helps secure loans for medallion owners, said that financing has all but dried up. At the same time, new regulations, as well competition from ridesharing services, has reduced how much fleet owners can lease their vehicles to cabbies.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/17/taxi-medallion-values-decline-uber-rideshare/27314735/

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How Life Finds a Way in the Regulatory State

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“Instead of calling it the sharing economy, perhaps a better name for these phenomena might be the ‘gap economy’ — the economy that grows like a weed in the interstices of regulated markets and incumbent cartels. In an interventionist, mixed economy, it’s not hard to find examples of both ‘differentiation from generality’ and ‘life finds a way.’ It’s in the spaces left free from arbitrary government constraint and meddling where the ingenuity and resourcefulness of ordinary people are comparatively free to do extraordinary things.”

http://fee.org/freeman/detail/how-life-finds-a-way-in-the-regulatory-state

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