Monthly Archives: December 2017

Enter the ‘petro’: Venezuela to launch oil-backed cryptocurrency

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“‘Venezuela will create a cryptocurrency,’ backed by oil, gas, gold and diamond reserves, Maduro said in his regular Sunday televised broadcast, a five-hour showcase of Christmas songs and dancing.  Ironically, Venezuela’s currency controls in recent years have spurred a bitcoin fad among tech-savvy Venezuelans looking to bypass controls to obtain dollars or make internet purchases.  Maduro’s government has a poor track record in monetary policy.  Currency controls and excessive money printing have led to a 57 percent depreciation of the bolivar against the dollar in the last month alone on the widely used black market.”

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-economy/enter-the-petro-venezuela-to-launch-oil-backed-cryptocurrency-idUSKBN1DX0SQ

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NYC not liable for processing fake deed allowing theft of woman’s home

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“Merin, 74, had sued the city for not catching the forgery when the paperwork was first filed, but lost on appeal when the court backed a judge who said she couldn’t prove the city was negligent.  The feisty homeowner is fuming and has vowed to fight the decision.”

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/appeals-court-rules-city-not-liable-approving-fake-deed-article-1.3672693

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K9 Attacking Mentally Ill Man for No Reason Is ‘Proper Procedure’

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“Instead of applying a little bit of courage and walking into the cell with the two other officers to restrain a mentally ill man, the deputies sent in their dog to draw blood.  Predictably, the sheriff’s department investigated themselves and not only did they find they did nothing wrong, but, according to Dickerson, it went exactly as it should have.”

Read more: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/sheriff-gruesome-k9-attack-mentally-ill-man/

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Disturbing Trend of Police Wanting Drones for Routine Infractions

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“After lulling the public into believing that using drones in the U.S. would be confined to border patrol or for counter-terrorism in the event of an imminent threat, we are beginning to see police calling for far wider implementation of drone surveillance. I’d like to remind readers that up until 2010 it was a conspiracy theory to suggest that drones would be used in the U.S. at all. Until, of course, it came out that there had been a domestic drone program in the works for years. Subsequently, it became understood that the ‘border’ actually extends 100 miles inland through an area that the ACLU dubbed the ‘Constitution-free Zone.’”

Read more: https://www.activistpost.com/2017/12/disturbing-trend-police-wanting-drones-routine-infractions.html

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A Government That Gives Licenses Won’t Hesitate to Take Them Away

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“Without a license, one is no longer legally permitted to work. This is to say, barbers, lawyers, doctors, nurses, and pilots (the list is extensive) who are otherwise skilled at their occupations can be removed from the legal workforce if the governing body deems their student loan repayment unsatisfactory.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/a-government-that-gives-licenses-wont-hesitate-to-take-them-away/

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Millennials Get It Wrong about Socialism

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“I’m left to conclude that they have no appreciation for how socialism actually works in the real world.  The economic track record of socialism is as dismal as its human rights record. But we need not direct Millennials to history books to see it. They need only look at what has happened to former socialist countries during their own lifetimes, as these countries have moved away from socialism and towards capitalism.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/millennials-get-it-wrong-about-socialism/

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Congress Needs to Put a Stop to Asset Forfeiture

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“Revenues generated through forfeiture may be spent with virtually no oversight. Funds distributed to local or state agencies via the equitable sharing program are similarly beyond the reach of state or local lawmakers.  Perhaps this lack of accountability explains how funds supposedly reserved for ‘law enforcement purposes’ wind up getting spent on margarita machines, training trips to Hawaii, and chrome accents for Harley Davidson motorcycles.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/congress-needs-to-put-a-stop-to-asset-forfeiture/

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With the stroke of a pen, 31 million more Americans have hypertension

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“Tighter blood pressure guidelines from U.S. heart organizations mean millions more people need to make lifestyle changes, or start taking medication, in order to avoid cardiovascular problems.  At the new cutoff, around 46 percent, or more than 103 million, of American adults are considered to have high blood pressure, compared with an estimated 72 million under the previous guidelines in place since 2003.  Potentially deadly high blood pressure can be brought under control with a wide array of medications.”

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-hypertension/new-blood-pressure-range-means-half-of-americans-have-hypertension-idUSKBN1DD2Q2

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Government Is Addicted to Banning Substances

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“Kratom has no psychoactive effects and no physical dependency – it’s just a harmless plant.  Despite being an overwhelmingly better alternative to opioids, the DEA, FDA, and CDC continue to propagate kratom as dangerous. They’re wrong.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/government-is-addicted-to-banning-harmless-substances/

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In Duterte’s anti-drug pogrom, police and cameras tell different stories

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“Chilling surveillance footage of a drug-war operation in Manila raises fresh doubts about police actions in President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal anti-narcotics campaign. Reuters obtained the footage, which shows the deadly operation from start to finish.”

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/philippines-drugs-surveillance/

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