Police Chief: “We Have Historically Been a Paramilitary Organization”

Indianapolis Police Chief Rick Hite spoke those words in a largely empty chamber, to an audience drawn entirely from Indianapolis’s political class. True, the budget meeting was open to the public, which could attend in person, monitor a live broadcast online, or watch an archived video of the proceedings later. But few, if any, city residents were likely to endure the two-and-a-half-hour-long barrage of bureaucratese that provided the prelude to Hite’s candid invocation of fuhrerprinzip. The Chief’s statement was a rejoinder to Councilor-at-Large Leroy Robinson, who had defended his vote in opposition to a $29 million tax increase to expand the ranks of Hite’s ‘army’ by three hundred officers.”

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/09/we-have-been-paramilitary-organization.html

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After Second Ebola Patient, CDC Preps 20 U.S. Quarantine Camps

“The disease likely arrived via the local practice of hunting for bushmeat, which the impoverished locals regularly engage in, to gather enough to eat.  But there’s growing rumors and suspicion in the region among locals.  They believe that the U.S. may have pruposefully released the disease as some sort of weapons test.  Liberia promised to beef up security after a ebolavirus victim successfully circumvented airport security and boarded a plane to Nigeria.  Back home, [the CDC] issued its highest level of travel warning — Level 3 — urging Americans to avoid travel to the region.  Just in case, it’s already prepping twenty quarantine camps in major cities around the country.”

http://www.dailytech.com/Second+Ebola+Patient+Lands+on+US+Soil+CDC+Preps+20+US+Quarantine+Camps/article36331.htm

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Homeless mom arrested for leaving children in car during job interview

“Shanesha Taylor was arrested for leaving her two children, then six months and two years old, in a car with the windows cracked and the fan blowing while she was interviewing for a job at a Scottsdale, Ariz., insurance agency for 69 minutes. It was about 71 degrees.  When she came out, the Dodge Durango that had sometimes served as her home was surrounded by police.  Crowdsourcing fundraisers worked quickly to gather more than $100,000 for Taylor and circulated a Change.org petition urging Maricopa County prosecutor Bill Montgomery to drop the charges against her. The petition garnered more than 57,000 signatures. Montgomery has said he will not drop the charges.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/23/shanesha-taylor-arrested-for-leaving-children-in-car-during-job-interview-speaks/

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Irish government promises income tax cuts in next budget

“Enda Kenny has promised tax cuts in the next budget to help struggling families.  The Taoiseach vowed to cut the top rate of income tax for low and middle income earners admitting that the country has ‘been through the wars’.  Mr Kenny said: ‘We will reduce the 52 percent tax rate for low and middle income workers, starting with this budget in October.’  He added:  ‘Ireland has been through the wars. There isn’t a family in any part that hasn’t been affected.  ‘But my message is that we’re in recovery, things are getting better and we intend now to make sure they get better for everyone.'”

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/politics/enda-kenny-promises-tax-cuts-3843833

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Why One Walmart in North Dakota Is Paying $17.40 an Hour

“A Walmart store in Williston, N.D., is offering to pay entry-level workers as much as $17.40 per hour—nearly 2½ times the federal minimum wage—in an effort to compete in one of America’s most dynamic labor markets.  The push for a ‘living wage’ has gained momentum in cities such as Seattle recently. But the historic oil boom in North Dakota has provided real, sustained growth in wages and lowered unemployment in North Dakota to 2.6 percent—the lowest statewide rate in the nation—and to less than 1 percent in Williston, which is near the oil fields in the western part of the state.  Median North Dakota family income surpasses the national average by more than $8,000.”

http://dailysignal.com/2014/06/10/drilling-innovation-forcing-walmart-north-dakota-pay-17-40-hour/

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Americans’ sense of freedom drops below Paraguay, Rwanda

“This Independence Day, Americans will celebrate the nation’s core values, especially freedom. But according to a new international poll, Americans have become significantly ‘less satisfied with the freedom to choose what they want to do with their lives.’  Seventy-nine percent of US residents are satisfied with their level of freedom, down from 91 percent in 2006, according to the Gallup survey, released Tuesday.  That 12-point drop pushes the United States from among the highest in the world in terms of perceived freedom to 36th place, outside the top quartile of the 120 countries sampled, trailing Paraguay, Rwanda, and the autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh.”

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2014/0701/Land-of-the-free-Not-so-much.-Americans-sense-of-freedom-drops-poll-finds

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FBI starts U.S. campaign to deter lasers being aimed at aircraft

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Tuesday it will pay up to $10,000 for tips leading to arrests of pranksters who point handheld lasers at aircraft, part of a national campaign to crack down on a growing threat known as ‘lasing.’  Officials said what looks like a small beam of light from the lasers on the ground can travel for more than a mile and illuminate a cockpit, temporarily blinding the pilots inside.  The lasers can be no more sophisticated than the pointer lasers available for a few dollars at office supply stores.  Last year, the FBI reported 3,960 laser strikes against aircraft, an average of almost 11 per day, and officials estimate that thousands more cases go unreported each year.”

http://kdal610.com/news/articles/2014/jun/03/fbi-starts-us-campaign-to-deter-lasers-being-aimed-at-aircraft/

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Senate Panel OKs $47 Billion Homeland Security Budget

“The measure also includes a provision to increase the fee paid by travelers who enter the U.S. by commercial sea and air carriers by $2 to $9, using the revenue to pay for 1,000 new customs agents.  The measure funds the government’s newest Cabinet department and is free of contentious issues that dot many of the other 11 spending bills. It increases the budget for Customs and Border Protection by 4 percent and increases funding for detention of people entering the country illegally.  The bill’s chief author, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who faces a difficult re-election campaign this fall, included $318 million to build six fast response Coast Guard cutters at Bollinger Shipyards in her home state.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/senate-panel-oks-47b-homeland-security-budget-24318416

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Could Keith Alexander’s Advice Possibly Be Worth $600K a Month?

“Ex-NSA director Keith Alexander has his own consulting company: IronNet Cybersecurity Inc. His advice does not come cheap.  Alexander offered to provide advice to Sifma for $1 million a month, according to two people briefed on the talks. The asking price later dropped to $600,000, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the negotiation was private.  Alexander declined to comment on the details, except to say that his firm will have contracts ‘in the near future.’   SIFMA is the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. Think of how much actual security they could buy with that $600K a month. Unless he’s giving them classified information.”

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/06/could_keith_ale.html

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Bay Area city approves $13 minimum wage, to be California’s highest

“Businesses that pay less than 800 hours of employee wages over a two-week period will be exempt from the rules but must still pay the state minimum wage.  Richmond businesses that ‘derive more than 50 percent of their income from transactions where the point of sale is outside the city’ will be forced to pay an ‘intermediate wage,’ defined as halfway between the city’s minimum wage and the state minimum wage.  Seattle recently raised its minimum wage to $15 by 2017, which would be the nation’s highest. San Francisco’s $10.74 minimum wage is currently the state’s highest.  The new law will phase in the minimum wage hike over several years, increasing to $13 in 2018.”

http://www.dailynews.com/government-and-politics/20140605/bay-area-city-approves-13-minimum-wage-potentially-californias-highest

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