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Oklahoma execution doctors’ secrecy law passed quietly

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“The clause, tucked into HB 1991, prevents the public from knowing whether doctors, pharmacists, EMTs and others taking part in executions are qualified.   State officials have cited the law in refusing to discuss the training of medical officials who, when the inmate was still writhing on the gurney 33 minutes after the lethal injection had started, stopped the procedure. To ensure there is no record of the participants in executions, the Department of Corrections uses petty cash accounts to pay pharmacists, doctors and others.  Critics say such laws, which are being adopted rapidly by other states, merely serve to protect doctors and pharmacists from criticism.”

http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepagelatest/state-s-execution-secrecy-law-passed-quietly/article_c0f548e2-0ccb-58c3-a218-afe68938aa47.html

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St. Louis Police Attorney Denies Existence of His Own Drug Task Force

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“The lengths to which the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department was willing to go to avoid providing public records is troubling. Drug Task Forces in Missouri are entrusted with more power and are subject to less accountability than would be expected of typical law enforcement, which further underscores the need for transparency. The shenanigans of the SLMPD demonstrated here fly in the face of the spirit, if not the letter, of Missouri’s Sunshine Law. More than that, it is an affront to good governance that major police departments default to denying the existence of a drug task force when records pertaining to it are requested.”

http://show-mecannabis.com/2014/06/saint-louis-police-attorney-denies-existence-of-drug-task-force-that-he-represents/

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The Warning Inherent in Escalating Official Lawlessness

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“Claiming that hundreds or thousands of [former IRS commissioner Lois Lerner’s] recent emails have been ‘lost’ beggars belief.  It provides us with a spectacle of an escalating contempt for constitutional constraints. We don’t believe generally at this point that the facilities of large Western governments acknowledge ‘the rule of law,’ but it is alarming to see a major US agency willing to make the point so obviously. In this era of FATCA and GATCA, when the US government in particular is demanding absolute financial transparency from its citizens, the stance of the IRS indicates a growing gap between what is expected of individuals and the accountability of governmental entities.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35398/The-Warning-Inherent-in-Escalating-Official-Lawlessness/

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NSA: ‘We can’t stop our systems from deleting data wanted for lawsuit’

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“The National Security Agency recently used a novel argument for not holding onto information it collects about users online activity: it’s too complex.  The agency is facing a slew of lawsuits over its surveillance programs, many launched after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked information on the agency’s efforts last year. One suit that pre-dates the Snowden leaks, Jewel v. NSA, challenges the constitutionality of programs that the suit allege collect information about American’s telephone and Internet activities.  The government has argued that the case, which was filed in 2008, should be thrown out and that Section 702 programs do not target Americans.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/06/09/nsa-our-systems-are-so-complex-we-cant-stop-them-from-deleting-data-wanted-for-lawsuit/

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FBI Director Doesn’t Think Agency Will Spy On Americans With N.G.I.

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“FBI Director James Comey insisted during a House Judiciary Committee Hearing Wednesday that his agency doesn’t — and will not — use the government’s sophisticated facial recognition technology to keep tabs on innocent civilians. But earlier this year, a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the EFF revealed that the FBI plans to database more than 52 million pictures in its Next Generation Identification facial recognition program by next year.  Pressed by Representative Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat who represents a district squarely situated in California’s Silicon Valley, Comey added that some non-criminals might be included if they apply for certain jobs or licenses.”

http://personalliberty.com/fbi-director-doesnt-think-agency-will-spy-americans-fails-mention-already/

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The Great Deception, Part II

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“In each of these cases, brokerages made millions. The analysts made millions. The companies they promoted raked in millions. But investors lost their shirts.  Not one major firm on Wall Street tied its analysts’ compensation to their actual track record in picking stocks. Analysts could be wrong once, wrong twice, wrong a hundred times, and they’d still earn huge bonuses, as long as they continued to recommend the shares and as long as there were still enough investors who continued to buy into the hype. The current cycle of complacency does not favor investor vigilance — let alone Wall Street transparency.  Quite to the contrary, it’s the perfect climate for more scams and deceptions.”

http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/the-great-deception-part-ii-61958

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Reefer Madness Redux

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“What’s especially obnoxious about these conclusions is that they argue marijuana ‘damages lives’ but ignore the devastating effects of long-term incarceration on the individuals and families swept up for non-violent criminal violations into the West’s massive penal-industrial complex. There is plenty of evidence that prohibition doesn’t work and that the blight from those kinds of policies – as well as the individual and familial ruin – is considerably worse than the item being prohibited. Of course, the pharmaceutical companies that are doubtless supportive of ‘studies’ like this don’t care about the larger social costs.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35376/Anthony-Wile-Reefer-Madness-Redux/

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The bogus climate warnings that spurred Pentagon’s green spending

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“Consultants told the military that, by now, California would be flooded by inland seas, The Hague would be unlivable, polar ice would be mostly gone in summer, and global temperatures would rise at an accelerated rate as high as 0.5 degrees a year.  The 2003 report is credited with kick-starting the movement that links climate change to national security. The Pentagon is making big investments in biofuels, for example, and is working climate change into high-level strategic planning.  There is no exact budget line for climate change. The Government Accountability Office in 2011 documented a big increase in federal spending, from $4.6 billion in 2003 to nearly $9 billion in 2010.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/1/pentagon-wrestles-with-false-climate-predictions-a/?page=all

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The Bogus “97% of Climate Scientists Agree” Claim

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“There’s a bait-and-switch occurring here. As Friedman spells out, all you need to do is actually look at Cook et al.’s own tables in their paper to see that others (including Cook himself in a subsequent paper!) are misrepresenting their findings. Only 1.6% of the surveyed abstracts clearly say that humans are the main cause of global warming. The 97.1% figure includes papers that merely claim that some amount of warming can be attributed to human activities. Many of the prominent scientists associated with the ‘denier’ label–such as Richard Lindzen, Roy Spencer, Pat Michaels, and Chip Knappenberger (whom I feature here a lot)–would fit into this ‘consensus.'”

http://consultingbyrpm.com/blog/2014/05/the-bogus-97-of-climate-scientists-agree-claim.html

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Colorado’s neighboring sheriffs lamenting their own marijuana arrests?

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“Sheriff John Jenson watched the 2012 election returns crawling across his TV screen in this rural area just over the Colorado border. Tuned to a Denver news station, he soon realized Colorado voters were about to legalize recreational marijuana.  That’s when he turned to his wife and started to swear.  ‘The drug war in this country used to be along the U.S.-Mexican border. Now it’s eight miles away.’  Law enforcement officers in the smaller, often isolated counties in states ringing Colorado say their departments shudder under the weight of Colorado pot flowing illegally across the border. Drug arrests are rising, straining already strapped budgets in places where marijuana remains illegal.”

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pot-trafficking-20140527-story.html

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