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LAPD Detains Photographer For ‘Interfering’ With Police From 90 Feet Away

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LAPD Detains Photographer For ‘Interfering’ With Police From 90 Feet Away

“Words like ‘interference’ or ‘obstruction’ seem to be thrown around quite frequently when law enforcement officers decide they’d rather not be filmed while on duty. How the passive act of filming can interfere with investigations or obstruct officials is left to the imagination. Fortunately (I guess…), law enforcement officials have very vivid imaginations. This allows them to arrest, detain, hassle or confiscate devices as needed, in order preserve the peace by chilling speech.  The latest definition of ‘interference’ stretches the limits of credulity — to nearly 100 feet.”

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130808/12410424112/lapd-detains-photographer-interfering-with-police-investigation-90-feet-away.shtml

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The FED’s Dilemma

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“The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank is sufficiently worried about this quandary that it has discontinued publishing the FRED chart on excess reserves. I can hardly blame them. Here is their operating presupposition: ‘Out of sight, out of mind.'”

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/08/12/the-feds-dilemma-nashville-style/

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Obama’s Response To NSA Surveillance Still Lacking Justification

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“It’s a lot of rhetoric about transparency, with a few random claims about how important these programs are. Separately, he continued to insist that we’re better than some other countries (setting the bar low) and that we don’t spy on Americans — despite the evidence from this morning that this isn’t true.  In answering questions, he insisted the two key programs being discussed, Section 215 of the Patriot Act and 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, were critical to finding important intelligence — despite the fact that multiple Senators have insisted that there remains no evidence that Section 215 was necessary in any terrorist case.”

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130809/12461624127/obamas-response-to-nsa-surveillance-some-minor-reforms-transparency-still-lacking-justification.shtml

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The American Democracy Pitch

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“The neocon brothers-in-arms, Senators John McCain & Lindsey Graham, put out a joint Op-Ed in WaPo this morning. They attempt to pitch ‘Democracy’ to the Egyptian people, who ironically just witnessed their first democratically elected President overthrown in a military coup.  I have a different proposal for the Egyptian people, and it’s called Liberty.  Now, I realize that the prospects of Liberty breaking out in Egypt are close to zero (after all, we’re struggling immensely with the idea catching on here, in the so-called ‘Land of The Free’). But speaking about Liberty can only help.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/the-american-democracy-pitch.html

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Snowden revelations force Obama’s hand on surveillance program

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Snowden revelations force Obama’s hand on surveillance program

“After his administration issued repeated defenses of a National Security Agency monitoring program that collects Americans’ phone and Internet data, Obama announced during a press conference Friday afternoon that reforms to the system will make the collection activities more transparent and ‘give the American people additional confidence that there are additional safeguards against abuse.’  Officials will also launch a new website next week that will serve as ‘a hub for further transparency’ for interested members of the public.”

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Obama Thinks Americans Don’t Need to Know

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“The day after his first inauguration, Obama proclaimed ‘a new era of openness in our country.’ Yet, in office, he’s driven state secrecy to new levels of absurdity. You may think that Americans have a right to know who we’re at war with, when the government thinks it can kill them, and whether the executive branch considers the personal data of all Americans “relevant” to terrorism investigations — but this administration begs to differ. As far as it’s concerned, you can’t handle the truth.”

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/obama-thinks-americans-dont-need-know

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Peter Schiff: The Half Full Economy

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“The most recent GDP release from Washington has caused many to double down on their belief that the Federal Reserve will begin tapering Quantitative Easing sometime later this year. While I believe that is a fantasy given our economy’s extreme dependence on QE, market observers should have learned long ago that the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) initial GDP estimates can’t be trusted. A perusal of their subsequent GDP revisions in the last five years reveals a clear trend: They are almost twice as likely to revise initial estimates down rather than up, and the downward adjustments have been much larger on average.”

http://www.europac.net/commentaries/half_full_economy

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Obama announces proposals to reform NSA surveillance

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“At his first full news conference in more than three months, Obama said he intends to work with Congress on proposals that would add an adversarial voice — effectively one advocating privacy rights — to the secret proceedings before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Several Democratic senators have proposed such a measure.  In addition, Obama said that he intends to work on ways to tighten one provision of the Patriot Act – known as Section 215 – that gives the government broader authority toobtain business phone data records.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-announce-proposals-to-reform-nsa-surveillance/2013/08/09/ee3d6762-011a-11e3-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html

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Secret NSA loophole allows data gathering on U.S. citizens without a warrant

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“The previously undisclosed rule change allows NSA operatives to hunt for individual Americans’ communications using their name or other identifying information. Senator Ron Wyden told the Guardian the NSA’s authorities provide loopholes that allow ‘warrantless searches for the phone calls or emails of law-abiding Americans’. The authority, approved in 2011, appears to contrast with repeated assurances from Barack Obama and senior intelligence officials to both Congress and the American public that the privacy of US citizens is protected from the NSA’s dragnet surveillance programs.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/09/revealed-secret-nsa-loophole-allows-data-gathering-on-u-s-citizens-without-a-warrant/

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Van Jones rips Obama’s ‘ridiculous’ denial of domestic spying operations

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“Van Jones, a former White House special advisor, blasted President Barack Obama on Wednesday for cracking down on whistleblowers. ‘First of all, we do have a domestic spying program, and what we need to be able to do is figure out how to balance these things, not pretend like there’s no balancing to be done.’  ‘He said that if somebody like Snowden wanted to be a whistle-blower, they could have gone ahead. Well, hold on a second, sir. That is — you are right now prosecuting more whistleblowers – not only than any American president, that every American president combined!'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/08/van-jones-rips-obamas-ridiculous-denial-of-domestic-spying-operations/

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