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Oklahomans Going It Alone Against Smart Meters?

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“Many Oklahomans have been fighting individual, solitary battles against the utility corporations and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to get these unwanted smart meters off of their homes. I believe that there are many more Oklahomans out there suffering or fighting all alone. Whether or not we are personally concerned about the possible privacy, security or health issues that surround smart meters, we all should be concerned if the utility corporations, our elected representatives, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and other public servants of this state are not being properly responsive to those who have serious objections to having a smart meter installed.”

http://axiomamuse.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/oklahomans-going-it-alone-against-smart-meters/

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Energy Firm Caught Breaking Into Door to Install Smart Meter

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Energy Firm Caught Breaking Down Door to Install Smart Meter

“Smart Meters are a financial coup for Big Energy. This is why we are witnessing – and now catching on film – criminal acts of vandalism, breaking & entering and trespass by energy firms trying to install their next-generation ‘cash machines’ in the homes of customers. When companies are prepared to treat the properties of their customers with this much contempt, the extent to which sensitive personal data will be cared for is in little doubt.”

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State Governments Pay Crime Labs for Wrongful Convictions

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“A new study by Roger Koppl and Meghan Sacks shows that a number of states pay their crime labs by the conviction. Furthermore, legislators in many states require convicted people to pay for the lab testing that helped convict them. In economics, this is known as ‘moral hazard,’ in which incentives exist that encourage the very outcomes that people supposedly wish to avoid. Calling this situation ‘moral hazard,’ of course, is built on the assumption that government authorities really wish to avoid wrongful convictions and that police and prosecutors only want guilty people convicted.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/gee-shocking-news-state-governments-pay-crime-labs-for-wrongful-convictions/

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Snowden Leak: U.S. Paying Contractors Ten Times as Much as Bureaucrats

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“While contractors represent fewer than 20 percent of the workforce, 70 percent of the intelligence budget goes to them, according to a figure from the U.S. Director of National Intelligence Agency (DNI) at a Colorado sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).  That rare peek behind the veil is likely still relatively accurate. Traditionally the lion’s share of this money has gone to Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC), Honeywell Int’l Inc. (HON) (via is Science Applications Int’l Corp. subsidiary), Raytheon Comp. (RTN), Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT), and Edward Snowden’s former firm Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Comp. (BAH).”

http://www.dailytech.com/Snowden+Leak+US+Paying+Contractors+Ten+Times+as+Much+as+Bureaucrats/article33277.htm

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Hey Iraqis: How’s that “Liberation” Stuff Workin’ Out For Ya?

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“Just what ‘liberation’ meant to Rummy, Dummy and Scummy can be seen from the agenda Paul Bremer implemented as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq.   Bremer’s CPA was a classic ‘night watchman state.’ Remember all those priceless historical treasures the looters ‘liberated’ from the National Museum while the U.S. looked the other way? With Night Watchman Bremer’s go-ahead, global corporate looters gave the Iraqi economy just as thorough a ransacking.  On top of everything else, Bremer appointed a whole slew of ministerial officials to five-year terms that would override any later decisions by an independent government.”

http://c4ss.org/content/17773

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The Real Reason for the Iraq War

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“Like most lefty journalists, I assumed that George Bush and Tony Blair invaded Iraq to buy up its oil fields, cheap and at gun-point, and cart off the oil. We thought we knew the neo-cons true casus belli: Blood for oil. But the invasion was not about ‘blood for oil’, but something far more sinister: blood for no oil. War to keep supply tight and send prices skyward.  Oil men, whether James Baker or George Bush or Dick Cheney, are not in the business of producing oil. They are in the business of producing profits.  And they’ve succeeded. Iraq, capable of producing six to 12 million barrels of oil a day, still exports well under its old OPEC quota of three million barrels.”

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-iraqi-war-wasnt-waged-for-oil-greg-palast

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Worldwide loss of oil supply heightens Syria attack risk

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“Libya’s oil output has crashed to a near standstill over the past year as warlords and strikes paralyse the country, tightening the screws on global crude supply as the crisis in Syria comes to a head.  There are still pockets of rising oil output, notably in the US where shale oil is rapidly reducing US dependence on energy imports. The geo-strategic effect of shale is double-edged for the US: it lowers the incentive for Washington to commit forces to the Middle East, but it also means the US is better able to handle the consequences of any oil spike. The biggest losers would be those emerging economies such as India and China that rely on fuel imports and operate inefficient industries.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/10274958/Worldwide-loss-of-oil-supply-heightens-Syria-attack-risk.html

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Cop Sues Over DC Speed Camera Program

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“Sergeant Mark Robinson has spent 23 years on the force, with five years of experience working on the automated traffic enforcement unit.  Earlier this year, Robinson went public to expose how one of the city’s most profitable cameras at the Third Street Tunnel was set to the wrong speed. Robinson’s lawsuit alleges the camera program manager, Lisa Sutter, set up speed cameras improperly, voided speed camera tickets for friends, misappropriated $25,000 in government funds and ‘had an improper relationship with a non-profit organization.’ After he filed a formal complaint, Sutter lowered the scores on Robinson’s performance evaluation and rescinded his supervisory authority in the camera program.”

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/41/4193.asp

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Unwanted Exotics

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“If the definition of insanity is, indeed, repeating the same action over and over and over – and expecting a different result – then the car industry is palpably insane. No, wait. I am not being fair. The car industry is not insane. It is merely being puppeteered – dancing on strings, the strings controlled by someone else. The object of this exercise is not to find a way to reduce the cost of driving but rather to increase it. California – the biggest single market for cars in the U.S. – along with nine others – has set quotas for Unwanted Exotics. Fifteen percent of all cars sold in these states must be of the electrified variety by 2025. This a great deal more than the 80-odd electric Fits Honda has sold so far.”

http://ericpetersautos.com/2013/08/26/unwanted-exotics/

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Cities Crackdown on Private Transport

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“The Dallas City Council was scheduled to vote on a substantial city code rewrite that will redefine everything from who can dispatch a car to who can drive a limo to the cost of a limousine’s off-the-lot sticker price (has to be more than $45,000). The rewrite will ‘require limousine service to be prearranged at least 30 minutes before the service is provided.’ The addendum item says ‘the use of computer applications and other technologies by some providers of limousine service has distorted certain distinctions between limousines and taxicabs, and that it’s high time the city ‘establish those distinctions to help the public understand the differences between those types of passenger transportation services.'”

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=23546

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