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“Privacy” Held Hostage By “Security” – Public Unimpressed

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“Since Sept. 11, our government has acted as if security and privacy were an either/or proposition. In other words, an increase in one causes a decrease in the other. Like a seesaw, if one side goes up, the other side must go down.  As federal security consultant Ed Giorgio stated several years ago in a widely quoted New Yorker article, ‘Privacy and security are a zero-sum game.’ Apparently, in order to be more ‘secure,’ we must accept less ‘privacy.’ That includes allowing increased warrantless surveillance and scrutiny by the government.  So is the government’s argument sound?”

http://lfb.org/today/privacy-held-hostage-by-security-public-unimpressed/

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Questions persist after Ark. SWAT team fatally shoots 107-year-old man

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“When the time came to move 107-year-old Monroe Isadore to a new home, police say he resisted and barricaded himself inside. Authorities tried using a camera to monitor him, along with negotiating tactics, and finally gas to get him to come out.  So, a SWAT team went inside and was greeted by gunfire, authorities say. The team fired back, and Isadore died.  The weekend confrontation raised a flurry of questions Monday as residents struggled to make sense of how someone known as a pleasant, churchgoing man who was hard of hearing and sometimes carried a cane had died in an explosive confrontation.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/questions-persist-after-ark-swat-team-fatally-shoots-107-year-old-man-during-weekend-standoff/2013/09/09/390d10a2-199a-11e3-80ac-96205cacb45a_story.html

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Poland Confiscates Half Of Private Pensions To “Cut” Sovereign Debt Load

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“Well, once you nationalize private assets, the public debt will lindeed appear lower than it was before confiscation: we give them that much.  End result: ‘The Polish pension funds’ organisation said the changes may be unconstitutional because the government is taking private assets away from them without offering any compensation…. ‘This may lead to the private pension systems shutting down,’ said Rafal Benecki of ING Bank Slaski.’  But best of all, in the aftermath of Cyprus, we now know what the two most recent European blueprints for preserving the myth of solvency are: bail-ins, which confiscate deposits, and pension fund ‘overhauls’, which confiscate, well, pension funds.”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-06/poland-confiscates-half-private-pension-funds-cut-sovereign-debt-load

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Student Loan Consequences: Real, Costly, and Personal

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“Under the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA) signed into law as part of ObamaCare in March of 2010, students may borrow money directly from the federal government regardless of their credit score or any other financial ‘issues’ they may be facing. They are not priced according to any ‘individualized measure of risk’ nor are there loan limits. They are instead politically determined by Congress with undergraduates receiving lower interest rates than graduate students, but graduate students allowed to borrow more than undergrads. This forced entry by the government into what was once a private market transaction has numerous consequences.”

http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/markets/item/14363-student-loan-consequences-real-costly-and-personal

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Government Interference in the Bowling Shoe Sector

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“New York State Senator Patrick Gallivan (R-59th District) New York State Assemblyman Robin Schimminger (D-140th District) are sponsoring a bill that would cover bowling shoes. The bill in the assembly is co-sponsored by Assembly members Brian Kolb, Crystal Peoples-Stokes and Jane Corwin. It would require alley owners to post signs, warning keglers not to wear bowling shoes outside, lest they become wet and increase the likelihood that a bowler could slip and fall when they come inside.  I think we have pretty much everything covered. Can we now disband all state and federal law making bodies?”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/05/government-interference-in-bowling-shoe.html

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Move Over, Obamacare. Here Comes Obamaschool

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“The president gave a speech on August 22 in Buffalo outlining his proposal to ‘reform’ the student loan program. He acknowledged that the program has some problems, but assured the audience they are easily fixed. Just take the principles behind Obamacare and apply them to education. The president personally ‘guaranteed’ that his proposals would make college more affordable.  We don’t have a 2,000 page bill in Congress yet, but it’s all quite familiar: government will take even tighter control of higher education just as it has taken even tighter control of medicine, and use Obamacare as its operating manual.”

http://www.mises.org/daily/6518/

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Ethan Saylor’s death at hands of cops spurs demand for investigation

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A spokeswoman says Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is committed to improving police training after a man with Down syndrome died in the custody of Frederick County deputies in January.  The 26-year-old died of asphyxia as three deputies, moonlighting as mall security officers, tried to remove him from a movie theater because he hadn’t bought a ticket for a repeat viewing.  ‘We want to know what occurred without a detail left out. No matter what the outcome is, it’s the truth,’ said Patti Saylor, his mother.  A Frederick County grand jury declined to indict the deputies for what was ruled a homicide.”

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/09/robert-ethan-saylor-death-spurs-demand-for-investigation-93623.html

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North Carolina law prohibits police from destroying guns after buyback

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“A new law going into effect this week in North Carolina law prohibits law enforcement from destroying unclaimed guns and firearms acquired through gun buyback programs. The so-called ‘save the gun’ law passed the Republican-controlled Legislature in the spring as the state moved to strengthen gun rights in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, the Los Angeles Times reports.  The law requires that law enforcement agencies donate, keep or sell confiscated guns to licensed gun dealers. Guns may only be destroyed if they are damaged or missing serial numbers, according to the report. Similar laws have been passed in Kentucky and Arizona.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/03/north-carolina-law-prohibits-police-from-destroying-guns/

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Man rescued to death by Australian ambulance helicopter

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“The 68-year-old man was bushwalking with a group at Macs Cove, near Mansfield in Victoria’s north-east, when he broke his ankle about 10:30am AEST yesterday.  The ambulance helicopter was sent in to rescue the man about midday because of the terrain. However, Ambulance Victoria chief executive Greg Sassella says at about 12.30pm he fell approximately 30 metres to his death while he was being winched into the helicopter with a paramedic. Mr Sassella says Ambulance Victoria has suspended all winch rescues while the equipment is tested and an investigation is completed.  Mr Sassella says the winch equipment will be thoroughly tested.”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-31/man-dies-in-chopper-mishap/4926894

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Man was unarmed when fatally shot by Fairfax police officer

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“Geer’s father, Don Geer, was outside the home as officers talked with his son. He has said he watched as his son stood with empty hands resting on top of a screen door at the front door. When John Geer lowered his hands about six inches, his father said, one officer opened fire, and John Geer was hit. He retreated into the home, where a SWAT team later found him dead.  Don Geer said Tuesday that a detective investigating the case told him that his son was not holding a gun at the time of the shooting and that he did not have one on his person.  John Geer, a kitchen designer and installer, had never been convicted of a violent crime in Fairfax County.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/father-of-man-shot-by-police-said-a-detective-told-him-his-son-was-not-armed/2013/09/03/612992a0-14cb-11e3-b182-1b3bb2eb474c_story.html

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