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The European Parliament’s Pro-Tax Politicians Should Go After their Own Tax-Protected Salaries

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The European Parliament’s Pro-Tax Politicians Should Go After their Own Tax-Protected Salaries

“What’s the most noxious example of hypocrisy from the political class?  Our old friend Dan Hannan from the European Parliament has another contestant. His tax-hungry colleagues (like their American counterparts) are bashing Apple, Google, and other multinationals for legally minimizing their tax burdens. Yet as Dan explains, parliamentarians from 24 out of 27 nations get a sweetheart deal and pay a very low flat tax.  But I must say none of these examples of hypocrisy can compete with the bureaucrats from the OECD and IMF, both of whom get completely tax-free salaries while pushing for higher taxes on the rest of us.”

http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/the-european-parliaments-pro-tax-politicians-should-go-after-their-own-tax-protected-salaries/

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Justice Department facilitated anti-Zimmerman protests

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“A division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was deployed to Sanford, Florida in 2012 to provide assistance for anti-George Zimmerman protests, including a rally headlined by activist Al Sharpton, according to newly released documents. The Community Relations Service (CRS), a unit of DOJ, reported expenses related to its deployment in Sanford to help manage protests between March and April 2012, according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.”

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/10/doj-provided-security-for-anti-zimmerman-protests/

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Snowden’s full statement from Moscow: ‘I did what I believed right’

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“A little over one month ago, I had family, a home in paradise, and I lived in great comfort. I also had the capability without any warrant to search for, seize, and read your communications. Anyone’s communications at any time. That is the power to change people’s fates. It is also a serious violation of the law. The 4th and 5th Amendments to the Constitution of my country, Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and numerous statutes and treaties forbid such systems of massive, pervasive surveillance. My government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/12/snowdens-full-statement-from-moscow-i-did-what-i-believed-right/

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U.S. to deliver F-16 fighters to Egypt despite recent upheaval

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“The United States is pressing ahead with plans to deliver four F-16 fighters to Egypt despite a military coup against President Mohammed Morsi.  ‘It’s still the status quo,’ the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP. There was no decision to halt the scheduled transfer of the warplanes or to cut off other security assistance to Egypt, the official said, even though the US government has announced a review of all aid to Cairo.  The State Department said previously planned assistance would continue to flow to Egypt. ‘We’re still paying our bills, of course, and all of the programs are still moving forward,’ spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/11/u-s-to-deliver-f-16-fighters-to-egypt-despite-recent-upheaval/

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Biden urges end to hacking, human rights abuses by China

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“‘We both will benefit from an open, secure, reliable Internet. Outright cyber-enabling theft that US companies are experiencing now must be viewed as out of bounds and needs to stop,’ Biden said.  A recent US study said that corporate America was losing hundreds of billions of dollars a year through a vast, organized hacking campaign to steal US trade, government and military secrets. Biden also raised concerns about human rights, days after Chinese troops reportedly opened fire on Tibetans celebrating the birthday of their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/11/biden-urges-end-to-outright-hacking-theft-by-china/

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Support the Egyptian Uprising and Go to Jail

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“Lynne Stewart read a note to the press that was construed as exhorting Egyptian radicals to rise up and violently overthrow the Egyptian military dictatorship under Hosni Mubarak. She is now living the rest of her life in a federal penitentiary.  Thus, the state of U.S. law is this: In principle, it’s okay to support the right of people to use force to resist tyranny. After all, that’s what the Declaration of Independence says, a document that Americans just celebrated on the Fourth of July.  But in the minds of U.S. officials, by exhorting Egyptians to violently overthrow their tyrannical, U.S.-supported regime, Stewart was guilty of being a supporter of terrorism.”

http://fff.org/2013/07/10/support-the-egyptian-uprising-and-go-to-jail/

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Ignoring Drug Advisors, Britain Bans Khat

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“In a written ministerial statement to Parliament last week. British Home Secretary Theresa May announced that her government was banning khat, a mild stimulant plant from the Horn of Africa widely used by inhabitants of the region, some of whom have emigrated to United Kingdom and other Western countries and brought their habit with them. In doing so, May went directly against the advice of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), the public body charged with making recommendations on the control of drugs.  ”

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/jul/09/ignoring_drug_advisors_britain_b

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Who voted for the Reed Amendment in 1995 and 1996?

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“The Reed Amendment — which bans people determined by the Attorney-General to have ‘renounced citizenship for the purpose of avoiding taxation’ — was an amendment to the Immigration in the National Interest Act of 1995.  I was aware in a general sense that Republicans had taken back the House and the Senate in 1994, but I’d never really put two and two together until reading this list: Republicans formed a majority among the supporters of the Reed Amendment. Indeed, every single one of the Republican freshmen on the committee who joined the House as a result of the 1994 ‘Revolution’ voted for Reed’s amendment.”

http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2013/07/09/who-voted-for-the-reed-amendment-in-1996/

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What the Libertarian Candidate for NYC Comptroller Would Like to Ask Eliot Spitzer

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“‘I’ll ask his position on prostitution.  And if he thinks johns should be arrested and charged just like madams and prostitutes. If he thought it was fair that he was never charged as a john under his new felony law but that I spent four months in Rikers Island from which I returned penniless, homeless, and forced to take sex offender classes for five months with pedophiles and perverts while he returned to his wife in his 5th Ave. high rise without ever being fingerprinted, mug shot, remanded, or charged with a crime under the very law he signed.’  ‘But my guess is that he will use his vast money he used to pay high-priced prostitutes to try to knock me off the ballot.'”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/07/what-libertarian-candidate-for-nyc.html

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So What’s Your Point?

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