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Native American Charged Criminally For Hanging US Flag Upside Down

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“A Pennsylvania man who hung an American flag upside down and spraypainted it said he was standing up for the American Indian heritage and exercising his First Amendment rights.  Police, however, took the flag down and charged Joshua Brubaker with a crime: Desecration and insults to the American flag.   Brubaker said he never meant to upset or offend anyone and defended his actions. He and his wife are American Indians and are passionate about the movement.  Brubaker said many in his family served in the military and that gives him the right to express his beliefs by desecrating the flag.  Authorities said there are other ways he could have expressed himself.”

http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/pennsylvania-man-charged-criminally-for-hanging-american-flag-upside-down/

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U.S. Government Calls for Limits on Companies’ Use of Web Data

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“The White House, hoping to move the national debate over privacy beyond the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities to the practices of companies like Google and Facebook, released a long-anticipated report on Thursday that recommends developing government limits on how private companies make use of the torrent of information they gather from their customers online.  Because the effort goes so far beyond information collected by intelligence agencies, the report was viewed warily in Silicon Valley, where companies see it as the start of a government effort to regulate how they can profit from the data they collect from email and web surfing habits.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/us/white-house-report-calls-for-transparency-in-online-data-collection.html?_r=0

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Marxist Publishing House Asserts Copyright Against Free Websites

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“Lawrence & Wishart, a profit-seeking leftist publisher of the collected works of Marx and Engels, is threatening legal action against Marxists.org, a website run by a remnant of the last remaining English-speaking Marxists.  Marxists.org posts English-language translations of the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and other bourgeois members of the Inevitable Wave of the Future. These are free. That’s the problem. Lawrence & Wishart find it hard to compete against ‘free.’  So, it’s hard times in Commieland. The realities of free publishing online are these: a copyright-holding, profit-seeking firm is trying to make a few bucks by selling the Word as Revealed.”

http://www.garynorth.com/public/12395.cfm

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Police Crack Down On High Schoolers’ Nerf Gun Battle

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“It all started when neighbors reported someone pointing a gun at a car one night earlier in the week.  ‘They did scare a number of people in the area,’ Capt. Ben Bliven of the Wausau Police Department told WAOW-TV.  There’s one tiny wrinkle in this incident, though — the students weren’t carrying real guns.  They were Nerf guns — and part of a game trending in popularity called ‘Nerf Wars.’  Police cited the six seniors for disorderly conduct. In addition, their high school, Wausau West, placed some of them on athletic probation.  The students aren’t happy about the outcome. ‘I think it was a little overdone with the cops coming and the guns they brought with them,’ senior Brad Gajewski said.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/26/high-schoolers-gun-battle-lands-them-in-deep-trouble-with-police-administration-but-theres-just-one-tiny-problem/

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H-P Pays $108M to DOJ, SEC To Settle Anti-Bribery Allegations

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“Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) agreed to pay $108 million to settle federal claims that it violated the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, marking yet another major settlement as the government cracks down on bribery.  The government alleges H-P violated FCPA when its subsidiaries in Poland, Mexico and Russia made improper payments to government officials to obtain or retain public contracts.  The PC maker agreed to pay $108 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Dept. of Justice, and undertake certain compliance, reporting and cooperation obligations.”

http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2014/04/09/h-p-in-108m-settlement-with-doj-over-foreign-practices/

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CFPB targets ‘zombie’ foreclosures

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“Zombie foreclosures result when banks begin a foreclosure -even going so far as to send the homeowners a foreclosure notice – but then abandon it, failing to alert the homeowners, who have often moved out, that they are still responsible for their vacant properties.  Borrowers, who don’t realize they still own their homes, are then left responsible for mortgage debt, taxes and upkeep.  Zombie foreclosures usually occur on low-value properties that weren’t worth the banks‘ time to foreclose upon. Rather, the banks charged the houses off. Banks have been walking away from foreclosures much the way some homeowners walked away from their mortgages.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/13/us-regulations-zombie-idUSBREA2C1GA20140313

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Feds investigating discrimination accused of discrimination

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“The federal agency tasked with investigating allegations of discrimination in consumer financial transactions was accused of discriminatory treatment of its own employees in a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.  Angela Martin, a senior enforcement attorney with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), alleged that a ring of managers within the CFPB favors men over women in promotions, performance reviews, and the work place environment.  She said a ring of upper level managers in the CFPB division she works in — the consumer responses division  — engages in behavior which discriminates against females and minorities.”

http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/03/agency-tasked-with-investigating-discrimination-accused-of-discrimination/

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Officer Points Gun At Restaurant Patron To Prove He’s A Cop

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“Oakland police Officer Kevin Kelly, 24, had been talking to another patron having breakfast at a restaurant there and told her he was a police officer, but she didn’t believe him, Esparza said.  To prove it, Kelly, who had been drinking, allegedly pulled out a handgun, pointed it at the woman and at the restaurant’s ceiling, Esparza said.  The woman told the restaurant’s staff that Kelly had a gun and the police were called. Kelly was arrested and cited for misdemeanor brandishing a firearm, Esparza said. His weapon, which was not department-issued, was booked into evidence, according to Esparza.”

http://sfappeal.com/2014/02/oakland-police-officer-arrested-at-sf-restaurant-for-pointing-gun-at-patron/

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McGruff, The Crime Dog, Sentenced To 16 Years For Pot, Weapons

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“The man who played the famous ‘Take a bite out of crime’ dog was arrested in 2011 after Galveston police and drug-sniffing dogs pulled over the McGruff actor for speeding, the Houston Chronicle reports. Authorities found diagrams of two indoor pot-growing operations sitting on the front seat, and multiple pot seeds stored in the trunk of his Infinity.  Police raided Morales’ home and found the multitude of marijuana plants, ammunition and weapons, which included a grenade launcher.  Morales insisted that he was nonviolent, but U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore stated that, ‘Everything I read about you makes you seem like a scary person.'”

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/02/06/mcgruff-the-crime-dog-actor-sentenced-to-16-years-for-pot-grenade-launcher/

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Cannabinoid Protects Against Alcohol-Induced Liver Damage

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“The administration of the non-psychotropic cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) protects the liver from damage caused by alcohol consumption, according to preclinical data published online in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine.  Investigators from China and the US assessed whether cannabidiol administration can protect against alcohol-induced steatosis (excessive fat build up in the liver).  They reported, ‘[C]annabidiol protects mouse liver from acute alcohol-induced steatosis through multiple mechanisms including attenuation of alcohol-mediated oxidative stress … and increasing autophagy (degradation of dysfunctional cells).'”

http://norml.org/news/2014/01/16/non-psychoactive-cannabinoid-protects-against-alcohol-induced-liver-damage

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