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Protected plates give growing number of officials the green-light to avoid fines

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“In Colorado, special license plates issued to 100 state lawmakers and representatives not only shield them from radar tickets for speeding, but also prevent collection notices on past-due parking tickets. That’s because the legislative plates in Colorado aren’t entered into the Division of Motor Vehicles database. If someone with a special license plate blows through the speed limit and is caught on radar, there is no actual information in the state’s records to cross-reference the plate.  A Denver-based CBS investigation revealed 16 legislative license plates that have accumulated more than $2,000 in fines and penalties that have not been paid.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/08/protected-plates-give-growing-number-drivers-green-light-to-avoid-fines/

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Four Centuries of Surveillance: From Privy Councils to FISA Courts

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“Letters to or from England were carried by private ship captains, who often hung a bag in the local coffeehouse to receive letters for shipment. The price was generally a penny for a single letter and two pence for a double letter or parcel.  In 1591 the Crown had issued a proclamation granting itself the monopoly of all foreign mail, and in 1609 the Crown’s proclamation extended its own monopoly to all mail foreign or domestic. The purpose of this postal monopoly was quite simple: to enable governmental officials to read the letters of private citizens in order to discover and suppress ‘treason’ and ‘sedition.'”

http://mises.org/daily/6498/

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Saudi prince reserves portions of Disneyland Paris for $19.5 million

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“A Saudi prince spent 15 million euros ($19.5 million) for three days of fun at Disneyland near Paris to celebrate his degree, the group that runs the theme park said Monday. Prince Fahd al-Saud booked entire areas of the park over May 22 to 24 for his 60-odd guests. The festivities included tailor-made events involving ‘rare Disney characters,’ Euro Disney told AFP. Special security was put in place for the prince, one of the park’s top customers, it added. The theme park attracted 16 million visitors last year but Euro Disney has not made any profits since it was set up 20 years ago.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/03/saudi-prince-reserves-portions-of-disneyland-paris-for-19-5-million/

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Jacob Hornberger: More Judicial Deference on National-Security State Murder

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“Continuing the long tradition of deference to the national-security state by the U.S. federal judiciary, a federal judge recently dismissed a lawsuit by the sons of a man named Frank Olson seeking damages for the CIA’s murder of their father. The excuses that the judge used to dismiss the case were the statute of limitations and a previous settlement that had been entered into regarding the case.  The CIA confessed to its LSD experiment on Olson, but the confession, along with all the remorse and regret, were nothing more than a highly sophisticated way to cover up the fact that the CIA had actually murdered Olson by pushing him out of that high-rise New York City hotel room.”

http://fff.org/2013/08/05/more-judicial-deference-on-national-security-state-murder/

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Congress to get Obamacare exemption

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“Under the law, popularly referred to as Obamacare, lawmakers and their aides were required to source health insurance ‘created’ by the law or offered through one of its exchanges; and without the subsidies they currently have, the members of Congress would have faced thousands of dollars in additional premium payments each year, the reports said. However, the Office of Personnel Management now plans to rule that the government can continue to make a contribution to the health-care premiums of the lawmakers and their staff, according to unnamed congressional sources and a White House official.”

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/congress-to-get-obamacare-exemption-report-2013-08-02

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Bill Bonner: Why do we have this credit-based money?

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“Because governments are essentially a way for the insiders (who control the police power of the state) to take power and money from the outsiders. Cicero once described the two groups as the ‘Optimates’ on one side and the ‘Populares’ on the other. You might also think of them as the elite and the hoi polloi…or the privileged classes and the riff-raff.  The critical difference between the two is that the elites…the optimates…the insiders…have the government in their pocket. The others do not.  Bullion-based money is a natural limitation on the ability of the elite to rob the rest of the population.”

http://www.equitymaster.com/dailyreckoning/detail.asp?date=08/01/2013&story=13&title=Why-do-we-have-this-credit-based-money

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Iowa law enforcement agent fired after reporting Republican governor’s car for speeding

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“Hedlund’s problems at the department began on April 26, when he radioed dispatchers about a vehicle traveling ‘a hard 90’ miles per hour. Troopers, who clocked the car at 84 m.p.h., pulled over the SUV and discovered that it was a being driven my a fellow trooper, who was transporting Gov. Branstad. They waved the vehicle on, but shortly after, Hedlund filed a complaint with his supervisor, DCI Dir. Paulson. His superiors in turn filed a formal complaint against Hedlund and on April 30 and he was suspended from duty at the behest of Public Safety Commissioner K. Brian London.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/18/iowa-law-enforcement-agent-fired-after-reporting-republican-governors-car-for-speeding/

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IRS employee union: We don’t want Obamacare

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“IRS employees have a prominent role in Obamacare, but their union wants no part of the law. National Treasury Employees Union officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in opposition to receiving coverage through President Obama’s health care law. The NTEU represents 150,000 federal employees overall, including most of the nearly 100,000 IRS workers.  Like most other federal workers, IRS employees currently get their health insurance through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, which also covers members of Congress.”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/irs-employee-union-we-dont-want-obamacare/article/2533520

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NSA Official: Privacy Of NSA Employees Should Remain Despite Hampering Leak Detection

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“Privacy mandates that prevent the government from monitoring the personal data of National Security Agency employees should not be altered to stop insider threats, despite leaks of Top Secret information, a senior NSA official said on Thursday.  ‘This is a case where I wouldn’t advocate a change of laws,’ NSA Technical Director Boyd Livingston said. ‘It’s very difficult to do insider threat monitoring — there are a whole other set of federal laws having to do with personal identification information, PII, and your Social Security [number], that prohibit various monitoring.'”

http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2013/07/nsa-employee-privacy-laws-hamper-leak-detection/67430/

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Tax watchdog: IRS travel costs are ‘excessive’

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“A handful of Internal Revenue Service officials spent most of their time traveling for work in 2011 and 2012 and amassed thousands of dollars in seemingly excessive costs for transportation, hotels and meals, the tax-collecting agency’s watchdog said in a report on Tuesday. 12 IRS officials claimed more than $60,000 a year in travel expenses for fiscal year 2011 and nine executives surpassed that figure in 2012, mostly in travel to Washington, said the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), the IRS watchdog. Some executives traveled for more than 80 percent of their working days in the past two years, the report said.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/23/tax-watchdog-irs-travel-costs-are-excessive/

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