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Tyranny For Profit

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“Allan Marx is an Ordnungspolizei Obersturmfuhrer (police lieutenant) in Sebastian County, Arkansas who is pushing hard for OralTox test swabs to be used upon motorists at Fourth Amendment-free ‘sobriety’ checkpoints. It just happens that Marx is also a distributor for the product. Each case of OralTox swabs retails for about $300. Each case contains 25 individual tests. How many people are forced to run a single Fourth Amendment-free gauntlet in a single county on a single night?  Oklahoma, North Dakota, Missouri, Michigan, Colorado, Utah and – of course – New York have already signed up.”

http://ericpetersautos.com/2013/08/20/tyranny-for-profit/

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FATCA and the End of Bank Secrecy

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“It seems that there is little understanding that it was banking secrecy that helped to resist twentieth-century dictatorships and that high tax rates — not money havens — are responsible for tax evasion, as Prince Hans-Adam of Lichtenstein has pinpointed. Clearly the amount of information collected for the purpose of future tax investigation is enormous, leaving little place for human privacy and dignity.”

http://mises.org/daily/6507/FATCA-and-the-End-of-Bank-Secrecy

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California Court Of Appeal Expands Warrantless Motorist Blood Draws

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“California’s second highest court on Thursday made it easier for police to forcibly draw blood from motorists suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI). In coming to this conclusion, the Court of Appeal overturned the decision in seven Alameda County cases brought before the Superior Court’s Appellate Division where drivers had their blood taken at a jail facility. The Court of Appeal stepped in to set a precedent restoring the state’s ability to perform warrantless blood draws in a wider variety of circumstances.”

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/41/4183.asp

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NYC goes Tokyo: Micro apartments proposed as solution to overcrowding

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NYC goes Tokyo: Micro apartments proposed as solution to overcrowding

“Tiny — and affordable — modular living spaces could soon become the latest real estate craze in the highly crowded city of New York. Fifty-five micro apartments are being constructed in Manhattan to test whether New Yorkers are willing to follow the example of Tokyo and Mumbai. According to Bloomberg News, micro apartments at the new ‘My Micro NY’ building will be only 250 to 370 square feet. Rents will range from $939 to $1,873. Currently, the average monthly rent for a studio is more than $2,000.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/16/nyc-goes-the-way-of-tokyo-micro-apartments-proposed-as-solution-to-overcrowding/

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Artist Gregory Kloehn turns $1,000 dumpster into tiny home

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“There’s nothing trashy about Gregory Kloehn’s Brooklyn pied-a-terre: a live-in dumpster that sleeps two with ease, hosts impromptu barbecue parties and sports its own sundeck.  In a nation where the average home is 2,600 square feet (241 square meters), tiny houses are fetching more attention, not least from aging baby boomers looking to downsize in their retirement years.  ‘There are more builders. There are more people seeking to live in tiny houses,’ Mitchell told AFP by telephone.  There would be even more tiny homes, he said, if if local zoning regulations and housing codes were not so restrictive.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/18/artist-gregory-kloehn-turns-1000-dumpster-into-tiny-home/

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Paris suburb to fight dog poop with closed-circuit television cameras

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“A Paris suburb has come up with an innovative plan to fight a plague of dog droppings on local streets — catching offenders on closed-circuit television cameras. The commuter town of Montereau-Fault-Yonne southeast of Paris said Monday that municipal police would begin using a decade-old network of CCTV cameras to track down dog owners who don’t pick up their pets’ droppings. ‘This will allow us to identify and seek out pet owners with no sense of civic duty and fine them’ 35 euros ($47), town mayor Yves Jego told AFP.  He said using the cameras against irresponsible dog owners was no different from filming traffic offenders.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/19/paris-suburb-to-fight-dog-poop-with-closed-circuit-television-cameras/

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Bloomberg’s Public Housing Fingerprinting Idea Stuns, Infuriates Residents

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“Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest crime-fighting idea had a lot of people riled up on Friday. The mayor wants to fingerprint more than 600,000 people who live in public housing. He said it would be done to make the projects safer.  ‘The people that live there, most of them, want more police protection. They want more people. If you have strangers walking in the halls of your apartment building, don’t you want somebody to stop and say, ‘Who are you, why are you here?” But residents who live within the confines of NYCHA buildings said the mayor’s fingerprinting idea goes too far.”

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/08/16/bloombergs-public-housing-fingerprinting-idea-stuns-infuriates-residents/

 

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Bloomberg endorses fingerprinting housing project residents for their own good

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“New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) put forward an idea on Friday to install fingerprint scanners in the city’s Housing Authority projects. ‘If you have a stranger walking in the halls of your apartment building, don’t you want somebody to stop and say, ‘Who are you? Why’re you here?’ Bloomberg asked host John Gambling. WLNY-TV also reported on Friday that Bloomberg followed through on his promise to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that the city’s heavily-panned ‘stop and frisk’ policy was unconstitutional. ‘What does she know about policing? Absolutely zero,’ Bloomberg told Gambling, referring to District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/16/bloomberg-endorses-fingerprinting-housing-project-residents-for-their-own-good/

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City Reduces Police Force By Placing Public Under Constant Surveillance

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“The Camden County Police Department recently created the Real Time Tactical Operation Intelligence Center in order to ‘help a reduced police force’ by installing 120 cameras across the city, according to My9NJ. The police department also monitors the public with a mobile 40-foot high sky booth called the ‘Sky Patrol.’ The booth is high enough for police to intimidate the population below while scanning a wide area of the city with cameras, thermal-imaging, and other sophisticated spy tech. The Camden County police have already covered one-third of the city with microphones, calling them ‘gunshot detectors’ as the cover story.”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/city-reduces-police-force-by-placing-public-under-constant-surveillance.html

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Despite focus on right turn photo enforcement, turns on red rarely dangerous

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“Lawmakers in several states have begun to crack down on excessive shortening of yellow light times at red light camera intersections, and the photo enforcement industry has responded by shifting focus to right turn enforcement. The states of Ohio and Georgia were the first to require one extra second of yellow be added to an intersection where cameras issue tickets, effectively eliminating the profit available to cities for enforcing straight-through violations at an intersection. Increasingly right-on-red ticketing has become the primary source of program revenue. In many cities, turning tickets account for up to 80 percent of tickets issued.”

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/41/4172.asp

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