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French Police Ordered to Crack Down on Uber After Strike Turns Violent

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“Yesterday’s protest made big news when it turned violent and ensnared Courtney Love, who tweeted the incident, saying her car had been ambushed and her Uber driver attacked. Like the shutting down of highways and other transportation links, violence too is a common tactic of the striking French taxi driver. For several years taxi drivers have targeted and attacked Uber drivers and their passengers. Earlier this week France 24 reported about a French man who was attacked by a cabbie after pointing out he couldn’t tell if the taxi was on-duty and noting that that was why Uber outcompeting the taxi drivers.”

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/26/europe/france-paris-uberpop-protests/

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Uberocracy: How the Sharing Economy Changes Politics

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“Uber’s request that drivers keep working in areas where the service is illegal is a sign that they know people want the service. The fact that people keep using the service while it is illegal shows that entrepreneurship outpaces politics. While they are technically engaged in civil disobedience, users likely neither care nor know the legal status of the services.  Airbnb hosts rent out their apartments against the terms of their leases. They probably violate some hospitality regulations in their cities. They don’t really care. The experience is so positive that both hosts and users win.  What makes this entrepreneurship new is that the barrier to entry is so low for somebody to engage in the exchange.”

https://medium.com/life-learning/uberocracy-how-the-new-entrepreneurship-changes-politics-99bc515e31b0

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Trump Tried to Bulldoze an Elderly Widow’s Home to Build a Limo Parking Lot

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“Donald Trump is leading the GOP primary polls with 24 percent.  In 1994, Trump got Atlantic City to condemn Vera Coking’s home so that he could build limo parking for his Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. The Institute for Justice took on Trump in one of its first big eminent domain cases:  She was able to beat Trump and the city government and win the right to keep her property.  Coking moved to a retirement home in 2010, having lived almost 50 years in her Atlantic City home. Coking’s grandson finally sold the house in July 2014; less than two months later, the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino closed for lack of business.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/remember-when-donald-trump-tried-to-bulldoze-an-elderly-widows-home-to-build-a-limo-parking-lot

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Taxis on Las Vegas Strip go idle in protest of Uber

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“Dozens of taxi drivers parked their cabs and instead took to the Las Vegas Strip sidewalk today to protest the arrival of Uber and the disastrous effect drivers said it would have on their livelihoods.  The protest was organized by drivers from the Industrial, Technical and Professional Employees Union Local 4873 and took place on a sidewalk in front of Caesars Palace for about two hours.  Although many drivers who participated were on the clock and supposed to be on the roads, they won’t be subject to discipline from Yellow Checker Star because the protest is protected as a union-related activity.”

http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/may/29/taxis-strip-go-idle-protest-uber/

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Greek Perspective at Freedom Fest 2015

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“Did you know about 70% of Greeks own their own home? Hear more on how this financially distraught country is made up of some of the best savers in the world. Alex of the NYC Bitcoin Center at Freedom Fest 2015.”

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The Troubled Greek Bailout Process Lurches Forward

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“On July 13, Athens reached a deal with its creditors to begin negotiations for a third bailout for the country, only a few days after Greeks voted against austerity in a referendum. Then, early on July 16, the Greek Parliament approved a list of painful reforms, including spending cuts on pensions and higher taxes. The vote was extremely controversial, both inside Parliament and out. Though the austerity measures were approved, 32 lawmakers from the ruling Coalition of the Radical Left party, known commonly as Syriza, voted against the reforms, whole another six party members abstained.  Outside Parliament, Athens saw its most violent protests of the year.”

https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/troubled-greek-bailout-process-lurches-forward

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New York Agrees to Pay $5.9 million to Settle Case of Eric Garner

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“Making taxpayers shell out for abuses committed by officers does nothing to pressure departments to reform their use of force. The costs are hidden and dispersed among all taxpayers, and even if a few people read about it in the paper and are annoyed, they don’t have the incentive (or even the mechanism) to force the police department to change officers’s incentives or hold them accountable.  That’s just the way government bureaucracies and unions like it. The problem here is the doctrine of ‘qualified immunity,’ which shields police officers from being held liable for violating people’s rights.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/new-york-agrees-to-pay-59-million-to-settle-case-of-eric-garner

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New IRS guidance limits FBAR seizures to a mere 100% of account value

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“New constraints on penalties the IRS will impose when taxpayers don’t properly report their foreign bank accounts show agency concerns that some will argue in court that huge penalties are unconstitutional, attorneys told Bloomberg BNA.  Practitioners said the guidance likely stems in part from an argument a taxpayer was prepared to make in court in 2014 that a penalty far greater than the value of his bank account, across multiple years, was an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment. Some said that argument still could be made even under the new guidance, which limits the amount the government can take to 100 percent of the account.”

http://www.bna.com/new-fbar-limits-n17179927429/

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Yemeni-Americans Say U.S. Embassy Unfairly Revoked Passports

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“The passport of the man was deemed fraudulent and taken away. He was stuck in Yemen for 13 months until he was granted a temporary passport valid only to return to the United States. But without his official passport, he cannot return to where he left his daughter. He is not alone. At least 20 other Yemeni-Americans from New York to California have similar stories.  Even for a federal agency with a reputation among critics as often being overly harsh in deciding who can enter the United States, lawyers say, what happened in Sana seems particularly egregious. American citizens, they say, are essentially rendered stateless for no apparent reason other than their Yemeni origin.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/nyregion/yemeni-americans-thrust-into-limbo-say-us-embassy-unfairly-revokes-passports.html

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Ron Paul: For Normal Relations With Cuba, End US Interventionism

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“President Obama announced on Wednesday that the US and Cuba would restore full diplomatic relations and that embassies could be re-opened in each country by the end of the month.  For this achievement, which was resisted by vested interests in the US, Obama should be praised. However we shouldn’t be too optimistic about truly establishing normal relations until we understand how relations became so abnormal in the first place. The destruction of relations between the two countries was preceded by US intervention on behalf of a hated Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista, which had turned the Cuban people against the United States and set the stage for the emergence of Fidel Castro.”

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/july/06/for-normal-relations-with-cuba-end-us-interventionism/

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