Tag Archives: Winning Hearts & Minds

What Is at Stake in the BLM vs. Bundy Showdown

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“We need to get beneath the surface. The real problem can be seen on the maps. The federal government exercises ownership over land that it should not own.  If the federal government auctioned off this land to the highest bidders, using the money exclusively for paying off the federal debt, the nation would be a lot better off. But the government refuses to do this.  My hope is that this showdown in Nevada will raise this question: ‘If a private owner controlled access to the land, would the Bundy family work out a deal?’ I think it would.  The BLM has lost the first round: in the media. It thought it could steal Bundy’s cattle and get away with it. The plan has backfired.”

http://www.garynorth.com/public/12340.cfm

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Rancher, armed militias win standoff with Feds; govt returns cattle

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“The tense stand-off between hundreds of protesters and police has ended in the Nevada desert, forcing the authorities to cancel the round-up of 300 animals and to return the cattle to their owner.  The standoff between rancher Cliven Bundy and the US Bureau of Land Management has lasted over a week, after hundreds of armed agents with the United States Bureau of Land Management and the FBI turned up in the Clark County to execute the court-ordered confiscation of nearly 1,000 cattle. The US government says the animals have trespassed on federal property.  This provoked a fierce backlash from anti-government groups, right-wing politicians and gun-rights activists.”

http://rt.com/usa/nevada-cattle-rachner-row-268/

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Italian police seize makeshift tank built by Venice separatists

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“The underground group, made up of radical separatists from the Lombardy, Sardinia and Veneto regions, had been planning to ‘liberate’ the iconic Venetian piazza using weapons from the Albanian mafia and set up a new independent government, police said.  They were planning an attack ‘by hundreds of people, some of them armed’ and ‘an insurrection from the inhabitants of northern Italy most affected by the economic crisis,’ law enforcers said in a statement.  The plan comes after more than two million residents of Venice and its surrounding region last month voted overwhelmingly in favour of breaking away from the rest of the country and forming their own state.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/02/italy-police-seize-makeshift-tank-built-by-venice-separatists/

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Family Confronted With Armed Military Police After Leaving Museum

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“A family says they continue to be haunted after they were pulled over and held at gunpoint by military police following a Friday visit to an Ohio Air Force museum.  Hill told WKRC-TV that she and her grandson were playing a game in the museum parking lot, where they would identify all of the out-of-state license plates.  What happened, however, when the family left the museum has left them tormented.  ‘I’m looking in my side view mirror and I see (an officer) step out of his vehicle,’ Hill told WKRC-TV. ‘(He’s) behind his door with his gun drawn pointing it at me.’  Hill had been pulled over after someone dialed 911 and told authorities they had seen the family burglarizing cars in the parking lot.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/09/one-family-never-expected-this-confrontation-with-military-police-after-leaving-an-air-force-museum/

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Stop cheering – Quebec’s sovereignty movement is far from finished

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“The tepid 28 per cent of Quebeckers who identified primarily with Canada in 1998 has now shrunk to 20 per cent while 48 per cent identify primarily with Quebec, nearly 2-1/2 times as much and an increase from 35 per cent in 1998. And not only is Quebec relatively missing from the federal government at the political level but the core values championed by an avowedly small-c conservative government, issues such as its foreign and cultural policies and its greater emphasis on military history and symbols has unsurprisingly found less traction in a Quebec where those symbols and values are not resonant.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/stop-cheering-quebecs-sovereignty-movement-is-far-from-finished/article17912742/

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Cities to Carpoolers: Sharing Your Car is Illegal, We Will Seize Your Car

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“The U.S. isn’t exactly a ‘free market’, with outright bribery — condoned by the U.S. judicial system — or collusive public-private cartels leading to some products and services being banned from the market.  Just ask Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA) whose electric vehicles have been banned from sale in many states.  That debacle arose due to the fact that Tesla has no dealerships and fearful dealership lobbyists banded together to pay off state politicians to ban direct auto sales. Now the same principle is being applied to stymie the emergency of another set of companies in the transportation sector — cloud-driven ride-sharing services.”

http://www.dailytech.com/Cities+to+Carpoolers+Sharing+Your+Car+is+Illegal+We+Will+Seize+Your+Cars/article34659.htm

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You’d Have Better Luck Converting Them To Jehovah’s Witnesses

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“Mayor Bill de Blasio’s absolutely ridiculous ‘Vision Zero’ plan seeks to reduce traffic deaths to zero by drastically increasing police enforcement. It’s delusional to think that fatal accidents could ever be fully eliminated, no matter how many police officers or enforcement cameras there are on the streets. It’s not unlike trying to totally eliminate bathtub falls by putting a police officer or a camera in every bathroom.  Jaywalkers in particular have been singled out for extra attention by the police in ‘Vision Zero.’ Consider the story of Kang Wong, an 84-year-old man who was recently stopped for jaywalking near Broadway and 96th Street at around 5 in the evening.”

http://www.internationalman.com/articles/youd-have-better-luck-converting-them-to-become-jehovahs-witnesses

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Cop who randomly slammed woman to the ground receives threats

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“The Tucson police officer who was caught on video brutally pummeling a female student as she walked innocuously near the campus of the University of Arizona has been identified as Joel Mann, according to local ABC affiliate KGUN.  Mann, a sergeant with 18 years of experience, was one of a legion of officers deployed in full, pseudo-military riot gear. He wore a helmet and face shield.  In the video, Mann comes out of absolutely nowhere and violently pushes woman over a metal frame. She is smashed head over heels to the ground.  The woman had neither a helmet nor a face shield. She was wearing shorts.”

http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/03/tucson-cop-who-randomly-slammed-woman-to-the-ground-not-so-tough-after-receiving-threats/

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DEA Says Pot Prohibition Protects Dogs; Cop-Killed Dogs Disagree

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“Testifying before a House subcomittee yesterday, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration warned that marijuana legalization is bad for dogs. DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart was not talking about the pot-sniffing canines who are out of work in Colorado and Washington now that the odor of cannabis is no longer probable cause for a search. She was talking about pets that ingest marijuana-laced snacks.  The main concern is that marijuana, an anti-emetic, will make dogs less likely to vomit potentially dangerous foods into which it has been infused, such as butter and chocolate.  You know what else is bad for dogs? Marijuana prohibition.”

http://reason.com/blog/2014/04/03/dea-head-says-pot-prohibition-protects-d

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US covertly built Twitter-like service to stir anti-Castro dissent

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“The US government secretly masterminded the creation of a Twitter-like communications network in Cuba aimed at fueling political dissidence by sidestepping the strict Internet filtering systems in the communist nation.  The program, codenamed ‘ZunZuneo’, was operated by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and was supported by foreign bank financing and the use of secret shell companies, the Associated Press reported Thursday. USAID, which is charged with stabilizing countries and delivering humanitarian aid to poor nations, describes its mission as working on ‘the same problems as our military using a different set of tools.'”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/us-covertly-built-twitter-like-service-to-stir-anti-castro-dissent/

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