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Man Speaks Truth to Power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3LH99dEOls

Cops Hold Kids at Gunpoint

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=44854

Jeffrey Tucker on Rent-a-Mobs

http://lfb.org/today/how-to-fake-a-fast-food-strike/

Cop Kills Unarmed Man

http://intellihub.com/2013/09/07/duty-cop-gets-road-rage-shoots-kills-unarmed-man/

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A video that appeared online this weekend shows a man calling out John McCain for his lies and calls for him to be arrested and tried for treason. Here is a clip from that video: [clip]

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In other news, 3 young students climbed the roof of their middle school during off hours to explore and play. A police officer who arrived took out an M-16 semi-automatic rifle and aimed it at the children, even though they were cooperating. The parents are angry, but the school and police say they were justified because the officer was, quote, “nervous.”

“Nervousness” was also the justification after a school police officer shot and killed 14-year-old Derek Lopez after he got in a scuffle with a fellow student. Derek fled from the school cop rather than submit, and he paid for it with his life. The officer killed him with a bullet to the back out of, quote, “fear for [his] own safety.” http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=35439

Video from news stations in Colorado last month showed a law enforcer with a shotgun pointed at a child, with his finger ready to pull the trigger. Police refused to name the officer in question yet excused his actions as being nervous. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdq8LqPBU50

Rule number one of gun safety is never point your gun at something you don’t intend to shoot. I guess if you’re a cop and you’re “nervous” everyone is fair game.

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Jeffrey Tucker of the Lassaize Faire Book Club penned an article this week revealing the real story behind the recent fast food strikes. In reality, these were photo-op events, organized by unions. The media, for the most part, played right into their hands, ignoring the fact that the so-called nationwide strikes only resulted in the closing of one fast food restaurant — a McDonald’s in Detroit. In some cases, paid stand-ins were hired by the hour to appear as disgruntled strikers. It’s so much more interesting to report that organized labor is sticking it to the suits in corporate — even if they’re not.

Finally, JG Vibes reports for http://Intellihub.com :

An off duty law enforcer named Thomas murdered unarmed 29 year old Matthew Jackson in San Antonio this Saturday, leaving behind a wife and a  2 and a half year old son.

Matthew’s body was found in the front seat of his car, with his left foot on the ground and he appeared to be shot while sitting in his own vehicle. Police deny the claim but refuse to present contrary evidence.

Matthew’s brother said of him, quote, “His biggest fear in life was to not be a good dad. Matthew wouldn’t have taken any risks because he was a father.”

The off-duty cop who killed Matthew has been given a paid vacation for as long as the investigation continues. Unfortunately, not much is expected to come up, as his friends at the police department are in charge of investigating themselves. The greatest irony, however, is that Matthew’s widow and grieving family will continue to pay the salaries of the people who murdered him. Stop paying for this.

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Drone Hunters

https://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/drone-hunters-lining-and-paying-out-colorado

Ensuring Safety at Suspicionless Checkpoint

http://freekeene.com/2013/09/04/ensuring-safety-at-a-suspicionless-checkpoint/

Ian Now Pastor at Parsonage

http://freekeene.com/2013/09/04/shire-free-church-ministers-put-city-on-notice/

Homosexuality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzV1r5SCc8U

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A small town in Colorado has found itself overwhelmed with requests and cash for a unmanned aircraft hunting license that doesn’t exist  – yet. What started out a whimsical protest against government surveillance tactics is now being taken seriously.

In June a resident of Deer Trail, Colorado proposed a town wide ordinance that would offer $25 licenses to hunt and shoot down government drones if they flew within 1,000 feet above private property — with a $100 reward for returning one.

After the requests for licenses including personal checks made out to the town hit over a thousand, the town clerk stopped counting.

The town’s board had a chance to approve the license ordinance last month but deadlocked 3-3. If you know anyone in the Deer Trail, Colorado area, get this message to them! Deer Trail residents vote on the ordinance in one month, Oct. 8.

The Federal government has warned, quote, “Shooting at an unmanned aircraft could result in criminal or civil liability, just as would firing at a manned airplane.”

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New Hampshire state police established a suspicionless checkpoint on Route 12 in Walpole last week. About twenty cop cars waited to ambush oncoming drivers. Most people endured the blinding flashing lights and handed the authorities proof of permission to be driving. Occasionally drivers were asked to accept sobriety tests.

The checkpoint, while intended to catch people by surprise, was announced in advance in the Keene Sentinel as is required by New Hampshire law. In violation of New Hampshire law, however, these detentions are not based on suspicion of a driving offense.

Liberty Activists in Keene responded by setting up signs warning of the checkpoint ahead and indicating where the final turnoff was to avoid the checkpoint.

There *were* reports of complaints about the cops bright lights, but there *weren’t* any reports of belligerent, impaired, or otherwise dangerous individuals taken off the road that night thanks to the checkpoint. But there was a man who was arrested for Failure to Obey an officer. Seems like the greater danger for most drivers is not drunk driving, but fascism.

But it’s not all hopeless: one activist, Garret Ean of http://FreeConcord.org, drove through the checkpoint with cameras rolling and captured some pretty interesting video. He drove through sipping an unlabeled brown glass bottle, did not offer any proof of license, identification, or registration, and was sent on his way without a citation. Officers *do* have discretion, and I applaud the officer in *this* interaction for exercising it, although it probably had everything to do with the video camera and not his own motivations.

Want more from the scene? Check out the raw footage from Free Concord’s camera coverage in these shownotes.

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Speaking of Keene, Ian Freeman posted to http://FreeKeene.com this week that he and Darryl W Perry delivered notice to the people calling themselves “The City of Keene” that 73 and 75 Leverett St. are ministers’ parsonages and that Ian and Darryl will no longer participate in their system of coercive taxes. However, the new church may elect to give the city bureaucrats a voluntary contribution to support the programs they *do* support (like road repair).

An excerpt from the notice reads, quote, “You are on notice that you have no authority from god to rule your fellow man. Our church’s ministers and members also have not granted you any authority over their lives.”

In other news, in a video that went viral this week, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd appeared on a TV talk show. In it, he shares that his views on homosexuality have changed because his heart and mind have been changed. This is another good sign that little by little, the world is becoming more rational.

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Ebay Blogs About Bitcoin

http://deals.ebay.com/blog/whats-the-deal-with-bitcoins-anyway/

Boehner Won’t Meet with Russia

http://rt.com/news/congress-speaker-russian-mp-435/

Russians Send Destroyer to Mediterranean

http://rt.com/news/russian-destroyer-mediterranean-report-424/

Morale Concerns Over Quitting Soldiers

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10274897/Surge-of-soldiers-wanting-to-quit-prompts-morale-concerns.html

AFL CIO Admits Obamacare Unintended Consequences

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/09/04/afl-cio-president-trumka-employers-restructuring-workforce-29-12-hour#ixzz2dwtDWx9o

National War Tax Resistance Meetup

http://nwtrcc.org/meetings.php  

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Ebay wrote about bitcoins on their blog this week. With a fun, colorful, and easy to understand video, ebay presented bitcoins as a new method of payment. It communicates some of the most important facts about bitcoin: that they make it possible to pay someone across the globe instantly and anonymously. Bitcoin is decentralized, so they don’t depend on a bank or a government to issue them, and they’re impossible to counterfeit. Speaking of governments, no one can take your bitcoins, like they can your bank account. Learn more from the cool video in the show notes, or visit http://WeUseCoins.com . Also of note: Peter Theil, the founder of PayPal, is a huge fan of bitcoins, as is their current CEO.

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Speaker of the House John Boehner is 3rd in charge of the US Empire. RT reported yesterday that he refused a proposal to meet with agents of the Russian Government to discuss the situation in Syria. The Duma members plan to visit Washington next week to persuade their American counterparts not to attack Syria. Later, Putin hammered the US secretary of state, saying that John Kerry lied to the American Congress, quote, ““They lie, plainly. I watched the Congressional debate. A congressman asked Mr. Kerry ‘Is there any Al-Qaeda [in Syria]? There are reports they have been growing stronger.’ [Kerry] replied, ‘No. I say with all responsibility: there is no [Al-Qaeda] there.’”

He explained that the most active terrorist organization in Syria, the so-called Al-Nusra Front, pledges allegiance to Al-Qaeda and that the US is well aware of that. “Well,” Putin continued, “[Kerry] is lying. And he knows that he’s lying. This is sad.”

Putin may correctly call Uncle Sam a liar, but perhaps it takes one to know one: The Russian Navy is deploying a destroyer to the eastern Mediterranean, and say it has *nothing to do* with the crisis in Syria. Syria’s port in the Mediterranean is Russia’s only foreign port, making it a strategic and valuable stronghold for the superpower. According to a ministry spokesman’s statement on Tuesday, the key task of the Russian standing naval force in the Mediterranean is, quote, “comprehensive monitoring over the air, underwater, and surface situation in the zone of its deployment.”

A senior Naval Source told reporters, quote, “…it would be wrong to draw any connection between the rotation of our ships in the Mediterranean region and events in Syria.”

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In the UK, a surge of soldiers want to quit the army. According to their own numbers, the latest round of Army applications to leave early was 40 per cent oversubscribed by volunteers wanting to quit. The highest percentage of those throwing in the towel? Officers. Less than 2/3ds of those who applied to leave were let go.

One senior Army source said, quote, “It’s the worst I have seen it … we are talking about highly experienced middle-ranking officers who have spent the last 12 years in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

The national War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee is meeting this November 1st to the 3rd in Manhattan. If you’d like to show your resistance to the war, perhaps you’ll consider joining the millions of Americans who choose not to file income taxes this year. You know what the politicians are doing with your money, and you don’t condone it. At some point, you’ve got to stop sending it to them. Learn more by searching, “National War Tax Resistance.”

Speaking of tax resistance, Obamacare’s excessive taxes are forcing employers and employees alike to make unwanted concessions. They’d both *like* to keep working the same number of hours, but the law forces employers to make unwanted cutbacks to avoid a newly introduced penalty. During a recent interview, even the AFL-CIO President admitted the unintended consequences of Obamacare are leading employers to, quote, “[restructure] their workforce to give workers 29 and a half hours so they don’t have to provide them healthcare.” Perhaps the solution is less meddling by bureaucrats in other’s private affairs.

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What is Common Core?

http://benswann.com/the-most-dangerous-domestic-spying-program-is-common-core/

Another Secret Govt Program: Hemisphere, by AT&T

http://rt.com/usa/at&t-phone-surveillance-dea-325/

Bitcoins Big in Kenya

http://thinkafricapress.com/kenya/mobile-money-kenya-continues-spearhead-mobile-payment-revolution

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Joshua Cook writes at BenSwann.com that Common Core Standards, a department of education program, is overlooked but eyebrow-raising. The program involves collecting troves of data about students, some of which is unrelated to education, and storing the data to be analyzed by bureaucrats for who knows what purpose? Data collected will not only include grades, test scores, name, date of birth and social security number, it will also include parents’ political affiliations, individual or familial mental or psychological problems, beliefs, religious practices and income.

All activities, as well as those deemed demeaning, self-incriminating or anti-social, will be stored in students’ school records.  Not only will permanently stored data reflect criminal activities, it will also reflect bullying or anything perceived as abnormal.

Perhaps even more alarming is the fact that data collection will also include critical appraisals of individuals with whom students have close family relationships.

It gives the government the ability to strongly influence the futures of every student of public education, and that will soon extend to private and home schools.  It provides a way to intimidate students – who already have a difficult time socially – into conforming to norms which are not only social, but also political and cultural. One solution is to take personal responsibility for your child’s education and keep him or her out of the hands of the government.

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In a seemingly endless string of revelations of government spying, RT reported this week that the DEA, or Drug Enforcement Administration, has a more extensive domestic phone surveillance program than the recently uncovered NSA PRISM.

As part of the secret Hemisphere Project, government agents have been paying AT&T to place its employees to team up with police to find and prosecute users of drugs.

And, unlike the much debated NSA data, the Hemisphere data includes information on the location of those making the calls.

The New York Times found out about the surveillance program after it received slides, describing the Hemisphere Project, from peace activist, Drew Hendricks.

The activist said he was sent the PowerPoint presentation – which is unclassified, but marked “Law enforcement sensitive” – in response to a series of public information requests to West Coast police agencies.

The slides revealed that the program was launched back in 2007 and has been carried out in great secrecy since then. One of the slides said,

Quote, “All requestors are instructed to never refer to Hemisphere in any official document.”

Joris Leverink writes for RoarMagazine.com & ThinkAfricaPress.com:

Ever since Safaricom, Kenya’s largest mobile-network operator, launched the mobile-payment systemM-Pesa in 2007, two-thirds of Kenya’s adult population have subscribed, and an astonishing 31% of the country’s GDP is now spent through mobile phones.

On 1 July, a company called Kipochi launched a new ‘digital wallet’ service that allows Kenyans to not only send and receive money domestically but, using the online peer-to-peer currency Bitcoins, transfer it internationally.

Kipochi will thus attempt to build upon M-Pesa’s achievements, a company originally designed to facilitate the repayment of micro-finance loans but has since grown to become, in The Economist’s words, “by far the most successful scheme of its type on earth”.

However M-Pesa’s success also brought with it unwanted attention from the Kenyan government, who sought to share in M-Pesa’s success by bringing its payments within the country’s tax regime. In response Safaricom has had to increase fees for using M-Pesa, recentlyannouncing it had to raise tariffs for transfers $1 by 10% due to a government-imposed tax.

It is partly in response to these new challenges in using M-Pesa that Kipochi has now emerged. Kipochi believes that by using Bitcoins it has found a way to both get around taxation and facilitate international payments.

Bitcoins are purchased using ‘real’ currencies and then, like M-Pesa credits, stored in ‘e-wallets’ from which payments can be made.

Some see Bitcoin as a potential enabler for the ‘unbanked’ of the world to get more involved in cross-border web based commerce. Others see rich possibilities in teaching rural people online trading techniques.

There is a long way to go – and as with M-Pesa, the more success Kipochi has, the more scrutiny it will attract – but if it catches on, this innovative new technology could prove to be another useful tool in empowering ordinary people.

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Microsoft & Google Sue Govt

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/08/30/standing-together-for-greater-transparency.aspx

Open Carry Texas Harassed by SAPD…Charged w/Crime

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/30/men-behind-open-carry-demonstration-in-texas-charged-with-crimes-even-though-what-they-did-wasnt-illegal-heres-how-police-are-justifying-it/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN0GcahEvIc#t=483

Cheap Wearable Cameras Are Changing the Game

http://www.wfmj.com/category/179433/video-landing-page?clipId=9219882&autostart=true

Two Cops Disciplined(?) After Trooper Confrontation

http://www.northjersey.com/news/bergen/Two_Bergen_County_cops_disciplined_after_confrontation_with_trooper_caught_on_video.html

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Thanks to Edward Snowden, we all know that Microsoft and Google helped the government spy on their users. What we *don’t* know is how much they cooperated. The 2 major tech giants want to publish data, but the government won’t let them. Now they’re suing the government in an attempt to get permission to publish information. Microsoft issued an official press release about the situation. Here are some excerpts. Quote:

“To followers of technology issues, there are many days when Microsoft and Google stand apart.  But today our two companies stand together.  We both remain concerned with the Government’s continued unwillingness to permit us to publish sufficient data relating to FISA orders.

we believe it is vital to publish information that clearly shows the number of national security demands for user content, such as the text of an email. We believe it’s possible to publish these figures in a manner that avoids putting security at risk.  And unless this type of information is made public, any discussion of government practices and service provider obligations will remain incomplete.

The United States has long been admired around the world for its leadership in promoting free speech and open discussion.  We benefit from living in a country with a Constitution that guarantees the fundamental freedom to engage in free expression unless silence is required by a narrowly tailored, compelling Government interest.  We believe there remains a path forward that will share more information with the public while protecting national security.

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The Blaze reports that three San Antonio men are each facing criminal charges of “disorderly conduct” because someone allegedly complained about them “open carrying” a gun outside of a Starbucks.

The men were seemingly well within their rights. They posted video of the entire encounter on YouTube. Although it includes a disagreement with police officers, the men do not appear to be belligerent or aggressive.

Under Texas law, open carrying a rifle is legal as long as the gun is not loaded.

But San Antonio police Chief William McManus said that gun owners can still be charged with disorderly conduct if anyone feels threatened at any point. In other words, he believes that if anyone around you is uncomfortable with firearms, he can charge you with the crime “disorderly conduct.”

Watch the entire video in a link in our show notes.

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Police across the country are equipping themselves with small, wearable video cameras. Police in Goshen Township Ohio recently bought 8 at about $50 each. The Philadelphia Police recently employed them at the latest Smoke Down Prohibition. The goal is to keep an objective record of interactions with the public. Cameras like these can uncover the truth at a shocking low cost. Wearable video recorders are sold in varieties online ranging from $15 for some basic ones to about $100 for ones with more concealability. Wearing these cameras empowers the police, but it also empowers their victims, should the police ever act abusively toward an innocent person. Activists should take a note from police and start wearing cameras, if you don’t already.

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Speaking of police recordings, a youtube video surfaced this week in which a NJ State Trooper threatens the life of another officer conducting a traffic stop? The reason? That’s *his* turf. We’ve heard of these turf wars in other places, but thanks to the power of video, we can see for ourselves what happened. What’s even more interesting is who the officer stopped in the first place: Freeholder Maura DiNicola, on her way home from a Freeholders meeting. DiNicola opposes the merger of county police and sheriffs departments, and she believes intimidation was the real reason she was targeted for a stop.

Despite the viral video of one of their officers pulling a gun on a fellow officer during a routine traffic stop, a representative for the NJ State Police said, quote: “The State Police Office of Professional Standards reviewed the incident and found that no discipline was appropriate.” Nor is any additional training. Everything is just perfect at the NJ State Police. Nothing to see here, folks, move along. Full video of the incident is linked in this episode’s show notes.

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