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PNN #158 Show Notes http://bit.ly/1306hcV

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Philly SmokeDown Prohibition 7

http://www.thedailychronic.net/2013/24648/philadelphia-activists-brace-for-smoke-down-prohibition-vii/

Americans Leaving Country, Joining Free State Project

http://www.examiner.com/article/many-america-are-leaving-the-country-or-joining-the-free-state-project

Helen Thomas Dies at 92

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/20/us/helen-thomas-obit/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Real Threat to Gold is Digital

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-real-threat-to-gold-is-digital-2013-07-17

This is your Peace News for Monday, July 22nd 2013. Silver is trading at 20 dollars per ounce. Bitcoin is trading at 91 dollars per bitcoin. Peace News brought to by friends of WeUseCoins.com and by listeners like you.

Final preparations by marijuana reform activists in Philadelphia are underway for Smoke Down Prohibition VII, the seventh in a series of monthly protests held at Independence National Historic Park.

After six successful rallies, The Panic Hour and Philly NORML, joint organizers of the event, will return to Independence National Historic Park, home of the Liberty Bell, to peacefully protest cannabis prohibition starting on July 26th.

Unlike previous editions of Smoke Down Prohibition, which were one-day demonstrations, this event begins at 4:20 pm on a Friday, and taking a page from last year’s Occupy movement, will continue for as long as necessary — even if it stretches for days, weeks, or months.

Organizers said, quote, “We ask you to join us and peacefully sit in at the Liberty Bell to stand up against cannabis prohibition.”  There will be speakers, activities, arts and crafts and workshops throughout the evening.

Previous protests began earlier in the day and climaxed with a 4:20 pm civil disobedience demonstration, with activists openly smoking cannabis, which led to the arrest of organizers and activists at Smoke Down Prohibition V in May.

This time around, organizers say, the “moment of marijuana reflection” will not be determined beforehand.  Previous protest were peaceful and without incident, until police converged on the park area just before 4:20 pm during May’s rally.

Organizers of the event have created a video, Guidelines for the Smoke Down Sit In, which includes such tips as how — and how not — to be arrested peacefully.

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In other news, Angel Clark reports for Examiner that Americans are leaving the country in search of more freedom, and those who stay, move to New Hampshire as part of the Free State Project.

Activist and expat George Donnelly from Shield Mutual said, quote, “I saw no future for myself there, among the Wacos, the OK cities, the taxes, permits and urban decay of Chicago. I decided to get out and see what kind of a life I could make for myself elsewhere. It wasn’t an easy decision, but I am thrilled that I found the courage to do it. It has changed my life in unforeseen ways. I am happier, healthier and wealthier today because of it. I wouldn’t trade my experiences of living in Japan and Colombia for anything.”

Farmer Frank W. Szabo from Freedom Orchard commented, quote “I left because I did not think that there was anything else that I could do which would make a real difference. I did not feel that my family, or our assets, were safe any longer.”

Traffic on websites that promote leaving America before it’s too late is way up. International Living and The Dollar Vigilante are popular sites and discuss the pros and cons of starting a new life overseas. Confidence in America’s politicians and government is at an all time low, and the conversation of expatriating is now a legitimate topic coming up at family dinner tables.

Many people and families who recognize the loss of freedoms are deciding to work for liberty in their lifetimes via the Free State Project. The Free State Project is an effort to have 20,000 peaceful liberty loving activists to move to New Hampshire to reduce the role of government in their lives. I endorse this option. Learn more at http://FreeStateProject.org .

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In other news, CNN reports that trailblazing White House journalist Helen Thomas has died at age 92 after a long illness.

Starting with JFK in 1961, Thomas covered 10 presidents over half a century and became a legend in the industry.

She was a fixture at White House news conferences — sitting front and center late in her career — where she frequently exasperated government spokesmen with her pointed questions.

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Philly School Goes Nonviolent

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/a-philadelphia-schools-big-bet-on-nonviolence/277893/

Half of Detroit Property Owners Don’t Pay Taxes

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130221/METRO01/302210375

Is flashing your headlights free speech?

https://autos.aol.com/article/is-flashing-your-headlights-free-speech/

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Jeff Deeny writes for the Atlantic about a school located down the street from the Peace News Now studios:

Last year when American Paradigm Schools took over Philadelphia’s infamous, failing John Paul Jones Middle School, they did something a lot of people would find inconceivable. The school was known as “Jones Jail” for its reputation of violence and disorder, and because the building, like many government schools, physically resembled prison. Situated in the Kensington section of the city, it drew students from the heart of a desperately poor hub of injection drug users and street level prostitution where gun violence rates are off the charts. But rather than beef up the already heavy security to ensure safety and restore order, American Paradigm stripped it away. During renovations, they removed the metal detectors and barred windows.

The police predicted chaos. But instead, new numbers seem to show that in a single year, the number of serious incidents fell by 90%.

The school says it wasn’t just the humanizing physical makeover of the facility that helped. Memphis Street Academy also credits the Alternatives to Violence Project (or AVP). AVP is a noncoercive, nonviolent conflict resolution regimen originally used in prison settings that was later adapted to violent schools. AVP, when tailored to school settings, emphasizes student empowerment, relationship building and anger management over institutional control and surveillance. There are no aggressive security guards in schools using the AVP model; instead they have engagement coaches, who provide support, encouragement, and a sense of safety.

In one school year serious incidents – drug sales, weapons, assaults, rapes – went from 138 to 15.

Top Comment for this story comes from Mike Waz, who says, quote “It’s amazing what happens when you stop telling kids they are monsters and start treating them like dignified human beings.”

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Christine McDonald and Mike Wilkinson report for the Detroit News:

Nearly half of the owners of Detroit’s 305,000 properties failed to pay their tax bills last year, exacerbating a punishing cycle of declining revenues and diminished services for a city in a financial crisis.

47 percent of the city’s taxable parcels are delinquent on their 2011 bills. About a quarter of a billion dollars in taxes and fees went uncollected.

Delinquency is so pervasive that 77 blocks had only one owner who paid taxes last year. Many of those who don’t pay question why they should in a city that struggles to light its streets or keep police on them.

“Why pay taxes?” asked Fred Phillips, who allegedly owes more than $2500 on his home. On his block, only 5 owners paid taxes. “Why should I send them taxes when they aren’t supplying services? … Every time I see the tax bill come, I think about the times we called, and nobody came.”

Detroit has the highest property taxes among big cities nationwide. Many houses are assessed at more than 10 times their market price.

Detroit relies on a shrinking sliver of businesses to pay the bulk of the bills. Just seven businesses paid nearly a fifth of all collected property taxes. The rich neighborhoods, representing about 2 percent of the city’s homes, paid about the same. In all, only 41 percent of people who received tax bills in Detroit paid anything.

Detroit’s delinquencies are so pervasive that some owners have been allowed to keep their property even if they don’t pay taxes. Wayne County treasury officials are so overwhelmed by foreclosures that they ignored about 40,000 delinquent Detroit properties that should have been seized last year and said they will look the other way on about 36,000 this year.

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When Michael Elli of Missouri flashed his headlights to warn other drivers of an upcoming speed trap, he didn’t think he was doing anything illegal.

After he received a ticket for obstruction of justice, which carried a $1,000 fine, he fought back, saying the warning was protected free speech. Eventually prosecutors in Missouri dropped the charges, but now Elli and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a class action lawsuit against the city for issuing such tickets in the first place.

Tony Rothert with the ACLU said, quote, “Those who use their First Amendment rights to warn others to drive cautiously should not be punished for their message. After all, the purpose of traffic laws is to promote safety, not generate revenue.”

Florida, Utah, Tennessee, Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania have all deemed that warning other drivers with a flicker of your high beams is protected by the first amendment. Alaska and Arizona have laws strictly forbid headlight flashing in any situation.

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Bakers Green Acres Hearing Brief

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

Roger Ver Reassurance about MtGox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP1YsMlrfF0

Raisin Farmer Disobeys, Sues Government

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/07/64951-farmer-faces-bankruptcy-for-failing-to-give-feds-part-of-his-raisin-crop-free-of-charge/

This is your Peace News for Friday, July 19th 2013.

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Mark Baker of Bakers Green Acres put out a youtube video this week briefing those following his situation with interest. In it, he explained that the purpose of the recent hearing was to prove standing and to request a jury trial. The judge said he would issue a ruling in writing within a month, and Mark’s perception was that he is an ally. He also mentioned the overwhelming support garnered by the Farm Food Freedom Coalition at http://FarmFoodFreedom.org

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Roger Ver put out a video on his youtube channel yesterday in which he reassures viewers that ALL of the current withdraw problems at MtGox are being caused by the traditional banking system, not because of a lack of liquidity at MtGox.

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In the world of dried fruit, there is no greater outlaw in America than Marvin Horne.

Horne has been breaking the law for 11 straight years.

Now, the California raisin farmer is facing bankruptcy for defying a law requiring him to give over a portion of his raisin crop to agents of the federal government – without compensation.

Agents of the state claim Horne owes them at least $650,000 in fines and 1.2 million pounds of unpaid raisins – roughly equal to his entire harvest for four years.

Horne’s crime? He defied one of the most bizarre and outdated arms of the federal bureaucracy – a farm program created during the Truman administration:

Marvin said no to the National Raisin Reserve. No, this is not satire.

The Federal Government created the National Raisin Reserve bureaucracy in 1937. Fearing that raisin producers might produce too many raisins – thereby leading to a drop in prices – the government began confiscating [stealing] a percentage of raisin production – for raisin farmers’ own good, of course. The problem is, Marvin Horne doesn’t see it that way.

Horne stopped giving raisins to the government in 2002, thereby violating Marketing Order 989 – the federal regulation that established the raisin reserve and made “contributions” by raisin farmers mandatory.

Even worse? The government can save the raisins, sell them on foreign markets (and keep the money), throw them away, or even feed them to animals – just as long as it keeps them off the domestic market.

So, Marvin Horne did what any good raisin producer worth his weight in grapes would do; he sued the government. After several losses in lower courts, Horne’s case reached the Supreme Court this spring, where things changed.

Justice Elena Kagan wondered whether it might be “just the world’s most outdated law.” Justice Antonin Scalia joked, “Your raisins or your life, right?”

Despite their transparent attitudes, the Court only gave Horne a partial victory. They required the lower court which had previously rejected Horne’s challenge of the law to reconsider the case.

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Anonymous Projection on US Embassy in Germany

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc6_1373876326

Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

http://rt.com/news/snowden-nominated-nobel-peace-099/

Bradley Manning’s Lawyers Rest

http://mashable.com/2013/07/10/bradley-manning-trial-defense-rest/

This is your Peace News for Tuesday, July 16th 2013.

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Anonymous activists staged a protest by beaming giant words reading ‘United Stasi of America’ across the walls of the US embassy in Berlin on Monday.

In protest of government surveillance, Anonymous’ latest act of civil disobedience lit up the walls of the Embassy with 10ft letters which referenced the former East German secret police.

The 3 activists arrived at the USA embassy, set up a generator and ran the projection for approximately 2 minutes before packing up and leaving the scene, not before having a celebratory dance. Two policemen were present during the event and were later joined by more than ten officers who proceeded to detain the Ruptly journalists filming on location. The reporters were searched and then detained for two hours while the police considered them first as suspects and then Anonymous conspirators. They were released without charge when the authorities acknowledged that their footage was indeed their alibi.

Edward Snowden, the former NSA employee and whistleblower was quoted in an interview by German newspaper, Der Spiegel as describing the NSA as “in bed with the Germans”. He also revealed in the report released July 7, that the NSA monitored about 20 million phone connections and 10 million internet data sets on average, per day and that the US’ closest allies went even further than the NSA to collect data.

Berlin police are investigating artist Oliver Bienkowski in relation to similar projections seen on July 8.

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A Swedish sociology professor has nominated Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize. He says the NSA whistleblower could help “save the prize from the disrepute incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision” to give the 2009 award to Barack Obama.

In his letter addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Stefan Svallfors praised Snowden for his“heroic effort at great personal cost.” He stated that by revealing the existence and the scale of the US surveillance programs, Snowden showed “individuals can stand up for fundamental rights and freedoms.”

Professor Svallfors wrote, quote:

“This example is important because since the Nuremberg trials in 1945 has been clear that the slogan ‘I was just following orders’ is never claimed as an excuse for acts contrary to human rights and freedoms.”

He emphasized that the decision to award the 2013 prize to Edward Snowden would also quote, “help to save the Nobel Peace Prize from the disrepute incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision to award US President Barack Obama 2009’s award.”

Snowden’s nomination is expected to be reviewed by the committee for next year’s prize. Should Snowden get the coveted award, he would be the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate in the history of the prize.

The 30-year-old nominee is wanted in the US on charges of espionage after revealing secret NSA surveillance programs and could face the death penalty in his home country. He fled American soil for Hong Kong in May and then flew to Moscow, where he has been stuck in an airport transit zone for three weeks.

On Friday Snowden said he is seeking political asylum in Russia because he cannot fly to Latin America.

In 2011 founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks Julian Assange was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian MP Snorre Valen.

Last year Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of passing secret materials to WikiLeaks, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination was proposed by the Movement of Icelandic Parliament, which asserted that revelations produced by the documents Manning allegedly exposed, quote, “have helped to fuel a worldwide discussion about America’s overseas engagements, civilian war casualties, imperialistic manipulations, and rules of engagement.”

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Speaking of Bradley Manning,

Bradley Manning‘s lawyers rested their case on Wednesday. The defense built its case for a shorter amount of time than expected, but argued exactly what most anticipated it would: Manning did not intend to harm the United States and aid the enemy when he passed thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.

Manning has already pleaded guilty to 10 of the 22 charges levied against him, effectively admitting to being the source of WikiLeaks’ most touted revelations. However, he still faces life in prison if convicted of the most serious charge of “aiding the enemy.” On Monday, his defense asked the military judge Col. Denise Lind to drop that charge as well as another six.

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