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Guardian Story

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data

 

NSA Heckled

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/31/nsa-director-heckled-at-conference-as-he-asks-for-security-communitys-understanding/

 

Snowden Granted 1 year of Asylum

http://rt.com/news/snowden-entry-papers-russia-902/

 

Army Bans Soldiers from Reading About NSA

http://thestateweekly.com/army-bans-soldiers-from-reading-about-nsa/

 

Prosecute Gay Athletes @ 2014 Olympics

http://abcnews.go.com/International/russian-lawmaker-suggests-gay-athletes-prosecuted-2014-winter/story?id=19829868

 

Illinois Becomes 20th State to Legalize Marijuana

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/01/us-usa-marijuana-illinois-idUSBRE97018920130801

 

Abandoned Walmart Becomes Americas Largest Library

http://weburbanist.com/2012/09/04/abandoned-walmart-is-now-americas-largest-library/

 

Crisco Street Art Lampoons Detroit Govt

http://i.imgur.com/8omDlx8.jpg

 

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Glenn Greenwald from the Guardian reported Wednesday yet another bombshell about NSA spying. It’s called XKeyscore. The NSA uses it to collect, quote, “Nearly everything a user does on the internet.”

The NSA called Snowden a liar and denied the ability to see your online content. Now you can see the government’s powerpoint slides for yourself. They were lying again. Those given the blessing from government are able to use a piece of software with drop-down menus filled with excuses for spying, and boom: they’ve got access to the full content of your emails, your private facebook messages, and your full browsing history. In addition to emails, websites and metadata, XKeyscore also allows the analyst access to an individual’s internet activity in real-time.

 

When asked why he didn’t reveal this information sooner, Greenwald responded that he has published almost 2 dozen exclusive articles about NSA spying in the past 7 weeks. He added, quote, “There are thousands upon thousands of documents and they take time to read, process, vet, and report. … There is a lot more to report still. Accuracy is the number one priority. That takes time.”

 

The good news is, Andy Greenberg at Forbes reported Wednesday that the same day this latest Snowden revelation broke, the director of the NSA was heckled at a speech. He was speaking in Las Vegas when John McCoy, a 30-year-old security consultant, interrupted with some thoughts of his own. He shouted, quote, “I don’t trust you!” Another person from the audience joined in, quote, ““You lied to Congress. Why would people believe you’re not lying to us right now?” The NSA Director was visibly shaken. He tried to shake off the comments as gracefully as he could, but ultimately, the damage had been done. Truth had been spoken to power.

 

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Fortunately for Snowden, RT reports that he has finally been given asylum in Russia and has left the transit zone of the airport. With his newly-awarded legal status, Snowden cannot be handed over to the US authorities, even if Washington files an official request. He can now be transported to the United States only if he agrees to go voluntarily.

 

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The US Army has ordered all of its personnel NOT to read the Guardian article revealing NSA spying. Quote, “Do not go to ‘The Guardian’ news website as they have TOP SECRET slide show on the main page and you will be flagged.” The email continued, quote,

“If someone is not included on this email inform them this website is off limits. If anyone has visited this page today and clicked on any ‘NSA program’ slide show please inform me immediately. It is much easier fix (sic) an issue before it becomes a problem then (sic) after it becomes a disaster.”

Only in government work can knowing the truth be a disaster.

 

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It’s a bit backwards that Snowden narrowly escaped the land of the free to find safety in Russia. He may feel safe, but in Russia, public displays of affection by gays, including holding hands or displaying symbols like a rainbow flag, are punishable with violent arrests and jail time. This doesn’t just include Russians. Foreigners face similar penalties plus deportation. At least one Olympic athlete, openly gay New Zealand speed skater Blake Skjellerup, has already pledged to wear a rainbow pin during the Olympic games held in Russia later this year.

 

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And in street theater news, a giant tub of Crisco appeared next a famous Detroit statue depicting a fist. The giant container was open and had an indentation from the fist. Although the artist is unknown, the message to Detroit City Council is clear.

 

Yesterday Illinois became the 20th state to allow medical cannabis. These 20 states directly contradict the Federal Government’s scheduling of the drug as having no medical purpose.

 

In other uplifting news, an abandoned Walmart has been converted into America’s largest library.

 

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Smokedown Prohibition 7

http://michaelsalvi.blogspot.com/2013/07/smoke-down-prohibition-vii-sit-in-to.html

Concord Armored SWAT Vehicle for “Free Staters”

http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/29/concord-nh-cops-want-armored-swat-vehicl

Amanda BillyRock Signs FSP Pledge

http://freestateproject.org/blogs/amanda-billyrock-signs-pledge

Interview Rich Paul from Jail

http://freekeene.com/2013/07/29/new-video-visitation-system-at-jail-allows-visits-from-home/

https://securustech.net/videovisitation

So I made a big mistake…

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ja1gs/so_i_made_a_big_mistake/

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Last Friday, Philadelphia activists held the seventh in a series of monthly demonstrations aimed at ending enforcement of modern prohibition. The activists make a display of themselves openly smoking cannabis in large, peaceful groups. A moment of marijuana reflection was recognized at 6:20pm in solidarity with brothers and sisters in Colorado, where cannabis is legal. 3 participants were detained and given official orders to either pay $175 for possessing cannabis or to appear in court for crimes against the state. The 3 immediately returned to the protest, where peaceful people continued to openly smoke cannabis. As of this recording, one of the detainees, Darrell Young, has decided to pay the fine. Danny Panzella of http://DoesPotCureCancer.com will be pleading not guilty, forcing the state to prove its case against him in court. The third detainee was not able to be reached for comment. Regardless of Danny wins in court or not, but the state will have expended more than $175 trying to extort him. Imagine the impact this would have on law enforcement if hundreds of activists were willing to take these citations to court. It can be tough to find gutsy activists willing to stand up for their liberty — that’s why so many activists find it strategically advantageous to concentrate our efforts in one geographic location: the Shire.

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Concord is the capital of New Hampshire, with a population of about 40,000 people. Last fall, the Concord police department requested a quarter million dollars from the department of homeland security so that they could purchase an armored military style tank called a BEARCAT. The last two letters in the acronym BEARCAT stand for “Attack Truck.”

Concord’s City Council unanimously approved the grant application for a new BEARCAT. But in the months since, some have raised concerns about just how and when such a vehicle would be used.

Concord wouldn’t be the first city in New Hampshire with a BEARCAT. Less than 25,000 people live in Keene, yet they have one. Manchester too. These just happen to be the two places where the Free Staters have gathered.

The New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union is concerned about over-militarized policing tactics, and for likely good reason:

In its grant application, the Concord Police said New Hampshire’s experience with terrorism, quote, “slants primarily towards the domestic type,” and, quote, “the threat is real and here. Groups such as the Sovereign Citizens, Free Staters and Occupy New Hampshire are active and present daily challenges.”

It’s unclear why a tank would be necessary for local police to address what are demonstrably non-violent movements.

Speaking of the Free Staters, Libertarian Internet Celebrity Amanda Billyrock made a video in which she signs the pledge to join 20,000 other liberty lovers in moving to New Hampshire for more freedom. Learn more at http://FreeStateProject.org

There are many advantages to moving to New Hampshire. In many ways, you’ll be freer just by entering the state. Other attractive advantages are more subtle. For example, if you’re looking to get active doing civil disobedience and peaceful noncompliance, you may be interested to learn that the Cheshire County House of Corrections (aka the Keene Spiritual Retreat) now offers video visitations right from your home! This means you listening at home can visit with your favorite Keene celebrities from behind bars! A new video by Ian at http://FreeKeene.com explains how it works. Follow the link in this episode’s show notes to try out the new system and visit civil disobedience hero Rich Paul who is currently a political prisoner in Keene. It’s fast, easy, and free!

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An interesting thing happened in the bitcoin world yesterday. Bitcoins can be transferred from person to person more quickly when an optional fee is added. One person accidentally sent a payment including a fee of 2.5 bitcoins, or roughly $250. In a shockingly generous move, the mining pool that received the hefty tip actually returned some of the money to the sender. This is all recorded in the public ledger, which you can see for yourself. Mistakes like this are rare, but it’s comforting to know that the bitcoin community is good people. Learn more about bitcoin at http://WeUseCoins.com.

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15-Yr-Old Boy Saves Abducted Little Girl

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/15/temar-boggs-jocelyn-rojas_n_3597825.html

http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/872026_Lancaster-teen-Temar-Boggs-hailed-as-a-hero-in-5-year-old-s-abduction.html

Tax on Sunlight

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/07/spain-levies-consumption-tax-on-sunlight.html

Things are Good for Snowden

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/07/edward-snowden-winning/67541/

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Minutes after Temar Boggs heard that 5-year-old Jocelyn Rojas had gone missing, he noticed a suspicious car careening in and out of the side streets of his neighborhood.
The 15-year-old was hanging out with his friends at an apartment on Thursday afternoon when he heard the news. So he and another friend took to their bikes to search for Rojas.
He told reporters that one car in particular caught his eye. It turned around at the top of a hill where several police officers were standing. It began turning in and out of side streets in the neighborhood. Boggs gave chase on his bicycle. He got close enough to the vehicle to see a little girl inside. He made eye contact with the driver, an older white male, who apparently got spooked enough to let the little girl out of the car.
Boggs said the girl ran into his arms and asked to see her mother. She has since been united with her family, and the town is hailing 15-year-old Boggs as a hero.
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The cost of solar panels has dropped 80% in Spain, but If you were thinking of buying some to save money on energy, you can forget about it.
People calling themselves the Government of Spain issued a “royal decree” this week taxing sunlight gatherers. The state now threatens you with fines as much as 30 million euros if you illegally gather sunlight without paying a tax. The tax is just enough to make sure that homeowners cannot gather and store solar energy cheaper than state-sponsored providers.
Before the decree, it took 12 years to recover the investment in a residential installation of 2 and a half kilowatts of power. Following the decree, it will take an additional 23 years.
Corporations always consider it “unfair” when any other company can do things faster, smarter, or cheaper than they can. The buggy whip industry once protested cars.
Today, land-line telecom companies have to compete with wireless and they don’t like it. Now, we see protests about VOIP (voice over internet protocol).
Technology marches on. But France does not like it. The French solution is to tax Skype because it has an “unfair advantage”. This is an age-old unwinnable argument.
The ultimate irony is France’s preposterous “unfair advantage” argument was lampooned by French economist Frederic Bastiat back in 1845 when he penned ‘Petition of the Candle Makers’.
In his article, candle makers were incensed that the light of the sun could be had for free. The sun’s unfair trade advantage was to the “detriment of fair industries” who could not compete against the sun’s price.
Something had to be done to “shut off as much as possible, all access to natural light, and thereby create a need for artificial light” so that “industry in France will encouraged”.
The moral of the story is that well-intentioned bureaucrats cause more harm than good by punishing advances in technology. The crippling effect regulators have on technology has real consequences: Rather than saving money on energy and passing on the savings to consumers, which would result in higher quality of life for all; instead innovation is hampered, and opportunities for improvement are missed.
And in classic politician style, the new decree is written in such an unscientific and unspecific way that it actually criminalizes the opening of one’s own eyes: Quote, “If you get caught collecting photons of sunlight for your own use, you can be fined as much as 30 million euros.”
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Some eight weeks after the revelations that shook Washington and made Edward Snowden a household name, the NSA whistleblower appears to be getting everything he wanted.
Independent polls reveal that the public is increasingly concerned that the government is not finding the right balance between surveillance and privacy.
40 percent see the NSA activities not merely as intrusions on some Americans’ privacy rights, but as unjustified intrusions.
Snowden may walk free. When his identity was first revealed by The Guardian, Snowden worried that he might be abducted or killed by the CIA for his leak. Holed up in a hotel in Hong Kong, it wasn’t clear whether or not Snowden would end up back in the United States to face criminal charges.
Now it appears that Snowden is about to become a resident of Moscow — a guy with a job and an apartment who’s waiting to figure out which Central American country he wants to retire to.
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Hero Cop Refuses to Participate in Evil

http://www.secretsofthefed.com/cop-fired-for-refusing-to-comply-to-ticket-quotas/

Dolphins Use Names .. Who knew?

http://gma.yahoo.com/photos/dolphins-names-other-photo-023136533–abc-news-tech.html

Dolphins Banned from Captivity … Humans next, please?

http://www.dw.de/dolphins-gain-unprecedented-protection-in-india/a-16834519

Prisoners dilemma tested … unexpectedly positive results!

http://au.businessinsider.com/prisoners-dilemma-in-real-life-2013-7

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It’s not everyday a cop makes the peaceful resistor list, but Justin Hanners of Auburn, Alabama makes the grade! He thought the police were about protecting and serving the people. That’s why it didn’t sit right with him when his new boss pressured the force to make quotas for traffic stops and citations. Justin felt that this was harassing behavior. When he stood on principle and refused to pester innocent people for petty victimless crimes, he was fired. This happens all the time in police forces, but what makes Justin different is that he had the courage to record conversations with his superiors discussing the quotas. This type of information, while known about, is very rare. Here’s a clip:

In just a few days, Justin has garnered support from thousands of people on his facebook fan page. This is an example of why good people who stand up for what’s right are better than people who go along to get along. Do what’s right, and good people will support you.

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They escape from aquarium tanks. They locate underwater mines. They can recognize themselves in a mirror. Now, a new paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science claims that dolphins recognized their own name when called.

The dolphins produce and respond to high pitched signature whistles that have a little bit of a melody. They come to the boat when their own name is called, but they tend to their own business when the names of other dolphins are used. The research also seemed to indicate that they learn and use the names of their families and friends.

In a related story, well-intentioned bureaucrats in India have banned the use of dolphins in captivity for commercial purposes such as entertainment. In doing so, India joins Costa Rica, Hungary, and Chile, giving the justification that dolphins share so many characteristics with other sentient beings that they have been declared “non-human persons”. Funny—human persons can be in captivity, but non-human persons can’t. Maybe eventually this principle will be universally applied so that one day all people can be free of captivity, traveling the earth freely without carrying their permission slips from agents of the state.

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The “prisoner’s dilemma” is a familiar concept to just about anybody that took Econ 101.

The basic version goes like this. Two criminals are arrested, but police can’t convict either on the primary charge, so they plan to sentence them to a year in jail on a lesser charge. Each of the prisoners, who can’t communicate with each other, are given the option of testifying against their partner. If they testify, and their partner remains silent, the partner gets 3 years and they go free. If they both testify, both get two. If both remain silent, they each get one.

In game theory, betraying your partner, or “defecting” is always the dominant strategy as it always has a slightly higher payoff in a simultaneous game.

This theory has been around for a long time, but it hasn’t been tested…until recently. The results were not what you’d expect. Prisoners and students each had an opportunity to participate, and the results revealed a much stronger inclination to cooperate to reach a mutually-desired outcome. What’s interesting is that the game requires blind trust from both parties, and you don’t have a chance to retaliate or make up for being betrayed later. Yet prisoners are still significantly more cooperative in that scenario than expected. Can you explain the results, or is it just human nature to cooperate with our fellow man?

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Medical Marijuana Now Legal in New England

http://concord-nh.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/medical-marijuana-becomes-law-governor-hassan-signs-bill?ncid=newsltuspatc00000001&evar4=picks-4-post

 

Judge Orders $1 Million Returned to Exotic Dancer

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/judge-orders-1-million-returned-exotic-dancer-151044009.html

 

New Car Hackers Can Cut Your Breaks

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/24/hackers-reveal-nasty-new-car-attacks-with-me-behind-the-wheel-video/

 

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With the addition of New Hampshire this Tuesday, medical Marijuana is now legal in all 6 states which comprise New England. Ironically, the Live Free Or Die state was the last among them to be added, although still well ahead of the rest of the country. Although now legal for medicinal use in 19 states, cannabis remains illegal federally, as even state-sanctioned dispensaries are being raided by men calling themselves the federal government. Eventually people will see this type of behavior as aggressive violence no different than what occurs in war. One small group of men is pointing guns at people and stealing from them, not because they are saving the day but because they are following orders.

 

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In other news, a federal judge has ruled that Nebraska cops must return over $1 million confiscated at a traffic stop from a woman who saved the money $1 at a time during her 15 year career as an exotic dancer.

The money belongs to Tara Mishra, 33, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., who began putting aside her earnings when she started dancing at age 18. The money was meant to start her own club and get out of the stripping business.

State troopers confiscated the money in March 2012 after searching the car on a speeding stop.

The state trooper found the money and suspected it was connected to drugs. He arrested everyone in the car. Police found no evidence of drug activity in the car, nor any drugs on the cash.

Fortunately, the Judge in this case showed no favoritism to police. He said, quote, “The government failed to show a substantial connection between drugs and the money.” The judge ordered the Nebraska state police to return the million dollars immediately in cash or check … and pay back with interest! This may be a proper remedy from the judge, but should taxpayers suffer the consequences of police wrongdoing rather than individuals being held personally liable? Speaking of taxpayers, you can bet this exotic dancer is going to get a 1099 form in the mail tomorrow. Bye bye 40%.

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Michael Hastings was a reporter who got too close to the truth. He was killed in a deadly car crash last month after sending a hurried email to his friends explaining that he was afraid and that the feds were watching him. He was the journalist whose Rolling Stone story on McChrystal changed history. Then he similarly slammed Patraeus, and any google search of the name Michael Hastings will reveal an arsenal of journalistic firepower aimed squarely at the establishment.

The events surrounding Hastings’ crash are mysterious to say the least. Friends say he drove like a grandma, but somehow witnesses saw his 2013 Mercedes drive at full speed through a red light, spark from the bottom, and explode before making a sudden 90 degree turn and crash into a tree across several lanes of traffic on a Los Angeles boulevard at 4 in the morning. Autopsies reveal he had not been drinking or doing drugs.

Yesterday, Forbes put out a story about a new type of hacker which can hack into cars. Hackers can override the steering wheel, breaks, gas, and other functions. These hackers are using their powers for good by exposing the vehicle’s weaknesses.

The article specifically mentions that the 2014 Mercedes Benz S-Class, which can negotiate stop-and-go traffic or follow a leader without input, may offer a hacker even more points of attack. The less the driver is involved, the more potential for failure when bad people are tampering with it.

In the meantime, benevolent hackers argue that the best way to pressure car companies to secure their products is to show exactly what can be done with a multi-ton missile on wheels. Better to experience the panic of a digitally hijacked SUV now, than when a more malicious attacker is in control.

 

Perhaps the most interesting quote from the article comes from the car hacker, who said, quote “If the only thing keeping you from crashing your car is that no one is talking about this, then you’re not safe anyway.”

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