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Thursday July 1st, 2010
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Penn. activist facing 8 years in prison after videotaping officers outside courthouse
posted 07/01/2010, 11:59 PM (Photography is Not a Crime)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
George Donnelly, the Pennsylvania videographer who was arrested last week for videotaping federal officers in front of an Allentown courthouse, is facing eight years in prison for his deed.
He is specifically being accused of striking one of the officers.
Anybody who has seen the two previous videos where Donnelly was confronted by federal officers in front of a courthouse will find these charges hard to believe.
After all, Donnelly has a tendency to remain courteous even when getting threatened with violence.
Nevertheless, the federal government is charging him with assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain United States Government officers or employees, which carries a maximum sentence of eight years in prison.
The evidence, of course, lies in the videotape they confiscated from him. We’ll be lucky if that ever makes the light of day.
When contacted by Photography is Not a Crime today, Donnelly said he was not commenting about his case.
But Libertadedia, described as the libertarian encyclopedia, offers detailed information obtained from court records.
The site states he has been subjected to the following conditions under house arrest, even though he has not been convicted:
- Bail in the amount of $50,000
- Defendant shall submit to random drug testing as directed by pretrial services
- Defendant shall undergo drug/alcohol treatment if necessary, as determined by pretrial services
- Defendant shall submit to electronic monitoring
... (more)His story has gone mega-viral on Reddit, he posted this response today. - Chris |
Ireland begins web censoring
posted 07/01/2010, 11:59 PM (MCV)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The Irish arm of telcoms operator O2 has begun censoring websites in the region, with image sharing site Imgur seemingly the first portal identified for blockage.
Talk has been rumbling of behind-the-scenes government negotiations regarding the introduction of an official state policy that would see websites accused of hosting malicious content or infringing copyright blocked from public access.
Further to these discussions, ISPs such as Eircom have already entered ... (more) |
Sweden ends compulsory military service after 109 years
posted 07/01/2010, 11:59 PM (AFP, Swedish Wire)
[Category: Resistance]
 Sweden on Thursday ended 109 years of obligatory military service, setting the nation on the way to becoming a fully professional army."
Introduced in Sweden in 1901, military service had been winding down for several years, with only those expressing a wish to serve picked during for conscription.
Sweden remained neutral during the two world wars, but with the Soviet Union nearby, wanted to have the capacity to call in 500,000 soldiers at short notice dur... (more) |
62% Say Constitution Should Be Left Alone
posted 07/01/2010, 11:52 PM (Rasmussen Reports)
[Category: General]
Most Americans say don’t mess with the U.S. Constitution, even though a plurality still believes it does not restrict the government enough.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Adults shows that, when asked their views on changing the Constitution, 62% say it should be left alone. Twenty-four percent (24%) believe minor changes are needed, while only seven percent (7%) see a need for major changes.
Three percent (3%) believe the country should... (more)"39% believe the current document does not put enough restrictions on what the government can do."
As Thoreau said, "That government is best which governs least." ...and that's why the best government is no government at all!
The "services" government provides are all a laughingstock joke, they could be replaced in the free market practically overnight with all the creative entrepreneurs we have in the world!
Just look at how fast the innovations on the internet take place, from social networking to tweeting, to all these file sharing sites, to Rapidshare and Megaupload, to Reddit, Digg and StumbleUpon! Imagine if that creative spirit was put to work providing services like courts and protection agencies!
At the very least allow people to compete in these industries! Repeal all these non-compete government-monopoly-enforcing laws and you'd see the best government the world has ever seen. Just as every few months out comes the best new computer or cell phone the world has ever seen!
Free-markets work! Coercive government monopolies do not! - Chris, InfoLib |
Pittsburgh's Rise from Ashes
posted 07/01/2010, 11:58 PM (Jeffrey A. Tucker)
[Category: Commentary]
Pittsburgh is a town that makes me want to rhapsodize like a Randian. Its skyline, the materials and shapes that make up the structure of the city, celebrate man's creative genius in every way. It is more beautiful than the most cultivated garden because it is a picture of order out of chaos and all directed toward the betterment of society.
In capitalism's structure of production, the city once stood between the first producers of raw materials somewhere in the moun... (more) |
Banks, Analysts Warn of Massive Money Printing Ahead
posted 07/01/2010, 11:58 PM (The New American)
[Category: Economy]
As credit and economic activity continue to contract, analysts are warning of big problems and unprecedented fiat-money creation by the Federal Reserve System in the near future.
“Get ready for the cliff-edge,” warned Royal Bank of Scotland credit chief Andrew Roberts in a note to clients late last week. He said “monster” quantitative monetary easing (money printing) is coming and t... (more) |
Random Acts of Government
posted 07/01/2010, 11:58 PM (Mises Economics Blog)
[Category: Commentary]
Yesterday I posted the press release from the alliance of government agencies and Hollywood studios now patrolling the Internet to thwart savage, non-Johnny Depp acts of “piracy.” Led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Copyright Cartel -- I can’t think of a more clever name -- vowed to “get the illegal choices out of the marketplace,” according to Hollywood lobbyist Mike Robinson, who thanked the C... (more) |
Financial Reform Bill to use TARP Money
posted 07/01/2010, 11:58 PM (MyBankTracker.com)
[Category: Economy]
Forced to remove a lucrative bank tax from its sweeping financial reform bill, U.S. Congress is turning to the Troubled Asset Relief Plan to help fund the new financial regulations.
Reuters reported this week that U.S. lawmakers, who could not come to an agreement on whether to include a bank tax that would generate an estimated $17.9 billion, decided instead to pull money from a pool created as part of the TARP bailout fund. Pulling money from the TARP fund would give the governm... (more) |
Fed Made Taxpayers Unwitting Junk-Bond Buyers
posted 07/01/2010, 11:58 PM (Bloomberg)
[Category: Economy]
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and then-New York Fed President Timothy Geithner told senators on April 3, 2008, that the tens of billions of dollars in “assets” the government agreed to purchase in the rescue of Bear Stearns Cos. were “investment-grade.” They didn’t share everything the Fed knew about the money.
The so-called assets included collateralized debt obligations and mortgage-backed bonds with names like HG-Coll Ltd. 2007-1A that were so distressed, more than $... (more) |
Obama Calls for Pentagon “Civilian Component”
posted 07/01/2010, 11:58 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
 Once again, Obama has called for a civilian component to work with the Pentagon.
Speaking at a town hall event in Racine, Wisconsin, on July 31 Obama said U.S. troops are carrying too much of the burden in Iraq and Afghanistan and doing too many things that are more appropriate for civilians, such as building schools and setting up justice systems, according to the ... (more) |
Prices rise as New Zealand passes emissions trading scheme
posted 07/01/2010, 11:58 PM (London Telegraph)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
 Petrol and power prices have risen sharply in New Zealand after the government introduced a controversial emissions trading scheme.
The government has pressed ahead with plans to slash the nation’s carbon output, despite widespread opposition and New Zealand’s larger neighbour Australia shelving its own scheme.
Motorists were hit by a 3c (1.4p) rise in the price of a litre of petrol overnight, while householders face a 5 per cent increase in gas and electricity pric... (more) |
Will G20 Police Succeed In Covering Up Reports of Rape and Torture?
posted 07/01/2010, 11:56 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Now that Canada is officially the most oppressive and backward dictatorship in the west, will authorities be allowed to cover-up the Abu-Ghraib style incarceration methods Toronto police engaged in during the G20 summit this past weekend, where women were arrested and subsequently raped by male cops?
In the video below, journalist Amy Miller describes how women arrested by Toronto police were threatened with rape, that numerous women were strip-searched by male officers and that o... (more) |
Toronto Police Chief Lies Again To Frame Protesters
posted 07/01/2010, 11:56 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
 Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair has been caught lying again in an effort to justify the brutal police response metered out against G20 protesters and journalists this past weekend, after it emerged that weapons he presented to the media as evidence of criminals planning to wreak havoc on the city were in fact toys seized from a man who was on his way to a fantasy role-playing game and had nothing to do with the G20 summit.
"Brian Barrett was shocked to go online Tuesday and ... (more) |
Harris County deputy's son, 15, shoots one of two intruders
posted 07/01/2010, 11:53 PM (Houston Chronicle)
[Category: Resistance]
The teenage son of a Harris County deputy constable opened fire with his father's automatic rifle Tuesday after burglars forced their way into the family's home, authorities said.
The boy, 15, and his sister, 12, were alone about 2:30 p.m. when they heard glass breaking downstairs at the home in the 2600 block of Royal Place Court in northwest Harris County.
The boy went downstairs with the rifle and spotted the two burglars in the living room.
He fir... (more) |
LCD maker pleads guilty to display price fixing
posted 07/01/2010, 11:52 PM (ComputerworldUK)
[Category: Economy]
HannStar Display, a Taiwanese maker of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $30 million fine for participating in a global conspiracy to fix prices of the displays, the US Department of Justice said.
HannStar, based in Taipei, participated in a price fixing conspiracy involving thin-film transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCDs) between September 2001 and January 2006, the DOJ said in a one-count felony charge filed Tuesday in US District Court ... (more)What a joke, just because a company (or group of companies) says they're going to charge so and so a price doesn't mean consumers need to buy it. It's not like an LCD is some essential good which every growing child needs to survive. If the people thought the prices were too high they wouldn't buy them, it's that simple. The same can't be said for the "products" and "services" government produces. - Chris |
67% Say Cities Have No Right To Ban Handguns
posted 07/01/2010, 11:52 PM (Rasmussen Reports)
[Category: General]
Sixty-seven percent (67%) of Americans say city governments do not have the right to prevent citizens from owning handguns, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Support for stricter gun control laws also has fallen to its lowest level in several years.
Twenty-four percent (24%) think cities do have the right to ban handgun ownership. The Supreme Court this week overturned a handgun ban in Chicago that opponents argue is a violation of the ... (more) |
Gold dives to $1,200 as funds bail on best Q2 asset
posted 07/01/2010, 11:52 PM (Reuters)
[Category: Economy]
(Reuters) - Gold bullion plunged nearly 4 percent to below $1,200 an ounce on Thursday as a major technical break and an early equities sell-off triggered heavy fund selling, fueling the biggest one-day decline in five months.
Disappointing U.S. and Chinese economic indicators drove a major slide in oil, copper and some stock markets. The dollar fell to a seven-month low against the yen, and bullion got caught in the downdraft as investors cashed in profits in the best-performing ... (more) |
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