A Highway Patrol trooper enters the scene first, gun drawn, and kicks the driver’s window of Greene’s four-door sedan. After several moments, the trooper opens the door.
MoCo police beat a renowned photographer, then hilariously claim he threw himself to the ground and then against their police cruiser. Now the cops are parking their cruisers outside his house in an attempt to intimidate him. These are your armed "protectors" America.
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — When you head down to the beach for a little fun this summer, county officials want you to leave the pigskin at home.
The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to raise fines for anyone who throws a football or a Frisbee on any beach in Los Angeles County.
In passing the 37-page ordinance on Tuesday, officials sought to outline responsibilities for law enforcement and other public agencies while also providing clarification on beach-goe... (more)
Marc Faber gives a superb interview to Bloomberg News, he gives his take on Facebook's upcoming IPO, details what he thinks is in store for the economy next year, lists a few stocks he bought recently, and discusses why he thinks the entire derivatives market will collapse to zero. - Video aired 02 Feb 2012
Author and former OMB director David Stockman sits down with the Daily Ticker to explain Obama's latest election year scheme to give re-fi's to select underwater mortgage holders. It's nothing but another bailout for JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, and other big underwriters of 2nd mortgages and home equity loans, since ultimately these 'homeowners' are going to default. This is where 40 years of government meddling in the housing market has gotten us. This scam is all about wealth redistribution... (more)
The Department of Homeland Security plans to spend up to $50 million dollars on a spy system that has been used to hunt insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan for the purposes of “emergency and non-emergency incidents” within the United States.
The DHS is seeking four contractors to provide "aerial remote sensing" services, using LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) technology fitted to drones or manned aircraft that will provide surveillance capability for “homeland ... (more)
This week, Arizona legislators are voting on a package of bills that would be "Wisconsin on steroids" -- banning collective bargaining, release time and automatic deduction of union dues from paychecks. The unions plan state capitol protests this week, so things are heating up and the story has already appeared in various national publications. Sin... (more)
When National Public Radio airs a segment on the gold standard, you know that the debate over the quality of money has reached the point where it can no longer be ignored. Another sign came last month when Newt Gingrich, who has never shown the slightest interest in the cause of sound money, suddenly began to talk about restoring the gold standard.
The last time there was talk about this issue was more than 30 years ago, after the devastating inflation of the late 1970s robbed an ... (more)
The Australian government is seeking to deny tax benefits to parents who refuse to vaccinate their children, because nothing says "this is in your best interest" like threats and intimidation.
We recently wrote about PolitiFact trashing Lamar Smith for the numbers he used in support of SOPA -- numbers that PolitiFact says grade out to "false." What I somehow missed was at the very end of that article, they ask Smith to respond to the charges that his argument was false. Amazingly, rather than respond to the actua... (more)
The first big analysis of what happened to file sharing via cyberlockers following the shutdown of Megaupload shows that there was no slowdown in file sharing -- it's just that the traffic moved elsewhere. The analysis, by Deepfield Networks, concludes that there was no significant drop off in file sharing in the US..... (more)
My brother is teaching a semester in London, and he casually video Skyped me last week to show me around his apartment, which is small but charming. I reciprocated by hauling up the cover of the e-book I am reading, and shared my desktop to show a YouTube performance of Renaissance music I thought he would enjoy. We chatted a bit more and hung up. No “long distance” charges.
So what? Well, none of this could have happened 10 years ago. Not only that, you probably would... (more)
It appears that technologically clueless, reactionary politicians blaming the internet for terrorism and demanding ways to censor content are not just limited to US Senators named Lieberman. Nope, it appears that some elected officials over in the UK have similarly allergic reactions to the internet. The Home Affairs Committee in the UK Parliament has rele... (more)
As part of its effort to encourage business owners to spy on their customers, the FBI has labeled the bulk purchase of food as a potential indication of terrorist activity, despite the fact that FEMA itself last year purchased $1 billion dollars worth of storable food.
Do you love America? Are you against a one world economy and a one world government? Do you deeply love individual liberty? Do you believe in conspiracy theories? If you answered any of those questions affirmatively, then you are a potential terrorist according to a brand new Department of Homeland Security report that was just released in January 2012. The report is entitled "Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1970 to 2008", and it was prod... (more)
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