Monthly Archives: October 2012

Disabled Vet Labeled “Terrorist” For Investigating Cost Of Surveillance Cameras

"A 55-year-old disabled veteran was labeled a 'terrorist' by three county commissioners after he photographed security cameras at the Elbert County administration building in Colorado as part of an investigation, a designation the man claimed was retribution for him filing multiple open-records requests. Elbert County resident Don Pippin took pictures of the security cameras back in April as part of an open-records request that sought to discover the cost of the surveillance system." Continue reading →

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300 protesters swarm Hollywood Boulevard in LA, clashes with police reported

"A group of 300 people, mainly skateboarders who attended a skateboarding movie premiere, filled an intersection of Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles Saturday evening. They reportedly threw bottles at police and clashed with officers. Witnesses reporting seeing increased security at the scene, including a row of police cars. City authorities advised local shop owners to close their businesses and lock their doors." Continue reading →

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Another Obama Executive Order Allows Seizure of Americans’ Bank Accounts

"If an individual is declared by the president, the secretary of state, or the secretary of the treasury to be a 'sanctioned person,' he (or she) will be unable to obtain access to his accounts, will be unable to process any loans (or make them), or move them to any other financial institution inside or outside the United States. The EO expands its authority by making him unable to use any third party such as 'a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, subgroup or other organization' that might wish to help him or allow him to obtain access to his funds. If the individual so 'sanctioned' decides that the ruling is unfair, he isn't allowed to sue." Continue reading →

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Tracking School Children With RFID Tags? It’s All About the Benjamins

"Just as the U.S. Department of Agriculture mandates Radio Frequency Identification Device chips to monitor livestock, a Texas school district just begun implanting the devices on student identification cards to monitor pupils’ movements on campus, and to track them as they come and go from school. Tagging school children with RFID chips is uncommon, but not new. A federally funded preschool in Richmond, California, began embedding RFID chips in students’ clothing in 2010. With the RFID tracking, students not at their desk but tracked on campus are counted as being in school that day, and the district receives its daily allotment for that student." Continue reading →

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Carlos Slim, World’s Richest Man, Gets Richer Supplying ‘Obamaphones’ to Poor

"A Mexican telecom mogul who holds the title of world's richest man, and one of President Obama's top donors are both getting even richer from the U.S. government program that supplies so-called 'Obamaphones' to the poor. Carlos Slim, who has an estimated net worth of $70 billion, owns a controlling stake in TracFone, which makes $10 per phone for each device it provides to poor Americans. The program, which began in the mid-1980s, has exploded in the past four years after being expanded from supplying landlines to the poor to providing cellular phones." Continue reading →

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Jim Rogers on Politics, Money Metals and How to Deal With an Endless Downturn

"Be very careful. Study some history and study some economics and see how these things always play out in the end. Prepare yourself. Make sure you have a professional advisor and you should do okay. Make sure you have investments that will do okay. Move to a new country if you are worried about your own country. I own commodities and currencies. I short stocks. I teach my children Mandarin. Both of my children speak perfect Mandarin. Both English and Mandarin will be important in the 21st century, in my view. We moved to Singapore so my children could learn and speak Mandarin. That's how I'm living my life." Continue reading →

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Industry sues over NYC crackdown on sugary drinks

"Soda makers, restaurateurs and other businesses sued Friday to try to block the city's unprecedented move to restrict sales of super-sized, sugary drinks, an effort the city called a coup for public health but the businesses view as wrong-minded meddling. A spokesman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the regulation's chief champion, called the lawsuit a groundless effort to stop a groundbreaking policy, noting that the city also won fights over outlawing smoking in bars and offices and forcing fast-food restaurants to list calorie counts on their menus." Continue reading →

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Lunch lady slammed for food that is ‘too good’

"A talented head cook at a school in central Sweden has been told to stop baking fresh bread and to cut back on her wide-ranging veggie buffets because it was unfair that students at other schools didn't have access to the unusually tasty offerings. 'A menu has been developed... It is about making a collective effort on quality, to improve school meals overall and to try and ensure everyone does the same,' Katarina Lindberg, head of the unit responsible for the school diet scheme, told the local Falukuriren newspaper. The school's vegetable buffet will be halved in size and Eriksson's handmade loafs will be replaced with store-bought bread." Continue reading →

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Analyzing Jamie Dimon’s Bear Stearns “Favor” to the Fed

"The $108 million BlackRock contract to trade Maiden Lane was large enough that, had it been designated sole source, it would have to have been approved by the New York Fed's board of directors...which includes Mr. Jamie Dimon. Wouldn't it have been embarrassing to have to disclose that Mr. Dimon voted to approve a dubious no-bid contract to BlackRock to trade the very portfolio of Bear Stearns assets that his firm, JP Morgan, was first in line to absorb any losses? Better for the New York Fed to throw away the file and lie to the GAO (allegedly)." Continue reading →

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