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Wednesday August 25th, 2010
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Pastor Files Civil Suit Against Border Patrol Over Tasering
posted 08/22/2010, 12:10 AM (My Fox Phoenix) [Category: Resistance] YUMA, Ariz. - Pastor Steven Anderson was beaten and Tased at a Border Patrol checkpoint last year, and has since been cleared of all charges by a jury.
But now he's filing suit against the officers who Tased him.
The lawsuit was filed a few days before the jury cleared Pastor Anderson of any wrongdoing. Anderson says the jury's decision will only help his civil lawsuit.
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Thursday August 19th, 2010
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Pirate Party Strikes Hosting Deal With Wikileaks
posted 08/19/2010, 12:32 AM (TorrentFreak ) [Category: Resistance] During his visit to the the Swedish capital Stockholm, Wikileaks spokesman Julian Assange struck a deal with the local Pirate Party. The Party, which participates in the national elections next month, will host several new Wikileaks servers to protect the freedom of the press and help the whistleblower site to carry out its operation. |
Will Grigg on Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton
posted 08/19/2010, 12:31 AM (Antiwar.com) [Category: Resistance] MP3 here. (20:27)
Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the loss of “local” police to a homogeneous federally-funded force designed to fight the war on drugs, how police departments facing budget cuts use asset forfeiture laws to make up the difference, the dramatic change of police portrayals in movies (and the culture’s acceptance of lawbreaking cops at large) following The French Connection and ... (more) |
Interview: Jeffrey Tucker on Radio Free Market
posted 08/19/2010, 12:31 AM (Radio Free Market) [Category: Resistance] Jeff presents WHY we all experience a more Peaceful, Productive and Prosperous Life - and Society - the more we CHOOSE to cooperate with each other - with Good Manners. You have never heard 'Economics' discussed like this before. This is an interview you will want your children - as well as everyone else in your circle of family and friends - to hear and discuss! |
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Thursday August 12th, 2010
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Wednesday August 11th, 2010
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Saturday August 7th, 2010
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It's OK to tell police officers to 'f*ck off'
posted 08/07/2010, 8:22 PM (The Daily Telegraph) [Category: Resistance]
A QUEENSLAND magistrate has ruled that it is acceptable for people to tell police officers to "f*ck off".
Magistrate Peter Smid yesterday threw out the court case against Mundingburra man Bardon Kaitira, 28, who swore at a female officer outside the Consortium night club on December 20, last year at 2.40am, The Townsville Bulletin reports.
Constable Belinda Young gave evidence that Mr Kaitira used the swear word twice towards her after a group of office... (more) |
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Wednesday August 4th, 2010
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Missourians Vote to Nullify ObamaCare
posted 08/04/2010, 7:15 PM (The New American) [Category: Resistance] “Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama’s administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn the controversial health care law passed by Congress in March,” reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The measure, known as Proposition C, was approved by 71 percent of those voting in the August 3 primary, with 29 percent voting against ... (more) |
Houston TV on Ron & Rand: "After 22 Years in Congress, Ron Paul Still Sticking to his Guns"
posted 08/04/2010, 7:15 PM (Daily Paul) [Category: Resistance] KHOU, Houston's local CBS affiliate, ran this very favorable father and son piece on last night's local news broadcast. I was quite surprised but could it mean that we're winning??
HOUSTON--Ron Paul, a mild-mannered grandfather from Lake Jackson, has been in Congress for 22 years--but he doesn't have any kind words for politicians.
"I see politicians as pretty weak people, because they just follow prevailing attitudes," Paul, a Republican, said.
Paul ... (more) |
Arizona to allow concealed carry without permit
posted 07/24/2010, 11:04 PM (East Valley Tribune) [Category: Resistance] In less than a week, Arizona residents will be allowed to carry a gun in their pocket or purse without needing paperwork to do so.
Senate Bill 1108, which allows people to carry concealed guns with no permit or safety training, takes effect on July 29, the same day controversial immigration legislation is scheduled to begin enforcement. It makes Arizona the third state behind Alaska and Vermont, all supportive of gun rights, to enact a law that raises concerns for law enforcement... (more) |
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Wednesday July 21st, 2010
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Anonymous ISP launched by Sweden’s Pirate Party
posted 07/21/2010, 7:05 PM (MYCE Beta) [Category: Resistance]
Sweden's political Pirate Party has launched their own internet service provider, Pirate ISP. The new broadband service is promising to provide anonymity, privacy, and protection to its customers by keeping no logs of user's personal data.
The Pirate Party was founded in 2006 with the goal of reforming copyright and patent laws while supporting privacy rights. They recently made headlines with a plan to host The Pirate Bay on their own servers. Pirate ISP is the party's latest att... (more) Prediction: In the future all internet traffic will be encrypted and the government will absolutely hate it.
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Kentucky Senate: Paul (R) 49% Conway (D) 41%
posted 07/21/2010, 7:02 PM (Rasmussen Reports) [Category: Resistance] It's the same story in Kentucky's race for U.S. Senate again this month. Republican Rand Paul continues to hold a modest lead over Democrat Jack Conway.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Paul picking up 49% of the vote, while Conway earns support from 41%. Four percent (4%) would prefer another candidate, while six percent (6%) more are not sure.
Support for both Paul has been at 49% for three straight surveys while Conwa... (more) |
Video: TED Interview with Julian Assange, 'Why the world needs WikiLeaks'
posted 07/20/2010, 4:09 PM (TED) [Category: Resistance] The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished -- and what drives him. The interview includes graphic footage of a recent US airstrike in Baghdad.
... (more) Hysterically funny, very entertaining and informative! |
Fox legal analyst: Bush should have been indicted
posted 07/13/2010, 10:55 PM (Raw Story) [Category: Resistance]
Fox News' senior judicial analyst made some surprising remarks Saturday that may go against the grain at his conservative network.
In a interview with Ralph Nader on C-SPAN's Book TV to promote his book Lies the Government Told You, Judge Andrew Napolitano said that President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should have been indicted for "torturing, for spying, for arresting without warrant."
The judge believes that it is a fallacy to say that the US tr... (more) |
New Hampshire Town Allows All Employees to Carry Guns at Work
posted 07/06/2010, 7:35 PM (ABC News) [Category: Resistance] The manager of the small New Hampshire town of Nottingham doesn't understand all the fuss surrounding the decision to allow town employees to bring their guns to work.
"Everyone wants to know if I'm packing," Charles Brown told ABCNews.com. "Honestly, all the hoopla is over the top."
For Brown and other officials in the town of 4,800, it's a matter of constitutional rights.
Under the old legislation, all Nottingham employees except police officers we... (more) |
The Declaration of Independence
posted 07/03/2010, 7:46 PM (USHistory.org) [Category: Resistance]
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that th... (more) Unquestionably the greatest of America's founding documents. |
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) |
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) |
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Wednesday June 30th, 2010
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Residents battle to keep land state wants for south suburban airport
posted 06/30/2010, 11:48 PM (Chicago Tribune) [Category: Resistance]
Vivian and Willis Bramstaedt live on land their family has farmed in Beecher for half a century. The state wants part of the land to build an airport. (David Pierini, Chicago Tribune / June 30, 2010)
Willis and Vivian Bramstaedt don't have big plans for retirement; they simply want to live out their remaining years on the land their family has farmed in rural Beecher since the 1950s.
But when a letter from the state arrived in April, the Bramstaedts knew thei... (more) |
WikiLeaks founder drops 'mass spying' hint
posted 06/25/2010, 6:35 PM (Australia Broadcast Corporation) [Category: Resistance] WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has given his strongest indication yet about the next big leak from his whistleblower organisation.
There has been rampant speculation about WikiLeaks' next revelation following its recent release of a top secret military video showing an attack in Baghdad which killed more than a dozen people, including two employees of the Reuters news agency.
Bradley Manning, a US military intelligence officer based in Iraq, has been arrested... (more) |
Chinese Man Fights Eminent Domain With Fireworks
posted 06/10/2010, 9:40 PM (The New American) [Category: Resistance] In 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Kelo v. City of New London, ruled that governments in the United States have the right to steal their citizens’ property and transfer it to private developers as long as it serves a “public purpose,” namely bringing in more tax revenue. Thus, according to the court, the city of New London, Connecticut, was within its rights to evict Susette Kelo and others from their property in order to hand the property over to Pfizer for development — deve... (more) |
Anti-speed camera activist nabs Bluff City PD’s expiring web domain
posted 06/08/2010, 5:55 PM (TriCities) [Category: Resistance] BLUFF CITY, Tenn. – Brian McCrary found the perfect venue to gripe about a $90 speeding ticket when he went to the Bluff City Police Department’s website, saw that its domain name was about to expire, and bought it right out from under the city’s nose.
Now that McCrary is the proud owner of the site, http://www.bluffcitypd.com, the Gray, Tenn., computer network designer has been using it to post links about speed cameras – like the one on U.S. Highway 11E that caught him – and... (more) |
Billboard Puts Obama on $100,000,000,000,000 Bill, Asks: 'But Who Will Pay the Piper?'
posted 06/08/2010, 5:52 PM (CNSNews.com) [Category: Resistance]
(CNSNews.com) - Thanks to an advertiser who wishes to remain anonymous, cars and trucks on Arizona Highway 260 in East Central Arizona are driving by a billboard advertisement that recently went up, bearing President Obama’s face on a mock U.S. $100,000,000,000,000 (One-Hundred Trillion Dollar) bill.
The billboard’s caption: “But Who Will Pay the Piper?”
Chuck Perrine of Jones Outdoor advertising in Tucson, Ariz., confirmed to CNSNews.com that his company created ... (more) |
For Paul Family, Libertarian Ethos Began at Home
posted 06/06/2010, 10:54 AM (New York Times) [Category: Resistance]
WASHINGTON — In keeping with their position as the First Family of Libertarianism, the Pauls of Lake Jackson, Tex., did not have many rules around their home.
“Behave yourself and be polite” is how Representative Ron Paul describes his regulatory philosophy about rearing five children. Mr. Paul, a Republican, and his wife of 53 years, Carol, never believed in assigned chores or mandates.
They did not give out allowances, which they viewed as a parental version of a ... (more) “We believe that stealing from people is not good, whether you’re the government or whether you have a mask on your face.” |
US backs off plan to take Vt. farm for border port
posted 06/04/2010, 11:03 AM (Associated Press) [Category: Resistance]
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Score one for David. Goliath decided it just wasn't worth the fight.
The federal government has decided to close a tiny U.S.-Canada border station rather than push ahead with a controversial plan to expand it by seizing a dairy farmer's land, officials announced Thursday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection had sought to renovate the sleepy Morses Line port of entry in Franklin — which gets about 2 1/2 vehicles an hour — by seizing a 2.2-acre parcel... (more) | Next Page
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