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Air Conditioning the Military Costs More Than NASA's Entire Budget

http://gizmodo.com

According to Steve Anderson, a retired brigadier general who served as Gen. Petraeus' chief logistician in Iraq, the Department of Defense spends $20 billion air conditioning tents and temporary structures for the military. That's more than NASA's entire $19 billion annual budget.

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One law for us, another for you

http://www.washingtontimes.com

"The California state Senate voted 28-8 Wednesday to exempt itself from the pointless gun-control laws that apply to the rest of the populace. Legislators apparently think they alone are worthy to pack heat on the streets for personal protection, and the masses ought to wait until the police arrive."

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U.N. Agreement Should Have All Gun Owners Up In Arms

http://blogs.forbes.com

It may not come as surprising news to many of you that the United Nations doesn’t approve of our Second Amendment. Not one bit. And they very much hope to do something about it with help from some powerful American friends.

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Cruise passengers tell of seven-hour security 'revenge' nightmare

http://www.telegraph.co.uk

It was billed as a chance to taste the “glitz and glamour” of Hollywood or enjoy VIP treatment in some of the most exclusive shopping areas in the world. But when a group of 2,000 elderly British cruise ship passengers docked at Los Angeles for a short stop-off during a five-star cruise around America it was, in the words of one of them, more like arriving at Guantanamo Bay.

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New car purchases to have a mandatory black box installed.

http://www.examiner.com

They've been talking about this since OBDII came out in '96. The original purpose would have been to check the vehicle's emissions "Ready Status" (from roadside transponders, and if the car had failed, it could be flagged, a notice sent to the owner, and in the event of noncompliance, the car could be remotely disabled.

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18 Signs That U.S. Public Schools Equivalent to Life In U.S. Prisons

http://lewrockwell.com

In the United States today, our public schools are not very good at educating our students, but they sure are great training grounds for learning how to live in a Big Brother police state control grid. Sadly, life in many U.S. public schools is now essentially equivalent to life in U.S. prisons. Most parents don't realize this, but our students have very few rights when they are in school. Our public school students are being watched, tracked, recorded

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Schumer Pushes to Shut Down Online Drug Marketplace

http://www.nbcnewyork.com

Senator Charles Schumer is asking federal authorities to shut down a secretive narcotics market operated online with anonymous sales and untraceable currency. The website uses a complex Internet configuration that allows the users to remain anonymous and untraceable by downloading the program TOR. To make sure the money exchanged can't be traced, the site uses a new digital currency called Bitcoins.

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Report: 'Global War On Drugs Has Failed' : NPR

http://www.npr.org

The UN admits "that the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that repressive strategies will not solve the drug problem, and that the war on drugs has not, and cannot, be won."

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War on drugs not working, says global commission

http://www.guardian.co.uk

Instead of punishing users who the report says "do no harm to others", the commission argues that governments should end criminalisation of drug use, experiment with legal models that would undermine organised crime syndicates and offer health and treatment services for drug-users in need.

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Global war on drugs has 'failed' say former leaders

http://www.bbc.co.uk

The global war on drugs has "failed" according to a new report by group of politicians and former world leaders.

The Global Commission on Drug Policy report calls for the legalisation of some drugs and an end to the criminalisation of drug users.

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Superintendent Asks Gov. Snyder To Convert Schools Into Prisons

http://thinkprogress.org

Newsflash: Schools are already prisons.

Original Headline: Outraged By Cuts, Superintendent Asks Gov. Snyder To Convert Schools Into Prisons To Get More Funding

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Dutch government to ban tourists from cannabis shops

http://news.yahoo.com

The Dutch government on Friday said it would start banning tourists from buying cannabis from "coffee shops" and impose restrictions on Dutch customers by the end of the year.

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Government Forced NCI To Censor Medical Cannabis Facts

http://www.tokeofthetown.com

Newly obtained documents reveal not only how NCI database contributors arrived at their March 17 summary of marijuana's medical uses, but also the furious politicking that went into quickly scrubbing that summary of information regarding the potential tumor-fighting effects of cannabis.

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Medical marijuana legalization underway in Arkansas

http://www.naturalnews.com

Finally a real chance for a level of decrim in Arkansas. The Teapot party of Mountain Home has started their petition which needs 63000 signatures total from 15 counties.

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TSA dictating legislation to states with threats of no fly zones.

http://www.texastribune.org

The TSA is now dictating legislation to states with threats of no fly zones, remember this if you had hopes for state governments reinforcing liberty.

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Medved Attack: "Ron Paul, Hookers, and Heroin"

http://news.yahoo.com

How would you describe a perennial presidential candidate who insists in a televised debate that government has no more right to interfere with prostitution or heroin than it does to limit people’s right to “practice their religion and say their prayers”?
The phrase “crackpot” comes immediately to mind—and in any contemporary political dictionary that term would appear alongside a photograph of Congressman Ron Paul....

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CDC Warns Public to Prepare for 'Zombie Apocalypse

http://www.foxnews.com

re you prepared for the impending zombie invasion?

That's the question posed by the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention in a Monday blog posting gruesomely titled, "Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse." And while it's no joke, CDC officials say it's all about emergency preparation.

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NRA helps to kill self defense legislation in NH

http://www.pgnh.org

The NRA is up to it's old tricks again as it helps to maintain draconian anti self defense laws and kill new legislation that would help deter crime and improve basic human rights of self protection in the face of government legislation.

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Supreme Court Rules: Cops Need NO WARRANT To Enter

http://www.latimes.com

"What Fourth Amendment?" In an 8-1 ruling today, the US Supreme Court upheld the legality of evidence obtained by police breaking down the door to an apartment--not because they saw suspect they were pursuing dash behind it, but because they smelled marijuana smoke and heard the sound of a flushing toilet. To add insult to injustice, their original suspect was in a different apartment.

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$835 parking ticket

http://www.k5thehometeam.com

When this town says "No Parking on the Grass" they really mean it.

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