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Chicago police have released surveillance video they say shows tow truck drivers stealing cars on the streets of Chicago. Link
Read More »Arizona Vote To Contaminate Pristine Mountains with Treated Wastewater
And the state doesn’t monitor for antibiotic-resistant bacteria, ADEQ officials said Read more: http://azdailysun.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/panel-mixed-on-effluent-safety/article_edbbecff-56b0-5aae-ab44-7850a180b5bb.html#ixzz1h0aFPcsc Then November brought news of a University of Minnesota study finding one of the more advanced sewage treatment plants in the country was releasing material found in drug-resistant bacteria that can sometimes be fatal for people, including …
Read More »Committee OKs more than $3 million to settle police misconduct cases
By Hal Dardick, Chicago Tribune reporter December 13, 2011 A City Council committee Monday approved paying more than $3 million to settle two cases of alleged misconduct that, according to one key alderman, indicated “a troubling pattern” in Chicago Police Department lockups. Police and civilian detention aides were accused in …
Read More »Newt Gingrich: Selling Access
Four reporters may have saved pension abuse legislation
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, D-Orland Park, wants to gut a pension reform bill with new legislation friendly to union officials. (E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune / December 12, 2011) December 13, 2011 We don’t expect the perpetrators — a slew of Democrats in the Illinois House — to confess. But let’s …
Read More »US Special Forces Mass On Syrian Border
Troops airlifted out of Iraq to face Assad’s forces Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Following similar reports by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, Israeli intelligence sources confirm that US Special Forces are massing in Jordan on the Syrian border having been transferred from Iraq. On Sunday Edmonds reported that …
Read More »MPAA Head Chris Dodd on Online Censorship Bill: China’s the Model
5:31 PM, DEC 12, 2011 BY DANIEL HALPER Jen Rubin makes the case today that the anti-piracy bills pending in the House, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and Senate, the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), are likely unconstitutional. The bills essentially call for censorship of online speech in such …
Read More »Google chairman says online piracy bill would ‘criminalize’ the Internet
By Gautham Nagesh – 12/12/11 02:11 PM ET An online piracy bill in the House would “criminalize linking and the fundamental structure of the Internet itself,” according to Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Schmidt said the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would punish Web firms, including search engines, that …
Read More »Internet piracy bill: A free speech ‘kill switch’
By Bill Wilson, Americans for Limited Government – 12/12/11 10:14 AM ET What began as an attempt to restrain foreign piracy on the Internet has morphed into a domestic “kill switch” on First Amendment freedom in the fastest-growing corner of the marketplace of ideas. Proposed federal legislation purporting to protect …
Read More »Congress considers bill to censor Internet
Overkill on Internet piracy By Jennifer Rubin Over the weekend, First Amendment impresario Floyd Abrams addressed two controversial Internet piracy bills, the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the House version, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). He argued that the bill, designed to stop Internet theft of intellectual property, …
Read More »Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front
Unmanned aircraft from an Air Force base in North Dakota help local police with surveillance, raising questions that trouble privacy advocates. Link
Read More »Admiral Theatre Offers Lap Dances For Holiday Toy Donations
December 12, 2011 1:13 PM CHICAGO (CBS) — If you’re a stingy, Scroogey type at Christmas, the Admiral Theatre has an incentive for you to change your ways. Yes, that Admiral Theatre. Beginning Monday and continuing through Saturday, the Admiral is offering a free lap dance to anyone who donates …
Read More »SAVAGE OFFERS GINGRICH $1 MILLION TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE
(subject to all the terms and conditions to be expressly stated by dr. Savage, including gingrich dropping out within 72 hours of today) The republican presidential field has come down to two candidates who have a real chance of getting the nomination: newt gingrich and mitt romney. While it’s true …
Read More »The Origins of the Fed
Mises Daily: Friday, December 02, 2011 by Ron Paul The Federal Reserve cartelizes the banking industry, allowing individual banks to inflate together, earning them and the government enormous profits, while making sure that they are never held accountable for their fraudulent practices. The Federal Reserve Cartelizes the Banking Industry
Read More »Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
In celebration of the opening of Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977, the Art Institute will project Andy Warhol’s 1964 film Empire—a single, eight-hour-long nighttime take of the Empire State Building—from the museum’s Bluhm Family Terrace across Millennium Park to the upper stories of the Aon Center. Warhol’s …
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