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THE VIDEO THAT THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE. THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW ABOUT THIS VIDEO. THIS IS THE WIKILEAKS UFO FOOTAGE THAT WAS BANNED FROM THE PUBLIC EYE!
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
HEY FED, TAKE NOTE! - Philadelphia Saves $2 Million By Not Prosecuting Pot Smokers - The Consumerist
Just over a year ago, the powers that be in Philadelphia effectively decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana by offering offenders the chance to enroll in a three-hour class that would expunge the offense from their records. Not only did this give Philadelphia police more time and energy to focus on more serious crimes, it has also saved the city a pretty sizable Ziploc bag of green stuff.
"We were spending thousands of dollars for when someone possessed $10 or $15 worth of weed," District Attorney Seth Williams tells the Philadelphia Daily News. "It just didn't make any sense."
Under the program, being caught with up to 30 grams of marijuana is no longer a misdemeanor but a summary offense. By simply paying $200 to attend the three-hour class on the ills of drug use and abuse, the arrestee's record is wiped clean of the offense.
Before this change, offenders faced up to $500 in fines and possible, though unlikely jail time. If the suspect fought the charges, this meant expenses for the city — prosecutors, judges, lab tests, public defenders, etc. By all but decriminalizing pot, Williams estimates that the city has saved $2 million in the last 12 months.
Additionally, police tell the News that there has been no noticeable impact on the quality of life in Philadelphia since the program went into effect.
Looking at the bigger picture, DA Williams says the current way most U.S. authorities treat drug possession is shortsighted.
"I can put someone in jail for 90 days because they possess crack. But if we don't get them the help they need for their addiction, when they get out of jail, they're just going to be a 90-day-older crack addict," he explains. "We have to treat drug addiction as a public-health problem, not just a criminal-justice problem."
D.A.: Philly's new pot policy just makes sense ... and saves dollars [Philadelphia Daily News]
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Woman Faces Jail Time For Growing Veggies In Front Yard
Who knew a Victory Garden could have you facing defeat? A Michigan woman is looking at the prospect of 93 days in jail because she planted vegetables in planters in her front yard and refused to abide by the town elders' interpretation of the planning code, WJBX reports.
The town ordinance says that front yards have to be planted with "suitable, live, plant material." The woman feels it qualifies.
"It's definitely live. It's definitely plant. It's definitely material. We think it's suitable," she told FOX.
The city planners say that her garden doesn't count. "If you look at the definition of what suitable is in Webster's dictionary, it will say common," Oak Park City Planner Kevin Rulkowski told FOX. "So, if you look around and you look in any other community, what's common to a front yard is a nice, grass yard with beautiful trees and bushes and flowers."
However, in looking up "suitable" on Merriam-Webster.com, neither the word "common" nor any word approximating it appears in the definition.
First they gave her a wanring, then a ticket, and now she faces a misdemeanor for violating the City of Oak Park's planning code. A pretrial hearing is scheduled for July 26.
Obviously the thing to do is change around what is "common." All the neighbors in her area should show their support and start their own gardens in their front yards. If enough people join in, then the city will have to start going around fining people who only plant those "weird" grass and bushes in their yard.
Oak Park Woman Faces 93-Days in Jail For Planting Vegetable Garden [MyFOXDetroit] (Thanks to everyone who sent this in!)
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Rob picked up on this the other day... here's more info.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
NEW DIALOGUE! | The Crisis Club Dialogue Part 4 - The Independence Day Spectacular! | The Crisis Club
1-708-CRISIS1 – Opinions & Thoughts welcomed
DIALOGUE #3 – The Independence Day Spectacular!
The following is a list of music that went into the production of this episode of The Crisis Club Dialogue:
- United States National Anthem (The Star Spangled Banner)
- The Slouk – Juanitos
- Simply Bootieful – Ex-friendly
- I Don’t Wanna Live In The City No More (Live @ KEXP) – Whalebones
- Drive It Like You Stole It – The Glitch Mob
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
The White House LIVE
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I'm going to amuse myself with this farcical display of fetted tweets... My prediction: Not a single honest to goodness question from a NON Clinton Techno Expert. Subsequently all BOGUS!
Saturday, July 2, 2011
HELP FUEL ILLEGAL WARS! - Clinton’s ‘Tech Camp’ Teaches Activists Web Savvy, Subversion
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. companies including Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) are teaming up to teach activists how to protect themselves from official harassment as they use social media to organize protests.
“We have to be willing to keep coming up with new ways of getting over, under, around and through the walls and other techniques that are used to prevent people from freely communicating,” Clinton said yesterday at a training session in Vilnius, Lithuania, for about 80 activists.
Clinton visited the training session, which her department calls “Tech Camp,” as part of a three-day trip to Hungary and Lithuania, where she attended a meeting of the Community of Democracies, a group of more than 100 nations that work to promote freedom.
Her broader goal has been to use the example of the protests sweeping the Middle East to reinforce the message that open government and Internet freedom benefit societies and economies the world over.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s technology adviser was there to coach participants, along with executives from San Francisco-based Twitter Inc., Palo Alto, California-based Facebook Inc., Microsoft and Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies SA.
Internet Freedom
Ensuring Internet freedom so activists can use social media sites such as Twitter to organize and communicate safely is “one of the highest priorities during my time as secretary of state,” Clinton said yesterday.
The State Department has spent about $50 million to teach activists how to circumvent firewalls and protect themselves in repressive nations, said an administration official who wasn’t authorized to speak on the record. The Vilnius technology camp is the third they’ve held since December 2010, after sessions in Santiago, Chile, and Jakarta, Indonesia.
The gray-paneled conference room where Clinton spoke was crowded with activists from 22 different countries, their chairs two rows deep along the walls in some places. Most were from Eastern Europe. The 20 trainers came from France, the U.S., Kenya and the UK.
Alec Ross, Clinton’s senior adviser for innovation, said one of the trainers’ goals is to teach activists to do their online work more securely. One activist said he attended the U.S.-backed technology camp in Lithuania to learn how to keep his group safe online when it uses social media to organize protests in Belarus. He requested anonymity because he heads an organization that hasn’t been officially registered, a crime punishable by six months to two years in jail in the Republic of Belarus.
Crushing Protests
Belarus President Alexandr Lukashenko has used force to crush post-election demonstrations that began in December and jailed seven of nine candidates who ran against him. Clinton, speaking in Vilnius today, said Lukashenko’s regime “brutally represses the human rights of its citizens.”
During the first of two eleven-hour days at the technology camp, the activist and his colleagues broke into groups to identify challenges.
Among the issues discussed were what to do when a government drowns out Twitter alerts with a flood of messages carrying a group’s special identifying mark, or “hashtag,” as Syria has done. Other questions raised were how to connect social activist groups within a country, how to create real-time maps of events during a crisis and how to communicate in a difficult environment.
On the second day, the groups worked on the problems and presented solutions they had found with their trainers.
Internet Companies
Ross said having Internet company representatives present allows them to understand the difficulties activists encounter on the ground.
“You can’t take for granted in San Francisco people are going to understand what to them might be low-level traffic over a hashtag, but which to people in a small country might be flooding a hashtag,” Ross said.
The group working on that question couldn’t find a good answer. In response, the Twitter representative said his company would work on ways to screen spam, Ross said.
Clinton met with civil society groups from Kenya to Cambodia during her trip, touted the ‘Tech Camp’ and announced help for non-profit groups threatened by their governments. Clinton also urged established democracies to assist countries such as Libya and Egypt that are trying to make the transition.
Tunisia, Moldova
Clinton praised the Community of Democracies’ new “Democracy Partnership Challenge.” That program will pair emerging democracies -- Tunisia and Moldova this year -- with more established ones to provide advice on issues such as holding elections and building an independent judiciary.
The Community of Democracies has also set up a “Lifeline” funding mechanism to help groups that are coming under pressure from their governments, she said. The $12 million dollar fund can be used to help activists who might be injured or jailed in the course of their work, said the administration official.
Clinton told the activists yesterday they were part of “a global movement” and urged them “to create solidarity with each other in order to maximize your impact.” As the two-day camp ended, one of the working groups announced they would gather e-mail addresses to test and share with their fellow participants new ways to get around Internet firewalls.
The Belorussian and a compatriot said the experience had given them a sense of comfort as they return to deal with what they called the daily threat of life and work in their country.
via bloomberg.com
Friday, July 1, 2011
DIALOGUE #3 | The Crisis Club Dialogue Part 3 - The Analysis Paralysis | The Crisis Club
1-708-CRISIS1 – Opinions & Thoughts welcomedDIALOGUE #3 – The Analysis ParalysisHere are the music tracks that went into the production of what is The CRISIS CLUB DIALOGUE Prt.3:
- Prohibition Is A Failure (Live @ KEXP) – John Cohen and the Dust Busters
- Drug – White Denim
*Please Share! Thanks!Keywords: The Crisis Club Dialogues, The Crisis Club, Crisis Club, Episode #3, skeptic, conspiracy theory, Eric Thomas Podcast, 911 Conspiracy, Josh Carter
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