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    by Published on 02-05-2014 10:49 PM

    http://www.mynews4.com/news/local/st...TUzmepwBw.cspx

    WINNEMUCCA, Nev. (MyNews4.com & KRNV) -- Imagine getting pulled over for a traffic stop, and instead of getting a ticket, the officer takes your money. All of it.

    It happened to one man recently, who was driving on Interstate 80 through Northern Nevada. Now, he is fighting back.

    It's a case that focuses on our rights: Can law enforcement take your money or property, even if you are not charged with a crime?

    The driver was Tan Nguyen of California. He has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office and District Attorney. His attorney, John Ohlson said, "The basis of the stop was he was going 78 in a 75. The stop ended in a search, and the deputy took $50,000 from my client that belonged to him."

    Nguyen was not arrested. He was not charged with any crime. But Humboldt County Sergeant Lee Dove decided to confiscate a bundle of cash Nguyen happened to be carrying: $50,000 worth. Sergeant Dove even posed for a photo after seizing the cash.
    Does "Due Process of Law" even ring a bell anymore?
    by Published on 02-05-2014 08:17 PM

    Florida says mom must prove her dying son can't take standardized test
    http://rt.com/usa/dying-son-standard...t-florida-756/

    Standardized testing has become something of an obsession in the United States, but Florida’s mandate is under heavy fire while the state attempts to force a disabled, dying boy to complete an exam he is simply incapable of doing.

    Ethan Rediske, an 11-year-old Florida boy, is expected to pass away any day now. He was born with numerous ailments, including severe brain damage and cerebral palsy. He’s also blind.

    On top of these health issues, the Orlando Sentinel reports that his lungs are constantly filled with fluid these days, he’s in a morphine coma and all he can do is utter a sound every once in a while.

    Despite his current condition, Florida insisted that his mother Andrea provide even more evidence that her son is incapable of taking the standardized test that's adapted for disabled children and required by the state – as well as the US Department of Education.

    In a letter obtained by the Washington Post, Andrea Rediske reached out to the school board and to a journalist at the Sentinel hoping to spread the word about her son’s situation.

    “Apparently, my communication through [the teacher] that he was in hospice wasn’t enough [for the school district]: they required a letter from the hospice company to say that he was dying,” the letter reads. “Every day that she comes to visit, she is required to do paperwork to document his ‘progress.’ Seriously? Why is Ethan Rediske not meeting his 6th-grade hospital homebound curriculum requirements? BECAUSE HE IS IN A MORPHINE COMA. We expect him to go any day. He is tenaciously clinging to life.

    “This madness has got to stop. Please help us.”
    by Published on 02-03-2014 09:04 PM

    Failure is half of learning. Just as Sound is half of a Movie. If you don't have sound, its like having half a movie. Applied to Education, when a person fails at something, they are still learning. They are learning how not to do something. When Edison was working on the lightbulb, he tried many times and failed. But for each failure, he learned from the mistakes and experiments how not to make a lightbulb, which finally resulted in a creation of a lightbulb that does work. He could not have succeeded without first failing.

    In our Public Schools, failure is directly tied to Obedience and Esteem, not wisdom. The system itself withholds praise for those that fail, and does not teach children how to overcome those failures. When the student fails, they are not encouraged to learn from their mistakes and figure out what went wrong. They are taught that as soon as they fail at something, if they are actually interested, they need to look to figures of Authority to provide them with the right answer. Intellectual Dependency. Get it wrong, then ask Authority to not explain, just provide the desired answer.

    I've been called Liberal a couple of times for expressing unpopular conclusions. What I am not trying to say is to reward everyone for failing tests. I don't want to lower the standards. I think we just need to look at and examine the specific parts of Education itself to figure out where Education isn't working. So try not to think of Education as only occurring in a Public School environment. Do try to think about it as you teaching someone else how to do something where there are no certificates to be given or tests to be scored. For example, teaching an old lady how to check her email account.

    Are grades important? ....

    Continued in forum...
    by Published on 01-25-2014 10:23 PM

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-0...sh-withdrawals

    Following research last week suggesting that HSBC has a major capital shortfall, the fact that several farmer's co-ops were unable to pay back depositors in China, and, of course, the liquidity crisis in China itself, news from The BBC that HSBC is imposing restrictions on large cash withdrawals raising a number of red flags. The BBC reports that some HSBC customers have been prevented from withdrawing large amounts of cash because they could not provide evidence of why they wanted it. HSBC admitted it has not informed customers of the change in policy, which was implemented in November for their own good: "We ask our customers about the purpose of large cash withdrawals when they are unusual... the reason being we have an obligation to protect our customers, and to minimise the opportunity for financial crime." As one customer responded: "you shouldn't have to explain to your bank why you want that money. It's not theirs, it's yours."

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    by Published on 01-24-2014 06:42 AM

    http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/bl...sage-ever-sent

    “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”


    Ukraine's protests, now under cellphone surveillance. Image: Wikimedia

    That's a text message that thousands of Ukrainian protesters spontaneously received on their cell phones today, as a new law prohibiting public demonstrations went into effect. It was the regime's police force, sending protesters the perfectly dystopian text message to accompany the newly minted, perfectly dystopian legislation. In fact, it's downright Orwellian (and I hate that adjective, and only use it when absolutely necessary, I swear).

    But that's what this is: it's technology employed to detect noncompliance, to hone in on dissent. The NY Times reports that the "Ukrainian government used telephone technology to pinpoint the locations of cell phones in use near clashes between riot police officers and protesters early on Tuesday." Near. Using a cell phone near a clash lands you on the regime's hit list.

    See, Kiev is tearing itself to shreds right now, but since we're kind of burned out on protests, riots, and revolutions at the moment, it's being treated as below-the-fold news. Somehow, the fact that over a million people are marching, camping out, and battling with Ukraine's increasingly authoritarian government is barely making a ripple behind such blockbuster news bits as bridge closures and polar vortexes. Yes, even though protesters are literally building catapaults and wearing medieval armor and manning flaming dump trucks.
    Yes, this is in the Ukraine. They're just following our example. But they have the decency to let their people know, our govt does not.
    by Published on 01-22-2014 05:06 PM

    http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/0...ment-plummets/

    Only 37 percent of college-educated adults say they trust US politicians, down 16 percent compared to the previous year, the survey by the Edelman Berland research firm found.

    One reason for dramatic decline in Americans’ trust is due to the government’s inability to fix the economy, said Richard Edelman, head of US public relations firm Edelman, which commissioned the study.

    "In 2008 and 2009, it was a case of government to the rescue and everybody said government saved the day. That raised expectations - but then you get crushed," he told Reuters.
    A 16% drop in a year is huge by anyones standards. But then again, what do you expect when your Govt behaves in a manner that indicates they are NOT Trustworthy?
    by Published on 01-22-2014 08:06 AM

    http://washingtonexaminer.com/wall-s...rticle/2542604

    Don't believe the happy talk coming out of the White House, Federal Reserve and Treasury Department when it comes to the real unemployment rate and the true “Misery Index.” Because, according to an influential Wall Street advisor, the figures are a fraud.

    In a memo to clients provided to Secrets, David John Marotta calculates the actual unemployment rate of those not working at a sky-high 37.2 percent, not the 6.7 percent advertised by the Fed, and the Misery Index at over 14, not the 8 claimed by the government.

    Marotta, who recently advised those worried about an imploding economy to get a gun, said that the government isn't being honest in how it calculates those out of the workforce or inflation, the two numbers used to get the Misery Index figure.
    Half Truths are Whole Lies
    by Published on 01-10-2014 10:43 AM

    http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1

    Ford’s Global VP/Marketing and Sales, Jim Farley, said something both sinister and obvious during a panel discussion about data privacy today at CES, the big electronics trade show in Las Vegas.

    Because of the GPS units installed in Ford vehicles, Ford knows when its drivers are speeding, and where they are while they’re doing it.

    Farley was trying to describe how much data Ford has on its customers, and illustrate the fact that the company uses very little of it in order to avoid raising privacy concerns: “We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you’re doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you’re doing. By the way, we don’t supply that data to anyone,” he told attendees.

    Rather, he said, he imagined a day when the data might be used anonymously and in aggregate to help other marketers with traffic related problems. Suppose a stadium is holding an event; knowing how much traffic is making its way toward the arena might help the venue change its parking lot resources accordingly, he said.
    by Published on 12-30-2013 09:07 PM

    http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/...on-of-the-year
    http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/c...onomy/4213953/

    "...But until a lone information-technology contractor named Edward Snowden leaked a trove of National Security Agency documents to the media this summer, we didn't know just how much we'd surrendered. Now that we do, our nation can have a healthy debate — out in the open, as a democracy should debate — about how good a bargain we got in that exchange. For facilitating that debate, at great risk to his own personal liberty, Snowden is this column's technology person of the year for 2013."
    by Published on 12-28-2013 05:39 PM

    http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/12...ans-98588.html

    WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) - The end of unemployment checks for more than a million people on Saturday is driving out-of-work Americans to consider selling cars, moving and taking minimum wage work after already slashing household budgets and pawning personal possessions to make ends meet.

    Greg and Barbara Chastain of Huntington Beach, Calif., put their two teenagers on the school lunch program and cut back on dining out after losing their T-shirt company in June following a dispute with an investor. They've exhausted their state unemployment benefits and now that the federal extensions are gone, unless they find jobs the couple plans take their children out of their high school in January and relocate 50 miles east where a relative owns property so they can save on rent

    "We could let one of our cars go, but then you can't get to work - it's a never-ending cycle," 43-year-old Greg Chastain said while accompanying his wife to an Orange County employment center. He said they eventually may try their luck in a less expensive state like Arizona or Texas if he can land a manufacturing job there.

    The end to the five-year program that extended benefits for the long-term jobless affected 1.3 million people immediately and will affect hundreds of thousands more who remain jobless in the months ahead.
    I have a strong suspicious feeling that we are about to receive a Half Truth News Report that says "Good News about the Economy" as Unemployment Rates have dropped. The Half Truth comes from the fact that the people who are Unemployed have NOT found any form of work what so ever. People are taught to only care about the "Official Number" which is how the Truth is twisted to become a Lie.
    by Published on 12-22-2013 07:22 PM

    A Senate committee released a report this week that goes to great lengths to determine all of the things that data brokers, the companies that trade in consumer data, don’t want to talk about. The 35-page report describes some of the companies’ strategies for collecting and organizing data, but significant portions of the report discuss what the companies are unwilling to talk about: namely, where they get a lot of their data and where that data is going.

    Companies covered in the report include well-known firms, like Datalogix and Acxiom, as well as credit reporting companies that also trade in consumer data, like Experian and TransUnion. In the report, the committee sets out to answer four questions: what data is collected, how specific it is, how it’s collected, and how it’s used. While the first two questions turned out to be reasonably easy to answer, the companies all but stonewalled the committee on substantial answers to the latter two.

    Report: in PDF format

    http://arstechnica.com/business/2013...lls-your-data/
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