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Egregious prosecutorial corruption in the Bundy trial led to a mistrial.

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Bundy mistrial declared.

Zoo owner with guns thwarts bogus inspection.

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Despite acquittal, Bundy brother still held in jail.

Police arrest 141 North Dakota protesters.

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FBI found not 1,000, but tens of thousands of emails on Abedin's and Weiner's pc. Comey broke tradition to re-investigate Clinton. Abedin caught lying about giving up all devices and archiving emails. Abedin disappears from campaign.

Teen accidentally launches DDoS attack on 911 service.

Jury acquits Ammon Bundy and associates. Better story.

"Most startling of all were the undercover government informants that were revealed in the trial.  After weeks of wrangling and arguing with defense lawyers, the Justice Department finally stipulated that at least nine undercover informants were planted among the Refuge occupiers.  Thus, informants outnumbered the defendants on trial.   One informant was even a “bodyguard” for Ammon Bundy and drove him to his arrest.  Another informant admitted he trained occupiers in shooting and combat skills."

This is how the FBI radicalizes people.

How the modern police state persecutes dissenters like the Bundys.

"The trial has revealed an astounding brave new world of modern surveillance and surreptitious “law enforcement” techniques.  Drones flew over and recorded much of what went on. FBI agents captured and monitored every phone number connected between every participant.  A search warrant after the fact gave the government permission to surf through 36 Laptops, smartphones, flash drives and other devices to build the government’s case.  The FBI turned the analysis of Facebook likes, dislikes, messages, and posts into a science, with multiple agents assigned to that social media alone.Outside the Refuge, FBI, Oregon State Police, and other law enforcement agencies swarmed over the countryside.   Government snipers appeared on local rooftops.  Barricades and barbed wire were erected to protect the school and courthouse from the alleged militia danger.  Undercover FBI agents dressed as redneck militia members roamed through local stores and menaced the streets. "

"For days, Marcus Mumford (attorney for Ammon Bundy) demanded more information about the extent of undercover informants.  Mumford pointed to the fact that the defendants were charged with conspiracy, and no one can be convicted of conspiring with undercover government agents.  (The trial was filled with unanswered questions about who brought and left ammunition and guns, who damaged property, and why some people but not others were charged.)Finally the Justice Department stipulated (without naming any names) that at least nine occupiers were undercover informants; a number greater than the number of defendants on trial.  (Heavily redacted documents in the hands of the defense suggest the number of informants was actually at least 15.)"

This will become commonplace.

One surveillance camera for every Briton. It will get worse, not better.

Creative feds for everybody in building to unlock phones.

We are ruled by the deep state.

Economy

Phony jobs report.

"Last Friday saw the release of a bombshell jobs report, with headlines exclaiming that the US economy added over 250,000 jobs in July, far in excess of any forecasts. The reality was far more grim. Those “jobs” weren't actually created by businesses – they were created by the statisticians who compiled the numbers, through the process of “seasonal adjustment.” That's a bit of statistical magic that the government likes to pull out of its hat when the real data isn't very flattering. It's done with GDP, it's done with job numbers, and similar manipulation is done with government inflation figures to keep them lower than actual price increases. In reality there are a million fewer people with jobs this month than last month, but the magic of seasonal adjustment turns that into a gain of 255,000."

Nice.

The bad economy hurts young workers most.

The rising price of burritos illustrates real inflation.

Socialism

Fresh from killing a protester in Oregon, BLM starts another land battle.

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More on Assange's victory at the UN.

FBI arrests Cliven Bundy, who recently held off BLM and FBI officials and whose son led the Oregon protest and was recently arrested.

The whole point of the IoT is spying.

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Oregon protesters surrender under threat.

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This plan to colonize the moon in crazy because governments have no prices to guide them.

In a bid to boost government control of the internet, the World Bank claims it may boost inequality.

The market, not government, should determine the best use of land.

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A more balanced analysis of the conflicts surrounding grazing on federal lands shows ranchers enjoy great subsidies while suffering government coercion in return. Property rights is the solution.

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One motive for BLM's land grabs against ranchers as in Oregon.

"These family farms will go under; will be absorbed into the federal government’s national parks project. Eventually, the cattle rancher will go the way of the practitioner of free-market medicine: extinct. Should these families be driven to extinction qua farmers, where will liberals (I include “naysayer” conservatives) get their “local,” organic, grass-fed beef? Where will said beef be raised once America’s frontier men and women have been driven off the land of their ancestors?"

Big Ag wins.

Resisting BLM is not terrorism. More.

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Government's war against cowboys.

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BLM trying to steal land from Texas rancher.

Immigration

Obama to declare a bunch of land on the New Mexico-Mexico border as a national monument.

"The Obama administration is set to designate a 600,000 acre national monument in south-central New Mexico to be managed and controlled by the Bureau of Land Management, a federal agency. The designated land will be called the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, and environmentalists have long-sought the designation.
Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop, the chairman of a key subcommittee, blasted the plan in a letter Monday, saying it would allow the region to become an unfettered drug corridoor."

Obama doesn't care.

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Former NSA director explains why Americans should be scared the government collects their metadata.

"We kill people based on metadata."

That's scary enough for me.

"On May 7, the House Judiciary Committee voted 32-0 to adopt an amended form of the USA Freedom Act, a bill to rein in NSA spying on Americans, initially proposed by Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy and Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner. On May 8, the House Intelligence Committee, which has until now opposed any real reform of the NSA, also unanimously approved the same bill. And the Obama administration has welcomed the development. For some, no doubt, the very fact that this bill has attracted such broad bipartisan approval will be grounds for suspicion."

Exactly. This bill changes nothing, or it wouldn't pass. Maybe the more important fact is NSA must support this bill, or it would blackmail representatives to vote against it.

The NSA is still out to get you.

""Above all, NSA feels a sense of responsibility," she told interviewer Vago Muradian.  She sounded earnest and everything about her look and gestures suggested penitence.  She talked of understanding and appreciating people’s "concerns" and skated to the very brink of apology more than once.  Was she there to ask for forgiveness?  To admit the NSA had violated the public trust?  To offer up the first evidence of soul-searching at an agency that has, for years, spied upon the most intimate communications of untold numbers of people?
In a word: no."

Of course not.

The market is rapidly adapting to promote privacy in the face of ubiquitous surveillance, including this paper mask.

Protesters ride ATVs down county road claimed by BLM in act of civil disobedience.

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Imprisoned cannibal cook gets job as prison chef.

Militia leave Bundy ranch to protest BLM in Utah, allowing the feds to massacre the Bundys. They couldn't stay there forever.

Government exists to seize the property of others - taxes, duh - but people are suddenly alarmed about that.

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Former NSA agents are starting businesses all over.

"The constant back-and-forth of employees and contractors to the NSA and the private sector and back to the agency is of enormous benefit to the NSA. It is one way to get a sense of what others in the private tech sector are building and doing."

And it gives them tons of back doors.

"Much has changed since the 1950s, Bamford said, and pointed to three of the NSA’s most recent colossal failures: the inability to detect “Underwear Bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in 2009; Pakistani Times Square bomber Faisal Shahahzad in 2010; and the bombing of the 2013 Boston Marathon by two terrorists from Dagestan, one of whom was killed by Boston-area cops.

“The NSA is focused on what [ex-NSA Director] Gen. Keith Alexander called ‘collect everything,’” Bamford said. “You can’t possibly have the ability to analyze it all.”"

Exactly.

Bundy family and supporters file criminal complaints against BLM agents with local sheriff.

Background on BLM.

Confusion over BLM claims in Texas.

While most companies are trying to increase data security, Apple removes encryption from email attachments. NSA thanks Apple.

Company swears cops to silence before allowing access to its license plate location database. Like that will work.

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Pennsylvania police can search vehicles without search warrant. A court ruled this even though nothing changed to make it so.

Snowdens says the NSA spies more on Americans than anybody else in the world. Of course. Foreigners are no threat to the government.

BLM has a long history of stealing people's cattle.

"That morning, a government official from the Bureau of Land Management told him to come down to a seizure site where the 132 cattle he owned were about to be impounded.

When he arrived, men brandishing handguns told him he couldn't get any closer than 250 yards from his cattle. He watched from a distance as the government loaded the livestock onto stock trailers.

Within a week, the cattle had been sold at a private auction – for what Yowell estimated to be a quarter of their market price. The proceeds belonged to BLM, officials told him, paying a portion of the grazing fees he suddenly owed. It wasn't enough to cover the full debt, and BLM sent Yowell a bill for $180,000."

I like the "suddenly owed" part.

"In 1994, Clinton Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt rushed through a total overhaul of cattle and sheep grazing regulations on over 260 million acres of land that was managed by the BLM and Agriculture Department's U.S. Forest Service, The Washington Post reported. "

I remember the uproar in the west over this.

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Deeper analysis of the Bundy Ranch dispute against BLM.

Sometimes FBI patsies are busted.

Long after the Dayton public, DCP and I shot down local airplane surveillance company, Compton, L.A. is trying to do the same.

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New facial recognition algorithm beats humans.

The oversized border protection police state.

"Our borders have, conveniently enough, long been Constitution-free zones where more or less anything goes, including warrantless searches of various sorts. In the twenty-first century, however, the border itself, north as well as south, has not only been increasingly up-armored, but redefined as a 100-mile-wide strip around the United States (and Alaska). In other words – check that map again – our “borders” now cover an expanse in which nearly 200 million Americans, or two-thirds of the U.S. population, live. Included are nine of the 10 largest metropolitan areas. If you live in Florida, Maine, or Michigan, for example, no matter how far inland you may be, you are “on the border.”
Imagine that. And then imagine what it means. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as Todd Miller points out today, is not only the largest law enforcement agency in the country you know next to nothing about, but the largest, flat and simple. Now, its agents can act as if the Constitution has been put to bed up to 100 miles inland anywhere. This, in turn, means – as the ACLU has written – that at new checkpoints and elsewhere in areas no American would once have considered borderlands, you can be stopped, interrogated, and searched “on an everyday basis with absolutely no suspicion of wrongdoing.”"

This is crazy.

Sore losers call SWAT teams on winners.

Obama's cops want parents to snitch on children. And vice-versa, I'm sure.

All of New England is smaller than federal land in Nevada.

Of course militia groups, especially those at Bundy Ranch, have been infiltrated by the feds.