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- Amazon Will Go Along with Internet Sales Tax After All
- Levin: Dodd-Frank Critics Protecting Wall Street
- FOIA lawsuit reveals FBI collecting biometric information for massive interagency database
- Newest Army Weapon to Thwart Bombs: Paintball Guns
- US researchers and pharmaceutical companies conducting human experimentation in Africa
- Paul says he wasn’t trying to embarrass Perry
- Jury decides: Who owns “Tea Party Patriots”–battle over IP, Trademark Rights
| Amazon Will Go Along with Internet Sales Tax After All Posted: 12 Nov 2011 06:55 PM PST
Just a few months ago, the giant retailer was filing lawsuits and dropping affiliates to combat states trying to charge online sales tax. Now, Amazon is on board. As states have struggled to find new tax revenues over the past couple of deficit years, many have sought to levy sales tax on online transactions. In most cases, the sales tax is not charged when you buy online; while most state laws require online shoppers to declare purchases and pay a “use tax” on goods at the end of the year, almost no one does. And when states tried to force retailers like Amazon to make the tax collections, they were met with determined resistance. Amazon dropped local affiliates in Connecticut, Illinois and elsewhere this year, to protest attempts to impose the sales tax, which were justified legally because the company had a physical connection to the those states. In California, the company threatened to overturn a similar provision in a voter referendum, and also went to court. (The Street has a handy map of the states in which Amazon was fighting sales tax battles.) But now, the Los Angeles Times reports, the company is signing on to a bipartisan federal bill that will clear the way for states to more easily charge sales tax for online commerce, erasing an advantage online businesses had over brick-and-mortar competitors, and speeding a new revenue stream to cash-strapped governments without having to get a cent of new spending through a clogged Congress. To read more, visit: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2011/11/amazon-will-go-along-internet-sales-tax-after-all/44916/ |
| Levin: Dodd-Frank Critics Protecting Wall Street Posted: 12 Nov 2011 06:54 PM PST By Roxana Tiron – Bloomberg.com The candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination favor repeal of Congress's Dodd-Frank financial regulation overhaul to "protect the status quo" on Wall Street, U.S. Senator Carl Levin of Michigan said. "They're not willing to take on Wall Street," Levin, a Democrat, said in an interview on "Political Capital with Al Hunt" airing on Bloomberg Television this weekend. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, has called the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, enacted last year, a "killer" of small banks. The repeal of Dodd-Frank also has the support of U.S. Senate Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. To read more, visit: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-11/republican-candidates-want-to-protect-wall-street-levin-says.html |
| FOIA lawsuit reveals FBI collecting biometric information for massive interagency database Posted: 12 Nov 2011 06:51 PM PST By Madison Ruppert, Infowars.com Big Brother is on the march in the United States and as I have previously shown, once one delves into the depths of this system it is nothing short of astounding to the point where Orwell wouldn't even believe it was possible. Previously my articles have focused mostly on the Department of Homeland Security's role in this and how their programs are criminalizing Americans who have done absolutely nothing wrong while eroding our freedoms and liberties to a dangerous degree. However, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights along with the National Day Labor Organizing Network and the Benjamin Cardozo Immigrant Justice Clinic, it has now emerged that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is an equally large player in the high-tech police state in which we find ourselves. An article by Sunita Patel and Scott Paltrowitz on CommonDreams points out, "Big Brother is already upon us." This is a point that I attempt to make at every possible juncture as it is crucial for Americans to realize that an Orwellian high-tech police state is not something on the distant horizon but something in which we already live. The documents obtained reveal that the FBI "views massive biometric information collection as a goal in itself" as a part of the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system. To read more, visit: http://www.infowars.com/foia-lawsuit-reveals-fbi-collecting-biometric-information-for-massive-interagency-database/ |
| Newest Army Weapon to Thwart Bombs: Paintball Guns Posted: 12 Nov 2011 06:48 PM PST By Adam Rawnsley, Wired You're a soldier on patrol in Afghanistan. Walking down the road, you spot a strange object far away, sticking out off to the side. Is it a bomb? How should you even check? If the Army's latest research project pans out, you might just whip out your paintball gun. On Wednesday, the Army announced that it's in the market for a paintball system that can detect the presence and type of different explosives. The system would work by loading up projectiles with materials that advertise the presence of explosives — sort of like a litmus test for bombs — and firing them at the suspected bombs. Picture paintballing, but with a target that might really kill you. It's another foray into the field of bomb-hunting technology. Over the past few years, scientists have developed a range of weird and wonderful ways to sniff out the things that go boom, from explosives-sensitive plants to dynamite-detecting bee venom. But for maximum safety, it's always nice to figure out if that package or object is a bomb when you're not close enough to be blown apart by it. That's standoff explosive detection, a field the Defense Department has shown great interest in as terrorists and insurgents have become better and more frequent users of improvised explosive devices. The Pentagon has put cash into a number of different approaches, using lasers and terahertz radiation to find traces of explosive material. The paintball idea is comparatively low-tech. The Army notes that the technology to detect explosives with paints and powders is already a commercial reality. They point to Raptor Detection Technology's SAFE-T Spray, which turns orange on contact with certain explosives, as an example. To read more, visit: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/army-bombs-paintball/ |
| US researchers and pharmaceutical companies conducting human experimentation in Africa Posted: 12 Nov 2011 06:23 PM PST
A new policy brief faults prominent institutions and drug companies like Pfizer, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and Population Council, for their involvement in unethical and illegal human experimentation in Africa. The report is titled "Non-Consensual Research in Africa: The Outsourcing of Tuskegee" in reference to the illegal human experiment conducted in Tuskegee, Alabama, between 1932 and 1972 by the US Public Health Service. In that experiment, some 600 impoverished African-American men were observed in a study on the progression of untreated syphilis. Some of the men were intentionally infected with the disease and all of them were denied the cure. Regrettably, the report notes, no one was held accountable for this crime against humanity. The new report details human experiments led by US researchers and drug companies on Africans who are typically undereducated, poor, and lack full understanding of their rights. The human subjects often are led to believe that they are receiving medical treatment from governmental health services or health ministries. These practices hearken back to the appalling experiments carried out by US researchers in Guatemala in the 1940s where hundreds of Guatemalans were deliberately infected with sexually transmitted diseases without information or consent. President Obama formally apologized to Guatemala for these experiments last year. To read more, visit: http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=4283#.Tr8pWkOAo8n |
| Paul says he wasn’t trying to embarrass Perry Posted: 12 Nov 2011 06:19 PM PST By JIM DAVENPORT, Associated Press SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Ron Paul said he didn’t mean to embarrass fellow Texan Rick Perry when Perry forgot, during a debate, one of the three federal agencies he wants to abolish. Paul held up five fingers as Perry groped for words, and the video has been viewed thousands of times online since Wednesday’s Republican debate. Paul, a Texas congressman, said in an interview Saturday with The Associated Press that he wasn’t piling on and that Perry had “a human reaction.” Paul said he was trying to bring up his own proposal to abolish five federal agencies. “But when he talked about three departments, the thing that flashed through my mind was, ‘But I’m for five.’ That’s why I held up five fingers. Only three?” Paul said. Paul has heaped plenty of criticism on Perry, the Texas governor, and did so again during Wednesday’s debate. But Paul said he offered sympathy as the candidates left the stage. To read more, visit: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jdCSmjlK2VKpok_QJw3J6UioZbqg?docId=f78cbd6d6e814bb999a2634bb41ecc04 |
| Jury decides: Who owns “Tea Party Patriots”–battle over IP, Trademark Rights Posted: 12 Nov 2011 06:17 PM PST By Stella Lohmann, Renew America A Cobb County jury holds the fate of who controls and owns the rights to the “Tea Party Patriots” name in a trial between two recognized figures within the two and a half year old Tea Party Movement. At odds are two founders of Tea Party Patriots organization — Roswell, GA resident, Amy Kremer (currently Chairman of Tea Party Express), and TPP President, Jenny Beth Martin, of Kennesaw, GA — co-workers after CNBC reporter, Rick Santelli called for ‘a tea party’ in protest to a pending stimulus bill by President Barak Obama and Congress in February of 2009. The Woodstock-based Tea Party Patriots Inc. alleges that Amy Kremer, who lives in the Roswell area of Cobb, wrongly retained control of the group’s email list and intellectual property, including its trademark name and websites, after she was removed as a member of the group’s board of directors in September 2009. — Marietta Daily Journal. Both sides are suing for punitive damages and attorney fees. Now more than two and half years after the two women began working on tea parties together, Kremer sat on the witness stand telling her side of why in September following the 9/12 March on Washington that drew an estimated 1.2 million at the Capitol she was ‘kicked off a board that I never agreed to be a part of.” “I was ‘set up’ by Martin and other initial organizers: Mark Meckler, a lawyer from Sacramento, CA; Rob Neppell who Kremer says became involved by ‘default’ when another initial organizer Michael Patrick Leahy of TCOT (Top Conservatives on Twitter), recommended Neppell’s technical involvement; and legal counsel, Doug Chalmers, a political law attorney from Atlanta suggested by Martin in May of 2009. To read more, visit: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/lohmann/111111 |
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