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- To avoid N.Y. tax, tribes make, and sell, cigarettes
- Oil prices are rising, a gallon is now $3.65 nationally
- World Bank Wants Control Of The High Seas
- Forcing Defendant to Decrypt Hard Drive Is Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules
- Medscape offers doctors continuing education credits for reading CDC’s latest anti-raw milk propaganda
- Rand Paul says tea party and father still a factor
- Tea Party Patriots Leader Quits; Florida Leader Says He Sounded Like Obama
| To avoid N.Y. tax, tribes make, and sell, cigarettes Posted: 25 Feb 2012 03:07 AM PST By Thomas Kaplan / New York Times – BendBulletin.com ONEIDA, N.Y. — The trucks lumber past cornfields and dilapidated farm houses, pull up to a onetime bingo hall, and unload their cargo: boxes of tobacco imported from the Carolinas. Inside, employees of the Oneida Indian Nation dump the shredded tobacco leaves into rolling machines and fashion them into cigarettes to be sold at a dozen tribal convenience stores midway between Syracuse and Utica. The cigarettes, branded with names like Niagara's and Bishop, sell for as little as $39.95 for a 10-pack carton — much cheaper than those at non-Indian retailers — and bring in millions of dollars a year to the tribe, which also has a resort casino, five golf courses and a multimedia production house. "We tried poverty for 200 years," the Oneidas' leader, Ray Halbritter, said in an interview. "We decided to try something different." The Oneidas' cigarette manufacturing business is part of a new strategy that is quickly being embraced among New York's eight federally recognized Indian tribes. After years of fighting a losing battle against the state over the taxation of name-brand cigarettes sold on reservations, many are now manufacturing their own cigarettes. The tribes argue that because they are sovereign nations, the cigarettes they make are exempt from New York state's $4.35-a-pack excise tax, the highest in the United States. But the tobacco industry and owners of other convenience stores say tribal cigarette manufacturing is just an elaborate form of tax evasion. To read more, visit: http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120224/NEWS0107/202240402/1009/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 |
| Oil prices are rising, a gallon is now $3.65 nationally Posted: 25 Feb 2012 03:04 AM PST
NEW YORK — Oil prices are approaching last year’s highs as tensions increase over Iran’s nuclear program. The rise pushed gasoline prices on Friday to a national average of $3.65 per gallon, the highest ever for this time of year. Western nations fear Iran is building a nuclear weapon and have been trying to force it to open its facilities to inspection. Iran has refused, turning away international inspectors this week for the second time this month. The United Nations said Friday that Iran has responded to the recent scrutiny by speeding up production of higher-grade enriched uranium, feeding concerns that it is developing a bomb. As both sides dig in for a protracted standoff, investors are snapping up oil contracts in case fighting breaks out in the heart of the one of the world’s biggest oil-producing regions. “Everyone’s pricing in the potential for war now,” said independent analyst Stephen Schork. “Without a concrete resolution, nobody knows how high this can go.” Israel hasn’t ruled out an attack on Iran, and Iran has said it is ready to strike pre-emptively, possibly targeting the Strait of Hormuz, if it is threatened. The Persian Gulf passageway is a potential choke point for oil supplies. One-fifth of the world’s oil tankers pass through it every day. To read more, visit: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765554004/Oil-prices-are-rising-a-gallon-is-now-365-nationally.html |
| World Bank Wants Control Of The High Seas Posted: 25 Feb 2012 03:01 AM PST By Brandon Smith, Alt-Market – InfoWars.com As a proponent of legitimate free markets, I am always up for a little creative entrepreneurship. However, there is a considerable difference between building productive markets, and engaging in monopolistic piracy. Global conglomerates and the elites that operate them have long been familiar with the pirate's life, and not the fun filled adventure-time rope swinging swashbuckling brand. In fact, it was elitists like Sir Francis Drake, commissioned by the English monarchy, who embodied this disturbing covert bedlam. We're talking murder, mayhem, and blood-money, folks! So, it should be of no surprise to anyone that the thieving mercantile swine of our era are returning to the high seas to plunder once again, only in a much more subversive and devious manner. This past week, World Bank President Robert Zoellick made his organization's intentions for oceanic regimentation known, at least in a candy coated way, at the Economist World Oceans Summit in Singapore: Over the last several years, World Bank has seen fit to insinuate itself into the environmental movement as a "bastion" of green ideology. In reality, World Bank has long used the threats of environmental destabilization (some of them real, some of them fake) as tools for the centralization of resources into the hands of mega-corporations. In fact, if one was to attempt to sum up exactly what it is that World Bank actually does in a single phrase, it would probably be "resource domination". This domination is achieved through the strict lending guidelines that sovereign countries have to commit to in order to attain financing from the supranational entity. Like a greasy loan shark working for a hardboiled mob cartel, World Bank's M.O. is to lend large capital packages (made with money or credit created out of thin air) which the target country and its government obviously cannot afford to pay back. These loans often stipulate that the country relinquish control of its natural resources, the true wealth of the nation, over to international corporate bodies for "management". Through this process, World Bank removes competition from a market and hands designated companies (globalist front-companies) the keys to the kingdom. To read more, visit: http://www.infowars.com/world-bank-wants-control-of-the-high-seas/ |
| Forcing Defendant to Decrypt Hard Drive Is Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules Posted: 25 Feb 2012 02:58 AM PST By David Kravets, Wired.com Forcing a criminal suspect to decrypt hard drives so their contents can be used by prosecutors is a breach of the Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. It was the nation's first appellate court to issue such a finding. And the outcome comes a day after a different federal appeals court refused to entertain an appeal from another defendant ordered by a lower federal court to decrypt a hard drive by month's end. Thursday's decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that an encrypted hard drive is akin to a combination to a safe, and is off limits, because compelling the unlocking of either of them is the equivalent of forcing testimony. The case at hand concerns an unidentified "Doe" defendant believed to be in possession of child pornography on 5 terabytes of data on several drives and laptops seized in a California motel with valid court warrants. To read more, visit: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/laptop-decryption-unconstitutional/ |
| Posted: 25 Feb 2012 02:56 AM PST By: Jonathan Benson, Natural News Demand for raw milk is off the charts all across the country, which is presumably why the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conveniently decided to release a new raw milk hit-piece recently, which was carefully designed to scare people away from drinking it. Filled with lies, distortions, and blatant data manipulations, this so-called study is now being used as a propaganda tool to brainwash doctors, as Medscape, a popular information resource for physicians, is offering the medical community continuing education credits (CMEs) for reading the article and taking a short test. In case you missed it, Adam J. Langer from the CDC and several colleagues recently dredged up some data from between 1993 and 2006 that they used to claim that raw milk, also known as fresh milk, is 150 times more likely to cause a food-borne illness outbreak than pasteurized milk. As usual, the data was selectively cherry-picked, massaged, and deliberately crafted in such a way as to vilify raw milk and make it out to be a type of dangerous poison, all under the guise of science. But as has been pointed out by David E. Gumpert on his blog The Complete Patient, data from the CDC study when interpreted correctly actually shows that raw milk is responsible for a mere 0.5 percent of all food-borne illness outbreaks on average, the vast majority of which involve raw milk and raw milk products bootlegged from filthy factory farms. In reality, there are only between 25 and 175 reported illnesses every year that may be related to raw milk. To read more, visit: http://www.naturalnews.com/035064_raw_milk_propaganda_doctors.html |
| Rand Paul says tea party and father still a factor Posted: 25 Feb 2012 02:53 AM PST
ALEXANDRIA–U.S. Sen. Rand Paul looked out at the 200 people assembled in a gymnasium in Alexandria and said the tea party might play just as big of a role this election as it did two years ago. "I think you are being effective," Paul said. "The question I got nationally about the tea party is, they say it is not active like it was in 2010. Well I think that is still yet to be determined for 2012. This is a big crowd for the middle of the day to have out here. It is hard because we don't have a nominee on the Republican side yet, so it is hard for the tea party to coalesce." Paul, R-Bowling Green, on Friday spoke to tea party supporters in Alexandria and business leaders in Covington. While in town, he downplayed recent talk of him being a vice presidential candidate on Mitt Romney's ticket. No one has asked him, Paul said, but he's flattered people would consider him. Paul, however, has not given up hope his father, Ron Paul, will pick up enough delegates. "I'm still supporting that guy from Texas, Ron Paul. He's my no. 1 pick" Paul said. "Really, I think it has been undereported his number of delegates. We still may win \Iowa, Maine, Minnesota and Colorado, because delegates haven't been counted yet. When I said the other day I would be honored, I mean it in the sense that if you were nominated for an Academy Award, you would be honored to be nominated." At the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce's Government Forum in Covington, Paul spoke about how to fund the Brent Spence Bridge. Paul has advocated moving money from other areas, such as foreign aid and smaller transportation enhancements. Paul said he wanted to eliminate $2 billion of $30 billion in foreign aid but was voted down. Paul decried the aid spent on Egypt and Afghanistan. To read more, visit: http://cincinnati.com/blogs/nkypolitics/2012/02/24/rand-paul-says-tea-party-and-father-still-a-factor/ |
| Tea Party Patriots Leader Quits; Florida Leader Says He Sounded Like Obama Posted: 25 Feb 2012 02:51 AM PST BY KENRIC WARD’S | Sunshine State News Mark Meckler, a founder of the national Tea Party Patriots, resigned this week — and some Florida tea partiers are saying good riddance. Meckler’s resignation as national coordinator was accepted by the TPP board following “months of discussions and good-faith differences on how best TPP can serve the Tea Party movement,” the organization said in a statement Friday. “He felt it necessary to step aside and pursue other endeavors. We extend our best wishes to him. He has done many good things for the movement,” said TPP, which claims 3,400 locally organized chapters and more than 15 million supporters nationwide. But some rank-and-file tea activists weren’t so congenial about the parting. “It’s a shame, but not a shame that Mark resigned,” said Billie Tucker, head of the independent First Coast Tea Party, based in Jacksonville. “I think he should have done it a long time ago.” To read more, visit: http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/blog/tea-party-patriots-leader-quits-florida-leader-says-he-sounded-obama |
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