Attorneys Representing Arrested Rioters Say Bail Too High

BALTIMORE (WJZ/AP) — Attorneys are challenging the arrest of over 230 people during this week’s violence and looting.
Governor Larry Hogan has temporarily suspended a rule, requiring suspects be presented to a judicial office promptly.

Many people, attorneys argue, have been held for more than 24 hours without being notified of any charges against them.
Attorneys are challenging the governor’s authority to suspend this rule.

They are also frustrated that suspects are being assigned bail they believe is exorbitant.
Many of those charged can’t pay it, and may spend months in jail awaiting trial.

More...http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/04/29/attorneys-representing-arrested-rioters-say-bail-too-high/

Baltimore Leaders Try to Curb Expectations Over a Pending Police Report

BALTIMORE — An edgy peace held sway here Wednesday as a huge crowd took to the streets again Wednesday night and the mayor and the police sought to tamp down expectations that residents would learn details on Friday about how a young black man died after being injured in police custody.

Fears ran high that the end of the week could return this city to the violence spurred by the still-unexplained death of the man, Freddie Gray, 25 — particularly if people think they will get answers, but do not. Speculation about the possible release of some or all of the findings has fueled expectations that the public will learn much more about the case that day.

More...http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/us/baltimore-riots.html

Prisoner in van said Freddie Gray was ‘banging against the walls’ during ride

 A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself,” according to an investigative document obtained by The Washington Post.

The prisoner, who is currently in jail, was separated from Gray by a metal partition and could not see him. His statement is contained in an application for a search warrant, which is sealed by the court. The Post was given the document under the condition that the prisoner not be named because the person who provided it feared for the inmate’s safety.

The document, written by a Baltimore police investigator, offers the first glimpse of what might have happened inside the van. It is not clear whether any additional evidence backs up the prisoner’s version.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/prisoner-in-van-said-freddie-gray-was-banging-against-the-walls-during-ride/2015/04/29/56d7da10-eec6-11e4-8666-a1d756d0218e_story.html?tid=hpModule_99d5f542-86a2-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394

How Hillary Clinton is running against parts of her husband’s legacy

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“We have allowed our criminal justice system to get out of balance,” Clinton told an audience at Columbia University in New York, making references to unrest in Baltimore and elsewhere following deaths at the hands of police. “And these recent tragedies should galvanize us to come together as a nation to find our balance again.”

The contrasts between some of Clinton’s positions and those of her husband from 20 years ago show the extent to which Democrats, and the country as a whole, have shifted to the left on a number of key issues. Indeed, Bill Clinton now says that some of his incarceration policies went too far and he regrets backing a federal law that defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

 The Clintons, right, wave to the media as their daughter, Chelsea, and son-in law, Marc Mezvinsky, pose for photographers with their newborn baby, Charlotte. (William Regan/Associated Press)
But the differences also illustrate the dicey challenges that Hillary Clinton will face in attempting to both embrace and keep separate from the 42nd president, who remains personally popular but whose 1990s positions on some issues, particularly in the social arena, now feel out of date.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-hillary-clinton-is-running-against-parts-of-her-husbands-legacy/2015/04/29/e34778ae-ee79-11e4-8abc-d6aa3bad79dd_story.html

At the end of October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to receive notice of their layoffs. Multiple conference rooms had been set aside for this purpose, and in each room an executive read from a script informing the worker that their last day would be Jan. 30, 2015.

Some workers left the rooms crying; others appeared shocked. This went on all day. As each employee received a call to go to a conference room, others in the office looked up sometimes with pained expressions. One IT worker recalls a co-worker mouthing "no" as he walked by on the way to a conference room.

What follows is a story of competing narratives about the restructuring of Disney's global IT operations of its parks and resorts division. But the focus is on the role of H-1B workers. Use of visa workers in a layoff is a public policy issue, particularly for Disney.

More...http://www.computerworld.com/article/2915904/it-outsourcing/fury-rises-at-disney-over-use-of-foreign-workers.html

My guess is that they don't want known bears on the team as the bulls wouldn't want anything to do w/ da dice.

Oh look, it's slappychop coming out of the speculation den and really trying to snipe on newbs that patrol gd. Yet another sock account that hasn't been retired or kicked out of town on a rail.

Sounds like this dude works his balls off all the while staying one step ahead of would-be thieves.

Nice to see this bullishness and hope it spreads far and wide among these institutional investors.

What you talkin bout, Willis?

It's crony capitalism, otherwise known as corporatism or fascism, is what needs to be opposed. True capitalism is what raises the most amount of people out of poverty while keeping the govt at a minimal level at most to protect individual rights and allows people to achieve their dreams by staying out of the way nor being used by corporations to further their interests at the expense of taxpayers.

 

George Orwell once wrote “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

Not exactly a cheery thought, and one I don’t agree with.

While the forces pushing for centralization of power have been prevailing for decades, they haven’t won a total victory yet. Technologies that empower the individual and that tend toward decentralization—including the Internet, encryption, 3D printing, and cryptocurrencies—offer a powerful ray of hope, reasons to be optimistic about the future.

So the tug of war between the collectivists and the rest of us continues.

One thing that would tip the scales heavily in favor of the collectivists would be victory in the War on Cash. Their goal is to eliminate the use of hand-to-hand currency, so that governments can document, control, and tax everything.

It’s exactly like what Ron Paul said: “The cashless society is the IRS’s dream: total knowledge of, and control over, the finances of every single American.”

More...http://www.internationalman.com/articles/the-war-on-cash-transparently-totalitarian

Rand Paul, DHS chief tangle on encryption

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_auHdE89qQ

Republican presidential hopeful Rand Paul tangled with a top Obama administration official Wednesday on the matter of protecting data privacy through encryption.

The Kentucky senator questioned Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on the bulk collection of phone records, and argued that consumers’ desire for encryption is a response to government surveillance.

“The real culprit is government,” Paul said during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing.

“You’ve been so overzealous vacuuming up our records without a legitimate warrant … [Encryption] is a response to a government that didn’t have a real sense of decency toward privacy.”

Paul also criticized the government for surveillance during the civil rights era, which he described as a cautionary tale.

"Look at the time the government wasn’t so good. The FBI director recently pointed back and talked about the times that Martin Luther King was spied upon. That's why we want these procedural protections," he said.

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http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/240457-rand-paul-dhs-chief-tangle-on-encryption

Rand Paul coming to Grand Rapids MI with Justin Amash, Monday May 4th

GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) -- Grand Rapids is getting its first visit of the 2016 presidential campaign.


On Monday May 4, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) will travel to Grand Rapids for a "Stand with Rand" event hosted by Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI).


The event is 10:30 a.m., Monday at the Kent County Republican Party Headquarters, located at 725 Lake Michigan Drive NW.

http://www.wzzm13.com/story/news/local/grand-rapids-west/2015/04/29/rand-paul-to-campaign-in-gr-monday/26594965/

Rand Paul: Baltimore Violence Is About 'Lack Of Fathers' And Morals

Presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) weighed in on the turmoil in Baltimore on Tuesday, standing with police and blaming the violence on a lack of morals in America.

"I came through the train on Baltimore (sic) last night, I'm glad the train didn't stop," he said, laughing, during an interview with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham.

Railing against what he repeatedly called "thuggery and thievery" in the streets of Baltimore, Paul told Ingraham that talking about "root causes" was not appropriate in the middle of a riot.

"The police have to do what they have to do, and I am very sympathetic to the plight of the police in this," he said.

As for root causes, Paul listed some ideas of his own.

"There are so many things we can talk about," the senator said, "the breakdown of the family structure, the lack of fathers, the lack of a moral code in our society."

He added that "this isn't just a racial thing."

Paul, who has branded himself as an advocate of criminal justice reform, also said justice must come from an investigation of the case of Freddie Gray, a black man who died of a spinal injury while in the custody of Baltimore police.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rand-paul-freddie-gray-baltimore-morals

I feel sorry for the good people that don't have the means to move away from these inner city neighborhoods. Far too many single women throughout the last few decades have been having kids and there's not responsible father figure to keep these kids straight. So, you housing projects and neighbors filled w/ free wheeling kids running free and having more kids and many of them turn to dealing drugs and then this is what you get: a cesspool. They have no virtues, ethics nor care for human life or being an upstanding local resident. Most of these folks have nothing to look forward to nor any meaningful work to keep them aspiring in life. There's just so many things that are wrong it's sickening. Perhaps businesses will say F it and think it isn't worth it providing goods and services to a community that is packed w/ animals and this will make life worse for those that are decent folks.

Rand Introduces Joint Resolution of Disapproval to Repeal Internet Regulation

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Rand Paul today introduced a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to nullify Internet regulations recently published by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Through the resolution, Sen. Paul will seek a vote in the U.S. Senate against the FCC’s unnecessary and overreaching power grab for control over the Internet.

“This regulation by the FCC is a textbook example of Washington’s desire to regulate anything and everything, and will do nothing more than wrap the Internet in red-tape. The Internet has successfully flourished without the heavy hand of government interference. Stated simply, I do not want to see the government regulating the Internet,” Sen. Paul said.

http://www.paul.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/NetNeu.pdf

This is a listing of gamblers placing their bets on these candidates. Rand has to win the GOP nomination which will be an uphill battle considering the media is pushing Bush and Rubio and leaving Rand as an underlying footnote if they even mention him at all. Bush is the establishment's first choice on the right w/ Rubio being a decent fallback plan as they both are reliable wall street friends as well as the military industrial complex. Hillary is as well so if either of them become the next president, there'll be no major policy changes.

Most people don't know what the two party system is there for but Carroll Quigley spells it out in his book, Tragedy and Hope. He knew many of these insiders and wrote about it. Rand is the exception here yet many well meaning conservatives fall for the string of other candidates that are paraded about and thus splitting up the anti-establishment vote while eventually the establishment rallies around their guy and uses their money and their media allies to drive home a narrative of their guy's electability and position as the imminent nominee.

So, having this an election between Hillary and Bush/Rubio is exactly what the establishment wants, win-win either way. What many conservatives don't realize is that many Rand supporters aren't going to support a Bush type. Anyways, there's plenty of time ahead and Rand has compiled a heavyweight team in the key states up front.

I think the term bloodbath won't even do it justice when all is said and done. There are bullwhales that are out to slaughter these heavy shorters.

I sure hope you know when to fold before you get wiped out. Don't let your fetish for bears be your denial of changing times when it comes.

My offer is for u to get the F out out of here.