This stuff happens because officer safety is more important than public safety. They've proven that time and time again. Also, these guys have professional immunity and are pretty much never personally held accountable for any destruction of rights. Whenever they royally screw up and there's a lawsuit, the taxpayers end up footing the bill and these guys typically go on paid leave. That being said, these guys have to deal with scum day in and day out so there's a lot of built up stress that comes with the territory.

These stories pop up from time to time especially the one about that pastor down in Arizona some years ago where he got his ass beat for a similar scenario. The border patrol agents should already be schooled on what a sovereign citizen person does when stopped so they should just be ready to let them go. But like you mentioned above, I'd just tell the agent they had a lot of audacity to be letting in all those illegals last year when everyone in the country knew about it but now he's all uppity about running the routine on a us citizen. Then, proceed to tell him what a fraud he and the other agents are.

Or, just do what this guy did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFxijuRjX1U

You make good points about the experts and thieves that seem to gravitate toward the bitcoin community but the main problem is that you're attracting non-savvy interested parties to the community all the time and this thing is unlike anything they've ever encountered in their lives, likely. The first movers here had the advantage of a head start in the market knowledge and worked it to their advantage in many cases. As the newer people get their feet wet even more, they look to get more coins and many methods of doing so end up being too good to be true. The fact is, holding your bitcoins securely is the number one rule for survival and working to earn more of them is the only surefire way to not get tangled into the peripheral games of mining, buying into shitshows or other things that turn out to be unprofitable. We all have to learn as we move forward and only the lucky come out unscathed. That said, I believe the rewards down the line are worth the troubles in the mean time.

Rand Paul: Foreign donations to Clinton Foundation ‘thinly veiled bribes’

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told POLITICO on Friday that foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation are “thinly veiled bribes,” and said Hillary Clinton should return any donations from Saudi Arabia or other countries that abuse the rights of women.

“The normal Clinton response is to cover up, deny, refuse to acknowledge,” Paul said in a telephone interview as he was being driven through New Hampshire. “But the question is whether the country will rise up and respond to the unseemly nature of accepting foreign donations. “
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Paul said that in addition to Saudi Arabia, the foundation should return donations from the United Arab Emirates and Brunei.
“In countries that stone people to death for adultery and imprison people for adultery, this is the kind of thing you would think someone for women’s rights would be standing up against, instead of accepting thinly veiled bribes,” the senator added.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/rand-paul-hillary-clinton-saudi-arabia-116269.html

This is going no where because when over the top crap like this comes up the gun owning community rallies around their issues like no other. Furthermore, nobody republican or democrat want this to be a huge issue in the upcoming presidential primaries cause when the gun owners come out, it's likely that a real conservative or libertarian one will be the beneficiaries of that fervor - which will burn the establishment types and also take attention away form the foreign policy driven primary they're trying to create.

Without a moral people that are keen and vigilant to protecting liberty there's not much you can do to change that outside of educating and focusing on what issues and candidates can win in certain circumstances. I won't stop trying considering the founders of the country went through many times worse in terms of their efforts to born the country as a secession from Britain. Most people can't or don't even consider what it was like to "put their lives, fortunes and sacred honor" on the line while these modern people merely have to stay informed and not let themselves get manipulated by the mainstream media that masquerades as legitimate journalism these days.

Good for them, although I bet the MSM will keep a lid on this outside of what niche conservative outlets report on. Having immigrant blacks protesting her is bad mojo and it would make national headlines in the MSM had it been nearly any other person. The Clintons are so evil and yet so many ignorant and willfully blind people follow them like lemmings. Any attack on their history or legacy are just those evil republican types and people close their eyes to the facts. Part of what is wrong with this country. And, shame on all the women out there that are these same types just because they want a democrat female to run the US.

Just like last year when the stupid government sent the same amount of weapons to the so-called Syrian 'rebels' that eventually fell into ISIS hands all because the original plan was to topple Assad by financing rebel groups. You'd think that by now everyone and their brother would know what's wrong with US foreign policy but amazingly and sadly very few do yet eat up all the propaganda being spewed by the corporate media.

Urban transportation company Uber is having a rough week. The company is encountering legal struggles in a few of its international markets. On Monday, around 25 armed police officers searched the company’s office in Paris. In Germany, a court ordered a nationwide ban on Uber’s cheaper ride-sharing service UberPOP. In South Korea, executives and employees were charged with violating the transportation laws and many items were seized.

If you have been following the news, legal struggles are nothing new for Uber. But today’s news shows that it doesn’t seem to be getting any easier.

And it’s easy to understand why. According to its website, Uber is now available in 55 countries. Each country has its own legislation. Some very active local governments also have their say in Uber’s way of doing things.

In many cases, Uber launches a new branch and then figures out if it complies with existing laws. It’s a smart strategy as there are many ways to interpret a piece of legislation. But it doesn’t always work.

In France, there have been many attempts to limit Uber’s entire business. The so-called ‘15-minute law‘ was supposed to give an edge to taxi drivers. One month later, the law was suspended.

Uber then launched UberPOP in Paris. It was the company’s first rollout for its new ride-sharing service. As you don’t need a specific driver’s license to become an UberPOP driver, many professional drivers saw the new service as unfair competition. UberPOP was banned in Brussels, the Netherlands and, yes, France.

Yet, a court recently ruled that the French government couldn’t ban UberPOP that easily. That might explain the reason why 25 police officers were looking for evidence in Uber’s office.

More...http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/19/uber-faces-legal-challenges-in-france-south-korea-and-germany/

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"There was an insufficient critical skepticism about some of the source material," he now says about the unredacted NIE. "I think there should have been agnosticism expressed in the main judgments. It would have been a better paper if it were more carefully drafted in that sort of direction."

But Pillar, now a visiting professor at Georgetown University, added that the Bush administration had already made the decision to go to war in Iraq, so the NIE "didn't influence [their] decision." Pillar added that he was told by congressional aides that only a half-dozen senators and a few House members read past the NIE's five-page summary.

David Kay, a former Iraq weapons inspector who also headed the Iraq Survey Group, told Frontline that the intelligence community did a "poor job" on the NIE, "probably the worst of the modern NIE's, partly explained by the pressure, but more importantly explained by the lack of information they had. And it was trying to drive towards a policy conclusion where the information just simply didn't support it."

The most controversial part of the NIE, which has been picked apart hundreds of times over the past decade and has been thoroughly debunked, pertained to a section about Iraq's attempts to acquire aluminum tubes. The Bush administration claimed that this was evidence that Iraq was pursuing a nuclear weapon.

National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice stated at the time on CNN that the tubes "are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs," and that "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

The version of the NIE released in 2004 redacted the aluminum tubes section in its entirety. But the newly declassified assessment unredacts a majority of it and shows that the intelligence community was unsure why "Saddam is personally interested in the procurement of aluminum tubes." The US Department of Energy concluded that the dimensions of the aluminum tubes were "consistent with applications to rocket motors" and "this is the more likely end use." The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research also disagreed with the intelligence community's assertions that Iraq had reconstituted its nuclear weapons program.

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According to the latest figures compiled by Iraq Body Count, to date more than 200,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, although other sources say the casualties are twice as high. More than 4,000 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq, and tens of thousands more have been injured and maimed. The war has cost US taxpayers more than $800 billion.

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https://news.vice.com/article/the-cia-just-declassified-the-document-that-supposedly-justified-the-iraq-invasion

It happens so often you wonder whether it is due to total ineptness or a deliberate policy to undermine our efforts overseas. It’s most likely a result of corruption and unintended consequences, combined with a foreign policy that makes it impossible to determine who are our friends are and who are our enemies. One would think that so many failures in arming others to do our bidding in our effort to control an empire would awaken our leaders and the American people and prompt policy changes.

A recent headline in Mother Jones read: “US Weapons Have A Nasty Habit of Going AWOL.” The report was about $500 million worth of military equipment that is unaccounted for in Yemen. Just as in so many other places, our policy of provoking civil strife in Yemen has been a complete failure. At one time it was announced that there was a great victory in a war being won with drones assisting groups that claimed to be on our side in the Yemen Civil War. As usual, we could have expected that these weapons would end up in the hands of the militants not on the side of United States and would never be accounted for.

There are numerous examples of how our foreign intervention backfires and actually helps the enemy. Just recently a headline announced: “CIA cash sometimes refills al-Qaeda coffers.” This was a story of our government helping pay ransom to al-Qaeda for the release an Afghan diplomat. However this was a measly $5 million so it was not considered a big deal. Another headline just recently announced that, “Iraqi army downs two UK planes carrying weapons for ISIL.” The Iraqi army is supposed to be on our side, and many people believe the UK is also on our side as well. One thing for sure the American taxpayer pays for all this nonsense.

Building weapons and seeing them end up in the hands of the enemy is almost a routine event and one should expect it to continue to happen under the circumstances of the chaos in the Middle East. This represents a cost to the American taxpayer and is obviously a major contributing factor in what will be the ultimate failure of our plan to remake the Middle East. This is bad enough, and the only people who seem to benefit from it are those who are earning profits in the military-industrial complex. But there is something every bit as bad as our weapons ending up in the hands of the jihadists and being used against us. That is, the fact that our presence there, our weapons, and our bombs, are the best recruiting tool for getting individuals to join the fight against America’s presence in so many conflicts around the world.

If our leaders cannot understand the arguments against our current policies based on the Constitutional and moral principles, they ought to at least be willing to pay attention to the impracticality of a policy that almost always seems to backfire, is always very expensive, and is always detrimental to our national defense.

Someday out of necessity we will be forced to consider a policy that the Founders advocated. Friendship with all nations, peace, commerce, and avoidance of all entangling alliances while staying out of the internal affairs of other nations. Unless something miraculous happens, I fear that this will not be accomplished until we are forced to come to our knees in the midst of a colossal bankruptcy.

https://www.facebook.com/ronpaul/posts/10153798681616686:0

In states with the first 2016 primaries, Democrats ask: Where’s Hillary?

In Iowa, Democrats want to see Hillary Rodham Clinton mingling in their neighborhood coffee shops, answering their questions and sharing laughs. In New Hampshire, they expect her on their living-room couches, listening to their tales of struggle. In South Carolina, they’re eager to hold hands with her and pray together.

And in each of the early presidential primary and caucus states, Democratic activists are asking the same question: Where is Hillary?

As Clinton slow-walks her way into the 2016 presidential race, many of the Democratic front-runner’s most active supporters are concerned that she’s not yet doing the kind of face-to-face politicking that is well underway by a cast of a dozen or more likely Republican candidates.

Clinton’s absence has stoked unease among her impatient supporters, who also worry about her reputation as someone uncomfortable with the nitty-gritty of retail campaigning.

“They’re anxious because so many Republican candidates are coming here, they’re flowing in, and it’s like a parade on the other side,” said New Hampshire state Sen. Lou D’Allesandro, a top Clinton backer in 2008. “Obviously she’s going to run. They’re hoping she’s going to be here so they can actually see her and engage with her and reinvigorate the campaign.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-states-with-the-first-2016-primaries-democrats-ask-wheres-hillary/2015/03/17/21283ba8-ccb1-11e4-8c54-ffb5ba6f2f69_story.html

Hillary Clinton staffs up in New Hampshire

Hillary Rodham Clinton has lined up three Democratic staffers credited with helping Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) win re-election last fall to lead the emerging Clinton campaign operation in that state, Democratic officials said.

Clinton is expected to formally announce her presidential campaign next month, but top staff are already unofficially on the job in at least two states with early primaries, as well as in New York City where Clinton plans to house her campaign headquarters.

In New Hampshire, which has the nation’s second nominating contest, Democrats familiar with the hires said Clinton has selected Mike Vlacich, who ran Shaheen’s 2014 reelection, to be the state director. Harrell Kirstein, who was Shaheen’s 2014 communications director, will reprise that role for Clinton, and Shaheen political director Kari Thurman will be a senior political aide in New Hampshire, the Democrats said.

Democrats who confirmed the hires asked not to be identified because Clinton has not yet announced her candidacy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/03/13/hillary-clinton-staffs-up-in-new-hampshire/

Yeah, we need to make bitcoin the king of the remittance industry. This would be continual demand re-occurring on a regular basis. I just wonder if the demand for focusing on this area of business isn't there because the transaction fees would be so low. idk

Yeah, zero hedge is usually pretty cutting edge on most economic related matters but they sure are behind when it comes to bitcoin. In the political world, Rand Paul comes to mind on being behind simply because he's so busy doing all the campaigning and stuff. Regarding these thieves that get to run off with other peoples' money, they need to be dealt with and made an example out of.

Who? I haven't heard this guy's name being brought up in years. If I remember correctly, he used to try and nip at Peter Schiff's heels back when I still liked the guy.

Scharmi guessed wrong big time tonight so that's the point here. Prices are moving up and tomorrow could change but that will be then. the signal he sent tonight was pompous and crap.

Among other things, take a look.

New Hampshire GOP voters btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Glxp7aBUo

Interesting times but tarmi is in bed or ghost like I'd expect. tarmi ran his mouth earlier and had many peeps thinking we're going down but it's only casually went up. Any thoughts on things going south or his sho*t going north?

Which tells me you're not doing/eating so well my friend. Please tell me that squirrels and such are not your normal diet. 100 yrs ago it would be ok but not now so yet if you watch 'life below zero'..