Despite that they are natural born citizens, a man, his wife, and 4-year-old child were forcibly removed from their car, detained, and arrested by federal border patrol agents over 50 miles away from the border all because the couple refused to tell the cop where they were driving to. Have we come to an age in the USA where natural born citizens have to show their papers to any agency acting like a federal Gestapo? Do we no longer have freedom of movement inside our own country? Why does the border patrol think they have the legal power to detain citizens dozens and dozens of miles from the border? And here we have millions of illegals streaming across the border and the border patrol is harassing actual citizens inside our interior? On top of that we have a president that is going to excuse and give amnesty to millions of law breakers but actual citizens now can’t drive from one place to another without having any federal gestapo pulling them over, manhandling them, and forcing them to undergo questioning? The video was taken by the privately owned dashboard camera of Rick Herbert who recorded this sickening exchange on March 12… The video, mounted on the car dashboard, shows the agent reaching into the man’s open window. “Get your hands out of my car,” the man says. “Get your hands out of my car.” The man then pushes the agent’s arm out the window, while the agent opens the door. The man’s response? “This is assault,” he says. “What is your reasonable suspicion?” The agent then asks for the man’s citizenship, and he responds: “That I will [answer]. I’m a United States citizen.” The agent asks the same question to the woman, who affirms she’s a U.S. citizen, too. The agent then proceeds to ask a series of questions: “That your son in the back? You have anything illegal in the trunk? … Pop the trunk.” The man tells the agent, “no, you cannot look,” and makes clear, “I do not consent to any searches or seizures.” He also asks the agent once more: “What is your reasonable suspicion?” That’s when the agent tells him to put the car in park and “step out of the vehicle.” The man once again asks for the agent’s “reasonable suspicion.” The video then shows the agent grabbing the man’s arm and wrestling him to remove him from vehicle, twisting his hand and arm in the process. The man: “Dude what is your problem? I’ve got to unbuckle my seatbelt. … You’re being recorded.” The agent says he’s aware of the camera and the man says, “Good. I’m going to sue the [expletive] out of you.” The agent: “I’m not doing anything against policy.” Is this still America? http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/shocking-video-american-citizens-detained-arrested-by-border-patrol-over-50-miles-north-of-border/ |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJq9Z5g4Jkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74BjdHDJeE0Harnessing Light + OxygenUV light triggers photo polymerization and oxygen inhibits it. By carefully balancing the interaction of light and oxygen, CLIP continuously grows objects from a pool of resin. CLIP moves beyond the limitations of 3D printing to offer unprecedented speed, quality, and choice. Game-Changing SpeedWhile speed is dependent on various factors, traditional 3D printing takes hours or even days to finish. CLIP is 25 to 100 times faster. Below is a head-to-head comparison* of producing a 51mm diameter complex object like the one on the left. It can’t be fabricated by traditional manufacturing techniques. http://carbon3d.com/
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Good news for all Android Lollipop-ers! Google appears to be secretly working on a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service, dubbed 'Google VPN'. The news is still not confirmed, but the folks at Pocketables discovered an interesting hidden app called "Google Connectivity Services" under "All Apps" in the app manager, while digging through settings and apps after installing the latest version, Android 5.1 Lollipop on a Nexus 6 phone. After clicking on the created shortcut, the app greeted with a pop-up message that reads, "Google VPN: To help protect you on open Wi-Fi networks, your data will be transmitted securely through a Google VPN." The pop-up also has the "learn more" and "got it" options. However, since Google VPN feature is currently not in a functional state, you get redirected to a support page from Google if you click on "learn more" option. But if you click on the "got it" option, you are taken to the regular VPN connection request window, where you are asked if you would like the Wi-Fi assistant to set-up a VPN connection "that allows it to monitor network traffic." A virtual private network (VPN) basically allows people to connect to an unsecured WiFi network securely, which means the data transmitted through the network is fully secured. It uses encryption and other security protocols to encrypt users' data so that in case of man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks, the intercepted data would be of no use for the intruders. Unfortunately, Google VPN feature doesn't actually do anything right now, though, as Google hasn't launched the service officially yet, which is why the Google VPN feature is not readily available for anyone to use. "Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to actually connect to any VPN, using an open WiFi network, a secured WiFi network, or LTE," reads Pocketables blog post. "It’s unclear when Google will launch this feature, whether it will be open to everyone or just certain types of users, or if Google might discontinue it, like it did with App Opps." Google VPN is discovered on a Nexus 6 device, supposedly the only device that received Lollipop at first. So it's possible that the search engine giant is waiting for its VPN service to roll out first on Nexus 6 handsets. http://thehackernews.com/2015/03/google-vpn-connectivity-services.html |
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FACEBOOK PLANS TO CRACK DOWN ON ‘HATE SPEECH’ DIRECTED AT UNSPECIFIED ‘PROTECTED GROUPS’Social-media giant Facebook has revised their Community Standards, whose violation can lead to action by the site’s administrations, including the termination of offending pages. In the course of introducing the updated standards, global policy management chief Monika Bickert and deputy general counsel Chris Sonderby explain that the objective is to help users more clearly understand what they’re not allowed to share on their pages: We have a set of Community Standards that are designed to help people understand what is acceptable to share on Facebook. These standards are designed to create an environment where people feel motivated and empowered to treat each other with empathy and respect. Today we are providing more detail and clarity on what is and is not allowed. For example, what exactly do we mean by nudity, or what do we mean by hate speech? While our policies and standards themselves are not changing, we have heard from people that it would be helpful to provide more clarity and examples, so we are doing so with today’s update. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/16/facebook-plans-to-crack-down-on-hate-speech-directed-at-unspecified-protected-groups/-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Who qualifies as protected? What qualifies as “offensive”?"
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President Obama has found himself at odds with his old law school mentor over the Environmental Protection Agency. Laurence Tribe, a liberal constitutional scholar at Harvard University, told House lawmakers that EPA carbon dioxide regulations are tearing the Constitution apart. “EPA possesses only the authority granted to it by Congress,” Tribe told lawmakers in a hearing Tuesday. “Its gambit here raises serious questions under the separation of powers… because EPA is attempting to exercise lawmaking power that belongs to Congress and judicial power that belongs to the federal courts.” “Burning the Constitution should not become part of our national energy policy,” Tribe added. Tribe, along with other legal and energy experts, appeared before Congress Tuesday to give testimony on the EPA’s “Clean Power Plan” — the agency’s plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants. Tribe told lawmakers the CPP is unconstitutional and outside the agency’s authority. http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/17/obama-law-school-prof-epa-is-burning-the-constitution/-------------------------------------------------------------- 0bama: "Let me be clear. As long as the burning of The Constitution is carbon neutral... UH!.. I am for it..." |
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WASHINGTON — The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, making official a policy under Presidents Bush and Obama to reject requests for records to that office. The White House said the cleanup of FOIA regulations is consistent with court rulings that hold that the office is not subject to the transparency law. The office handles, among other things, White House record-keeping duties like the archiving of e-mails. But the timing of the move raised eyebrows among transparency advocates, coming on National Freedom of Information Day and during a national debate over the preservation of Obama administration records. It's also Sunshine Week, an effort by news organizations and watchdog groups to highlight issues of government transparency. "The irony of this being Sunshine Week is not lost on me," said Anne Weismann of the liberal Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW. "It is completely out of step with the president's supposed commitment to transparency," she said. "That is a critical office, especially if you want to know, for example, how the White House is dealing with e-mail." Unlike other offices within the White House, which were always exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, the Office of Administration responded to FOIA requests for 30 years. Until the Obama administration, watchdog groups on the left and the right used records from the office to shed light on how the White House works. "This is an office that operated under the FOIA for 30 years, and when it became politically inconvenient, they decided they weren't subject to the Freedom of Information Act any more," said Tom Fitton of the conservative Judicial Watch. That happened late in the Bush administration, when CREW sued over e-mails deleted by the White House — as many as 22 million of them, by one accounting. The White House at first began to comply with that request, but then reversed course. "The government made an argument in an effort to throw everything and the kitchen sink into the lawsuit in order to stop the archiving of White House e-mails," said Tom Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, which has used similar requests to shed light on foreign policy decisions. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/16/white-house-foia-regulations-deleted/24844253/ |
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$15,000 grant creating device to “modify” guests behaviorThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants hotels to monitor how much time its guests spend in the shower. The agency is spending $15,000 to create a wireless system that will track how much water a hotel guest uses to get them to “modify their behavior.” “Hotels consume a significant amount of water in the U.S. and around the world,” an EPA grant to the University of Tulsa reads. “Most hotels do not monitor individual guest water usage and as a result, millions of gallons of potable water are wasted every year by hotel guests.” “The proposed work aims to develop a novel low cost wireless device for monitoring water use from hotel guest room showers,” it said. “This device will be designed to fit most new and existing hotel shower fixtures and will wirelessly transmit hotel guest water usage data to a central hotel accounting system.” The funding is going toward creating a prototype and market analysis for the device. The goal of the project is to change the behavior of Americans when they stay at hotels. “This technology will provide hotel guests with the ability to monitor their daily water online or using a smartphone app and will assist hotel guest in modifying their behavior to help conserve water,” the grant said. The project was filed under “Water conservation,” “Urban water planning,” and “Sustainable water management.” The EPA also has a WaterSense program that challenges hotels to track their water use and upgrade their restrooms with low-flow toilets and showerheads. The program also encourages “linen and towel reuse programs” in guest rooms. The EPA is concerned that the average shower, which lasts just eight minutes, uses 18 gallons of water, and has asked Americans to reduce their shower length by at least one minute. Tyler W. Johannes, Ph.D., an associate professor in the University of Tulsa’s School of Chemical Engineering who is working on the project, told the Washington Free Beacon that the researchers hope to see the technology “adopted by all major hotels and used across the country.” He said the device seeks to get hotel guests to limit their showers to seven minutes as a start. Johannes and his team assumed the average hotel shower lasts 8.2 minutes, using 17.2 gallons of water per guest per shower. “Initially our device/app seeks to get hotel guests to reduce their water use by 10 percent or to reduce their showers by about one minute,” he said. Johannes provided a link to Home Water Works, which recommends taking a five minute shower to reduce water use.The website, which is a project of the Alliance for Water Efficiency, also suggests watering plants with discarded cold water from showers that take a long time to heat up, and taking “navy showers.” “The method requires three steps: 1) turn on water to rinse body and hair; 2) turn off water while shampooing hair and washing body with soap and washcloth; 3) resume water flow and rinse off all shampoo and soap,” the group said. “Using this technique, the total duration of water flow can easily be reduced to 5 minutes or less.”http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-wants-to-monitor-how-long-hotel-guests-spend-in-the-shower/
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Because the lunatic, ManBearPig-loving psychos at the EPA haven’t already waged enough war on the United States with their overreaching regulations, they now want to regulate something that is an American past-time. No, not baseball but they’d probably come up with a reason to do so if they could. The EPA now wants to regulate your gas grill because… pollution… or something. They’ve given a grant to the University of California to figure out how to make the pleasure of grilling turn into cooking from hell.
Objective:
To perform research and develop preventative technology that will reduce fine particulate emissions (PM2.5) from residential barbecues. This technology is intended to reduce air pollution as well as health hazards in Southern California, with potential for global application.
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We expect to limit the overall air pollution PM emissions from barbecuing and to alleviate some of the acute health hazards that a barbecue pit master can experience from inhalation.http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/backyard-barbecues-and-smokers-in-danger-from-epa-regulators-------------------------------------------------------------------- Not just pit masters. Restaurants will be next. The EPA is an abomination... |
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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) tried to hide an email about its fear of upsetting the White House from Freedom of Information Act requests by the Associated Press, the AP reported Friday. Associated Press president Gary Pruitt reported in an op-ed on government transparency that, during the course of an AP investigation into Michelle Obama’s dresses, NARA used a privacy exemption to redact a line in an email that was actually about the agency’s fear of the White House: As the president said, the United States should not withhold or censor government files merely because they might be embarrassing. But it happens anyway. In government emails that AP obtained in reporting about who pays for Michelle Obama’s expensive dresses, the National Archives and Records Administration blacked out one sentence repeatedly, citing a part of the law intended to shield personal information such as Social Security numbers or home addresses. The blacked-out sentence? The government slipped and let it through on one page of the redacted documents: “We live in constant fear of upsetting the WH (White House).” Upon taking office, President Obama pledged to run the “most transparent administration in history.” http://freebeacon.com/politics/national-archives-tried-to-hide-email-about-living-in-fear-of-white-house/ |
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Senator Patrick Leahy, D (Vermont, Chair Senate Judiciary Committee) After coming under intense pressure PayPal has closed the account of cloud-storage service Mega. According to the company, SOPA proponent Senator Patrick Leahy personally pressured Visa and Mastercard who in turn called on PayPal to terminate the account. Bizarrely, Mega's encryption is being cited as a key problem. During September 2014, the Digital Citizens Alliance and Netnames teamed up to publish a brand new report. Titled ‘Behind The Cyberlocker Door: A Report How Shadowy Cyberlockers Use Credit Card Companies to Make Millions,’ it offered insight into the finances of some of the world’s most popular cyberlocker sites. The report had its issues, however. While many of the sites covered might at best be considered dubious, the inclusion of Mega.co.nz – the most scrutinized file-hosting startup in history – was a real head scratcher. Mega conforms with all relevant laws and responds quickly whenever content owners need something removed. By any standard the company lives up to the requirements of the DMCA. “We consider the report grossly untrue and highly defamatory of Mega,” Mega CEO Graham Gaylard told TF at the time. But now, just five months on, Mega’s inclusion in the report has come back to bite the company in a big way. Speaking via email with TorrentFreak this morning, Gaylard highlighted the company’s latest battle, one which has seen the company become unable to process payments from customers. It’s all connected with the NetNames report and has even seen the direct involvement of a U.S. politician. According to Mega, following the publication of the report last September, SOPA and PIPA proponent Senator Patrick Leahy (Vermont, Chair Senate Judiciary Committee) put Visa and MasterCard under pressure to stop providing payment services to the ‘rogue’ companies listed in the NetNames report. Following Leahy’s intervention, Visa and MasterCard then pressured PayPal to cease providing payment processing services to MEGA. As a result, Mega is no longer able to process payments. “It is very disappointing to say the least. PayPal has been under huge pressure,” Gaylard told TF. The company did not go without a fight, however. “MEGA provided extensive statistics and other evidence showing that MEGA’s business is legitimate and legally compliant. After discussions that appeared to satisfy PayPal’s queries, MEGA authorised PayPal to share that material with Visa and MasterCard. Eventually PayPal made a non-negotiable decision to immediately terminate services to MEGA,” the company explains. What makes the situation more unusual is that PayPal reportedly apologized to Mega for its withdrawal while acknowledging that company’s business is indeed legitimate.However, PayPal also advised that Mega’s unique selling point – it’s end-to-end-encryption – was a key concern for the processor.“MEGA has demonstrated that it is as compliant with its legal obligations as USA cloud storage services operated by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Dropbox, Box, Spideroak etc, but PayPal has advised that MEGA’s ‘unique encryption model’ presents an insurmountable difficulty,” Mega explains. As of now, Mega is unable to process payments but is working on finding a replacement. In the meantime the company is waiving all storage limits and will not suspend any accounts for non-payment. All accounts have had their subscriptions extended by two months, free of charge. Mega indicates that it will ride out the storm and will not bow to pressure nor compromise the privacy of its users. “MEGA supplies cloud storage services to more than 15 million registered customers in more than 200 countries. MEGA will not compromise its end-to-end user controlled encryption model and is proud to not be part of the USA business network that discriminates against legitimate international businesses,” the company concludes. http://torrentfreak.com/under-u-s-pressure-paypal-nukes-mega-for-encrypting-files-150227/------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Time is of the essence for bitcoin and a fully decentralized, distributed and open sourced end to end mass storage encryption network... |
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The federal government has arrested the ringleaders of four Los Angeles schools that ran “pay-to-stay” scams, whereby student-visa holders managed to stay in the U.S. without ever attending classes. The schools collected $6 million per year in tuition payments from the students, according to the Los Angeles Times… When DHS investigators conducted a surprise check at the American College of Forensic Studies, they found one, single student in one, single religion class, despite the school’s claims that 300 foreign students were enrolled at the school, according to the Times. At Prodee University, investigators found just three foreign students in one English class, despite the more than 900 foreign students who were enrolled at the school. [...] http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/415398/dhs-discovers-major-immigration-fraud-los-angeles-ryan-lovelaceAdvisory Board MembersNeo-America Language School, Inc. has an advisory board that consists of consultants and experts from several fields pertaining to private organizations. Charlotte B. Tisdom, HOA President, Organization and Compliance Suna Pi, Foreign Student Advisor LaRonda Ortega, Assistant Principal, Student Services *Due to the difficulty in bringing everybody together at the same time contact has been maintained on a regular basis through telephone conferencing and e-mails.http://www.bppe.ca.gov/annual_report/2011/1940541_cat.pdf--------------------------------------------------------------------- They should have done it like billary... No trace! But we are talking californian school ring leaders here, so...  |
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Ukrainian Site Marks Time Since Putin Has Been Missing 17:25 (GMT) A Ukrainian web site has started keeping track of how long Vladimir Putin has been out of the public view -- 8 days and counting. "Putler" is what some Ukrainian activists have taken to calling Putin, which is a mash-up of "Putin" and "Hitler." The site is looping a performance of the ballet Swan Lake because that's the show that Soviet television would run whenever something bad was happening, and the state TV producers didn't have instructions yet about what to say or broadcast. As Maria Goltsmann explains, it was played during Leonid Brezhnev's funeral and also during the August 1991 coup. http://www.interpretermag.com/russia-update-march-14-2015/#7469 |
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Members of the tea party movement are “screw-loosers” who range from “sort of a generic racism” to “bald-faced racists,” and they tend to become more racist the longer they associate with tea party ideas. Also, “tea partiers are not overly concerned about the economy,” love “gun rallies,” want power in the hands of white people and hate President Barack Obama because he “broke the white monopoly on the presidency.” Such was the message of a speaker on the first day of this year’s White Privilege Conference, currently happening at a posh hotel in downtown Louisville, Ky. The speaker was Leonard Zeskind. The author and activist hosted a session concerning the tea party, a limited government movement that shared in the responsibility for returning the U.S. House of Representatives to Republican control four years ago. Zeskind’s Thursday afternoon talk was entitled “The Denial of White Privilege, the Tea Party Movement and the Building of Our Response.” [...] During the question-and-answer period, a woman asked: “What is, like, an African-American tea party member? How could there be one?” Zeskind said he doesn’t know “how people could do it” but compared black people who support limited government and gun rights to “Jewish kluxers.” Zeskind repeatedly referred to black people as “black folks.” He bizarrely suggested that “black folks” didn’t know about the tea party movement when it began because it wasn’t a topic of discussion “at the barber shop.” http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/12/tea-party-is-bald-faced-racists-white-privilege-conference-speaker-tells-sea-of-white-people/?utm_campaign=547f4d2f01958a5001000e49&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiIyYmY0NzdiYy0wNmMzLTQyMmMtYWNkOC1kY2Q5OGJmOWM0M2IifQ%3D%3D |
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EPA Will Take 100 YEARS To Hand Over Records Related To Conservative Group’s FOIA Request…The free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute is suing the Environmental Protection Agency over its extremely slow release of emails related to chief Lisa Jackson’s alias email account. CEI says that at its current pace, EPA will fulfill the group’s government records request in 100 years. In 2012, CEI requested records regarding Jackson’s alias email account under the name “Richard Windsor” — an address she used to communicate with government officials and green groups while avoiding federal transparency laws. CEI sued and eventually got 3,000 “Richard Windsor” emails from EPA, but that was only the tip of the iceberg. The EPA says there are about 120,000 records related to CEI’s Freedom of Information Act request, but the agency claims it can only process about 100 records per month — meaning CEI’s FOIA request will be fully processed in about 100 years. “We have shown this administration using whatever tactics it can – even violating the law – to hide what is going on in our federal agencies,” said CEI senior fellow and attorney Chris Horner in a statement, “whether it’s Hillary Clinton’s personal email account, Lisa Jackson working with lobbyists on her own private account, utilizing text messages then destroying them, or this slow-rolling production of Richard Windsor emails for a century.” http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/12/epa-will-take-100-years-to-fulfill-conservative-groups-foia-request/
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(edit: full title added) Going to Canada? Police Can Force You to Show Them Everything You Have on Your PhoneAirport security can throw out your mouthwash, make you walk barefoot in public and conduct a full-body scan — but do they have the right to get into your phone? Canadian man Alain Philippon encountered the dilemma when he flew into Halifax Stanfield International Airport last week, returning to his home country from the Dominican Republic, and border agents demanded that he enter the password to unlock his phone so they could search it, the CBC reported. Philippon refused, saying the information on his phone was “personal.” He was arrested. Do border agents have the right to force someone to unlock their phone? In the U.S., the Fifth Amendment protects individuals from self-incrimination and as the Electronic Frontier Foundation notes, law enforcement generally needs a warrant to compel the unlocking of a phone or computer because providing the password is considered self-incriminating testimony by most courts. However, as CNET noted, even though the Supreme Court has ruled that cops need a warrant to get a phone password, U.S. border agents don’t need a warrant or even individualized suspicion to conduct a “forensic” search of your phone or computer. As for Canada, the issue of phone passwords has apparently never been tried in court. Philippon will go to court on May 12, facing charges of hindering border agents under Canada’s Customs Act, the CBC reported. He could face up to a year in jail and a $25,000 fine — and the Canada Border Services Agency wouldn’t even tell the CBC why Philippon’s phone had been targeted for inspection in the first place. For now, travelers should be prepared to surrender their rights at the Canadian border.“Under the Customs Act, customs officers are allowed to inspect things that you have, that you’re bringing into the country,” Rob Currie, director of the Law and Technology Institute at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, told the CBC. “The term used in the act is ‘goods,’ but that certainly extends to your cellphone, to your tablet, to your computer, pretty much anything you have.” http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/03/10/going-to-canada-police-can-force-you-to-show-them-everything-you-have-on-your-phone/ |
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I find myself wondering if New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has a time machine hidden somewhere in the basement of the executive mansion. If so, he might have been looking a few months ahead one day last year and taking a peek at Hillary’s press conference yesterday. It seems that he was breaking new ground on the mass deletion of government emails long before Ms. Clinton came upon the idea. This report from Capital New York is actually a couple of weeks old. The Cuomo administration has now fully implemented a policy of automatically deleting emails of rank-and-file state workers that are more than three months old, resulting in an effective purge of thousands of messages in recent days.
According to memos obtained by Capital, mass deletions began Monday at several state agencies after officials finished consolidating 27 separate email platforms to a single, cloud-based system called Office 365. It lets I.T. administrators purge any older messages, and can be set up to do so each day.
The 90-day deletion policy was first adopted in June of 2013, but its enforcement to date has been haphazard at best, employees and officials say. News of its implementation has drawn fresh concern from good government groups in both New York and elsewhere, who say automatically deleting emails is unnecessary and could stymie access to public information.You may find yourself wondering what possible public service toward the greater good could come from automatically deleting all of the correspondence from government workers after only 90 days. That’s a great question, and one which the administration has obviously struggled to answer. So far, the only response from state Chief Information Officer Maggie Miller has been rather… unconventional at best. “The consolidation of our email systems is revolutionizing how we, as a State, communicate and collaborate with each other. Before this email system consolidation we, as partner agencies, could not readily find each other’s contact information. Now we can easily communicate, collaborate, plan, schedule conference calls and meetings and manage our online correspondence consistently and effectively,” Miller wrote. “This is a significant accomplishment and I want to thank everyone for their hard work in making government work better.”Wait… so you were having trouble finding the contact information for the other people in your own state government? Were we previously relying on a system of monkeys yanking cards out of a Rolodex and tying them to the legs of pigeons? That one statement in and of itself borders on being insane. But even if – and it’s a big “if” – there was some sort of electronic organizational issue with your address books, how was the storage of previously sent and received emails impeding your ability to find each other online? Well, perhaps it’s just in issue of storage space. They did go with a Microsoft solution after all, so there was probably some sort of data cap on their storage capacity, right? New York’s contract with Microsoft, which developed Office 365, allows for 50 gigabytes of e-mail storage per employee. Reinvent Albany estimated this would be enough to handle up to 30 years worth of messages.So now that they’ve purged tens of thousands of emails, the ongoing process will establish a standard where all future emails will be discarded after 90 days unless the employee proactively takes the step of flagging the message for retention. It’s described by the department as a “burden” which falls upon the worker and they are provided with guidance as to how they should determine which emails are worth saving. That sounds awfully familiar, doesn’t it? The individual employee is left in charge of determining which bits of correspondence should be available for public review. It’s almost as if they all work for the State Department. http://hotair.com/archives/2015/03/11/ny-governor-is-busy-deleting-thousands-of-emails/ |
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Washington D.C. man must go outside to smoke cigarettes after a judge ordered him to stop smoking inside his own home. The judge’s temporary ruling came after the man’s new neighbors filed a lawsuit that claimed smoke from his home found its way into their home through holes in a shared basement. The couple said they worried the smoke would not only harm them and their child but their unborn baby as well, according to a report from WJLA. “You want me to stop what I’ve been doing in my house, all my life,” Edwin Gray said when asked about his reaction to the judge’s ruling. He said his family has owned the home in northeast D.C. for 50 years. “If this judge has done this, who will be next? What other neighbor will be next?” Gray’s sister Mozella Johnson asked. Real estate attorney Benny Kass called the case “precedent-setting” and said it emphasized the fact people are not allowed to simply ignore their neighbors anymore. “Your home is no longer your castle,” Kass said. In addition to the temporary no-smoking order, the couple’s lawsuit asked for a half-million dollars in damages, according to WJLA. http://fox13now.com/2015/03/10/judge-orders-man-to-stop-smoking-inside-his-own-home/comment-page-1/#comment-95096 |
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Speaking at Benedict College in South Carolina on March 6, President Obama said the “Second Amendment … is important,” that it is “part of our culture” and “part of who were are.” Then he quickly added, “But what we also have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrialized countries–by like a mile.” So, the Second Amendment is important but…Moreover, Obama hinted that the individual right to bear arms–the very right protected by the Second Amendment–is the result of a Supreme Court interpretation. On June 22, Breitbart News reported that The Washington Post espoused this same liberal talking point, claiming that the Supreme Court created an individual right to keep and bear arms via the District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) decision. In other words, prior to 2008, there was no individual right to keep and bear arms. It wasn’t what our Founding Fathers intended and it wasn’t what generation upon generation of Americans from 1791 to 2008 believed and lived by. It’s all based on a decision by a group of justices. In his speech, aired on C-SPAN, Obama said: We have a long tradition of gun rights and gun ownership in this country. The Second Amendment has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean the people have the right to bear arms. There are a lot of law-abiding, responsible gun owners who use it for protection or sport. They handle their weapons properly. There are traditions of families passing down [hunting] from father to son, or daughter … and that is important; that’s part of who we are. But what we also have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrialized nations–by like a mile.
And most of that is attributable to the easy, ready, availability of firearms, particularly handguns.However, the gun control lobby’s relentless claim that America’s homicide rate is so much higher than other industrialized countries breaks down under scrutiny. For example, in August 2013, Breitbart News reported on a study in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy which showed that the murder rate in heavily gun-controlled Russia was approximately 20.52 per 100,000 people in 2002. A high point for America was 6.6 per 100,000 people in 1993, and that rate fell to 3.2 per 100,000 by 2011, after the number of privately owned guns in America went from 192 million in 1994 to 310 million in 2009. So, 20.52 per 100,000 people are murdered in Russia versus America’s 6.6 per 100,000–later to be 3.2 per 100,000–yet, according to President Obama, America’s murder rate is, “like a mile” higher than that of other industrialized countries. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/09/obama-important-second-amendment-responsible-for-high-homicide-rates/ |
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We should let of the OP's original concept flow with this thread forking... Open and UNLOCKED! |
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