StopTheLie.com News update 01-20-2014
NH Jury Nullification Legislation
Source: FIJA.org
Michael Sylvia and Keith Michael report that as the 2014 legislative session kicks of in New Hampshire, there is a new jury nullification bill on the table in New Hampshire. HB 1452, introduced on 8 January 2014, is an act relative to jury nullification that "requires the court to give an instruction to the jury regarding jury nullification and requires the court to declare a mistrial if the instruction is not given to the jury." Its full text is available on the New Hampshire state website here. The main provisions of this bill are as follows:
I. The court shall give the following instruction to the jury in all criminal proceedings: "The concept of jury nullification is well established in this country. If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused is unjust, or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic or passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide by that decision."
II. A mistrial shall be declared in any case in which the court fails to give the jury instruction provided in paragraph I.
Read full article at:http://fija.org/2014/01/13/nh-hb-1452-an-act-relative-to-jury-nullification/
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Bill Proposes Criminalizing Help to NSA, Turning Off Resources to Yakima Facility
Source:TenthAmendmentCenter.com
Practically speaking, the bill prohibits state and local agencies from providing any material support to the NSA within their jurisdiction. This includes barring government-owned utilities from providing water and electricity. It makes information gathered without a warrant by the NSA and shared with law enforcement inadmissible in state court. It blocks public universities from serving as NSA research facilities or recruiting grounds. And it disincentivizes corporations attempting to fill needs not met in the absence of state cooperation.
Lawmakers in Oklahoma, California and Indiana have already introduced similar legislation, and a senator in Arizona has committed to running it there, but Washington counts as the first state with an actual NSA facility within its borders to consider the Fourth Amendment Protection Act. The NSA operates a listening center on the Army's Yakima Training Center (YTC). The NSA facility is in Taylor's district, and he said he cannot sit idly by while a secretive facility in his own backyard violate the rights of people everywhere.
"We're running the bill to provide protection against the ever increasing surveillance into the daily lives of our citizens," he said. "Our Founding Fathers established a series of checks and balances in the Constitution. Given the federal government's utter failure to address the people's concerns, it's up to the states to stand for our citizens' constitutional rights."
Read full article at:http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2014/01/washington-state-bill-proposes-criminalizing-help-to-nsa-turning-off-resources-to-y
COMMENT: See also: Washington State Rep Puts The NSA on Notice
http://youtu.be/181jDrog_XY
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N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers
Source: NYTimes.com
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks.
While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the N.S.A. has increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the Internet, according to N.S.A. documents, computer experts and American officials.
Read full article at:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/nsa-effort-pries-open-computers-not-connected-to-internet.html?hp&_r=0
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Merck Continues Promoting Zilmax, Despite Cattle Losing Their Hooves from the Drug
Source: Mercola.com
While the beta-agonist drug Zilmax (Zilpaterol) has been used to promote muscle growth in American-grown cattle since 2007, news of the dramatic adverse effects of this drug didn't hit mainstream news—and hence public consciousness—until late last year.1
In early August, 2013, Tyson Food Inc issued a statement saying it would no longer purchase Zilmax-fed cattle for slaughter due to animal welfare concerns.2 The company had noticed that many of the cows that had been fed the drug had trouble walking. The cattle also displayed other behavioral issues.
Since then, Cargill Inc. has also decided to reject Zilmax-fed cattle until it is confident that any animal welfare issues associated with the drug have been resolved.
Merck, the maker of the drug, initially said it would halt US and Canadian sales of Zilmax, pending company research and review. It wasn't long however before Merck announced it had no plans to discontinue the product,3 saying the company stands behind the safety of the drug.
At present, Merck does not need approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to return Zilmax to market, as the FDA has not taken any action against the drug.
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/01/15/zilmax-beta-agonist-drug.aspx?e_cid=20140115Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_sourc
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Bullish on Yellen: A Very Good Article From Forbes
Source: TheDailyBell.com
The Keynesian model was built to capitalize on difficult economic circumstances by creating a theoretical framework that further centralized power and money.
It was a justification for authoritarianism, even though in today's world myriad supine economists and useless journalists continue to write about this extraordinary example of malicious public relations as if it were high theoretical art.
Read full article at:http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34924/Bullish-on-Yellen-A-Very-Good-Article-From-Forbes/
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Previous Week's News 01-13-2014
Ford Exec Clarifies his Statement about Tracking Drivers
Source: Business Insider
Jim Farley, the global vp of marketing and sales at Ford, tells Business Insider he made a mistake when he implied that Ford gathers so much data from GPS units inside its customers' cars that the company knows when they're speeding or breaking the law.
"I absolutely left the wrong impression about how Ford operates. We do not track our customers in their cars without their approval or their consent," he says. "The statement I made in my eyes was hypothetical and I want to clear this up."
His original comments came yesterday during a panel discussion on consumer privacy at CES, the big electronics convention in Las Vegas: "We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing. By the way, we don't supply that data to anyone," he told attendees.
Read full article at:http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-jim-farley-retracts-statements-tracking-drivers-gps-2014-1
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Exercise Benefits Found to Be EQUAL to Drugs for Heart Disease and Diabetes
Source: Mercola.com
A recent meta-review conducted by researchers at Harvard and Stanford3 compared the effectiveness of exercise versus drug interventions on mortality outcomes for diabetes, coronary heart disease, heart failure, and stroke. After reviewing 305 randomized controlled trials, which included nearly 339,300 people, they found "no statistically detectable differences" between physical activity and medications for prediabetes and heart disease.
Read full article at:http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2014/01/10/exercise-preventive-drug.aspx?e_cid=20140110Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=
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Nullification Season Starts Now
Source:TenthAmendmentCenter.com
This week, a number of states are kicking off the 2014 legislative session, and it looks like it's going to be a banner year for nullification! We're barely getting started, and bills are getting introduced around the country.
Bill to Nullify Obamacare have been introduced in SC, GA, MO. To nullify Common Core in NH. To nullify gun control in MO. To nullify indefinite detetion in NH, MO. To take steps to nullify NSA data-sharing programs in CA, MO, KS - and many more.
In the coming weeks, as more bills get introduced, here's what's going to happen - we'll send you action alerts that are specific to your state when a nullification bill needs your support. Please keep an eye out for them and share that info widely when you get it.
In the meantime, there are a LOT of reports to read - we update every day on the Tenther Blog.http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com
Read full article at:http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=3a5a3fb1ad250e247bde9f42d&id=e05e385713&e=fdcfd08b5c
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Flu Attack! How a Virus Invades your Body
Source: Mercola.com
--The 'gold standard' of independent scientific evaluation and analysis, the Cochrane Database Review, has issued no less than five reports between 2006 and 2010, all of which decimate the myth that flu vaccinations are "the most effective flu prevention method" available.
In real-world and not laboratory conditions, when a flu vaccine at least partially matches the circulating virus, 100 people need to be vaccinated in order to avoid just ONE set of influenza symptoms, according to Cochrane's findings.
Yet as another flu season approaches, all these facts are conspicuously ignored by conventional medicine and media alike, and you'll certainly never see them mentioned in any flu vaccine promotion campaign. What else won't you typically see mentioned?
The fact that the status of your immune system is the most powerful determinant of whether or not you'll get sick this flu season … with flu or one of the hundreds of other flu-like illnesses going around.
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/01/06/flu-attack.aspx?e_cid=20140106Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medi
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Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands
Source: Yahoo
Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.
Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch--free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be "a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons."
Read full article at:http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html
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