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California Voters Make Possession of Most Drugs a Misdemeanor Offense

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by Lauren Galik

November 5, 2014

Last night voters in California approved Proposition 47, an initiative that effectively changes the status of a number of low-level, nonviolent drug and property offenses from felonies to misdemeanors.

The initiative changes the possession of most drugs, including cocaine and heroin, from a felony offense to a misdemeanor. Possession of certain, less common Schedule I and II substances (including LSD for some reason) will remain a felony offense. Certain property offenses such as shoplifting, grand theft, receiving stolen property, forgery, fraud, and writing a bad check will all be considered misdemeanor offenses, as long as these crimes involve $950 or less.

Seven Reasons to Vote for the Libertarian Party

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by Nicholas Sarwark

November 4, 2014

Only the Libertarian Party puts up candidates who are working to dramatically reduce big government spending, taxes, debt, regulations, bureaucracies, foreign meddling, and invasions of our personal freedoms.

Voting for a candidate with a D or an R by their name sends a message. It says, "keep doing what you're doing," i.e., "raise taxes, spend more, add to the nation's debt, invent more doomed-to-failure government programs, and start more wars." It gives them permission - or license - to keep government big. Voting for the "lesser evil" is indistinguishable from voting for team R or D because you think everything they do is awesome. It will be taken as approval for more big government, which leads to higher taxes, higher spending and debt, more government and more war.

Koch-Tied Group Tries to Trick Stoners Into Voting for Wisconsin Libertarian

alternet.org

November 4, 2014

Libertarian Robert Burke tries to distance himself from the ads and the Kochs.

Mary Burke supports medical marijuana (which AFF does not mention) but has not called for its full legalization. Walker opposes marijuana for medical or recreational uses, repeating the discredited claim that pot is a "gateway drug," and in recent months has called for drug testing for public aid recipients.

California lawmakers' campaign credit-card spending often lacks disclosure, Sacramento Bee review finds

sacbee.com

by Jim Miller

November 3, 2014

Lawmakers charged more than $4 million on campaign credit cards for fine eating, plane trips and other expenses reported to be reasonably related to a political, legislative or governmental purpose. Many of the expenses lacked any description.

Some ate in five-star restaurants and reported holding meetings in nightclubs and an amusement park. They bought fruit baskets and wine as gifts. They went to Las Vegas, Hawaii and international destinations. As long as the spending accomplished what state law calls "a political, legislative or governmental purpose," lawmakers complied with state rules for use of their campaign money.

Couple Jailed for Raising Chickens

copblock.org

October 21, 2014

The "officials" in Tawas, Michigan had a man and woman caged for keeping chickens on their property.

They want to control our food. Keeping chickens should not get you arrested. This is hardly the first instance of something like this happening. This is the outcome of a legislative move to criminalize backyard farms and small, residential farming operations.

US Sen. Paul: Ebola "incredibly" contagious

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by Kathleen Ronayne

October 21, 2014

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky told a group of college students Wednesday the deadly virus Ebola can spread from a person who has the disease to someone standing three feet away and said the White House should be honest about that.

Paul, a doctor and potential GOP presidential contender, made his comments during a stop at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire Wednesday. In his remarks, he called Ebola "incredibly contagious" and suggested it could spread at a cocktail party attended by someone who is symptomatic, according to CNN video footage.

U.S. is Responsible for the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Liberian Scientist

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by Timothy Alexander Guzman

October 17, 2014

A History of Guatemala's Syphilis Experiment: How a U.S. Led Team Performed Human Experiments in Central America. Dr. Cyril Broderick, A Liberian scientist says the West, particularly the U.S. is responsible for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Dr. Broderick claims the following in an exclusive article published in the Daily Observer based in Monrovia, Liberia. He wrote the following: The US Department of Defense (DoD) is funding Ebola trials on humans, trials which started just weeks before the Ebola outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone. The reports continue and state that the DoD gave a contract worth $140 million dollars to Tekmira, a Canadian pharmaceutical company, to conduct Ebola research. This research work involved injecting and infusing healthy humans with the deadly Ebola virus. Hence, the DoD is listed as a collaborator in a "First in Human" Ebola clinical trial (NCT02041715, which started in January 2014 shortly before an Ebola epidemic was declared in West Africa in March.

Mystery virus found where illegal-alien kids sent

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by Paul Bremmer

October 15, 2014

Enterovirus D68 has killed five U.S. children and infected hundreds more in the past month and a half, doctors confirm, and some believe there may be a connection between the sudden outbreak and the throngs of unaccompanied.

According to investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, there are significant numbers of unaccompanied illegal minors in Kansas City and Chicago, the two cities where the current EV-D68 outbreak was first identified. The outbreak happened in mid- to late August, right around the time when many children would have gone back to school and come into contact with their new illegal-alien classmates for the first time.

Why Have So Many Americans Dropped Out of the Workforce in the Obama Years?

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by Stephen Moore

October 12, 2014

Employers are really starting to hire again. We got a very good employment report on Friday when it comes to jobs created. The economy picked up 248,000 new hires in September.

But then there is the not so good news that still plagues the economy and it is a familiar one: the disappearing American worker. Amazingly, nearly 100,000 more Americans on net dropped out of the labor force in September. Some of this is due to natural retirement of baby boomers, but a lot of it is due to workers just giving up finding the job they want. Labor force participation is actually rising for older workers and falling for younger workers.

Now They're Fracking California's Oceans?

huffingtonpost.com

October 10, 2014

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, California's coast faces a new threat. Oil companies are fracking the ocean floor just offshore - and state and federal officials seem unconcerned or out of the loop about the danger.

On dry land, fracking has been an environmental menace for years from Pennsylvania to Texas to North Dakota. But Californians only recently discovered that oil and gas companies are fracking our state as well, blasting huge volumes of water mixed with toxic chemicals into the earth to release fossil fuels. Now we've learned that oil companies are also fracking the ocean floor. This dangerous process is already happening in federal waters in the Santa Barbara Channel, where an infamous 1969 oil spill polluted our ocean and beaches with millions of gallons of oil, and federal officials recently approved a new fracking project.

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