Tag Archive: gun rights

on January 23, 2015 in World News

German judge defends right of men to pee standing up

German judge defends right of men to pee standing up Landlord took former tenant to court for refusing to pay for damage to the marble floor of the bathroom he said was caused by stray drops from the tenant’s habit of relieving himself while standing Men have the right to pee standing up in their own homes, a German court has ruled. An Englishman’s home may be his castle, but in Germany the courts consider it their duty to rule on even the most intimate details of life at home. The ruling comes after a landlord took his former tenant… View Article

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on January 21, 2015 in World News

Obama calls for civility, then immediately taunts Republicans

Obama calls for civility, then immediately taunts Republicans Most divisive president in history Obama calls for civility, then immediately taunts Republicans President Obama spent much of Tuesday’s State of the Union calling for civility in politics — then taunted Republicans over his two election victories, after many of them applauded the looming end of his political career. Mr. Obama issued a broad call for “a better politics” that began with common principles, and said his agenda isn’t political, pointing out “I have no more campaigns to run.” That drew rousing applause from the GOP side of the aisle, which had… View Article

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on January 21, 2015 in World News

TVs Recording “Personal” Conversations

Samsung Responds to Privacy Concerns Over TVs Recording “Personal” Conversations Private communications being sent to government? Samsung has responded to privacy concerns over its warning that voice recognition software used in the company’s line of smart TVs is being used to record “personal” conversations and send them to third parties. Last November we highlighted Samsung’s global privacy policy, which advises users to, “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.” Michael Price, counsel in… View Article

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on January 21, 2015 in World News

Homestead Act for Russian Far East

Homestead Act for Russian Far East – Putin supports free land handout The Russian president has approved the idea to offer large land plots for free to anyone who resettles to the Russian Far East to start a farm or other business. The initiative was first voiced by the deputy PM and presidential envoy to the Far East Federal District, Yuri Trutnev, who said that such a step would “strengthen the tendency of people’s migration to the Far East,” Interfax reported. Trutnev told reporters that Putin called the idea right in principle and noted that similar programs had been successfully… View Article

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on January 21, 2015 in World News

Big Pharma ‘overcharging’ poor countries for child vaccines – report

Big Pharma ‘overcharging’ poor countries for child vaccines – report Doctors Without Borders has released a new report blasting two top pharmaceutical companies for inflated costs of vital vaccines that have proved too steep for poor nations, recommending they adjust prices in order to save lives. The charity, Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins Sans Frontieres, has called on GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer to drop the price of the pneumococcal vaccine to $5 per child in the most impoverished countries. The vaccine protects young children against 12 diseases, including sepsis, bacterial meningitis, and pneumonia. Worldwide, pneumococcal disease kills about a million children… View Article

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on January 21, 2015 in World News

Fact-Checking Obama’s State Of The Union Speech

Fact-Checking Obama’s State Of The Union Speech We already did our post-mortem of last night’s teleprompted annual evangelizing of Barack Obama’s “straight to folks” propaganda that would make both Goebbels and Dzerzhinsky blush. So instead of repeating ourselves, here is AP with its own fact check of what can only be dubbed lie after lie, courtesy of the president of the “free world” and the head of the “most transparent administration ever.” * * * AP looks at some of Obama’s claims, and the facts and the political climate behind them: OBAMA: “At this moment – with a growing economy,… View Article

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on January 21, 2015 in World News

Retail Gun Sales Skyrocket, Violent Crime Lowest ‘Since 1978′

Retail Gun Sales Skyrocket, Violent Crime Lowest ‘Since 1978′ During a state of the industry presentation at the 2015 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, National Shooting Sports Foundation president Steven Sanetti said background checks for retail gun sales “are up 104 percent since 1994,” yet “violent crimes are at their lowest numbers since 1978.” Moreover, he said “murders are at their lowest rate since 1968.” Using the last decade as a microcosm, Sanetti said that as firearm sales “greatly increased…during the last ten years homicides involving firearms…[fell] 46 percent” and “fatal firearm accidents are down 22 percent.” He then offered… View Article

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on January 19, 2015 in World News

Arkansas government kidnaps seven children, searches home of family for owning a popular mineral supplement

Arkansas government kidnaps seven children, searches home of family for owning a popular mineral supplement The need to amend the Bill of Rights to protect medical freedom in America is now greater than ever. Yesterday, government thugs in Hot Springs, Arkansas raided and searched the home of a couple who were in possession of a simple mineral supplement called Miracle Mineral Solution. Law enforcement officers of Garland County, Arkansas served a search warrant on the Stanley home — yes, possession of a legal, medicinal mineral supplement is now grounds for being searched by the government — where they took the… View Article

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