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The Senate will soon vote on an amendment to overturn Citizens United. History is calling! |
"We the People" are on the move! |
So many absurdities abound in our lives that there's a whole body of philosophical thought called "absurdism," as well as an entire catalogue of plays called the "theater of the absurd." And then there's Antonin Scalia. |
This sour, scowling, and snarky Supreme Court Justice personifies the dictionary definition of absurd: "Utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false." |
A right-wing dogmatist and extreme judicial activist who's full of himself, Scalia has been the court's chief monkey-wrencher for corporate interests, constantly messing with the Constitution to enthrone plutocratic money over our people's democratic politics. By black-robed fiat, he and his four fellow corporatists on... |
Two years later, questioned in a CNN interview about the logic of this finding, Scalia leapt from the merely preposterous to the phantasmagoric, insisting that the founders themselves would've approved extending the human right of political speech to these imaginary corporate persons. Doing so, proclaimed the legal con... |
Good grief! What we have here is one of the most powerful officials in America, one of nine supreme arbiters of what the wording of the Constitution means, who's either (1) sublimely ignorant about the core democratic beliefs of a key author of our nation's founding documents; (2) an ideological delusionalist; or (3) a... |
Start with the fact that the word "corporation" appears nowhere in the Constitution. That is not by accident. Jefferson (along with Madison and other founders) abhorred any participation in the people's business by these predatory corporate beasts. Unlike Scalia, Jefferson had no trouble distinguishing between an actua... |
July is the month of Independence Day -- America's birthday! Time to barbeque, do a few 12-ounce elbow bends, and set off some fireworks. Oh, yeah, and maybe we should pause for a moment or two to reflect on that thing Jefferson wrote 238 years ago -- that's right: the Declaration of Independence. |
In fact, "We the People" are faced -- right now -- with another of those "when in the course of human events" moments Jefferson wrote about. Not only is this a month to reconnect with our revolutionary heritage, but it's also an appropriate month for re-declaring our independence, this time, from "They the Corporations... |
With little coverage by the mass media, and with the complicity of most lawmakers, domineering corporations have quietly but aggressively used the High Court itself to write them and their money into the Constitution as our sovereigns. As legal scholar and democratic activist Jamie Raskin said in testimony to the US se... |
Let's call out the names of the Court's corporate clique that is mounting this concerted offensive on your and my inalienable right to be a self-governing citizen: Scalia, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas. |
Just one year after their Citizens United decision unleashed CEOs to be able to roll truckloads of their shareholders' funds into our elections (without asking those shareholders for permission or even informing them after the fact), that same five assaulted our democracy again. Their 2011 verdict in the Arizona Free E... |
Next came this year's McCutcheon opinion, in which the same five blew the lid off the limits on money that an individual can pour on candidates during any given election cycle. The limit had been $123,000 -- high enough that only about 600 people out of our 330 million reached that maximum in 2012. The Court's narrow m... |
Adding to this absurdity, this five-man wrecking crew blithely declares in its McCutcheon ruling that even transactions that appear to be obvious conflicts of interest are permissible (e.g., a CEO can give $25,000 to the head of a congressional committee -- the same person who a week later can put a bill on the floor t... |
And do not think that this is as far as the Court will go to empower Big Money. Already, corporate lawyers are asking the judiciary to strike down all limits on what each millionaire/billionaire can spend to elect or defeat any number of candidates, and they're pushing to reverse 29 state bans on campaign donations dur... |
Nine BArT Scholars receive John and Abigail Adams Scholarship / iBerkshires.com - The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information. |
ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School announced that nine students were awarded John and Abigail Adams scholarship. |
Recipients can attend any Massachusetts state school tuition-free. Audrey Aka, Jacob Bristol, Olivia Case, Jonathan Harford, Elizabeth Laurin, Caitlin Moriarty, Michael Perkins, Maximilian Poirot and Shelby Reynolds all received this award. |
In order for a student to qualify they must score at advanced and proficient levels on their grade 10 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System English language arts and mathematics tests. Additionally their combined ELA and math scores must place them in the top 25 percent of their classmates within the district. ... |
It’s just days after the launch of Moments, and Twitter isn’t wasting any time finding ways to monetize its new offering. According to newly installed chief operating officer Adam Bain, Promoted Moments are set to arrive later this year. |
Testing for Promoted Moments could take place within a few weeks, and they will likely be clearly delineated, as with Promoted Tweets. |
Company vice president of sales, Matt Derella, told AdAge that Promoted Moments would be a “dedicated piece of real estate within the moments guide where a brand can curate a series of different tweets or Vines to actually tell their story.” Each Promoted Moment will be ephemeral, lasting up to 24 hours and constantly ... |
These sponsored moments could end up being akin to Snapchat Discover, where brands like Food Network, Comedy Central, National Geographic, and Vice have complete control over what they’re showing and update it over time. It doesn’t seem far-fetched to imagine a Moment paid for by the NFL for Sunday games, for example, ... |
It's like a scene out of the CSI: Miami: After a bank robbery downtown, two thieves in a getaway car race north along Florida's Intracoastal Waterway. As the minutes tick by and no squad cars appear on their tail, the perpetrators congratulate each other -- they've escaped! |
What the bandits don't know is that they are being watched by a Miami-Dade Police Department unmanned aerial vehicle flying above, equipped with a video camera and radio transmitter. Success quickly turns into failure as a line of patrol cars block their path. The MDPD apprehends the bad guys without resorting to ... |
This is the future that the MDPD and the Houston Police Department would like to come to pass. And this is why both departments have applied to the Federal Aviation Administration for permission to fly police UAVs. The HPD has even staged a demo flight with FAA approval, and the MDPD hopes to do the same in the Florida... |
When it comes to aerial surveillance, UAVs have some distinct advantages compared to manned aircraft. Because they don't have to lift human pilots, UAVs can be far smaller than conventional helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. This weight reduction translates into far lower operational costs -- particularly for fu... |
"Using our manned MD500 helicopter, we can fly for about two hours before having to land and refuel," said Capt. Tom Runyan of the HPD's Traffic Division, which manages the department's helicopter fleet. "In contrast, a UAV can fly for up to 20 hours before landing and refueling." |
Besides flying longer and lighter than manned aircraft, UAVs are far less obvious to ground-based observers, and hence less likely to be noticed during surveillance operations. If a UAV crashes, there's no flight crew on board to be injured or killed. Plus, many of the small UAVs available to U.S. law enforcement ... |
All these reasons explain why Houston pushed ahead with its own UAV demo flight, with FAA approval, last November. The demo flight, a four-mile circle 45 miles west of Houston, was conducted with a 44-pound Insitu Insight UAV. Currently used in Iraq by the U.S. Navy and Marines, the swept-wing Insight is launched by ca... |
Meanwhile, the MDPD is hoping to use a 17-pound Honeywell Micro Air Vehicle for its demo flight later this year. Unlike the Insight, the MAV is a hovering aircraft. |
"The flight would be staged to test the use of an unmanned MAV in tactical situations," said MDPD spokesperson Det. Juan Villalba. "We're waiting for the FAA to approve our proposal and we intend to have a Media Day to showcase what we intend to use it for." |
Clearly, UAVs could be a major boon to U.S. police departments. The real-time video could aid law enforcement in conducting air surveillance missions that would last longer and cost less. So why is the FAA so opposed to the idea? |
"The answer is that any unmanned aircraft, be it large or small, is still an aircraft and thus has to comply with the same rules that apply to manned aircraft," explained FAA spokesperson Les Dorr. |
Under FAA rules, all aircraft have to be able to see and avoid other air traffic. Large manned aircraft do this by virtue of the pilots' eyes and onboard collision avoidance equipment, which is expensive and heavy. Small manned aircraft do this using pilot eyes alone. |
In sparsely populated areas, there is so little air traffic that the risk of mid-air collisions are virtually nonexistent. This is why the FAA allows the U.S. Forest Service to use UAVs to detect forest fires. But in congested urban areas, especially near airports, the amount of air traffic combined with the UAV's... |
"Both police departments have talked about using UAVs in SWAT situations," said Dorr. "It's not uncommon for there to be media helicopters in the area of situations requiring a SWAT team. There's no technology available today that could prevent police UAVs from colliding with these helicopters. What would hap... |
"This is why we have given police departments the right to conduct demo flights, but not to deploy UAVs," Dorr continued. "These flights will compile useful data about UAVs for police missions and help the departments gain expertise in flying these vehicles. But we are not at a point yet where we can authorize them for... |
The FAA's fears about UAVs and urban areas are taken seriously by those in the UAV industry. "Such a mid-air collision occurring just once would be devastating to public confidence in domestic UAVs," noted Dan Fouts, Honeywell's MAV business development manager. |
"There's a legitimate concern about how we make sure collisions don't occur and that UAVs don't fail and fall out of the sky on schools," agreed Dr. David Vos, senior director of Rockwell Collins Control Technology. "But there is a way to solve this problem at least in the long term." |
The "solution" is Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast technology. In an ADSB system, aircraft transmit their GPS-determined locations back to ground control on a regular basis. In turn, the ground-based ADSB system compiles and organizes this data in real-time presenting ground control with an ongoing accurate p... |
The difference between ADSB and conventional air traffic control systems is that human intervention is not required. The ADSB-equipped aircraft interact with the ground-based ADSB system to automatically coordinate their locations with respect to each other and their subsequent flight paths. |
"ADSB is currently being used successfully by UPS to coordinate traffic at its St. Louis hub, with tremendous fuel savings due to the system's superiority to human-directed ATC systems," said Vos. "Europe is actively deploying ADSB at their airports. Meanwhile, we expect to see U.S. airports fitted with ground-bas... |
In the shorter term, it is possible to integrate UAVs into urban airspace, according to Bob Papp, president of Accurate Automation, which builds unmanned aircraft and patrol boats. "All you would have to do is designate a slice of low altitude airspace for police UAVs, with designated entry and exit points, and with no... |
"If there was a strong political advocate for it in Congress, the FAA could make it happen. After all, this approach is already used to designate urban airspace for manned helicopters." Unfortunately, Papp noted, there is no such force promoting UAVs for urban airspace in Washington, DC, today. |
The obvious usefulness of UAVs for cost-effective surveillance makes them ideal for police work. As a result, deployment in sparsely-populated areas is likely to be supported by the FAA, under certain limitations. |
As for the urban surveillance aircraft that the MDPD and HPD want to deploy? Until solutions improve for collision avoidance, don't expect the FAA to approve this application anytime soon -- police video surveillance takes a back seat to concerns for public safety. |
UAV surveillance aircraft cost less to buy and fly than manned aircraft. Plus, they can remain in the air for dozens of hours, compared to a manned helicopter's two-three hour capability. |
UAVs do fly in the continental United States, but not in urban areas. "In the U.S., the military usually tests and trains with its UAVs in restricted airspace," explained Matt Twiggs, vice president of engineering and technology for UAV Communications. "Outside of restricted airspace, UAVs are being used on a limited b... |
According to Twiggs, the FAA's requirements for collision avoidance in U.S. airspace are quite strict. "Some UAVs are implementing sense-and-avoid technologies to help avoid collisions, but the FAA specifies that one or more visual observers on the ground who can see the UAV and communicate with the UAV pilot are ... |
Law enforcement agencies that want to fly UAVs domestically will need to get a Certificate of Authorization from the FAA first, and advanced coordination and notification of any UAV flights are essential, according to Twiggs. Having trained pilot/observer personnel and sufficient communications between them are needed ... |
BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of people who were forced out of their homes for days when dozens of natural gas explosions and fires ripped through three Massachusetts towns. |
The lawsuit is the first of what’s likely to be several filed against Columbia Gas and its parent company over Thursday’s explosions , which killed one person and injured more than two dozen in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover. |
“The federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has reported that the pressure in the Columbia Gas system should have been around 0.5 pounds per square inch (PSI), but readings in the area reached at least 6 PSI — twelve times higher than the system was intended to hold,” the letter said. |
U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, a member of the House Subcommittee on National Security, is calling for a congressional hearing into gas pipeline safety nationwide, pointing to the natural gas explosions in Massachusetts and in western Pennsylvania. |
An estimated 650 pipeline incidents last year caused 20 fatalities and 35 injuries, according to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, the Massachusetts Democrat said. This year pipeline incidents have caused at least three deaths and 33 injuries. |
Lynch said the vulnerability of residents living near pipelines is even more worrisome given the aging state of pipeline infrastructure. |
Man shot a 10-year-old girl in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday after she asked him if the gun he was carrying was a toy. |
The incident took place when the girl’s parents were working in their farm while the victim and her brother were in a ground nearby, Tuesday evening. Vidya Ram, the accused, was roaming near the ground where the children were playing. He was carrying a single barrel gun. When the girl asked him if the gun he was carryi... |
“When my daughter asked him whether the gun he was carrying was toy, Vidya Ram took an aim at her and pressed the trigger. My daughter received bullet injuries and fell down. Before I could reach the spot, he escaped,” the girl’s father, Ajay Pal Maurya, said, local daily the Times Of India reported. |
He then rushed her to a nearby hospital where she is currently undergoing treatment. |
“The doctor told me that my daughter is safe and is being treated for her injuries in her right hand and stomach,” Maurya said. |
Brijendra Singh, station house officer, Kurh Fatehgarh village, said the police immediately started a search operation to find the accused after the girl’s father filed a complaint. They then found the man at a salon with the help of a tip and took him into custody. They also seized his gun. |
“We received an information that Ram had come to a barber shop at Khataita tri-junction area. As soon as we reached there, we caught Ram and seized his gun. An FIR has been registered against him under section 307 (attempt to murder) of IPC,” Singh said. |
In a similar incident in September 2018, a man was arrested after he accidentally shot his girlfriend's five-year-old daughter in Miami, Florida. |
Jonathan Craig, who lived with his girlfriend and her three children in an apartment complex, took out his gun after he noticed an armed man walking outside. One of the children asked him to leave the room as the child was disturbed with him fiddling his handgun. He then took the gun into his girlfriend's bedroom while... |
An investigation into the death of singer Prince has found no obvious signs of trauma on his body when he was found, the local sheriff said at a press conference in Minnesota today. |
Carver County Sheriff Jim Olson said "we have no reason to believe this was a suicide." |
Olson said the 57-year-old musician was last seen around 8 p.m. Wednesday, about 12 hours before he was found unresponsive in an elevator at his studio/home in suburban Minneapolis. |
Paramedics tried to perform CPR but were unable to revive the "Purple Rain" superstar. He was pronounced dead at 10:07 a.m. |
An autopsy was completed today to determine the cause of his death, though officials say it could be weeks before results are released. |
Authorities declined to say what may have been taken from Prince's home after his death, or to discuss a report that the musician suffered a drug overdose less than a week before he died. |
CCTV has been released after thieves stole mobile phone worth £2,497 from a Skegness shop. |
On Wednesday February 21, two men described as wearing light coloured clothing and baseball caps entered the O2 store on Lumley Road, Skegness. They were in the store for a total of seven seconds, and in that time they pulled three mobile phones from their fixed display and ran out of the store. |
If anyone has any information about this incident, including if they have been offered a new iPhone in the last month and they are unsure where it came from, please contact police on 101. |
Officers are also asking if anyone recognises the men pictured, as they may be able to help with police enquiries. |
India dazzle fans and puzzle Australia with burst of speed as they held world champions to a 1-1 draw in Hockey World League Final on Friday. |
The bleachers were packed, probably filled over capacity, and India were playing some mesmerizing hockey too. But for large parts, you couldn’t have guessed it. At the quarter-break, half-time and even post-match, the players raved about the atmosphere. But that claim was exclusively for the cameras. In reality, it fel... |
India were playing their opening match of the tournament. But it wasn’t the way India usually play. And the crowd was puzzled. Just like the Australians were. Used to seeing Indian players make darting runs, cutting past defenders and showboat their skills, the fans looked hypnotized by the speed at which they passed t... |
Since he has taken over in September, India coach Sjoerd Marijne has been trying to get his players to ditch the old habit of carrying the ball for a more one touch, give-and-go style of play. By the end of the 60 minutes of playing measured hockey against Australia, which ended in a 1-1 draw, Marijne seemed content. “... |
However, given the format of this tournament – where all teams will qualify for the knockout stage – result wasn’t the end-all. That gave players the freedom to try in a match what they’ve been practicing at the camp for the last one month. |
So they resisted the urge to take on Australian players one-on-one. Instead, the moment a player received the ball, he would look up and release it in 2-3 seconds maximum. The fans sat silently, trying to focus on the ball that changed sticks at breakneck speed. Sometimes, when they over-did the passing, they gasped in... |
After a first quarter where India dominated play, there was such a spell early in the second. What looked like a routine pass from edge of the ‘D’ by Harmanpreet Singh turned into a dangerous attack within seconds. Manpreet Singh, playing his 200th international match, glanced Harmanpreet’s pass towards Chinglensana Si... |
Chinglensana took a touch and played it back to Manpreet, who looked up, spotted Varun Kumar free on the right flank and played a beautiful through ball. Varun quickly released it towards Mandeep Singh. In just six touches, and 12 seconds, the ball travelled from India’s ‘D’ to Australia’s. |
Unfortunately for the home team, Mandeep’s poor control foiled the move. “It’s a difficult way to play so the discipline has to be high. They did really well today. It looks easy, but it isn’t,” Marijne said. India were still the same pacy side on the attack. But it wasn’t them doing the sprints. For a change, they wer... |
In the 20th minute, they were rewarded. Manpreet picked up a loose ball on the top of India’s ‘D’, took it away from an Australian forward and, from the right, he played a diagonal ball towards Sunil. |
The winger needed just a touch to bring the ball under control and played it forward towards Mandeep. India’s junior World Cup hero ran behind the veteran Mark Knowles and beat goalkeeper Tyler Lovell with a reverse flick. |
That goal brought the proverbial roof down. The crowd came to life but it also woke up the giants from their slumber. As India celebrated, the Australians huddled near the half-line and Knowles had just one message. “I had to tell the boys to focus. We were making too many errors and not able to read the play. We neede... |
The players responded immediately. As they have done numerous times in the past, India switched off after scoring. Birendra Lakra conceded a soft penalty corner a minute later and goalkeeper Akash Chikte allowed an even softer goal from the consequent drag-flick, taken by Jeremy Hayward. |
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