13-07-18 ‘THEY FLY IN TOWN, THEY GET SHOT DOWN’: COLORADO TOWN CONSIDERS DRONE-HUNTING LICENSES AND REWARDS

Jul. 17, 2013 9:30pm Liz Klimas

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DEER TRAIL, Colo. (TheBlaze/AP) — The next potential target for hunters in one Colorado town might be flying with or above the birds — well above the birds.

Leaders in the town of Deer Trail, which has a population around 550 people, are considering an ordinance that would create aerial drone hunting licenses and offer bounties to anyone who shoots one down.

(Image: KMGH video screenshot)

“We do not want drones in town,” resident Phillip Steel, who drafted the ordinance told KMGH-TV. “They fly in town, they get shot down.”

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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/17/they-fly-in-town-they-get-shot-down-colorado-town-considers-drone-hunting-licenses-and-rewards/

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13-07-18 Occupy London: Stuff the Banks: UK Uncut and Direct Action, part 1

The number of people in London relying on food banks tripled last year. In the fifth richest city in the world, 42,064 people used food banks last year - forced by our government to make the choice between paying the bills or eating, feeding themselves or feeding their children.

Stuff the Banks: UK Uncut and Direct Action, part 1

Posted on July 16, 2013

This Saturday (July 20th) sees the latest direct action initiated by protest network UK Uncut. Formed in 2010 in response to the coalition government’s spending cuts, UK Uncut have sparked a series of remarkable and creative protests which have helped force the issue of corporate tax avoidance into a mainstream media that is normally more preoccupied with whipping up hysteria about the far smaller amounts lost to benefit fraud amongst the UK’s most destitute. Benefit fraud stands at £1.2 billion a year, but this is dwarfed by not only the £16 billion that goes unclaimed in benefits, but also the £25 billion that is lost each year in unpaid tax by big businesses. These are facts and figures that now trip of the tongue of an increasingly economically- and politically-savvy public, and this is in no small part thanks to awareness-raising activities of groups such as UK Uncut.

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http://flamingarmchair.co.uk/stuff-the-banks-uk-uncut-and-direct-action-part-1/

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13-07-17 Mexico: "War on Drugs" success? Z-40 captured

A major accomplishment?

The US imposed "War on Drugs" reality check:

• The US is the major drug consumer market,  
• CIA is engaged in wholesale trafficking of drugs into the US, 
• US banks launder billions in drug cartel moneys with impunity...
• US DOJ was caught engaged in gun running to the Mexican cartels
• Police in Los Angeles and elsewhere are routinely involved in wholesale drug marketing.

In the meanwhile:

•  Mexico suffered tens of thousands of civilian casualties in a civil strife of unprecedented savagery in recent years. 
• The War on Drugs has long been declared a failure by international bodies.
• The UN Crime Commissioner issued a report, assessing that in 2008-9 the US banking system would have collapsed, absent cash inflow from the drug cartels, and 
• US for profit prisons are filled to over capacity with small time drug offenders....

And worse is yet to come: The capture of Z-40 is expected to escalate the drug war in Mexico.
Criminologists are in agreement: 
The worst societal cost of failing drug policies in Mexico, the US, and elsewhere is total corruption of the justice systems.

 
Mexico Arrests Violent Drug Kingpin

Posted: 16 Jul 2013 07:11 PM PDT

Mexico has captured the head of the notoriously vicious Zetas drug cartel. Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, known as “Z-40,” was caught in Nuevo Laredo by Mexican Marines. He’s reputed to be exceptionally dangerous and violent—he's known to burn his enemies alive in 55-gallon drums. The Zetas have spread terror through Mexico in the brutal drug war as they’ve made their name displaying bodies of their murdered victims throughout the country. Trevino Morales’s capture is thought to be the first major blow against organized crime by President Enrique Peña Nieto, whose campaign promised to drive down crime figures.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-mexico-zetas-kingpins-arrest-is-display-of-new-restrained-style-in-drug-war/2013/07/16/5641c20a-ee32-11e2-bb32-725c8351a69e_story.html