Guatemala President Otto Fernando Pérez Molina in his speech Thursday before the United Nations General Assembly praised the marijuana legalization bill progressing through the Uruguay national government as well as marijuana legalization adopted via popular votes in...
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Is TSA Frisking and Scanning Coming to the Local Mall?
by Adam Dick | Sep 26, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Will American families soon spend Saturday mornings waiting in line for US Transportation Security Administration friskings and scannings outside the local shopping center? We can hope not. But, Miranda Green reports in the Daily Beast that the US Department of...
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff Condemns US Mass Spying before UN General Assembly
by Adam Dick | Sep 26, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff started the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly with fireworks Tuesday, using her first speaking position among national government leaders to condemn US government spying on the people of her nation and of many other...
Did Sen. Reid Let Slip Secret Plan to Use Navy Yard Killings as Excuse for New Medical Privacy Violations?
by Adam Dick | Sep 19, 2013 | Congress Alert
There is reason for concern that the US Congress and the National Rifle Association may soon work together to use the Washington, DC Navy Yard killings earlier this week as an excuse to expand a US government database of all Americans' private medical information.The...
US Attack on Syria Would Be Cash Cow for Military Contractors
by Adam Dick | Sep 13, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US military contractors are ready to rake in hundred of millions of dollars from missile sales alone if the US launches a "limited" attack on Syria. Ray Downs describes the details in Vice: Even as diplomats work on a last-ditch effort to get Syria to hand over its...
US Customs and Border Protection Rolls Out Unconstitutional Searches Far from Borders
by Adam Dick | Sep 12, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US Customs and Border Protection appears to be engaged in the dragnet detaining of general aviation pilots and searching of private airplanes around the country. Expect this program to quickly expand if immigration legislation that increases border-industrial complex...
NH City Council Approves Acquiring Tank Despite Public Opposition
by Adam Dick | Sep 10, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Concord, New Hampshire city council voted tonight to acquire a Lenco BearCat G3 tank. The acquisition passed by a vote of 11 to 4 despite hundreds of people coming to the city council meeting last month in opposition. Public pressure had also caused the Concord...
Surveillance State: We Are One Step Away from Glass Houses
by Adam Dick | Sep 2, 2013 | Featured Articles
In Yevgeny Zamyatin's dystopian novel We, the people of One State live in transparent apartments with curtains required to be open nearly all the time so police and informants may view the residents' every action. Listening to George Washington University Law School...
RPI Board Members Speak Out Against US Attack on Syria
by Adam Dick | Aug 30, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Advisory Board Members Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. and former Rep. Dennis Kucinich are speaking out in opposition to a US military attack on Syria.US Rep. Duncan, in a television interview in his home state of Tennessee, engages the issue with clear, straightforward...
NYPD Muslim Surveillance and Mosque Infiltration Exposed
by Adam Dick | Aug 30, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On the heels of a court deciding the New York City police department's stop-and-frisk program violates constitutional search and seizure limitations, the Associated Press reports the NYPD has for years engaged in the infiltration of mosques and and the large-scale,...
For the Back to School List—Military Recruiter Opt Out Form
by Adam Dick | Aug 17, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While shopping for pens, notebooks, or a backpack, don't forget to consider adding one more item to your back to school list—a military recruiter opt out form. All government school systems and most private schools that receive education funding from the United Stated...
John Whitehead and Lew Rockwell Discuss the Electronic Concentration Camp
by Adam Dick | Aug 15, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Listen here to an enlightening—and frightening—discussion between Rutherford Institute President John W. Whitehead and RPI Advisory Board Member Lew Rockwell. In the 15 minutes discussion, Whitehead backs with evidence his claim that Americans are living in an...
Hundreds Protest NH Police Chief’s Tank Request
by Adam Dick | Aug 13, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Concord Monitor reports that hundreds of people came to the Concord, New Hampshire city council meeting Monday night to protest Concord Police Chief John Duval's ongoing effort to obtain a Lenco BearCat G3 armored vehicle for the town's police department. BearCat...
Washington Gay Policy Push Counterproductive in Russia
by Adam Dick | Aug 13, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Americans upset over a new Russian law banning "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations around minors" should think twice before calling on the United States government to help their cause. That is the message of Stephen F. Cohen, a professor emeritus of Russian...
NH Police Chief: I Need Tanks to Fight the Free State Project!
by Adam Dick | Aug 9, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Mother Jones reports that Concord, NH Police Chief John Duval has backed off his outlandish suggestion that his police department needs a Lenco Bearcat G3 to fend off the terrorism threat posed by the Free State Project and Occupy New Hampshire. Duval had made the...
Does Washington Post Purchase Create Spooky Conflict of Interest?
by Adam Dick | Aug 8, 2013 | Featured Articles
Everyone is talking about Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos's recent purchase of the Washington Post. Less noticed is the conflict of interest between his ownership of the Post and Amazon’s potentially significant profits from computing and data storage contracts with...
President José Mujica Versus the United Nations
by Adam Dick | Aug 5, 2013 | Featured Articles
Uruguay's President José Mujica is standing up to United Nations bureaucrats at the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) who are chastising Uruguay for advancing legislation that will allow the legal growth, sale, and purchase of marijuana for medical and...
James Comey Won’t Improve the FBI
by Adam Dick | Jul 31, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photo: kalavinkaExpect business as usual at the FBI after Monday’s Senate confirmation of James B. Comey, Jr. to be the Bureau's new director. Comey had previously served as George W. Bush’s Deputy Attorney General. Every indication is that Comey will lead the FBI in...
The Rise of SWAT
by Adam Dick | Jul 25, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a KERA Radio interview this week, investigative reporter Radley Balko provides an informative overview of the the history of police SWAT teams in the United States. Balko addresses factors that have contributed to the rise of SWAT including the war on drugs, civil...
DC Politics Commentators Express High Expectations for Ron Paul Channel
by Adam Dick | Jul 24, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Founder and CEO, Ron Paul, with RPI Board Member, Judge Andrew NapolitanoDC politics commentators are expressing high expectations for Ron Paul Institute Chairman and Founder Ron Paul's next project, the Ron Paul Channel. In The Hill, Brent Budowsky predicts the...
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