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18 Examples Of The Nanny State Gone Wild

America has been overrun by control freaks.  Once upon a time the United States was considered to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave", but today there are millions of laws, rules and regulations that tightly regulate our daily lives.  Most of these laws, rules and regulations were established by people who believed that they had "good intentions", but at this point the nanny state has become so oppressive that it is strangling the life out of us.  If you look back throughout history, the societies that have really thrived have had a very high degree of liberty and freedom.  When the bureaucrats get the upper hand, it can suck the life out of any economy.  Unfortunately, our political system seems to be a magnet for control freaks.  These control freaks truly believe that they know better than the rest of us and they are systematically moving toward taking total control of our lives.  Our rights are being stripped away a little bit more with each passing day, and we are being told that we need a "permit" or a "license" for almost everything.  Many younger Americans have been living this kind of "straight jacket existence" for so long that they don't even remember what real liberty and freedom are.  We are steamrolling down the road toward totalitarianism, and most Americans don't even realize what is happening.

Sadly, there are many Americans that actually agree that the state should regulate nearly every detail of our lives.  There are many Americans that actually believe that life is better when there are millions of rules that we all have to follow.  There are many Americans that actually believe that too much liberty and freedom is a bad thing.

If we are not careful the control freaks are going to destroy this nation.  They always tell us that the rules that they are imposing upon us are "for our own good", but every time they lay another burden on our backs they just suck a little bit more life out of us all.

The following are 18 examples of the nanny state gone wild....

#1 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced that he wants to ban the sale of all large sodas and sugary drinks in order to fight obesity.  Personally I don't have any sodas in my refrigerator, but I certainly do not want the government telling me that I am banned from drinking large sodas.  Every American should have the freedom to decide if they want to drink soda or not.

#2 In North Carolina, authorities are threatening to send a blogger to prison for blogging about his battle against diabetes....

Steve Cooksey has learned that the definition, at least in the eyes of the state board, is expansive.

When he was hospitalized with diabetes in February 2009, he decided to avoid the fate of his grandmother, who eventually died of the disease. He embraced the low-carb, high-protein Paleo diet, also known as the “caveman” or “hunter-gatherer” diet. The diet, he said, made him drug- and insulin-free within 30 days. By May of that year, he had lost 45 pounds and decided to start a blog about his success.

But this past January the state diatetics and nutrition board decided Cooksey’s blog — Diabetes-Warrior.net — violated state law. The nutritional advice Cooksey provides on the site amounts to “practicing nutrition,” the board’s director says, and in North Carolina that’s something you need a license to do.
#3 In San Francisco, if you do not recycle your trash correctly you can be fined up to $500.

#4 The following are just some of the cities that have started using RFID tracking chips to monitor the recycling habits of their citizens....

*Cleveland, Ohio

*Charlotte, North Carolina

*Alexandria, Virginia

*Boise, Idaho

*Dayton, Ohio

*Flint, Michigan

#5 In Minnetonka, Minnesota you can be fined up to $2,000 for having a muddy vehicle.

#6 In Hazelwood, Missouri it is against the law for little girls to sell girl scout cookies in front of their own homes.

#7 San Francisco has implemented a ban on Happy Meal toys.

#8 Over the past couple of years there have been quite a few instances all over the country where lemonade stands run by children have been shut down by police because the children had not acquired the proper permits.

#9 State legislatures all over the country have been passing legislation making it more difficult for parents to opt out of having their children vaccinated.

#10 In many U.S. states is it now illegal to collect any rain that falls on to your own property.

#11 In San Juan Capistrano, California it is against the law to hold a home Bible study without a "conditional use permit".

#12 In New York City, it is against the law to smoke at public parks and beaches.

#13 In California,"food confiscation teams" visit the homes of people that have been discovered to have purchased raw milk.  The following is from a recent Natural News article....

In a bombshell revelation of the depth of the food police state that now exists in LA County, California, NaturalNews has learned that the LA County health department has unleashed door-to-door raw milk confiscation teams to threaten and intimidate raw dairy customers into surrendering raw milk products they legally purchased and own.

According to Mark McAfee (see quotes below), both LA County and San Diego county have attempted to acquire customer names and addresses from Organic Pastures (www.OrganicPastures.com) for the sole purpose of sending "food confiscation teams" to customers' homes to remove the raw milk from customers' refrigerators. Using both phone calls and home visits, these teams intimidate customers and try to force them to give up their milk.
#14 In Hilton Head, South Carolina it is illegal to have trash in your car.

#15 In major cities all over the United States feeding the homeless has been banned due to "health reasons".

#16 In Louisiana, one church was ordered to stop passing out water because it did not have the proper permit.

#17 At public schools all over the United States, the lunches that little children bring from home are now inspected to make sure that they meet USDA guidelines.  The following is one recent report of this phenomenon from North Carolina....

A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because the school told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious.

The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the person who was inspecting all lunch boxes in the More at Four classroom that day.

The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs — including in-home day care centers — to meet USDA guidelines. That means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches are brought from home.
#18 Today, a vast array of government agencies is constantly monitoring what all of us say and do on the Internet.  They claim that this helps makes us all more "safe" and "secure".

In order to maintain proper "control" over our lives, the nanny state is obsessed with watching us and monitoring us.  This point was beautifully made in a recent article by Chuck Baldwin....

America is no longer "one nation under God." Today, America is "one nation under surveillance." Cameras monitoring our every movement, satellites taking pictures of our homes, listening devices being used to record our conversations, hi-tech computers capturing virtually every piece of correspondence, banking institutions forwarding our private financial records to Big Brother, and now armed drones flying over the neighborhoods of the American citizenry all reveal that America is anything but the "land of the free."
Is this really how we want to live?

Do we want our children and our grandchildren to live their lives in a nation that is increasingly coming to resemble totalitarian regimes like North Korea?

Yes, every society needs laws.

But we don't need millions of them.

Our founders intended to create a society where liberty and freedom would be maximized, and all of that liberty and freedom helped create an environment that gave birth to the greatest economic machine that the world has ever seen.

But now the control freaks are choking the life out of our society.  Please take a stand against them while you still can.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/18-examples-of-the-nanny-state-gone-wild
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« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2012, 04:05:19 am »

Vienna church says county sign rules violate free speech

If the Church of the Good Shepherd wanted to post the Ten Commandments on its sign on Hunter Mill Road, it would take five days to broadcast them all.

That’s because Fairfax County has a commandment of its own: Thou shall not change electronic signs more than twice a day.



So, after the Vienna United Methodist church posted three messages one day last month — offering refuge from the heat, then promoting its Web site and finally listing the time of a group prayer meeting — a zoning inspector called it a sin and hit the church with a warning letter:

“It is noted that the screens changed more than twice in a twenty-four (24) hour period,” the letter stated. “This changeable copy LED sign is considered a prohibited sign.”

The county offered two choices: permanently limit the sign to two message changes per day or remove it altogether.

At a meeting at the end of July, about two months after the church installed the sign, the county and the congregation couldn’t agree on a compromise. So the church, believing that the First Amendment also applies to the word of God, sued last week in federal court in Alexandria, saying the two-message limit violates the church’s rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion. The suit says that the county’s ordinance violates a 2000 law, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, which prohibits zoning rules that place undue burdens on religious institutions.

“Under the county’s restrictive policy, the church must pick and choose which of its various functions can be displayed on its sign each day,” the suit says. “Such an impact is a substantial burden on the church’s religious exercise.”

County officials declined to comment, as is their policy when a lawsuit is pending. Several members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors said they weren’t aware of the two-message limit and didn’t want to discuss it until they learned more.

“It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me,” Supervisor Pat S. Herrity (R-Springfield) said.

Neighbors, even those who said they don’t like the sign, said it seemed a waste of government time and resources to worry about the number of messages on a church sign.

“It’s a pretty small fish in the scheme of things,” Steve Hull said.

At the crux of the matter is a zoning ordinance that bans electronic signs that use flashing lights or moving text. But what qualifies as moving? The county defines it as changing a sign’s message more than twice in 24 hours.

“It’s just too restrictive,” Sherry Spinelli, a member of the church’s board of trustees, said this week. “It doesn’t make sense.”

She noted that the church got the proper county permit to erect the $37,000 sign but said it wasn’t aware of the message limit until the county’s letter arrived.

In addition to the lawsuit, a county spokeswoman said staff members also couldn’t discuss the ordinance, including its purpose, history or past cases in which it has been enforced.

The church’s attorney, Michael York, said the limit is applied arbitrarily. Electronic signs that display the time or weather information, for instance, are exempt. Although the county provided the church with examples of past cases in which it has enforced the rule, Spinelli said that in paying closer attention to electronic signs in recent weeks, she has seen several without time or weather information that don’t comply.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/vienna-church-says-fairfax-county-sign-rules-violate-first-amendment/2012/08/29/7e06d5f0-f1ee-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_story.html
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Uh, it's law, they have to discuss it! What do they mean not discuss it? They have to explain why the ordinace exits. A city council or whatever can't pass ordinaces and not tell the public why they did it. That's absurd. Roll Eyes
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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2013, 11:17:44 am »

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Appeals court strikes down NYC's big-soda ban

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's crackdown on big, sugary sodas is staying on ice.

An appeals court ruled Tuesday that New York City's Board of Health exceeded its legal authority and acted unconstitutionally when it tried to put a size limit on soft drinks served in city restaurants.

The state Supreme Court Appellate Division panel upheld a lower court decision that had delayed the measure before it took effect in March.

The rule would stop many eateries from selling non-diet soda and other sugar-laden beverages in containers bigger than 16 ounces.

The beverage industry and other opponents say the measure is riddled with exceptions, unfair and ineffective.

The city's law department has promised an appeal.

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And the city's law department needs to learn that the city doesn't get to legislate personal choice, especially in a "free market economy".
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Is Vancouver’s Doorknob Ban a Gov’t Overreach?

Residents looking to construct new homes in Vancouver, Canada, will soon need to comply with a building code regulation set to go into effect on March 14. The doorknob, the key to opening and closing doors, is being phased out, with a new rule stating that all portals and faucets in future buildings must have lever handles.
 
While businesses and houses that have already been constructed won’t be forced to change current knobs, all new construction must abide.
 
This will mean that, over time, the doorknob could become a thing of the past, The Vancouver Sun reported.
 
The change might seem curious at first glance, but Tim Stanton, professor and director of the University of British Columbia, said that Vancouver’s interest in regulating doorknobs likely comes from something called “universal design.”
 
This is the concept that society should be as open and accessible as possible.
 
So, when it comes to doorknobs — which could be difficult for some people with disabilities to operate — putting this theory into practice would mean coming up with something like a lever that is more usable to a greater portion of society.
 
Stainton told the Sun that there are other examples of universal design already in practice, including fire alarms that include flashing lights for the hearing impaired and cut curbs that help moms with strollers and the elderly easily get on and off of sidewalks.
 
“Basically, the idea is that you try to make environments that are as universally usable by any part of the population. The old model was adaptation, or adapted design,” he told the Sun. “You took a space and you adapted for use of the person with a disability. What universal design says is let’s turn it around and let’s just build everything so it is as usable by the largest segments of the population as possible.”

Some are questioning the merits of the rule change, though, particularly when it comes to private homes.
 
Allen Joslyn, president of the Antique Door Knob Collectors of America, a nonprofit devoted to studying and preserving ornamental doorknobs, wonders if Vancouver went too far in implementing its newfound ban.
 
“I can understand if you have a public building where everybody wants to have free access and that is a problem,” he told the Sun. “But to say that when I build my private home and nobody is disabled that I have to put levers on, strikes me as overreach.”

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Sen. Mike Lee Uses One Simple Photo to Argue That We’ve Become a Nation of Regulations

Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) believes the United States has become a nation of regulations.
 
And although Congress was historically unproductive in 2013, according to certain media outlets, most notably MSNBC, the folks responsible for drafting the nation’s federal regulations were plenty busy.
 
How busy?
 
Take a look at the following photo from the Utah senator’s Facebook page:



“Behold my display of the 2013 Federal Register,” Lee wrote in the Facebook description. “It contains over 80,000 pages of new rules, regulations, and notices all written and passed by unelected bureaucrats.”

But here’s the part where you really need to pay attention: “The small stack of papers on top of the display are the laws passed by elected members of Congress and signed into law by the president.”

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http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/google-house-tech-giant-spends-billions-get-inside-your-home-2D11926690?ocid=msnhp&pos=1
Google house: Tech giant spends billions to get inside your home
1/14/14

Google’s making itself at home.

The search engine giant has shelled out $3.2 billion to buy Nest Labs, the maker of super-sleek appliances including a thermostat that looks like it’s out of a sci-fi movie. It’s Google’s big push to get into the lucrative and growing market of connected homes.

Nest is best known for its “Learning Thermostat,” which figures out users’ daily habits. The technology is already savvy enough, for example, to know not to blast cool air through the house on a hot summer’s day if everyone has already left for work.

In short, Nest understands what users are doing every day in a way that Google’s own search engines and tablets don’t reach. It’s a truly home-centered device that gives Google a view into how people live in the physical world, and not just how they live online.

“The two companies may seem different, but at their core, they’re both heavily focused on understanding the behavior of individuals,” said Anind Dey, associate professor at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute.

“People have tablets and phones, but we don’t think of them as home appliances,” Dey added. “[Nest] is something that’s in your house, on your wall, and it knows when you come and go.”

Those types of built-in and outwardly innocuous devices make up the dream of the so-called “connected home,” where extremely sophisticated tech is as everyday as the family goldfish.

For years and years, technology trade shows have crowed that they were closed to developing devices that would all connect to one another. In this connected “Internet of Things,” a homeowner could unlock their front door, check her tire pressure, and make sure the dishwasher is off, all while sitting in front of her desktop at work.

So far that has been a pipe dream, but the technology – hardware, operating systems and connectivity – could finally be coming together. Loads of companies including Microsoft, Sony, Intel and AT&T are working to make the connected home a reality, and while no company has quite figured it out yet, they have huge financial incentive to do so: Cisco predicts the “Internet of Things” economy will reach $14.4 trillion spread over the next decade.

Nest gives Google a foot in the door of that potentially lucrative space. Google has made clear that it wants to be on the forefront of innovation, and after getting itself on peoples’ faces with Google Glass and behind the wheel of a driverless car, conquering the domestic sphere seems to be the logical next step.

The first 15 years of Google and the first 20-odd years of the web have been focused on human beings,” said Sanjay Sarma, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “The next era is going to be inanimate things. Google knows that.”

For companies like Google, the appeal of these inanimate, Internet-connected “things” is the data they transmit. Nest’s data could provide Google with deep insights into its customers’ daily habits—particularly when combined with all that Google already knows about those users from their web searches to emails to phone use.

Such a combination is mouthwatering for companies like Google – but not everyone is likely to see a Google-connected device as just another piece of furniture. Nest issued a statement on Monday assuring customers that its privacy policy “clearly limits the use of customer information to providing and improving Nest’s products and services. We’ve always taken privacy seriously and this will not change.”

However, Nest’s statement doesn’t exclude possibilities like Google using anonymized data that can’t be tied back to any specific user – which could still be extremely valuable. Both Nest and Google declined to comment beyond the statements the companies issued on Monday.

No matter how Google harnesses Nest and its data in the future, Sarma, the MIT professor, thinks this is the acquisition that will push home automation further into mainstream reality.

“A large, credible company like Google entering the fray really accelerates how quickly [home automation] will move,” Sarma said. “It’s a lightning rod.”

Dey disagreed.

“For the last 20 years we’ve always said we’re 10 years away from the full, mainstream Internet of Things. I still feel that way today,” Dey said. “I still think this is a very limited step.”

Instead, Dey said, the key is partnerships between companies that each provide a part of the system. While niche products like Nest’s thermostat may take off, a major shift won’t happen until big appliance companies ink deals with firms that are able to support the underpinnings of a system of connected devices.

“We’re talking about hardware, software, the cloud, connectivity,” Dey said. “It’s a complex things, and we’re making progress over the years. But like lots of huge innovations, it’s the partnerships that make it work.”
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...Instead, Dey said, the key is partnerships between companies that each provide a part of the system. While niche products like Nest’s thermostat may take off, a major shift won’t happen until big appliance companies ink deals with firms that are able to support the underpinnings of a system of connected devices.

“We’re talking about hardware, software, the cloud, connectivity,” Dey said. “It’s a complex things, and we’re making progress over the years. But like lots of huge innovations, it’s the partnerships that make it work.”

The pretty much sums it up. It's about the love of money, not ease of use. All the various "things" that Google has been getting into is somehow involving robotics and automation in and around the home and the user. If Google gets into home automation and security, then it now has demographics of potential customers it didn't have before. It's about offerings to potential Google business "partners", not about offering customers new gadgets.

Imagine what it would be worth if you could tell your advertisers that you know what each customer buys because their refrigerator is jacked into the internet, and the customer also uses "Google Wallet", so they know all the financials of each customer. Custom tailored ads right to the monitor on the front of your internet-connected frig.

Yeah, this ain't nothing but about the love of money. Google wants access to people for marketing purposes. As a result of those efforts, they happen to collect data and have access to data that government wants. If Google wants to do business in the world, they will be forced to play ball with government. Recent court cases against Google prove it. Pay up or get out.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/google-house-tech-giant-spends-billions-get-inside-your-home-2D11926690?ocid=msnhp&pos=1
Google house: Tech giant spends billions to get inside your home
1/14/14

Google’s making itself at home.

The search engine giant has shelled out $3.2 billion to buy Nest Labs, the maker of super-sleek appliances including a thermostat that looks like it’s out of a sci-fi movie. It’s Google’s big push to get into the lucrative and growing market of connected homes.

Nest is best known for its “Learning Thermostat,” which figures out users’ daily habits. The technology is already savvy enough, for example, to know not to blast cool air through the house on a hot summer’s day if everyone has already left for work.

In short, Nest understands what users are doing every day in a way that Google’s own search engines and tablets don’t reach. It’s a truly home-centered device that gives Google a view into how people live in the physical world, and not just how they live online.

“The two companies may seem different, but at their core, they’re both heavily focused on understanding the behavior of individuals,” said Anind Dey, associate professor at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute.

“People have tablets and phones, but we don’t think of them as home appliances,” Dey added. “[Nest] is something that’s in your house, on your wall, and it knows when you come and go.”

Those types of built-in and outwardly innocuous devices make up the dream of the so-called “connected home,” where extremely sophisticated tech is as everyday as the family goldfish.

For years and years, technology trade shows have crowed that they were closed to developing devices that would all connect to one another. In this connected “Internet of Things,” a homeowner could unlock their front door, check her tire pressure, and make sure the dishwasher is off, all while sitting in front of her desktop at work.

So far that has been a pipe dream, but the technology – hardware, operating systems and connectivity – could finally be coming together. Loads of companies including Microsoft, Sony, Intel and AT&T are working to make the connected home a reality, and while no company has quite figured it out yet, they have huge financial incentive to do so: Cisco predicts the “Internet of Things” economy will reach $14.4 trillion spread over the next decade.

Nest gives Google a foot in the door of that potentially lucrative space. Google has made clear that it wants to be on the forefront of innovation, and after getting itself on peoples’ faces with Google Glass and behind the wheel of a driverless car, conquering the domestic sphere seems to be the logical next step.

The first 15 years of Google and the first 20-odd years of the web have been focused on human beings,” said Sanjay Sarma, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “The next era is going to be inanimate things. Google knows that.”

For companies like Google, the appeal of these inanimate, Internet-connected “things” is the data they transmit. Nest’s data could provide Google with deep insights into its customers’ daily habits—particularly when combined with all that Google already knows about those users from their web searches to emails to phone use.

Such a combination is mouthwatering for companies like Google – but not everyone is likely to see a Google-connected device as just another piece of furniture. Nest issued a statement on Monday assuring customers that its privacy policy “clearly limits the use of customer information to providing and improving Nest’s products and services. We’ve always taken privacy seriously and this will not change.”

However, Nest’s statement doesn’t exclude possibilities like Google using anonymized data that can’t be tied back to any specific user – which could still be extremely valuable. Both Nest and Google declined to comment beyond the statements the companies issued on Monday.

No matter how Google harnesses Nest and its data in the future, Sarma, the MIT professor, thinks this is the acquisition that will push home automation further into mainstream reality.

“A large, credible company like Google entering the fray really accelerates how quickly [home automation] will move,” Sarma said. “It’s a lightning rod.”

Dey disagreed.

“For the last 20 years we’ve always said we’re 10 years away from the full, mainstream Internet of Things. I still feel that way today,” Dey said. “I still think this is a very limited step.”

Instead, Dey said, the key is partnerships between companies that each provide a part of the system. While niche products like Nest’s thermostat may take off, a major shift won’t happen until big appliance companies ink deals with firms that are able to support the underpinnings of a system of connected devices.

“We’re talking about hardware, software, the cloud, connectivity,” Dey said. “It’s a complex things, and we’re making progress over the years. But like lots of huge innovations, it’s the partnerships that make it work.”


Google Nest Plans A Home Invasion

After learning how Google is pairing off with the military and even the NSA, one might be tempted to turn off one’s computer and phone. But what about your thermostat? Google has just acquired Nest for $3.2 billion. Nest had built a thermostat “that adjusts to your living patterns.” It also developed a fire alarm that links to the thermostat. Basically, observers think getting the Nest technology allows Google to learn what we are doing when we are not on the internet.


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We need to examine why Google gaining a foothold into our houses with home automation devices feels creepier than, say, Xfinity providing us with home security
 
Dan Hanon writes for Wired: It’s not just an acquisition — it’s an annexation. The kind that involves planting a flag. Because now we’re talking physical territory, which is the case as the internet inexorably and increasingly reaches into the real world. Simply put: People invited Nest into their houses. Not Google.
 
It was one thing when services like AdMob got acquired by Google or Flickr and Tumblr got acquired by Yahoo! It’s another thing when the companies — really, their devices and users — getting acquired are services that have a persistent physical presence in our lives. People have always thought of online places as distinct spaces, but with a sense of place comes a sense of territory, belonging, and community.
 
That’s why, despite Google and Nest’s statements that Nest would remain separate, Google essentially bought its way into your house — literally so if you’re a Nest user. An annexation indeed: You didn’t have a choice. You woke up and the new ruler was in town. There was no resistance. There are no good alternatives to Nest (yet). In fact, gaining users this way is the M&A equivalent of the military shock and awe tactic — rapidly dominating through billions of dollars instead of firepower; imposing will upon user communities without consent.
 
Hanon critiques Google with another term from the war on terror. “And nowhere in this campaign does anyone put effort into winning hearts and minds.” Do we really want them to? If our household utilities are hooked up to the same database that monitors our online activity, how will they use that information?
 
Still, we need to examine why Google gaining a foothold into our houses with home automation devices feels creepier than, say, Xfinity providing us with home security. Do we actually trust a cable provider more than we trust Google here — if so, how can that be? I think it’s because Google’s stated mission of organizing the world’s information is in danger of becoming significantly more creepy.
 
Because there will always be more information to organize. It turns out that “all the information in the world” includes not only streetviews of houses but might even include our heating patterns or when we’re away from home (which, to be fair, Google already knows about because our plane tickets are in Gmail and our searches on its servers). Given the NSA’s known strategy of working with internet companies to get information about people, it would be nice to know exactly what Google was planning to do with their new powers. source – Political Outcast


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Simply put: People invited Nest into their houses. Not Google.

People have invited Google into their homes as well. There is absolutely no need for a internet-ready cell phone, but society has been pushed into it by companies offering "new" features to encourage the public to change their habits to using all things digital. The desktop computer is nice, but you can't take it with you, thus, when your not at the computer, your not looking at website ads and considering buying something online. Ultimately, they have always wanted to not be in your home, but be wherever you are, because your money is attached to you, not your house.

People choose to go digital. They choose out of a desire for things to be easier, to expose their private information. And many of them will choose the "mark of the beast", and perish for it, all because of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.
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EPA’s New Power Grab Includes Rain Water, says AMAC

‘The agency seeks to expand the definition of the waterways it regulates to include puddles’

WASHINGTON, DC, Dec 5 – “Government has grown more aggressive as it seeks to trample on our rights with regulations that are so intrusive they are positively inane, including a new one that would give the EPA the right to regulate rain water,” according to Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens.

Weber said that he was not amused when the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would extend its authority under the Clean Water Act to include puddles.

“The Clean Water Act was enacted in 1972 to prevent the pollution of the nation’s navigable waters.  It was not intended to allow the government to tell us how to deal with naturally occurring ditches on our property just because they might collect rainwater during a storm.  But that’s exactly what the EPA proposes to do.  It would be a joke if it wasn’t for the fact that such pervasive authority is bound to cause hardships for America’s farmers and for the country as a whole,” Weber explained.

Mark Pflugmacher operates a family farm in Champaign County, IL.  He is also a member of the Champaign County Farm Bureau.  As he put it in an OpEd article published in his local paper, The News-Gazette: “If the expanded definition is allowed, permits and other regulatory roadblocks — having to hire environmental consultants, for example — would stand in the way of conducting routine business activities like building fences, removing debris from ditches, spraying for weeds and insects, and removing unwanted vegetation on my own farm.

Pflugmacher cautioned that farmers are not the only businesses that will be impacted if the EPA is given the far-reaching authority it seeks.  “Home builders, real estate agents, aggregate producers, manufacturers and contractors all would be affected. For these small, local businesses, the proposed rule would increase federal regulatory power over private property. The definitions would create confusion and, because they were intentionally created to be overly broad, could be interpreted in whatever way the federal agencies see fit, costing business owners money and the local economy jobs.’

Weber described it as “yet another example of big government, or big brother, if you will, gaining control of our lives, including the cost of living.  The proposed EPA restrictions on the use of plentiful, inexpensive coal to produce affordable electricity will have a profound impact on the price we pay to heat and cool our homes.  The new standing water proposals will undoubtedly increase the cost of the food we eat and the homes in which we live.”

The AMAC chief noted that the nation’s elderly will be the ones who suffer most and called on the new Republican Congress to rein in the regulators “who are usurping the power of our Representatives and Senators to make laws.”

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Obama Quietly Releases Plans For 2,224 Regulations Ahead Of Turkey Day

While millions of Americans prepare to stuff themselves with Turkey and pie, the Obama administration quietly released its plans for 2,224 federal rules Friday — a preview of just how many more regulations the president is attempting to issue before he leaves office.

President Barack Obama’s Unified Agenda for Fall 2015 is his administration’s regulatory road map and lays out thousands of regulations being finalized in the coming months. Obama has developed a habit of releasing the agenda late on Friday before a major holiday.

Indeed, Obama’s Spring 2015 agenda detailing the status of more than 2,300 regulations was released the eve of Memorial Day weekend. Obama’s Fall 2014 agenda featuring more than 3,400 regulations was also released the Friday before Thanksgiving.

While Obama’s latest release features fewer regulations than the last two, it shows the administration is determined to churn out as many rules as it can before the end of 2016. This includes major energy and environmental regulations coming down the pipe, like new rules for coal mines and rules banning common pesticides.

Obama has already put out several major environmental regulations this year, including limits on carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, more federal control over U.S. waterways, new hydraulic fracturing regulations and stricter smog rules.

In the last week alone, the Obama administration imposed $1.8 billion in regulatory costs, according to a new report by the right-leaning American Action Forum (AAF). This brings the total cost of regulation in 2015 to a whopping $183 billion — about half from final rules and the other from proposed rules.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s new smog limits turned out to be some of the costliest ever proposed by a federal agency.

The EPA says tighter smog, or ground-level ozone, limits would only cost $1.4 billion and yield much more in health benefits from less pollution. But AAF found that the EPA’s smog rule could end up costing 40 times more than the agency predicted based on the experience of counties not in compliance with older agency smog rules.


“Observed nonattainment counties experienced losses of $56.5 billion in total wage earnings, $690 in pay per worker, and 242,000 jobs between 2008 and 2013,” according to AAF policy experts.



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Woman Who Spanked Her Children With Belt After She Caught Them Stealing Gets Arrested And Sets Off Firestorm Of Debate

A woman spanked her children after she says she caught them stealing and her subsequent arrest has touched off a firestorm about spanking, discipline, parental rights and abuse.

The question is — how much is too much?

The single mother of six apparently found out that three of  her kids (boys ages 10-13) broke into a neighbor’s house and stole property. After spanking the kids with a belt, she was taken to jail and her other children removed from her home.

Schaquana Evita Spears was quick to justify her actions on a local TV station.

“Everything I do is for my kids, and because I didn’t want them to commit another crime,” She also added, she could not “live” without her children.

She told the local Baton Rouge station the father of her children was incarcerated and she didn’t want her kids going down that road. In fact, she stressed that they see her going to work every day as a chef and she has them in magnet schools and on the honor roll.

The boys who stole she said “were just followers.”

CBS2’s Erica Nochlin reports that the controversy over her spanking, her arrest, her children being taken away has thousands of people buzzing — and divided — on social media.

She talked to parents in Los Angeles to get reaction about the Baton Rouge, Louisiana mom.

Support for Spears is quickly spreading.

“I think every parent has the right to decide how to discipline their kids – I myself have spanked my daughter,” said one Inland Empire mother.

Spears admitted to opening up a can of Whoop Butt on the kids. She thinks her punishment was excessive.

“And they took my kids from me,” she wrote on Facebook.

Many people Nochlin spoke to believe Spears did the right thing.

“If it’s something that’s dangerous for them – which burglarizing the neighborhood is very dangerous for them – then yeah,” said one woman.

” I don’t think she should have been put in jail,” said another.

Police said the kids had cuts and bruises.

And the DA there is still reviewing the case.

“If they were hit extremities, legs, arms, or in the face,  or anything like that, then that would be going too far,” said one man.

“If you love your children, you will discipline them.” said another.

A stranger bailed Spears out of jail.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/06/24/woman-who-spanked-her-children-with-belt-after-she-caught-them-stealing-gets-arrested-and-sets-off-firestorm-of-debate/
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Ottawa shuts down kids' lemonade stand over permit, sparking criticism

It wasn’t long after two young sisters set up shop on a grassy roadside in Ottawa that a federal officer told them to ‘pack up and leave’

To the young entrepreneurs – ages 7 and 5 – it seemed like a win-win situation: Hawk ice-cold lemonade to pedestrians and cyclists on a hot day and rake in money to help pay for summer camp.

But their business plan was swiftly derailed by officials in Ottawa, who cited the girls lack of a permit to shut down the C$1-a-glass lemonade stand.

Eliza Andrews, 7, and her sister Adela, 5, had been running the stand on their front lawn for several weeks. As the date of their summer camp neared, the pair eyed their profit margins and considered a crucial question: location.

On Sunday they relocated, setting up shop on a grassy median that flaked a stretch of road open only to cyclists and foot traffic on Sunday mornings.

Business was just beginning to pick up – the two had earned C$52 in about an hour – when a passerby stopped to ask them if they had a permit for their lemonade stand. It wasn’t long after that a uniformed official with the National Capital Commission, a federal agency, arrived on the scene.

“They were polite, but said we had to pack up and leave,” Kurtis Andrews, the father of the two girls, told the Toronto Star. His offer to pay for a permit on the spot yielded no compromise. “For a couple of kids, it’s kind of intimidating, with the flashing lights and guy in black uniform.”

First reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the story made headlines across Canada. Many on social media took aim at Ottawa – playfully rehashing the capital’s reputation as the “city that fun forgot” – while several Conservative politicians seized on the story as an example of how government overreach can strangle entrepreneurship.

On Monday, the Andrews visited the federal agency to apply for a permit. Perhaps conscious of the many who had framed the girls’ foray into Ottawa’s byzantine bureaucracy as a struggle of David against Goliath, an agency spokesperson apologised to the young entrepreneurs and offered to waive the C$35 permit fee.

In a later statement, the agency defended its earlier actions and made it clear that no exceptions would be made for the girls. “Given the location of the lemonade stand, the Conservation Officer acted in good faith in applying the federal land use rules in place.”

The situation could have been handled differently, it acknowledged. “Children’s lemonade stands are a time-honoured summer tradition that contributes to a lively capital and the NCC wants to encourage these activities whenever possible.” Officials said the girls’ permit application would be likely expedited so that they could have the stand up and running by this weekend.

The timeline was questioned by the girls’ father who pointed to the magnitude of paperwork being demanded for the stand. “The girls can’t provide proof of insurance. They can’t provide a site map. And so on and so forth,” he told CTV News. “So I expect that there’s going to have to be some ... modification of the normal bureaucracy here.”

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