Los Angeles, CA —Like most of my blog visitors I love music.   I have my favorites from Gershwin to The Doors .   The artists that have entertained me deserve all of the reward for their work.   Every musical recording is a labor involving numerous people that worked so hard to create. The music industry exists because of intellectual property rights.   Without these rights so many of the hits we enjoy everyday may never have pleased our ears. My video host  YouTube has settled most copyright issues with the use of music within the USA.   Advertising and iTunes links have solved many of the problems. There was also a surprising discovery made by the copyright holders in the form of increased sales when a video featuring their products was popular legitimate sales of the music increased too.   Old forgotten hits suddenly were reanimated into moneymaking popularity once again! As many of my visitors know I’m into the camera drone technolog...

Los Angeles, CA —At the 2014 MTV VMA Award Show Miley Cyrus showed that she has a special side.   Miley brought a somewhat troubled 22 year-old homeless fellow to the Awards show.   The lad, Jesse Helt accepted Miley’s award on her behalf reading from a prepared note.    It turns out Helt’s wanted on some minor misdemeanor charges in Oregon typically associated with homeless and troubled kids.   I can’t imagine an incredibly wealthy young lady making a rescue of a potentially salvageable young man.   I hope she follows through to get him educated, productive and self-sufficient.   I also hope Miley get’s Helt a lawyer and help him get his Oregon troubles behind him. Miley is taking a risk for sure with Helt.   He could embarrass her and actually damage her career.   On the other hand growing up as a dirt poor Chicago kid I can really appreciate Helt’s troubled life.   I was drafted for the Viet Nam war luckil...

Whether you’re in Ferguson, MO, Chicago, IL or Sanford, FL The Bankrupt African-American culture of Violence lacks any signs of simple humanity.   Last year it was Travon Martin , this year it’s Michael Brown , two local thugs that were elevated to the sainthood of civil rights heroes by a bunch disingenuous phonies. They were both shot and killed by non-African-Americans.   One was Hispanic and the other White. White people will never get the benefit of the doubt should they kill a Black in self-defense.   When Martin and Brown were killed the African-American race baiters did not wait for the bodies to cool before they duped the willing media into turning these justifiable homicides into senseless Hate Crimes.   In fairness Martin and Brown were unarmed but both thugs were stronger than their killers.   Both thugs assaulted their victims before they were killed.    Self-defense laws allow the use of deadly force when there is reason...

Tom Zebra, Citizen Journalist/provocateur Los Angeles, CA —If you’re a cop in or near the City of Angels,  Tom Zebra may just get in your face and under your skin.   In the age of the cell phone camera explosion came body cams and the ever-popular GoPros.   With the new technology police have been placed under the intrusive and unblinking eyes of millions of cameras.   A large percentage of them are in the hands of genuine antagonists like Zebra .   The next generation of police monitoring devices is here in the form of multi-rotor camera drones.   They can be quietly deployed over any police action.   They can record video of anything taking place in plain view under the skies.     Cops have been understandably hostile to these cameras and nationwide thousands of bogus arrests have been made of people recording them.   Cops have confiscated cell phones, cameras and their media storage cards.   Cops felt...

Will they be able to jail drone pilot Paul Huebl now?   Phoenix, AZ —Two members of the City Council here are proposing an anti-drone ordinance that will make a criminal out of anyone using a drone within the city. Let me disclose that I own and operate two camera drones like the one above and plan to use them in pursuit if gathering images and video for news.  The proposed law requires that “written permission” be obtained in advance from anyone that might be photographed by a drone.   That would for example include some gardener mowing grass who might be photographed whether he is readily identifiable or not.   They are not talking about just close up pictures but any picture. There is plenty of existing law that protects people’s privacy where people have a reasonable expectation of privacy.   That is inside a home or structure of some type.   That’s why millions of ordinary surveillance cameras are everywhere in America today. ...