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Date Sent: 2013-07-20
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, July 20, 2013 |
Panama sent ex-CIA officer to US, not Italy -- Judge "troubled" over drone killing powers
US: Marty The Magician Must Submit Disaster Plan for Casey The Rabbit -- Why is US Ambassador McFaul Sticking His Nose Into the Navalny Trial? -- They Blinded Us With Science -- "I'm Going to Take Him Out" - by William Grigg -- In General’s Court-Martial, Selection Begins for a Jury of High-Ranking Peers -- NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials say -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, July 21, 2013 Edition -- Chase, Once Considered "The Good Bank," Is About to Pay
Another Massive Settlement By Mat -- Five Months Away From the
Biggest Depopulation Event in US History -- Evolution of the Throw --
Union Push Back on Obamacare -- 5th Annual California Mobile Command
Center Rally a Success in Sacramento -- Commerce: The Permanent
Rebellion -- Are we in a police state yet?? -- USDA Protection
Racket Demands 47% of Raisin Crops – Destroys Small Farmers --
07-19-13 -- Leah Ballou (walking across America) - LISTEN LIVE on
LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EDT) -- Justice Department places a 'hold' on
George Zimmerman's gun -- Another brick in the Ron Paul - Jordan Page -- US Prepares For "Kinetic Strikes"
Against Syria -- Larry Elder Explodes At Piers Over Zimmerman:
You’re Condescending, ‘Stupid,’ -- MSNBC: Glenn Greenwald Comments
on the Progress and the Hypocrisy 7-17-13 -- Ben Swann on the
Liberty Rising Truth in Media Project and the State of US Journalism -- Mars Atmosphere Loss Mystery: Probe Will Investigate -- US Courts Approve
Indefinite Detention and Torture -- America's Surveillance Society
AZ: VPA Mesquite Harvesting Class Now FREE! this Sat morning; The Jackalope Freedom Festival is right around the corner! Aug 2-4, 2013 in northeast Arizona
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
US: Panama sent ex-CIA officer to US, not Italy
07-19-2013
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AP
A fugitive former CIA base chief detained in Panama this week was being sent to the United States instead of Italy, which wanted him to serve prison time in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect, the Obama administration said Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Judge “troubled” over drone killing powers
07-19-2013
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The Obama administration’s argument that federal judges should not “second-guess” the government policy of using unmanned aerial drones overseas to kill suspected terrorists, even if they are U.S. citizens, drew a strong and sustained negative respon
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
US: Marty The Magician Must Submit Disaster Plan for Casey The Rabbit
07-19-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Hahne does magic shows for kids and performs the classic rabbit trick. The US government insists he needs a license for the rabbit. And he needs a rabbit disaster plan to handle fire, floods, air conditioning outages etc.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Why is US Ambassador McFaul Sticking His Nose Into the Navalny Trial?
07-19-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
As Bradley Manning finds his escape routes from a life sentence for his whistle-blowing quickly shut down by judges who are closely tied to the prosecutors, and as whistle-blower Edward Snowden faces life on the run from the largest intelligence
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
They Blinded Us With Science
07-19-2013
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Simple Justice
No doubt they will feel pretty darned bad about the ones they wrongly executed. Who wouldn’t? Not that it’s going to do them much good, though their families may get some money for it and will feel some sort of cathartic release when their loved
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"I'm Going to Take Him Out"
07-19-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
“You’re dead, mother****r!” Those were the last words spoken to 41-year-old Kamas, Utah resident Wade Pennington as he bled to death from two gunshot wounds inflicted at point-blank range. The man who hurled that sadistic taunt at Pennington,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
In General’s Court-Martial, Selection Begins for a Jury of High-Ranking Peers
07-19-2013
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New York Times
Two dozen United States Army generals converged here this week from their posts around the world, not for high-level discussions on the future of warfare, but to be considered as jurors in the court-martial of one of their peers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials say
07-19-2013
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Washington Post
A secret court on Friday extended the National Security Agency’s authority to collect and store the phone records of tens of millions of American cellphone customers, the top U.S. intelligence official confirmed.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, July 21, 2013 Edition
07-19-2013
John Semmens
AG Assails Zimmerman Verdict
The acquittal of George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin spurred an incensed Attorney General Eric Holder to vow to rein-in “the senseless concept of self-defense.” A Florida jury decided that Zimmerm
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News Link • Food
Welcome to PlantVillage " Free and Easy Interactive Planting Resource!
07-19-2013
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Farm Wars
Have you got questions about planting and growing your own food? Don’t know where to find answers? PlantVillage is totally free, and built on the premise that all knowledge that helps people grow food should be openly accessible to anyone.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Chase, Once Considered "The Good Bank," Is About to Pay Another Massive Settlement
By Mat
07-19-2013
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblo
Memo to colleagues on the White House pool: could someone please ask the president if Jamie Dimon is still his favorite banker?
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Five Months Away From the Biggest Depopulation Event in US History
07-19-2013
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Dave Hodges
At a time when many Americans have been angered by the abuses at the Internal Revenue Service, the National Security Agency and the Justice Department, the introduction of a powerful and largely unaccountable board into health care merits special scr
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
What Do Ants Know That We Don’t?
07-19-2013
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arclein
But insect behavior mimicking human networks " another example are the ant-like solutions to the traveling salesman problem provided by the ant colony optimization algorithm " is actually not what’s most interesting about ant networks. What’s far mor
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Guayusa and Lucid Dreaming
07-19-2013
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arclein
This is a more direct technique that tends to be favored by lucid dream researchers. It’s weird. As one passes out of wakefulness and into sleep, one drifts into a state where what’s known as hypnagognic imagery flashes before your eyes. It also happ
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robert klein
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News Link • Anthropology
Evolution of the Throw
07-19-2013
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arclein
That ability " to throw an object with great speed and accuracy " is a uniquely human adaptation, one that Roach believes was crucial in our evolutionary past. How, when and why humans evolved the ability to throw so well is the subject of a study pu
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Union Push Back on Obamacare
07-19-2013
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arclein
But for the big unions to use these terms publicly gives you an idea just how bad an idea Obamcare is. That they would hand such language to their opponents is remarkable. Think about how bad they must think things are going to get for the Teamsters
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robert klein
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News Link • Free Trade
Commerce: The Permanent Rebellion
07-19-2013
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FreemansPerspective.Com
Commerce, by its very nature, is born free. And more than this, it forever fights to remain free. At almost every time and place, commerce evades regulations and controls; it serves its own will, not the wills of rulers.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Are we in a police state yet??
07-19-2013
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www.jonathanturley.org
Portland: A Citizen Can Be Handcuffed, Locked Into Car, And Driven To A Different Location But Still Not Be “Under Arrest”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
USDA Protection Racket Demands 47% of Raisin Crops " Destroys Small Farmers
07-19-2013
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Farm Wars
The difference between the mob demanding a portion of your profits for "protection" and the government demanding a portion of your crops for "protection?" NOTHING!!!
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Justice Department places a 'hold' on George Zimmerman's gun
07-19-2013
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Daily Mail
The US Justice Dept, overseen by Attorney General Eric Holder, has ordered the Sanford, Florida police department to keep possession of all the evidence from George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial - including his gun.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: Arizona
The Jackalope Freedom Festival is right around the corner! Aug 2-4, 2013 in northeast Arizona
07-19-2013
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The Jackalpe Freedom Festival
The Jackalope Freedom Festival is where liberty loving individuals come to be left alone to connect with each other. (BTW - $300 fine for not having both a License Registration for Off Road Vehicle (ORV) AND a new ORV from the State of Arizona.)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Detroit Files For Bankruptcy
07-18-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
As is often the case, Matthew Yglesias offers up an unsophisticated and lifeless assessment of the issue in about 190 dull-as-dishwater words. Ho hum. But he made it into the “firsters” club.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
WWOOF - World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
07-19-2013
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WWOOF International
Linking volunteers with organic farms and growers
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Another brick in the Ron Paul - Jordan Page
07-19-2013
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Morpheus Titania
Another brick in the Ron Paul - Jordan Page
Jordan Page does a private concert for his very good friend Reed out of Dallas. Reed wants to give a present to his sister Heidi for her Birthday: something that she will never forget. Shes a Ron Paul Ac
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Detroit May File For Bankruptcy Overnight
07-19-2013
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zerohedge.com
Presenting default you can believe in, as the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history, involing the one-time iconic "motor city" which now has a population of 700,000 and some $20 billion in liabilities, is about to become reality.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
US Prepares For "Kinetic Strikes" Against Syria
07-19-2013
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zerohedge.com
The chart below will likely come as a surprise to most. It shows total nominal US defense spending, more importantly it shows that such spending has been rapidly declining since 2010.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The First Footage Of Jamie Foxx's 'Amazing Spider-Man 2' Villain
07-19-2013
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Business Insider
While Emmy nominations are out, today is also the first day of San Diego Comic-Con.
To get prepared, Sony released the first footage of Jamie Foxx as villain Electro in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Inspiration
A Dad Shot This Amazing Film Of His Son's First Year On Earth
07-19-2013
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Business Insider
When photographer Sam Christopher Cornwell's son Indigo was born on July 9th, 2012, he wanted to do something special.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Larry Elder Explodes At Piers Over Zimmerman: You’re Condescending, ‘Stupid,’
07-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Piers Morgan clearly has no qualms about inviting people on his show who fiercely disagree with him or even attack him personally, and tonight's opening interview with radio host Larry Elder did not disappoint.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
MSNBC: Glenn Greenwald Comments on the Progress and the Hypocrisy 7-17-13
07-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Q: He [Snowden] is seeking refuge in Countries with abysmal human rights records... and he even went so far as to say he wanted to congratulate the leaders of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Russia for standing up on this issue and being .....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Top US Military Officer: America Is Considering Entering Syrian War
07-19-2013
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Prison Planet
America’s top military officer told a Senate committee that the Obama administration is considering the use of military force in Syria, Richard Lardner of the Associated Press reports.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mars Atmosphere Loss Mystery: Probe Will Investigate
07-19-2013
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space.com
NASA's MAVEN mission's Neutral Gas Ion Mass Spectrometer will look at how matter interacts with the solar wind in the Martian atmosphere. This data could reveal why the formally wet Red Planet has become the barren world we see today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Next in Wearable Computing: A Device for Dogs
07-19-2013
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Technologyreview.com
As Google Glass gains momentum, companies and researchers are trying to decide what will be the next big breakthrough in wearable technology
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Bitcoin: Subvert Your Government " PorcFest X
07-18-2013
Market and peace advocates have been granted a tool of unimaginable power for the subversion of the state. Bitcoin, as the most popular free-market currency in the world, is a profound apparatus for wresting power from the maniacs who seek to control
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Drew
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News Link • NeoCons
Former President and Commander-In-Chief: America Is No Longer a Democracy
07-18-2013
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InfoWars
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter … in the wake of the NSA spying scandal criticized the American political system. “America has no functioning democracy,” Carter said Tuesday at a meeting of the “Atlantic Bridge” in Atlanta.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
North Korea demands its arms-cargo ship back
07-18-2013
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youtube
North Korea has demanded that its cargo ship, which was recently intercepted in Panama, be released immediately.Panama has asked the UN Security Council to investigate the seizure of weapons, including missiles, which it found on the vessel.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Speech
An Open Letter to the Media on the 'Irony' of Snowden's Request for Asylum in Venezuela
07-18-2013
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Common Dreams
Most consumers of the U.S. media unfortunately don’t know better, since they have not been to these countries and have not been able to see that the majority of media are overwhelmingly anti-government, and that it gets away with more than the U.S...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
Obama’s Pick for UN Envoy Vows to Work Tirelessly " For Israel
07-18-2013
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antiwar.com
Will Push for Israeli Seat on Security Council
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Rolling Stone Boston Bomber Cover Story: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Image Stirs Controversy, Boycotts
07-16-2013
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The Huffington Post, By Peter Finocchiaro
The photo even appeared on the front page of The New York Times in May. However, its presence on the cover of Rolling Stone, a space typically occupied by rock stars and actors, sparked outrage on Twitter and Facebook, where many observers objected t
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Searches Valet Parked Car (!?!)
07-18-2013
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WHEC New York via Rense.com
Running late for a flight, why not valet-park your car, rather than search for a spot in the garage...?
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Brother Is Watching You Swipe: The NSA’s Credit Card Data Grab
07-11-2013
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Martha C. White, Time
The National Security Agency isn’t just snooping into phone and online communications. It also appears to be keeping a close eye on credit card transactions. Why? And what can they see?
The presumed purpose of NSA’s credit card tracking is to help i
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
5 things to know about lawsuit against NSA
07-17-2013
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Eric Boehm , Watchdog.com
Led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit law firm, more than 20 groups from across the political spectrum filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the National Security Agency, FBI and the U.S. government challenging the constitutionality of wid
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
America’s “Intelligence-industrial Complex”
07-15-2013
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Joseph Kishore, Global Research
Microsoft worked with the NSA to develop procedures to get around the company’s own encryption mechanisms, allowing unfettered access to its Outlook.com service, which includes Hotmail, Messenger and other widely used programs. It also collaborated w
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
As the NSA Follows You, We Follow the Money
07-16-2013
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Emily Masters, Independent
According to the Project on Government Oversight, $300 billion a year is now spent on a “shadow government of private contractors.” At the center of this arrangement is an interlocking web of current and former high-level government officials, major
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Woman has been stopped 70 TIMES by police 'after splitting from her PC lover'
07-17-2013
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Daily Mail
Katie Bowman, who has never been convicted of a crime, claims police interest in her " which saw her stopped 70 times for suspected offenses ranging from drink-driving to assault " meant she could ‘barely leave the house’.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Due to Increased Regulations, Millions of Americans Abroad Forced to Reconsider US Citizenship
07-17-2013
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The Weekly Standard
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or Fatca, is forcing millions of Americans living abroad to reconsider their U.S. citizenship, a lawyer, Colleen Graffy, writes in the Wall Street Journal.
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News Link • Eminent Domain
City Subcontractor Demolished Wrong House
07-17-2013
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CBS News
Imagine driving up to your home " or vacation home " and realizing it’s not there. It happened in the Lake Worth section of Fort Worth last Friday when a city subcontracted demolition crew took down the wrong house.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
U.S. prosecutor warns Wall Street about repeat violations
07-17-2013
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Reuters
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said investment firms that repeatedly violate the law should be concerned that they will eventually be held accountable.
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News Link • Torture
U.S. appeals court tosses injunction limiting indefinite detention
07-17-2013
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Reuters
A federal appeals court on Wednesday lifted a lower court order that would have prevented the U.S. military from indefinitely detaining people believed to have helped al Qaeda or the Taliban.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke: We Are Printing Money, Just 'Not Literally'
07-17-2013
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Forbes
We are printing money, just not literally, Bernanke told policymakers, while contradicting himself regarding recent record highs in stock markets, first attributing them both to the strength of the economy and the impacts of monetary policy.
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News Link • Police State
10 Ways That The Iron Grip Of The Big Brother Prison Grid Is Tightening On All Of Our Lives
07-17-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Do you ever feel trapped in an invisible control grid that is slowly but surely closing in all around you? Do you ever feel like virtually everything that you do is being watched, tracked, monitored and recorded? If so, unfortunately it is not just
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Giant Unions Turn on the Prez: Obamacare Will Shatter Backbone of Middle Class
07-17-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
James Hoffa of the Teamsters, Joseph Hansen of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and Donald Taylor, the president of Unite-Here, penned a letter to the president explaining to him that Obamacare is set to destroy the unionized m
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Military
Unmarked Military Base Discovered in Las Vegas (Video)
07-17-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
LAS VEGAS, NV " A stockpile of military vehicles were recently discovered occupying a secluded commercial property on the outskirts of Las Vegas at the address of 5750 Sky Pointe Dr.
It doesn’t seem as if the Humvees and other military-grade vehic
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Housing
New House Bill Wipes Mortgage Fraud Clean For Banksters
07-17-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The House Financial Services Committee (HFSC), headed by chair Jeb Hensarling, has approved proposed bill entitled, “Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners Act” (PATH) that is being sold to the American public as a way “to create a sustainable
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