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Date Sent: 2013-08-06
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Tuesday, August 6, 2013 |
America Bombs Yemen; Americans urged to leave -- Judge cuts Manning's potential sentence
Whoa! DHS Establishes 'Constitution Free' Zones Inside U.S. No Fourth Amendment Allowed -- Hasting's Widow Changes Her Story Big Time On Piers Morgan -- Cop Slaps an 8 Year Old in the Face for Attempting to Bite Him -- -- Militants Shoot Down Army Helicopter in Yemen; 8 Killed -- Sol, the $350 solar-powered rugged Ubuntu laptop that won’t be
usable in the sun -- Comcast proposes six strikes alternative to convert
pirates into paying customers -- On Hiroshima Anniversary Japan Unveils Largest Warship Since WWII -- Engineered Golden Rice May Be Planted Soon In Philippines -- Costa
Rica To Close Its Zoos And Release Animals Into The Wild -- Lynne Stewart Petitions for Justice -- New Wearable Device Helps Blind Patients See Shapes and Colors -- When Does It Make Sense to Pay High Mutual Fund Fees? -- Hepatitis C Resolved With Alternative Protocol -- A Blueprint For Freedom -- Berlusconi, Italy’s Former Prime Minister, Sentenced to 4 Years Jail for Tax Evasion -- The Computer Game That Helps Therapists Chat to Adolescents With Mental Health Problems -- The Personal Television Revolution Is Horrifying — And Brilliant -- Feds Are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity -- How an Internet Toiletry Gimmick Remade Mexican Sex Education -- Surveillance questions snowball: 5 stories you may have missed -- AIPAC Promotes War on Iran -- FBI Lets Informants Commit Crimes
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine August 2nd, 2013 Edition
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AZ: Pool party at the Hancock's - Saturday August 10th, 2013 - 2
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
America Bombs Yemen; Americans urged to leave
08-06-2013
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CNN
A pair of suspected U.S. drone strikes killed four al Qaeda militants in Yemen as the United States maintained a heightened security alert in the country and urged all Americans to leave immediately.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Military judge cuts potential sentence for WikiLeaks soldier
08-06-2013
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Reuters
A U.S. military judge reduced potential prison time for Private First Class Bradley Manning to 90 years from 136 years on Tuesday by ruling that some sentences for leaking secret files to WikiLeaks should be merged.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Whoa! DHS Establishes 'Constitution Free' Zones Inside U.S. No Fourth Amendment Allowed
08-06-2013
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Daily Paul.com
In what should be front page news blasted out nationwide as a breaking news alert, the DHS has openly established extensive ‘Constitution free zones’ in which your Fourth Amendment does not exist.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Hasting's Widow Changes Her Story Big Time On Piers Morgan
08-06-2013
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Daily Paul.com
What is going on here???
Somebody got to Hastings' widow because for weeks after his death she was adamant that IT WAS NO ACCIDENT!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Cop Slaps an 8 Year Old in the Face for Attempting to Bite Him
08-06-13
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This was a disgusting incident in Eugene, Oregon, on August 4, 2013. The police department was helping Department of Human Services take this child from his mother because a former boyfriend had somehow obtained custody. The child was backhanded by t
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Agorist Alma
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News Link • Activism
I Hereby Resign in Protest Effective Immediately
08-06-2013
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Daily Paul.com
I hereby resign in protest effective immediately.
I have served the post-911 Military Industrial complex for 10 years, first as a soldier in Baghdad, and now as a defense contractor.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Barnaby Jack and Michael Hastings
08-06-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Has anybody made the (possible) connection of the death of Michael Hastings, a wanted man by the military industrial complex for his expose that ended General McChrystal's career, and Barnaby Jack,.....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Militants Shoot Down Army Helicopter in Yemen; 8 Killed
08-06-2013
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Breitbart
Yemeni officials say that militants have shot down an army helicopter, killing all eight people on board including a military commander.
The officials say the helicopter was downed by a missile over the al-Qaida stronghold of Wadi Ubida in central
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Inventions
Sol, the $350 solar-powered rugged Ubuntu laptop that won’t be usable in the sun
08-06-2013
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extremetech.com
If you’re gifted with independently manipulable eyebrows, now would be the time to raise a single brow.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Comcast proposes six strikes alternative to convert pirates into paying customers
08-06-2013
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extremetech.com
The film and music industries have been waging a war against file sharing through the courts for years, but have more recently started working with governments and ISPs to stop sharing at the source.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
World’s first road-powered electric vehicle network switches on in South Korea
08-06-2013
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extremetech.com
South Korea has rolled out the world’s first road-powered electric vehicle network.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Stained Glass That Doubles As A Solar Power Source
08-06-2013
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popsci.com
Artist Sarah Hall’s collection of glass facades are beautiful and good for the environment!
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News Link • World News
On Hiroshima Anniversary Japan Unveils Largest Warship Since WWII
08-06-2013
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Amid increasing tensions with China over some disputed islands, Japan unveils a warship that could double as an aircraft carrier.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Real-World Vaporware: Charge Your Phone With a Hydrogen Reactor
08-06-2013
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Wired.com
Most portable chargers won’t last long if you’re away from a power outlet for more than a couple of days. The vast majority of them need to be plugged in so their internal batteries can get recharged.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Jinsop Lee: Design for all 5 senses
08-06-2013
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ted.com
Good design looks great, yes -- but why shouldn't it also feel great, smell great and sound great? Designer Jinsop Lee (a TED Talent Search winner) shares his theory of 5-sense design, with a handy graph and a few examples.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Science
Mussel Bungee Cords
08-06-2013
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arclein
Unlike barnacles, which cement themselves to surfaces, mussels dangle from a collection of fine filaments known as byssus threads, which allows the creatures to drift out into the water to absorb nutrients. This process would also seem to expose them
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
William Tiller and Intention Host Research
08-06-2013
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arclein
This is very exciting " but even more exciting is the fact that we have been able to use a simple electronic device and actually “store” a specific intention within its electric circuit. This is important because, now, this intention-host device can
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robert klein
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News Link • Anthropology
The Raven’s Gift with Jon Turk
08-06-2013
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arclein
Confronted with injury and death, Jon discovers a way to put his own culture’s biases aside and learn from a supposedly more “primitive” culture. Through his personal challenges, he eventually grows to balance his own dependence on logic with an equa
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robert klein
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Feature Article • Philosophy of Liberty
A Blueprint For Freedom
L. Neil Smith
As you may know already, the Tea Parties that rattled our keepers so thoroughly in 2009 began with an offhand remark made by some politician on the radio[*]. I can't remember who it was. I have tried to find out, but there are now at least a dozen in
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Computer Game That Helps Therapists Chat to Adolescents With Mental Health Problems
08-06-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Adolescents with mental health problems are particularly hard for therapists to engage. But a new computer game is providing a healthy conduit for effective communication between them
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News Link • Self-Help: Rational Living
The Personal Television Revolution Is Horrifying " And Brilliant
08-06-2013
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Wired.com
For decades, the world’s intellectuals lamented the rise of the family television, deriding it as a mentally enfeebling “boob tube,” a will-sapping “idiot box,” the inevitable tool of a “Big Brother” surveillance state.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Feds Are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity
08-06-2013
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Wired.com
Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malicious software that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor anonymity network.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Mexico
How an Internet Toiletry Gimmick Remade Mexican Sex Education
08-06-2013
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Wired.com
The Dollar Shave Club delivers cheap razor blades and butt wipes right to dudes’ doors so they don’t have to deal with the inconvenience of actually going to the store.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists discover exact mechanism for how broccoli and crucifers fight deadly cancers
08-06-2013
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naturalnews.com
Scientists have been mounting evidence to support the cancer-fighting abilities associated with consuming broccoli and other members of the crucifer family for more than a decade.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Skeptics proven wrong yet again: The moon really does impact human sleep cycles
08-06-2013
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naturalnews.com
So-called "science-based skeptics" have long mocked the idea that human sleeping patterns are in any way affected by lunar cycles --
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News Link • Food
14-Year Old Anti-GMO Activist Publicly Schools CBC Host Kevin O’Leary (w/Video)
08-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
What prompted this post was an incredible CBC interview with Rachel Parent, a 14-year old anti-GMO activist. She had some critical words directed at the show’s co-host Kevin O’Leary prior to the interview, which led to her being invited on. What is s
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
Surveillance questions snowball: 5 stories you may have missed
08-06-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
As former U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden settles into a new, albeit temporary, home in Russia, he’s left a storm of questions about mass surveillance in his wake.
Part of the famous fugitive’s deal with Moscow is that he’s not allowed to
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Predation, Never Protection
08-05-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
"FBI allowed informants to commit 5,600 crimes" (actually, 5658 crimes in a single year) and a lede that ends, "…newly disclosed documents … show just how often the nation's top law enforcement agency enlists criminals to help it battle crime."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Abolish Your Local Police
08-04-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Ronald Weekley, Jr. , a 20-year-old college student from Venice, California, was riding his skateboard on the “wrong side” of the street in front of his house when he was assaulted by four armed gangsters and severely beaten. The assailants
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
DEA Continues Crackdown on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
08-04-2013
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Last week, federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration raided a series of medical marijuana dispensaries in Washington state. Marijuana and employee cell phones were apparently the intended targets of the raid.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Funding The New World Order - by Olde Reb
08-04-2013
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
It would be the epitome of human folly to ignore the repetition of the same Wall Street financiers who have routinely inflicted financial chaos and abject poverty by debt upon the under-developed world for decades, who now have leading roles
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Czars go to War " Chuck Morse
08-04-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
For what may be the first time in the 100-year history of the Federal Reserve System, two candidates are publicly contending to replace the Fed’s outgoing chairman, Ben Bernanke.
Janet Yellen, vice chairwoman of the Fed’s Board of Governors, is sa
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Federal Court Couldn’t Care Less About Constitution
08-04-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Apparently Congress no longer has to appropriate money for the federal government to spend it.
Under the Dodd-Frank Act, Congress put the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau inside the Federal Reserve. This was a horrific violation of the Con
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Battle Royale on Piers Morgan: Glenn Greenwald, James Risen and Jeffrey Toobin (w/Video)
08-04-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
That’s the thing I don’t understand about the climate in Washington these days. People want to have debates on television and elsewhere, but then you want to throw the people that start the debates in jail.
- James Risen, New York Times Pulitzer P
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Healthcare
Obama exempts Congress from Obamacare, A list of companies and unions with similar Obamacare exempti
08-04-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Well let’s see. The doctors are leaving in droves because of Obamacare. The IRS doesn’t want Obamacare for its employees even though that agency will administer it, Congress just got an exemption from Obamacare from the president, hundreds of politic
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Chris Menke
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Ongoing Costs of “The Forgotten War” " Christine Ahn (Video)
08-04-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Tensions between North and South Korea have spiked in recent months as Kim Jong Un, the hereditary ruler of North Korea’s ruling Communist dynasty, continued work on the country’s nuclear weapons program and declared that his government was on a war
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Monotonous, rigid military prison life awaits Manning
08-04-2013
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Reuters
Bradley Manning, the soldier convicted in the biggest leak of classified information in US history, faces the prospect of years of monotony with no Internet access in a small military prison cell but he would likely be allowed to mix with
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
A Beautiful Message of Liberty - Spoiler Alert: Get out of the US
08-03-2013
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Dollar Vigilante
You can listen to me now or wait and find out I was right as things degenerate even further. At the 50 minute mark of this video, by the way, Robert Higgs advises all young people to get out of the US.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
A Change in the Current
08-03-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
The warmongers increasingly look like rabid and senseless extremists. The government has made a martyr of Manning, whose courage and endurance are extraordinary. The government has made a fool of itself internationally over Snowden.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
S. Court OKs early release plan for Calif. inmates
08-03-2013
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AP
Despite warnings from California officials, the nation's highest court is refusing to delay the early release of nearly 10,000 California inmates by year's end to ease overcrowding at 33 adult prisons. In its decision Friday, the Supreme Court dismis
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
NSA pays $150 million in secret funding for British Intelligence
08-03-2013
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The Guardian
The US government has paid at least £100m to the UK spy agency GCHQ over the last three years to secure access to and influence over Britain's intelligence gathering programs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Eyewitness Records Santa Ana Officer Shoot, Kill Unarmed Homeless Man
08-03-2013
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CBS News (video)
“She exited her patrol car, gun drawn, and asked the man to get on the ground. The man didn’t get on the ground. The man then exited the restaurant, and as he was exiting the restaurant, he said, ‘What are you gonna do, bitch?’ She shot him.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Sexual Revolt in Iran and China
08-03-2013
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arclein
When Iranian American anthropologist Pardis Mahdavi first visited Tehran in the summer of 2000, she expected to encounter the Iran she grew up imagining. Her family remembered violence and extremism, and these were the images that stuck: “women clad
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robert klein
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Pool party at the Hancock's - Saturday August 10th, 2013 - 2 p.m. til ???
08-01-2013
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www.meetup.com/ArizonaLibertyR3VOLUTION
The pool is about 88 degrees and is pretty refreshing right now, so we hope that you can make it to the party - may be the last one of the summer for us. Bring your bathing suits and towels (and sunscreen). This is a kid-friendly party so if you brin
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