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Date Sent: 2013-09-16
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, September 16, 2013 |
12 dead in Navy Yard shooting; 1 suspect dead, 2 sought
“The Entire Country is a Constitution-Free Zone” -- Apple’s Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can’t ‘Take the Fifth’ -- Voyager 1 Solar System Exit Confirmed -- Rohani: West seeks to strengthen Israel, weaken 'resistance' -- Obama, Kerry Reiterate Threats of Attacking Iran -- Fears for Fukushima as powerful typhoon strikes Japan -- Korean Industrial Zone Re-opens -- House GOP takes step forward on Internet sales tax legislation -- Three Reasons Summers Didn’t Get the Job -- Florida Police Jail Man For Protesting Red Light Cameras -- No War on Syria Speech (video) -- Faking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into War -- Congress’s Exemption from Obamacare -- Man Climbs 900-foot Building, Jumps Off -- Typhoon Pummels Japan, 260,000 Evacuate -- Big
storms hit Mexico on opposite coasts; 21 dead -- Costa Concordia
Salvage Operation Begins -- Obama's War Plans on Syria Unchanged --
Anti-Assad Media War Continues
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News Link • Gun Rights
6 dead in Navy Yard shooting; 1 suspect dead, 2 sought
09-16-2013
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AP
The Navy said shots were fired at the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building, and a "shelter in place" order was issued for Navy Yard personnel. Rick Mason saw someone with a shotgun aiming down into the cafeteria.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Marc Victor
“The Entire Country is a Constitution-Free Zone”
09-16-2013
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Traces of Reality
Traces of Reality Radio 09/13/2013 " Attorney Marc Victor: “The Entire Country is a Constitution-Free Zone”
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Agriculture
Are Weeds Healthier Than Farmed Veggies? With Tom Philpott
09-16-2013
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arclein
Turns out the void I'm feeling may be more than aesthetic. According to author Jo Robinson's recent book Eating on the Wild Side, the same wild edible plants that we call weeds tend to be loaded with phytonutrients"the "arsenal of chemicals" that
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robert klein
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Apple’s Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can’t ‘Take the Fifth’
09-12-2013
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Wired
There’s a lot of talk around biometric authentication since Apple introduced its newest iPhone, which will let users unlock their device with a fingerprint. Given Apple’s industry-leading position, it’s probably not a far stretch to expect this kind
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Climate Change
How Soot Killed the Little Ice Age
09-16-2013
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arclein
However, despite the glaciers' shrinking, average global temperatures did not rise significantly until the end of the century. In fact, Alpine climate records " among the most abundant and reliable in the world " suggest that glaciers should have co
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Extended Cell Phones Usage
09-16-2013
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arclein
n the highest-use quartile, wireless and mobile phone use resulted in a higher risk of meningioma, by 30% for mobile phones and 40% for wireless phones, and 80% increased risk for cordless phone use.
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robert klein
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Voyager 1 Solar System Exit Confirmed
09-16-2013
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arclein
Voyager 1 first detected the increased pressure of interstellar space on the heliosphere, the bubble of charged particles surrounding the sun that reaches far beyond the outer planets, in 2004. Scientists then ramped up their search for evidence of t
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robert klein
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News Link • Iran
Rohani: West seeks to strengthen Israel, weaken 'resistance'
09-16-2013
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ynetnews.com
Iranian president tells Revolutionary Guard commanders, 'It is clear to all West doesn’t like our region in its present shape'; claims Syria crisis may 'change the fate of the world'
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Obama, Kerry Reiterate Threats of Attacking Iran
09-16-2013
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antiwar.com
Downplay Prospects of Diplomacy
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fears for Fukushima as powerful typhoon strikes Japan
09-16-2013
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youtube
Heavy rain and strong winds from Typhoon Man-yi have caused the Katsura river to burst its banks and caused damage to buildings across western Japan as the storm made landfall on Monday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Korean Industrial Zone Re-opens
09-16-2013
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voanews.com
North and South Korea have reopened their joint factory zone in Kaesong, just north of their shared border.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
House GOP takes step forward on Internet sales tax legislation
09-16-2013
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The Hill
Republicans in the House are taking a step forward on Internet sales tax legislation despite potential opposition from the GOP base. House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va) is expected to release his own set of principles on the issue
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Three Reasons Summers Didn’t Get the Job
09-16-2013
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Time.com
Larry Summers’ failed bid to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve came down to three things: politics, policy and personality
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Florida Police Jail Man For Protesting Red Light Cameras
09-15-2013
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The Newspaper
Police in Apopka, Florida arrested a man for distributing a petition that would put the issue of ending red light camera use to a public vote. Officer Campbell wrote. " I asked him if he had a permit to protest the red light cameras, and he said no."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Armed EPA raid in Alaska sheds light on 70 fed agencies with armed divisions
09-15-2013
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FOX News
The recent uproar over armed EPA agents descending on a tiny Alaska mining town is shedding light on the fact that 40 federal agencies employ about 120,000 full-time officers authorized to carry guns and make arrests, according to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
V&A museum acquires
first 3D-printed gun
09-15-2013
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Defense Distributed
News: London's V&A Museum has added the world's first 3D-printed gun to its permanent collection and will exhibit it along with four other newly acquired design objects during the London Design Festival.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA commissar has tax-paid Star Trek “war room.”
09-15-2013
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The Guardian (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
A lavish Star Trek room that NSA chief Gen Keith Alexander had built as part of his 'Information Dominance Center' is endlessly revealing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
Syria tops agenda as Kerry visits Israel
09-15-2013
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AFP
"The threat of force remains, the threat is real," Kerry said at a news conference after a four-hour meeting with the Israeli premier. "Make no mistake, we have taken no options off the table," he warned [Syria.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
No War on Syria Speech (video)
09-15-2013
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The International Libertarian
Darren Wolfe, The International Libertarian, spoke about why we should stay out of Syria and other wars overseas. The speech was given at the No War With Syria Rally and Press Conference
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Congress’s Exemption from Obamacare
09-16-2013
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National Review
Senator Vitter demanded a floor vote on his bill to end an exemption that members of Congress and their staffs are slated to get that will make them the only participants in the new Obamacare exchanges to receive generous subsidies
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Man Climbs 900-foot Building, Jumps Off
09-16-2013
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Time.com
An Austrian climber reaches the top of a tower in China without using ropes, then leaps off
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Big storms hit Mexico on opposite coasts; 21 dead
09-16-2013
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miamiherald.com
The remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel continued to deluge Mexico's southwestern Pacific shoulder with dangerous rains while Hurricane Ingrid weakened to a tropical storm after making a Monday landfall on the country's opposite coast......
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
How War on Syria Lost Its Way
09-14-2013
Ray McGovern
What looked like another U.S. march to war in the Mideast has turned in the direction of a peaceful settlement... ...But some parties want to resume the drive toward a U.S. attack, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern writes.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Merced Police Policy Of Taking Injured Animals To Shooting Range Comes Under Fire
09-13-2013
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CBS News
“…any officer… may, with the approval of his or her immediate superior, humanely destroy any abandoned animal in the field in any case where the animal is too severely injured to move or where a veterinarian is not available and it would be more huma
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Google Jet Fleet Loses a Pentagon Fuel Perk
09-13-2013
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Wall Street Journal
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin may have to dig deeper to operate their fleet of private jets, after the US ended an arrangement that for years allowed the billionaires to travel on sharply discounted jet fuel bought from the Pentagon
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Armed man critically wounded in Tempe police shooting
09-13-2013
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CBS News
"They surrounded the guy in a triangle and with their firearms drawn and it looked like he was pulling a box cutter or something out of his pocket," said witness Jeffrey Hollingsworth.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Tax lien sales canceled after Post investigation; Gray calls for reforms
09-13-2013
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Washington Post
District leaders said they will institute broad reforms that would protect property owners from losing their homes over small debts, including canceling dozens of tax liens sold at the annual auction 2 months ago and creating an ombudsman to work
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
A Rogue State and Failed Social Visions
09-13-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
In mid-June Obama “authorized” sending weapons to Syrian rebels. Those weapons are now arriving. Obama’s “authorization” is worthless because he doesn’t have any legal authority to take the U.S. into this war. He’s actually violating both
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Limits of Consent: Cellphone Edition
09-13-2013
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Simple Justice
The defendant was in a car believed by Border Patrol Agent Soto to be picking up people who had illegally cross the border. After the stop, Soto asked: “Can I look in the phones? Can I search the phones?” Lopez consented by responding “yes.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Virginia: City Hides Data Showing Increased Red Light Camera Injuries
09-13-2013
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The Newspaper
After holding out for more than three years, officials in Virginia Beach, Virginia finally released accident data that raise serious questions about whether the use of red light cameras has improved traffic safety in the city.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Wall Street Banks Obtain Market Data Ten Minutes Before Everyone Else
09-13-2013
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Matt Taibbi of the Rolling Stone magazine has reported that media company Thomson Reuters has been providing sensitive market information to certain financial institutions before everyone else, allowing them to front run the markets.
Now joining us
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Vote Pact - How principled progressives work with conscientious conservatives.
09-13-2013
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http://www.votepact.org
The Perennially “Unusual” Yet Somehow Ubiquitous Left-Right Alliance: Towards Acknowledging an Anti-Establishment Center
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Lobbyists helping Ron Binz, Obama’s FERC pick, move through Senate
09-13-2013
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Washington Times
President Obama’s nominee to head the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is coordinating his campaign with two lobbyists for energy companies and several other green-technology strategists, in an unprecedented effort to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
CFPB's data-mining on consumer credit cards challenged in heated House hearing
09-13-2013
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Washington Examiner
The “markets monitoring” program in which the CFPB aims to monitor 80% of all credit card transactions in 2013, collecting data on 42 billion transactions made with 933 million credit cards, and to monitor 95% of all mortgage transactions
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
EPA goes paramilitary, conducts armed raids with 'POLICE' jackets, checking for water qualit
09-13-2013
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naturalnews.com
In what is another example of gross regulatory abuse, a squad of Alaska enviro-agents wearing POLICE-emblazoned body armor and dressed in paramilitary garb recently "raided" a small community for the purpose of - wait for it - checking the quality of
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • China
China detains outspoken venture capitalist after friend's arrest
09-13-2013
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Reuters
Chinese police have detained an outspoken and well-known venture capitalist for questioning, a fellow activist said on Friday, after he helped lead a campaign for the release of another activist, as the government tightens a crackdown on dissent.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Evacuations & Catastrophe
Three dead as Colorado floods worsen, smashing rainfall records
09-13-2013
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Reuters
Flooding that killed at least three people in Colorado, toppling buildings and stranding drivers, worsened overnight as record rains pounded the state, forcing thousands more residents to flee to higher ground, officials said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan Taliban attack US Consulate, kill 2 Afghans
09-13-2013
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AP
Taliban militants unleashed car bombs at the US Consulate in western Afghanistan, triggering a firefight with security forces in an attack that killed at least two Afghans. All US personnel were safe and US forces later secured the site.
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Reference Link • Police State
Is This What Martial Law Will Look Like?
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
With the DHS federalization of local police departments, some of our local police departments have become a major threat to public safety. And this is what a federalized police force looks like...
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Feds launch predator app on iTunes to catch child sex criminals
09-13-2013
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Washington Times
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it has launched a mobile device app to harness the public’s help in trying to track down potential child sex predators. The app allows tips to be reported anonymously 24 hours a day
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
We Were Detained by Hialeah Police for Making a Public Records Request at City Hall
09-13-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Florida has perhaps the most liberal public records laws in the United States, but you wouldn’t know that by making simple requests to the government officials in charge of those records.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New Orleans Cop Gets Four Years For Fatal Drug Raid Shooting Caught on Video
09-13-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
The pin-camera video from one of the raiding officers was critical in the DA's decision to bring charges. Which is why every SWAT member should be recorded in a format that cannot be altered, and those videos archived and subject to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Almost 75 Percent of All Afghanistan Deaths Occurred Under Obama
09-13-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Our personnel were left in harm’s way, even as the country’s president called us “demons”, our allies denied basic rights to woman and religious minorities, and polls showed intense anti-American sentiments. Hundreds of billions were spent to provide
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
All Hail Rick Perry!
09-13-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
The Maryland political establishment" by far the zaniest left-wingers in state and local politics in America " is in a state of hyperventilation and panic over a new television ad by Governor Rick Perry of Texas. Tired of every last dime being wrung
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