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Date Sent: 2014-03-01
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, February 28, 2014 |
Central Banker Appointed Ukraine Prime Minister -- The Assassination of Ibragim Todashev by FBI
L.A. Residents Launch Offensive Against Parking Tickets -- As CT. compiles list of gun-owners doors to kick in - activist publishes legislators' addresses -- Leah Remini says Scientology was 'a lie,' she was a 'hypocrite' -- 02-28-14 --
Richard Fry - Steve Meunier - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon
(EST) -- Stocks rise after Yellen talks taper; record finish for
S&P 500 -- The "Institutional Investor" Housing Bubble Just
Burst -- Rome Is On The Verge Of Detroit-Style Bankruptcy --
Eric Holder Hospitalized After "Feeling Faint, Short Of Breath" -- Ukraine
Central Bank Promises Liquidity To Local Banks, With One Condition -- Dr. Ron Paul On Daily Paul Radio -- Britain's Spies Were
Surprised to Discover Just How Much the World Loves Naked
Webchatting -- Child-Stealers and Prison Profiteers: A Case Study
-- Strategic lawsuit against public participation -- Optic
Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ -- IMF
Vultures Swoop to Asset-Strip Ukraine -- Ukrainian Neo-Nazis
Declare that Power Comes Out of the Barrels of their Guns -- Yes,
There Are Paid Government Trolls On Social Media, Blogs, Forums
And Websites -- Kepler strikes exoplanet mother lode, 715 new
planets discovered -- Florida County Votes Down
Fluoridation -- Yanukovych's Fall: The Power of Ukraine's
Billionaires -- Obama's Dirty Hands Manipulating Venezuelan
Violence -- Escalating East/West Tensions
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club tomorrow March 1st, 2014;
8-10 a.m. @ Coco's (Paradise Valley Mall); 7th Annual Organic
Beekeepers Mtg, will be in Oracle Ariz today 28 Feb - 2 Mar, 2014
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News Link • World News
Central Banker Appointed as Prime Minister of Ukraine
02-28-2014
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www.prisonplanet.com
A reshuffled Ukrainian Parliament installed following a coup last week has voted to appoint Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the new prime minister of the country. Yats, as Victoria Nuland, the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at th
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Killing of Ibragim Todashev: An Ongoing Mystery
02-27-2014
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Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
The FBI has yet to explain why law enforcement shot and killed Ibragim Todashev last May. He was shot several times while being questioned in his Orlando apartment. An autopsy was conducted, but the FBI blocked its public release. An internal investi
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Police State
L.A. Residents Launch Offensive Against Parking Tickets
02-27-2014
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Next News Network
It happens to the best of us, you park your car on a busy city street to grab a bite to eat or run your errands - you drop a few quarters in the meter, check your watch, look out for the meter maid, and then cross your fingers. When you return to you
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News Link • Corruption
King City Cops Busted in Impound Scam
02-27-2014
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Next News Network
KING CITY | Four current and former police officers have been arrested, charged with running a scheme to illegally impound cars. The plan primarily targeted Latinos, living in the small farm town of King City, California. Among those arrested are int
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Leah Remini says Scientology was 'a lie,' she was a 'hypocrite'
02-28-2014
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Los Angeles Times
Leah Remini is opening up further about her controversial decision to leave the Church of Scientology, calling herself a "hypocrite" for staying with the organization and saying everything the church taught her was "a lie."
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Mike Renzulli
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
02-28-14 -- Richard Fry - Steve Meunier (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Richard Fry (Defend Not Amend) on restoring the Constitution - Steve Meunier (Owner of H2OPE System) talks about The H2OPE System, which is a stand alone "off-grid" water purifier, solar generator, and water pressurization system.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stocks rise after Yellen talks taper; record finish for S&P 500
02-28-2014
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cnbc.com
U.S. stocks climbed on Thursday, propelling the S&P 500 to a record close, after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the central bank would probably continue tapering its asset purchases while tracking data to figure how much recent softness in t
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court Rules Police May Search A Home Without Obtaining A Warrant
02-28-2014
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zerohedge.com
If the most disturbing, if underreported, news from yesterday, was Obama's "modification" of NSA capabilities, which contrary to his earlier promises, was just granted even greater powers as phone recording will now be stored for even longer than pre
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The "Institutional Investor" Housing Bubble Just Burst
02-28-2014
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zerohedge.com
It is by now well understood that the US housing market over the past year has not benefited from broad consumer participation, exhibited best by the unprecedented,....
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News Link • Economy - International
Rome Is On The Verge Of Detroit-Style Bankruptcy
02-28-2014
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zerohedge.com
With European peripheral bond yields collapsing every single day to new all time lows (primarily driven by Europe's near-certainty that a US-style QE is imminent as we first showed here in November, despite Mario Draghi's own words from....
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News Link • Government
Eric Holder Hospitalized After "Feeling Faint, Short Of Breath"
02-28-2014
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zerohedge.com
Is the groundwork for the "transitioning out" of the US Attorney General being laid? From Reuters:
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News Link • Economy - International
Ukraine Central Bank Promises Liquidity To Local Banks, With One Condition
02-28-2014
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zerohedge.com
While the "developed" world scrambles to find a way to provide Ukraine with a bailout in such a way that Russia doesn't turn off the gas, Ukraine is doing some scrambling of its own to assure the local banks, which have been plagued....
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News Link • Spirituality
13 Practices of an Awakened Person
02-28-2014
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arclein
7.) If someone we love and have cared for with kindness treats us with thankless resentment and treats us as if we are their most hated enemy, then see these acts as a terrible sickness that has infected and affected their mind. Treat them with even
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News Link • Science
Brucea Javanica
02-28-2014
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arclein
As more knowledge and research is being extended to populations confined to conventional allopathic principles, the broad categories of herbal and plant medicines are finally reaching the mainstream. The effectiveness of medicinal plants and foods to
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News Link • Science
Near-Death Experiences Have Been Recorded Throughout History with Kevin Williams
02-28-2014
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arclein
He said that when his soul went forth from his body he journeyed with a great company and that they came to a mysterious region where there were two openings side by side in the Earth, and above and over against them in the heaven two others, and th
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News Link • Science
Angry Panther Who Talked To A Human
02-28-2014
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arclein
This animal whisperer proves to us that she can talk to animals and understand their needs and wants, including finding out about their past very accurately. It’s completely mind blowing that what the panther told the animal whisperer has been confir
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robert klein
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News Link • Water Issues-Water Fluoridation
Way to go Portland, OR! For the fourth time since 1956, voters reject fluoridation
02-28-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Hey guys, this is a little old, but I just came across it. I remember there was talk about this last year when I was visiting Portland. Here's the good news, from May 21, 2013:
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
TMOT Speaks to Young Republicans and Hits It Out The Park Again
02-28-2014
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Daily Paul.com
I'm starting to wonder when this campaign is going to naturally just start taking off. Derrick is really pumping the people up at every stop he goes. Video after video he delivers an impressive assault and genuine passion for doing what needs to be d
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News Link • Natural Disasters
California Gets Rain…and Possibly Flash Floods
02-28-2014
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thedailysheeple.com
t’s raining in California, and much more is forecast before the week is out. Although it is more than welcome it doesn’t mean the drought is over, it would take much more precipitation to fill the reservoirs. The rain that is due to fall will bring
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Henry Lin: What we can learn from galaxies far, far away
02-28-2014
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ted.com
In a fun, exciting talk, teenager Henry Lin looks at something unexpected in the sky: distant galaxy clusters. By studying the properties of the universe's largest pieces, says the Intel Science Fair award winner, we can learn quite a lot about scien
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News Link • Surveillance
Britain's Spies Were Surprised to Discover Just How Much the World Loves Naked Webchatting
02-28-2014
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slate.com
The Guardian, now Glenn Greenwald-less, is out with its latest government surveillance scoop:
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News Link • Free Speech
Strategic lawsuit against public participation
02-28-2014
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wikipedia.org
A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) is a lawsuit that is intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.[1]
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ
02-28-2014
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theguardian.com
• 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone
• Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk
• Yahoo: 'A whole new level of violation of our users' privacy'
• Material included large quantity of sexually explicit ima
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Ukrainian Neo-Nazis Declare that Power Comes Out of the Barrels of their Guns
02-28-2014
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Prison Planet
Reality on the ground in Ukraine contradicts the incompetent and immoral Obama regime’s portrait of Ukrainian democracy on the march.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Propaganda
Yes, There Are Paid Government Trolls On Social Media, Blogs, Forums And Websites
02-28-2014
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Prison Planet
Do you want solid proof that paid government shills are targeting websites, blogs, forums and social media accounts? For years, many have suspected that government trolls have been systematically causing havoc all over the Internet, but proving it h
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Vauxhall to show carbon-fiber 297 hp Astra VXR Extreme
02-28-2014
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gizmag.com
Start with a Vauxhall/Opel/Chevrolet/Saturn Astra VXR, shed 100 kg by replacing metal with carbon fiber, then pump its 2.0-liter turbo engine to 297 hp (221.5 kW), upgrade the suspension wheels, tires......
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Kepler strikes exoplanet mother lode, 715 new planets discovered
02-28-2014
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gizmag.com
It’s a good thing that planets outside our Solar System get catalog designations instead of proper names, or space scientists would now be scraping the barrel for “Ralph” or “Tigger.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla's Gigafactory to significantly reduce Li-ion battery production costs by 2020
02-28-2014
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gizmag.com
As Tesla’s Supercharger network expands and Model S sales continue to grow, so too does the company’s need to find a more economical battery solution.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
Amazing ’80s Ads From Omni, the Mag That Defined Geekdom
02-28-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Peter Rubin
From 1978-1995, no magazine looked to the future as excitedly as Omni.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Chinese Scientist Likens Beijing's Smog Problem To "Nuclear Winter"
02-28-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, Douglas Main
Farms are in a "smog panic" as plants falter without sunlight
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Yanukovych's Fall: The Power of Ukraine's Billionaires
02-28-2014
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http://www.spiegel.de, By Christian Neef
The protesters in Kiev were largely responsible for the fall of the Ukrainian president. But his way out of office was paved by two of the country's most powerful oligarchs. Made rich by Viktor Yanukovych, the pair made early preparations for his dep
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Robert Lee
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Opinion • Philosophy of Liberty
Jefferson’s Final Warnings
02-27-2014
Paul Rosenberg
People remember Thomas Jefferson for the Declaration of Independence, which he wrote in 1776. A few will remember that he served as president from 1801 to 1809, but aside from that, they know almost nothing of his life and work.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
First contagious WiFi computer virus goes airborne, spreads like the common cold
02-27-2014
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dailycaller.com
Computer science researchers have demonstrated for the first time how a digital virus can go airborne and spread via WiFi networks in populated areas at the same pace as a human diseases.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Pins Fate of Nuclear Pact on Documents From an Iranian "Curveball"
02-27-2014
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http://www.truth-out.org, By Gareth Porter
Obama administration officials insist "possible military dimensions" of Iran’s nuclear program must be resolved to the satisfaction of the IAEA to complete a nuclear agreement. But the term refers to discredited intelligence from suspect sources.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
'Pony' botnet steals bitcoins, digital currencies - Trustwave
02-27-2014
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http://www.cnbc.com,
Cyber criminals have infected hundreds of thousands of computers with a virus called "Pony" to steal bitcoins and other digital currencies, in the most ambitious cyber attack on virtual money uncovered so far, according to security firm Trustwave.
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
New York Auto Dealers' Lobby Prepping New Anti-Tesla Legislation
02-27-2014
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slate.com
Tesla is currently unable to sell cars in Texas, due to many American states' fascination with protectionist legislation for car dealers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Kerry decries 'new isolationism', says U.S. acts like poor nation
02-26-2014
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Reuters
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry decried what he called a "new isolationism" in the United States on Wednesday and suggested that the country was beginning to behave like a poor nation.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Since 2000, There Are 29 Percent More Big Banks and 24 Percent Fewer Small Banks
02-26-2014
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The 5 largest banks by assets now hold 44% of US banking assets and 40.1% of domestic deposits"up from 23.5% and 19.5%, respectively, in early 2000. Correspondingly, small banks’ share of domestic deposits has fallen from 40.4% to 23% since
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News Link • Corruption
More retired NY firefighters, cops arrested in pension fraud probe
02-26-2014
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Reuters
Disability fraud charges against 106 suspects - 80 of them retired New York cops and firefighters - with some accused of falsely claiming to have been traumatized by the September 11, 2001 attacks on the city.
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News Link • Economy - International
Bank Run: Ukraine Pledges to Protect Deposits as Kiev Rally Called
02-26-2014
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Bloomberg
Ukraine is weighing measures to stem cash withdrawals after as much as 7 percent of deposits were taken from banks during last week’s bloody uprising, underscoring the need for action to fend off a default.
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News Link • Obamacare
IRS Warns: Obamacare Tax Must Be Paid with Tax Return
02-26-2014
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Agency employs Orwellian term “Shared Responsibility Payment” to describe Obamacare individual mandate tax.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Church officials blame Minnesota mom for not protecting sons from priest who abused them
02-26-2014
A Minnesota mother says Catholic Church officials are blaming her for not protecting her two sons from the priest who abused them. The Rev. Curtis Wehmeyer, pleaded guilty to abusing the boys, ages 12 and 14, and possessing child pornography.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Teen In Medical Dispute Sent To Foster Care
02-26-2014
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CBS News
The state of Massachusetts took charge of Justina Pelletier as her parents and doctors at Children’s Hospital continue to clash over her diagnosis and treatment. The teen’s mom broke down in court. Paramedics wheeled Linda Pelletier from
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Utah judge cites ‘she said, he said’ when giving probation to jailer who admitted sex abuse
02-26-2014
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Rawstory
David Epperson admitted he touched the bare breasts of 2 female inmates and touched the genital area of one of them. However, US District Judge David Sam repeatedly questioned the victim’s credibility before sentencing Epperson to probation
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Supreme Court makes it easier for police to search homes without a warrant
02-26-2014
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Reuters
The court held on a 6-3 vote that police can search a home without a warrant, even if the suspect has objected, as long as he is no longer on the scene and a co-tenant gives consent. It made no difference that the suspect had earlier objected
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona governor vetoes controversial anti-gay, ‘religious freedom’ bill
02-26-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announced that she has vetoed a bill that would have allowed state businesses to discriminate against gay and lesbian customers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russia Combat Ready for the Ukraine?
02-26-2014
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Next News Network
Vladimir Putin ordered his troops on alert, amid growing tension and unrest in the Ukraine. The Russian leader put his military on exercises, making them ready for combat.
Demonstrators in the Ukraine have driven President Viktor Yanukovych from
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops Sideswipe Car, Look For Cameras, Then Charge Man With Causing The Accident
02-25-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Officers Oliver and Shigri are accused of sideswiping a parked SUV owned by Robert Jackson, 31, and then charging him with the accident " after looking around for any security cameras that would contradict them. They missed one.
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News Link • Police State
Chicago PD creates PreCrime Watch List
02-21-2014
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Next News Network
Some analysts have long been troubled by the concept of predictive law enforcement. The Chicago Police Department is raising new concerns with just such a program. Under a $2 million grant awarded to the Chicago Police Department by the National Inst
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News Link • Marriage
Holder: States Can Refuse to Enforce Gay Marriage Bans
02-25-2014
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Next News Network
Attorney General Eric Holder told his state counterparts they do not have to defend bans on same sex marriage. The remarks were made in an interview with the New York Times.
Holder said that although state AG's cannot change laws, they can refus
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