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Date Sent: 2014-05-05
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, May 5, 2014 |
Arms Cache Most Likely Kept in Texas by the C.I.A.
Candidate Kicked Out of Press Meeting After Scolding Reporter for Writing "Blah Blah Blah" -- NC Senate Primary Tomorrow May 6th - Calling all NC Patriots -- Rand
Paul with google live chat on May 7! Submit your questions! -- Chemtrails Discredit Our Movement -- Open Carry Demonstrators Scare Restaurant Employees -- Alabama’s chief justice: Buddha didn’t create us so First Amendment only protects Christians... -- Video: White House Correspondent's Dinner -- Speaking the Language of Liberty -- Real Americans Ready To Snap ? -- The State is Out of Date with Gregory Sams -- Would Jesus Support the Death Penalty? -- When Hitting ‘Find My
iPhone’ Takes You to a Thief’s Doorstep -- Graffiti on dead whale in
Atlantic City a 'reprehensible act,' fraternity says -- Oconto
County Closes Shooting Range Over Stray Bullets -- Reagan and Keynes: The Love That
Dare Not Speak Its Name -- Drudge Report: My hunch press is full of
double agents proven at gala, says Matt -- Could You Do This for
Just One Day? -- Our 100th Supercharger Is Now Open! (Tesla
Supercharger Stations) -- Follow the Honey: 7 Ways Pesticide
Companies Are Spinning the Bee Crisis -- Ron Paul Charles Goyette
#07 – Ron Paul vs The IRS -- Despite the Crisis Over Ukraine,
America Will Likely Need Russia Soon -- Right to farm being stripped
from Americans -- 'Vampire therapy' could reverse aging, scientists
find -- Ukraine at War -- Scandalous Scoundrel Media Big Lies
Sign the petition to Balance the Budget (Tempe, AZ)
~ by Matt Papke
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Arms Cache Most Likely Kept in Texas by the C.I.A.
05-05-2014
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New York Times
“I have worried about the extent to which the U.S. has spread small arms around over the decades to various parties it supported,” he said. “Such weapons are pretty durable and, after the cause du jour passed, where did they go? To be a little dramat
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Candidate Kicked Out of Press Meeting After Scolding Reporter for Writing "Blah Blah Blah"
05-05-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by TruthSeeker1982
Oregon Liberty Republican candidate Mark Callahan was kicked out of an endorsement interview meeting shortly after calling out a reporter for writing "Blah blah blah" when another candidate was speaking.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
NC Senate Primary Tomorrow May 6th - Calling all NC Patriots
05-05-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by jeff4paul
Tomorrow is the NC Senate primary, Greg Brannon is the liberty candidate in the Race. Every North Carolinian that cares about the Constitution and their personal liberty has a chance to have their voice heard.
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News Link • Internet
Rand Paul with google live chat on May 7! Submit your questions!
05-05-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by fonzdrew
Government agents are listening to our phone calls, reading our emails, and checking our web histories. In this digital age, has our security come at the cost of suspending the 4th Amendment?
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News Link • Chemtrails
Chemtrails Discredit Our Movement
05-05-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by sleightofhand80
I have yet to see ANY proof or espouse any legitimate data regarding chemtrails. And no, the fact that a plane's jet trail lingers in the atmosphere for a few minutes is not proof. This ridiculous conspiracy discredits the Libertarian movement.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Open Carry Demonstrators Scare Restaurant Employees
05-05-2014
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http://www.nbcdfw.com, By Ken Kalthoff
Open carry firearm demonstrators are complaining that police treated them like criminals Thursday night as the group staged a protest with their guns.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Alabama’s chief justice: Buddha didn’t create us so First Amendment only protects...
05-05-2014
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Scott Kaufman
Alabama’s chief justice: Buddha didn’t create us so First Amendment only protects Christians
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News Link • Obama Administration
Video: White House Correspondent's Dinner
05-05-2014
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http://www.drudge.com, by REDIAL
President Barack Obama had some fun at the expense of the media, his political foes and himself during his speech at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night.
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Speaking the Language of Liberty
05-05-2014
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therawreport.org
For anyone that has not lived in a cave in recent years it is clear that libertarianism is gathering momentum and becoming more mainstream. As such, those of us that care about liberty should expect to get many questions from “outsiders” about what w
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News Link • Politics
Real Americans Ready To Snap ?
05-05-2014
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arclein
Nihilism is tempting for those people who are lazy and frightened and looking for a philosophical excuse to run away from making a stand. Claiming the fight is lost before it has truly begun is a longstanding tradition amongst millions upon millions
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News Link • Spirituality
Four Things About the Third Eye You Need to Know
05-05-2014
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arclein
the pineal gland is a pop-culture staple for sci-fi, fantasy and horror fandom, as well as a mass attractor of mystics and mentalists. Its powers to divide and merge our light and dark lives only seems to grow the more we take it seriously.
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News Link • Science
Precognition Confirmed as a Fast Sub Conscious Function
05-05-2014
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arclein
When Bem’s experiments are excluded, the effect size for the replications is 0.07, combined z = 4.25, p = 1.1 × 10-5, and the BF value is 757, which again greatly exceeds the criterion value of 100 for “decisive evidence.”
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News Link • Political Theory
The State is Out of Date with Gregory Sams
05-05-2014
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arclein
There were some five million inhabitants in over a thousand cities and settlements that traded extensively with each other. Cities were well planned with dockyards, granaries, places of worship, and public baths. Their architectural skills produced w
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Would Jesus Support the Death Penalty?
05-05-2014
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http://www.theatlantic.com, Jonathan Merritt
Scripture seems to back most Americans' view that he would oppose capital punishment"but that hasn't translated into widespread opposition.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
When Hitting ‘Find My iPhone’ Takes You to a Thief’s Doorstep
05-05-2014
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http://www.nytimes.com, By IAN LOVETT
After a boozy Saturday night, Sarah Maguire awoke the next morning to find that her iPhone was gone.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Graffiti on dead whale in Atlantic City a 'reprehensible act,' fraternity says
05-05-2014
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pressofatlanticcity.com, By ANJALEE KHEMLANI
The national office of the fraternity associated with the Greek letters spray-painted on the belly of a whale that washed onto the beach Thursday in Atlantic City issued a statement Friday calling the tagging a “reprehensible act.”
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News Link • Government
Oconto County Closes Shooting Range Over Stray Bullets
05-05-2014
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http://www.wbay.com, By WBAY
Oconto County has decided to close a shooting range that has become a concern to neighbors due to stray bullets.
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News Link • Entertainment: Concerts - Theatre - Events
Video: 9 Acrobats Fall at Ringling Performance
05-05-2014
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http://www.drudge.com, rcade
Nine Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus performers were among 11 people injured Sunday in Providence, Rhode Island, after an apparatus used in their act failed, sending them plummeting 20-40 feet to the ground, circus spokesman Stephen Payne
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News Link • History
Reagan and Keynes: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
05-05-2014
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http://www.newyorker.com, by John Cassidy
Toward the end of 1981, nearly a year after Ronald Reagan entered the White House, Sir Nicholas Henderson, the United Kingdom’s ambassador to Washington, wrote an annual review, including his observations of the President, and sent it to the Foreign
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News Link • Obama Administration
Drudge Report: My hunch press is full of double agents proven at gala, says Matt
05-05-2014
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http://www.examiner.com
For Drudge Report founder, Matt Drudge, his distrust of the media, his feeling that the American press is chock full of government double-agents was finally proven.
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Opinion • Inspiration
Could You Do This for Just One Day?
05-05-2014
Paul Rosenberg
A point I’ve made several times in our subscription newsletter is that most people give their attention to the negative things in the world and pass right over the good things. If you think about that for just a moment, it’s easy to understand why pe
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Sign the petition to Balance the Budget (Tempe, AZ) ~ by Matt Papke
05-05-2014
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Free Tempe - Matt Papke
It is time to start holding our elected public servants accountable for their actions and inactions. Toying with our futures by mortgaging them at every opportunity is not responsible leadership. Join me and call upon the city of Tempe to put forth a
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News Link • Bees and Beekeeping
Follow the Honey: 7 Ways Pesticide Companies Are Spinning the Bee Crisis
05-05-2014
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AlterNet
Like the repulsive 'Think. Don't Smoke' ads from Philip Morris, the pesticide industry now lauds 'saving bees' campaign.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul Charles Goyette #07 " Ron Paul vs The IRS
05-05-2014
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Money and Markets
Campaign for Liberty, the political action group founded by Ron Paul, led the fight to audit the Federal Reserve. Now the IRS is demanding information about its donors. But no one receives a tax deduction for donations to Campaign for Liberty and the
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News Link • World News
Despite the Crisis Over Ukraine, America Will Likely Need Russia Soon
05-05-2014
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Huffington Post
Although President Obama insisted during his trip to four East Asian countries worried about China's rapid rise (while not visiting China) that, "We're not interested in containing China," some experts nevertheless were correctly calling it the "cont
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News Link • Architecture
Right to farm being stripped from Americans
05-05-2014
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Natural News
Michigan to criminalize small family farms with chickens, goats, honey bees and more
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News Link • Food
12 Ingredients in Taco Bell ‘Mystery’ Beef That Will Kill You
05-05-2014
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Occupy Corporatism
The fast food company admitted that some additives to their beef “have weird names” but are “all approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)” so they must be safe for human consumption, right?
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
'Vampire therapy' could reverse aging, scientists find
05-05-2014
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www.telegraph.co.uk
A transfusion of youthful blood may halt or even reverse the ageing process as two studies find that the chemical make-up of younger blood has surprising health benefits
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News Link • China
No Chinese Plan to Stop Using Prisoner Organs
05-03-2014
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arclein
In the way this is generally meant by the Chinese authorities, the term refers to organs from criminals who are sentenced to death and have their organs extracted after they are executed given that, at least in theory, they and their families have si
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News Link • Surveillance
Get Ready for Regulators to Peer Into Your Portfolio
05-03-2014
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http://blogs.wsj.com,By Jason Zweig
In December, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which oversees how investments are sold, proposed what it calls Cards, an electronic system that would regularly collect data on balances and transactions in brokerage accounts.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Massive Arizona energy tower will dwarf every building in the USA
05-03-2014
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http://www.dvice.com, Michael Trei
Wind power in the U.S. is about to take a massive leap forward, now that plans to build the tallest building in the country have just been approved by the small city of San Luis, Arizona. At 2,250 feet, the energy tower will be almost 500 feet taller
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News Link • WAR: About that War
I am feeling really positive and optimist about things.
05-03-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Gmartine
Ever since I was young and watching the first war in Iraq I have always known that something was wrong. I used to be an anti-war leftist and voted for Kerry. Then in 2007 I saw the real anti-war philosophy with Ron Paul and I have not turned back.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Speaks: 'Liberty Defined and The Future of Freedom' May 01, 2014
05-03-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by ProudAmericanFirst
Ron Paul Speaks: 'Liberty Defined and The Future of Freedom' May 01, 2014
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Seattle Mayor Unveils Plan for $15 Minimum Wage + Video
05-03-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Diamond Dog
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray on Thursday proposed a phased-in increase of the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next seven years.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
It’s An Illusion: Here Are the REAL Unemployment Numbers
05-03-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
Mainstream financial pundits are falling over themselves today following a report from the Labor Department indicating that the national unemployment rate has fallen yet again, this time to just 6.3%.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Polls: Americans Are Sick of the War On Terror, War On Drugs … And All of the Other...
05-03-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,Washingtons Blog
Polls: Americans Are Sick of the War On Terror, War On Drugs … And All of the Other Failed U.S. Wars
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Human stem cells used to repair damaged monkey hearts
05-03-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Nick Lavars
In what could mark a significant breakthrough in the treatment of heart disease, researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have successfully repaired damaged tissue in monkey hearts using cells created from human embryonic stem cells.
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News Link • Archaeology
Has the Mystery of How the Egyptians Built the Pyramids Been Solved?
05-03-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Mark Prigg
Researchers have uncovered one of the key methods the Egyptians used to build the pyramids.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Magma rising in Washington state's Mount St. Helens volcano: USGS
05-03-2014
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news.yahoo.com
Magma levels are slowly rebuilding inside Mount St. Helens, a volcano in Washington state that erupted in 1980 and killed 57 people, although there was no sign of an impending eruption, U.S. scientists said.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Physics students devise concept for Star Wars-style deflector shields
05-03-2014
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phys.org
If you have often imagined yourself piloting your X-Wing fighter on an attack run on the Death Star, you'll be reassured that University of Leicester students have demonstrated that your shields could take whatever the Imperial fleet can throw at you
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News Link • Whistleblowers
German government warns against inviting Snowden to testify in parliamentary inquiry
05-03-2014
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news.yahoo.com
The German government advised against calling former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to Berlin as a witness in a parliamentary inquiry into U.S. spying, saying this would cause damage to relations with Washington.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Stephen Hawking: 'Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence...
05-03-2014
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independent.co.uk
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks, says a group of leading scientists
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News Link • Gun Rights
Justice Dept. Launches Covert Sanctions Against Gun Owners
05-02-2014
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Infowars
"And it's working " payment companies across the US are cutting off service to categories of merchants that " although legal " are creating the potential for significant financial and reputational harm as law enforcement publicizes its activities
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
SEIU membership, revenues plummet after state ends 'underhanded scheme'
05-02-2014
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FOX News
Michigan's powerful Service Employees International Union saw its membership and revenues plummet after reversal of a measure that forced caregivers tending to friends or relatives to be members with their dues paid by those they cared for.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Photographing Models Declared “Suspicious Activity” by Illinois Refinery, Police Follow Suit
05-02-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Tom Atwood was treated like a terrorist after taking pictures of models in front of the Wood River Refinery in Roxana, Illinois.
The threats made by police officers to Atwood, who was stopped and questioned by officers and security guards
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Ukraine strikes back; 'many' rebels killed, helicopters shot down
05-02-2014
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AP
Pro-Russia forces shot down 2 Ukrainian helicopters and Ukraine reported "many" rebels dead and wounded as the interim government in Kiev launched its first major offensive against an insurgency that has seized government buildings
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News Link • Death Penalty
Constitution Check: Does a botched execution violate the Eighth Amendment?
05-02-2014
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More botched executions conducted with questionable drugs from questionable sources, and an Oklahoma law now bars anyone from finding out…If we are to have executions, they must not be conducted like hastily thrown together human science experiments
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News Link • Internet
Storj " Dropbox for the Future
05-02-2014
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Storj promises cloud storage that’s 10-100x cheaper than Dropbox, 100% secure, encrypted, and decentralized. Which means your files can’t be subpoenaed. Individuals will be able to rent out their spare hard drive space to Storj
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
The heavy hand of the IRS seizes innocent Americans’ assets
05-02-2014
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Washington Post
“They just walked into the store” and announced they had emptied the store’s bank account. The IRS agents believed, or pretended to believe, that Terry and Sandy were or conceivably could be conducting a criminal enterprise when not selling groceries
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Federal judge blocks collection of fines from indigent
05-02-2014
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A federal judge Thursday blocked Montgomery from collecting traffic fines from three indigent plaintiffs, saying the city failed to follow federal and state law on collecting fines from those who cannot pay.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops Snatch Phone from Wheelchair-bound Man for Recording Them, Cite him
05-02-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Within hours of this story being posted, leading to numerous phone calls to the police department at the James H Quillen VA Medical Center, MacRae was arrested at his home on a probation violation.
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News Link • Iraq
Violence Still Rising: 2,034 Killed in Iraq in April
05-02-2014
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antiwar.com
A Year Into Escalation, No Sign of Slowdown
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Showdown at the Foreign Policy Corral
05-02-2014
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antiwar.com
The elites want intervention, the people want peace " and a showdown is coming
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Kerry calls for more peacekeepers for South Sudan
05-02-2014
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dw.de
On a six-day visit to Africa US Secretary of State John Kerry has met with regional politicians to discuss the situation in South Sudan which, he says, faces the threat of genocide.
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