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Date Sent: 2014-05-09
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, May 9, 2014 |
Lawsuit: Cops Shoved A ‘Sharp Object’ Down Teen’s Throat, Killing Him
No charges against cops who shook down numerous businesses -- The Tuttle Twins: Bastiat's "The Law" for Kids -- Bitcoin mining startup fires half its staff, declares “we’re not scammers” -- US doctors decry 'political blackmail' by gun lobby -- Texas Woman, Hospital Settle Body Cavity Search Lawsuit -- In his words: How a whitehat hacked a university and became an FBI
target -- These are the 'essential skills' needed to be an Obama
ambassadonor -- Router company that threatened a reviewer loses Amazon selling license -- Father arrested at school board meeting during discussion on book (and daughter's response)... -- Shock Footage: Marine Captures UFO Destroying Taliban Base... -- Here Comes Crimea 2.0: Following Referendum, East Ukraine Votes To Become... -- Russia Launches Two ICBMs, Rebuffs “Simulated Massive Nuclear Strike”...
-- Professor to Tea Party students: Get out before I send you home in a
body bag -- Yellowstone Volcano Eruption: Report Claims That US Has
Contingency Deal... -- Fed Chair Unsure If Capitalism or Oligarchy Describes the U.S. --
The world has nothing to fear from the US losing power -- The Fight for
Domestic News Drones -- Video: Palcohol Inventor Demonstrates His
Powdered Booze -- Occupy Wall Street Activist Cecily McMillan Found Guilty -- Italy May Have Over 1,000 Tonnes Of Gold At The New York Fed "Guns Save Lives" Billboard Ban by City of Phoenix Overturned on Appeal -- Fascism's Willing Co-Conspirators -- 05-08-14 -- Cody Wilson on Dark Wallet (MP3 & video LOADED + BONUS)
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Lawsuit: Cops Shoved A ‘Sharp Object’ Down Teen’s Throat, Killing Him
05-08-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Robby Soave
A 17-year-old was killed after a confounding police encounter during which the cops slammed him on the ground, shattered his ribs, pepper-sprayed him and shoved a sharp object down his throat, according to his family’s lawsuit.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
No charges against cops who shook down numerous businesses
05-08-2014
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Collado was one of more than 20 bodega and corner-store owners who said narcotics officers destroyed their video cameras and then pocketed cash, helped themselves to food and drinks, and walked out with armfuls of merchandise.
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
The Tuttle Twins: Bastiat's "The Law" for Kids
05-08-2014
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Children are often taught that government protects our life, liberty, and property, but could it be true that some laws actually allow people to hurt us and take our things? Join Ethan and Emily Tuttle as they learn about property, pirates, and plund
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin mining startup fires half its staff, declares “we’re not scammers”
05-08-2014
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ars technica
HashFast, an embattled Bitcoin mining startup, announced on Thursday that it has fired half of its employees as a way to save money. “In order to improve our cash flow, as well as focus on ASICs, we made the difficult decision to
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News Link • Gun Rights
US doctors decry 'political blackmail' by gun lobby
05-08-2014
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AFP
A leading US medical journal hit out at the powerful American gun lobby for opposing the nomination for the post of top doctor, calling it a new form of "political blackmail."
At issue is the nomination to the post of surgeon general of a Harvard
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Texas Woman, Hospital Settle Body Cavity Search Lawsuit
05-08-2014
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CBS News
A Texas hospital is settling a lawsuit with a woman who was subjected to invasive cavity searches by medical staff at the behest of US Customs and Border Protection. Records show the border protection agency is not part of the settlement.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
In his words: How a whitehat hacked a university and became an FBI target
05-08-2014
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ars technica
Helkowski made his point rather dramatically by posting the university president’s Social Security number and phone number to reddit. He then sent an anonymous e-mail to the members of the university’s newly formed security task force,
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News Link • Obama Administration
These are the 'essential skills' needed to be an Obama ambassadonor
05-08-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
They might not speak a relevant foreign language or have any diplomatic experience, but big donors to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign have “essential skills” qualifying them for ambassador jobs,
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News Link • Internet
Router company that threatened a reviewer loses Amazon selling license
05-08-2014
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ars technica
Mediabridge Products posted an official statement about this incident to its Facebook page, clarifying its position and saying that Amazon has revoked its selling privileges. The company says it did not actually sue the Amazon reviewer,
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Cone Does Not Justify The Means
05-08-2014
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Simple Justice
This was a promotion for Wall’s Ice Cream. Using their law-appointed power, the cops pulled over a few unsuspecting citizens and then fired a few questions at them. After the innocents appeared to be nice and terrified, the officers retreated to thei
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Father arrested at school board meeting during discussion on book (and daughter's response)...
05-08-2014
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YouTube.Com
Some parents in Gilford are voicing concerns about a book with a risque love scene that high school students are required to read.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
The dune buggy that can fly
05-08-2014
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YouTube.Com
Part all-terrain dune buggy, part light-sport aircraft, the Skyrunner is the ultimate recreational sports vehicle! After almost three years in development, this power parachute dune buggy is on track to hit the market in 2014. Made by UK company Para
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News Link • Military
Shock Footage: Marine Captures UFO Destroying Taliban Base...
05-08-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
Shock Footage: Marine Captures UFO Destroying Taliban Base: “Unlike Any Known U.S. Military Drone”
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News Link • World News
Here Comes Crimea 2.0: Following Referendum, East Ukraine Votes To Become...
05-08-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Zero Hedge
Here Comes Crimea 2.0: Following Referendum, East Ukraine Votes To Become Part Of Russia
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News Link • World News
Russia Launches Two ICBMs, Rebuffs “Simulated Massive Nuclear Strike”...
05-08-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,
Russia Launches Two ICBMs, Rebuffs “Simulated Massive Nuclear Strike” As Part Of Military Drill
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News Link • Tea Party
Professor to Tea Party students: Get out before I send you home in a body bag
05-08-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, The Blaze
A UC Santa Barbara student alleges her black studies professor warned any “Ted Cruz-supporting ‘tea baggers’ to get the hell out of his classroom before he sent them home to their mother in a body bag.”
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russia to Begin Moon Colonization in 2030 " Report
05-08-2014
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http://en.ria.ru
Russia has drafted a program for colonization of the moon, and plans to send the first expeditions to build a permanent lunar base in 2030, the Russian Izvestia daily said Thursday, citing an official document.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Yellowstone Volcano Eruption: Report Claims That US Has Contingency Deal...
05-08-2014
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http://www.theepochtimes.com, By Zachary Stieber
If the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts then millions of U.S. citizens could end up in Brazil, Australia, or Argentina.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed Chair Unsure If Capitalism or Oligarchy Describes the U.S.
05-08-2014
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http://cnsnews.com, By Susan Jones
"Are we still a capitalist democracy or have we gone over into an oligarchic form of society in which incredible economic and political power now rests with the billionaire class?" Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont socialist, asked that question of Fede
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News Link • Economy - International
The world has nothing to fear from the US losing power
05-08-2014
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http://www.theguardian.com, Mark Weisbrot
As China looks set to overtake the US as the world's largest economy, a multipolar world can only be good for democracy
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News Link • Drones
The Fight for Domestic News Drones
05-08-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Lucy Steigerwald
On Tuesday, more than a dozen notable news organizations including The New York Times Company, Scipps Media, Hearst, and the National Press Club filed a brief with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) over the ban on commercial, news-gathe
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
What Happens When a Neurosurgeon Removes Your Hippocampus
05-08-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Sam Kean
Until the past few decades, neuroscientists had one way to plumb the human brain: wait for disaster to strike people and, if the victims pulled through, see how their minds worked differently afterward.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists May Have Decoded One of the Secrets to Superconductors
05-08-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Natalie Wolchover
The microscopic structure of high-temperature superconductors has long puzzled scientists seeking to harness their virtually limitless technological potential.
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News Link • Activism
Occupy Wall Street Activist Cecily McMillan Found Guilty
05-08-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com,Press TV
A female Occupy Wall Street activist in the United States has been found guilty of assaulting a police officer and now faces between two and seven years in prison.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Italy May Have Over 1,000 Tonnes Of Gold At The New York Fed
05-08-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Ronan Manly
Italy’s central bank, the Banca d’Italia, has recently published an important document detailing the storage locations and composition of the country’s gold reserves. The document confirms that Italy’s gold is held across four vault locations, three
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
And the Band Played On
05-08-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Peter Schiff
After three months of consistently disappointing jobs numbers, the markets were as keyed up for a good jobs report as a long suffering sailor awaiting shore leave in a tropical port.
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News Link • Food
The Next Startup Craze:
Food 2.0
05-08-2014
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Ted Greenwald
Silicon Valley investors and startups are trying to improve our food. Do they bring anything to the table?
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News Link • Technology: Software
Illustris computer simulation creates the first realistic virtual universe
05-08-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Darren Quick
As you might expect, the scale and complexities of the underlying physics means creating a realistic virtual universe would require some hefty computing power.
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News Link • Transportation
BMW gives the i8 its very own solar carport
05-08-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Angus MacKenzie
BMW Group DesignworksUSA has designed a solar carport to house the new i3 and forthcoming i8 electric vehicles. BMW is revealing the one-car solar garage concept as part of the official media launch of the i8 in Los Angeles.
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News Link • Media: Print
World's smallest comic carved into a strand of human hair
05-08-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Nick Lavars
Advances in technology have given rise to an abundance of ways to share our stories. There's messaging services for the short and sharp, blogging platforms for the long-winded and, as it happens, single strands of human hair for microscopic comic str
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News Link • Housing
The Skit: An off-grid, cross-shaped, tiny house for one
05-08-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Adam Williams
One could be forgiven for thinking that shipping container-based architecture may have reached saturation point. After all, Gizmag has previously reported on student digs, a passively-cooled home, and a cruise ship terminal, to name just a few exampl
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News Link • Inventions
Health info tattoo wins Intel Make It Wearable award
05-08-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Stu Robarts
Intel has announced the winner in the second round of the of its Make It Wearable contest, Visionary Track. Student, maker and DIY enthusiast Mael Flament proposed an invisible tattoo that contains our health information. Med. History 2.0 would be ea
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News Link • Obama Administration
Gold And Silver " Elites Want War. Front Man Obama Pushing Hard
05-07-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Michael Noonan
The modus operandi of the elites is to create chaos, preferably in the form of [profitable for them] war. Their purpose is to create major headaches for governments and people. The next step is to “offer solutions” to end the chaos. Without fail, the
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News Link • Climate Change
’600 page litany of doom’: Weather Channel Co-Founder John Coleman slams Federal climate report:
05-07-2014
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climatedepot.com
A ‘total distortion of the data and agenda driven, destructive episode of bad science gone berserk’
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News Link • Israel
Israel Won’t Stop Spying on the U.S.
05-07-2014
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newsweek.com
Whatever happened to honor among thieves?
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News Link • Military
The U.S. Military Was No Match for Afghanistan’s Corruption
05-07-2014
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http://www.slate.com, By R. Jeffrey Smith
The Pentagon wasn’t just defeated by the country’s graft"the Pentagon made it worse.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Dozens of FBI, CIA Agents in Kiev 'Assisting Ukraine Security'
05-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Numerous US agents are helping the coup-appointed government in Ukraine to “fight organized crime” in the south east of the country, the German newspaper Bild revealed.
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News Link • NATO
Commander: NATO Must Consider ‘Permanent’ Troops in Eastern Europe
05-07-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
The US has been sending some small deployments to Eastern Europe in recent days, but NATO Supreme Allied Commander and US Gen. Philip Breedlove is now talking up the idea of making alliance troop deployments in those regions larger, and permanent.
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News Link • Police State
Man’s Las Vegas Casino Winnings Confiscated by Police Without any Criminal Charges
05-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
"Everyday I do this. It's all I do for a living. It's drug interdiction and I get money."
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Antiwar Rep. Walter Jones Beats Neocon-Backed GOP Rival
05-07-2014
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http://antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Strongly antiwar incumbent Rep. Walter Jones (R " NC) has won a hotly contested primary tonight, defeating a challenge from hawkish challenger and former Treasury Dept. official Taylor Griffin 51% to 45%.
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News Link • Drones
Every Country Will Have Armed Drones Within Ten Years
05-07-2014
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Defense One
Virtually every country on Earth will be able to build or acquire drones capable of firing missiles within the next ten years. Armed aerial drones will be used for targeted killings, terrorism and the government suppression of civil unrest. What’s wo
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News Link • Drug War
Nobel Economists Back Call to End Failed 'War on Drugs'
05-07-2014
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commondreams.org
New report says militarized approach to fighting drug trade 'has failed on its own terms' and that new paradigms must be tried
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israeli FM Lieberman slams Arab Israelis over Nakba protest
05-07-2014
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AFP
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman denounced as "fifth column" thousands of Arab Israelis who joined a demonstration calling for the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Around 10,000 protesters, many waving Palestinian flags
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News Link • Israel
Israeli spying on US at 'alarming level'
05-07-2014
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AFP
Israel spies on the United States more than any other ally does and these activities have reached an alarming level. The main targets are US industrial and technical secrets quoting classified briefings on legislation that would make it easier for
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News Link • World News
Court forces out Thai leader, part of her Cabinet
05-07-2014
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AP
Thailand's prime minister was ordered by a court to step down Wednesday in a ruling that handed a victory to anti-government protesters who have staged six months of street protests " but does little to resolve the country's political crisis.
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News Link • Drones
Drone ban at Yosemite appears legally questionable
05-06-2014
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ars technica
The National Park Service announced it was barring drones from Yosemite, citing as reasons everything from wilderness protection to climbers' safety. But the cited legal basis for the regulation doesn't even apply to drones.
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News Link • Corruption
Ken Paxton’s business list has surged since he entered Legislature
05-06-2014
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Ken Paxton was a small-town lawyer with no other business interests or sources of income before he was elected to the Legislature. But since he joined the House Paxton has started or become part of 28 business ventures, state records show.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police chief pleased with how officers handled May Day events
05-06-2014
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When questioned by reporters about why officers allowed protesters to trek back and forth from Capitol Hill to downtown for hours, Bailey and Assistant Chief Paul McDonagh said that allowing protesters to exercise their First Amendment rights,
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News Link • Internet
FCC commissioner says FCC “invented” new authority to regulate Internet
05-06-2014
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ars technica
The FCC's Michael O’Rielly, one of two Republican commissioners since being sworn into office last November, today warned against the commission using what he called "newly invented authority to regulate the Internet."
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Supremes Rule on Prayer in Government Meetings
05-06-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Christian prayers can be said amongst government officials and public attendees of local governmental legislative meetings, such as city councils or town hall meetings, etc.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Shocking cop overreach: Racial profiling, quotas, secret conviction bonuses
05-06-2014
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Salon
Recently revealed evidence indicates the federally funded program included an illegal system of secret payments law enforcement made to witnesses who delivered successful drug prosecutions " another sign the city’s policing has flown off the rails.
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News Link • World News
Militants Seize Over 200 Girls . . . Nigerian First Lady Orders Arrest Of Woman Leading Protests
05-06-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Nigerians are complaining the government is not working particularly hard to free the girls. President Jonathan's wife ordered the arrest of Naomi Mutah, a representative of the Chibok community where the girls were seized from their school
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
California Assembly Moves To Ban Sale Or Display Of Confederate Flag
05-06-2014
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Jonathan Turley
The California state assembly has passed a new law that will be prohibit the selling or displaying items with an image of the Confederate flag. We have previously discussed the disciplining of students and others over the display of this flag
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News Link • World News
Who Are the Men Behind the Masks in Eastern Ukraine?
05-06-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
The members of the militia are not terrorists or militants or even rebels " as a group. As a group, they do not want to take over the Kiev government, although some may want this. The modal goal is probably a substantial degree of local autonomy
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Cop Block Co-Founder Prepares for Wiretapping Retrial Despite Served Sentence
05-06-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
“Wow, I can’t believe this is happening again.”
That was Adam “Ademo Freeman” Mueller’s first thought when he learned last month that he was being retried on wiretapping charges stemming from an attempt to hold New Hampshire public officials accou
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News Link • Activism
GMOs " Labeling the 2%
05-06-2014
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Farm Wars
Good news! A portion of roughly 2% of the GMOs that are grown will most likely require labeling in Vermont. Hopefully. Just make sure to read between the lines for those oh, so pesky exemptions...
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News Link • Gun Rights
It all depends on who wants the guns (plus an update on the Showdown at Bundy Ranch)
05-06-2014
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com
A month after a deranged mother-murderer shot up that elementary school in Connecticut in 2012, California state Sen. Leland Yee, 65, described by the Los Angeles Times as “a hero of gun regulators,” helped introduce what was seen as one of the tough
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News Link • Internet
DuckDuckGo, The Search Engine That Doesn't Track You Like Google Does...
05-06-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Megan Rose Dickey
DuckDuckGo, The Search Engine That Doesn't Track You Like Google Does, Just Got A Lot Better
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