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Date Sent: 2014-05-27
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, May 27, 2014 |
Cops Taser Man 18 Times Then Pounce On Family Member As He Films Incident
MS judge accused of smacking mentally disabled black man and yelling, Run, nigger, run -- Mind your own business, Venezuela foreign minister tells Kerry -- SC pastor accused of turning Bible college into forced labor camp for foreign students -- Naked man, playing violin, arrested outside Portland's federal courthouse -- Scientist now believes his pioneering work on gluten allergy was wrong -- Battle at Donetsk airport; new Ukraine leader says no talks with 'terrorists' -- Conn. senator on mass shooting: Stop the madness and pass Sandy Hook gun control bills -- Karzai refused to meet Obama at Bagram Air Base, says US official -- Tiananmen Square protest leader haunted by ghosts, 25 years later -- House Approves Another $600 Million in Israel Military Aid -- Religious Observance Ends in Iraq But Not Attacks: 84 Killed, 67 Wounded -- Russia ready to speak with new Ukrainian president -- DARPA Turns Oculus Into a Weapon for Cyberwar -- Why Online Games Turn Players Into Psychopaths -- "T-rays" could lead to safer medical imaging -- Falcon Heavy in Pictures: SpaceX's Huge Private Rocket -- SpaceX Expected to Unveil Manned Dragon Spaceship on May 29 -- The VA Scandal Is Just the Tip of the Military Abuse Iceberg -- Washington Post Seeks US-Patrolled Safe Zone in Syria -- Snowden considers returning to US -- Op-Ed: For Shame, Pope Francis -- Justice to count feds' guns -- Europe Voted: Anti-EU And Protest Parties Take Nearly A Third Of All Europarliament Seats -- European Voters Are Revolting; France Warns "Situation Is Grave For Europe" -- KYLE BASS: China Isn't Just Slowing Down — It's Contracting -- Bitcoin Is On A Major Tear -- Judge Rules Flashing Lights to Warn Drivers Is Protected Free Speech -- Why War Is Inevitable -- Some Anti-Memorial Day Remembrances -- White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan -- The Pledge of Allegiance: 2 Reasons Why Christians Should Not Say It -- Republicrats are more equal than others -- CDC Caught Hiding Data Showing Mercury in Vaccines Linked to Autism -- A Hidden Camera During DUI Checkpoint Exposes the Vileness of the American Police State -- Despite Obama's new rules, no end in sight for drone war
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News Link • Police State
Video: Cops Taser Man 18 Times Then Pounce On Family Member As He Films Incident
05-26-2014
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Prison Planet
Incident highlights how police are attacking those who document brutality
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
MS judge accused of smacking mentally disabled black man and yelling, ‘Run, nigger, run’
05-26-2014
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Rawstory
A Mississippi judge was accused of striking a mentally disabled black man and yelling, “Run, nigger, run.” The family of 20-year-old Eric Rivers filed a complaint against Madison County Justice Court Judge Bill Weisenberger
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Mind your own business, Venezuela foreign minister tells Kerry
05-26-2014
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Reuters
Venezuela's foreign minister on Monday rebuked his U.S. counterpart, John Kerry, for criticizing the handling of street protests and reiterated accusations Washington wants to topple the socialist government.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
SC pastor accused of turning Bible college into forced labor camp for foreign students
05-26-2014
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Rawstory
The president of a South Carolina Bible college was charged with essentially treating foreign students as slaves by forcing them to perform work for little or no pay. Federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint against
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Naked man, playing violin, arrested outside Portland's federal courthouse
05-26-2014
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Turns out Portland does include a dress code of sorts. As in, you've got to be dressed. A 25-year old man who was naked and playing a violin outside the federal courthouse in Portland was arrested for indecent exposure.
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News Link • Food
Scientist now believes his pioneering work on gluten allergy was wrong
05-26-2014
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Rawstory
The researcher whose work led scientific credence to claims that those without celiac disease " which causes an immune response in the small intestines in the presence of gluten " still benefit from a gluten-free diet has
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News Link • World News
Battle at Donetsk airport; new Ukraine leader says no talks with 'terrorists'
05-26-2014
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Reuters
Ukraine launched air strikes and a paratrooper assault against pro-Russian rebels who seized an airport, as its newly elected leader rejected any talks with "terrorists" and said a robust military campaign in the east
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News Link • Gun Rights
Conn. senator on mass shooting: ‘Stop the madness’ and pass Sandy Hook gun control bills
05-26-2014
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Rawstory
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called to reintroduce gun control bills that were defeated after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai refused to meet Obama at Bagram Air Base, says US official
05-26-2014
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AFP
Obama and Karzai have a testy relationship and Washington has been deeply frustrated by the outgoing Afghan leader's refusal to sign a bilateral security agreement that would allow post-2014 US troops in the country.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Tiananmen Square protest leader haunted by ghosts, 25 years later
05-26-2014
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AFP
A quarter of a century after Communist authorities crushed the Tiananmen Square demonstrators and their hopes of reform, protest leader Wu'er Kaixi still lies awake at night, haunted by the dead and their unrealised dreams.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
Religious Observance Ends in Iraq But Not Attacks: 84 Killed, 67 Wounded
05-26-2014
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antiwar.com
Shi’ite pilgrims wrapped up their yearly observance of Imam Kadhim’s death anniversary in Baghdad.
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News Link • World News
Russia ready to speak with new Ukrainian president
05-26-2014
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businessweek.com
Moscow is ready for a direct dialogue with Ukraine's new president and doesn't need any Western mediation, Russia's foreign minister said Monday.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Tech Time Warp of the Week: Watch AT&T Invent Cloud Computing in 1994
05-26-2014
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Wired.com
Who invented cloud computing? Some say it was Amazon in 2006. Others say it was Google a few years earlier. But it’s all a matter of perspective. We have video proof that cloud computing was really invented in 1994 by AT&T.
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News Link • Transportation
The Electric Skateboard of the Future Has Finally Arrived
05-26-2014
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Wired.com
A motorized skateboard"an idea so bone-headedly simple, it makes you wonder why these things aren’t everywhere already.
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Why Online Games Turn Players Into Psychopaths
05-26-2014
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Wired.com
Three men stand on a deserted street, their hands in the air. One wears a green T-shirt and a motorcycle helmet. The others wear bright yellow down jackets. They are surrounded by four armed men.
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News Link • Architecture
Tiny Leaf House can accommodate a family of four " and it has wheels
05-26-2014
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gizmag.com
Leaf House is the creation of small home enthusiast Laird Herbert from Whitehorse, Canada, who was inspired by the idea of building his own home.
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News Link • Architecture
Salsa Box adds a little flavor to the tiny house movement
05-26-2014
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gizmag.com
The Salsa Box, by Portland, Oregon-based Shelter Wise, offers yet another take on very small-scale living.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Google's "Quantum Computing Playground" lets you fiddle with quantum algorithms
05-26-2014
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gizmag.com
Google has just launched a new web-based integrated development environment (IDE) that allows users to write, run and debug software that makes use of quantum algorithms.
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News Link • Transportation
Gas-powered Tortuga Trike aims to bring trike drifting up to speed
05-26-2014
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gizmag.com
Trike drifting, a sport that originated in New Zealand in 2009 and has since spread all around the globe, is typically the plaything of adrenaline junkies with long and winding downhill runs at their disposal.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
The VA Scandal Is Just the Tip of the Military Abuse Iceberg
05-26-2014
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antiwar.com
President Obama held a press conference last week to express his outrage over reports that the Veterans Administration was routinely delaying treatment to veterans, with some veterans even dying while on alleged secret waiting lists.
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News Link • Media: Print
Washington Post Seeks US-Patrolled ‘Safe Zone’ in Syria
05-26-2014
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antiwar.com
The Washington Post’s neocon editors have made another strident appeal for President Barack Obama to “abandon his passivity and do something to help” the rebels in Syria, complaining that they “continue to receive far too little help from the United
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Snowden ‘considers’ returning to US " report
05-26-2014
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RT.com
American whistleblower Edward Snowden is “considering” returning home to the USA under certain conditions, his lawyer told German news magazine Der Spiegel.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Op-Ed: For Shame, Pope Francis
05-26-2014
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Giulio Meotti
One wonders whether being killed is the only role of the Jews in the eyes of the Papacy.
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Police State
Justice to count feds' guns
05-26-2014
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thehill.com
The Justice Department is updating a report on how many guns the federal government has.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Should Apologize For Treating Military Veterans Like Garbage For The Past 5 Years
05-26-2014
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
This Memorial Day, Barack Obama and members of Congress will honor our veterans by wearing ribbons and laying wreaths, but what they should really do is apologize to the entire nation for treating them like human trash for the past five years.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Your existing SSD can be made 300% faster and 60% more efficient
05-26-2014
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dvice.com
When you need to store massive amounts of data, solid-state drive (SSD) are the best way to go.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
The Retail Death Rattle Grows Louder
05-26-2014
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zerohedge.com
The definition of death rattle is a sound often produced by someone who is near death when fluids such as saliva and bronchial secretions accumulate in the throat and upper chest.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Memorial Day 2014: Just Following Orders
05-26-2014
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zerohedge.com
Large-scale evil requires surrender of autonomy, coercion by a central authority and a willingness to follow orders.
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News Link • European Union
Europe Voted: Anti-EU And Protest Parties Take Nearly A Third Of All Europarliament Seats
05-26-2014
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zerohedge.com
For those pressed for time, here is the one-chart post-mortem of what happened in yesterday's elections for European Parliament:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
European Voters Are Revolting; France Warns "Situation Is Grave For Europe"
05-26-2014
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zerohedge.com
Just as we had warned in the run-up to the European elections - and England's UKIP victory in local elections had suggested;
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
REPORT: Apple Is Getting Ready To Turn Your iPhone Into The Remote Control Of Your Entire House
05-26-2014
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Business Insider
Apple is getting ready to launch its much talked about
"Smart Home" software in early June, sources familiar with the matter confirm to the Financial Times.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Is On A Major Tear
05-26-2014
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Business Insider
After a long period where it was just sitting in the mid-$400s, the digital currency is rising again.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
KYLE BASS: China Isn't Just Slowing Down " It's Contracting
05-26-2014
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Business Insider
For the last several years, nobody has been more outspokenly bearish on Japan than Kyle Bass.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge Rules Flashing Lights to Warn Drivers Is Protected Free Speech
05-26-2014
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Daily Paul.com
About 2:50 p.m. on Nov. 17, 2012, Elli flashed his headlights after passing police. He was stopped and ticketed.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Why War Is Inevitable
05-26-2014
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www.thedailybell.com - Paul Craig Roberts
The speeches create a false reality that supports ever more wars. None of America's wars had anything to do with keeping America free. To the contrary, the wars swept away our civil liberties, making us unfree.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Some Anti-Memorial Day Remembrances
05-26-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com - Thomas Dilorenz
“Honoring” paid killers for the state for participating in non-defensive, unjust wars only serves to make it more likely that there will be even more unjust wars in the future.
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News Link • Food
Lion's Mane Mushrooms
05-26-2014
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arclein
These effects are due to the beta glucan polysaccharides, or complex sugars, along with fatty acids and polypeptides. All of these have a lot to do with the curative effects. Also contained within Lion's Mane is oleanolic acids and adenosine. These
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News Link • Anthropology
Rethinking the Khazar Theory
05-26-2014
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arclein
For years I accepted the Khazar theory as true. After it, all it was repeated by some writers who also recognized the leading Jewish role in Communism and their leadership in many other subversive movements.
It was only later, when I considered th
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News Link • Food
Soluble Fiber Produces Glucose in large Intestine
05-26-2014
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arclein
Dietary fiber, or roughage, occurs in two separate forms: soluble and insoluble. Insoluble fiber cannot be digested by the body, but still plays a critical role in absorbing water from the digestive system and providing bulk to keep the intestinal mu
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cause of Depression
05-26-2014
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arclein
The hopelessness was gone. A hopelessness I didn't even know I had was now gone. From that day on I knew I could make it. So it was a very big event. The turning point in my recovery.
The subtleness of chemical poisoning is the single biggest fac
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Millennia of Memorial Day Tribute
05-26-2014
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Strike-the-Root
Beyond the count of years I walked the world,
and my children built their shrines to me.
Decades and centuries and millennia pass,
and still the shrines are built.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan
05-26-2014
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Washington Post
The CIA’s top officer in Kabul was exposed by the White House when his name was included on a list provided to news organizations of senior U.S. officials participating in President Obama’s surprise visit with U.S. troops.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
The Pledge of Allegiance: 2 Reasons Why Christians Should Not Say It
05-26-2014
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redletterchristians.org
The Pledge of Allegiance was originally composed in 1892 by Francis Bellamy. Originally the Pledge was composed of these words:
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News Link • Politics
Republicrats are more equal than others
05-25-2014
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Free Press Publications
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed that member of the two wings of the ruling party have more rights than members of other political parties. In 2012, that court ruled that Michigan’s “sore-loser law” applied to Presidential candidates, de
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
CDC Caught Hiding Data Showing Mercury in Vaccines Linked to Autism
05-26-2014
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healthimpactnews.com
In a press release issued recently, one that almost no mainstream media sources have bothered to report, it was announced that Dr. Brian Hooker had finally received documents from the CDC through a Freedom of Information Act that revealed ...
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News Link • Police State
A Hidden Camera During DUI Checkpoint Exposes the Vileness of the American Police State
05-26-2014
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thefreethoughtproject.com
“He’s perfectly innocent, he knows his rights, he knows what the Constitution says.” mutters the power tripping jackboot cop as he tears apart this innocent man’s vehicle for no other reason than to flex his “authority.”
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News Link • Drones
Despite Obama's new rules, no end in sight for drone war
05-23-2014
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Matt Spetalnick, and all, Chicago Tribune
A year after Obama laid out new conditions for drone attacks, U.S. forces are failing to comply fully with the rules he set for them: to strike only when there is an imminent threat to Americans and when there is virtually no danger of taking innocen
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News Link • Food
FDA To Ban Organic Farming?
05-23-2014
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Small and large organic farms alike that sell produce would be impacted by the proposed new rules, which would place burdensome restrictions on everything from compost to livestock to water " so much so that many farmers
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News Link • Surveillance
The Only Email System The NSA Can't Access
05-23-2014
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Forbes
When the NSA surveillance news broke last year it sent shockwaves through CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Switzerland. Andy Yen, a PhD student, took to the Young at CERN Facebook group with a simple message:
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Wisconsin Professor Sues Former Student Over Bad Evaluations Posted on the Internet
05-23-2014
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Jonathan Turley
No professor enjoys poor teaching evaluations but University of Wisconsin-Whitewater communications professor Sally Vogl-Bauer has taken a more aggressive approach. She has sued a former student who took her class
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Why Are Kids Being Tried in Kangaroo Courts?
05-23-2014
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Rolling Stone
In juvenile courts across the country, children often face the full weight of the criminal justice system without the protection of a defense attorney. Children may be pressured by judges or prosecutors to waive their right to an attorney.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 25, 2014 Edition
05-23-2014
John Semmens
Kerry Says Obama Administration “Most Transparent and Accountable in History”
In a lightly publicized press conference, Secretary of State John Kerry told members of the Mexican media that “I believe President Obama will go down in history as the
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