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Date Sent: 2014-06-02
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, June 2, 2014 |
Silk Road Reduced Violence in the Drug Trade, Study Argues
Now Google
is going to dominate space: Search giant to launch 180 satellites --
The bizarre tale of America's last known POW -- Obama administration targets coal with controversial
emissions regulation -- Bilderberg 2014 Blown Wide Open -- World Bank warns of food riots -- Killing JFK -- The Racism
Obsession: Will Grigg on the Tom Woods Show -- THE GREAT WESTERN GAS
FIASCO -- Syria: Fighting a Civil War Through the Ballot Box
-- With The National 9/11 Memorial And Museum Opening, It's Time We
Confront The Truth -- The Birth of a Eurasian Century -- Obama at West
Point: Doubling Down on a Failed Syria Policy -- Why Are Russia and
China (And Iran) Paramount Enemies for the U.S. ... -- 2,249 Killed in
Iraq in May as Violence Continues to Rise -- Freed in Swap, US POW Bowe
Bergdahl Becomes Political Issue -- Dave Hodges Has Not Left the Building -- Washington Wants Maduro Dead
AZ: Pool party at the Hancock's Saturday
June 14th, 2014 from 2 p.m. til ??
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine, May 2014 Edition RELEASED
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Silk Road Reduced Violence in the Drug Trade, Study Argues
06-02-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Andy Greenberg
The dark web may have a silver lining, according to a pair of academics: A new class of geekier, less violent drug dealers.
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News Link • Drug War
3 Months Since Legalizing Marijuana
06-02-2014
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arclein
Legal cannabis sales in the United States are projected to reach as high as $2.57 billion this year, split among the 21 states that allow the sale of some form of marijuana. That's up from $1.53 billion a year ago. As time goes on, the marijuana ind
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News Link • Drug War
Reagan-Appointed Judge Posner Wants to Legalize Cocaine, Heroin, Meth, LSD
06-02-2014
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arclein
Richard Posner, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, writes in The New Republic that he believes alcohol and tobacco may do more harm than illegal drugs and treats the legalization of marijuana as inevitable:
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Nasa confirms it intends to land humans on Mars by 2035...
06-02-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kelly Riddell
Nasa confirms it intends to land humans on Mars by 2035 â€" but admits it'll need help from the rest of the world to do it
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News Link • Internet
Now Google is going to dominate space: Search giant to launch 180 satellites...
06-02-2014
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http://www.dailymail.co, By Ellie Zolfagharifard
Now Google is going to dominate space: Search giant to launch 180 satellites to provide internet access for the ENTIRE planet, sources claim
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News Link • Obama Administration
The bizarre tale of America's last known POW
06-02-2014
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http://nypost.com, By Michael Gartland
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the last known American POW, was freed after five years in captivity â€" an ordeal that began and ended in Afghanistan under a shroud of mystery.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama administration targets coal with controversial emissions regulation
06-02-2014
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http://www.foxnews.com,
The Obama administration took aim at the coal industry on Monday by mandating a 30 percent cut in carbon emissions at fossil fuel-burning power plants by 2030 -- despite claims the regulation will cost nearly a quarter-million jobs a year and force p
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
How to prevent and heal cervical cancer naturally
06-02-2014
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by: Carolanne Wright
While the CDC and other governmental agencies push the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in an attempt to curb future cervical cancer rates, a powerful natural option is readily available and free of dangerous side-effects -- in other words, diet.
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News Link • Secret Societies
Bilderberg 2014 Blown Wide Open
06-02-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
As Bilderberg 2014 comes to an end, Infowars reporter David Knight touches on some of the biggest revelations of this years explosive meeting in Copenhagen Denmark.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Chemical exposure during fetal development to blame for Autism
06-02-2014
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by: Derek Henry
Autism rates have risen from 1:10,000 in 1981 to 1:68 in 2014. Multiple studies have shown that the prevalence of toxins in our environment to which children are exposed during their developmental stages are the main culprit; however...
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News Link • World News
Nigel Farage May Team Up With Italy's Beppe Grillo
06-02-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Reuters reports that UKIP's Nigel Farage has held talks with the leader of Italy's 5-Star movement, Beppe Grillo, to explore the idea of the two parties teaming up in the European parliament.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
Six quick and easy ways to immediately improve your immunity
06-02-2014
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by: Reuben Chow
Your immune system works hard every day to keep you healthy. Here are six simple ways to give your immunity an immediate and effective boost.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Killing JFK
06-02-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
A transcript of the Lew Rockwell Show episode 393 with Jesse Ventura.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Racism
The Racism Obsession: Will Grigg on the Tom Woods Show
06-02-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
The Racism Obsession: Will Grigg on the Tom Woods Show
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Half of the World's Food Is Thrown Away
06-02-2014
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http://articles.mercola.com, By Dr. Mercola
That old bunch of carrots or pot of soup that sat for too long in your fridge, then ended up in your trash, doesn't seem like much. But when multiplied over an entire year and expanded globally, the problem of food waste becomes one of epic proportio
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Is Now Telling Doctors How to Treat You
06-02-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Daniela Hernandez
Long Island dermatologist Kavita Mariwalla knows how to treat acne, burns, and rashes. But when a patient came in with a potentially disfiguring case of bullous pemphigoidâ€"a rare skin condition that causes large, watery blistersâ€"she was stumped.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
When Will Evangelical Christians Start To See Through This Charade?
06-02-2014
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http://chuckbaldwinlive.com, Chuck Baldwin
Ever since the George W. Bush administration, evangelical pastors and churches have been America's loudest cheerleaders for virtually every act of war the U.S. has waged against foreign countries.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Dragon V2: SpaceX's Next Generation Manned Spacecraft
06-02-2014
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http://www.spacex.com
Today, SpaceX unveiled its Dragon V2 spacecraft, the next generation spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to Earth orbit and beyond. Dragon was designed from the beginning to carry humans, and the upgraded vehicle revealed today will be one of the
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
This Is How You Stream Netflix to the Moon
06-02-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Klint Finley
Sending high-definition video across the internet is no big deal. More than 44 million people watch movies and TV shows via Netflix.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
THE GREAT WESTERN GAS FIASCO
06-02-2014
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http://ericmargolis.com
Russia's leader Vladimir Putin usually wears a perfect poker face. But last week in Shanghai, the icy-cold Russian president came awfully close to bursting into a big grin.
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News Link • Transportation
Handless carriage
06-02-2014
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http://www.economist.com
IT HAS long been the stuff of science fiction, but autonomous driving is about to steer a lot closer to reality when Google begins testing a fleet of self-driving cars later this year.
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News Link • Syria
Syria: Fighting a Civil War Through the Ballot Box
06-02-2014
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http://www.unz.com, By Patrick Cockburn
Thousands of Syrians, desperate to vote for President Bashar al-Assad, mobbed the Syrian embassy in Beirut on Wednesday, struggling with Lebanese soldiers as they tried to reach four ballot boxes inside the embassy building set high on a hill overloo
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
With The National 9/11 Memorial And Museum Opening, It's Time We Confront The Truth
06-02-2014
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http://elitedaily.com, John Haltiwanger
This past week, the National September 11th Memorial and Museum was opened to the public in New York City. Already, it has begun to generate controversy
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama at West Point: Doubling Down on a Failed Syria Policy
06-02-2014
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http://goingtotehran.com
In the wake of President Obama's West Point commencement address yesterday, The National Interest has published our latest piece, "A Middle East Tragedy: Obama's Syria Policy Disaster," assessing the strategic and moral bankruptcy of what passes for
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News Link • China
Why Are Russia and China (And Iran) Paramount Enemies for the U.S. ...
06-02-2014
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http://www.unz.com, By John V. Walsh
Why Are Russia and China (And Iran) Paramount Enemies for the U.S. Ruling Elite?
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News Link • Iraq
2,249 Killed in Iraq in May as Violence Continues to Rise
06-02-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Fifth Straight Month of Rising Violence in 2014
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Freed in Swap, US POW Bowe Bergdahl Becomes Political Issue
06-02-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
GOP Hawks Slam Deal as 'Negotiating With Terrorists'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
06-01-2014
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nytimes.com, By JAMES RISEN and LAURA POITRAS
For more than a decade there have been sightings of unusual high-speed watercraft patrolling up and down the Columbia River.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Caught On Video:
06-01-2014
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cbslocal.com, by Carlos E. Castañeda
A security guard at a high school in Oakland has been arrested and charged with a felony for an assault on a student in a wheelchair, caught on video by school surveillance cameras.
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News Link • Surveillance
LAPD adds drones to arsenal, says they'll be used sparingly
06-01-2014
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http://www.latimes.com, By Joel Rubin
The Los Angeles Police Department has acquired some eyes in the sky. .
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Sweden to serve copyright violation sentence
06-01-2014
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http://news.yahoo.com, Reuters
One of the founders of file-sharing website Pirate Bay has been arrested in southern Sweden to serve an outstanding sentence for copyright violations after being on the run for nearly two years, Swedish police said on Saturday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Was the Iranian threat fabricated by Israel and the U.S.?
06-01-2014
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http://www.haaretz.com, By Shemuel Meir
In a new book and in a conversation with Haaretz, U.S. historian Gareth Porter charges that U.S. and Israeli policies on Iran have been based on fabricated evidence.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Is Iran's Missing General in America?
06-01-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
Is Ali Reza Asgari, allegedly one of the key players in the 1983 American Embassy bombing in Beirut, living under CIA protection in the United States?
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News Link • Afghanistan
America's only prisoner of war released in exchange for Taliban detainees
06-01-2014
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The Telegraph
America's only prisoner of war has been freed 5 years after he was captured in Afghanistan after the US agreed to release 5 Taliban fighters held at Guantánamo Bay.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Today's Use of Torture Fuels Doubts About the Event Used to Justify It
05-31-2014
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American Terrorist
Imagine if our country was the genuine recipient of an attack by rogue, extra-governmental outside invaders. If the state had a sincere desire to locate and prosecute the culprits, it would recognize the absurdity of using torture to achieve its end
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News Link • Activism
In junta-ruled Thailand, reading is now resistance
05-31-2014
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AP
Their defiance, if you can call it that, is found in the titles they chose. Among them: "Unarmed Insurrection," ''The Politics of Despotic Paternalism," ''The Power of Non-Violent Means."
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News Link • Police State
Judges Approve USDA Confiscating Farmers' Harvests
05-31-2014
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blacklistednews.com
Earlier this month the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture taking 47% of a farmer's harvest does not violate the Fifth Amendment's takings clause as long as the government aims to drive up crop prices.
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News Link • American History
The Col. L Fletcher Prouty Reference Site
05-31-2014
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prouty.org
The Col. L Fletcher Prouty Reference Site is a focal point where researchers can locate and retrieve articles, books, videos, and tapes on a variety of subjects which Fletcher has written and participated in.
"This is the Official Site for all th
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News Link • TERRORISM
FRONTLINE: Damming new evidence showing how Obama is supplying weapons to terrorist in Middle East
05-31-2014
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dailypaul.com
As we noted yesterday, President Obama is saying he is contemplating arming and training Syrian rebels (just the 'moderates' which will be identified by their smiles).
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News Link • Privacy Rights
New federal database will track Americans' credit ratings, other financial information
05-31-2014
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washingtonexaminer.com
As many as 227 million Americans may be compelled to disclose intimate details of their families and financial lives -- including their Social Security numbers -- in a new national database being assembled by two federal agencies.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden would not Get a Fair Trial â€" and Kerry is Wrong
05-31-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Edward Snowden is the greatest patriot whistleblower of our time, and he knows what I learned more than four decades ago: until the Espionage Act gets reformed, he can never come home safe and receive justice
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News Link • Police State
Silly Mundane -- "Civil Rights" are for Killer Cops
05-31-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The United States Constitution, as Seattle police officers pretend to understand it, extends to police an unqualified right to the discretionary use of aggressive force, and prohibits "second-guessing" by those who are not members of the State's coer
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Campus cop fires gun at teens he caught making out in car parked at OK school
05-31-2014
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Ron Paul & Charles Goyette Podcast
An Oklahoma police officer is accused of firing his gun at two teenagers he caught making out in a car parked in a public school lot. The Tulsa Public Schools police officer spotted the couple about 1:30 a.m. Sunday on campus
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News Link • Economy - International
Leaked Secret Agenda From Bilderberg 2014 Revealed
05-31-2014
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Prison Planet
Bilderberg, the annual gathering of the world's most powerful politicians and business magnates, is clearly shaping global policies by positioning its favored politicians as world leaders, determining the timetables of military conflicts..
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Officer: Bosses target young drivers, want ticket quotas
05-31-2014
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USA Today
In 2005, Steven Crawford, who was then a sergeant but now is chief, advised Wysokowski to "seek out and target younger drivers for motor vehicle stops. Crawford said he always could find an infraction when he stopped a vehicle.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
MIAMI GARDENS POLICE POLICY OF STOPPING AND QUESTIONING CITIZENS
05-31-2014
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A Fusion investigation has found he was just one of 56,922 people who were stopped and questioned by Miami Gardens Police Department between 2008 and 2013. That's the equivalent of more than half of the city's population.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Suit: Officer Instructed 'Tase The Bitch' During Deadly Beating
05-30-2014
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The Daily Caller
A lawsuit filed against the city of Sherman, Tex. alleges a woman was beaten following a traffic stop until she was brain dead, that a officer gave orders to "tase the bitch," and police forced a bystander to stop filming the incident.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Seller Deemed 'High Risk,' Dumped By Bank
05-30-2014
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The Daily Caller
A Massachusetts gun store is the victim of Operation Choke Point, a Department of Justice and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation initiative that limits banking access for industries it deems "high risk," the store's owner claims.
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News Link • Healthcare
Family of Man Killed by State Institution Gets $11M Bill
05-30-2014
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Rose, who had severe autism and could not communicate verbally, "was basically crushed to death," says Luke's lawyer. But now, New York officials are billing Luke for $11.67 million, the AP reports.
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News Link • Surveillance
Do Personal Computers Come With NSA Surveillance Devices Built-In As Standard?
05-30-2014
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TechDirt
The GCHQ's actions immediately raise a troubling thought: that most or all mainstream computers routinely contain various components that can be used to spy on us.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Benched: Third Broward County Judge Arrested For DUI
05-30-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Broward Circuit Judge Lynn Rosenthal was arrested for DUI after she not only struck a car while driving drunk but it turned out to be a cruiser of the Broward County Sheriff's Department. She is the third such judge in the county to be arrested.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Lethality of Nuclear Weapons
05-30-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Nuclear war has no winner. Beginning in 2006, several of the world's leading climatologists (at Rutgers, UCLA, John Hopkins University, and the University of Colorado-Boulder) published a series of studies that evaluated the long-term environmental c
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