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Date Sent: 2014-08-07
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, August 7, 2014 |
Former NSA Director Sold Classified Info For $1M Per Month
The overcriminalization of American people -- It's Official: Being Poor in America Has Been Outlawed -- California City Defies Grand Jury Over Red Light Cameras -- "Absolute Immunity": The Deadliest Weapon in the Prosecutor's Arsenal -- More New York Times Disinformation -- A Cop's "Worst Nightmare": Accountability -- FCC federal workers paid to do nothing receive bonuses: Investigators -- COP: 'If Obama Doesn't Follow The Constitution, We Don't Have To' -- Russia Prepares Large-Scale Invasion: "Battle-ready -- 1,000-member secretive progressive journalist group uncovered -- David Stockman: The Collapse of the American Imperium -- Lyft's Plan to Make On-Demand Carpools the Everyday Way to Commute -- Robert S. McNamara and the Real Tonkin Gulf Deception -- US Evacuation in Libya Shows Ill Effects of US Interventionism -- The De Blasio NYPD Rip Insulin Away from Innocent Diabetic Teen -- Americans Should be Ashamed -- Hiroshima Day 2014 -- Times of Israel Article: "When Genocide is Permissible" -- Twenty-one questions about Ebola: government propaganda... -- NEW Snowden docs: Cash, Weapons and Surveillance: the U.S. is a Key Party to Every Israeli Attack -- Unwelcome Truths for Church and State Concerning the Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945 -- Israeli General: No Civilians in Gaza -- Israel Flagged as Top Spy Threat to U.S. in New Snowden/NSA Document -- Washington's Alliance With Traffickers of Human Organs -- Rand Paul's Biggest Flip-Flops -- Peter Schiff: 'It's Been Very Difficult to
Expand the Show' -- US officials say someone else is leaking documents in the wake of
Snowden -- Israeli official calls for concentration camps in Gaza
and 'the conquest of the entire Gaza -- Ebola, CIA, Rendition Planes, Bioengineering, and You -- E. Ukraine
Is Fighting Fracking Being Shoved Down It's Throat -- Malcolm Gladwell: Overpolicing Is Preventing Drug
Dealers From Evolving Into Going Legit -- Billionaire Investor Peter Thiel Now Wants To Disrupt The Nuclear
Energy Industry
AZ: AZ Breakfast Club Saturday Sept 6th, 2014, 8-10 a.m. @
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News Link • Surveillance
Former NSA Director Sold Classified Info For $1M Per Month
08-07-2014
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More directly, Florida Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson accused Alexander Wednesday of disclosing "classified information to bank trade groups for monthly fees of up to $1,000,000."
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The overcriminalization of American people
08-07-2014
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Why are we seeing such an uptick in Americans being arrested for such absurd "violations" as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies
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News Link • Government
It's Official: Being Poor in America Has Been Outlawed
08-07-2014
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The Daily Sheeple
The police are now fining homeless folks for any arbitrary offense they can think of, and city councils across the country are making it illegal to sleep in public. They've gone so far as to make it illegal to camp, or even sit or lay down in certain
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News Link • Corruption
California City Defies Grand Jury Over Red Light Cameras
08-07-2014
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The Newspaper
The grand jury investigated every claim by the city and Redflex, that owns and operates the cameras, and insisting the city use right-turn arrows to avoid trapping motorists with $479 tickets while performing a perfectly safe right turn on red.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
"Absolute Immunity": The Deadliest Weapon in the Prosecutor's Arsenal
08-07-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
"People shouldn't believe their innocence provides any protection. The question isn't whether you have done anything wrong, but whether the criminal justice system is going to target you ? and once in that system, you face prohibitive odds
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
More New York Times Disinformation
08-07-2014
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Those in the US enthralled by relentless reports of the most demonic acts attributed to President Putin and the rebel Eastern Ukrainian federalists in the New York Times, NPR, ETC. should look at the track record of the "reporters"
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
A Cop's "Worst Nightmare": Accountability
08-07-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Now that the death of Garner ? who was not a "perpetrator" of any sort, but a man who had just broken up a fight ? has been ruled a homicide, the "career of those involved from the NYPD dangles from a thread," moans Cubby.
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News Link • Corruption
My Name is Charlie Grapski and this is my Story
08-07-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The story entails issues of police brutality and abuse of authority, rights to record public officials, rights to access public records, and government corruption.
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News Link • Government
FCC federal workers paid to do nothing receive bonuses: Investigators
08-06-2014
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Upon discovering the paralegals were left with nothing to do for hours-on-end, found the paralegals -- who made an average $75,000 a year -- were using their desk computers to visit social media websites, watching TV, going out
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News Link • World News
Russia Prepares Large-Scale Invasion: "Battle-ready...
08-06-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com
Russia Prepares Large-Scale Invasion: "Battle-ready Force of Infantry, Armor, Artillery, and Air Defense"
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
UK to Launch Commercial Spaceport by 2018
08-06-2014
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http://www.space.com
The U.K. government is laying the groundwork for its first spaceport in anticipation of a growing space tourism demand and a growing space plane industry by 2030, according to a new timetable.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Acoustic bottle beams hold promise for acoustic imaging, cloaking and levitation
08-06-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com
Using a technique that has possible applications in acoustic cloaking, sonic levitation, ultrasonic imaging, and particle manipulation, scientists at the University of California Berkeley claim to have produced a "bottle" beam of acoustic energy in o
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News Link • Technology: Software
Photo editing tool shows viewers what the camera couldn't see
08-06-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com
Many people are already annoyed when characters on TV cop shows "zoom in and enhance" on a photo, to reveal a level of detail that could never really have been captured by the camera.
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News Link • Positive News
1,000-member secretive progressive journalist group uncovered
08-06-2014
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http://eagnews.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. ? A prominent CNN commentator, the top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America television, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, and ap
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News Link • Energy
Adaptive Material Could Cut the Cost of Solar in Half
08-06-2014
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http://www.technologyreview.com
A new material, combined with a cheap tracking system, could unleash the promise of concentrated solar power.
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News Link • Healthcare
12 Interesting Facts About Nail Fungal Infections
08-06-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
A nail fungal infection, also termed onychomycosis, [1] is a condition that affects the fingernails and toenails.
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News Link • Transportation
Lyft's Plan to Make On-Demand Carpools the Everyday Way to Commute
08-06-2014
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http://www.wired.com
Lyft is getting back to its roots. Before offering a smartphone app that let you summon other people's private cars?each decked out with a pink mustache?Lyft was a startup called Zimride that matched up college students who wanted to take the same ro
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News Link • History
Robert S. McNamara and the Real Tonkin Gulf Deception
08-06-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com
For most of the last five decades, it has been assumed that the Tonkin Gulf incident was a deception by Lyndon Johnson to justify war in Vietnam.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US Evacuation in Libya Shows Ill Effects of US Interventionism
08-06-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com
The American foreign policy elite should learn something from the recent humiliating evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, Libya ? amid the chaos of tribal civil war in that country ? but probably won't.
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News Link • Police State
The De Blasio NYPD Rip Insulin Away from Innocent Diabetic Teen
08-06-2014
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http://politicaloutcast.com
Stories about the de Blasio NYPD keep coming in. In this case, they did so many things; it is hard to know what to put in the headline.
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News Link • Israel
Times of Israel Article: "When Genocide is Permissible"...
08-06-2014
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http://scgnews.com
Times of Israel Article: "When Genocide is Permissible" - Just a Little Too Honest
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News Link • Propaganda
Twenty-one questions about Ebola: government propaganda...
08-06-2014
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http://www.naturalnews.com, Mike Adams
Twenty-one questions about Ebola: government propaganda, medical corruption and bioweapons experiments.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
NEW Snowden docs: Cash, Weapons and Surveillance: the U.S. is a Key Party to Every Israeli Attack
08-06-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
The new documents underscore the indispensable, direct involvement of the U.S. government and its key allies in Israeli aggression against its neighbors.
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News Link • History
Unwelcome Truths for Church and State Concerning the Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945
08-06-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, Gary G. Kohls
69 years ago an all-Christian bomber crew dropped "Fat Man", a plutonium bomb, on Nagasaki, Japan, instantly annihilating tens of thousands of innocent civilians, a disproportionate number of them Japanese Christians, and permanently or mortally woun
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News Link • Israel
Israeli General: No Civilians in Gaza
08-06-2014
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http://www.thedailybeast.com
Retired Israeli Major General Giora Eiland wrote in an op-ed that there is no such thing as an innocent civilian in Gaza.
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News Link • Israel
Israel Flagged as Top Spy Threat to U.S. in New Snowden/NSA Document
08-06-2014
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http://www.newsweek.com, Jeff Stein
Israel was singled out in 2007 as a top espionage threat against the U.S. government, including its intelligence services, in a newly published National Security Agency (NSA) document obtained by fugitive leaker Edward Snowden, according to a news re
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Feature Article • Events: Arizona
Dr. Steinmetz Update
Marc J. Victor
Hi all. In case you are following this story about my client, who brought his AR-15 rifle to the Starbucks at Sky Harbor airport, I have included some links. Here is one story about the press conference we held on Monday at the law firm.
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News Link • Police State
Follow-up: Girl Ambushed By 7 Cops For Carrying Water
08-06-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Girl Ambushed By 7 Cops For Carrying Water Wins $212k From Va. Taxpayers
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff: 'It's Been Very Difficult to Expand the Show'
08-06-2014
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Daily Paul.com
What are your favorite moments from The Peter Schiff Show? Share them in the comments below. Also, tell me what you'd like to hear in my new weekly podcast debuting this September!
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News Link • Activism
Gov. Jesse Ventura - Off The Grid: Jesse's Trial - In His Own Words
08-06-2014
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Daily Paul.com
The moment you've been waiting for?the Governor's take on his recent defamation case, in his own words.
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News Link • Israel
Israeli official calls for concentration camps in Gaza and 'the conquest of the entire Gaza...
08-06-2014
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dailymail.co.uk
Israeli official calls for concentration camps in Gaza and 'the conquest of the entire Gaza Strip, and annihilation of all fighting forces and their supporters'
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News Link • Teen View
Stephen Colbert Breaks Character To Expertly Answer Teen Girls' Questions On Love And Dating
08-06-2014
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Business Insider
Stephen Colbert may be known for making jokes, but he seriously answered teen girls' questions in a new video for 18-year-old Tavi Gevinson's Rookie blog as part of the "Ask a Grown Man" series.
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News Link • Science
Retired Construction Worker Shows How To Move A Barn With a Lump of Wood and a Handful of Pebbles
08-06-2014
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arclein
How useful would it be to have a skill that allowed you to move, rocks, tree trunks and even buildings without the need for anything more than a few blocks of wood, some sand and a handful of regular garden pebbles?
Wally Wallington has found a me
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Was Malaysia Flight 17 Shot Down By Ukrainian Jets?
08-06-2014
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informationclearinghouse.com
The cockpit shows traces of shelling! You can see the entry and exit holes. The edge of a portion of the holes is bent inwards. These are the smaller holes, round and clean, showing the entry points most likely that of a 30 millimeter caliber...
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Ebola, CIA, Rendition Planes, Bioengineering, and You
08-06-2014
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nakedcapitalism.com
Wilmington, Delaware is one of those addresses that instantly makes you sit up and take notice. A number of CIA shell companies operate out of Wilmington. Don't take my word for it ? check out the report on CIA shell companies...
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News Link • Foreign Policy
E. Ukraine Is Fighting Fracking Being Shoved Down Its Throat
08-06-2014
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nakedcapitalism.com
It's so bizarre that you almost have to assume it's a hoax. It sounds more like a cliched movie plot ? a shady foreign oil company co-opts the vice president's son in order to capture lucrative foreign investment contracts .
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Gaza Thoughts with Peter Schwartz
08-06-2014
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arclein
, Zionism and the end of the Ottoman Empire. Zionism began near the end of the nineteenth century as a response to a millennium of anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe. An end to the diaspora and a return to the biblical homeland were seen as the only hop
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Viral World Cup Model Makes First Public Appearance Since Being Fired From L'Oreal ..
08-06-2014
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Business Insider
Axelle Despiegelaere ? the Belgian 17-year-old who got a L'Oreal modeling contract after gaining notoriety in the stands of the World Cup ?
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Malcolm Gladwell: Overpolicing Is Preventing Drug Dealers From Evolving Into Legitimate ..
08-06-2014
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Business Insider
In the latest edition of The New Yorker, best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell asks why old-school crime families used to be able to integrate into mainstream society, while drug dealers and their descendants today cannot.
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News Link • American History
These Amazing Colorized Photographs Bring World War I To Life
08-06-2014
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Business Insider
In honor of World War I's centennial this year, The Open University has "colorized" a sample of select photos from the conflict with the help of a photograph restoration expert.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Humans Are Heading Down A Path That Will Allow Us To Supercharge The Brain
08-06-2014
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Business Insider
With a jolt of electricity, you might be able to enter a flow state that allows you to learn a new skill twice as fast, solve problems that have mystified you for hours, or even win a sharpshooting competition.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Billionaire Investor Peter Thiel Now Wants To Disrupt The Nuclear Energy Industry
08-06-2014
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Business Insider
Billionaire investor Peter Thiel and his venture capital firm Founders Fund will make a $2 million investment in Transatomic Power, a startup that's focused on developing a new type of nuclear reactor that safely turns nuclear waste into clean energy
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Laws, loopholes can test private, public ties
08-06-2014
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Lawmakers have families, too, and when issues come before them that affect those families, they're often conflicted.
Just ask Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who opposes corporate tax inversions even as Mylan, the pharmaceutical company where his daugh
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Arizona woman accused of slapping patrol horse
08-06-2014
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Associated Press
A Scottsdale, Arizona, woman is being charged after police say she slapped one of their patrol horses. Scottsdale police charged 25-year-old Selma Gonzalez with intent to kill or harm a service animal, which qualifies as a felony.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Lawyer: Silk Road seizure may have been improper?if so, toss evidence
08-06-2014
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ars technica
Alleged Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's defense attorney Joshua Dratel has asked the court to suppress nearly all of the evidence collected against his client. Should the motion be successful, it would likely put a substantial damper
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Mesa Cop Charged with Sex Crimes in the Line of Duty
08-05-2014
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Phoenix New Times
A Mesa police officer has been indicted on three felony sex-crime offenses, all of which allegedly occurred while he was on duty.
Justin Cherry, 34, is charged with two counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual molestation of a child.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Man: Bringing gun to airport a political statement
08-05-2014
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Associated Press
"I am a peaceful political activist and my purpose in walking around the airport with my AR-15 rifle was entirely political in nature," Steinmetz said at a news conference with his attorney. "I am also an educated and responsible gun owner. ... As I
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama Secretly Sent Young Latin Americans To Cuba To Gin Up Rebellion
08-05-2014
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Associated Press
An Obama administration program secretly dispatched young Latin Americans to Cuba using the cover of health and civic programs to provoke political change, a clandestine operation that put those foreigners in danger
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News Link • Free Speech
UCSB Professor Miller-Young Pleads No Contest To Battery As Supporters Denounce Her Victims
08-04-2014
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Jonathan Turley
We recently discussed the controversy surrounding a confrontation between Thrin Short, 16, and her sister Joan, 21, and Feminist Studies Associate Professor Mireille Miller-Young. Miller-Young was then charged with criminal conduct
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News Link • Gun Rights
NYPD Arrests The Man Who Recorded The Police Murder of Eric Garner
08-04-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
In a development as predictable as the next sunrise, police in NYC have arrested 22-year-old Ramsey Orta, who used his cell phone to document the police killing of Eric Garner. Orta's mother says the NYPD has been shadowing her son
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
The Truth About Israel and Palestine - by Stefan Molyneux
08-04-2014
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The Israel-Palestine conflict has been raging on for decades and there seems to be no end in sight. On July 8, 2014, Israel launched operation Protective Edge, carrying out airstrikes on 50 cities in the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
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