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Date Sent: 2014-08-22
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, August 22, 2014 |
Student suspended for saying 'bless you' after classmate sneezed
Police Will Punish You for Being Charitable -- The consequences of a "confrontation" with cops -- Your Silence Confesses Your Guilt -- Unlike Russia, the U.S. Government Won't Take Your Pension Outright -- It's A Poor Mechanic Who Blames The Terry Stop -- The National Guard protects Ferguson's police, not its people -- US 'Concerned' by Arrest of American in Israel -- Perry Takes The Perp Walk -- Got weapons? Nude body scanners easily defeated -- James Foley Beheading: What They're Not Telling You
-- Spain Dips 37% Into Social Security "Piggy Bank" -- Former Mob
Boss Warns Of Stock Market Crash: "I Don't Trust Wall Street? Buy
Gold And Silver -- The City-State -- Houston Mayor Releases Statement
on Body Cameras -- Electronic Frontier
Foundation Releases Updated Cell Phone Guide For Protesters --
President Obama Promises No-Fly List Changes -- Russian
Cosmonauts Report Sea Plankton On The Outside Of The ISS --
Turning America Into a War Zone, Where 'We the People' Are the Enemy
-- One Hundred Million Dollar Penny -- Finally! The ONLY
Proper Solution vs Police State Tyranny Activated: An Armed BLACK
Citizen.... -- A
tribute to Ron Paul's 2009 radio address "Imagine" by Former IDF
Officer -- Iran July oil delivery to China up
40% -- Did Iran Just Knife Putin
in the Back? -- The Double Identity of an
"Anti-Semitic" Commenter -- Here's how to find out what surplus
military your county has -- 08-21-14 -- Bill Buppert - Marc Victor -
John Buttrick - (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED) -- Israel's Genocidal War
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Student suspended for saying 'bless you' after classmate sneezed
08-21-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Fox 6 Now
A young girl, who claims she was standing up for her religious beliefs in the classroom, was suspended after breaking a class rule of saying "bless you" after a classmate sneezed.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Police Will Punish You for Being Charitable
08-21-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
One day while I was at work and there was no one in the house, this young man brought a friend and another person into my home and sold the stranger a couple of grams of marijuana. This other person (buyer) turned out to be an undercover cop. The fol
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The consequences of a "confrontation" with cops
08-21-2014
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He's on paid administrative leave and the Enfield Police investigated it as a crime, found probable cause for assault and submitted a warrant for third degree assault and fabricating evidence. Hartford State's Attorney rejected the warrant.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
A Test of Sorts: Kajieme Powell
08-21-2014
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Simple Justice
No doubt the St. Louis police were unaware that the whole scene was caught on video from a distance. Had they known, perhaps they would have been more circumspect in the story put out for public consumption. Or seized the video so no one
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Your Silence Confesses Your Guilt
08-21-2014
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by Wendy McElroy
In Salinas v. Texas, SCOTUS ruled that a defendant's refusal to answer police questions before his arrest and before being Mirandized could be admitted into court as substantive evidence of his guilt. If such a defendant did not explicitly
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Unlike Russia, the U.S. Government Won't Take Your Pension Outright
08-21-2014
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Bloomberg
Russia is not the first country to confiscate pension assets to pay its bills, and it probably won't be the last. Argentina, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, and Bulgaria have all done the same in the last six years.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
It's A Poor Mechanic Who Blames The Terry Stop
08-21-2014
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Simple Justice
I wonder whether Terry v. Ohio, improperly understood and mistakenly taught in police academies to give virtually unlimited power to stop (and frisk) citizens as they go about their business, emboldened generations of cops to be overly aggressive
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
The National Guard protects Ferguson's police, not its people
08-21-2014
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al-Jazerra
As Monday night's images of excessive force showed, the National Guard was called in to protect the police, not the people. Through wafts of tear gas, with guns ready, these troops provided military backup to an already militarized police force.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
US 'Concerned' by Arrest of American in Israel
08-21-2014
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Associated Press
The U.S. government has raised concerns about Israel's arrest of a Palestinian teenager with American citizenship whose cousin was burned to death by Israeli extremists earlier this summer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Perry Takes The Perp Walk
08-21-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Yesterday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry turned himself in response to the indictment for alleged abuse of power. Regardless of how you feel about Perry, he takes a damn good mug shot.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Got weapons? Nude body scanners easily defeated
08-21-2014
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ars technica
Researchers highlight how easy it is to get weapons through the nude body scanners that have been removed from US airports but have been placed at other government installations across the globe.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Propaganda
James Foley Beheading: What They're Not Telling You
08-21-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Controversial video a powerful new casus belli for war
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain Dips 37% Into Social Security "Piggy Bank"...
08-21-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com,
The "recovery" news in Spain keeps piling up. Via translation from El Economista, Government has already taken 37% of the total 'pensions piggy bank'. If extractions continue at the current rate, the fund would be exhausted in 4 years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
The City-State
08-21-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Bionic Mosquito
I continue with my review of The Rise and Decline of the State, by Martin Van Creveld. The introduction can be found here.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Houston Mayor Releases Statement on Body Cameras
08-21-2014
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thelibertybeat.com
On Wednesday, Houston Mayor Annise Parker released a statement about the prospect of Houston Police officers wearing body cameras.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Ron Paul, the Gateway Drug
08-21-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Jessica Pavoni
On the occasion of his 79th birthday, I thought it appropriate to share how Dr. Ron Paul has impacted my life in a very personal manner.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Electronic Frontier Foundation Releases Updated Cell Phone Guide For Protesters
08-21-2014
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thelibertybeat.com
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published an updated version of its cell phone guide to protesters.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
President Obama Promises No-Fly List Changes
08-21-2014
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thelibertybeat.com
The Obama Administration is promising to make changes to the controversial no-fly list after a federal judge recently ruled defendants had "no meaningful way to challenge the designation".
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Turning America Into a War Zone, Where 'We the People' Are the Enemy
08-21-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by John W. Whitehead
"If you don't want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Finally! The ONLY Proper Solution vs PoliceState Tyranny Activated: An Armed BLACK Citizen....
08-21-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Not just black, but EVERY American community should must do this; our very survival may depend on it! Something I've been expecting for some time: bravo brothas, bravo! But of course, the rabidly hoplophobic leftists will still call it "racist":
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Imagine - A tribute to Ron Paul's 2009 radio address "Imagine" by Former IDF Officer
08-21-2014
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Daily Paul.com
"I grew up in Israel and served as an IDF officer. It took me years to realize that we had been brought up on lies, myths and propaganda and that Palestinians are no different from native Americans,.....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Worse than Nazis: Official US Army Manual 3-39.33 ok SNIPING UnArmed American Protesters...
08-21-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Read the PDF for yourselves; ready to have your minds blown: U.S. Army Techniques Publication 3-39.33: Civil Disturbances
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
30 stats to show to anyone that does not believe the middle class is being destroyed
08-21-2014
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
The 30 statistics that you are about to read prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the middle class in America is being systematically destroyed.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
The 50 Stocks Hedge Funds Are Shorting Like Crazy
08-21-2014
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Business Insider
Goldman Sachs' 'Hedge Fund Trend Monitor' report is out, and as usual it includes a list of the 50 stocks most shorted by hedge funds.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
A Former Disney Imagineer Built The Ultimate Survival Vehicle For His Daughter
08-21-2014
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Business Insider
The KiraVan is ready for the apocalypse. This all-terrain monster is designed to withstand some of the most grueling conditions nature can throw at it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Watch Jaw-Dropping GoPro Video Filmed From The Cockpit Of An F-16 Over Greenland's Ice Fjords
08-21-2014
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Business Insider
Here's footage filmed with GoPro cameras of a Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) F-16 flying along the ice rim east of Kangerlussuaq, in Greenland, to the DYE-2 radar station.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran July oil delivery to China up 40%
08-21-2014
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presstv.ir
Iran's crude oil exports to its largest client China grew 40.6 percent in July year-on-year, Chinese customs data show.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
The Declaration of Bitcoin Bloopers
08-21-2014
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https://www.youtube.com,
Bloopers from the "Declaration of Bitcoin's Independence" video.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Vindskip ship concept uses the hull as a sail
08-21-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By James Holloway
With its Vindskip (or Windship), the Norwegian designers at Lade AS have come up with an intriguing concept for a partly wind-powered "hybrid" merchant ship.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Passenger plane design set to evolve in the name of efficiency and emissions control
08-21-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Loz Blain
July 31, 2007 The standard aircraft design with which we have all become so familiar throughout the 20th century is headed for the scrap heap.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Technology Could Boost Solar Cell Efficiency By 30 Percent
08-21-2014
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http://txchnologist.com, by Ker Than
Scientists looking to boost the efficiency of solar panels are taking a fresh look at an exotic physics phenomenon first observed nearly 50 years ago in glowing crystals.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Internet
The Double Identity of an "Anti-Semitic" Commenter
08-21-2014
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Lance Tapley
Smearing a Progressive Website to Support Israel
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
Megadrought: Huge Surge of Pacific Heat Fails to Start El Nino, Heats Planet to 3 Warmest Months
08-21-2014
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arclein
One hundred percent of California is in severe or worse drought. The failure of this Kelvin wave to trigger a strong El Nino means that there is no end in sight to this drought. The liklihood of drought worsening across the southwestern U.S. has gone
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Bp Oil Spill Much Worse
08-21-2014
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arclein
?The footprint of the impact of the spill on coral communities is both deeper and wider than previous data indicated,? PSU biology professor Charles Fisher, who led the study, said.
ThinkProgress spoke with Fisher to find out more about what the stu
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Alzheimer's Cognitive Decline Shown Reversable
08-21-2014
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arclein
The team's research centers on a protein in the brain called STtriatal-Enriched tyrosine Phosphatase (STEP). While STEP is essential to regulating learning and memory, high levels prevent the strengthening of synapses in the brain. This synaptic str
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News Link • World News
Quebec Tribalism Fades
08-21-2014
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arclein
Much has been written about the PQ?s insidious impact on Quebec politics. What has been less remarked upon ? in other provinces, at least ? is how thoroughly the shrill nastiness of Ms. Marois and her administration seeped into the everyday life of o
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News Link • Police State
I'm a cop. If you don't want to get hurt, don't challenge me.
08-21-2014
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Washington Post
It's not the police, but the people they stop, who can prevent a detention from turning into a tragedy.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Graphic Police Shooting in Riverview, MO yesterday Aug. 19
08-20-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
"KWMU has published a video of what appears to be one of the shootings that happened yesterday. This happened in Riverview, about 15 minutes outside of the center of the protests. The video is graphic, and contains images of someone being shot and ki
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Missouri Governor Calls For "Vigorous Prosecution" Before The Completion Of The Investigat
08-20-2014
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jonathanturley.org
While like many I was shocked by the story of the shooting of an unarmed man, Michael Brown, by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, I have refrained from making public comments due to the conflicting accounts that have arisen in the case.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
What If the Military or CIA Had Killed Mike Brown?
08-20-2014
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http://fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
While the facts surrounding the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, must still be determined, one thing is clear: If it turns out that the killing was not justified, the law dictates that he is subject to being criminally indicted
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News Link • Police State
Cost of Medical Bills for Baby Hit by SWAT Grenade? Over $800,000...
08-20-2014
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theorganicprepper.ca
Remember back in May when a gang of uniformed thugs from the Habersham County SWAT team threw a flash-bang grenade right on top of a sleeping baby?
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
California "Kill Switch" Bill Could Be Used to Disrupt Protests
08-20-2014
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cdt.org
This week the California legislature passed a bill that requires all smartphones to include a "kill switch" that can remotely render the device inoperable.
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Robert Lee
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Feature Article • Iraq
Blowback from Further U.S. Intervention in Iraq
Ivan Eland
As Iraq faces a governmental crisis and collapses into what looks to be a three-sided civil war, Republicans even other Democrats -- members of Congress and potential presidential candidates, such as President Obama's former Secretary of State Hillar
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News Link • Economy - International
Argentina Stuns Bondholders With Scorched-Earth "Cramdown" Plan
08-20-2014
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zerohedge.com
Or, as some would call it, a "scorched earth" transaction that burns all bridges, and goodwill, with the international creditor community and likely leaves Argentina unable to access global capital markets for the foreseeable future.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Israel
World must ban US, Israel as criminals: Analyst
08-20-2014
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presstv.com/
"The only hope for life and truth is that the world unite against these two criminal governments, isolate them diplomatically and economically, and make it impossible for their?officials to travel abroad without being arrested and placed on trial,"
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News Link • Police State
Mass Produced Security Robots Introduced in U.S.
08-20-2014
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activistpost.com
At $4 per hour fixed cost, it could significantly impact the 1.5 million humans that are currently employed in some form of security patrol.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cooperate Doesn't Mean What You Think It Does
08-19-2014
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Simple Justice
LAPD veteran turned "homeland security" professor at Colorado Tech University, Sunil Dutta, as to the mindset of the police officer on the mean streets of Ferguson. Lest there be any doubt as to where this is heading, it's entitled, I'm a cop. If you
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News Link • Egypt
US snaps back at Egypt's criticism of Ferguson unrest
08-19-2014
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AFP
A US official on Tuesday snapped back at Egypt after criticism from Cairo over possible human rights violations in the racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New Orleans Police Officer Turns Off Body Camera Minutes Before Shooting Suspect In Forehead
08-19-2014
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Jonathan Turley
In New Orleans, Armand Bennet, 26, was shot in the forehead during a traffic stop by New Orleans police officer Lisa Lewis. The police dept did not reveal until much later that Lewis turned off her body camera just before shooting Bennett.
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News Link • Healthcare
Officials defend responders who left man to die
08-19-2014
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Three paramedics and five firefighters were placed on administrative leave after Foster's death. The emergency responders went to his home in Hermitage early Wednesday after receiving a 3 a.m. report that he had shot himself in the head.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Furious About Ferguson? Work to Free Shaneen Allen
08-19-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
The same is not true of Shaneen Allen, a 27-year-old working mother of two and robbery victim who faces an eleven-year prison term for the supposed offense of carrying a legally licensed firearm.
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