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Date Sent: 2014-09-24
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Wednesday, September 24, 2014 |
Israel shoots down Syria warplane over Golan Heights
New Level of Smartphone Encryption Alarms Law Enforcement -- Indy Police Chief: We Are a Paramilitary Organization At War -- Why Is the USDA Buying Submachine Guns? -- After Ferguson, police get media training with session titled 'Feeding the Animals' -- Court Lets Cisco Off the Hook for Helping China Detain, Torture Religious Minorities -- Feds censure local police, yet give lethal weapons -- Maybe you shouldn't have talked to the newspapers: Second whistleblower -- United States Bombs Syria In Latest Undeclared War -- 09-24-14 -- Daron Babin (State Director AZ NORML) -- LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EDT) -- ISIS Insurgents Threatening U.S. Border -- Ron Paul on 9/11 -- Civil Liberty Groups Challenge NSA, Obama -- Officials Claim Terrorists Stole Missing Airplanes -- Big Lies Launch Lawless Wars -- Demand For Investigation Of CT Cops Lies About Sandy Hook -- Kurds Admit U.S. Troops Fighting in Iraq -- Was James Foley a Spy? -- Becca Bodner Discusses Police Response in Ferguson -- John Kerry's rhetoric on Isis insults our intelligence... -- Blowback: Did Washington Create ISIS? -- US & Arab Partner Nations Begin Airstrikes In Syria -- CFR Proposes Household Bailouts
AZ: Sept. 27, Dinesh D'Souza, Jacob Hornberger, and Andrei Cherny are coming to Yuma!; PrepperFest Expo, October 24-26, 2014, Westworld in Scottsdale, AZ; Survival Rendezvous – Young, AZ – November 8-11, 2014
Respectfully requesting your attendance for an October Surprise: 09-30-14 Defense Distributed
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News Link • Israel
Israel shoots down Syria warplane over Golan Heights
09-24-2014
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AFP
Israel downed a Syrian warplane over the Golan Heights and warned it would respond "forcefully" if its security is threatened. The first time Israel had shot down a piloted Syrian plane since 1985 and drew a sharp response from Damascus.
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News Link • Surveillance
New Level of Smartphone Encryption Alarms Law Enforcement
09-24-2014
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"Moves by Apple Inc. and Google Inc. to put some smartphone data out of the reach of police and the courts are raising alarms inside U.S. law-enforcement agencies, current and former officials say."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Indy Police Chief: We Are a Paramilitary Organization At War
09-24-2014
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Police have historically been a paramilitary organization…. I don't know what we would do if we had to go to battle, … I am a soldier in an army. We serve you in that way."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
EmTech: Google's Internet "Loon" Balloons Will Ring the Globe within a Year
09-24-2014
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technologyreview.com
Google X research lab boss Astro Teller says experimental wireless balloons will test delivering Internet access throughout the Southern Hemisphere by next year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Why Is the USDA Buying Submachine Guns?
09-24-2014
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"What we have seen happen...is they have come onto small farms, raw milk producers, and raided the heck out of them with armed agents present. Do we really want to have our federal regulatory agencies bring submachine guns onto these family farms
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
EmTech: Three Questions with the Man Who Grows Meat
09-24-2014
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technologyreview.com
Modern Meadow's CEO explains how he'll culture leather and make steak from giant vats brewing muscle and skin cells.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
After Ferguson, police get media training with session titled 'Feeding the Animals'
09-24-2014
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St. Louis County police academy is offering a workshop on how cops can 'win with the media.' Daily News photographer Pearl Gabel was detained during the August unrest in Ferguson, Mo., after a black teen was shot 6 times by a white officer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Martial Law
Medical martial law in Sierra Leone resulted in immediate food shortages
09-24-2014
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Natural News
Sierra Leone just concluded a three-day lockdown of the entire nation that officials claimed would help nip Ebola in the bud and prevent it from spreading any further.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
CDC fears 1.4 million Ebola infections by January; is it just propaganda to push for-..
09-24-2014
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Natural News
Just one week ago, anyone who predicted even 100,000 Ebola infections was called an alarmist.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Court Lets Cisco Off the Hook for Helping China Detain, Torture Religious Minorities
09-24-2014
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EFF
The court noted even though Cisco developed the system for the purpose of tracking, identifying and facilitating the capture of Chinese religious minorities, Cisco would not be held liable because it didn't do enough in the US to facilitate abuses.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Feds censure local police, yet give lethal weapons
09-24-2014
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Associated Press
A Pentagon program that distributes military surplus gear to local law enforcement allows even departments that the Justice Department has censured for civil rights violations to apply for and get lethal weaponry.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Time To Take Their Toys Away
09-24-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
When Washington decrees the helotry must be disarmed, Raney â€" while emitting mournful reluctance, no doubt â€" would carry out the mission, displaying the same devotion to duty exhibited by his predecessors enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Maybe you shouldn't have talked to the newspapers: Second whistleblower
09-24-2014
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At one point she complained to the human resources department and was told, "Whistleblowers get guilty consciences," "Maybe you are imagining things" and "Maybe you shouldn't have talked to the newspapers."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
United States Bombs Syria In Latest Undeclared War
09-24-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Obama insisted he alone determines what is a war and when he needs a declaration. Since the court would not recognize standing to challenge the war, it left Obama free to engage in war operations in any country of his choosing.
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News Link • Housing
Woman Has Lived in House Rent-Free for 8 Years
09-23-2014
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Newser.com
"[It's] kind of a bizarre case," After the mortgage crisis hit Indianapolis in 2004, "there were so many bad loans out there that ownership really got kind of confusing."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Food
Fast Food Company Develops Robots
09-08-2014
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Next News Network
The fast food industry is toying with a new idea. Now, with so many workers clamoring for higher pay, many executives in the fast food market are looking toward ROBOTS as their next new-hires. The burger-making robot will cost millions to develop, bu
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • TERRORISM
ISIS Insurgents Threatening U.S. Border
09-08-2014
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Next News Network
For months now, one of the top stories worldwide has been the Islamic State seizing huge portions of Iraq and Syria. Now, their revolt is flexing it's way into neighboring Lebanon. The Sunni military group ISIS is known in the middle east for their
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Cannabis Dispensary Chaos - Andrew Hard
09-06-2014
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Next News Network
Marijuana is taking the nation by storm, state by state. Already this year, another three states approved pot legalization bills. Several more states, like Florida, Oregon - even Washington DC is putting pot up to a vote this November. Another big st
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Ron Paul on 9/11
09-05-2014
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Next News Network
Next week, the world will remember the 13th anniversary of the tragic attacks on 9/11. The fallout was huge. Of course the immediate impact claimed the lives of nearly 3 thousand Americans. But the lasting effects are still echoing through the countr
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Jobs Report
09-05-2014
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Next News Network
A big jobs report comes out, and it shakes up the stock market. The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones both took a tumble after the US Labor Department issued their monthly statement on August employment numbers.
Economists were looking for a big jump in
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Minimum Wage Debate Rages with Peter Davis
09-04-2014
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Next News Network
Fast food workers across the country are planning strikes and other acts of civil disobedience as they push for a minimum wage of 15 dollars an hour. The first strikes are being planned for this Thursday. The Service Employees International Union is
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Surveillance
Civil Liberty Groups Challenge NSA, Obama
09-04-2014
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Next News Network
If this story sounds similar, it's because it IS. Just last month, President Obama set a record low for approval ratings here in the US. Now, one month later he's breaking his own records.
And this time, a lot of the dissenting voice is comin
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • TERRORISM
Officials Claim Terrorists Stole Missing Airplanes
09-04-2014
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Next News Network
More than a dozen years passed since 9/11 and now, some US officials are sending out some rather ominous warnings about another potential similar attack. Nearly a dozen airplanes recently turned up missing, stolen by terrorists in Libya. The Islamist
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Offers Climate Change Help to Other Nations
09-23-2014
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http://abcnews.go.com, By JOSH LEDERMAN
President Barack Obama is pledging new U.S. help for other nations struggling to address global warming, as heads of state from around the world converge for a major summit on climate change.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
CBD Researchers Turn Watchdog on Phony Products - CEO David Mouser
09-04-2014
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Next News Network
The use of medical marijuana in the US is a hotly debated topic. Several states have already legalized medicinal use, and at least two allow recreational use. That number might grow even larger during this November's election.
Focusing just on
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Kurds Admit U.S. Troops Fighting in Iraq
09-03-2014
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Next News Network
The fighting in Iraq is as hot as it's been since the US pulled their forces out a few years ago. Ironically, rather, sadly, it's just as US troops are marching right back into the fray.
Most middle eastern experts point back to 2006, when Ir
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News Link • TERRORISM
Was James Foley a Spy?
09-03-2014
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Next News Network
Last month, we told you about the United States using Human Rights organizations to plot against other countries. The Obama administration sent several undercover Latin teenagers into Cuba to incite political uprising. The whole plan was a catastroph
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News Link • Police State
Becca Bodner Discusses Police Response in Ferguson
09-02-2014
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Next News Network
The shooting death of Michael Brown is raising a national debate about police militarization. When President Obama took the stage to talk about the riots, the first reporter question zeroed in on that same topic. Obama says, police and military shoul
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News Link • TERRORISM
John Kerry's rhetoric on Isis insults our intelligence...
09-23-2014
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http://www.independent.co, Robert Fisk
John Kerry's rhetoric on Isis insults our intelligence and conceals the reality of the situation in Syria
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Blowback: Did Washington Create ISIS?
09-02-2014
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Next News Network
US President Barack Obama is facing harsh criticism from many of his Washington colleagues. Senator John McCain and others lambast Obama for taking too long to act against the Islamic State in Syria. US military is already bombing ISIS jihad troops i
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • World News
On The Breakdown Of Nations
09-23-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tim Price
Several years ago we highlighted the work of Leopold Kohr. Kohr was an Austrian Jew who only narrowly escaped the Holocaust.
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Jackson and Sharpton Silent on #CDCWhistleblower
09-02-2014
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Next News Network
We told you recently about a new whistleblower inside the CDC, Doctor William Thompson. Thompson says he stayed quiet for over 10 years after finding a link between vaccines in young black children and autism. Thompson also says the CDC knew about th
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • TERRORISM
BREAKING: ISIS Beheads Steven Sotloff
09-02-2014
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Next News Network
We just learned that ISIS has beheaded a SECOND American journalist. Florida-native Steven Sotloff is the latest victim of the brutal murder. ISIS uploaded another video showing his gruesome death. He was the same American seen in the end of the firs
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Syria
US & Arab Partner Nations Begin Airstrikes In Syria - Live Feed
09-23-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
As the broad coalition crumbled, it appears Washington decided there was no time to waste
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News Link • Economic Stimulus
CFR Proposes Household Bailouts
08-29-2014
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Next News Network
Did you get your bailout check? Well there may be one in your mailbox soon if the Council on Foreign Relations gets their way. The influential group, proposed an unusual way to stimulate the economy in an article titled "Print Less but Transfer Mor
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Architecture
$4,000 home promises affordable housing in Vietnam
09-23-2014
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gizmag.com
Vietnam-based firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects recently revealed an affordable prefabricated prototype house that could potentially offer Vietnamese people on a very low income somewhere....
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News Link • Agriculture
Southwest's Drought - the Solution?
09-23-2014
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arclein
The researchers concluded that odds of a decadelong drought are "at least 80 percent." The chances of a "megadrought," one lasting 35 or more years, stands at somewhere between 20 percent and 50 percent, depending on how severe climate change tur
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robert klein
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Ukraine, Iraq and a Black Sea Strategy
09-23-2014
A dilemma of this sort is not unusual for a global power. Its very breadth of interests and the extent of power create opportunities for unexpected events, and these events, particularly simultaneous challenges in different areas, create uncertainty
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News Link • Chickens and Turkeys
Eatwell Farm: Pioneering the Next Generation of Humane, Sustainable Poultry
09-23-2014
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barnraiser.us
Join Eatwell Farm to make humane, sustainable farming the norm by pioneering the next generation of responsibly raised chickens.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Mysterious Georgia Guidestones Get Strange '2014? Update
09-23-2014
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Prison Planet
New block added to controversial 'American stonehenge'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
'Flufies': 7-Eleven Pays Employees to Take Selfies While Receiving Flu Shot
09-23-2014
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Prison Planet
Contest flyer contains no warning of potential adverse side effects associated with flu vaccines
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Feature Article • Events: America
The American Campfire Freedom Tour
Adam Kokesh
Sept 22nd, we launched the Indiegogo campaign to get the ball rolling for the American Campfire Freedom Tour. It's an honor to know that we can pull this off because we can count on the support of people like you.
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Feature Article • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Is a Mess
Ivan Eland
After an intruder was able to jump over the fence and enter the White House, the Secret Service, an agency in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is talking about augmenting security procedures and widening the White House security perimeter t
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News Link • Afghanistan
3 Missing Afghan Soldiers Found At Canadian Border
09-22-2014
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ABC News
Three Afghan soldiers who went missing from a Cape Cod military base over the weekend walked up to Canadian border patrol agents and presented themselves for asylum.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
St. Louis Police Academy offers 'highly entertaining' media training course on Ferguson shoo
09-21-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
• Managing Media Assault and Battery
• Managing the Media When Things Get Ugly (think Ferguson)
• Managing the Media in a Crisis (including lessons learned from the Newtown, CT school shooting.)
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News Link • Government
County Clerk Candidate Fired Over Illegal Background Checks Against Opponents
09-21-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Officials of Yakima, Washington reportedly asked the Washington Attorney General's Office to investigate allegations that Municipal Court Clerk Sarah Matheny, a candidate for the elected office of Yakima County Clerk, had abused her authority to ac
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Justice Department sides with 14-year-old girl raped while serving as 'bait' in middle schoo
09-21-2014
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The federal government sided with the guardian of a teenage girl who was raped during a botched sting operation in the boy's bathroom, arguing the Madison County School system was liable under federal law to protect female students.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Blame the Children
09-21-2014
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Simple Justice
"The principal stood up," Rodriguez said. "She said, 'I cannot handle this. I cannot deal with this. I have to fax these papers.'?" After all, what is school all about if not things the make the principal's job easier?
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News Link • Government
City Drops Controversial Saggy Pants Ordinance
09-21-2014
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Jonathan Turley
After a backlash from the general public and lack of support, the Florida city of Ocala repealed its ban against wearing saggy pants on public property that called for a punishment of up to 60 days in jail and a $500.00 fine.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Court Rebukes Florida Cops for Using SWAT-Style Raids to Check Barbers' Licenses
09-21-2014
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Reason Magazine
Today a federal appeals court rebuked police in Orange County, Florida, for mounting a warrantless, SWAT-style raid on a barbership under the pretense of assisting state inspectors. "We have twice held, on facts disturbingly similar to those presente
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Land of the Slave, Home of the Wuss
09-21-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Our Rulers delayed a flight departing from JFK because a "passenger on the plane had a duffel traveling bag that had the word 'ISIS' on it…" Actually, the mark only looked like the word "ISIS" and only in the fevered imaginations of
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News Link • Government
Mesa woman contests dog leash citation
09-21-2014
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East Valley Tribune
Everyone knows dogs in public are supposed to be on a leash. It's the law. But few likely know leashes are legally limited to 6 feet in Maricopa County. Esmée Lafleur got a citation, with a maximum penalty of 6 months in jail and a $2,500 fine
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Forfeiture Curmudgeons
09-21-2014
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Simple Justice
Asset forfeiture was conceived as a way to cut into the profit motive of criminal enterprises. Over time, however, the tactic has turned into an evil itself, with the corruption it engendered among government and law enforcement
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House intruder identified as Army veteran
09-21-2014
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Associated Press
Omar Gonzalez, 42, was arrested Friday and is expected in federal court Monday to face charges of unlawfully entering a restricted building or grounds while carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon â€" a small folding knife in this case.
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