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Date Sent: 2014-10-19
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, October 19, 2014 |
Police Dept. Requests Facebook PASSWORD From Gun Permit Applicant
Gitmo force-feeding manual reveals gruesome practices -- Earth's Magnetic Field Could Flip Faster Than We Thought -- Squinting at Vietnam War -- Lockheed's Fusion Promise: What We Know So Far -- History of Key Document in IAEA Probe Suggests Israeli Forgery -- What 'Democracy' Really Means in U.S. and New York Times Jargon: Latin America Edition -- What Happens After Someone Survives Ebola? -- Pentagon Readying for Long War in Iraq, Syria -- The Secessionist States of America -- Where The Battle Against Ebola Could Be Going -- Local Cops Say Your Driving History Is Public — Unless You Want a Copy -- FBI Director Warns Google and Apple "If You Don't Decrypt Phones, We'll Do It For You" -- Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov speaks to the World -- Obama Fights Ebola With A Czar and Soldiers -- Israel's Bloodstained Hands -- Catholic Church in Colonial America -- Era of Central Bank Worship -- Reinvented Scoundrel Media History -- Mutant Ebola warning: Leading U.S. scientist warns deadly virus is already changing ... -- The IMF And Austrian Theory -- Because This Time Is Never Different, In 100 Year Old Cartoons -- Kudos To Herr Weidmann For Uttering Three Truths In One Speech -- Gold Sector Analysis: Further Gold Benefits from Sinking Stock Market -- Attorney Stanley L. Cohen: Guilty of Doing His Job Honorably -- Fury Over Food: Advantage to the Small-Farm, 'Natural' Foods Models? -- Either You're the Butcher or You're the Cattle -- Are Eco-Friendly Bulbs BAD for the Environment? -- Four Reasons the Bernanke-Yellen Asset-Price Inflation May Be Nearing Its End -- We Supplied Saddam's Germ Weapons -- Immigration and Libertarianism -- Cautious optimism over Nigeria's kidnapped girls
AZ: Jordan Page to play concert at the Hancock's in Phoenix on October 24th, 2014; PrepperFest Expo, October 24-26, 2014, Westworld in Scottsdale, AZ; Survival Rendezvous – Young, AZ – November 8-11, 2014
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News Link • Gun Rights
Police Dept. Requests Facebook PASSWORD From Gun Permit Applicant
10-18-2014
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Prison Planet
Request violates Constitution & Facebook's Terms of Service
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Guantanamo Bay
Gitmo force-feeding manual reveals gruesome practices
10-18-2014
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aljazeera.com
Though heavily redacted and filled with euphemisms, new document should shake public conscience
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Squinting at Vietnam War
10-18-2014
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http://www.washingtontimes.com, By Bruce Fein
The Department of Defense's planned expurgated history of the Vietnam War to commemorate its 50th anniversary is like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Lockheed's Fusion Promise: What We Know So Far
10-18-2014
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popsci.com
Can the company do what's never been done before?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
History of Key Document in IAEA Probe Suggests Israeli Forgery
10-18-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Gareth Porter
Western diplomats have reportedly faulted Iran in recent weeks for failing to provide the International Atomic Energy Agency with information on experiments on high explosives intended to produce a nuclear weapon, according to an intelligence documen
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
The Space Station Is Getting A UPS-Style Shipping Service
10-18-2014
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popsci.com
A new vehicle design could enable same-day shipping from the ISS to Earth, making science experiments in microgravity cheaper and easier.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
What 'Democracy' Really Means in U.S. and New York Times Jargon: Latin America Edition
10-18-2014
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https://firstlook.org, By Glenn Greenwald
One of the most accidentally revealing media accounts highlighting the real meaning of "democracy" in U.S. discourse is a still-remarkable 2002 New York Times Editorial on the U.S.-backed military coup in Venezuela, which temporarily removed that
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
What Happens After Someone Survives Ebola?
10-18-2014
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popsci.com
Learning more about patients who've recovered from Ebola -- as well as people who are naturally immune -- could save lives.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Pentagon Readying for Long War in Iraq, Syria
10-18-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Gen. Austin Predicts Progress In a Year or Two
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Suspended Animation In Space Travel: What Scientists Still Need To Learn
10-18-2014
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popsci.com
Human hibernation could be a great way to get to Mars (and beyond), but a few big questions remain.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secession
The Secessionist States of America
10-18-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Brion McClanahan
For years those who advocated even a scholarly examination of secession were labeled "crackpots" and "fringe radicals" by the establishment.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Misinformation
Kickstarter Freezes Anonabox Privacy Router Project for Misleading Funders
10-18-2014
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Wired.com
All August Germar asked for was $7,500 to fund his privacy-focused router project.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Post-Civilization Smithing
10-18-2014
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http://survivalblog.com, by THS
If I had to choose one tool or piece of gear for survival, a knife would be on the top of my list.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Pandemic
Where The Battle Against Ebola Could Be Going
10-18-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Ebola has now spread outside of a hospital.
Ebola is now suspected on a cruise ship.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Local Cops Say Your Driving History Is Public â€" Unless You Want a Copy
10-18-2014
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https://firstlook.org, By Dan Novack
What's public for me is private for thee. At least that's what Monroe County, N.Y. believes when it comes to where you drive your car.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Sennacherib's Return
10-18-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Advance to Barbarism, FJP Veale
The exclusion of non-combatants from the scope of hostilities is the fundamental distinction between civilized and barbarous warfare.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
FBI Director Warns Google and Apple "If You Don't Decrypt Phones, We'll Do It For You**
10-18-2014
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution is crystal clear in meaning.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Neil Patrick Harris to Host the Oscars (EXCLUSIVE)
10-18-2014
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http://variety.com, Tim Gray
Harris has performed on the Academy Awards show, but this will be his first time as host.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov speaks to the World
10-18-2014
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paulcraigroberts.org
Dear Readers, I now have for you the complete English transcript of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's speech to the United Nations. Lavrov's speech, together with President Putin's remarks in his Serbian press conference....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Fights Ebola With A Czar and Soldiers
10-18-2014
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paulcraigroberts.org
A group of 30 doctors and scientists have published their findings on the website of the New England Journal of Medicine that the ebola ravaging West Africa is a new strain of the disease and was not imported from Central Africa.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
The Other Half with Clare Melemed
10-18-2014
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arclein
The first, of course, is the one that preoccupies most writers and commentators on the question. The dominant metaphor seems to be a sort of global seesaw, with a few hugely rich individuals weighing down one end and the rest of us clinging for dear
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robert klein
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News Link • American History
Bringing Back the Bison: Tribes and First Nations Sign Historic Treaty
10-18-2014
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arclein
The treaty establishes "intertribal alliances for cooperation in the restoration of American buffalo (or bison) on Tribal/First Nations Reserves or co-managed lands within the U.S. and Canada," the media release stated. The signing was an ackno
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Catholic Church in Colonial America
10-18-2014
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arclein
To show this progress of Catholicism is good and legitimate. But to avoid presenting the persecution the Church suffered in the pre-Revolution colonial period is to offer an incomplete or partial history. It ignores the early story of our Catholic an
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Era of Central Bank Worship
10-18-2014
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arclein
Many years ago, falling prices were a sign of improved efficiency and expanding wealth, and of widening consumer choice. Thanks to the spread of electricity and other such wonders in the final quarter of the 19th century, prices dwindled year by year
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
I'm Never Going To Upgrade My First-Generation iPad â€" Here's Why
10-18-2014
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Business Insider
You'd think it'd be pretty embarrassing to be a tech journalist and still rock a first-generation iPad.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Pandemic
Mutant Ebola warning: Leading U.S. scientist warns deadly virus is already changing ...
10-18-2014
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Prison Planet
The deadly Ebola virus could be mutating to become even more contagious, a leading U.S scientist has warned.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economics: Austrian
The IMF And Austrian Theory
10-18-2014
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zerohedge.com
in the early 1960s, financial journalist Henry Hazlitt warned against efforts to create an international system to help facilitate the smooth transfer of currencies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Because This Time Is Never Different, In 100 Year Old Cartoons
10-18-2014
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zerohedge.com
Any time you feel like all the endless crime, rigging and cronyism on Wall Street and its lobbied puppets in the Capitol is something new, look at these cartoons from about 100 years ago.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Kudos To Herr Weidmann For Uttering Three Truths In One Speech
10-18-2014
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zerohedge.com
Once in a blue moon officials commit truth in public, but the intrepid leader of Germany's central bank has delivered a speech which let's loose of three of them in a single go.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Sector Analysis: Further Gold Benefits from Sinking Stock Market
10-18-2014
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thedailybeast.com
The dollar went against gold, traveling south with stocks in a series of gut-wrenching plunges. Nonetheless, the mainstream media seems predictably gloomy about whether gold can continue a two-week winning streak.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Fury Over Food: Advantage to the Small-Farm, 'Natural' Foods Models?
10-18-2014
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thedailybell.com
October 16th was "World Food Day." Perhaps you missed it, but certainly for those directly involved, it's a contentious holiday â€" with two well funded farming models facing off with each other. -
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Either You're the Butcher or You're the Cattle
10-18-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
I know many people have no interest in watching the boob tube because 99% of the programming is either mindless drivel or government sanctioned propaganda.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Are Eco-Friendly Bulbs BAD for the Environment?
10-18-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
LEDs attract 50% more insects and could damage ecosystems
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Four Reasons the Bernanke-Yellen Asset-Price Inflation May Be Nearing Its End
10-18-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
There are strong indications that the remarkable run up of asset prices in the last few years is beginning to run out of steam and may be on the verge of collapse.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
We Supplied Saddam's Germ Weapons
10-18-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Back in the 1990's, journalists used to joke, "Of course we know Iraq has chemical weapons. We have the delivery receipts to prove it!"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Immigration
Immigration and Libertarianism
10-18-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Left-libertarians profess to apply libertarian principles more consistently than other libertarians.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Cautious optimism over Nigeria's kidnapped girls
10-18-2014
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Washington Post
Community leaders in the hometown of more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls are cautiously optimistic about news of a cease-fire with the Islamic extremists who abducted their daughters six months ago.
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Robert Lee
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, October 19, 2014 Edition
10-18-2014
John Semmens
Troops Being Deployed to Ebola Zone Get Skimpy Training
The US troops President Obama has ordered into West Africa to help in the battle against Ebola are receiving a scant 4 hours of training about the virus. Soldiers who have had the training ha
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Bergdahl Report Delayed Until After The Election
10-16-2014
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Jonathan Turley
We previously discussed how the White House opened admitted it was delaying the increasingly unpopular immigration plan until after the election. Now another radioactive issue is being slow marched until after the election.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Rick Scott delays Florida gubernatorial debate with strange complaint over a fan
10-16-2014
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Rawstory
Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott and his Democratic challenger Charlie Crist don't agree on much, not even a podium cooling fan that delayed the start of the second televised debates between the two candidates
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Private mailmen are mapping Brazil's slums by hand because Google Maps can't
10-16-2014
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The Verge
A group of enterprising friends decided to tackle the problem starting in Brazil's largest favela, Rocinha, using good old pen and paper. A former bodysurfer turned census worker named Carlos Pedro, together with 2 of his fellow workers
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Iowa cops blow out tires of pregnant woman in labor, hold her at gunpoint for not stopping
10-16-2014
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Rawstory
Police in Iowa used spike strips to stop a pregnant woman in labor who was rushing to the hospital, and then held her at gunpoint. Ben Kohnen said when his wife, Rachel, went into labor with her 4th child, something was different.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Tennessee woman gets jail time for overgrown yard
10-16-2014
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Rawstory
A woman in Lenoir City, Tennessee is headed to jail because of her messy, overgrown yard. Karen Holloway was cited by the city last summer for her failure to maintain a neat and orderly yard. She received a citation in the mail,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Alaska National Guard allowed recruiters to rape, embezzle, sell steroids: report
10-16-2014
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Rawstory
A top commander for the Alaska National Guard was recommended for "other than honorable" discharge earlier this year following an investigation that found he allowed recruiters to sexually assault and harass women.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Ruling limits legal remedies for many exposed to Camp Lejeune pollutants
10-16-2014
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Partain said the ruling essentially creates a 10-year limit on how long after a site has been polluted that people can file a lawsuit. Because Lejeune's water supply was found to be contaminated from the 1950s to 1987, people like Partain who disco
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News Link • China
China cashes in on Russia's shrinking economic options (+video)
10-16-2014
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Christian Science Monitor
Putin said China-Russia trade could hit $200 billion by 2020, as Beijing takes advantage of Western pressure on Moscow to cut sweetheart trade and investment deals.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Circuit court rules illegal immigrants have a right to bail
10-16-2014
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Washington Times
Illegal immigrants have the same constitutional right to bail that US citizens do, a federal appeals court ruled striking down an Arizona statute designed to make sure criminals without any community ties didn't flee in the face of a looming trial.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Federal government's tax-take hits all-time high
10-16-2014
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Washington Times
The federal government collected a record amount of taxes in fiscal year 2014, topping $3 trillion in revenue for the first time in history, that show the influx helped drop the deficit to its lowest level under President Obama.
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News Link • Police State
How DARE They Adulterate Our Nationalist Idolatry?!
10-15-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Nearly every weekday morning in this supposedly free country, schoolchildren are forced to make "Islam" â€" that is, submission â€" as part of a mandatory religious ritual. Oh, sure, in some jurisdictions they are promised that there is "no com
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NY City Has Paid Half a Billion Dollars in NYPD-Related Settlements Over 5 Years
10-15-2014
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New York City taxpayers shelled out $428 million in NYPD-related settlements over the last five years. That figure comes from numbers provided by the Law Department to MuckRock in response to a FOIL request.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
'Sovereign citizen' gets 7 years for targeting judges, prosecutors with bogus $100B liens
10-15-2014
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Rawstory
A federal judge sentenced a "sovereign citizen" who targeted court and law enforcement officials with bogus liens to seven years in prison â€" beyond what even prosecutors had recommended for "paper terrorism.".
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obamacare
Obama: Feds must tackle Ebola 'in a much more aggressive way'
10-15-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
Trying to calm fearful Americans weeks from a election, Obama promised a "much more aggressive" federal government response to Ebola, including health care SWAT teams to help hospitals cope with any new cases
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
GOP senators who opposed Obama 'czars' now want one for Ebola
10-15-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
Republican Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas was one of the first lawmakers to call on the Obama administration to appoint a czar to help coordinate the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis in Africa, along with a cluster of cases at home.
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