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Date Sent: 2014-10-24
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, October 24, 2014 |
It Will Take 398,879,561 Years To Pay Off The US Government's Debt
American Policing and the Coming Civil War - by Bill Buppert -- Why 'Good Cops' Stay Silent, Continued -- Should Government Have the Power to Quarantine? -- Anarchy as a Moral Imperative -- A Dallas Company Finds Profit in Video-Only Jail Visitations -- Federal Prosecutors Break Rules, Wreck Lives, and Get Promoted -- The case for punishing prosecutors who abuse their power -- Lone lawyer sues Obama, alleging illegality of surveillance programs -- The BBC is Using Anti-Terror Surveillance to Find Tax Dodgers -- 'US cultivated, financed ISIS' - FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds -- Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve -- Coptic Christians compelled to pay Islamic head-tax -- 10-23-14 -- Jeff Deist - Dr. Phranq Tamburri -- LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EDT) -- Banksy arrest revealed to be a hoax as new artwork shows up in hometown
AZ: TODAY Jordan Page to play concert at the Hancock's in Phoenix on October 24th, 2014; STARTS TODAY PrepperFest Expo, October 24-26, 2014, Westworld in Scottsdale, AZ
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
It Will Take 398,879,561 Years To Pay Off The US Government's Debt
10-23-2014
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zero hedge
The Social Security Administration says the average yearly salary stands at $44,888.16. The current debt level of over $17.9 trillion would thus take more than 398 million years of working at the average wage to pay off.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
American Policing and the Coming Civil War - by Bill Buppert
10-23-2014
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zerogov
I suspect one reason this is not done is the sheer number of corpses piled up yearly by the cops would cause a revolution that would find many lamp posts straining under the weight of hanged policeman in local burgs much like
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Why 'Good Cops' Stay Silent, Continued
10-23-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
The Yakima PD has been deluged with lawsuits in recent years, many filed by disillusioned officers complaining about institutional corruption. Chief Rizzi and his administration isn't a substantive improvement over his despised predecessor.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Should Government Have the Power to Quarantine?
10-23-2014
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FEE
We have a new Ebola Czar, operating under the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Adviser. These are the same people who spy on your email, record your phone calls, watch your online habits, run
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Anarchy as a Moral Imperative
10-23-2014
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Liberty.me
When I discuss Anarchy with people who despise government with every fiber of their being…up until the point at which I suggest abolishing the institution in its entirety.
"That sounds awfully nice, but…"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
A Dallas Company Finds Profit in Video-Only Jail Visitations
10-23-2014
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Some Texas jails are eliminating in-person visitation and requiring the use of a $1 per minute video visitation system sold by Dallas-based Securus Technologies. Critics say it's an outrageous profiteering scheme
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Federal Prosecutors Break Rules, Wreck Lives, and Get Promoted
10-23-2014
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Reason Magazine
A group of Washington overlordsâ€"federal prosecutorsâ€"sometimes break rules and wreck people's lives. President Obama may soon appoint one of them to be America's next Attorney General.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The case for punishing prosecutors who abuse their power
10-23-2014
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On September 17, in a decisive 7â€"2 ruling, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the capital murder conviction of a Corpus Christi woman named Hannah Overton that questioned the assumptions that led to her prosecution.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Lone lawyer sues Obama, alleging illegality of surveillance programs
10-23-2014
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ars technica
Schuchardt gets into more detail, and specifically challenges the legality of surveillance programs authorized by Executive Order 12333, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
The BBC is Using Anti-Terror Surveillance to Find Tax Dodgers
10-23-2014
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The BBC is using laws designed to catch terrorists and organized crime networks to track down people who dodge the license fee, it emerged yesterday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Internet
'US cultivated, financed ISIS' - FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds
10-23-2014
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President Obama admits the rise of Islamic State was never properly addressed by the US intelligence. Vice-President of the States puts all the blame on America's allies, saying it were they who funded jihadists. Terrorists threaten direct attack
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve
10-23-2014
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJeemTQ7Vk
Corbett Report explores these important question and pulls back the curtain on America's central bank.What is the Federal Reserve system? How did it come into existence? Is it part of the federal government? How does it create money? Why is the publ
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News Link • Science
Thousands of mysterious circles
10-23-2014
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arclein
Perhaps the fairy circles wouldn't have been able to guard their secrets so successfully if they hadn't been so concentrated in a region referred to as "The land God made in anger." The circles occur in millions in a band where the arid grass
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News Link • Archaeology
The Sumerian King List
10-23-2014
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arclein
The first fragment of this rare and unique text, a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet, was found in the early 1900s by German-American scholar Hermann Hilprecht at the site of ancient Nippur and published in 1906. Since Hilprecht's discovery, at leas
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robert klein
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Coptic Christians compelled to pay Islamic head-tax
10-23-2014
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arclein
This most recent episode of violence is the most serious intimidation suffered by Christians in al-Qusiya at the hands of the Zaawila clan. So far, at least twenty complaints lodged by Christians have been met with apparent indifference on the part o
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robert klein
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Brewing Kombucha At Home
10-23-2014
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Our Wellness Revolution
Probiotics boost the good bacteria in your digestive tract, can help heal a multitude of health issues, detox the body, and can even lead to weight loss, better skin, and boosted immunity. The health of our gut largely determines our overall health.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Toxic Chemicals Your Body Is Absorbing Prepare to Bug In
10-23-2014
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Our Wellness Revolution
There are over 10,000 chemicals that are unregulated and untested in the cosmetic industry. Despite these chemicals not having been proven safe, they are used in everyday items we apply to our body.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Propaganda
The State is God
10-23-2014
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Brave the World/Julia Tourianski
The State is a collection of ideas propagated and implemented not by force, but as a result of our compliance...Human compliance occurs naturally, and like many natural resources, it can be cultivated and grown. So here we are, kept in a feedback lo
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surviving the Collapse
Prepare to Bug In
10-23-2014
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Survivalist
Most preppers get caught up in the planning to "Bug Out", when in reality...You have a better chance of surviving if you "Bug In" and prepare to stay put!
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Donna Hancock
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Opinion • Voting and Elections
"The Spirit Of Party"
10-23-2014
Chuck Baldwin
When I started my radio talk show back in 1994--and for the next six years hosting the show--I was considered a hero by conservatives everywhere. Between my leadership position with the Moral Majority back in the 1980s and my radio talk show in the 1
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News Link • Art
Banksy arrest revealed to be a hoax as new artwork shows up in hometown
10-23-2014
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NY Daily News
A report claimed that the elusive street artist was actually Paul Homer, who was arrested for vandalism along with having thousands of dollars of counterfeit cash. That story was said to be false, as Banksy debuted 'Girl with a Pierced Eardrum' i
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Subprime Bubble Pop 2.0? Department Of Financial Services Slams America's Largest Subprime Servi
10-22-2014
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zerohedge.com
Once upon a time, in the distant 2005 and 2006, the world just couldn't get enough of such subprime mortgage superstars as New Century Financial.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Proof That Ted Cruz Is An Establishment Mole
10-22-2014
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Daily Paul.com
If being married to a CFR member and supporting the neoconservative policies of endless war weren't enough; Senator Cruz has managed to recruit the quintessential political insider's hatchet man, Ben Ginsberg, as his legal counselor.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Bitcongress Hopes to Improve Voting with Cryptography
10-22-2014
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thelibertybeat.com
Bitcongress promises to bring transparency and legitimacy back to voting by using cryptography and the blockchain technology that has helped Bitcoin reach a wide audience.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Speech
Libel or free speech? Woman posts sign 'outing' neighbor for owning a gun
10-22-2014
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bizpacreview.com
Some anti-gun activists are worried about the safety of everyone but gun owners.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Leading Contrarian Economist: "We Are Coming In On The End Game Here"
10-22-2014
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shtfplan.com
To say that the U.S. economy is in trouble would be an understatement. According to Shadow Stats economist John Williams, we may be on the very cusp of a crisis so severe that it promises to re-write the entire paradigm.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
It's Not Just Spying â€" How the NSA Has Turned Into a Giant Profit Center for Corrupt Insiders
10-22-2014
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Prison Planet
Dear NSA Employees, You Now Have a Green Light to Loot and Pillage. It's Time to Get Paid:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
British Spy Chief Calls For Crackdown On Internet Freedom
10-22-2014
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Prison Planet
Says 'plotters, proliferators and paedophiles' make surveillance-free internet a 'utopian dream'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Madsen: Ebola Epidemic Linked to CIA
10-22-2014
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Prison Planet
Investigative journalist and former NSA contractor Wayne Madsen told Press TV on Monday the latest Ebola outbreak in Africa may be a resurfacing of an earlier infection linked to the CIA.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
When miscarriages of justice occur, prosecutors must answer for actions
10-21-2014
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On the skimpiest evidence he charged a 19-year-old man with multiple counts of child rape. He may have played fast and loose with trial rules in order to get a conviction. The defense attorney was unaware of significant exculpatory evidence
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Either Praise the Police, or Shut Up
10-21-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
"Proclaiming 'not all cops are bad' implies rational people might somehow believe the opposite," Lynch whined. "It lends cop-haters a credibility they don't deserve. And it minimizes the dedication and professionalism police officers
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Woman Taken Hostage By Bank Robbers Killed By Police Who Fire 600 Bullets Into Car
10-21-2014
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Jonathan Turley
They took Singh hostage and fled in a car. However, the police were quickly on their tail and trapped the car. She may have had a glimmer of hope. After all, there were some 33 police officers surrounding the car. That is when the police opened up
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
How Angry Guys Explain Acquitted-Conduct Sentencing (and why they're wrong)
10-21-2014
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Simple Justice
After the Supreme Court's denial of cert in Jones, there appeared to be a sudden shocked recognition that people get sentenced for the crime for which they were just acquitted.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop Arrests Subway Performer For Singing, Despite Cop Reading Aloud Rule Saying It's Permitted
10-21-2014
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A New York subway performer was arrested and violently assaulted by a NYPD officer for the crime of inadvertently making the officer look like a fool. Street performer Andrew Kalleen, 30, was arrested after explaining to the officer
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News Link • Marriage
Idaho city's ordinance tells pastors to marry gays or go to jail
10-21-2014
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Washington Times
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, city officials have laid down the law to Christian pastors within their community, telling them bluntly via an ordinance that if they refuse to marry homosexuals, they will face jail time and fines.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ex-cop accused in Coral Gables DUI traffic death wants case dismissed
10-21-2014
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The former Coral Springs police officer is making the request after a Miami-Dade judge, in a little-noticed decision, tossed out evidence that showed Muñoz was drunk, with blood alcohol measuring nearly three times the legal limit.
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News Link • Food
Maine shellfish dealer to be sentenced for unauthorized purchases of lobsters
10-21-2014
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The owner of a seafood dealership was snared in a federal and state probe that began with an allegation that more than $1 million worth of lobsters were stolen from one of the state's largest cooperatives is to be sentenced
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News Link • Mexico
Is Mexico a Failed State?
10-21-2014
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Every time they find a mass grave, they think it's the one they're looking for â€" but it isn't. No, this isn't a Halloween tale: it's a real life story about 43 missing Mexican students who once attended the Escuela Normal Rural Isidro Bur
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
At Last! A Use for the TSA!
10-21-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
A guy tried to dispose of some trash, only to find that in totalitarian Amerika, "the dump buries you in dump rules. … [It] refuses to take my cans of old paint unless I buy $45 of cat litter and over a period of several weeks suffer
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News Link • Pandemic
The Entry of Ebola into the US Has Hallmarks of a Planned Happening
10-21-2014
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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org
More information is available that suggests the the government had advance information that ebola was coming to the US and that the government expects a much larger outbreak of the disease in the US than it admits.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
IBM Stock Plummets as Company Abandons Chip Business
10-21-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Klint Finley
IBM's stock price is on the decline, after the company agreed to pay GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion to take on its ailing chipmaking business and abandoned its controversial "2015 Roadmap" to deliver $20 earnings per share by next year.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
American released from North Korea
10-21-2014
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http://edition.cnn.com, By Elise Labott
Jeffrey Fowle, an American arrested in North Korea in May for leaving a bible at a club for foreign sailors, has been released and is on his way home, a senior State Department official told CNN on Tuesday.
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS
10-21-2014
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http://www.thedailybeast.com, Jamie Dettmer
Not only are foodstuffs, medical suppliesâ€"even clinicsâ€"going to ISIS, the distribution networks are paying ISIS 'taxes' and putting ISIS people on their payrolls.
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