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Date Sent: 2015-02-09
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Monday, February 9, 2015 |
TSA to Arrest Anyone Charged with any Crime trying to Come or Leave ... including taxes
ISIS Getting Premium Level PR From CIA's Mainstream Media -- Lawmakers Trying To Pass Bill Exempting Politicians From Arrest For Corruption -- Wall Street Pays Bankers to Work in Government and It Doesn't Want Anyone to Know -- Hands Off The Internet--Or Else - by L.Neil Smith -- A Blackwater World Order -- Watch: Floridians forced to sell their homes at huge losses -- Banking giant HSBC sheltered cash linked to dictators and arms dealers -- Liberty Activists Protect Backyard Shooting, Nearly Overturn Proposed Budget -- Sami Al-Arian: Deported, Free at Last -- Russian Aggression: The Big Lie Blasted Worldwide Ad Nauseam -- Does the government require your hotel to spy on you? -- Samper Warns about Necessity to End Blockade of Cuba -- Another USAID covert plan exposed -- Ecuador could pay bonds, make history -- US shipload of weapons and ammunition arrives in Lebanon -- Ecuador becomes the first country to roll out its own digital cash -- The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever -- $24,000 amnesty Bonuses -- Legislation requiring mental illness training for police officers, district judges -- Munich's March to War with Russia -- New 'super-steel' alloy is as strong as titanium, but 10 times cheaper
AZ: Arizona Sci Tech Gila County Festival - February 26-28, 2015
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA to Arrest Anyone Charged with any Crime trying to Come or Leave ... including taxes
02-08-2015
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Armstrong Economics
Katko's bill (H.R. 719), will require the TSA to conduct criminal Investigators spending half their time "investigating, apprehending, or detaining individuals suspected of committing a crime."
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
ISIS Getting Premium Level PR From CIA's Mainstream Media
02-08-2015
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Activist Post
Have you noticed the repeatedly covered Islamic State or ISIS "terror" group is now get daily priceless, relentless coverage from the mainstream media? The public relations campaign that CIA's ISIS is getting from CIA's media
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Lawmakers Trying To Pass Bill Exempting Politicians From Arrest For Corruption
02-08-2015
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Counter Current News
Taking payoffs, breaking the law and pushing through unconstitutional legislation as special favors to corporate interests has long been par for the course in politics. But now Representatives want to make it official and make it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Wall Street Pays Bankers to Work in Government and It Doesn't Want Anyone to Know
02-08-2015
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New Republic
Citigroup is one of three Wall Street banks attempting to keep hidden their practice of paying executives multimillion-dollar awards for entering government service. Citi, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley seek exemption from
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Hands Off The Internet--Or Else - by L.Neil Smith
02-08-2015
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
The Internet was filled, today, with news about Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and their urgent desire to bring the that system under control, about the FCC and "net neutrality", whatever the hell that means.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
A Blackwater World Order
02-08-2015
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The American Conservative
Pentagon dependence on contractors to wage its wars has unleashed a new era of warfare in which a multitude of freshly founded private military companies are meeting the demand of an exploding global market for conflict.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Property Rights
Watch: Floridians forced to sell their homes at huge losses
02-08-2015
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al-Jazerra
It came as a shock when the company that sold her the unit told her the complex was being converted into rental apartments ("terminated"), and that she had to accept what the company offered â€" far less than what she had paid.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
Banking giant HSBC sheltered cash linked to dictators and arms dealers
02-08-2015
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http://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-servi
Secret documents reveal that global banking giant HSBC profited from doing business with arms dealers who channeled mortar bombs to child soldiers in Africa, bag men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds and other international out
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Reported by:
Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Activism
Liberty Activists Protect Backyard Shooting, Nearly Overturn Proposed Budget
01-31-2015
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Shire Liberty News
WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE ?" Around 80 people braved a frigidly cold Saturday morning, with wind chills below 0, to attend their town's annual meeting, where the details of the annual town warrant were to be approved for the March ballot. Liberty acti
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Sandy Pierre
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News Link • Surveillance
Does the government require your hotel to spy on you?
02-08-2015
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Newsweek
Local ordinances require hotels to copy ID's and keep it on hand. These laws also require that the information be made available to the police on request, for any reason or no reason, without a warrant.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Ecuador Promotes One of its Greatest Assets: Cultural Diversity
02-08-2015
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http://www.plenglish.com
Ecuadorian minister of Culture Francisco Borja asserted that one of the greatest Ecuadorian assets is diverse ethnicity and culture, hence the Government prioritizes their promotion.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Cuba
Samper Warns about Necessity to End Blockade of Cuba
02-08-2015
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http://www.plenglish.com,
The general secretary of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), Ernesto Samper, stated that the normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States to resolve pending issues such as blockade and the US military base in Guantanamo is
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Cuba
Another USAID covert plan exposed
02-08-2015
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http://www.granma.cu,
According to an investigation by the Associated Press, the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, attempted to infiltrate the Cuban hip-hop movement as part of a covert project to destabilize the country.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Emmigration
A B&B on the Beach Funds This Idyllic Life
02-08-2015
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http://internationalliving.com, Connie Pombo
When John and Heather Schmit sold their 10-year-old trucking business in Phoenix, Arizona in 2011 they found their dream home amid white sandy beaches, rocky headlands, gentle surf, and inland breezes…
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Ecuador could pay bonds, make history
02-08-2015
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http://www.reuters.com, By Davide Scigliuzzo
Ecuador bonds have defied the slump in oil prices with a solid rebound, and this year the sovereign could pay principal on one of its maturing global issues for the first time ever.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US shipload of weapons and ammunition arrives in Lebanon
02-08-2015
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Associated Press
The U.S. ambassador to Lebanon said Sunday that $25 million worth of weapons and ammunition have arrived in Beirut, the latest American assistance to Lebanon's army as it fights Islamic extremists along the border with Syria.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Ecuador becomes the first country to roll out its own digital cash
02-08-2015
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http://www.cnbc.com, Everett Rosenfeld
In 2000, Ecuador moved to ditch its stumbling currency for the U.S. dollar. Now more than 15 years later, the South American country is revamping its monetary system again--using digital currencies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever
02-08-2015
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The Telegraph
When future generations look back on the global-warming scare nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records were systematically "adjusted" to show the Earth warmed much more than actual
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Inventions
New 'super-steel' alloy is as strong as titanium, but 10 times cheaper
02-07-2015
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www.sciencealert.com
This new type of steel alloy is flexible, ultra-strong, and inexpensive, and we already have all the tools we need to mass-produce it.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Drones
Why the US Government Is Terrified of Hobbyist Drones
02-06-2015
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http://www.wired.comBY KEVIN POULSEN
If you want to understand why the government freaked out when a $400 remote-controlled quadcopter landed on the White House grounds last week, you need to look four miles away, to a small briefing room in Arlington, Virginia.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Internet
FCC CHIEF PROPOSES STRICTER NET NEUTRALITY RULES FOR BROADBAND
02-06-2015
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http://www.popsci.com,By Dan Moren
REGULATIONS APPLY TO BOTH WIRED AND WIRELESS PROVIDERS
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • History
Lon Horiuchi: American Sniper
02-06-2015
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William N. Grigg
Somewhere, a figure clothed in a pseudonym has been tracking the box office returns of "American Sniper" with great interest and no small measure of envy. He may be among the tens of millions who contributed to its unprecedented commercial succes
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
I've run the numbers and it's true--this is a failed strategy
02-06-2015
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http://www.sovereignman.com,bySimon Black
When I say, for example, that the US is broke, it's because I know how to read the balance sheet in the US government's own GAO Financial Report (which shows that the federal government's net position is NEGATIVE $16.9 trillion).
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
The US Government Has Paid out $3 Billion to Vaccine-Injured Americans Since 1989
02-06-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,Lily Dane
Unless you live in a cave and have NO access to television or the internet, you've likely been exposed to the Measles Mania that has swept America.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Constitution
There Is No "Officer Safety" Exception To The Constitution.
02-06-2015
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http://blog.simplejustice.us,SCOTT H. GREENFIELD
In an extraordinary article in Law and Order, a police management magazine, a point that has been made here innumerable times has finally been made in black and white: There is no "officer safety" exception to the Constitution.
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News Link • Drones
BURNING VICTIMS TO DEATH: STILL A COMMON PRACTICE
02-06-2015
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https://firstlook.org,BY GLENN GREENWALD
The latest ISIS atrocity â€" releasing a video of a captured Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive â€" prompted substantial discussion yesterday about this particular form of savagery.
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
California lawmakers aim to limit vaccine exemptions
02-05-2015
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Associated Press
California lawmakers proposed legislation Wednesday that would require parents to vaccinate all school children unless a child's health is in danger, joining only two other states with such stringent restrictions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private firms exploring moon mining
02-05-2015
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Red Orbit
The lunar landscape is attractive for possible mining activities, and the presence of the polar water ice has "more than anything else… kindled interest in mining the moon," Corfield explained Monday in a statement, "for where there is ice, there i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Crossing the Thin, Blue Line: The Retaliation Cops Face When They Report Bad Cops
02-05-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
In November 2012, Detective Crystal found a dead rat placed under his car's windshield wiper. 3 months earlier, Crystal told prosecutors he had observed a fellow officer brutally beating a man who had already been detained.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin 'Elites' Plan Secret Bilderberg Style Confab
02-05-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
Top 50 members of the "ecosystem" to meet on secret Caribbean Island
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Meet the 77th Battalion â€" The British Army is Mobilizing 1,500 "Facebook Warriors"...
02-05-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Michael Krieger
Meet the 77th Battalion â€" The British Army is Mobilizing 1,500 "Facebook Warriors" to Spread Disinformation
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Surprise! Obama's Secretary of Defense Nominee Worked for Goldman Sachs
By: Josh Paniagua
02-06-2015
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http://www.activistpost.com/2015/02/surprise-obama
Capitol Hill isn't presenting much competition for President Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter. In fact, he isn't facing a single significant threat to his campaign and has received bipartisan recognition. Surprised? I'm
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Lone Wolf Terror Propaganda & Disappearing Rights
02-06-2015
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nakedcapitalism.com
Inside the United States, 136 people died due to individual terrorist attacks between 1940 and 2012 -- each death undoubtedly a tragedy, but still a microscopic total compared to the 14,000 murders the FBI has reported in each of the last five years
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Dear God No: Jeb Bush Wants To Govern Like Lyndon B. Johnson
02-05-2015
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http://stonezone.com
Lyndon Baines Johnson! According to the Miami Herald in February of 2013, Jeb Bush told several hundred people at a St Leo University that, were he to become president, he would strive to be like LBJ.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Rights Haters Try To Learn About Guns
02-05-2015
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The International Libertarian
You read the title correctly, Delaware County United for Sensible Gun Policy (Delco United) held their "Firearms 101 Presentation" Monday night (02/02/2015) in Springfield, PA. They figure if they gain a little book knowledge about guns they'll
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Arizona inmate rapes prison teacher -- state attorney general claims it's her fault
02-05-2015
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Rawstory
The Arizona Attorney General's office is demanding that a lawsuit brought by a teacher who was raped by a convicted sex offender in an unguarded prison classroom be dropped, The Arizona Republic reports.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Dr. Sami Al-Arian Leaves The United States
02-05-2015
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Jonathan Turley
In addressing the proceedings in Virginia, we took the unusual step of hiring a former FBI polygraphed to ask Dr. Al-Arian every known question about the investigation into an organization called IIIT in Virginia, purportedly the reason
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
NBC's Brian Williams Admits He Lied on Being on a Downed Helicopter in Iraq
02-05-2015
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Liberty Blitzkrieg
I don't know what screwed up either, as it seems pretty hard to mistake having your helicopter hit with an RPG versus…not. Remember, these are the people who shape the news for tens of millions of unsuspecting, ignorant Americans.
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Arizona Legislature Considers Banning Photo Radar
02-05-2015
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The Newspaper
Arizona is home to the nation's 2 largest photo ticketing companies. American Traffic Solutions and Redflex Traffic Systems of Australia, which bases its US operations in Phoenix, would suffer a humiliating blow if the state outlawed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Norway planning to JAIL people who offer food, money or shelter to homeless
02-05-2015
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Daily Mail
Norway has proposed a law which would make it illegal to help people begging in the street.
The draft for the anti-begging law would not only make it a crime to to ask for money, but also to help those who beg.
The rules will state that those
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Texas Man Arrested After Attempt To Pay Taxes With Dollar Bills
02-05-2015
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Forbes
A man made news when he was arrested while trying to pay his property taxes. The 27-year old Texan, Timothy Andrew Norris, arrived in person at the Wichita County Courthouse to pay his $600 property tax with individual dollar bills
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