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Date Sent: 2015-02-23
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Monday, February 23, 2015 |
Road rage? Mistaken identity? Questions raised in Vegas case
The "War on Terror" Turns Inward: DHS Report Warns of Right Wing Terror Threat -- Cops Say Family Thanked Them For Beating and Arresting Them In Their Own Home -- 57% of Americans Support Boots on Ground - This and Other Statistics -- An Open Letter to Politicians in Nebraska and Oklahoma - by L. Neil Smith -- Feds: America Should Adopt 'Plant-Based' Diet -- Cop Sentenced to Death for Fatally Shooting Pregnant Mother and Her Unborn Child -- Behind Every Blade of Grass - by L.Neil Smith -- On 50th anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination, his family tackles his legacy -- Pentagon chief: US considering slowing exit from Afghanistan -- Florida tribe threatens Rick Scott: Let us build a casino or we start growing pot -- America Has Been At War 93% of the Time: 222 Out of 239 Years, Since 1776 -- New Computer Will 'Decide If You Receive Healthcare' -- War Porn -- Will the GOP Capitulate Again? -- Why The "1%" Hates The Gold Standard -- Euro Soars After Greek Official Says Eurogroup Reaches Accord... -- NATO general: Russia tensions could escalate into all-out war -- The feud between Oracle and Oregon over Obamacare has gotten even uglier -- Putin: Russia's military strength is unmatchable -- The Fed is worried about what happens when everyone rushes for the exit -- David A. Stockman -- Technocracy & The New World Order -- The Great SIM Heist -- How the Government Outsourced Intelligence to Silicon Valley -- Our embarrassing, servile media -- A Pill That Boosts a Woman's Sex Drive Is Almost Here. But Do We Need It? -- Spy Agencies could be Funding Geo-Engineering Research in Pursuit of Weaponising the Weather -- Rocket flown through northern lights to help unlock space weather mysteries -- Mark Cuban Says Net Neutrality Will 'Fuck Everything Up' (Video) -- Woman Shoots Intruder With Gun Her Son Gave Her A Week Ago -- Snowden speech at Students for Liberty conference (video) -- Kharkov False Flag? -- Deconstructing John Kerry's Big Lies in London -- CBP Allows Corrupt Agents To Continue Working In The Field -- Kerry Threatens Russia -- Greece Surrenders to Troika -- Caracas Mayor Part of US Coup Plot
AZ: Arizona Sci Tech Gila County Festival - February 26-28, 2015; Heirs of the Republic Constitutional Study Group - Larry Reed Speaker - 03/11/15 - Tucson, AZ; BitcoinSummit.info - March 14th 2015 9am-5pm & Evening Party; World Liberty Conference Bali 2015 - June 29 - July 3rd, 2015 (ISIL)
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Road rage? Mistaken identity? Questions raised in Vegas case
02-22-2015
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Associated Press
Nowsch wasn't driving, and didn't tell his friends he was angry about a traffic encounter. He thought someone was after him, according to the police report. It wasn't immediately clear how authorities came to suspect Nowsch in the shooting,
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News Link • TERRORISM
The "War on Terror" Turns Inward â€" DHS Report Warns of Right Wing Terror Threat
02-22-2015
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Liberty Blitzkrieg
A new intelligence assessment, circulated by the Dept of Homeland Security focuses on the domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists and comes as the Obama administration holds a White House conference
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops Say Family Thanked Them For Beating and Arresting Them In Their Own Home
02-22-2015
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The Anti-Media
Thankful residents of City Heights appreciated the kind gesture of cops invading their home for no reason, beating and then arresting family members -- at least according to a July police report filed after the incident. The family
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News Link • Drug War
An Open Letter to Politicians in Nebraska and Oklahoma - by L. Neil Smith
02-22-2015
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
I've been hearing and seeing reports that politicians in your states, those of Oklahoma and Nebraska, are very angry because a majority of voters in Colorado have decided to ignore the imperious edicts of the federal government and
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News Link • Food
Feds: America Should Adopt 'Plant-Based' Diet
02-22-2015
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Free Beacon
The federal committee responsible for nutrition guidelines is calling for the adoption of "plant-based" diets, taxes on dessert, trained obesity "interventionists" at worksites, and electronic monitoring of how long we sit in front of TVs
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop Sentenced to Death for Fatally Shooting Pregnant Mother and Her Unborn Child
02-22-2015
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Filming Cops
It's actually happening. An officer was sentenced to death for shooting a pregnant woman and her unborn child to death, and injuring her husband. The husband and wife were enjoying their dinner at a restaurant they
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News Link • Gun Rights
Behind Every Blade of Grass - by L.Neil Smith
02-22-2015
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Connecticut gun owners were ignoring the new, Draconian laws intended to disarm them, and that only 4% of the weapons and ammunition affected by the law had been registered. 4% of the people of Connecticut are cattle.
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News Link • History
On 50th anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination, his family tackles his legacy
02-22-2015
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Yahoo! News blog
Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination ahead of a speech at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom in 1965. Hundreds of people, including his relatives, politicians and activists are expected to honor the civil rights leader
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News Link • Afghanistan
Pentagon chief: US considering slowing exit from Afghanistan
02-22-2015
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Associated Press
The US is considering slowing its military exit from Afghanistan by keeping a larger-than-planned troop presence this year and next because the new Afghan government is proving to be a more reliable partner,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Florida tribe threatens Rick Scott: Let us build a casino or we start growing pot
02-22-2015
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Rawstory
An Alabama native American tribe that operates casinos in Florida informed the state if it doesn't allow them to expand their casinos, they have no choice but to start growing marijuana on the land designated for the expansion,
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News Link • WAR: About that War
America Has Been At War 93% of the Time â€" 222 Out of 239 Years â€" Since 1776
02-22-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Washingtons Blog
In 2011, Danios wrote:
Below, I have reproduced a year-by-year timeline of America's wars, which reveals something quite interesting: since the United States was founded in 1776, she has been at war during 214 out of her 235 calendar years of exi
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News Link • Political Theory
Will the GOP Capitulate Again?
02-22-2015
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http://townhall.com, Pat Buchanan
"Free trade results in giving our money, our manufactures, and our markets to other nations," warned the Republican Senator from Ohio and future President William McKinley in 1892..."
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Why The "1%" Hates The Gold Standard
02-22-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
By now everybody knows that the primary consequence, one which we originally predicted back in 2009 - and many have since agreed - was completely intended...
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News Link • European Union
Euro Soars After Greek Official Says Eurogroup Reaches Accord...
02-22-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com-Tyler Durden
Euro Soars After Greek Official Says Eurogroup Reaches Accord, Denied 8 Minutes Later, Then Reconfirmed
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News Link • NATO
NATO general: Russia tensions could escalate into all-out war
02-22-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com,BEN FARMER
Tensions with Russia could blow up into all-out conflict, posing "an existential threat to our whole being", Britain's top general in Nato has warned.
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News Link • Obamacare
The feud between Oracle and Oregon over Obamacare has gotten even uglier
02-22-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com,JULIE BORT
As if Oregon's politics couldn't get any crazier, what with with the strange resignation of its governor this month, add this to the mix: its attorney general has launched a second ugly lawsuit against huge Silicon Valley tech company, Oracle.
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News Link • World News
Putin: Russia's military strength is unmatchable
02-22-2015
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JEREMY BENDER AND REUTERS
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday other countries should not think they can attain military superiority over Russia, Interfax reported.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed is worried about what happens when everyone rushes for the exit
02-22-2015
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http://finance.yahoo.com,By Myles Udland
In the Minutes from the January FOMC meeting, the Federal Reserve addressed the financial situation, and noted that the increasing role of bond and loan mutual funds could pose a liquidity risk if everyone tries to get out of the market at the same t
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News Link • New World Order
Technocracy & The New World Order
02-22-2015
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thomhartmann.com
Patrick M. Wood, Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse Of Global Transformation / The August Forecast & Review comes on The Big Picture. When most people think about the possibility of a dystopian future - they think of a world run by communism or fas
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News Link • Surveillance
How the Government Outsourced Intelligence to Silicon Valley
02-22-2015
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truthdig.com
Excerpt from "They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy" (Nation Books, February 2015).
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News Link • Propaganda
Our embarrassing, servile media:
02-22-2015
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salon.com
Does the New York Times just print everything the government tells it?
The paper of record is carrying Washington's water in its Ukraine reporting -- all too believing, once again
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A Pill That Boosts a Woman's Sex Drive Is Almost Here. But Do We Need It?
02-22-2015
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Wired.com
In its latest attempt to kick-start lady libidos with a pill, Sprout Pharmaceuticals announced this week that it will resubmit its female sex drug, flibanserin, for FDA approval.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Spy Agencies could be Funding Geo-Engineering Research in Pursuit of Weaponising the Weather..
02-22-2015
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Lewrockwell.com
A leading climate scientist said calls purportedly from the CIA left him 'scared' about the consequences
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Rocket flown through northern lights to help unlock space weather mysteries
02-22-2015
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gizmag.com
The northern lights are more than one of nature's most awe inspiring sights, they are an electromagnetic phenomena that can adversely affect power grids and communications and navigation systems.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Mark Cuban Says Net Neutrality Will 'Fuck Everything Up' (Video)
02-22-2015
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Daily Paul.com
Billionaire investor and ABC "Shark Tank" star Mark Cuban unloaded on the Federal Communications Commission's plan to fundamentally change how it oversees the open Internet.
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News Link • Self-Defense
Woman Shoots Intruder With Gun Her Son Gave Her A Week Ago
02-22-2015
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Daily Paul.com
A concerned son's decision to buy his mother a gun just last week out of fear for her safety proved wise Thursday morning.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Snowden speech at Students for Liberty conference (video)
02-22-2015
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Daily Paul.com
Edward Snowden addresses over 1700 attendees at the 8th Annual International Students For Liberty Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. This was part of the opening night of the ISFLC15 on February 13th, 2015. He was awarded Stud
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, February 22, 2015 Edition
02-21-2015
John Semmens
Government Panel Calls for Measures to Upgrade Our Health
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) issued a 571 page report outlining its recommendations for transforming Americans' health. Citing persistent high levels of overweight and o
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Opinion • Police State
Kent Hovind: Political Prisoner?
02-20-2015
Chuck Baldwin
Kent Hovind is a creation-science evangelist and Baptist minister who has already served eight years of a ten-year prison sentence for alleged tax evasion. Kent has a master's degree in education. He founded and operated Creation Science Evangelism
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"Officer of the Year" Admits to Raping 20 Male Immigrants, Not Charged as Sex Offender
02-19-2015
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The Free Thought Proiject
Jonathan Bleiweiss, 34, pleaded guilty to an array of charges last week, admitting to 14 counts of armed false imprisonment, 15 counts of battery and four counts of stalking. However, he avoided all of the charges with "sex" in them.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Destroyed by the Espionage Act
02-19-2015
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The Intercept
The call, according to metadata collected by the FBI, lasted just half a minute, but soon afterward Kim called Rosen and they talked for nearly a dozen minutes. After that conversation, they left the building at roughly the same time, then spoke once
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
In Fairfax, Va., a different, no-less-scary police shooting
02-19-2015
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CBC News
Geer, pierced 18 months ago by a police bullet as he stood inside the screen door of his own home, his hands raised, begging not to be shot, simply disappeared into the emotional mixing bowl of American news and political priorities.
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News Link • Internet
Onion.city - a search engine bringing the Dark Web into the light
02-19-2015
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Sophos
Virgil Griffith went onto the Tor-talk mailing list and announced Onion City, a Dark Web search engine for the rest of us.
The search engine delves into the anonymous Tor network, finds .onion sites and makes them available to regular users on the
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
An Innocent Man: Scott Molen's Bittersweet Victory
02-19-2015
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
In June 2007, Scott was convicted of "lewd and lascivious conduct" with his step-granddaughter and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The case presented against Scott consisted of the uncorroborated, self-contradictory testimony
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
GPS data busts Florida cop who groped woman, shine flashlight inside her underwear
02-19-2015
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Rawstory
A Florida policeman has been charged for groping a woman who he was supposed to be taking to jail, but officials said that the crime did not be rise to the level of "sexual battery."
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Peace, Officer
02-19-2015
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Simple Justice
Peace Officer is a feature documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of William "Dub" Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state's first SWAT team only to see t
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News Link • Surveillance
SIM card makers hacked by NSA and GCHQ leaving cell networks wide open
02-19-2015
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ars technica
Operatives from both the National Security Administration and the British Government Communications Headquarters joined forces to crack mobile phone encryption. Succeeded in stealing untold numbers of encryption keys
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Guantánamo torturer led brutal Chicago regime of shackling and confession
02-19-2015
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The Guardian
A Chicago detective who led one of the most shocking acts of torture ever conducted at Guantánamo was responsible for implementing a similar, years-long regime of brutality to elicit murder confessions from minority Americans.
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News Link • Drug War
New rules on narcotic painkillers cause grief for veterans and VA
02-19-2015
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Washington Post
New federal rules that make it harder to get narcotic painkillers are taking an unexpected toll on thousands of veterans who depend on these prescription drugs to treat ailments, such as missing limbs and post-traumatic stress.
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Opinion • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Freedom Activism 101
Ernest Hancock
If you're not a little bit uncomfortable with your position, it isn't radical enough. How can you be too principled? Take the most extreme position you can. You're claiming territory you won't have to fight for later, mostly against your...
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News Link • Drones
The US is now selling armed drones to friendly nations
02-19-2015
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MATTHEW LEE AND LOLITA C. BALDOR
The Obama administration is amending its regulations for weapons sales to allow the export of armed military drones to friendly nations and allies.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Michael Bloomberg: "95% Of Murderers Fit One M.O. - Male, Minorities, Aged 15-25"
02-19-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com,by Tyler Durden
While representatives have reportedly tried to block the release of footage of Michael Bloomberg's remarks at The Aspen Institute on Feb 6th, audio has surfaced of the former New York City mayor's controversial comments about getting "guns out of t
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Forget Hacking - CIA Accuses Russia Of "Manipulating The World's Weather"
02-19-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com,by Tyler Durden
America appears to have found something else to blame the Russians (or North Koreans) for... The Weather. As The Daily Mail reports, CIA chiefs fear hostile nations are trying to manipulate the world's weather... seriously.
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News Link • Surveillance
Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program
02-19-2015
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http://www.msn.com,By Joseph Menn
The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's compu
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News Link • Military
What "Fighting for Our Freedom" Actually Means in Police State USA?
02-19-2015
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com,By Josie Wales
Please stop fighting for my freedom.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Pennsylvania Judge Sentenced to 28 Years In Prison for Selling Teens to Prisons
02-19-2015
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https://www.rutherford.org
Disgraced Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for conspiring with private prisons to sentence juvenile offenders to maximum sentences for bribes and kickbacks which totaled millions of dollars.
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
The Angel Clark Show On Life In Anarchapulco
02-19-2015
Only eight days left and many people are already arriving! ... Angel Clark does an excellent job, once again, on her nationally syndicated radio show, The Angel Clark Show, talking about life in Anarchapulco
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News Link • Gun Rights
Elderly Man Facing 10 Years Over Unloaded, Flintlock Pistol
02-19-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,Kit Daniels
Prosecutors want retired teacher to serve at least 3.5 years for possessing 250-year-old pistol
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