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Date Sent: 2015-02-28
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, February 28, 2015 |
Trillions of Dollars Created A Grand Illusion: The War on Terror
Ron Paul: Stephen Hawking and the Meaning of Non-Aggression -- Ron Paul: Internet, RIP? -- Nevada Cops Pull Women From Car After Driver Refuses to Roll Window Fully Down -- NYCLU Victory in NYPD Quota Case Protects Speech of Officers, Public Employees -- Collector car owners experience daylight nightmare by cops -- Loretta Lynch Is A Dubious Nominee For Attorney General -- Death row inmate gets hearing to review claims of prosecutor misconduct -- We Came, We Saw, He Died: The Evisceration of Libya -- Vandalism in Arizona Shut Down Internet, Cellphone, Telephone Service Across State -- Russian opposition leader Nemtsov shot dead in Moscow -- Leonard Nimoy, Spock of 'Star Trek,' Dies at 83 -- Washington Identifies Commies For The 21st Century -- Secession Begins at Home -- The Scourge of US-Installed Fascism in Europe's Heartland -- College indoctrination on steroids: Capitalism must be overthrown for sake of humanity -- Edward Snowden's Libertarian Moment... -- Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traffic Control -- How Parks and Recreation Took Aim at Silicon Valley -- Ron Paul woke up a lot of people... -- Chinese Civilisation Older Than Thought -- Gitmo in Chicago -- Who's blow torching American jobs?
AZ: Arizona Sci Tech Gila County Festival - February 26-28, 2015
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News Link • Homeland Security
Trillions of Dollars Created A Grand Illusion: The War on Terror
02-27-2015
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informationclearinghouse.info
The War on Terror has to be the greatest misdirection of resources in all of human history. So why are we spending countless billions of dollars fighting terror, an almost insignificant threat to our well-being?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Stephen Hawking and the Meaning of Non-Aggression
02-27-2015
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Ron Paul dissects famous physicist Stephen Hawking's latest pronouncement that aggression is the most serious human failing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Internet, RIP?
02-27-2015
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Lew Rockwell blog
Today the Federal Communications Commission, a non-elected federal government agency, voted 3-to-2 to reclassify broadband Internet as a common carrier service under Title II of the Communications Act. This means that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Nevada Cops Pull Women From Car After Driver Refuses to Roll Window Fully Down
02-27-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Nevada cop who pulled a woman over for speeding ended up dragging her out of the car after she refused to roll her window down all the way, even though she had already rolled it down halfway and already handed him her driver license.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYCLU Victory in NYPD Quota Case Protects Speech of Officers, Public Employees
02-27-2015
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ACLU
"Quotas lead to illegal arrests, criminal summonses and ruined lives. They undermine the trust between the police and the people they are supposed to be protecting and serving," said NYCLU Associate Legal Director
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
I-Team: Collector car owners experience daylight nightmare
02-27-2015
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CBS News
A Washington couple says they were falsely arrested by the Nevada Highway Patrol for stealing a collector car they actually owned.
The highway patrol admitted two errors that led to Robin and Beverly Bruins being removed from their car at gunpoint
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News Link • New World Order
Loretta Lynch Is A Dubious Nominee For Attorney General
02-27-2015
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Empty Wheel
But, all the above ignores the Swiss Alps sized mountains of evidence that we know Lynch was aware of and blithely swept under the rug by her HSBC DPA. So, we are basically left to decide whether Lynch is a bankster loving toady that is her own woman
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Death row inmate gets hearing to review claims of prosecutor misconduct
02-27-2015
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Houston Chronicle
In affidavits supplied to Carty's current defense team last year, in 2014, a DEA agent and two of Carty's co-defendants allege that Harris County prosecutors crossed ethical boundaries and threatened them to ensure Carty's conviction.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
We Came, We Saw, He Died: The Evisceration of Libya
02-27-2015
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zerohedge.com
American leadership is ruthlessly pursuing immoral wars all over the world with the intent of creating outside enemies to focus public anger on, as a conscious diversion away from the criminality happening domestically.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Vandalism in Arizona Shut Down Internet, Cellphone, Telephone Service Across State
02-27-2015
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Free Beacon
Cellphone, Internet, and telephone services across half of Arizona went dark after vandals sliced a sensitive fiber optic cable. The incident is raising concerns about the safety of U.S. infrastructure.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Russian opposition leader Nemtsov shot dead in Moscow
02-27-2015
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Reuters
Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition politician and former deputy prime minister, has been shot dead in central Moscow, the Interior Ministry said early on Saturday. Nemtsov, 55, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Leonard Nimoy, Spock of 'Star Trek,' Dies at 83
02-27-2015
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http://www.nytimes.com
Mr. Nimoy announced that he had end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease last year, attributing it to years of smoking, a habit he had given up three decades earlier. He had been hospitalized earlier in the week.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Washington Identifies Commies For The 21st Century
02-27-2015
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Targetliberty.com
"I recall noticing a distinct lack of jubilance on the part of the ruling class when it woke up one day and found its reliable enemy (Soviet Union) had ceased to exist. Since then, the ruling class has engaged in a series of attempts to find...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation
Hyperloop Construction Starts Next Year With the First Full-Scale Track
02-27-2015
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http://www.wired.com, BY ALEX DAVIES
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, the company that wants to move the revolutionary transit system out of Elon Musk's brain into the real world, plans to start construction on an actual hyperloop next year.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
What is Junk Silver?
02-27-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com,By Lisa Bedford
Do you have a coin jug at home? Perhaps it isn't a jug, per se, but a coffee can, glass jar, or maybe even an old fashioned piggy bank? It might be holding far more money than you realize!
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News Link • Drug War
Smoking Marijuana is 114 Times Safer Than Drinking Alcohol â€" Study
02-27-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Russia Today
As the debate over marijuana legalization continues in the United States, a new study suggests that smoking the controversial plant is about 114 times safer than drinking alcohol.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Washington Has Resurrected The Threat Of Nuclear War
02-27-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com,By Paul Craig Roberts
I assumed I was reading a clever parody of Washington's anti-Putin propaganda. Absurd statement followed absurd statement. It was better than Colbert. I couldn't stop laughing.
To my dismay I discovered that the absolute gibberish wasn't a par
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News Link • Secession
Secession Begins at Home
02-27-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, Jeff Deist
he growing number of secession movements around the world gives rise to our topic...
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News Link • Water Issues-Water Fluoridation
Research Exposes How our Water is Making us Depressed, Sick
02-27-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mike Barrett
Adding to the evidence that backs many U.S. communities' decisions to end water fluoridation, a recent study has found that fluoride within our water supply may be fueling thyroid issues experienced by millions of Americans, leading to depression a
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News Link • General Opinion
College indoctrination on steroids: Capitalism must be overthrown for sake of humanity
02-27-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Nicole Haas
American universities are pumping out loyal socialist soldiers and a reading assignment that excoriates capitalism at the University of Michigan is being used as propaganda tool to further fuel socialist ambitions.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traffic Control
02-27-2015
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http://www.wired.com, BY SARA BRESELOR
... Brian Howard woke early and headed to Chicago Center, an air traffic control hub in Aurora, Illinois, where he had worked for eight years. He had decided to get stoned and kill himself, and as his final gesture he planned to take a chunk of the U
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
The First Selfie in Space and More Stellar Vintage NASA Photos
02-27-2015
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http://www.wired.com,BY KRYSTAL GROW
Astronauts have been held up as pioneers in the American consciousness since Alan Shepard became the first US astronaut to venture into space.
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News Link • Archaeology
Chinese Civilisation Older Than Thought
02-27-2015
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arclein
In order to discover more about Hongshan culture, researchers investigated the Hunshandake Sandy Lakes in Inner Mongolia, an area 185 miles (300 kilometres) away from the first Hongshan discoveries. The team found significant quantities of Hongshan p
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News Link • Media: Internet
Who's blow torching American jobs?
02-26-2015
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfTfsWhZi5E
The first episode of BestEvidence goes to the root of what's happening to American jobs.
It examines the U.S. labor force participation rate going back to the first days of the Eisenhouser Administration (January 1953). After the rate stabilize
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Gold and Silver
JPM, Goldman, Deutsche, Barclays, SocGen And UBS, Probed For Gold Rigging
02-26-2015
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zero hedge
No matter how many times the big banks are caught red-handed manipulating precious metals, some failed former Deutsche Bank prop-trader (you know who you are) will take a vociferous stand based on
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Powerful "stingrays" used to go after 911 hangup, ATM burglary
02-26-2015
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ars technica
Florida law enforcement have been using stingrays thousands of times since at least 2007 to investigate crimes as small as a 911 hangup. They also seemingly obliquely refer to stingrays in police reports as "electronic surveillance measures,"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Barbie Is Watching You: Meet The WiFi-Connected Doll that Records Your Kids
02-26-2015
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zero hedge
Mattel's latest high-tech Barbie doll will bring the "internet of things" right into your child's playpen.
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News Link • Surveillance
Citing encryption, FBI lobbying to keep phone metadata spying powers
02-26-2015
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ars technica
The law the Obama administration cites to allow bulk telephone metadata collection expires June 1, and the FBI has begun lobbying to keep Section 215 of the Patriot Act from expiring. Bad guys "going dark" using encryption,
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Democratic Party chairman 'plotted to hire hit man to kill girls who he molested'
02-26-2015
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Daily Mail
It has not been revealed whether the lives of the girls, who were aged nine and ten at the time of the assault, are in danger but police said the potential threats were taken seriously.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Refuting Yellen and the Fed
02-26-2015
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Fed Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate and House this week. The US central bank is doing a great job, she told them. Dr. Paul and co-host Daniel McAdams break it down, with special guest (and former Congressional colleague) Paul-Martin Fo
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News Link • Activism
Antonio Buehler's Lawsuit Against Austin PD Headed To Supreme Court After Judge Dismissal
02-26-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
"... not only do police officers sometimes commit crimes, but often times those criminal cops then benefit from a chain of command and prosecutors who conspire against their victims to cover up their crimes."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
The Black Hole of Chicago
02-26-2015
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Jonathan Turley
This goes beyond shocking. Sure, in some warped romantic spy-novel sort of way, we've come to expect such places for foreign terrorists to be tortured and held away from prying eyes, but not here, not on American soil, not in Chicago.
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News Link • Activism
Bus pass: Civic hackers open transit data MTA said would cost too much to share
02-26-2015
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ars technica
A civic hacker has made that data available to app developers by doing what the MTA claimed would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to complete--simply tapping into websites that the agency has already built.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
DARPA Spending Millions on ''RATS'' Voice Recognition Surveillance Tech
02-26-2015
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Activist Post
Between 2015 and 2017, the Pentagon will have the ability to decipher human voices in surveillance audio even if background noise makes the covertly recorded conversations inaudible.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Could Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America be put up for sale?
02-25-2015
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gizmag.com
The past year has been a mixed bag for the commercial space industry, with successful launches from the likes of SpaceX, but also a few mishaps, including a tragic Virgin Galactic crash that claimed the life of one pilot.
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News Link • Unintended Consequences
US Espionage Blowback: China Drops Apple, Cisco From State Purchase Lists
02-25-2015
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zerohedge.com
Another quarter of leaks of ubiquitous US espionage in every corner of the world, and sure enough we get another quarter of China just saying no to spending any more money on companies...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TERRORISM
Close But No Cigar: The State is Terror by Bill Buppert
02-25-2015
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zerogov.com
"It is the greatest truth of our age: information is not knowledge."
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News Link • Economy - International
How Far Is It From Kiev To Athens?
02-25-2015
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zerohedge.com
Riddle me this, Batman. I don't think I get it, and I definitely don't get why nobody is asking any questions.
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News Link • Currencies
Ukraine Enters Hyperinflation: Currency Trading Halted, ....
02-25-2015
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zerohedge.com
Yesterday we summarized the most recent economic, political and social situation in Ukraine as follows:
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News Link • Economy - International
The Biggest Problem For Greece Isn't Debt: It's This
02-25-2015
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zerohedge.com
"Greeks consider taxes as theft," which, among other things, explains, as WSJ reports, at the end of 2014, Greeks owed their government about €76 billion in unpaid taxes accrued over decades; the government says only €9 billion ....
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Glenn Greenwald blasts Hillary Clinton: "The ultimate guardian of bipartisan status quo corrupt
02-25-2015
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Daily Paul.com
Calling Hillary Clinton "the ultimate guardian" of a broken political system, The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald on Monday lamented that her likely nomination as the Democratic Party's 2016 presidential candidate will prevent a real debate on is
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Oregon state senator Elizabeth Steiner Hayward calls for government....
02-25-2015
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Natural News
........to physically violate children by force with vaccine mandate echoing Nazi crimes against humanity
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Political
Post-Americans, Left and Right
02-25-2015
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http://www.nationalreview.com, by Mark Krikorian R
Kevin is self-evidently correct in endorsing Giuliani's assertion that President Obama doesn't love America.
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News Link • Forfeiture & Seizure
Forced Arbitration: Supplanting Our Court Justice System
02-25-2015
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arclein
However, most Americans are unaware that for everyday disputes arising over the necessities of life?"credit cards, purchasing an automobile, employment contracts, investments, mobile phone service?"having one's day in court has become a thing o
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA looks to expand its cyber espionage capabilities
02-24-2015
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Washington Post
The CIA's approach to conventional espionage is increasingly outmoded amid the exploding use of smartphones, social media and other technologies. Plans call for increased use of cyber capabilities in almost every category
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
J.P. Morgan to start charging big clients fees on some deposits
02-24-2015
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MarketWatch
The largest U.S. bank by assets is aiming to reduce the affected deposits by billions of dollars, with a focus on bringing the number down this year, The latest steps large global banks to discourage certain deposits due to new regulations and low
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
These men spent 100 years in prison for a crime they didn't commit
02-24-2015
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Fusion
Altogether, they spent more than 100 years in prison--including stints on death row--for a crime they didn't commit. Now, 40 years later, the murder remains unsolved. They talked about the false confession by a 12-year-old boy
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
'Truly barbaric': Florida deputy drags mentally ill woman through courthouse by shackled fee
02-24-2015
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Rawstory
An investigation into a Florida deputy was launched this week after video surfaced showing him dragging a handcuffed mentally ill woman through the Broward County Courthouse by her shackled feet.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Libertarians: Please Do Not End Up Like Ross Ulbricht
02-24-2015
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Targetliberty.com
There are claims that there are new bitcoin mixing technologies that make bitcoins completely anonymous in use. But how can we know that it is not the government that has set up these mixing exchanges, or infiltrated them after they have been set up?
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