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Date Sent: 2015-04-10
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, April 10, 2015 |
Rand Paul, Democracy, and the Ghost of Ronald Reagan
School Idiocy: Ban All the Things! -- As Was Always the Plan: California Water Authorities Using Smart Meter Data... -- Work on the sequel to one of the greatest Pixar movies is finally underway -- The FBI Busts Up Another Of Its Own Terrorist Plots... -- FREEDOM Comes to Phoenix April 11th... and it's a Party -- Anti-vaccine protesters howl and heckle as California urges focus on the facts -- NASA adding to list of CubeSats flying on first SLS mission -- There Are Few Libertarians. But Many Americans Have Libertarian Views -- 04-10-15 -- Donna Hancock - Warren Woodward (MP3 LOADED) -- The "Great Cannon" is China's Powerful New Hacking Weapon -- New Wingsuit Technology Has Daredevils Flying Faster than 160 MPH -- Gone in a Flash: The Race To Save The Internet's Least Favorite Tool -- The Backlash Against .Sucks Has Begun -- These States Serve McDonald's In Their Hospitals [Infographic] -- Exclusive: Hillary Clinton to launch 2016 campaign on Sunday en route to Iowa -- Swedish tobacco company to challenge FDA demands for warning labels -- Leaving Facebook for a couple of months made me realize how you can't escape it -- Virtual reality is everywhere right now -- find out more at IGNITION -- GE is spinning out most of its $500 billion GE Capital business... -- Penn State officials to authorize Jerry Sandusky victim settlements -- Tiger Woods hit a ridiculous shot around a tree and landed it 21 feet from the hole -- 'I'm paid to be a narcissistic blowhard, to be more confident about opinions than I really a -- Who is Ed Miliband, the man who could be Britain's next prime minister? -- Greenpeace bank accounts frozen by Indian government -- Garmin Vivoactive: GPS Watch Review -- Kindergartners & iPads: Sharing May Help Learning -- Disney Competition Challenges Kids to Design Futuristic Tech -- When You Think The Financial World Can't Get Any Crazier… This Happens -- Why The BRICs Are Less Worried About The Next Crash --
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
School Idiocy: Ban All the Things!
04-10-2015
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http://truthstreammedia.com
Nothing is too absurd for our public (government indoctrination camps) schools to ban and punish children over these days.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Environment
As Was Always the Plan: California Water Authorities Using Smart Meter Data...
04-10-2015
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http://truthstreammedia.com
as Evidence to Impose Fines. Everywhere people's houses are being fitted if they already haven't with smart electric meters and smart water meters.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Work on the sequel to one of the greatest Pixar movies is finally underway
04-10-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Ian Phillips
Back in March 2014, Disney CEO Bob Iger hinted that a sequel to one of Pixar's most-beloved films, 2004's "The Incredibles," was in the works.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
The FBI Busts Up Another Of Its Own Terrorist Plots...
04-10-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Like other recent sensational "terror plots," however, the criminal complaint unsealed yesterday demonstrates the key role of an undercover law enforcement informant in both formulating and facilitating the alleged plot.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Anti-vaccine protesters howl and heckle as California urges focus on the facts
04-10-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Legislators advance bill to tighten immunisation laws in the face of protest from small band of activists who believe parents should be allowed to opt out
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA adding to list of CubeSats flying on first SLS mission
04-10-2015
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http://spaceflightnow.com
With room for 11 small shoebox-sized CubeSats on the first test flight of NASA's behemoth Space Launch System, agency officials have turned to scientists, industry and students to fill the slots in time for launch in 2018.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
There Are Few Libertarians. But Many Americans Have Libertarian Views
04-10-2015
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FiveThirtyEight
The New York Times' Paul Krugman, assessing the presidential candidacy of Rand Paul, asserts that there aren't very many libertarians in the United States.
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Donna Hancock
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
04-10-15 -- Donna Hancock - Warren Woodward (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Donna Hancock visits the show for a bit - Warren Woodward will provide us an update on Smart Meters, his fraud complaint with APS (Arizona Public Service - AZ power company) and how to empower and educate yourself on the effects of the smart grid
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News Link • China
The "Great Cannon" is China's Powerful New Hacking Weapon
04-10-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
The relentless days-long cyberattack on GitHub showed that someone was willing to use hundreds of thousands of innocent internet users to try to take down two single pages set up by an organization fighting Chinese censorship.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
New Wingsuit Technology Has Daredevils Flying Faster than 160 MPH
04-10-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
On mountain ranges across the world, a small group of extreme athletes have been taking to the skies in specially-designed bodysuits to test the limits of unpowered human flight.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Internet
Gone in a Flash: The Race To Save The Internet's Least Favorite Tool
04-10-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
Navigating awful, 100 percent Flash-based sites is an experience many of us have had, and is unequivocally part of internet canon. And it's on the verge of going away forever.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Internet
The Backlash Against .Sucks Has Begun
04-10-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
The organization that administers the internet's domains is having second thoughts about allowing companies to secure one of its newest and most controversial addresses, .sucks.
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Gina Kynast
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![These States Serve McDonald's In Their Hospitals [Infographic]](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/Pix/693/04/693-0410084932.jpg)
News Link • Food
These States Serve McDonald's In Their Hospitals [Infographic]
04-10-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
We're not kidding. After you recover from your open heart surgery, you can go downstairs to the in-hospital McDonald's and get yourself a double cheeseburger, large coke, and fries.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton to launch 2016 campaign on Sunday en route to Iowa
04-10-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Hillary Clinton is planning to officially launch her US presidential campaign on Sunday while en route to Iowa, a source familiar with the campaign has confirmed to the Guardian.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • World News
Swedish tobacco company to challenge FDA demands for warning labels
04-10-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Swedish Match argues moist powdered tobacco product snus should not have to carry warning labels, citing studies that say it is less harmful than cigarettes.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Leaving Facebook for a couple of months made me realize how you can't escape it
04-10-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matt Weinberger
This past winter, I stopped using Facebook for a couple of months.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Virtual reality is everywhere right now -- find out more at IGNITION
04-10-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Valerie Reimer
Facebook spent $2 billion to acquire a virtual-reality company.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
GE is spinning out most of its $500 billion GE Capital business...
04-10-2015
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Michael B Kelley and Jay Yarow
General Electric on Friday morning announced a radical plan to slim itself.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Penn State officials to authorize Jerry Sandusky victim settlements
04-10-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
A divided university board of trustees voted to allow administrators settle claims for an undisclosed amount related to Sandusky's conviction for child molestation
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Tiger Woods hit a ridiculous shot around a tree and landed it 21 feet from the hole
04-10-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Tony Manfred
Tiger Woods may look a little rusty around the greens and iffy with the driver, but he can still do things that few others can on a golf course.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
'I'm paid to be a narcissistic blowhard, to be more confident about opinions than I really a
04-10-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Best known to British audiences for his books Bobos in Paradise and The Social Animal, Brooks says he considered calling the new one Humility, with the title in tiny letters and "David Brooks" in huge block capitals.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • World News
Who is Ed Miliband, the man who could be Britain's next prime minister?
04-10-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
The British general election is the most unpredictable in years but the latest polls suggest Labour is inching ahead. Simon Hattenstone profiles the man who could oust David Cameron
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Environment
Greenpeace bank accounts frozen by Indian government
04-10-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Campaign group accuses authorities of 'attacking democracy' and being angered by questions over India's environmental record
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Garmin Vivoactive: GPS Watch Review
04-10-2015
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http://www.livescience.com
The Vivoactive is a new wearable device from Garmin that is part smartwatch and part fitness tracker
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Education: Private Religious Schools
Kindergartners & iPads: Sharing May Help Learning
04-10-2015
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http://www.livescience.com
When it comes to technology in the classroom, having kindergartners share iPads may be better for learning than simply giving each child an iPad, a new study suggests.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Disney Competition Challenges Kids to Design Futuristic Tech
04-10-2015
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http://www.livescience.com
Whether they're designing flying cars or teleporters, aspiring young inventors will have the chance to share their visions for the technology of the future,
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Economy - International
When You Think The Financial World Can't Get Any Crazier… This Happens
04-10-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
The world has truly gone mad.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
Why The BRICs Are Less Worried About The Next Crash
04-10-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
When even Jamie Dimon warns that "another crisis is coming", and points to the utter lack of market liquidity and the likelihood of another flash crash, it probably means that not only has he been reading this website, but that JPM's chief prop tradi
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Video: Thug Cops Assault Teenagers, Try To Delete Footage From Phone
04-10-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
17-year-old in prison for 3 months, facing assault charge
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul woos NH in first day as an official candidate
04-10-2015
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http://www.unionleader.com, By DAN TUOHY
Presidential hopeful Rand Paul spent his first day as a candidate wooing New Hampshire conservatives and independents, and embracing the state motto, "Live Free Or Die," as a guiding principle.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Internet
Official Countdown - Daily Paul Goes into Archive Mode Saturday at Midnight EDT
04-09-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com
It would cost more to fix the DP than to start from scratch, so the old site will be archived, and we'll start fresh at Popular Liberty. The new site is, as the name implies, dedicated to making Liberty popular again.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama gun control push backfires as industry sees unprecedented surge
04-09-2015
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http://www.washingtontimes.com, By Stephen Dinan
The American firearms industry is as healthy as ever, seeing an unprecedented surge that has sent production of guns soaring to more than 10.8 million manufactured in 2013 alone -- double the total of just three years earlier.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
Scientists close in on computers that work like the human brain
04-09-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Richard Moss
Scientists have been working since 2008 to develop technology based on memristors (short for memory resistors), which promise computers that need never boot up and function more akin to the human brain â€" like neurons, they can retain information an
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Conspiracy Theorist Arrested After Calling Sandy Hook Shooting "Fake"
04-09-2015
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Prison Planet
Man ordered to undergo mental health evaluation after calling Newtown schools
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Seriously?
Sen. Cotton: Iran War Would Only Take a Few Days
04-09-2015
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Says US Should 'Pursue Military Strikes'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Faber Warns : The Middle East will Blow up
04-09-2015
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Lewrockwell.com
ET Now: You have said that one should always bet on mega trends, bet on the big picture. So what are the three mega trends for this decade?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Rogers Touts Russia Yet Again As Investors Increasingly Hop On Band Wagon
04-09-2015
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Lewrockwell.com
Commodities guru Jim Rogers has his eyes on Russia. And he likes what he sees. What he sees is a stable currency, a very strong central bank, and oil prices that have seemingly hit the floor.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
New $1,300 Drone Sports 4K Video And Ultrasound Navigation
04-09-2015
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Wired.com
There are a few cases in which 4K video would be a noticeable improvement over plain old 1080p.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Legalizing Marijuana Now More Popular Than All Political Candidates
04-09-2015
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com, John Vibes
It is no secret that Americans are losing faith in the US political system.
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Officer Feared for His Life, so He Shot & Killed This Family's Tiny Miniature Pig
04-09-2015
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com, Matt Agorist
In one of the most cowardly moves by law enforcement that we've ever witnessed, a Michigan DNR officer shot and killed a family's miniature pig Thursday after he "felt threatened."
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