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Date Sent: 2014-04-02
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Wednesday, April 2, 2014 |
Senate Report Exposes Torture and Lying By CIA, But Recommends No Prosecution
Aid to Ukraine Is a Bad Deal For All -- CIA officer confirmed no protests before misleading Benghazi account given -- Why We Are Plagued With Drivel Masquerading As Financial Reporting -- Bitcoin Is Pointless as a Currency, But It Could Change the World Anyway -- Cops to Inspect Homes Without Notice For Illegal Rentals -- Is the U.S. stock market rigged? -- Alleged Silk Road Founder’s Lawyer Moves to Dismiss Charges Against
His Client -- Senate's classified intelligence report: No evidence from
torture helped US find bin Laden -- US confirms warrantless searches of Americans -- Targeting Iran -- NATO Plans Global Dominance -- Jonathan Pollard's Imminent Release? -- Mississippi Supreme Court orders new trial for Michelle Byrom; AG wants reasons why -- 3 Edison cops charged with planning to punish North Brunswick cop for arresting an associate -- Federal judge blasts ATF stings -- Culture of Corruption II: Scandals taint Democratic Party in tough
election year -- The Globalist Brainwashing of Your Children -- Wisconsin lawmaker charged with sexual assault -- Citing broad public interest, newspapers ask judge to deny bid to
block 9/11 lawsuit -- "Our Only Hope Will Come Through Rebellion" --
04-01-14 -- Ron
Paul - Landis Aden - David Blume -- (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED)
-- Zero U.S. Troops Died In Combat In March, The First Time In More
Than A Decade -- US Rejected Israeli Demand for Iran Nuclear
Confession -- US May Release Pollard to Extend Israel Talks
Through December -- CIA misled on interrogation program, Senate
report says -- Iraq and Afghanistan: The physical and mental
toll, by the numbers -- ‘Just Salute and Follow Orders’: When
Secrecy and Surveillance Trump the Rule of Law -- War Party
Oligarch -- UN draws up peacekeeping plans in event of Scottish
Yes vote -- Raytheon Accepting Bitcoin -- Tesla and SpaceX:
Elon Musk's industrial empire -- Kerry and Lavrov: World's Apart --
Olmert: Guilty As Charged
AZ: AZ Breakfast Club this Saturday April 5th, 2014, 8-10 a.m. @
Coco's (Paradise Valley Mall location)
CN: Gun rights rally on 05 April 2014 in Hartford,
Connecticut
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News Link • Torture
Senate Report Exposes Torture and Lying By CIA, But Recommends No Prosecution
04-02-2014
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Jonathan Turley
The Senate found a pattern of misinformation knowingly released by the CIA to convince the public that its torture program yielded valuable intelligence " and new forms of torture that have never been previously confirmed. What is most striking
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News Link • Obama Administration
Aid to Ukraine Is a Bad Deal For All
04-02-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Ron Paul
Last week Congress overwhelmingly passed a bill approving a billion dollars in aid to Ukraine and more sanctions on Russia.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Libya
CIA officer confirmed no protests before misleading Benghazi account given
04-02-2014
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Washington Times
The House Intelligence Committee held a classified session with the CIA’s former Libya station chief, whose assessment that there had been no protest leading before the Benghazi terrorist attacks was left out of Obama Admin talking points
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Why We Are Plagued With Drivel Masquerading As Financial Reporting
04-02-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By David Stockman
One of the evils of massive over-financialization is that it enables Wall Street to scalp vast “rents” from the Main Street economy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
NCAA Says Northwestern Union Case Will Wind Up in Supreme Court
04-02-2014
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http://www.bloomberg.com, By Dan Hart and Dex McLu
The National Labor Relations Board ruling allowing Northwestern University’s football team to become the first college sports union will eventually be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Is Pointless as a Currency, But It Could Change the World Anyway
04-02-2014
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http://mprod.wired.com, By Felix Martin
Sovereign governments everywhere are petrified.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Why Privacy Is Actually Thriving Online
04-02-2014
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http://mprod.wired.com, By Nathan Jurgenson
Privacy is dead"or so we’re told, both by those who would mourn the loss and by those who would dance on its grave.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Cops to Inspect Homes Without Notice For Illegal Rentals
04-02-2014
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Infowars
Authorities in Long Island have launched a crackdown on homeowners who rent their house out to tenants who have not been registered under a “zero tolerance” program that will see police conduct home inspections without notice.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Amazon Orders 6 New Series " And They’re the Right Ones
04-02-2014
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http://mprod.wired.com, By Graeme McMillan
Amazon announced today that six more shows from its Amazon Originals program will be made into full series, following viewer input on the pilot episodes the company released last month. The big surprise? That the right shows made the cut.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Just For Fun!
These Picture Frames Snap Together to Bring Instagram to Your Wall
04-02-2014
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http://mprod.wired.com, By Jakob Schiller
Printed photos, like vinyl records and basketball jerseys, have been enjoying a renaissance.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Is the U.S. stock market rigged?
04-02-2014
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CBS News
Launched investigations into high-frequency computerized stock trading that controls half the market. Lewis argues the stock market is rigged to benefit a group of insiders that have made tens of billions of dollars exploiting computerized trading.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Alleged Silk Road Founder’s Lawyer Moves to Dismiss Charges Against His Client
04-02-2014
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http://mprod.wired.com, By Kim Zetter
The attorney for alleged Silk Road ringleader Ross Ulbricht is asking a federal judge to throw out most of the charges against his client, arguing that the case contains “fatal flaws” and must be dismissed.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Tomorrow’s Super-Soldiers Will Wear Night Vision Contact Lenses
04-02-2014
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http://mprod.wired.com, By Allen McDuffee
As the Pentagon continues to build a lighter, faster and stronger soldier of the future, new technology that could provide night vision without bulky goggles has caught the Army’s eye.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Senate's classified intelligence report: No evidence from torture helped US find bin Laden
04-02-2014
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AP
A hotly disputed Senate torture report concludes that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods provided no key evidence in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to congressional aides and outside experts familiar with the investigation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
US confirms warrantless searches of Americans
04-02-2014
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AP
The Obama administration conducted warrantless searches of Americans' communications as part of the NSA's surveillance operations that target foreigners located outside of the US, the administration's top intelligence official confirmed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Books
Targeting Iran
04-02-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, Philip Giraldi
Gareth Porter’s New Book Tells All
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death Penalty
Mississippi Supreme Court orders new trial for Michelle Byrom; AG wants reasons why
04-01-2014
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4 days after Mississippi could have executed Michelle Byrom, the state Supreme Court threw out her conviction and ordered a new trial. The ruling came after the fact Byrom’s son, Edward Jr., had repeatedly confessed to killing his father,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
3 Edison cops charged with planning to punish North Brunswick cop for arresting an associate
04-01-2014
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Three Edison police officers, including one who is already facing charges he firebombed his supervisor’s home, have been charged with planning to retaliate against a North Brunswick police officer who arrested another man for drunken driving,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Federal judge blasts ATF stings
04-01-2014
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USA Today
A federal judge in Los Angeles blasted ATF for sting operations that he said unfairly enlist people in a "made-up crime" by offering them a huge payday for robbing a non-existent drug stash house.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Culture of Corruption II: Scandals taint Democratic Party in tough election year
04-01-2014
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Washington Times
In a week Democrats won’t soon forget, the Democrat-dominated California Senate took the unprecedented step Friday of voting 28-1 to suspend with pay three state senators in their own party accused or convicted of criminal conduct.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Wisconsin lawmaker charged with sexual assault
04-01-2014
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Prosecutors charged former Wisconsin Assembly Majority Leader Bill Kramer on Friday with sexually assaulting a political aide three years ago following a Republican mixer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Citing broad public interest, newspapers ask judge to deny bid to block 9/11 lawsuit
04-01-2014
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Miami Herald
2 Florida newspapers asked a Fort Lauderdale federal judge to deny the Justice Dept’s effort to shut down a Freedom of Information lawsuit seeking records from an FBI investigation into apparent terrorist activity in Sarasota shortly before 9/11.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
"Our Only Hope Will Come Through Rebellion"
04-01-2014
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https://www.youtube.com, strugglevideomedia
Chris Hedges speaks on 3/29/2014 at the "One Nation Under Surveillance" civil liberties conference at CCSU in CT.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Zero U.S. Troops Died In Combat In March, The First Time In More Than A Decade
04-01-2014
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http://thinkprogress.org, By Hayes Brown
March 2014 marked the first time in more than a decade that there were zero U.S. fatalities among American troops engaging in combat, according to numbers from the Department of Defense.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
US Rejected Israeli Demand for Iran Nuclear Confession
04-01-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, Gareth Porter
The Barack Obama administration appears to have rejected a deal-breaking demand by Israel for an Iranian confession to having had a covert nuclear weapons program as a condition for completing the comprehensive nuclear agreement.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
US May Release Pollard to Extend Israel Talks Through December
04-01-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
White House's Usual 'No' Becomes 'No Comment' Amid Latest Reports
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA misled on interrogation program, Senate report says
04-01-2014
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By Greg Miller, Adam Goldman and Ellen Nakashima
A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years " concealing details about the severity of its methods, overstating the significance
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Iraq and Afghanistan: The physical and mental toll, by the numbers
04-01-2014
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Scott Clement
The 2.6 million Americans who volunteered to fight on IED-laden battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan have returned home with a panoply of problems borne out of their service.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
‘Just Salute and Follow Orders’: When Secrecy and Surveillance Trump the Rule of Law
04-01-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, John W. Whitehead
“The Secret Government is an interlocking network of official functionaries, spies, mercenaries, ex-generals, profiteers and superpatriots, who, for a variety of motives, operate outside the legitimate institutions of government.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
War Party Oligarch
04-01-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, Patrick J. Buchanan
Is the Republican Party’s Middle East policy up for bid?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Exclusive: UN draws up peacekeeping plans in event of Scottish Yes vote
04-01-2014
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http://www.independent.co.uk, Cahal Milmo
UN's traditional 'blue helmet' colour scheme is in doubt as it could be misinterpreted as a show of support for an independent Scotland
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
The Great Robot Race
04-01-2014
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https://www.youtube.com, The Great Robot Race
Twenty-three bizarre looking vehicles line up at the gate of the DARPA Grand Challenge with one thing in common: thereÕs nobody behind the wheel.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk's industrial empire
04-01-2014
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CBS News 60 Minutes
So many children dream of fast cars and rocket ships, but few actually grow up to build them -- and change the world in the process
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Media: Television
Mind Expanding Documentaries
04-01-2014
On this list of mind expanding documentaries you will find different viewpoints, controversial opinions and even contradictory ideas. Critical thinking is recommended. I’m not a big fan of conspiracy documentaries but I do like films that challenge
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A Call To Rein In Phase III Trials
04-01-2014
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arclein
We estimate that development costs for drugs could be reduced by as much as 90%, and the time required by 50%, if the threshold for initial approval were defined in terms of efficacy and fundamental safety. Cutting costs and time, while requiring hig
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Opinion • Books
CONNECTING THE DOTS
When Your Father Left Too Soon
04-01-2014
Frosty Wooldridge
I have wished I could talk to him as a man, bicycle with him one day for a chat or sit by a campfire. Always something in the back of my mind. Millions of other men have lost their fathers, too, at a young age. They feel the same way you feel.
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News Link • Activism
Albuquerque Police Dept. protest ends after 12 hours, tense moments
03-31-2014
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The protest made stops at APD's headquarters, Civic Plaza and the University of New Mexico's main campus. 5 p.m. police officers ordered the group to clear the area near APD headquarters, calling it an unlawful protest. There was a standoff
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
The Parable of the Mashed Potato Police
03-30-2014
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Politico
I had a bad flashback. I was hit with a vivid memory from my time as a Transportation Security Administration officer at Chicago’s O’Hare. 3 of my TSA colleagues got into an argument with a passenger at the checkpoint. Things got pretty heated.
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News Link • Economy - International
Bankers Win Both Ways: Now They Can Take Both Taxpayer and Depositor Money
03-30-2014
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Truthdig
The real story for taxpayers and depositors is the heightened threat to their pocketbooks of a deal that now authorizes both bailouts and “bail-ins”"the confiscation of depositor funds.
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News Link • Drones
UN adopts Pakistan resolution against drone strikes, discards US objection
03-30-2014
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The United Nations adopted a resolution, jointly presented by Pakistan, Yemen and Switzerland, against drone strikes. 6 countries including the USA, France and Britain voted against the resolution, but fell short in majority to get it disposed of.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
War Fever in the Air - by Eric Margolis
03-30-2014
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Information Clearinghouse
Soviet chairman Gorbachev agreed to let East Germany escape Soviet control " in exchange for NATO’s vow not to push east in Soviet dominated areas of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. The US and NATO agreed, then broke their pledge.
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News Link • Police State
Citing UN Treaty, Scotland Assigns Overseer to Every Child
03-30-2014
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Citing a radical UN treaty known as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, lawmakers in Scotland approved a deeply controversial new law assigning an individual government overseer to each and every child in the country
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US now spending 26% of available tax revenue just to pay interest
03-30-2014
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This is unsustainable. (But don’t tell Paul Krugman this.) It is a reflection of a country which has lost its way in many regards. For all the talk we hear of CEOs only focusing on the next quarter so they can jack up their bonuses, we don’t seem to
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News Link • World News
Turkish Courts Rule Against Government By Reversing Two Twitter Bans
03-30-2014
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Jonathan Turley
We recently reported of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan’s effort to silence the social media service Twitter to repress dissent within Turkey. Now, the courts in Turkey are beginning to reverse some of these efforts.
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News Link • Drug War
Police Stopped And Unlawfully Searched Vehicle For Marijuana Based On Colorado License Plate
03-30-2014
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Jonathan Turley
An Idaho state trooper arrested and searched a 70-year-old Washington man solely because of his license plate from Colorado, where marijuana is legal, the man claims in a federal lawsuit.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Tales of the Happy Valley "Gestapo"
03-30-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Residents of Utah's Provo-Orem Metropolitan Area live in a valley blessed with breathtaking mountain vistas and a dynamic local economy. Unfortunately, one of the major local industries involves manufacturing “crimes” out of trivial incidents,
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News Link • Economy - International
Guest Post: The Government Inflation Scam
03-30-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Jacob Hornberger
What is happening in Argentina provides a valuable lesson in why governments in every country on earth control the education of the nation’s children.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
"Nail Gun Suicide" Banker's Firm Probed Over Missing Millions
03-30-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
... The death of the 57-year-old banker was accompanied by the fact that his firm was under investigation by the insurance regulators, and now, as The Denver Post reports, state prosecutors launched a criminal investigation and a grand jury over more
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