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Date Sent: 2015-03-05
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, March 5, 2015 |
Farmers To Face Fines Or Prison Sentences For Selling Food Directly To Customers
Why Would They Lie? -- US ambassador attacked in South Korea -- 'It WAS him': Defense admits Tsarnaev bombed Boston Marathon -- Facebook REMOVES 12-year-old's account for 'suspicious activity' after criticizing Obama -- Shin Bet Secretly Arrests Druze, Accusing Him of Exposing Rebel-IDF Collaboration -- Wyoming Governor Vetoes Asset Forfeiture Bill, Because Asset Forfeiture 'Is Right' -- China Warns U.S. to Stop Its Ukrainian Proxy War Against Russia -- CA: Another County Exposed for Planting Jailhouse Informants to Extract Information -- Mark One Bounty by Cody Wilson -- Bryan Singer Tackling Sci-Fi Classic 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress' for Fox -- CPS Finds "Free Range" Parents Responsible for Unsubstantiated Child Neglect -- Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses -- 03-05-15 -- Scott Horton - Kyrel Zantonavitch - Jacob Hornberger -- LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F -- Between Casualties and Desertion, Afghan Military Shrinking Fast -- Making War on Everyone -- Bill Gross: Too Much Debt, Too Many Zombie Corporations... -- Chicago's Only Possible Salvation: Bankruptcy - a Name That Cannot be Spoken -- Ukraine Hikes Rate to 30%, Requires Corporations to Sell 75% of Foreign... -- Netanyahu Postmortems -- 10 Intriguing And Mysterious Archaeological Sites -- Going For Gold, Not Bonds -- Video Exonerates Man Set Up By Louisiana Cops And Prosecutors -- Welfare for Some, Favoritism to the Warfare State -- 03-04-15 -- Anarchapulco Recap - James Bovard (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- Department of Homeland Security: What is it Good For? -- Are FBI Informants Working Inside America's Churches? -- Best of Times or Worst of Times? -- First satellites with all-electric propulsion call home -- The War On Preppers: Obama Bans Ammo For The Most Popular Rifle In America -- The Internet Of Things: A Dystopian Nightmare Where Everyone... -- Stock Market Bubble: Wall Street Is Ecstatic As The NASDAQ Closes Above 5000 -- When the Killer Robots Arrive, They'll Get Hacked -- Monica Lewinsky is giving a TED talk -- Peter Diamandis: The first trillionaire is going to be made in space
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club, Saturday - March 7th, 2015 - Coco's PV Mall - 8-10 a.m. AZ TIME.; Heirs of the Republic Constitutional Study Group - Larry Reed Speaker - Weds., 03/11/15 - Tucson, AZ; BitcoinSummit.info - Sat., March 14th 2015, 9am-5pm & Evening Party; World Liberty Conference Bali 2015 - June 29 - July 3rd, 2015 (ISIL)
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News Link • Food
Farmers To Face Fines Or Prison Sentences For Selling Food Directly To Customers
03-04-2015
Many of the farmers are distributing the food via private contracts like herd shares and leasing arrangements, which fall outside the regulatory system of state and local retail licenses and inspections that govern public food qsales.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Why Would They Lie?
03-04-2015
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Simple Justice
That's where he used to work, before he was falsely tarred a child rapist because Covington cop Joanne Rigney, at the behest of social worker Alison Campbell, decided to destroy him.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US ambassador attacked in South Korea
03-04-2015
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al-Jazerra
According to witnesses, the attacker repeatedly shouted "No drills for war". He was apparently referring to the ongoing large-size South Korea-US military exercise, which happens every year this time.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
'It WAS him': Defense admits Tsarnaev bombed Boston Marathon
03-04-2015
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Associated Press
In a blunt opening statement at the nation's biggest terrorism trial in nearly 20 years, Tsarnaev's own lawyer flatly told a jury that the 21-year-old former college student committed the crime.
"It WAS him," said defense attorney Judy Clarke, one
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News Link • Internet
Facebook REMOVES 12-year-old's account for 'suspicious activity' after criticizing Obama
03-04-2015
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Daily Mail
'I will not stop here,' he added to FOX 5. 'You cannot silence a voice that deserves to be heard. And I will continue to make as many accounts as possible.'
Pearson made a number of media appearances over the weekend to draw attention to his pligh
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News Link • Conspiracies
Shin Bet Secretly Arrests Druze, Accusing Him of Exposing Rebel-IDF Collaboration
03-04-2015
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Global Research
Israeli security services are likely they're angered because he followed Syrian rebels to a meeting inside Israeli-occupied territory. with IDF forces who've previously been shown to receive logistical and intelligence support
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News Link • Forfeiture & Seizure
Wyoming Governor Vetoes Asset Forfeiture Bill, Because Asset Forfeiture 'Is Right'
03-04-2015
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tech dirt
The reform bill didn't ask for much: just a conviction to go with every seizure. But that was still too much for Mead, who still carries inside him the beating heart of a long-term prosecutor. To him, these means are perfectly acceptable
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News Link • China
China Warns U.S. to Stop Its Ukrainian Proxy War Against Russia
03-04-2015
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rinf
China's Ambassador to Belgium said the "nature and root cause" of the Ukrainian conflict is "the West," and that "The West should abandon the zero-sum mentality, and take the real security concerns of Russia into consideration."
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
CA: Another County Exposed for Planting Jailhouse Informants to Extract Information
03-04-2015
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The Open File
An ex-jailer from the Santa Clara county jail says at the behest of police and prosecutors he "routinely" planted jailhouse informants in cells with inmates awaiting trial in order to actively extract information that could be used against them.
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Feature Article • 3D Printing
Mark One Bounty by Cody Wilson
Donna Hancock
Companies like to pile on Defense Distributed, like we don't all know how this story ends. The most recent is a company called Mark Forged in Cambridge that sells a carbon fiber 3D printer called the Mark One...I will pay $15,000 to the first person
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Bryan Singer Tackling Sci-Fi Classic 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress' for Fox
03-04-2015
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Hollywood Reporter
Bryan Singer is tackling an adaptation of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, based on the classic sci-fi book by Robert A. Heinlein. Twentieth Century Fox recently picked up the movie rights.
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News Link • Child Protective Services
CPS Finds "Free Range" Parents Responsible for Unsubstantiated Child Neglect
03-04-2015
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Slate
Remember the Maryland parents who let their kids walk home from a park alone and had to deal with police and child protective services? They heard from the state. The couple was found responsible for "unsubstantiated" child neglect.
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News Link • Torture
Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses
03-04-2015
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New York Times
[Obama] did allow his Justice Department to investigate the C.I.A.'s destruction of videotapes of torture sessions and those who may have gone beyond the torture techniques authorized by President George W. Bush. But
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Sony Targets 2016 For 'Project Morpheus' VR on PS4
03-04-2015
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Wired.com
Sony unveiled a new, much-enhanced prototype of its Project Morpheus virtual reality hardware for PlayStation 4 at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, saying that it intended to release the peripheral in the first half of 2016
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News Link • Afghanistan
Between Casualties and Desertion, Afghan Military Shrinking Fast
03-04-2015
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antiwar.com
National Army Lost Over 15,000 Troops From Feb-Nov 2014
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News Link • Media: Internet
2012 UCLA Department of Economics Commencement featuring Dr. Michael J. Burry as keynote speaker
03-04-2015
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CLhqjOzoyE
2012 UCLA Department of Economics Commencement featuring Dr. Michael J. Burry as keynote speaker
Keywords: Dr. Michael Burry, UCLA, Economics, Graduation 2012, Scion Capital Group, LLC
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News Link • Inventions
HYPERLOOP CONSTRUCTION STARTS NEXT YEAR WITH THE FIRST FULL-SCALE TRACK
03-04-2015
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http://www.wired.com, 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 • Economy - Economics USA
Chicago's Only Possible Salvation: Bankruptcy - a Name That Cannot be Spoken
03-04-2015
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MIKE SHEDLOCK
Is the Chicago pension system so messed up and union work rules so entrenched the only way to change either of them is bankruptcy? I think so.
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News Link • Currencies
Ukraine Hikes Rate to 30%, Requires Corporations to Sell 75% of Foreign...
03-04-2015
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MIKE SHEDLOCK
Ukraine Hikes Rate to 30%, Requires Corporations to Sell 75% of Foreign Currency Earnings; Miners Not Paid For 3 Months
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News Link • Archaeology
10 Intriguing And Mysterious Archaeological Sites
03-04-2015
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http://listverse.com, HEATHER RAMSEY
Archaeology aims to answer our questions about the past and, with any luck, give us some perspective on our present and future.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Video Exonerates Man Set Up By Louisiana Cops And Prosecutors
03-04-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Chuck Ross
If not for cell phone video, 47-year-old disabled veteran Douglas Dendinger could be going to prison -- because of an apparent coordinated effort by Washington Parish, La. cops and prosecutors who falsely accused him of battery and witness intimidat
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Welfare for Some, Favoritism to the Warfare State
03-04-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Laurence M. Vance
Conservatives are out with yet another of their policy proposals. But as usual, it is heavy on reform and light on repeal.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security: What is it Good For?
03-04-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Ron Paul
Late Friday night, Congress passed legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security for one week.
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News Link • Oklahoma City Bombing 1995
Are FBI Informants Working Inside America's Churches?
03-04-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Bob McCarty
Two years ago today, I shared the news below for the first time. In light of the fact that a verdict is imminent in the Oklahoma City Bombing Trial that's been taking place in federal court in Salt Lake City recently (yes, it's true), I decided
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News Link • TERRORISM
Best of Times or Worst of Times?
03-04-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick J. Buchanan
Last week, John Kerry seemed to be auditioning for the role of Dr. Pangloss.
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News Link • Communications
First satellites with all-electric propulsion call home
03-04-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
The launch of two new communications satellites may not seem like news these days, but it is when they're the first satellites with all-electric propulsion.
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News Link • Prepping
The War On Preppers: Obama Bans Ammo For The Most Popular Rifle In America
03-04-2015
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By Michael Snyder
Because he can't get Congress to approve the things that he wants to do, Barack Obama has apparently decided to rule by decree for the rest of his time in the White House.
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News Link • Internet
The Internet Of Things: A Dystopian Nightmare Where Everyone...
03-04-2015
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By Michael Snyder
The Internet Of Things: A Dystopian Nightmare Where Everyone And Everything Will Be Monitored On The Internet
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
When the Killer Robots Arrive, They'll Get Hacked
03-04-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com, KARI PAUL
Autonomous weapons could be hacked and turned against us, said Peter W. Singer, a strategist and senior fellow at the think tank New America Foundation, at the first annual Future of War Conference on Tuesday.
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News Link • General Opinion
Monica Lewinsky is giving a TED talk
03-04-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, HUNTER WALKER
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky is continuing her post-scandal career with a TED talk later this month.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Peter Diamandis: The first trillionaire is going to be made in space
03-04-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, BI: Science
Peter Diamandis is a space-obsessed entrepreneur who has founded companies, like Space Adventures and Planetary Resources, that are in the process of opening the space frontier.
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Feature Article • Conspiracies
Mike McNulty, Waco Hero, R.I.P.
Jim Bovard
One of the heroes of the Waco fights of the 1990s has passed away. Mike McNulty did more than any other single person to doggedly pursue the truth about Waco. And he produced or co-produced a number of superb films that vividly and compelling expla
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News Link • NeoCons
Rand Paul Is Now On the Neocon Enemies List With An Arrow
03-03-2015
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Targetliberty.com
Rand Paul's enthusiastic endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before Congress is far from enough for the neocons. You see, he wasn't clapping hard enough during the speech according to the neocons...
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Group: We'll Pay $15K for Your Carbon Fiber 3-D Printer
03-03-2015
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http://www.wired.com
The age of 3-D printing in carbon fiber has hardly arrived. But the controversy over 3-D printing carbon fiber guns is well under way.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
FBI's 'Smoking Gun' Video of Boston Marathon Bombing Doesn't Exist
03-03-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by kevink
What do former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, an appeals court justice, several potential members of the Boston Marathon bombing jury and thousands of regular Americans have in common?
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News Link • Conspiracies
Former L A F B I Director Warns Of Illuminati World Control
03-03-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by fishyculture
Start at 12:50 for clip mentioned in title, although the whole video is pretty good.
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Crime, Punishment, and Russia's Original Social Network
03-03-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com, BY CASEY JOHNSTON
Pavel Durov, founder of the Russian social network VKontakte, was home alone in his apartment in St. Petersburg on a weekend when a contingent of men in camouflage uniforms knocked violently on his door.
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News Link • Internet
Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You
03-03-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com,BY BRIAN MERCHANT
?It's 2015--when we feel sick, fear disease, or have questions about our health, we turn first to the internet. According to the Pew Internet Project, 72 percent of US internet users look up health-related information online.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
How Satellite Companies Patent Their Orbits
03-03-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com, by BECKY FERREIRA
The commercial spaceflight industry has been innovating for decades, so it's no surprise that countless patents for new orbital technologies, processes, and devices have been locked down by private companies.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Snowden Has Always Been 'Ready' to Return to the US
03-03-2015
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motherboard.vice.com
Edward Snowden's Russian lawyer reiterated today that Snowden is willing to return to the US, so long as he is given a fair trial, according to? the AFP.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
4 More Victims Come Forward From Chicago Secret Prison, Man Tortured Over Weed
03-02-2015
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The Anti-Media
They were kicked in the genitals while helpless and bound, put in 'kennels for humans', and they heard the bloodcurdling screams of other helpless victims while they thought they would never see the light of day again.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Autopsy Contradicts Denver Police in Killing of Teenage Girl
03-02-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Denver police claimed they killed 17-year-old Jessica Hernandez because they were in fear for their lives as she drove a stolen car towards them in a narrow alleyway, striking one of the officers and leaving him injured.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
An Uncivil Defense
03-02-2015
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Simple Justice
Tamir's death and all of the injuries his family claims in the suit "were directly and proximately caused by their own acts, not this Defendant." The 12-year-old's shooting death was caused "by the failure … to exercise due care
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News Link • Government
The Danger of Being Neighborly Without a Permit
03-02-2015
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The Atlantic
The Leawood City Council said it had received complaints about Spencer Collins' Little Free Library. They dubbed it an "illegal detached structure" and told the Collins' they would face a fine if they did not remove it by June 19.
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News Link • Surveillance
NYPD to conduct "virtual stakeouts," get alerts on wanted cars nationwide
03-02-2015
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ars technica
"Vigilant Video is compiling a vast database tracking Americans' movements, and it's no surprise that one of the most prolific users of surveillance, the NYPD, would seek to access it...for the first time enabling the mass tracking of Americans,
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News Link • Checkpoints
Federal Appeals Court Endorses Suspicionless Detention Of Air Force Officer
03-02-2015
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The Newspaper
An Air Force major detained at a suspicionless roadblock 5 years ago will not be able to sue for damages. Border Patrol agents could hold Major Richard Rynearson indefinitely simply because they did not care for his attitude.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
LAPD Caught on Video Shooting Unarmed Homeless Man to Death While Holding Him Facedown
03-02-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
An LAPD cop shot and killed a homeless man on Los Angeles' Skid Row as other officers held him facedown on the sidewalk, sparking outrage from dozens of witnesses, calling the cop who pulled the trigger a "sellout" because he was black like the
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News Link • Internet
What Firewall? China's Fledgling Deep Web Community
03-02-2015
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Motherboard
The deep web allows even people living under harsh internet censorship to publish content anonymously. Those behind the Great Firewall of China are no exception.
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News Link • Police State
The State Needs You to Do Its Dirty Work
03-02-2015
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Lew Rockwell blog
This is why I am so hard on Americans in the CIA, military, DEA, NSA, TSA, IRS, etc. They are the ones empowering the state. The state lives and breathes through them.
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News Link • Police State
Feds raid Texas political meeting
03-02-2015
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WND
In a deliberate "show of force," federal and local police forces raided a political meeting in Texas, fingerprinting and photographing all attendees as well as confiscating all cell phones and personal recording devices.
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