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Date Sent: 2012-08-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, August 22, 2012 |
Egypt Sends Tanks, Warplanes to Fight Militants -- NYPD: Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases
U.S. denies Julian Assange’s claims of WikiLeaks witch-hunt -- Passage of California’s Prop. 37 would make it first state to label genetically modified food -- Arizona red-light cameras: Opinions still colliding -- Autopsy
report supports Arkansas police in ‘handcuffed in backseat suicide’
incident -- Rocket Fire Damages Plane Used by Joint Chiefs Chairman -- Court strikes down EPA rule on coal pollution -- Boehner Calls Opponents To TARP "Knuckledraggers" -- Cops advised to pummel threats by DOJ -- UCLA Scientist Discovers Plate Tectonics on Mars? -- "Rapid Progress": Controlling the Imperial Military With Drugs -- 1.5 Million Years of Climate History Revealed -- “Bleed ‘Em, Plead
‘Em,” and Lie: The State of California versus Robert Adams -- Abundant
Natural Gas and Oil Are Putting the Kibosh on Clean Energy -- U.S. Funds Israel’s ‘Iron Dome,’ But Doesn’t (Quite) Know How It Works -- More on Brandon Raub Involuntarily Committed for First Amendment Speech on Facebook? -- DARPA Looks to Make Cyberwar Routine With Secret ‘Plan X’ -- 08-22-12 -- Ed Foster, Quartzsite AZ update -
LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- U.S. launches test of Wi-Fi
to prevent car accidents -- Top U.S. general blasts ex-officers for
attacking Obama -- Technical glitch delays 9/11 hearing at Guantanamo -- California district teaches students to ‘get plenty of rest’ to prevent STDs -- Government Documents Prove Domestic Drones Are For Spying On Americans -- Researchers Develop New Pain-Free Ways to Make Sure You Are Vaccinated -- Hank Williams Jr. Says Obama ‘staged’ Sikh shooting -- Print 2.0: Answer to the Internet Kill Switch -- Who Does the Government Intend To Shoot? -- Amerika’s Future Is Death -- The Truth About Neoconservatism - by Ron Paul -- 65-Year-Old Woman With a Gun Chases Off 5 Armed Robbers -- Netanyahu ‘Determined to Attack Iran Before US Vote’ -- 'Operation Free Assange': Anonymous take down UK government websites -- Army Sends Mobile 3-D Printing Labs to Afghanistan For On-Demand Gear -- "This Isn't America. You Can't Say That Here" - by William Grigg
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt Sends Tanks, Warplanes to Sinai to Fight Militants
08-21-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Former US Envoy Accuses Egypt of Violating Israel Treaty
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News Link • Police State
NYPD: Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases
08-21-2012
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AP
In more than 6 years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloging mosques, the NY Police Dept's secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation
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News Link • Whistleblowers
U.S. denies Julian Assange’s claims of WikiLeaks witch-hunt
08-21-2012
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AFP
The United States denied Julian Assange’s “wild assertions” that it has launched a witch-hunt for the WikiLeaks founder.. The US had nothing to do with efforts by Britain to extradite Assange, who is wanted for questioning by
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News Link • Food
Passage of California’s Prop. 37 would make it first state to label genetically modified food
08-21-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
Another multimillion-dollar fight over a ballot initiative " with big implications for the country " is brewing in California. The initiative has a mouthful of a name: the “California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act.”
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Arizona red-light cameras: Opinions still colliding
08-21-2012
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Arizona Republic
The debate over red-light cameras and whether they make intersections safer or more dangerous is intensifying in Arizona, as several Valley cities alter or eliminate their camera programs.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Autopsy report supports Arkansas police in ‘backseat suicide’ incident
08-21-2012
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Rawstory
An autopsy report released Monday backed up claims made by Arkansas police officers that an African-American man in custody shot himself in the head despite being handcuffed, according to the Associated Press.
“He was cuffed and placed into a poli
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News Link • Afghanistan
Rocket Fire Damages Plane Used by Joint Chiefs Chairman
08-21-2012
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New York Times
Insurgents hiding outside the heavily fortified Bagram Air Base fired a pair of rockets that damaged the parked C-17 transport plane used by Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, American and Afghan officials said.
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News Link • Energy
Court strikes down EPA rule on coal pollution
08-21-2012
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Reuters
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a key Obama administration rule to reduce harmful emissions from coal-burning power plants, sparking a rally in coal company shares and relief among utility firms.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. C
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News Link • Bailouts
Boehner Calls Opponents To TARP "Knuckledraggers"
08-21-2012
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People think of him as hawkish on the budget, on expenses, but he voted for TARP. He voted for the auto bailout, voted for two stimulus in '08, voted against the '09 -- February '09 President Obama stimulus. How does he explain those
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
UCLA Scientist Discovers Plate Tectonics on Mars?
08-21-2012
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arclein
Mars is at a primitive stage of plate tectonics. It gives us a glimpse of how the early Earth may have looked and may help us understand how plate tectonics began on Earth," said An Yin, a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciencesand the sole autho
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Amish Population Booming
08-21-2012
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arclein
Amish families are dispersed across 29 states " stretching from Montana to Florida " within 456 autonomous settlements, a sharp increase from the 179 settlements listed in the 1990 census. Analysts see no reason for this trend to slow and project the
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robert klein
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News Link • Military
"Rapid Progress": Controlling the Imperial Military With Drugs
08-21-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
With suicide rapidly becoming the leading cause of death among those assigned to carry out the Empire’s global mission of redemptive bloodshed, officially sanctioned drug use is reaching unprecedented levels. Notes the Los Angeles Times: "After two l
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News Link • Science
Truthiness
08-21-2012
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arclein
"We wanted to examine how the kinds of photos people see every day -- the ones that decorate newspaper or TV headlines, for example -- might produce "truthiness," said lead investigator Eryn J. Newman of Victoria University of Wellington, New Ze
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News Link • Climate Change
1.5 Million Years of Climate History Revealed
08-21-2012
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arclein
nfortunately, scientists trying to construct an accurate picture of how such changes caused past climatic shifts have been thwarted by the fact that the most readily available marine geological record of ice-ages - changes in the ratio of oxygen isot
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News Link • Energy
Once-Mighty Suntech Struggles to Survive
08-21-2012
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Martin LaMonica via TechnologyReview.com
The Chinese solar giant is in deep trouble, but even its collapse wouldn't be enough to stabilize a massively oversupplied market.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
“Bleed ‘Em, Plead ‘Em,” and Lie: The State of California versus Robert Adams
08-21-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The State of California, which gave us such outrages as the McMartin Case and the Kerns County prosecutions, claims to have learned its lesson, and the Sacramento Bee has solemnly assured iit no longer runs over the cliff when someone is accused of c
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News Link • Transportation
The Fastest Electric Motorcycle Is Also the Most Practical
08-21-2012
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Brammo Empulse R via WIRED.com
Riding the two motorcycles head-to-head on Ashland’s twisty, technical Green Springs Highway, it was the Triumph that had to work hard, using its extra power to keep up.
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News Link • Energy
Abundant Natural Gas and Oil Are Putting the Kibosh on Clean Energy
08-21-2012
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Peter Schwartz
Since the 1950s, the US has had a perverse approach to energy. In effect we have maximized demand by building bigger, hungrier cars, homes, and lifestyles and minimized supply by limiting oil drilling, coal mining, and nuclear development.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
In Wake of Recent Hacking, Apple Asks Canadian Users to Create Security Questions
08-21-2012
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Mat Honan via WIRED.com
Apple appears to be beefing up its security practices, at least for customers in Canada. According to iPhone Canada and numerous reports on Twitter " several from people reaching out to Wired
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Anti-Obama Film Drawing Big Crowds, Even in New York City
08-21-2012
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The Hollywood Reporter
An anti-Obama documentary will expand nationwide this weekend after doing notable business in select markets across the country -- including in liberally minded New York City.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
U.S. Funds Israel’s ‘Iron Dome,’ But Doesn’t (Quite) Know How It Works
08-21-2012
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
The top U.S. military officer’s plane got damaged in Afghanistan by insurgent rockets on Tuesday morning. It’s a reminder that the U.S. military’s defense against short-range rockets remains a work in progress.
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News Link • Police State
More on Brandon Raub Involuntarily Committed for First Amendment Speech on Facebook?
08-21-2012
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The Agitator
Law enforcement officials said they did not arrest Brandon Raub for his anti-government Facebook postings, even though they slapped handcuffs on him and forced him into a car before transporting him to a psychiatric hospital
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Darpa Looks to Make Cyberwar Routine With Secret ‘Plan X’
08-21-2012
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
The Pentagon’s top research arm is unveiling a new, classified cyberwarfare project. But it’s not about building the next Stuxnet. The just-introduced “Plan X” is designed to make online strikes a more routine part of U.S. military operations.
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U.S. launches test of Wi-Fi to prevent car accidents
08-21-2012
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The RawStory.com
A US government-funded program on Tuesday launched a test of Wi-Fi technology to help reduce road accidents.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Apple-Samsung smartphone clash heads to jury
08-21-2012
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The RawStory.com
The mammoth Apple-Samsung patent trial moved to the jury Tuesday, setting the stage for a verdict that could have huge implications for the hot market in smartphones and tablet computers.
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News Link • Environment
Why doom has not materialized
08-21-2012
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The Washington Post
Back in 1972, we were warned 'The End is Nigh' and mankind will be extinct soon due to humans using too many resources. We were supposed to be pretty much extinct by now, or at least miserable. We are neither. So, what went wrong?
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News Link • Military
Top U.S. general blasts ex-officers for attacking Obama
08-21-2012
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The RawStory.com
US military chief General Martin Dempsey denounced ex-officers Tuesday for waging a campaign against President Barack Obama, arguing that soldiers had a duty to stay above the political fray.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Technical glitch delays 9/11 hearing at Guantanamo
08-21-2012
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The RawStory.com
The next court appearance of five men charged over the 9/11 attacks has been delayed until Thursday due to an Internet outage, the presiding judge said Tuesday.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
California district teaches students to ‘get plenty of rest’ to prevent STDs
08-21-2012
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Eric W. Dolan via The RawStory.com
A coalition of groups have brought a lawsuit against the Clovis Unified School District in California, claiming their abstinence-only sex education program violates state law.
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News Link • Police State
Government Documents Prove Domestic Drones Are For Spying On Americans
08-21-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A data dump of government documents secured via the Freedom of Information Act shows that the roll out of domestic unmanned drones will, for the most part, be focused solely on the mass surveillance of the American people.
The documents, from the
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News Link • Healthcare
Researchers Develop New Pain-Free Ways to Make Sure You Are Vaccinated
08-21-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Pharmaceutical corporations, the US government and researchers at state-sponsored universities are focused on more sophisticated ways of ensuring the general population worldwide succumbs to vaccinations now have a new option .
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hank Williams Jr. Says Obama ‘staged’ Sikh shooting
08-21-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Sean Michaels
Hank Williams Jr has become the second musician in as many weeks to accuse Barack Obama of plotting to destroy the United States.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Who Does the Government Intend To Shoot?
08-21-2012
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by Major General Jerry Curry
The Social Security Administration (SSA) confirms that it is purchasing 174 thousand rounds of hollow point bullets to be delivered to 41 locations in major cities across the U.S.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Amerika’s Future Is Death
08-21-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Paul Craig Roberts
According to the presstitutes, Americans have to find some explanation for their frustrations and failings, so Americans shift the blame to the Bilderbergers, the Rothschilds, the New World Order and so forth and so on.
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News Link • NeoCons
The Truth About Neoconservatism
08-21-2012
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, by Ron Paul
The modern-day, limited-government movement has been co-opted. The conservatives have failed in their effort to shrink the size of government. There has not been, nor will there soon be, a conservative revolution in Washington.
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News Link • Self-Defense
65-Year-Old Woman With a Gun Chases Off 5 Armed Robbers
08-21-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, End of the American Dream
In Garden Grove, California the other day, a 65-year-old woman with a gun chased 5 armed criminals out of her jewelry store. The video of this amazing incident (posted below) is quite funny, but it also demonstrates a very serious point.
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News Link • Israel
Netanyahu ‘Determined to Attack Iran Before US Vote’
08-21-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Israeli Analyst 'Doubts' Anything Could Change His Mind
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News Link • Anonymous
'Operation Free Assange': Anonymous take down UK government websites
08-21-2012
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http://rt.com,
Several British governmental websites, including the Ministry of Justice, have been attacked by hacktivists in retaliation for Britain’s handling of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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News Link • General Opinion
Listen to radios? Watch TVs? Not for Class of '16
08-21-2012
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http://www.cbsnews.com, AP
Remember when suitcases had to be carried instead of rolled? Or when an airline ticket was a booklet of pages separated by carbon paper? Maybe you remember when Lou Gehrig held the Major League record for consecutive baseball games played.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Army Sends Mobile 3-D Printing Labs to Afghanistan For On-Demand Gear
08-21-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
3-D printing has yielded items both fascinating and potentially troubling. Now we can add one more to the list of printed achievements...
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News Link • Battery Project
The Most Useful Testing Equipment For DIY Projects
08-21-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Vin Marshall
Although I can accomplish a surprising amount with just a hammer, I can’t complete any of my mechanical or electronics projects without being able to reliably quantify things like length and voltage. Here are the gadgets I use in my shop the most.
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News Link • Police State
"This Isn't America" -- You Can't Say That Here - Will Grigg
08-21-2012
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freedominourtime.blogspot.com
challenge the government’s official version of events by asking impertinent questions and face the prospect of “protective custody.” Berlin circa 1933, this was called schutzhaft. In the contemporary American Reich it is called “emergency custody.”
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News Link • Activism
Kidnapped Marine vet Brandon Raub speaks out from psych ward
08-21-2012
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www.youtube.com
Video and Commentary by Adam Kokesh
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Opinion • r3VOLution Continues
Ray McGovern: My Take
Pussy Riot’s Appeal for Justice
08-21-2012
Ray McGovern
A Russian judge has sentenced three female “punk” rockers from the group “Pussy Riot” to two years in prison for performing a protest song at a Moscow cathedral, what the judge called anti-religious “hooliganism.”
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
New Webpage for Marc Victor for U.S. Senate - Arizona - Libertarian
08-21-2012
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www.victorforsenate.com
I have used my position as a criminal defense attorney to promote freedom to many different actors in the justice system. I used my appointment as a Superior Court Judge Pro Tem to make a stand for freedom. My law firm has accepted many clients and c
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Opinion • Police State
My Day In Court
Click It Or Ticket
08-21-2012
Mike Wasdin
This is a follow up to my last article titled 'My Day In Court' that was about another police state 'safety minded' program that is known as photo radar enforcement. That too is all about public safety and something that is for our best interest...th
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Los Angeles police beat a boy for skateboarding on the wrong side of the street (VIDEO)
08-21-2012
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http://rt.com
A young man was brutally pinned down and beaten by Los Angeles police for skateboarding on the wrong side of the road, leaving him with a broken nose, a broken cheekbone and a concussion.
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