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Date Sent: 2013-03-24
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, March 24, 2013 |
Cyprus weighs BIG bank robbery -- FEMA Preparing Police for 'Domestic War'
Bitcoin Alert: The US Treasury Announces Money-Laundering Rules Apply to "Virtual Currencies" -- CP Candidate Using CAFR's to End Taxation as Nevada Governor in 2014 --
Ballot Access in Tennessee -- Cyprus Seeks 11th Hour Deal - by Stephen Lendman -- Grand
Betrayal -- Payday Loans: Modern Day Usury -- Northern Virginia
officials worry secret CIA facility could scuttle hopes for landing FBI
HQ -- Police: Boris Berezovsky, self-exiled Russian tycoon and Putin
rival, found dead in England -- Parwan prison to be turned to Afghans,
removing obstacle to long-term security agreement -- A decade after Iraq invasion, America’s voice in Baghdad
has gone from a boom to a whimper -- Obama’s “No Fly” List for FedEx and
UPS - by Wendy McElroy -- Highly illogical: IRS training video that parodies ‘Star Trek’
apparently lacks training value -- Veteran pleads not guilty to 1st SAFE
Act violation -- Police from Hialeah, “City of Progress,” Stealing
Cameras from Citizens -- Gun
Rights Activists Not Welcome in Coatesville -- High Noon in Cyprus -- Skipping the Water in Fracking -- Arizona
Senate OKs Bill Rejecting UN Declaration on Environment -- US soldiers sue over Fukushima
radiation exposure -- Major terror attack averted from Delhi -- Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone' -- Bitcoin: the
fastest growing currency in the world - video -- New Xbox Reportedly
Won’t Let You Play (Unless It Can Spy On You) -- TSA to Ask Public
About Naked-Image Scanners, Pat-Downs -- Obama presses
Congress to vote on gun-control measures -- The 22-Year Bush War of
Aggression on Iraq
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News Link • European Union
Cyprus weighs big bank levy
03-23-2013
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Reuters
Cyprus conceded to a one-off 20% levy on deposits over 100,000 euros in a dramatic U-turn as it raced to satisfy European partners and seal an 11th-hour bailout deal to avert financial collapse.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
FEMA Preparing Police for ‘Domestic War’
03-23-2013
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Prison Planet
On FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness site, a listing for Program J, known as “Field Force Operations,” details how DHS has been training state and local law enforcement “to prepare for and successfully mitigate threat incidents....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
The Cyp-Riots Begin " Live Stream
03-21-2013
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Prison Planet
Local TV station CYBC reports that police in the Cyprus’ capital are scuffling with protesters (including employees of Cyprus Popular Bank) outside the nation’s parliament:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
The US Treasury Announces Money-Laundering Rules Apply to "Virtual Currencies"
03-24-2013
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Economic Policy Journal
The U.S. is applying money-laundering rules to "virtual currencies," amid growing concern that new forms of cash bought on the Internet are being used to fund illicit activities. Issue or exchange of online cash will now be regulated
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • CAFRs - Your Government's Wealth Shown
CP Candidate Using CAFR's to End Taxation as Nevada Governor in 2014
03-24-2013
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nevadagovernor2014.com via Rense,com
"Governments use CAFRs to list their assets as “advanced liability funds” to dupe the public..." - AND he credits our own Walter Burien! Gotta love it.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Ballot Access in Tennessee
03/24/2013
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http://bluecollarmuse.com
Ballot access rules and laws for political parties and candidates impact your rights. In the United States, where two parities dominate, ballot access criteria are set on a state by state basis. With nine parties, New York has the most political pa
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Daniel Lewis
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Northern Virginia officials worry secret CIA facility could scuttle hopes for landing FBI HQ
03-23-2013
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Washington Post
In what has been an open secret in Virginia for years, elected officials say the CIA maintains a classified facility in what appears to be a warehouse on property owned by the General Services Administration, the federal government’s landlord
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Police: Boris Berezovsky, self-exiled Russian tycoon and Putin rival, found dead in England
03-23-2013
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Washington Post
Boris Berezovsky, a self-exiled and outspoken Russian tycoon who had a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead in southeast England on Saturday. He was 67.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Parwan prison to be turned to Afghans, removing obstacle to long-term security agreement
03-23-2013
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Washington Post
The text of the detainee agreement was not released. A senior defense official said Afghanistan will have full sovereign control of the facility, but “an Afghan-led process with an opportunity for U.S. input will determine the disposition of detainee
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
A decade after Iraq invasion, America’s voice in Baghdad has gone from a boom to a whimper
03-23-2013
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Washington Post
With no troops on the ground to project force and little money to throw around, the United States has become an increasingly powerless stakeholder in the new Iraq.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Obama’s “No Fly” List for FedEx and UPS
03-23-2013
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by Wendy McElroy (Future of Freedom Foundation)
The Obama administration is notorious for crony capitalism, through which big businesses reap huge riches by virtue of their cozy association with government. Big oil, big car companies, big agrobusinesses, big banks, and big drug corporations
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Highly illogical: IRS training video that parodies ‘Star Trek’ apparently lacks training value
03-23-2013
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Washington Post
Nobody’s going to win an Emmy for a parody of the TV show “Star Trek” filmed by Internal Revenue Service employees at an agency studio in Maryland.
Instead, the IRS got a rebuke from Congress for wasting taxpayer dollars.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Veteran pleads not guilty to 1st SAFE Act violation
03-23-2013
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“My son served two terms in Iraq and was wounded twice. He was a sergeant in the Marines. He’s a good man. He’ll do anything for anybody. What they’re doing to him is very unfair,” Dianne Wassell said.
Patrick Hurley, his father-in-law, said that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police from Hialeah, “City of Progress,” Stealing Cameras from Citizens
03-23-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The Hialeah Police Dept. has gone on a camera-grabbing, rights-squashing, charge-trumping rampage against citizens in recent weeks without any apparent fear of repercussions, proving to be one of the most power-abusing police
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
I'm Keeping the Lights on for Earth Hour
03-23-2013
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The Daily Bell
US News tells us that libertarians want to "keep the lights on" for the current Earth Hour. Earth Hour is a worldwide event organized by the World Wildlife Fund "encouraging households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Rights Activists Not Welcome in Coatesville
03-16-2013
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The International Libertarian
You know you're doing something right when the establishment press takes the time to lambaste you. That is what happened to the liberty-minded people standing up for gun rights at Coatesville, PA's gun buy.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
USAF Sergeant Charles L. Moody's Abduction Report
03-23-2013
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arclein
Within a few days, a rash broke out over his lower body. Upon the recommendation of a physician, he began to practice self-hypnosis in an effort to recall what had occurred during the lost time period. [ unsurprising as this was now understood as bes
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robert klein
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News Link • China
Fake Goods in China
03-23-2013
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arclein
Chongqing gave me my first taste of having Mandarin that, lo-and-behold, was better than a Chinese person’s. On my first night in the friendly town of Dazu I found a street corner with food stalls and in ordering up some of “what that guy is having,”
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
New Hockey Stick is Junk
03-23-2013
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arclein
Ten thousand years ago, most of Canada was covered with ice. This would have reflected most of the summer sunlight received there back into space, and would have had a huge cooling effect on the planet. The 1990 IPCC report correctly showed this, wit
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robert klein
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Game of Streams: HBO’s Schizophrenic Relationship With the Internet
03-23-2013
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Wired.com
Not content with being HBO’s biggest hit in quite some time, Game of Thrones won another arguably more dubious plaudit in 2012, when it was named the most pirated TV show of the year.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Senate OKs Bill Rejecting UN Declaration on Environment
03-23-2013
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Arizona Daily Star via HuffPo (ugh!) via Rense.com
This happened Wednesday, but I'm just finding out. Saw it on Rense which led me to the HuffPo hitpiece (asshats), then got the skinny from Daily Star.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Energy
Flow batteries could back up grid of the future
03-23-2013
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newscientist.com
The batteries' unique design could smooth out the power from renewables and help usher in the rise of more resilient microgrids
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News Link • TERRORISM
Major terror attack averted from Delhi
03-23-2013
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youtube
A possible terror strike in the national capital has been averted. Delhi police today detained two suspected terrorists from the Jama Masjid area in Old Delhi.
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News Link • Marriage
I Don't: 5 Myths About Marriage
03-23-2013
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livescience.com
Til death do us part? Marriage has lost some of its cachet as the defining institution of American life, but it's still going strong " and even expanding, opening up to same-sex couples in nine states and the District of Columbia.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Meet a One-Eyed, Six-Legged, Flying Whale Chaser
03-23-2013
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livescience.com
Low, slow and loud " counting marine life by plane has some drawbacks. Though scientists can cover wide swaths of ocean, engine noise may disturb animals and the surveys always present some risk to pilots and crew.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Comet, Not Asteroid, Killed Dinosaurs, Study Suggests
03-23-2013
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space.com
The rocky object that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago may have been a comet, rather than an asteroid, scientists say.
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News Link • Activism
Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone'
03-23-2013
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guardian.co.uk
Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most controversial thinkers. Now 84, he reflects on his life's work, on current events in Syria and Israel, and on the love of his life " his wife
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin: the fastest growing currency in the world - video
03-23-2013
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guardian.co.uk
Bitcoin is an unregulated, uncontrolled online currency " worth more than £500m, it's the world's fastest growing
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
New Xbox Reportedly Won’t Let You Play (Unless It Can Spy On You)
03-23-2013
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Prison Planet
People throughout the world could soon be voluntarily outfitting their homes with indefinitely active cameras, infrared sensors and microphones if they purchase Microsoft’s new Xbox video game console, slated for release sometime next year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA to Ask Public About Naked-Image Scanners, Pat-Downs
03-23-2013
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Prison Planet
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration, under court order, will start a rulemaking process on its airport screening machines and full-body pat- downs, including collecting and analyzing public comments.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Meteor captured on camera in US
03-23-2013
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Prison Planet
A security camera above a car yard in Seaford, Delaware, and another in Maryland captured footage of what appeared to be a meteor travelling across the skyline late on Friday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama presses Congress to vote on gun-control measures
03-23-2013
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Prison Planet
President Obama in his weekly address urged both chambers of Congress to hold a vote on a series of gun-control measures, including the controversial assault weapons ban and a limit on magazine sizes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
The 22-Year Bush War of Aggression on Iraq
03-23-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Several commentators have been observing the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, but really the U.S. government’s war on Iraq began over 22 years ago.
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Robert Lee
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 24, 2013 Edition
03-22-2013
John Semmens
Dem Says Aides Face Starvation Because of Sequester
A tearful Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla) blamed “heartless Republicans” for the “severe hardships” the sequester is imposing on members of her staff.
“Nearly half of my office
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Feature Article • Bitcoin
BITCOIN DRAWBACK CAN BE GREATEST STRENGTH
Thomas Costanzo
BITCOIN DRAWBACK CAN BE GREATEST STRENGTH
Some have said "There is never enough of BitCoins. True, BitCoins can be divided in ever smaller denominations, so 'physically' there will never be a shortage, but it means BitCoin is designed to appreciat
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News Link • Iraq
The US Embassy In Baghdad Cost A Staggering $750 Million [PHOTOS]
03-22-2013
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Business Insider
Ten years ago this week, Americans woke up to learn that the United States had invaded Iraq.
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News Link • European Union
Europe Is A Complete Disaster, And Its Luck May Have Just Run Out
03-22-2013
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Business Insider
The crisis in Cyprus is a good opportunity to take a step back and remind ourselves how incredibly broken the Eurozone remains.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Chief Tech Officer: Big Data Is The Future And We Own It
03-22-2013
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Business Insider
On Wednesday, the CIA's chief technology officer detailed the Agency's vision for collecting and analyzing all of the information people put on the Internet.
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News Link • Syria
Will The US Really Condemn Terrorism in Syria?
03-21-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
But this attack has been perpetrated by US allies in Syria, who have benefited recently from 3,000 tons of sophisticated weapons shipped in by the US government and paid for by paragons of religious tolerance such as Saudi Arabia.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Disarm Subjects and Make them Spy on Each Other: New York State's Totalitarian Formula
03-21-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
New York has established an anonymous tip line encouraging people to report suspected “illegal gun owners” for a $500 reward. Every totalitarian police state requires the disarmament of its subjects, and encourages spying on each other.
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Lew Rockwell: Sink the Banks! (VIDEO)
03-21-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Thousands of Cypriots are celebrating, after the country's Parliament gave a resounding no vote to the EU-IMF bailout package. The move could have seen the government take up to 10% of people's savings, from private bank accounts
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
The FBI's anticipatory prosecution of Muslims to criminalize speech
03-21-2013
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by Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian)
Over the past decade, US Muslims have been routinely targeted with precisely this same tactic of preemptive or anticipatory prosecution. Designed to take people engaged in political and religious advocacy which the US government dislikes
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News Link • Free Speech
EXCLUSIVE: Aust Gov’t bans political comment on Twitter
03-21-2013
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RIP Freedom of Speech, Australia, 2013. A little known policy slips quietly under the radar as our friends at Twitter announce they will censor tweets, if a country’s government requests them to do so. A year later, Australia becomes the first
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Detroit Prosecutor Pulls Prosecutors Out Of Hundreds of Cases to Save Money
03-21-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has pulled prosecutors out of all traffic court and domestic violence cases after her office laid off 22 prosecutors due to budget cuts. Now, with Detroit cutting its police force to a dangerous level, the chances o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Stop CISPA: A Week of Action to Oppose Broad Cybersecurity Legislation
03-21-2013
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eff.org
A coalition of Internet advocacy organizations and individuals are launching a week of action to combat the CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Huge Drop in Workers at City-Sized US Embassy in Baghdad
03-21-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Cost-Cutting to See 10,000 Withdraw This Year
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