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Date Sent: 2013-05-28
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, May 28, 2013 |
The New Farm Bill is an Economic Disaster -- E.U. to allow arms embargo for Syrian rebels to lapse
Confidential report lists U.S. weapons system designs compromised by Chinese cyberspies -- Powerhouse of the Uranium Enrichment Industry Seeks an Exit -- Award-winning Virginia teacher: ‘I can no longer cooperate’ with testing regime --
Maryland’s prison system struggles to control thousands of guards and
inmates -- Ban GMOs Worldwide or become Genetically Engineered -- Houston police shut down Kanye West's
screening for racially-charged music video New Slaves -- Oh, by the Way, to all R3VOL here? Y'all are CRAZY! -- Oathkeepers statement on the July 4th march -- Sheriff's plan
to put Feds back in their place -- Raw Milk Acquittal: A Victory for
Freedom -- Ron Paul Video: Voice Of A Veteran -- OX: the flat-pack truck
designed for developing nations -- 05-27-13
-- Adam Kokesh - James Babb - N.A. Poe (MP3 & VIDEO
LOADED) -- Hemp Farming Seriously Begins -- Molecular
Catalyst for Alzheimer's -- Skagit Bridge Collapse -- As
Towns Say No, Signs of Rising Resistance to Smart Meters --
Zilmax: Performance
Enhancing Drug of the Beef Industry -- Battery Swapping Company Going Bankrupt -- Monsanto
hires infamous mercenary firm Blackwater to track activists around
the world
AZ: Fundraiser raffle for Steve Porak's Cancer Treatment -
36" Ferret .50 BMG on an Olympic AR-15 Lower Receiver
Free Adam Kokesh Legal Fund - Shield Mutual - George Donnelly
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News Link • Agriculture
The New Farm Bill is an Economic Disaster
05-27-2013
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Common Dreams
Just when you think Congress can't get any dumber, it crafts a $1tn farm bill that harms the poor and promotes unhealthy food
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
E.U. to allow arms embargo for Syrian rebels to lapse
05-27-2013
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Washington Post
The Obama administration’s go-slow policy on Syria came under renewed pressure as European leaders opted to remove a legal hurdle that had blocked arms flows to rebel groups, while a top Republican critic swooped into Syria to dramatize
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Confidential report lists U.S. weapons system designs compromised by Chinese cyberspies
05-27-2013
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Washington Post
Designs for many of the nation’s most sensitive advanced weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers, according to a report prepared for the Pentagon and to officials from government and the defense industry.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Powerhouse of the Uranium Enrichment Industry Seeks an Exit
05-27-2013
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New York Times
The company that operates this uranium enrichment center, Urenco, is the world leader in the field. It is also plumply profitable. So why are its owners eager to sell it?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Award-winning Virginia teacher: ‘I can no longer cooperate’ with testing regime
05-27-2013
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Washington Post
Ron Maggiano is a social studies teacher who won the Disney Teacher Award for innovation and creativity, and in 2006, he won the American Historical Association’s Beveridge Family Teaching Prize for outstanding K-12 teaching.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Maryland’s prison system struggles to control thousands of guards and inmates
05-27-2013
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Washington Post
She could have been fired years ago for allegedly letting gang members stage a brutal attack on an inmate in his cell. Instead, corrections officer Antonia Allison was allowed to resign from her job and then return 9 months later,
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israeli Motorists Shocked When Nazi Flag Seen Flying Near Palestinian Mosque
05-27-2013
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The Blaze
Israeli settlers on their morning commute got quite the eyeful Monday morning when they saw a swastika-emblazoned red flag flying near a mosque in Beit Omar, a Palestinian village outside of Hebron.
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Ban GMOs Worldwide or become Genetically Engineered
05-27-2013
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Farm Wars
How would you like to wake up and find that your dinner caused a life-threatening reaction because of a drug that made its way into your organic corn?
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Bring Jordan Page to Freedom Fest Fundraiser
05-27-2013
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The Local Voluntary
I'm organizing this effort to raise $1200 to bring Jordan Page to the Freedom Fest, the weekend of June 14th-16th.
http://www.localvoluntary.com/2013/05/bring-jordan-page-to-az-freedom-fest/
Also, Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/
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Michael Baysek
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News Link • Police State
Houston police shut down Kanye West's screening for racially-charged music video New Slaves
05-27-2013
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dailymail.co.uk
The outlet described the crowd as 'upbeat' and 'respectful' before authorities intervened.Some fans reportedly thought police presence was part of the show as cop cars pulled up with sirens flashing.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Oh, by the Way, to all R3VOL here? Y'all are CRAZY!
05-27-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo.
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News Link • Activism
Oathkeepers statement on the July 4th march.
05-27-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Armed march by Adam Kokesh from the Oathkeepers board of directors ~
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Robert Lee
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News Link • States' Rights
Sheriff's plan to put Feds back in their place
05-27-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Sheriffs and peace officers from across the country will be meeting with likeminded supporters for a national convention focused on one goal: restoring constitutional rule in the United States of America.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Ron Paul Video: Voice Of A Veteran
05-27-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Approximately 18 Veterans are committing suicide every day..Bring Them Home Now!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
OX: the flat-pack truck designed for developing nations
05-27-2013
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gizmag.com
OX is a lightweight, high-payload truck invented by toymaker, adventurer, and philanthropist Sir Torquil Norman with the aim of providing a simple, robust and cost-effective work-horse in developing nations.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Satellite captures amazing 6,000-mile-long panorama from orbit
05-27-2013
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gizmag.com
NASA has captured the world's largest panoramic photo showing a swath of land 6,000 miles long and 120 miles wide using a satellite orbiting 438 miles (705 km) above the Earth.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Outdoor Recreation
Together at last " an RC car and a quadcopter
05-27-2013
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gizmag.com
Quadcopters are becoming more and more popular with radio-controlled model enthusiasts, but sometimes ... sometimes you still just want to remotely-control a car.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Inventions
FYI: When Did People Start Inventing Things In The Garage?
05-27-2013
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popsci.com
The modern garage first appeared in the 1920s, and inventors"of automobile parts, among other things"began to occupy them almost immediately.
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News Link • Drones
Meet A Pet Drone That Follows You Like A Lost Puppy [Video]
05-27-2013
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popsci.com
This autonomous flying servant can track and record you from the sky.
Drones can't fetch a taco for you, but they can lift cameras into the sky and return impressive aerial video and photography.
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News Link • Transportation
Soldiers Charge Their Electric Vehicles
05-27-2013
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news.discovery.com
The Department of Defense plans to spend $20 million to increase the number of electric cars in use at six armed forces installations by up to a total 500 vehicles.
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Robert Lee
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
05-27-13 -- Adam Kokesh - James Babb - N.A. Poe (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
James Babb (WeWontFly.Com) provides insight as an attendee/observer at the Jury Nullification Smokedown Event - Adam Kokesh ( Adamvstheman.Com) on his recent arrest and what is next for the Armed March on Washington and the nation - N.A.Poe (The Pani
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Francis Kelsey and Thalidomide
05-27-2013
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arclein
You've probably never of her, but she may have saved your life. In the early 1960s, Kelsey - a doctor and research scientist with the FDA - saved thousands of babies from severe birth defects by stopping a big pharmaceutical company from marketing t
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News Link • Agriculture
Hemp Farming Seriously Begins
05-27-2013
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arclein
In April, Kentucky passed a measure to legalize industrial hemp production, over the objections of local law enforcement who said it would turn the state’s residents into a bunch of stoners. Kentucky farmers are a bit more cagey about plowing ahead
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Molecular Catalyst for Alzheimer's
05-27-2013
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arclein
Protein molecules are made in cellular ‘assembly lines’ that join together chemical building blocks called amino acids in an order encoded in our DNA. New proteins emerge as long, thin chains that normally need to be folded into compact and intricate
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News Link • Science
Skagit Bridge Collapse
05-27-2013
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arclein
"He looked in the mirrors and it just dropped out of sight," his wife, Cynthia Scott, told The Canadian Press on Friday. "I spoke to him seconds after it happened. He was just horrified.
"They're saying in the news that he plowed into the [br
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robert klein
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
As Towns Say No, Signs of Rising Resistance to Smart Meters
05-27-2013
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New York Times
In October, the City Council of this Central Texas town voted unanimously to purchase advanced electric meters, known as smart meters, for the city-owned electric utility. But some residents resisted, and the smart meter vote played a large role in l
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Reasons You Need Salt in the Prepper Pantry
05-27-2013
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wakeup-world.com
One of the very first things I did when I first started prepping was to bolster my pantry with basic staples that could be used for variety of purposes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Zilmax: Performance Enhancing Drug of the Beef Industry
05-27-2013
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wakeup-world.com
Some may say there’s something romantic about beef. “Black angus cattle” conjures up thoughts of tough cattle grazing on the open pastures in the rugged farmland of America’s heartland.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
No Better Place " Battery Swapping Company Going Bankrupt
05-27-2013
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cleantechnica.com
Better Place, the electric car network operator that aspired to transform the world’s car industry within a decade, is about to file for liquidation " an apparent victim of wanting to do too much, too soon, or just not doing it very well.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nanotechnology in sports equipment: The game changer
05-27-2013
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nanowerk.com
Innovations bring a maze of complexities to a sport, but elevate the performance level of an athlete and reduce the chances of injury, making sport more enjoyable for the spectators and the athletes.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish
05-27-2013
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ted.com
Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie's honeymoon he's enjoyed since
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News Link • Architecture
Mad Genius Buys Volcano, Transforms It Into Naked-Eye Observatory
05-27-2013
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Wired.com
Way out on the edge of the Painted Desert in Arizona, 70-year-old Californian artist James Turrell has spent the past three decades excavating a 389,000-year-old extinct volcano. Roden Crater, as it’s known, is Turrell’s magnum opus.
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News Link • Transportation
How Engineers Are Building a New Railroad Under New York City
05-27-2013
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Wired.com
The biggest public transit infrastructure effort in the US is almost completely invisible " unless you’re 160 feet underground.
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News Link • Activism
Monsanto hires infamous mercenary firm Blackwater to track activists around the world
05-27-2013
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naturalnews.com
Remember the private mercenary army Blackwater that caused such a stir in Iraq during an unprovoked attack in 2007?
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Ben Swann Reality Check: Connection Between IRS Management Lois Lerner & Cindy Thomas
05-25-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Reality Check Connection Between IRS management Lois Lerner & Cindy Thomas
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News Link • Agriculture
Monsanto gets Owned by 11 year old boy
05-25-2013
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Daily Paul.com
This is old but I never saw it! This kid is awesome.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Nomad Capitalist Radio: May 25, 2013
05-25-2013
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http://nomadcapitalist.com, By Andrew Henderson
" Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg makes his on-air debut to discuss the liberty topics of the day.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Officer Collier Shooting: “Rosebud” Moment of the Boston Bombing?
05-25-2013
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Daily Paul.com
One paragraph of this outstanding article. I highly encourage everyone to read the whole thing though:
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News Link • Mexican United States Relations
Two Border Villages Reunite For One Day
05-25-2013
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http://www.fronterasdesk.org, Lorne Matalon
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIO GRANDE " In the rural border areas of Texas, seven so-called ‘informal crossings’ were shut down following Sept. 11.
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News Link • Activism
Code Pink's Medea Benjamin Interrupts Obama's Speech With Poignant Questions;
05-25-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Quite an illustration. One person in the crowd shows the ability to think critically, and respond appropriately to a sociopath at a podium.
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News Link • False Flag Operations
British police arrest man after spy claim in soldier case
05-25-2013
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Reuters
British police were waiting and arrested a man under anti-terrorism laws at BBC headquarters after the interviewee said security services tried to recruit one of the two men arrested after a soldier was hacked to death in a London street.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What Detroit crisis? Pension fund trustees hang out in Hawaii
05-25-2013
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Reuters
The city of Detroit may be facing a deepening financial crisis but that hasn't stopped four trustees of its public pension funds from spending $22,000 of retirement system funds to attend a conference in Hawaii this week.
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News Link • TAXES: State
Kansas lawmaker opposes ‘encouraging the behavior of purchasing food’ with lower food taxes
05-25-2013
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Rawstory
A Republican state lawmaker in Kansas says that he opposes cutting the taxes on groceries because it would be a form of “social engineering” that encourages people to buy food over other items.
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News Link • Propaganda
Why Disinformation Works " Paul Craig Roberts
05-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Have you ever wondered how the government’s misinformation gains traction?
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A person can see this everywhere. I could write volumes illustrating how agenda-driven writers across the spectrum will support the most improbable government stories de
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Feature Article • Immigration
Checkpoint USA Interviewed By ABC News
Terry Bressi
For those who want a little more definitive feedback regarding the legality of refusing to answer questions at internal CBP/BP checkpoints while being seized & investigated by Federal agents absent suspicion, I've embedded a video of an interview wit
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Questionable Autopsy Determines David Silva Died of Heart Disease, not Deputy Beating
05-24-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The Kern County Coroner " who reports to the Sheriff - determined deputies did not cause the death of a 33-year-old man whom numerous witnesses said was beaten viciously with batons and kicked to the head before he was hogtied and slammed
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Saudi man investigated after Boston Marathon speaks out
05-24-2013
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Washington Post
Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi’s interview, which is worth hearing in full, sheds more light on the messy investigative aftermath of the attacks, which saw several men " many of African and Middle Eastern descent " wrongly accused
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News Link • China
Beijing Plans to Reduce the State’s Role in the Economy
05-24-2013
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New York Times
The Chinese government is planning for private businesses and market forces to play a larger role in its economy, in a major policy shift intended to improve the middle class and make China an even stronger competitor on the global stage.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 26, 2013 Edition
05-24-2013
John Semmens
Pelosi Absolves President in Spate of Scandals
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) sought to absolve President Obama from any blame in the burgeoning plume of scandals surrounding his Administration by forcefully asserting that “he doesn'
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News Link • Drug War
Illinois judge charged with heroin, gun possession
05-24-2013
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AP
A southwestern Illinois judge whose colleague died of a cocaine overdose while the two were on a hunting trip together has been charged with possession of heroin and guns.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
House Homeland Security Chair's: Obama Admin’s One Of Biggest Security Threats
05-24-2013
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The Blaze
"Many (threats) are coming out of the Middle East but one of the bigger threats I talk about is the narrative being spun out of this administration that the war against Al Qaeda and radical Islam is over," McCaul said. "After bin Laden was killed,
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona investigating angry email sent lawmakers
05-24-2013
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AP
Arizona's bitter debate over a signature part of President Obama's health care overhaul has sparked an investigation into lawmakers' safety after at least 9 legislators received a threatening email over Gov. Brewer's push to expand Medicaid access.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Police in Australia issue warning on 3-D printed gun
05-24-2013
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The Lookout
Despite the technical glitches, the NSW police force sees the printable gun as a potentially big problem, with Police Commissioner Scipione calling the Liberator "truly undetectable, untraceable, cheap and easy to make."
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News Link • Drug War
Colorado votes to Nullify Unconstitutional Hemp Farming Ban
05-24-2013
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Tenth Amendment Center
DENVER, Col. (May 6, 2013) " The Colorado state house today voted to approve SB13-241, a bill that would legalize the farming and production of “industrial hemp” within the state. If signed into law, the bill would effectively nullify the unconstitu
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News Link • Activism
Seeds Of Death " Full Movie
05-24-2013
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Farm Wars
March Against Monsanto Special! Gary Null releases his movie “Seeds Of Death” for free viewing for a limited time in honor of the march on May 25.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Drones
Obama drone oversight proposal prompts concern over 'kill courts'
05-24-2013
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guardian.co.uk
Human rights groups wary after president asks Congress to establish special court or board to authorise legal drone action
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