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Date Sent: 2014-03-04
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, March 4, 2014 |
Evidence of Concealed Jailhouse Deal Raises Questions About a Texas Execution
U.S. Drug Cases Getting Rehabbed After Supreme Court Decision -- Narco-Villain “El Chapo’s” Arrest Packaged for Media Consumption -- Forget the NSA, the LAPD Spies on Millions of Innocent Folks -- Criminal justice major arrested for sitting at bus stop filming police, called ‘Nigerian nightmare’ -- Marissa Alexander's sentence could triple in 'warning-shot' case -- Oregon vaccination rate may increase as result of new law, health officials say -- Lawsuit: Sprint charged US gov’t $21 million too much for spying on us -- Chief Mark McBride: The Crime Lord of Idaho Falls - by William Grigg -- Police hid use of cell phone tracking device from judge because of NDA -- The Kaley Forfeiture Decision: What It Looks Like When The Feds Make Their Ham Sandwich -- Student Loans Are Ruining Your Life. Now They’re Ruining the Economy Too -- Obama’s Strategy Of Fomenting Revolution In Ukraine Is Backfiring Dramatically -- Common Core: How Career Training Has Replaced Public Education -- Washington’s Arrogance, Hubris, and Evil Have Set the Stage for War -- Russia And China Stand In Agreement On Ukraine -- REVEALED: IMF, Ukraine & the Profitability of Manufactured Revolutions -- Obama Killing Whales for Oil Companies (Video) -- Obama Silent on Russian Spy Vessel in Cuba -- Former CIA Agent: Back to Afghanistan? - by Michael Scheuer -- A Neighborhood Strikes Back -- New Disturbing Details of Yemeni Wedding Hit by U.S. Drone -- Ukrainian Neo-Nazis Mobilize for War
AZ: PrepperFestAZ - March 21-23, 2014
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge accuses woman with Down syndrome of not acting like a victim in rape trial
02-28-2014
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Rawstory
A Georgia Court of Appeals judge is being criticized for ordering a new trial for a man convicted of raping a woman with Down syndrome. According to his ruling, Judge Christopher McFadden claimed that a new trial was necessary because the unnamed vic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Evidence of Concealed Jailhouse Deal Raises Questions About a Texas Execution
03-03-2014
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New York Times
Newly discovered evidence the prosecutor in the case concealed a deal with a jailhouse informant whose testimony was a key part of the execution decision. The battle to clear Mr. Willingham’s name offers evidence an innocent man was executed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
U.S. Drug Cases Getting Rehabbed After Supreme Court Decision
03-03-2014
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ABC News
A week before actor Philip Seymour Hoffman overdosed on a mix of heroin, cocaine and other drugs, the Supreme Court restrained what one top prosecutor called "the strongest tool" federal authorities have to go after dealers
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Narco-Villain “El Chapo’s” Arrest Packaged for Media Consumption
03-03-2014
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“Chapo [Guzman] was protected by Mexican federal agents and military, by the Mexican government,” Berrellez told Narco News. “He was making [Mexican President Enrique] Peña Nieto look bad, and so the government decided to withdraw his
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Forget the NSA, the LAPD Spies on Millions of Innocent Folks
03-03-2014
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Information on the identity and movements of millions of Southern California residents is being collected and tracked. In fact, Los Angeles is emerging as a major laboratory for testing and scaling up new police surveillance technologies.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Criminal justice major arrested for sitting at bus stop filming police, called ‘Nigerian nightmare’
03-03-2014
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Rawstory
A criminal justice student at the University of Texas at San Antonio was arrested while sitting at bus stop and filming police officers operating a speed trap ‘This is where our funding is going, straight into hard police work.’
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Marissa Alexander's sentence could triple in 'warning-shot' case
03-03-2014
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A Jacksonville woman whose case generated outrage when she was sentenced to 20 years in prison may end up behind bars for 60 years for the same crime. The State Attorney Angela Corey will seek to put Marissa Alexander in prison for 60 years,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Oregon vaccination rate may increase as result of new law, health officials say
03-03-2014
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Oregon leads the nation in the percentage of kids entering kindergarten with non-medical waivers for one or more vaccinations. State health officials hope a law changes that by forcing parents to get the facts before opting out.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Lawsuit: Sprint charged US gov’t $21 million too much for spying on us
03-03-2014
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ars technica
The US government today filed suit against Sprint, alleging that the company overcharged government agencies when submitting expense reimbursement requests for wiretap operations that spied on Sprint customers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Chief Mark McBride: The Crime Lord of Idaho Falls
03-03-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
“I don’t know why there would be [one],” replied Idaho Falls Police Chief Mark McBride when asked if his department would apologize to the Madrigals. “Just because a person is found not guilty doesn’t mean the officers were wrong.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police hid use of cell phone tracking device from judge because of NDA
03-03-2014
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ars technica
A police department in Florida failed to tell judges about its use of a cell phone tracking tool "because the department got the device on loan and promised the manufacturer to keep it all under wraps," the American Civil Liberties Union said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
The Kaley Forfeiture Decision: What It Looks Like When The Feds Make Their Ham Sandwich
03-03-2014
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Popehat
The question presented was not whether assets can be frozen before trial " it's old news that they can " or whether they can be frozen even if it deprives the defendant of the ability to pay counsel. The question presented was whether the defendant c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Student Loans Are Ruining Your Life. Now They’re Ruining the Economy Too
03-03-2014
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Time magazine
At the end of 2003, American students and graduates owed just $253 billion in aggregate debt; by the end of 2013, American students’ debt had ballooned to a total of $1.08 trillion, an increase of over 300%. In the past year alone,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama’s Strategy Of Fomenting Revolution In Ukraine Is Backfiring Dramatically
03-03-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
When the Obama administration was plotting to overthrow the democratically-elected government of Ukraine, what in the world did they expect to happen in the aftermath? Did they just expect Russia to roll over and play dead as the U.S. and the EU ins
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Common Core: How Career Training Has Replaced Public Education
03-03-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Last month in New York, the Common Core Learning Standards will leave some students behind because of the focus on passing tests and lack of direct education.
The working group of Board Regents (BR) state: “Educators whose jobs are threatened beca
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Chris Menke
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Washington’s Arrogance, Hubris, and Evil Have Set the Stage for War
03-03-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In some quarters public awareness is catching up with Stephen Lendman, Michel Chossudovsky, Rick Rozoff, myself and a few others in realizing the grave danger in the crisis that Washington has created in Ukraine.
The puppet politicians who Washing
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Chris Menke
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News Link • World News
Russia And China Stand In Agreement On Ukraine " And That Is Very Bad News For The United States
03-03-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
So much for “isolating” Russia. The Chinese government is publicly siding with Russia on the crisis in Ukraine, and that is very bad news for the United States. Not only does it mean that the U.S. is essentially powerless to do anything about the s
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Chris Menke
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News Link • WAR: About that War
REVEALED: IMF, Ukraine & the Profitability of Manufactured Revolutions
03-03-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Whether the government of Ukraine asked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to assess their needs for money, or Christine Lagarde, acting director of the IMF simply felt it was a good sound investment, there are now talks of indebting this regi
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Environment
Obama Killing Whales for Oil Companies (Video)
03-03-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Could whales be driven to extinction by a new order from the Obama Administration? Environmentalists say the administration may have sold out the species to oil company interests. Only 500 of the highly-intelligent, social mammals are known to exist
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Cuba
Obama Silent on Russian Spy Vessel in Cuba
02-28-2014
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Next News Network
HAVANA | Is Vladimir Putin invoking Nikita Khrushchev? In 1963, during the heart of the cold war a stand off between Russia and the US had both nations on the brink of Thermo-nuclear war. Those 13 days in world history came to be known as the Cuban M
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US Army tests real life Iron Man suit
02-28-2014
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Next News Network
Straight out of science fiction and off the silver screen - the U.S. Army has nearly completed construction of a new type of wearable armor. Based off the comic book hero Iron Man - The Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS, will be ready fo
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Afghanistan
Former CIA Agent: Back to Afghanistan? - Michael Scheuer
02-28-2014
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Next News Network
NATION | As the war in Afghanistan drags on to its 13th year, Americans are becoming increasingly tired of the conflict. The Founding Fathers knew America, like all nations, would be forced to fight wars. A process to declare war is written into the
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Chilling Effects of Comcast Time Warner Merger
02-28-2014
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Next News Network
WASHINGTON DC | The merger between Comcast and Time-Warner cable is a concern to many independent cable providers and others. Critics of the merger, like our guest today believe the purchase will create a monopoly that will dominate the marketplace.
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Surveillance
A Neighborhood Strikes Back
03-03-2014
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Xander BloodWillow.com
Squeezing blood out of a stone might be easier than getting answers from government agencies and energy oligarchs. Stonewalling, misinformation, and ‘lack of jurisdiction’ has left a neighborhood grasping at straws for answers as to why a camera was
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Xander Holman
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News Link • Drones
New Disturbing Details of Yemeni Wedding Hit by U.S. Drone
03-02-2014
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Joe Wolverton, II, J.D., New American
A new report on the December 12 U.S. drone strike that killed 12 guests at a Yemeni wedding calls on President Obama to come clean on the standards it uses to decide who lives and who dies and when drones are an appropriate weapon in the so-called “W
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Archaeology
Turin Shroud and Neutron Bombardment
03-03-2014
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arclein
Last year scientists at the University of Padua in northern Italy dated it to between 300BC and AD400 " still hundreds of years after Christ, who is believed to have died between 30-36AD.
[ this writer has no clue - arclein]
Other scientists have p
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Design Protocol Underlying Chinese Herbal Madicine
03-03-2014
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arclein
But that’s not all. Chinese herbal medicine also utilizes a slightly less mind-numbing 300 different minerals, insects, sea-creatures, and animal extracts. Cinnabar (ore of mercury), silkworm, seahorse, and rhinoceros horn, are some examples.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Physicists Finally Made The Magnetic Monopole
03-03-2014
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arclein
At this temperature, the atoms are almost stationary, and weird quantum effects start to happen. The atoms begin acting very strange and form a new kind of matter " different from the solids, liquids, and gasses we are used to.
The researchers the
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
The Dairy Paradox
03-03-2014
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arclein
In current US guidelines, the need for high intake of dairy products is overstated, in part because the requirements for calcium have been overstated. I think one or two servings a day (about 250 to 500 grams of milk) will provide adequate calcium, a
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robert klein
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News Link • Media: Internet
2014-03-03-FPPRadioNews
03-03-2014
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FPPRadio
John Kerry threatens Russia :: Terrorist attack in Chinese train station leaves 33 dead, 149 wounded :: The NSA can't kill cloud computing
http://soundcloud.com/fpp-cc/2014-03-03-fppradionews
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Darryl W. Perry
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Reference Link • Activism
Snipers On the Roof
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The super elite are handling protesters in a much more deadly manner. This article details the murdering of protesters around the world. It may surprise you that these same tactics are now part of US Military/Government policy. Read more here ...
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News Link • World News
The Road to War
03-01-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The surging crisis in Ukraine is a dramatic example of how wars begin. Take arrogance, toxic nationalism, tribalism, moral outrage and profound miscalculation, mix thoroughly, and, voilà !, another great leap forward in the march of human folly.
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News Link • Constitution
How a C-grade college term paper led to a constitutional amendment
03-01-2014
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The 27th Amendment is the most recent amendment to the Constitution, and its existence today can be traced to a college student who proposed the idea in a term paper and was given a C by his professor for the idea.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Ukraine says Russia has sent in troops, Obama appeals to Putin
03-01-2014
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Reuters
Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of sending thousands of additional troops to the southern Crimea region, which has a majority ethnic Russian population, and said it had placed its military in the region on high alert.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed may need to let inflation run hot to meet goals: Evans
03-01-2014
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Reuters
The Federal Reserve should be willing to let inflation temporarily run above its target level so as to more quickly bring the economy back to health, a top Fed official said on Friday, even as a second policymaker signaled the very idea left him cold
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News Link • Obama Administration
Biden reaffirms U.S. support for Ukraine's new government
03-01-2014
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Friday reaffirmed his country's "strong" support for Ukraine's new government. Biden also reiterated U.S. commitment to the sovereignty, territorial integrity and democratic future of Ukraine, according to
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News Link • Obama Administration
Georgia pledges reforms ahead of Biden visit
03-01-2014
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Reuters
Biden arrives in Georgia from Ukraine, a trip U.S. officials say is aimed at reassuring the U.S. allies they have not been abandoned in Washington's efforts to "reset" ties with Russia. He will also call for reforms in Georgia.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Ninth Circuit Rules School Can Ban Tee-Shirts With American Flag During Cinco De Mayo
03-01-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Judge M. Margaret McKeown ruled that the first amendment had to give way to the deference afforded to school officials. She began the opinion by emphasizing the reasonable concerns of the school:
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News Link • Immigration
Woman denied citizenship because objection to war based on secular, not religious, values
03-01-2014
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Rawstory
Adriana Ramirez claimed she objected to the pledge to bear arms due to her sincerely held moral convictions, but her conscientious objector status was rejected because it was not based on religious belief.
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News Link • Surveillance
Tor develops its own anonymous IM tool to hide chat from spying eyes
02-28-2014
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ars technica
The Tor Foundation is moving forward with a plan to provide its own instant messaging service. Called the Tor Instant Messaging Bundle, the tool will allow people to communicate in real time while preserving anonymity by using chat servers concealed
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama warns Russia of 'costs' for any military intervention in Ukraine
02-28-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
President Obama bluntly warned Russia that it will face international condemnation as well as unspecified "costs" for any military intervention in neighboring Ukraine. A senior US official said Washington could boycott a major international summit
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 2, 2014 Edition
02-28-2014
John Semmens
Senate Democrats Reject Limits on IRS Intimidation of Political Speech
In the midst of the Obama Administration's efforts to “reform” IRS regulations, the Senate Democratic majority rejected language proposed by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that wou
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News Link • World News
Coup Government in Kyiv Demands U.S., Britain Mount Military Response in Crimea
02-28-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
The new government of Ukraine, installed after a violent coup last week and headed up by former central banker Arseniy Yatsenyuk, is calling on the United States and Britain to intervene militarily after unidentified armed men seized government build
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
TSA Detains Libertarian Blogger After ‘Seeing Bitcoin’ In His Bag
02-28-2014
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Prison Planet
Isolated idiocy or something more sinister?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Schools All Over America Still Lock Children in ‘Cells’ Called Scream Rooms
02-28-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Chris Carrington
Yesterday Dr Keith Ablow published an article called ‘Scream rooms’ in schools are psychological sadism.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
WHERE IS OUR MONEY: $473 Million In Bitcoins Vaporized As Mt. Gox Exchange Files Bankruptcy
02-28-2014
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shtfplan.com
Due to inherent problems within the exchange mechanism used to trade the Bitcoin crypto-currency, the Mt. Gox exchange has closed up shop and filed for bankruptcy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Price "Manipulated For A Decade", Repeatedly Slammed Lower, Bloomberg Reports
02-28-2014
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zerohedge.com
While the FT promptly retracted an article on precisely the topic of gold manipulation from earlier this week (recorded for posterity here), Bloomberg appears to not have had the same "editorial" concerns and pressures....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Ukraine Imposes Capital Controls, Limits Foreign Currency Withdrawals
02-28-2014
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zerohedge.com
Yesterday we reported that as part of the Ukrainian central bank's plan to bailout the nation's largely insolvent private banks, it would provide any needed funding but only "if they will remain under open control of the National Bank of Ukraine."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
L.A. Residents Launch Offensive Against Parking Tickets
02-27-2014
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Next News Network
It happens to the best of us, you park your car on a busy city street to grab a bite to eat or run your errands - you drop a few quarters in the meter, check your watch, look out for the meter maid, and then cross your fingers. When you return to you
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News Link • Corruption
King City Cops Busted in Impound Scam
02-27-2014
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Next News Network
KING CITY | Four current and former police officers have been arrested, charged with running a scheme to illegally impound cars. The plan primarily targeted Latinos, living in the small farm town of King City, California. Among those arrested are int
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