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Date Sent: 2014-06-26
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, June 25, 2014 |
Federal judge upholds constitutionality of warrantless surveillance in Oregon terrorism case
There's No Such Thing as 'NSA-Proof' Encryption -- New Orleans Nearly Finished Killing Off Its Public Schools -- Ninth Grade Girls Show Plants Will Not Grow Near Wi-Fi Routers -- Judge Who Sentenced Saddam Executed by ISIS -- FDA to Review Schedule 1 Status for Cannabis -- 06-25-14 -- Pete Eyre - Tim Frey - Bill Buppert -- LIVE FROM PORCFEST 2014 -- Operation Zero Footprint: The bombshell truth about Benghazi? -- IRS
pays $50K to anti-gay marriage group -- GOP pol pushes against D.C.
pot law -- How PayPal co-founder Max Levchin hopes to reinvent
online payments (again) -- Rupert Murdoch: Scotland Yard want
interview about crime at his UK papers -- How governments devise custom
"implants" to bug smartphones -- NASA melds vacuum tube tech with
silicon to fill the terahertz gap -- Attackers poison legitimate
apps to infect sensitive industrial control systems -- Seizing
data for 2.5 years amounts to "general warrant," court says --
Supreme Court smashes "do it on a computer" patents in 9-0 opinion
-- Facebook meme: Iraq War dollars could have ended world hunger for
30 years -- HP Labs' "Machine" dissolves the difference between disk
and memory -- The Soaring Profits of the Military-Industrial
Complex, The Soaring Costs of Military Casualties -- Looks like
someone's profiting from Snowden—European defense firms -- ISIS Runs
Ad Campaign Featuring Photo With John McCain -- Dick Cheney
Predicts Another 9/11 in This Decade -- Privacy Groups Sound
the Alarm Over FBI's Facial-Recognition Technology -- New 'America' Trailer Highlights
Government Abuse, Tragic Reddit Co-Founder's Death -- Dawn of bionic
age? Paralysed man becomes first to use power of thought to move
hand -- Senator Cochran defeats Tea Party rival in Mississippi
Republican runoff -- Syrian aircraft bomb Sunni militant targets
inside Iraq -- Bitcoin is MONEY, says Canada -- Montana loses
data on MORE PEOPLE THAN LIVE IN MONTANA -- In Iraq, former militia
program eyed for new fight
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Federal judge upholds constitutionality of warrantless surveillance in Oregon terrorism case
06-25-2014
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foxnews.com
federal judge has affirmed the legality of the U.S. government's bulk phone and email data collection of foreign nationals living outside the country " as well as contact with U.S. citizens " in denying a man's motion to dismiss his terrorism convic
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Ghana team at world cup demands $3 million to keep playing, gov't sends jet with physical cash
06-25-2014
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Bloomberg
Back at home, Mahama has taken steps to ensure that the broadcast of Black Stars games isn't disrupted by regular blackouts. He has asked the aluminum smelter to cut power usage during the World Cup to ensure that games can be shown live.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Animals and Pets
To Poison Feral Pigs, Feds Turn to ... Bacon Ingredient?
06-25-2014
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Newser Editors and Wire Services
Sodium nitrate is pretty poisonous to destructive, prolific porkers
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Study finds genetic links between schizophrenia and cannabis use
06-25-2014
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http://www.reuters.com, By Kate Kelland
Genes that increase the risk of a person developing schizophrenia may also increase the chance they will use cannabis, researchers said on Tuesday after studying more than 1,000 users of the drug.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
There's No Such Thing as 'NSA-Proof' Encryption
06-25-2014
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http://www.defenseone.com, Brendan Sasso
The world's largest Internet companies and thousands of average Internet users are trying to hide their private information from government snooping.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
New Orleans Nearly Finished Killing Off Its Public Schools
06-25-2014
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arclein
The sabotage of New Orleans public schools included the mass-firing of 7,000 teachers, most of them African-American, and subsequent hiring of disproportionately white and young teachers, some of them hailing from Teach for America, the Post reports.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Killer whales hunt the Great White
06-25-2014
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arclein
Scientists in Australia tagged a healthy 9-foot great white shark as part of program to track these animals. Four months later they found the tracking device washed up on a beach.Something"something really big"had eaten this apex predator. But what c
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Physicists Prove Surprising Rule of Three
06-25-2014
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arclein
More than 40 years after a Soviet nuclear physicist proposed an outlandish theory that trios of particles can arrange themselves in an infinite nesting-doll configuration, experimentalists have reported strong evidence that this bizarre state of matt
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ninth Grade Girls Show Plants Will Not Grow Near Wi-Fi Routers
06-25-2014
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arclein
It started with an observation and a question. The girls noticed that if they slept with their mobile phones near their heads at night, they often had difficulty concentrating at school the next day. They wanted to test the effect of a cellphone's ra
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robert klein
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Navigating the New Medical Marijuana Industry with Daniel Reid & Tammy Jacobi of Good Intentions
06-24-2014
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Next News Network
Good Intentions is a resource for those people who are new to the world of legal medical marijuana. The organization helps guide users through the paperwork and other procedures that may be needed to stay within the law.
As more states end prohib
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Iraq
Judge Who Sentenced Saddam Executed by ISIS
06-24-2014
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Next News Network
Raouf Abdul Rahman, the judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death, has been captured and executed by revolutionary forces in Iraq. Rahman was reportedly captured by the forces of ISIS on June 16th.
Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging in 2
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Drug War
FDA to Review Schedule 1 Status for Cannabis
06-24-2014
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Next News Network
The Food and Drug Administration will review the status of cannabis as a schedule 1 drug. A request for a review was filed with the agency by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The FDA still considers cannabis to have no medical benefit. Howeve
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Watch the Global Cyber War Live Right Here
06-25-2014
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defenseone.com
Well-organized hackers from China have been blamed for everything from crippling pro-democracy websites in Hong Kong to stealing corporate secrets from US companies in recent months.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Drones
California man uses surveillance drone to keep an eye on cops from above
06-25-2014
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RT.com
The Los Angeles Police Department is waiting for approval before it begins using a pair of recently acquired unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor events in Southern California, but a local man has already beaten them to the punch.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Conspiracies
Operation Zero Footprint: The bombshell truth about Benghazi?
06-25-2014
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allenbwest.com
The following was sent to me and in turn I will do my civic duty and widen its reach.
It is very detailed research and I will leave it to you to draw your own conclusion.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
IRS pays $50K to anti-gay marriage group
06-25-2014
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politico.com
The IRS will pay the National Organization for Marriage $50,000 to settle a lawsuit over claims the agency improperly disclosed confidential tax information, according to a consent judgment released this week.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
How PayPal co-founder Max Levchin hopes to reinvent online payments (again)
06-25-2014
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fortune.com
With his new company, Affirm, Levchin is taking on credit cards with a new formula for calculating risk.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Attackers poison legitimate apps to infect sensitive industrial control systems
06-25-2014
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arstechnica.com
Havex operators target mission-critical controllers around the world.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Seizing data for 2.5 years amounts to "general warrant," court says
06-25-2014
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arstechnica.com
Decision limits government powers to search seized computer data carte blanche.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court smashes "do it on a computer" patents in 9-0 opinion
06-25-2014
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arstechnica.com
Court declines to stop software patents altogether.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Facebook meme: Iraq War dollars could have ended world hunger for 30 years
06-25-2014
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Tampa Bay Times
A majority felt that the dollars spent on war would have helped a good deal, but the funds would still fall short of the goal. The claim uses the appearance of mathematical accuracy to support a bold vision of the future, but that does not make it mo
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Soaring Profits of the Military-Industrial Complex, The Soaring Costs of Military Casualties
06-24-2014
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James Petras, Eurasia Review
The launch of 2 major wars by the US had two major beneficiaries, one domestic and one foreign. The 3 major weapons manufacturers, Lockheed Martin (LMT), Northrop Grumman (NOG) and Raytheon (RTN) have delivered record-shattering returns to investors,
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Foreign Policy
ISIS Runs Ad Campaign Featuring Photo With John McCain
06-25-2014
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dcclothesline.com
The breathtaking lack of understanding of the jihad crosses party lines.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
Dick Cheney Predicts Another 9/11 in This Decade
06-25-2014
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nationalreview.com
When asked if the United States will "get through this decade without another massive attack on the homeland," former vice president Dick Cheney replied that he thinks something even worse than the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is coming.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Privacy Groups Sound the Alarm Over FBI's Facial-Recognition Technology
06-25-2014
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nationaljournal.com
Advocates are pushing Attorney General Eric Holder to assess the privacy impact of the FBI's controversial database that is expected to become fully operational later this year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
New 'America' Trailer Highlights Government Abuse, Tragic Reddit Co-Founder's Death
06-25-2014
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breitbart.com
Aaron Swartz wasn't a politician. He was a computer genius who co-founded Reddit and, later, drew the ire of the U.S. government with his pointed critiques.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Dawn of bionic age? Paralysed man becomes first to use power of thought to move hand
06-25-2014
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telegraph.co.uk
Ohio doctors insert microchip into Ian Burkhart's brain allowing him to move hand for first time since accident
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Tea Party
Senator Cochran defeats Tea Party rival in Mississippi Republican runoff
06-25-2014
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Reuters
Veteran U.S. Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi narrowly defeated challenger Chris McDaniel on Tuesday in a high-profile runoff election that pitted the Republican party's old guard against its anti-establishment Tea Party movement.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Syrian aircraft bomb Sunni militant targets inside Iraq
06-25-2014
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Washington Post
Syrian government aircraft bombed Sunni militant targets inside Iraq on Tuesday, further broadening the Middle Eastern crisis a day after Israeli warplanes and rockets struck targets inside Syria.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin is MONEY, says Canada
06-25-2014
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theregister.co.uk
Crypto-currency regulated same as a dollar
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
In Iraq, former militia program eyed for new fight
06-25-2014
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AP
They were known as the Sahwa, or the Awakening Councils " Sunni militiamen who took extraordinary risks to side with U.S. troops in the fight against al-Qaida during the Iraq War. Once heralded as a pivotal step in the defeat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Freak accident causes house to be hit by artillery
06-24-2014
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miamiok.com
In a bizarre accident, a rural Wyandotte home was damaged by an errant cannon round late Saturday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
E-Spliff: Dutch company develops world's first electronic joint
06-24-2014
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https://uk.news.yahoo.com, By Rishma Dosani
A Dutch company has invented the world's first electronic joint.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Colorado's Cannabis Consumption Conundrum
06-24-2014
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reason.com
For visitors to Denver, legally buying marijuana is easy, but legally smoking it is hard.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
US Special Counsel: VA Dismissed Whistleblowers
06-24-2014
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military.com
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel on Monday said that Department of Veterans Affairs' medical inspectors routinely dismissed whistleblower allegations of sloppy care that endangered patients at VA hospitals.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Feds Research Breeding Sheep With Lower Methane-Emitting Flatulence
06-24-2014
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http://dailycaller.com, Michael Bastasch
The U.S. government funded research into methane emissions from sheep digestive systems " flatulence and burps " to see why some sheep produce more of the greenhouse gas than others.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
A forthcoming film about Kelo v. City of New London
06-24-2014
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Washington Post
Today is the ninth anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London, the controversial Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that it was permissible for the government to take private property and give to another private owner in order to promote
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
City tells app to stop auctions of parking spaces
06-24-2014
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http://bigstory.ap.org, By TERRY COLLINS
San Francisco's city attorney issued a cease-and-desist demand Monday to a mobile app called Monkey Parking, which allows people to auction public parking spaces that they're using to other nearby drivers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
YOU are a rapist; yes YOU!
06-24-2014
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Washington Post
Cathy Young has an excellent column in Reason.com about a bill in California that would require universities in that state to use an "affirmative consent" standard for evaluating sexual assault complaints....
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News Link • Surveillance
Police to Get Handheld X-Ray Scanner For Vehicle Inspections & "Public Safety"
06-24-2014
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Infowars
The scanner will be used by "law enforcement, first responders, border control, event security, maritime police and general aviation security," in order to search for currency, drugs and explosives. Police will use the device to inspect
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Internet
US Media Restricted at Border, Federal Agent Cites Safety Concerns
06-23-2014
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Breitbart
"You can't be here," a Border Patrol agent said. After learning that he was speaking with Breitbart Texas, the agent repeated his assertion and stated, "It isn't safe for you here." The agent refused to give his name and then grabbed
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News Link • Surveillance
New leaks show Germany's collusion with NSA
06-23-2014
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Several new Snowden-leaked documents show how closely Germany's intelligence agencies work with the NSA. But did the German government deliberately soften laws protecting privacy to make life easier for them?
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News Link • Corruption
Financial Scandal: Organizational Change Has Led to Chaos in Greenpeace
06-23-2014
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spiegel.de
Last week, news emerged that a Greenpeace employee had lost millions in donor money through ill-conceived currency deals. Now the environmentalists are in danger of losing their biggest asset: their credibility.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Police confiscate weapons from 'Pastafarian'
06-23-2014
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metro.co.uk
An Australian man says police confiscated four of his guns because he posed for his firearm licence photo with a colander on his head.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge Orders Deployed US Sailor To Attend Custody Hearing Or Lose Daughter, Face Arrest
06-23-2014
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seattle.cbslocal.com
A U.S. Navy sailor from Washington State is currently serving on a submarine thousands of miles away in the Pacific Ocean, but a judge has ordered him into an impossible custody scenario:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Tesla is now most important automaker in world, Morgan Stanley says
06-23-2014
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latimes.com
Could Tesla Motors be the world's most important car company?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Polish PM Slams "Organized Criminal Eavesdropping" For "Destabilizing EU" Amid U
06-23-2014
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zerohedge.com
First it was US' Victoria Nuland's "fuck Europe" leaked recording; then Turkey's Erdogan faced embarrassing details of a false-flag war with Syria from leaked recordings;
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Nearly Half Of Detroit Water Customers Can't Pay Their Bill
06-23-2014
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detroit.cbslocal.com
It's a basic human right: water. But could the United Nations soon help the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department provide the service to struggling customers?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS ransacks Florida couple's home without explanation, strips woman naked
06-23-2014
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A Florida couple was traumatized after a dozen heavily armed SWAT agents crashed through their front door, flash-banged their cat, aimed rifles at them and searched their home without explanation.
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News Link • Surveillance
New sensors will scoop up 'big data' on Chicago
06-23-2014
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chicagotribune.com
The curled metal fixtures set to go up on a handful of Michigan Avenue light poles later this summer may look like delicate pieces of sculpture, but researchers say they'll provide a big step forward in the way Chicago understands itself by observing
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Army spied on activist's meetings in their homes, call civil disobedience terrorism
06-23-2014
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An attorney pursuing a lawsuit against alleged domestic United States military spying says a civilian employee who worked for the Army admitted he was paid to attend activist meetings at private homes in Washington state.
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