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Date Sent: 2014-07-05
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, July 4, 2014 |
The Arab Spring Just Got Serious Again - Kuwait Is Burning
In Honor of First Amendment: 5 Americans in Blatant Acts of Free Speech -- Texas Rancher Finds $2M Worth of Weed on His Land, Does the Predictable Thing -- Bomb Maker to Judge: "I Know This All Looks Really Bad"
-- Postal Worker Straight Up Just Flings Packages Into a Ravine --
Happy Independence Day, America! You're celebrating two days late -- European regulator tells banks to shun Bitcoin -- Activists struggle to loosen gun laws in Mexico -- Ron Paul and Charles Goyette - The Weekly Podcast - The Outlook for Gold -- 2014 Tempe City Council Primary Election Candidate Forum (hosted by Free Tempe) -- Independence
Day? 79% Of Americans Are Fine With The Current Level Of Tyranny --
Use Tor or 'EXTREMIST' Tails Linux? Congrats, you're on an NSA list
-- Your Android phone is a SNITCH: Wi-Fi bug makes you easy to
track -- NSA man says agency can track you through POWER LINES
-- From the Annals of Police Militarization: EPA Shuts Down MRAP
Transfers -- New York City's Affordable Housing Bonanza for
the Rich -- G.O.P. Power Broker in Albany Accused of Lying to
F.B.I. -- SC Restaurant Owner Refuses To Serve Blacks, Cites
Religious Beliefs -- British soldier with mental disorder
extradited to US -- Sheriff Who Helped Talk Bundy Down Blames
BLM For 'Escalating' Standoff -- New Eavesdropping Equipment
Sucks All Data Off Your Phone -- Enemy Ahoy: China and Russia
Strive for Naval Supremacy -- Needed: A Patriotic Tax Code --
Stormtrooper with Plastic Gun Causes Lockdown in Kansas -- Guns,
Weed, and Bitcoin: Among the Free Staters at Porcfest --
Ukrainian Astronomers Named a Star 'Putin Is a D**khead' -- 'You
Have to Kill Them' Says Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq --
Brain Drain Is Threatening the Future of U.S. Robotics -- The
NSA may have another leaker on its hands -- Would the
Confederacy Have Celebrated the Fourth of July? -- It's
Independence Day: Mom Declared Innocent, Free Dylan Immediately!
-- Biotech Breakthroughs May Put Chemical Arms in Easier Reach -- US
opposes independence referendum for Iraqi Kurds -- Feds Hand Out
Border Pass To Mexican Snitch -- How Magic Mushrooms Really
'Expand the Mind'
AZ: THERE WILL BE NO ARIZONA BREAKFAST CLUB THIS SATURDAY, JULY 5TH, 2014
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News Link • Activism
The Arab Spring Just Got Serious Again - Kuwait Is Burning
07-04-2014
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zerohedge.com
Same stuff... different country.
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News Link • Free Speech
In Honor of First Amendment: 5 Americans in Blatant Acts of Free Speech
07-04-2014
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mediaite.com
Happy Independence Day! While you grill meats, listen to rock 'n' roll, and celebrate our nation's independence from the bloody Brits, take some time to reflect upon the rights you likely take for granted.
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News Link • Humor
Celebrate the American Right to Be Dumb with These Crazy Fireworks Fails
07-04-2014
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mediaite.com
"Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it," a wise man once advised. What more American way to do so than by botching the job completely?
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Texas Rancher Finds $2M Worth of Weed on His Land, Does the Predictable Thing
07-04-2014
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thewest.gawker.com
A Texas cattle rancher this week stumbled upon nearly 5,500 marijuana plants with a street value of $2 million growing on land he had just leased from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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News Link • Seriously?
Bomb Maker to Judge: "I Know This All Looks Really Bad"
07-04-2014
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thewest.gawker.com
An Idaho dad who stashed so much pipe bomb making material in the crawlspace under his kids' bedroom that it took police two days to remove it all will be spending the next 13-25 years in prison.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Postal Worker Straight Up Just Flings Packages Into a Ravine
07-04-2014
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gawker.com
Receiving packages is usually very fun, but being a postal worker probably sucks sometimes. So launching some random boxes into a ravine like this USPS employee in Alabama seems more or less understandable, if not outright patriotic.
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News Link • American History
5 Surprising Facts About America's Favorite Exploding Pastime
07-04-2014
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gizmodo.com
Firecrackers are essentially un-American, even though we associate them our most deeply patriotic celebration, the Fourth of July.
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News Link • American History
Happy Independence Day, America! You're celebrating two days late
07-04-2014
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qz.com
True, the Continental Congress, representing the 13 colonies which originally comprised the US, declared independence in July 1776â€"but it wasn't on the fourth. It was the second.
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News Link • Bitcoin
European regulator tells banks to shun Bitcoin
07-04-2014
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france24.com
Europe's top banking regulator on Friday called on the region's banks not to deal in virtual currencies such as Bitcoin until rules are developed to stop them being abused.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Activists struggle to loosen gun laws in Mexico
07-04-2014
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Washington Post
In the nation that is the poster child for the failure of gun-control schemes, a Mexican military veteran who works as a private security consultant aims to get Mexico to admit that failure.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul and Charles Goyette - The Weekly Podcast - The Outlook for Gold
07-04-2014
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Ron Paul, Charles Goyette
Gold and silver were both stellar investment performers in the first half of 2014, beating the S&P 500. Geopolitical conflicts have been the drivers of gold so far this year, but now even the central banks' central bank is warning about the "euphori
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
2014 Tempe City Council Primary Election Candidate Forum (hosted by Free Tempe)
07-04-2014
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Free Tempe - Matt Papke
Please join us Monday evening at the Tempe City Council Candidate Forum...Come on down. I promise you will see significant contrast between myself and the establishment (Matt Papke)
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Grocery Store Prices / Veggie List 7/5/14 / Egg Sale
07-04-2014
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Tonopah Rob
Tonopah Rob's Nature Grown Farm has the solution to the high prices box stores are charging for produce. Tonopah Rob's CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program. It doesn't matter whether you make a weekly, monthly or semi-monthly visit to the f
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cleansing Industrial Waste Water
07-04-2014
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arclein
Legzdins' proprietary electrolytic technology isn't intended to replace water treatment plants, but to seamlessly plug into existing facilities.
"One of the advantages of this technology is it's extremely modular," explained Rhone. "We will manufa
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News Link • Science
Recent Wormhole Work
07-04-2014
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arclein
He argues that if a thin wormhole stays open long enough, people might send messages instantly through time using pulses of light.
Wormholes are theoretical tunnels that create shortcuts in space-time. Dr Luke Butcher at Cambridge University argue
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News Link • Science
Russia's Popigai Meteor Crash Linked to Eocene Mass Extinction
07-04-2014
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arclein
space rock that slammed into Earth some 33.7 million years ago not only took a gouge out of the planet but also may be linked to the Eocene mass extinction, scientists say.
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News Link • Science
Ocean Plastic Pollution on Decline
07-04-2014
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arclein
An extrapolation from data acquired by a recent global sampling expedition by research ships suggests 7,000 to 35,000 thousand tons of plastic debris is floating in the world's oceans, much less than the estimated 1 million tons data going back as f
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News Link • American Community Survey
Independence Day? 79% Of Americans Are Fine With The Current Level Of Tyranny
07-04-2014
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zerohedge.com
On July 4th, the United States will celebrate Independence Day once again. But who in the world are we trying to kid?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Use Tor or 'EXTREMIST' Tails Linux? Congrats, you're on an NSA list
07-04-2014
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theregister.co.uk
Penguinista mag readers, privacy-conscious netizens and more targeted, claims report
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Your Android phone is a SNITCH: Wi-Fi bug makes you easy to track
07-04-2014
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theregister.co.uk
Even asleep, your mobe could be blabbing your every move
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA man says agency can track you through POWER LINES
07-04-2014
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theregister.co.uk
Boffins throw cold water on electric eavesdropping claims raised in German media
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Waste
From the Annals of Police Militarization: EPA Shuts Down MRAP Transfers
07-04-2014
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thetruthaboutguns.com
Not exactly gun but . . . TTAG reader RS writes:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
New York City's Affordable Housing Bonanza for the Rich
07-04-2014
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reason.com
Housing subsidies go to families making up to $193K.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Racism
SC Restaurant Owner Refuses To Serve Blacks, Cites Religious Beliefs
07-04-2014
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forwardprogressives.com
In South Carolina, a BBQ restaurant owner claimed that he was within his rights to refuse service to blacks based on his religious beliefs.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Psychedelic mushrooms put your brain in a "waking dream," study finds
07-04-2014
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Washington Post
Psychedelic mushrooms can do more than make you see the world in kaleidoscope.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
British soldier with mental disorder extradited to US
07-04-2014
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theguardian.com
David McIntyre, who has post-traumatic stress disorder, says UK has disowned him despite serving country whole adult life
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Car that runs on air:
07-04-2014
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dailymail.co.uk
New Peugeot hybrid doesn't need a battery and 'is greener than its electric rivals'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Oman politician's wife sues The Ritz casino after losing £2 MILLION at the card table...
07-04-2014
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dailymail.co.uk
Oman politician's wife sues The Ritz casino after losing £2 MILLION at the card table... claiming staff 'took advantage' of her
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death
'Gold Rush' Star James Harness Dies at 57
07-04-2014
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tmz.com
Harness' kids say James died a week ago, after suffering a stroke a week before. They say the funeral will be held in Oregon Saturday.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Sheriff Who Helped Talk Bundy Down Blames BLM For 'Escalating' Standoff
07-04-2014
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talkingpointsmemo.com
The Clark County, Nev., sheriff, who was in the middle of the Bundy Ranch standoff earlier this year, says he lays some of the blame with the Bureau of Land Management for "escalating" the situation with its tactics.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
New Eavesdropping Equipment Sucks All Data Off Your Phone
07-04-2014
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newsweek.com
In a Capitol Hill hearing room two summers ago, privacy activist Christopher Soghoian organized a stunning demonstration of some new police surveillance technology.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Enemy Ahoy: China and Russia Strive for Naval Supremacy
07-04-2014
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newsweek.com
Few in China knew the truth two years ago, when then-president Hu Jintao travelled to a naval base in the northeastern city of Dalian to mark a signal moment in the rise of Chinese power: the unveiling of the Liaoning, the first aircraft carrier comm
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Needed: A Patriotic Tax Code
07-04-2014
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nationalreview.com
The United States was created as a tax haven â€" now corporations are fleeing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Stormtrooper with Plastic Gun Causes Lockdown in Kansas
07-04-2014
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freebeacon.com
A man dressed in a "Star Wars" stormtrooper outfit and holding a plastic gun for a video shoot prompted a lockdown in Salina, Kansas on Monday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
Guns, Weed, and Bitcoin: Among the Free Staters at Porcfest
07-04-2014
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freebeacon.com
FEATURE: What I saw at the Porcupine Freedom Festival
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News Link • Activism
Ukrainian Astronomers Named a Star 'Putin Is a D**khead'
07-04-2014
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thewire.com
Vladimir Putin may be a powerful and menacing leader here on Earth, but in the cosmos, he isn't getting such kind treatment.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
'You Have to Kill Them' Says Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
07-04-2014
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defenseone.com
For months warnings have sounded over the rising threat posed by extremists operating unimpeded in Syria.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The NSA may have another leaker on its hands
07-04-2014
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qz.com
Edward Snowden has done a lot of damage to the National Security Agency by disclosing dozens of its most sensitive internet surveillance programsâ€"but there may be a lot more to come from someone following in his footsteps.
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News Link • American History
Would the Confederacy Have Celebrated the Fourth of July?
07-04-2014
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nationaljournal.com
July 4, 1861, was a day of ambivalence for many Southerners.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Biotech Breakthroughs May Put Chemical Arms in Easier Reach
07-04-2014
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nationaljournal.com
An international team wants to closely watch how future technologies could make the world's deadliest poisons easier to produce and harder to regulate.
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News Link • Iraq
US opposes independence referendum for Iraqi Kurds
07-04-2014
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AFP
The United States came out against a call by Iraq's Kurdish leader for an independence referendum, saying the country could only repel Islamic State radicals by staying united.
Massud Barzani, leader of the autonomous region, earlier told parliame
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Feds Hand Out Border Pass To Mexican Snitch
07-04-2014
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The Smoking Gun
A Mexican informant who provided "credible information" to US law enforcement agencies about narcotics trafficking was compensated "with the ability to cross the border legally into the United States for at least one year."
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
How Magic Mushrooms Really 'Expand the Mind'
07-04-2014
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Live Science
Your brain on psychedelic drugs looks similar to your brain when you're dreaming, suggests a new study that may also explain why people on psychedelics feel they are expanding their mind.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Grazing goats best new defense against wildfires
07-04-2014
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Reuters
A Nevada rancher says his goats are the best kept secret in fire defense, renting them out to eat through vegetation and reducing fuel for fire around homes
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News Link • Whistleblowers
5 Terrible Things I Learned as a Corporate Whistleblower
07-02-2014
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On November 30, 2009, Linda Almonte was escorted out of her office by security. Almonte did nothing wrong: She was an executive with JP Morgan Chase, and her only mistake was doing her job and blowing the whistle on her lawbreaking boss.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
'Sneak & peek' warrants allow police to secretly enter homes without notice
07-02-2014
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Sometimes agents stage the scenes to resemble robberies â€" sneak and steal operations. In one case, federal investigators broke into an apartment, collected evidence, and then "trashed the place to make it look like a burglary."
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News Link • Police State
PayPal froze account of secure email startup ProtonMail due to lack of government permission
07-02-2014
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The Switzerland-based startup, established by MIT, Harvard and CERN researchers, couldn't access money that crowdfunding backers have given it, because PayPal had frozen its account. A PayPal rep apparently asked if ProtonMail had asked the governmen
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
North Carolina Sheriff To Stand Trial For Harassing Hispanic Motorists
07-02-2014
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The Newspaper
"If you stop a Mexican, don't write a citation, arrest him," Sheriff Johnson reportedly said during a 2008 staff meeting with supervisors.
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News Link • Internet
Goldman Sachs demands Google unsend one of its e-mails
07-02-2014
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ars technica
Goldman Sachs has demanded a court order to get Google to unsend an e-mail that the bank sent in error. The e-mail contained "highly confidential" information addressed to the wrong account, a mistake on Goldman Sachs' part
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News Link • Internet
Order restored to universe as Microsoft surrenders confiscated No-IP domains
07-02-2014
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ars technica
Microsoft surrendered the 23 domain names it confiscated from dynamic domain hosting service No-IP.com, a move that begins the process of restoring millions of connections that went dark as a result of the highly controversial legal action.
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News Link • Technology: Software
IRS policy that targeted political groups also aimed at open source projects
07-02-2014
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ars technica
The IRS denied a proposal to grant 501(c)(3) status to Yorba, a nonprofit organization that develops open source software for the Linux desktop. Yorba spokesperson Jim Nelson disclosed the full text of the IRS rejection letter.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
In Florida, Non-Submission to a Police Beating is "Attempted Murder"
07-02-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Every day, somewhere in this supposedly free county a police officer spies an individual committing a harmless but "illegal" act, aggressively pursues them, inflicts physical violence on them, then escalates violence to lethal or near lethal levels
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News Link • Events: Arizona
[Scottsdale] Come see the R3VOLUTION's movie debut "ALONGSIDE NIGHT" July 24th, 7:30 p
07-02-2014
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www.meetup.com/ArizonaLibertyR3VOLUTION
The Ron Paul "Revolution" is making its debut in a new political thriller about what happens when the federal government loses control of the economy and foreign policy and is met with a second American revolt.
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Feature Article • Economy - Economics USA
Minimum Wage, Maximum Stupidity
Doug French
The minimum wage should be the easiest issue to understand for the economically savvy. If the government arbitrarily sets a floor for wages above that set by the market, jobs will be lost. Even the Congressional Budget Office admits that 500,000 jobs
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