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Date Sent: 2014-08-01
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, August 1, 2014 |
US Senators Push for Lethal Military Aid to Ukraine
08-01-14 -- Meghan Kellison - Davi Barker - (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED) -- Facebook Went Down For Nearly An Hour -- Court Censures Poland Over C.I.A. Renditions -- German officer to serve as U.S. Army Europe's chief of staff -- One Cop In Seattle Has Issued 80% Of The Citations For Marijuana -- The 161 Bankers Who Run the World How They Do It - by Dr. Stuart Jeanne Bramhall -- "Markets In Turmoil" Russell 2000 Plunges Most In Over 2 Years, Dow Down For 2014 -- Feds Would Exercise Draconian Emergency Powers If Ebola Hits U.S. -- WikiLeaks Says Russia May Trade Snowden for Better Relations with U.S. -- Ebola Outbreak in the U.S.? -- Ex-Blackwater guard testifies against colleagues -- Jeremy Scahill: White House Censoring What US Public Can Know About Torture Program -- US Senators Push for Lethal Military Aid to Ukraine -- US Sending Israel More Offensive Weapons to Continue Gaza Attacks -- Peter Schiff and Doug Casey on the REAL State of the Economy -- More Than Just Your Papers, Please . . .
-- IMF urges higher energy taxes to fight climate change -- Driverless
Cars on UK Public Streets Starting January; Transforming Personal
Mobility; Taxi and Truck-Drivers Targeted -- Ron Paul On C-Span For Three Hours This Sunday Morning! Let's swamp the network with calls! -- Explosive! Ex-IDF Soldier Speaks Out About the Occupation in Gaza
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THERE WILL BE NO ARIZONA BREAKFAST CLUB THIS
SATURDAY AUGUST 2ND, 2014
AZ: Jackalope Freedom Festival, August 1-3, starts TODAY - Baca Meadow, Northeastern Arizona
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News Link • Military
US Senators Push for Lethal Military Aid to Ukraine
08-01-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
As World Pushes for Ukraine Ceasefire, US Looks to Escalate War.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Learn Linux with This Free edX Course from the Linux Foundation
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Intro to Linux is normally a $2,400 course from the Linux Foundation, but it's being offered for free now on edX. If you've ever wanted to learn how to use the open source operating system, there's no better time than now.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Jackalope Freedom Festival this weekend! Aug 1-3, 2014 - Baca Meadow, Northeastern Arizona
08-01-2014
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Jackalope Freedom Festival
Jackfest "The Jackalope Freedom Festival" WHERE SPONTANEOUS ORDER HAPPENS NATURALLY, WITHOUT ANY FORCE, COERCION, OR AGGRESSION. The camping festival is held on National Forest Land. Entrance to Black Canyon Lake
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook Went Down For Nearly An Hour
08-01-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed that service has been restored for most people. However, it's still unclear what the cause of the outage was.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Court Censures Poland Over C.I.A. Renditions
08-01-2014
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http://www.nytimes.com, By DAN BILEFSKY
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Poland had violated the rights of two terrorism suspects by allowing their transfer to a secret detention center run by the C.I.A. in Poland, where the two men were tortured.
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News Link • Military
German officer to serve as U.S. Army Europe's chief of staff
08-01-2014
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http://www.armytimes.com
A German Army brigadier general who recently served with NATO forces in Afghanistan is assuming duties as the chief of staff of U. S. Army Europe, the first time a non-American officer has held that position.
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News Link • History
How The Last Surviving Member Of The Enola Gay Justified Dropping The World's...
08-01-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, the last living crew member of the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II, died Monday at his Georgia home at the age of 93, reports The New York Times.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
A New Technology Coming To The NFL Will Revolutionize A Fan's Viewing Experience
08-01-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
If you've ever sat on your couch on Sunday afternoon and wondered about the exact speed of the wide receiver that just torched your team's secondary, or exactly how little separation he needed to get open for that first down catch, pretty soon you'll
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News Link • Drug War
One Cop In Seattle Has Issued 80% Of The Citations For Marijuana
08-01-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
The Seattle Police Department has reassigned an officer who single-handedly issued about 80 percent of the marijuana tickets handed out in the city during the first half of this year, authorities said on Wednesday.
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News Link • World News
Amazonian Tribe Makes First Contact With Outside World In Utterly Fascinating Video
08-01-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Members of an isolated tribe have emerged from the Amazon rainforest and made contact with the outside world in a video released by Brazil's indigenous authority.
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
The 161 Bankers Who Run the World
How They Do It
By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall
08-01-2014
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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/31/the-161-ba
In following video, Peter Phillips from Project Censored lays out exactly how the richest one-thousandth of 1% maintain iron control over the global economy and all so-called democratic governments.
He cites a study Project Censored published in the
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Feds Would Exercise Draconian Emergency Powers If Ebola Hits U.S.
08-01-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Model State Emergency Health Powers Act "could turn governors into dictators"
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks Says Russia May Trade Snowden for Better Relations with U.S.
08-01-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com., Kurt Nimmo
WikiLeaks is speculating the Russian government will trade NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for better relations with the United States.
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News Link • Transportation
First production ICON A5 amphibian plane unveiled
08-01-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
Small amphibians are sort of the hot hatchbacks of the aviation world and one aimed at the beginner pilot is always worth a look see.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Strike Cam lets you get shots of the ones that got away â€" and that didn't
08-01-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
If you're a sport fisherman, then you know the frustration of having a fish strike and reject your lure. What sort of fish was it, and how big was it? Well, the Strike Cam may not help you land such finicky fish, but it can at least answer those ques
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News Link • Inventions
Sofista modular sofa changes form based on the needs of a room
08-01-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Dave LeClair
Anyone who has found themselves living in a studio, or any kind of small place, has probably been faced with furniture issues.
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News Link • Police State
Ebola Outbreak in the U.S.?
07-31-2014
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Next News Network
What could happen if the deadly Ebola virus made it to the United States? It's spreading rapidly in Liberia and many people are concerned that it could be on it's way to the United States.
American doctor Kent Brantley of North Carolina came down
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Giraffe dies after hitting its head on a low bridge...
08-01-2014
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Dan Bloom
A giraffe has died after smashing its head into a low bridge while it was being transported along a busy highway in South Africa.
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News Link • Military
Ex-Blackwater guard testifies against colleagues
08-01-2014
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http://www.cbs8.com, PETE YOST
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former Blackwater security guard testified Wednesday that he and two colleagues shot their weapons into a car in Nisoor Square in Baghdad, part of a barrage of gunfire that claimed the lives of a mother and her son and led to the
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News Link • Torture
Jeremy Scahill: White House Censoring What US Public Can Know...
08-01-2014
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http://www.commondreams.org, Andrea Germanos
Jeremy Scahill: White House Censoring What US Public Can Know About Torture Program
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News Link • Israel
Israel mows the lawn
08-01-2014
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http://www.lrb.co.uk, Mouin Rabbani
In 2004, a year before Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip, Dov Weissglass, éminence grise to Ariel Sharon, explained the initiative's purpose to an interviewer from Haaretz:
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News Link • Israel
US Sending Israel More Offensive Weapons to Continue Gaza Attacks
08-01-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
US Tapped 'Emergency' Stockpile to Keep Israeli Shells Falling
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News Link • Israel
Israel Calls Up 16,000 More Reservists: 86,000 Since Start of War
08-01-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Military Call Ups Response to Cabinet's Order to Escalate in Gaza
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Week's Best Trailers: Interstellar in Space and a First Look at Mockingjay
08-01-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Jordan Crucchiola
Since Comic-Con International cleared out on Sunday, the internet has been going nutz with new trailers.
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News Link • Military
The Marines' Self-Flying Chopper Survives a Three-Year Tour
08-01-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Alex Davies
Back in 2010, the Navy decided it could use a self-flying helicopter, to take over dangerous missions delivering cargo to Marine Corps stations in Afghanistan.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Finally, a Way to Teach Coding to the Touchscreen Generation
08-01-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Marcus Wohlsen
First came Generation X. Then the Millennials. And if you have kids under 10, you already know what they're going to be called: the Touchscreen Generation.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff and Doug Casey on the REAL State of the Economy
08-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Doug Casey
Peter Schiff: Joining our program now is Doug Casey, and if you don't know Doug, he is a libertarian economist.
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News Link • Climate Change
IMF urges higher energy taxes to fight climate change
08-01-2014
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http://news.yahoo.com, Reuters
Energy taxes in much of the world are far below what they should be to reflect the harmful environmental and health impact of fossil fuels use, the International Monetary Fund said in a new book on Thursday.
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News Link • Transportation
Driverless Cars on UK Public Streets Starting January...
08-01-2014
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Mike Shedlock
Driverless Cars on UK Public Streets Starting January; Transforming Personal Mobility; Taxi and Truck-Drivers Targeted
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News Link • Food
"Eating healthy is expensive"- For me its been waaaaay cheaper....
08-01-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Absolute Rights
"Eating healthy is expensive"- For me its been waaaaay cheaper. What tricks do you have to save?
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul On C-Span For Three Hours Sunday Morning! Let's swamp the network with calls!
08-01-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by ausscyn
This Sunday, from 9am to noon, PST, Ron Paul will be on C-Span & will take our phone calls!
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News Link • Climate Change
What's the Deal with Global Warming and Climate Change? I Speak with Greenpeace...
08-01-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Marc Clair
What's the Deal with Global Warming and Climate Change? I Speak with GreenPeace Co-Founder Dr. Patrick Moore.
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
VIDEO: A Deer Walked Up To This House One Day. And They NEVER Saw The Rest Coming. Amazing.
08-01-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
VIDEO: A Deer Walked Up To This House One Day. And They NEVER Saw The Rest Coming. Amazing.
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Explosive! Ex-IDF Soldier Speaks Out About the Occupation in Gaza
08-01-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Please watch! Of course, he could be lying, but it's worth looking into. Better hurry though, because his facebook page is 'no longer available'.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
In midst of Alaska quake swarms, monitoring stations suddenly turned off: Why?
08-01-2014
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http://www.examiner.com
A strange swarm of earthquakes near Noatak, Alaska, ongoing for months, continues not only to confound locals, but scientists as well.
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Feature Article • Positive News
Changes Are Afoot for Freeman's Perspective
Paul Rosenberg
I'm happy to announce that we are moving our free blog over to Casey Research. I've known Doug Casey for many years, and he's been inviting me to his community in Argentina for quite some time. So when I was invited to speak at a conference there a f
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News Link • TERRORISM
Terrorism in the Israeli Attack on Gaza
08-01-2014
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https://firstlook.org, By Glenn Greenwald
As I've written many times before, "terrorism" is, and from the start was designed to be, almost entirely devoid of discernible meaning.
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israel's Gaza backlash targets Arab minority
08-01-2014
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http://www.jonathan-cook.net,
Record levels of incitement, street violence and harassment at places of work and universities has Israel's Palestinian citizens feeling the heat
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News Link • Activism
Seizing Control of Our Destinies
07-30-2014
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Farm Wars
Every day that goes by without putting into place a strategy to step out of this straight-jacket is a day wasted â€" a sacrificial offering to all that is sucking the life out of humanity.
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News Link • Bioterrorism
The Missouri Biotech Protection Amendment
07-30-2014
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Farm Wars
It's a biotech takeover disguised as a "right to farm" movement to protect small farmers. Don't be fooled.
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News Link • Economy - International
French Housing "In Total Meltdown", "Current Figures Are Disastrous"
07-30-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
If Venezuela is the case study of a country in the late stages of transition into a socialist utopia, then France is the clear runner up.
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News Link • Economy - International
"US Will Feel Tangible Losses," Russia Prepares To Unleash Retaliatory Trade Wars
07-30-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
"It's a troubling continuation/expansion of trade as a geopolitical tool," warns one Washington-based consulting firm as Russia prepares to unleash retaliatory actions to US and European sanctions.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Overstock's Radical Plan to Reinvent the Stock Market With Bitcoin
07-30-2014
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Wired.com
Overstock.com and its swashbuckling CEO, Patrick Byrne, are hoping to create a new kind of corporate stock based on the computer software that drives bitcoin, aiming to overhaul the stock market in much the same way that bitcoin overhauled how we sto
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News Link • WAR: About that War
War Is Coming
07-30-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, Paul Craig Roberts
The extraordinary propaganda being conducted against Russia by the US and UK governments and Ministries of Propaganda, a.k.a., the "Western media," have the purpose of driving the world to war that no one can win.
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News Link • Government
Stop! Thief! Stop!
07-30-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, Anne Williamson
Kiev's hastily assembled, post-coup coalitions couldn't hold, and Ukrainian PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk threw in the towel last Thursday.
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News Link • Government
On Dominoes, WMDs And Putin's "Aggression": Imperial Washington Is Intoxicated By Anot
07-30-2014
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http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com, David S.
Imperial Washington is truly running amuck in its insensible confrontation with Vladimir Putin.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Congress Warns Obama Not to Push Israel for Ceasefire
07-30-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in Israel's ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip aren't sitting well with Israeli hawks, and by extension that means they aren't sitting well with the US Congress.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Deep Capture Files Major Lawsuit Against the SEC
07-30-2014
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http://www.deepcapture.com, Mark Mitchell
I have filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which previously failed to respond adequately to my Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests seeking SEC documents related to the SEC's various investigations (and failur
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News Link • Transportation
LEX 18 Investigates: Ridesharing Companies Don't Adhere To Taxi Laws
07-30-2014
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http://www.lex18.com
Two new ride-for-hire services are working in Lexington, despite lingering questions about public safety.
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News Link • Gun Rights
The NRA's Top Attorney Was Convicted of Murder in 1964
07-30-2014
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http://gawker.com
According to recently unearthed court records, Bob Dowlutâ€"who for 30 years has been the architect of the National Rifle Association's legal and cultural agendaâ€"was sentenced to life in an Indiana prison for murdering a single mother...
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News Link • Transportation
Birmingham city leaders revise transportation code...
07-30-2014
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http://www.alabamas13.com, By Fred Davenport
Birmingham city leaders revise transportation code allowing ride sharing services in Magic City
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