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Date Sent: 2014-08-02
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, August 2, 2014 |
Obama: "We Tortured Some Folks" -- Obama Order Allow Detention of Americans With Respiratory Illness
Drunken police officer / No DWI charge -- Killer Criminal Cop in Oakland Invokes "Nuremberg Defense" — Gets Reinstated -- ATF agents in botched Milwaukee case get slap on wrist -- Settlement Reached in Elizabeth Daly Suit against VA ABC -- Busted for Off-Leash Dog, Man Ordered Not to Leave Southern California -- Feds Confiscate 40 Land Rovers Over VIN Controversy -- Cops vs. fruit vendors in Washington Heights -- Official: Police chokehold caused NYC man's death -- Pummeled for Jaywalking ASU professor sentenced to 9 months of probation -- Tempe bans e-cigarette use in public -- Charges Dropped on Barrow Neurological Institute's Peter Steinmetz, AR-15-Toting Doctor [UPDATE] --
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, August 3, 2014 Edition -- The end
of bitcoin risks? Coinapult launches hedging tech, but U.S. gets locked
out -- Don't Fear Ebola, Fear the State -- Massive emergency drill in New York City -- BitBeat: Wikipedia Adopts Bitcoin -- An East-West Showdown in the Heart of Africa? -- The Real Science Behind Changing Climate -- Nixon's Secrets -- Perlan ll project aims to fly a glider to the edge of space -- Firefly Online Gameplay Trailer #1: If I Were a Captain -- 08-01-14 -- Meghan Kellison - Davi Barker - (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED)
THERE WILL BE NO ARIZONA BREAKFAST CLUB TODAY
SATURDAY AUGUST 2ND, 2014
AZ: Jackalope Freedom Festival, August 1-3, This weekend
- Baca Meadow, Northeastern Arizona
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News Link • Torture
"We Tortured Some Folks": Obama Admits
08-01-2014
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Jonathan Turley
President Obama affirmed today that the US did indeed torture people. The question is why Obama began his first term by promising CIA employees that they would not be tried for what he now describes as "tortur[ing] some folks."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Obama Signs Executive Order to Allow Detention of Americans With 'Respiratory Illnesses'
08-01-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Amendment comes in wake of Ebola scare.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Drunken police officer / No DWI charge
08-01-2014
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Officer Lancaster was staggering drunk that night. Lancaster eventually admitted violating several departmental rules and was disciplined. But he remains an officer, was never charged with drunken driving, and the officers who did not charge him were
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Killer Criminal Cop in Oakland Invokes "Nuremberg Defense" â€" Gets Reinstated
08-01-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
After Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen was struck in the head by a lead-lined beanbag round during an protest in Oakland, Officer Robert Roche fired a CS tear-gas canister into a crowd of people who had gathered to help him.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
ATF agents in botched Milwaukee case get slap on wrist
08-01-2014
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The investigation found agents used a brain-damaged man with a low IQ to promote the operation and then arrested him; allowed armed felons to leave the store; arrested 4 of the wrong people; paid such high prices for guns that people bought guns
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Settlement Reached in Elizabeth Daly Suit against VA ABC
08-01-2014
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NBC News
A settlement has been reached in the case of a University of Virginia student arrested during a botched ABC sting in Charlottesville. Elizabeth Daly will receive more than $212,500 and a letter from the Alcoholic Beverage Control board
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Busted for Off-Leash Dog, Man Ordered Not to Leave Southern California
08-01-2014
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If he's caught with so much as a foot in the park, which stretches 50 miles from the Hollywood Hills to Point Mugu, the 69-year-old retiree will go to jail. Even more unusual, Gladwin cannot leave a 7-county area, for any reason, without permission
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Feds Confiscate 40 Land Rovers Over VIN Controversy
08-01-2014
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The Newspaper
40 Land Rover SUVs have been taken away from owners around the country by armed federal agents descending on private property with overwhelming force. Agents for Homeland Security Investigations wrapped up the seizure of 40 vehicles
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops vs. fruit vendors in Washington Heights
08-01-2014
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The 34th Precinct crackdown on unlicensed food vendors caught the big cheese: Suly Solano, a 31-year-old Dominican woman who runs a booming fruit truck nailing her for not having a license and trying to block cops from arresting a fellow vendor
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Official: Police chokehold caused NYC man's death
08-01-2014
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Associated Press
A chokehold used by a police officer on a New York City man during his arrest for selling untaxed, loose cigarettes last month caused his death, the medical examiner announced Friday, ruling it a homicide.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Pummeled for Jaywalking ASU professor sentenced to 9 months of probation
08-01-2014
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AZ Central
Defense attorney Alane Roby stressed repeatedly that Ore did resist arrest by asking {officer] Ferrin why she was being apprehended, though should be granted leniency given she has no criminal history and that extended probation time would
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Tempe bans e-cigarette use in public
08-01-2014
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AZ Central
Tempe is the first city in Arizona to ban e-cigarette use in public areas. The ordinance mirrors regulation of tobacco cigarettes. E-cigarette users will no longer be able to light up in restaurants, bars or other enclosed public places.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bitcoin
The end of bitcoin risks? Coinapult launches hedging tech, but U.S. gets locked out
08-01-2014
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Upstart Business Journal
The UpTake: Even as new technologies are being developed to solve some of bitcoin's core problems, regulatory fears are keeping U.S. users from reaping the benefits.
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Drew
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Massive emergency drill in New York City
08-01-2014
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http://www.myfoxny.com, LUKE FUNK
NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) -
The New York City Department of Health conducted a massive emergency preparedness drill at 30 facilities across the city on Friday.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Bitcoin
BitBeat: Wikipedia Adopts Bitcoin
08-01-2014
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http://blogs.wsj.com, Paul Vigna
- Wikipedia now takes bitcoin. Coinbase, one of the big bitcoin service providers, signed up the Wikimedia Foundation as a client and announced it is offering its merchant services for free to all nonprofits.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
An East-West Showdown in the Heart of Africa?
08-01-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, Nick Turse and Tom E.
For the last two years, TomDispatch Managing Editor Nick Turse has been following the Pentagon and the latest U.S. global command, AFRICOM, as they oversaw the expanding operations of the American military across that continent: drones, a special ops
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Climate Change
The Real Science Behind Changing Climate
08-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, L.K. Samuels
Almost every day claims are made by political pundits and so-called experts that mankind is the prime cause behind changes in our climate.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Books
Nixon's Secrets
08-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, Roger Stone
The Bay of Pigs, the JFK Assassination, Watergate and the Nixon pardon finally connected- and the dark secrets of Watergate are revealed.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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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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Donna Hancock
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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 • 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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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
US Grants Israel Emergency Access to Billion Dollar US Weapons Cache
07-31-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Hours after the Israeli government killed scores of Palestinians shopping at a marketplace and sheltering from the relentless attack on Gaza in a UN school, the US government gave the green light for Israel to access a one billion dollar US cache of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Enemies of America: Bloomberg, Stern, and Rand Paul
07-31-2014
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non-intervention.com & economicpolicyjournal.com
Rand Paul he has eagerly sold out out to the Israel-Firsters and the bipartisan interventionists.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Smoking Gun (Not Missile?)
07-31-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
"There have been 2 or 3 pieces of fuselage that have been really pockmarked with almost looks like machine gun fire, very, very strong machine gun fire that has left these unique marks that we haven't seen anywhere else.e
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Snitch or Suffer
07-31-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
The US Dept of Justice has grown fat and lazy. They figured out a really cool trick: use their ever-increasing clout to beat people into submission with threats of life plus cancer sentences, and turn them into snitches.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
FBI, "Local" Police Barricade Entire Town
07-31-2014
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Police and FBI agents investigating the disappearance and death of 14-year-old April Millsap haven't solved the case, but they did manage to impose a blockade around the entire town of Armada, Michigan.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Introduction to the Deep Capture Analysis
07-30-2014
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http://www.deepcapture.com
Since I began stating this theory in 2005 my argument has been widely misreported.
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News Link • Surveillance
Active attack on Tor network tried to decloak users for five months
07-31-2014
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ars technica
Officials with the Tor privacy service have uncovered an attack that may have revealed identifying information or other clues of people operating or accessing anonymous websites and other services over a five-month span beginning in February.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Checkpoints
Exclusive: Leader of Scout Troop Confronted by Armed Border Patrol Speaks Out
07-30-2014
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Ben Swann
And for our government to take these young men and illegally search them and illegally seize and pull a weapon on these kids -- something is wrong."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Police Brutality Epidemic Goes Mainstream: The Daily Show, "This Sh*t's Gotta Stop Already&
07-30-2014
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The Free Thought Project
On Monday's edition of 'The Daily Show,' senior black correspondent Larry Wilmore and Jon Stewart covered the recent and tragic Eric Garner case.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Washington, DC ban on carrying handguns again in effect, being enforced by police
07-30-2014
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The saga of the constitutionality and enforceability of Washington, DC's handgun ban added yet another new chapter, as the federal judge who ruled it unconstitutional issued a stay. The police chief told officers to renew enforcing it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
The NSA Nation Moves to the Next Level
07-31-2014
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by Wendy McElroy
"A US Department of Defense research program is funding universities to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil unrest across the world, under the supervision of various US military agencies." [Note: Minerva funding is typi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Message from Matt Papke, Candidate for Tempe City Council - It's GO TIME!
07-31-2014
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Free Tempe/Matt Papke
In a matter of hours early ballots will start hitting mailboxes across Arizona, and shortly there after votes for our campaign will start coming in. We have stood alone on stages and in debates as the ONLY candidate willing to talk about the real iss
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Barrow Neurological Institute Puts Peter Steinmetz, AR-15-Toting Doctor, On Leave [UPDATE!]
07-31-2014
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Phoenix New Times
Breaking from Alan Korwin: "No charges have been filed and my two hearings have been vacated." Steinmetz made national headlines after he was arrested for mishandling a fully loaded AR-15 he'd brought with him to the Airport.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul Warns: The Dollar Collapse is Close
07-30-2014
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Next News Network
Learn how to prepare for the coming global banking collapse: http://realgoldmoney.com/the-details
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Police State
What Happens If You Drive Away From A WI Cop?
07-30-2014
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Next News Network
If a police officer in Wisconsin walks up and knocks on your window, motioning for you to roll your window down, the state Supreme Court says you're free to just drive away.
The 5-to-2 ruling is a surprise to many people. Justice David Prosser exp
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Corruption
Wikileaks: Australia Censorship Order Blocked Reporting on Multinational Corruption Scandal
07-31-2014
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Reason Magazine
Wikileaks released a suppression order by the Supreme Court of Australia to prevent reporting on a multinational corruption scandal involving Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam, because it would damage Australia's relations.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Argentina blames US mediator for its debt default
07-31-2014
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BBC News
Argentina has blamed the US for its debt default, calling the mediator in failed talks "incompetent". Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich said his country was considering opening proceedings at international tribunals in The Hague
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Admits to Hacking Senate Computers
07-31-2014
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CIA Director John Brennan has determined that employees "acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding" brokered between the CIA and its Senate overseers in hacking into computers used by Senate staffers.
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News Link • Corruption
U.S. Attorney Warns Cuomo on Moreland Commission Case
07-31-2014
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New York Times
In an escalation of the confrontation between the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over the governor's cancellation of his own anticorruption commission, Mr. Bharara has threatened
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Stoner: I hatched plot to raise white flags on Brooklyn Bridge
07-31-2014
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New York Post
Rev. Bud Green, 49, said a group of anarchists "who do stuff like this for the thrill of it" emailed him after he posted about a pro-weed blog on the Fourth of July, asking what they could do to help his "cause."
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Breakup of Iraq
07-29-2014
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Next News Network
It's been a busy week in the world of foreign policy. One story that would normally be a top global headline might almost slip through the cracks amid stories of Russia posturing with the US, Israel and Hamas at war in Gaza and North Korea threatenin
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Activism
Jailed for Protesting Drones interview with Ellen Grady
07-28-2014
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Next News Network
Drones are becoming more commonplace over the last several years. Many of these automated vehicles are now in the hands of private citizens.
Military versions of the craft are becoming more advanced, and deadly. The government of Israel recently
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Control vs Self Defense â€" A Tale of Two Videos, Which One Are You?
07-31-2014
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AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
Recently the genuineness at Every Town for Gun Control released a video promoting being a victim, contrast that with a similar video from GLOCK Arms empowering women everywhere...
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