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Date Sent: 2014-10-02
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, October 2, 2014 |
UK Leadership Wants To Ban Predicted 'Extremists' From Social Media, TV, Events
Black Women Profiled as Prostitutes in NYC -- Tallahassee Cop Suspended After Caught on Video Tasering 62-year-old Woman in Back -- Cop cleared after shooting unarmed man complying with order to remove hands from waistband -- Public Records Again Expose Albuquerque Police Misconduct -- Why Did the U.S. Attack Iraq in 2003? -- ComputerCOP: Dubious 'Internet Safety Software' Police Agencies Distribute -- LA cops kill one person every week -- Nashville is demanding $125 just to take pictures in public parks -- Ghost Gunner by Defense Distributed -- Pre-Order today... -- 10-01-14 -- Cody Wilson (Defense Distributed) MP3 & VIDEO LOADED -- Army Special Forces Soldier Delivers Jaw Dropping Letter to US Politicians -- Vote 2014: Arizona Gubernatorial Debate from Sept 29, 2014 on PBS -- CNC Gunsmithing Files -- The Relevance of the Hong Kong Protests -- The $1,200 Machine That Lets Anyone Make a Metal Gun at Home -- FedEx's New Electric Trucks Get a Boost From Diesel Turbines -- Secession Is a Grand American Tradition -- Who Is Running Phony Cell Phone Towers Around The United States? -- China Is a Paper Tiger -- Why Do Americans Hate Beheadings But Love Drone Killings? -- Liberal doves run as war hawks -- Draghi Pressures ECB to Buy "Junk-Rated" Loan Bundles of Greece and Cyprus -- More Washington Lies -- Will CDC Activate Emergency Measures After Ebola Confirmed in US? -- Atlas Mugged: How a Libertarian Paradise in Chile Fell Apart -- And the government's like, "Just kidding!" -- Don't panic over Ebola in America -- Caught On Tape: HFT Algo Manipulating GOOGL 1000 Times Per Second -- Why Do Americans Hate Beheadings But Love Drone Killings? -- US Defense Industry Winning In Syria And Iraq, With Long Campaign Expected
AZ: AZ Breakfast Club, Saturday Oct 4th, 2014, 8-10 a.m. @ Coco's (Paradise Valley Mall location); PrepperFest Expo, October 24-26, 2014, Westworld in Scottsdale, AZ; Survival Rendezvous – Young, AZ – November 8-11, 2014
Even Pics Off Your Phone -- Black Women Profiled as Prostitutes in NYC -- Tallahassee Cop Suspended After Caught on Video Tasering 62-year-old Woman in Back -- Cop cleared after shooting unarmed man complying with order to remove hands from waistband -- Public Records Again Expose Albuquerque Police Misconduct -- Before the Law -- Why Did the U.S. Attack Iraq in 2003? -- ComputerCOP: Dubious 'Internet Safety Software' Police Agencies Distribute -- UK Leadership Wants To Ban Predicted 'Extremists' From Social Media, TV, Events -- LA cops kill one person every week -- Second Ebola Confirmed in Texas (Female Family Member) -- Report: ISIS Opens Embassy in Turkish Capital, issue Passports For Jihad -- Ebola worse than HIV, SARS – UN official -- Mystery Fireballs Rain Down From the Sky In Michigan! -- Director of Secret Service has Resigned -- It appears Dallas Ebola Patient, Eric Thomas Duncan Knew He Was Sick -- Insider Info – what they're not telling you about Dallas Ebola -- 5 Children From 4 Schools Ebola Watch -- CDC ISSUES GUIDELINES FOR FUNERAL HOMES! -- Nashville is demanding $125 just to take pictures in public parks -- Ghost Gunner by Defense Distributed -- Pre-Order today... -- Urban Spiders Scaling Up -- 10-01-14 -- Cody Wilson (Defense Distributed) MP3 & VIDEO LOADED -- WWOOF -- Does DMT Open the Door to Afterlife? -- Army Special Forces Soldier Delivers Jaw Dropping Letter to US Politicians -- The Single Most Important Lesson from the Casey Summit -- Vote 2014: Arizona Gubernatorial Debate from Sept 29, 2014 on PBS -- CNC Gunsmithing Files -- The Relevance of the Hong Kong Protests --
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News Link • Police State
UK Leadership Wants To Ban Predicted 'Extremists' From Social Media, TV, Events
10-02-2014
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tech dirt
Extremists will have to get posts on Facebook and Twitter approved in advance by the police under sweeping rules planned by the Conservatives.
They will also be barred from speaking at public events if they represent a threat to "the functioning
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Black Women Profiled as Prostitutes in NYC
10-02-2014
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Reason Magazine
In Brooklynâ€"where blacks make up a third of the populationâ€"black defendants faced 69% of all charges brought before the trafficking court. And face a whopping 94% of charges on the offense of "loitering for the purposes of prostitution."
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Tallahassee Cop Suspended After Caught on Video Tasering 62-year-old Woman in Back
10-02-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Tallahassee cop was caught on cell phone video tasering a 62-year-old woman in the back as she walked away from him â€"exactly what he had ordered her to do â€" causing her to fall face first onto the street as several shocked witnesses looked on.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop cleared after shooting unarmed man complying with order to remove hands from waistband
10-02-2014
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Rawstory
Cruz again orders him to get his hands out, and Taylor complies and pulls up his T-shirt â€" which police are trained to perceive as part of a possible weapon draw. That's when Cruz quickly shoots him twice, in the chest and abdomen.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Public Records Again Expose Albuquerque Police Misconduct
10-02-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Several hours before he shot Boyd 3 times, at point blank range, with an M-4 Assault Rifle - Sandy stated to a New Mexico State Police Sergeant, that he was "going to shoot him with [unintelligible] a shotgun here in a second."
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News Link • Iraq
Why Did the U.S. Attack Iraq in 2003?
10-02-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Bush knew for sure that Saddam Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction (see, for example, here, here, here and here.) If Iraqi WMD presented no excuse or rationale or justification, why did the U.S. attack Iraq?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
ComputerCOP: Dubious 'Internet Safety Software' Police Agencies Distribute
10-02-2014
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EFF
As official as it looks, ComputerCOP is actually just spyware, generally bought in bulk from a New York company that appears to do nothing but market this software to local government agencies.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
LA cops kill one person every week
10-01-2014
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Police in Los Angeles County have killed at least 589 people since 2000, according to a report by the Los Angeles Youth Justice Coalition, based on homicide data from the Los Angeles Coroner's Office and local media.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Nashville is demanding $125 just to take pictures in public parks
10-01-2014
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BenSwann.com
Nashville Metro parks has been cracking down on a little known regulation that requires all photographers, both professional and amateur, to acquire a $125 permit before taking photos or filming in a public park. Even "selfies".
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ghost Gunner by Defense Distributed -- Pre-Order today...
10-01-2014
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Ghost Gunner
Today, Defense Distributed unveils project Ghost Gunner...Ghost Gunner is an open source CNC mill developed to enable the common man to more easily and privately manufacture critical gun components.
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News Link • Science
Urban Spiders Scaling Up
10-01-2014
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arclein
To measure urbanization, the authors looked primarily at ground cover throughout the city, at several scales, where they collected each spider: Are surfaces mostly paved? Is there a lack of natural vegetation? Lawns as opposed to leaf litter?
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News Link • Agriculture
WWOOF
10-01-2014
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arclein
WOOFING is a loose network of national organisations that facilitate placement of volunteers on organic farms. While there are WWOOF hosts in 99 countries around the world, no central list or organisation encompasses all WWOOF hosts. As there is no s
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Does DMT Open the Door to Afterlife?
10-01-2014
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arclein
The most fascinating thing about DMT, or N,N-dimethyltryptamine, is that it occurs naturally in the human body, as well as in many other animal and plant species. Think about that one for one second, the most potent psychedelic known to man, and we a
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Army Special Forces Soldier Delivers Jaw Dropping Letter to US Politicians
10-01-2014
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arclein
Understanding that you have the attention span of indigenous forces undergoing rifle training, I give you the options of either reading this letter in its entirety or simply skipping to the last two paragraphs.
Sadly, you neither get the reference
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Vote 2014: Arizona Gubernatorial Debate from Sept 29, 2014 on PBS
10-01-2014
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Horizon
For the first time since 1997, Arizona is poised to have a male governor. Hear from the four men who want to lead our state. Republican Doug Ducey, Democrat Fred DuVal, Libertarian Barry Hess and Americans Elect representative John Mealer will debate
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
CNC Gunsmithing Files
10-01-2014
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CNC Gunsmithing
Here are the files you can download for free. Currently there are three different types of files. First format is the SolidWorks E-drawings. This file format will allow anybody to open the files no matter what software you have installed. E-drawi
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
The Relevance of the Hong Kong Protests
10/01/2014
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H. Skip Robinson - Between the Headlines.net
As the people of Hong Kong rise up in mass, I hope they understand the relevance or their actions. These protests are vastly more important then most of them probably understand.
Political participation throughout history has not yielded the libe
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News Link • Gun Rights
The $1,200 Machine That Lets Anyone Make a Metal Gun at Home
10-01-2014
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Wired.Com
When Cody Wilson revealed the world's first fully 3-D printed gun last year, he showed that the "maker" movement has enabled anyone to create a working, lethal firearm with a click in the privacy of his or her garage. Now he's moved on to a n
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
FedEx's New Electric Trucks Get a Boost From Diesel Turbines
10-01-2014
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http://www.wired.com
FedEx runs such a massive operationâ€"it uses more than 47,000 vehicles and nearly 700 aircraft to deliver about 4 million packages every dayâ€"that any systemic change it makes to cut down its carbon footprint can have major consequences.
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News Link • Secession
Secession Is a Grand American Tradition
10-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
On the heels of a failed attempt in Scotland to separate from the UK, longtime American lawmaker Ron Paul is opening up about his take on secessionism in the United States.
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News Link • Drones
Why Do Americans Hate Beheadings But Love Drone Killings?
10-01-2014
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com
The answer lies in human psychology. And probably like the old observation about history, people who refuse to understand human psychology are doomed to be victims of psychological manipulation.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Good2Go: App lets users give consent but raises privacy concerns
10-01-2014
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http://www.nydailynews.com
The new app, which helps two parties gauge their level of intoxication and practice affirmative consent, also requires users to log their phone numbers. This means the company gets information about who a user is hooking up with and when it happened.
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News Link • Government
Liberal doves run as war hawks
10-01-2014
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http://www.politico.com
Democrat Kay Hagan didn't mince words about the Iraq War during her 2008 Senate campaign against Republican Elizabeth Dole.
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News Link • Economy - International
Draghi Pressures ECB to Buy "Junk-Rated" Loan Bundles of Greece and Cyprus
10-01-2014
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
On September 4, ECB President pulled out a financial bazooka including a pledge to build up the ECB's balance sheet by another €1 trillion.
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News Link • Propaganda
More Washington Lies
10-01-2014
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paulcraigroberts.org
Whatever is occurring in Hong Kong, it bears no relation to what is being reported about it in the Western print and TV media. These reports spin the protests as a conflict between the demand for democracy and a tyrannical Chinese government
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News Link • Pandemic
Will CDC Activate Emergency Measures After Ebola Confirmed in US?
10-01-2014
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Prison Planet
Provisions would allow for quarantine of "well persons" who "do not show symptoms" of virus
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Atlas Mugged: How a Libertarian Paradise in Chile Fell Apart
10-01-2014
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vice.com
It was a good idea, in theory anyway. The plan was to form a sustainable community made up of people who believed in capitalism, limited government, and self-reliance.
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News Link • Humor
And the government's like, "Just kidding!"
10-01-2014
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Daily Paul.com
And the government's like, "Just kidding!"
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News Link • Pandemic
Don't panic over Ebola in America
10-01-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Ebola is terrifying. But it's not likely to kill you, or to spread widely in the United States. What's scary â€" and hyped â€" about Ebola isn't what makes it dangerous.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
Caught On Tape: HFT Algo Manipulating GOOGL 1000 Times Per Second
10-01-2014
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zerohedge.com
It is very common to find examples of stock quotes changing rapidly - hundreds and sometimes thousands of times per second in a single stock.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Why Do Americans Hate Beheadings But Love Drone Killings?
10-01-2014
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Coleen Rowley, Huffington Post
The answer lies in human psychology. And probably like the old observation about history, people who refuse to understand human psychology are doomed to be victims of psychological manipulation.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US Defense Industry Winning In Syria And Iraq, With Long Campaign Expected
10-01-2014
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Christopher Harress, International Business Times
As the U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria continue, it remains unclear exactly how the mission against the Islamic State group will unfold. But what is evident already as strikes escalate is that U.S. defense companies are already cashing in.
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News Link • Gun Rights
California Governor Jerry Brown Vetoes "Ghost Gun" Ban, Signs Three Other Gun Control Bill
09-30-2014
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CAL-FFL
Gun rights group CAL-FFL applauds today's veto of SB 808 but calls Brown's actions a "mixed bag"
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Vatican Paedophilia Scandal: Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski Stored Over 100,000 Child Porn Videos
09-30-2014
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http://www.ibtimes.co, By Umberto Bacchi
A former Vatican archbishop accused of paedophilia stored tens of thousands of child porn videos and photos on a computer in his office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic, it has emerged.
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News Link • Military
The WORLD is up against a 250-year old banking system that owns our MILITARY!
09-30-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com,
...another great Crosstalk program on RT...
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News Link • TERRORISM
Michael Scheuer: "ISIS Could Not Ask For Any Greater Gift..."
09-30-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by goldenequity
Michael Scheuer: "ISIS Could Not Ask For Any Greater Gift Than The One Obama's Giving Them"
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News Link • Surveillance
The Ghost of Ronald Reagan Authorizes Most NSA Spying
09-30-2014
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By Cora Currier and Ryan Devereaux
U.S. intelligence agents have broad authority to spy on U.S. companies as long as they are "believed to have some relationship with foreign organizations or persons"
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
The Libertarian Angle: The Role of Government in a Free Society
09-30-2014
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http://fff.org, by Future of Freedom Foundation
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: a recent debate with Dinesh D'Souza.
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News Link • Currencies
Emerging markets eye renminbi trading alternative to dollar
09-30-2014
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ft.com
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Police Urge Residents to Outfit Homes With Police-run Surveillance Cameras
09-30-2014
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infowars.com
For $10 a month, residents of New Orleans suburb can hook home cameras up to law enforcement surveillance grid
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News Link • World News
Spanish court suspends Catalonia independence referendum
09-30-2014
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http://www.dw.de,
Spain's Constitutional Court has blocked a referendum to grant independence to the wealthy northeastern region of Catalonia. It must now consider the government's request that the vote be declared unconstitutional.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Afghanistan to Sign Deal to Let US Keep 10,000 Troops There
09-30-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Pact Will Keep Troops in Afghanistan 'Through 2024 and Beyond'
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News Link • Surveillance
Alabama high school says NSA was monitoring students on social media
09-30-2014
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fusion.net
An alleged phone call from the NSA prompted public school officials in an Alabama school district to launch a surveillance program to monitor students' online activities, administrators of the Huntsville City School District now admit.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Hard choices: Hillary Clinton admits role in Honduran coup aftermath
09-30-2014
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http://america.aljazeera.com, by Mark Weisbrot
Clinton's embrace of far-right narrative on Latin America is part of electoral strategy
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News Link • Iraq
Isis an Hour Away from Baghdad
09-30-2014
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http://www.unz.com, By Patrick Cockburn
No sign of the Iraq army being able to make a successful counter-attack, and US air strikes are making little difference.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
US Killed Syria Civilians After Mistaking Grain Silo for 'Jihadist Base'
09-30-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Observatory: At Least 19 Civilians Killed in US Air War
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
US Expands Syria Strikes: Not Just a War Against ISIS
09-30-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Attacks Hit Four Different Provinces Today
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