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Date Sent: 2015-03-03
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, March 3, 2015 |
Feds raid Texas political meeting -- The Danger of Being Neighborly Without a Permit
4 More Victims Come Forward From Chicago Secret Prison, Man Tortured Over Weed -- Autopsy Contradicts Denver Police in Killing of Teenage Girl -- An Uncivil Defense -- NYPD to conduct "virtual stakeouts," get alerts on wanted cars nationwide -- Federal Appeals Court Endorses Suspicionless Detention Of Air Force Officer -- LAPD Caught on Video Shooting Unarmed Homeless Man to Death While Holding Him Facedown -- What Firewall? China's Fledgling Deep Web Community -- Tesla: Bonfire of the Money Printers' Vanities -- 03-03-15 -- Carla Gericke - Scott Horton - Evan Cutler -- LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- The State Needs You to Do Its Dirty Work -- Obama's War on Humanity at Home and Abroad: Roland John's Appalling Treatment -- New Dietary Guidelines Reverse Flawed Recommendations on Cholesterol -- The "dependent victim" psyop -- AR-15 Bullet Sales Surge After ATF Ban Announcement -- Private police carry guns and make arrests, and their ranks are swelling -- Ikea turns furniture into wireless phone chargers -- U. of Texas fraternity goes unpunished for 'border patrol' party -- Judge approves settlement allowing return of some Mexicans expelled from California
AZ: Heirs of the Republic Constitutional Study Group - Larry Reed Speaker - Weds., 03/11/15 - Tucson, AZ; BitcoinSummit.info - Sat., March 14th 2015, 9am-5pm & Evening Party; World Liberty Conference Bali 2015 - June 29 - July 3rd, 2015 (ISIL)
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News Link • Police State
Feds raid Texas political meeting
03-02-2015
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WND
In a deliberate "show of force," federal and local police forces raided a political meeting in Texas, fingerprinting and photographing all attendees as well as confiscating all cell phones and personal recording devices.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
The Danger of Being Neighborly Without a Permit
03-02-2015
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The Atlantic
The Leawood City Council said it had received complaints about Spencer Collins' Little Free Library. They dubbed it an "illegal detached structure" and told the Collins' they would face a fine if they did not remove it by June 19.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
4 More Victims Come Forward From Chicago Secret Prison, Man Tortured Over Weed
03-02-2015
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The Anti-Media
They were kicked in the genitals while helpless and bound, put in 'kennels for humans', and they heard the bloodcurdling screams of other helpless victims while they thought they would never see the light of day again.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Autopsy Contradicts Denver Police in Killing of Teenage Girl
03-02-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Denver police claimed they killed 17-year-old Jessica Hernandez because they were in fear for their lives as she drove a stolen car towards them in a narrow alleyway, striking one of the officers and leaving him injured.
But an autopsy report rele
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
An Uncivil Defense
03-02-2015
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Simple Justice
Tamir's death and all of the injuries his family claims in the suit "were directly and proximately caused by their own acts, not this Defendant." The 12-year-old's shooting death was caused "by the failure … to exercise due care
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
NYPD to conduct "virtual stakeouts," get alerts on wanted cars nationwide
03-02-2015
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ars technica
"Vigilant Video is compiling a vast database tracking Americans' movements, and it's no surprise that one of the most prolific users of surveillance, the NYPD, would seek to access it...for the first time enabling the mass tracking of Americans,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Checkpoints
Federal Appeals Court Endorses Suspicionless Detention Of Air Force Officer
03-02-2015
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The Newspaper
An Air Force major detained at a suspicionless roadblock 5 years ago will not be able to sue for damages. Border Patrol agents could hold Major Richard Rynearson indefinitely simply because they did not care for his attitude.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
LAPD Caught on Video Shooting Unarmed Homeless Man to Death While Holding Him Facedown
03-02-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
An LAPD cop shot and killed a homeless man on Los Angeles' Skid Row as other officers held him facedown on the sidewalk, sparking outrage from dozens of witnesses, calling the cop who pulled the trigger a "sellout" because he was black like the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
What Firewall? China's Fledgling Deep Web Community
03-02-2015
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Motherboard
The deep web allows even people living under harsh internet censorship to publish content anonymously. Those behind the Great Firewall of China are no exception.
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Powell Gammill
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
03-03-15 -- Carla Gericke - Evan Cutler (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Carla Gericke (President - Free State Project) provides and update on the FSP, and talks about the upcoming Liberty Forum - Evan Cutler (TSA Watch) reports news related to the Transportation Security Administration
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News Link • Police State
The State Needs You to Do Its Dirty Work
03-02-2015
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Lew Rockwell blog
This is why I am so hard on Americans in the CIA, military, DEA, NSA, TSA, IRS, etc. They are the ones empowering the state. The state lives and breathes through them.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
New Dietary Guidelines Reverse Flawed Recommendations on Cholesterol
03-02-2015
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http://articles.mercola.com, By Dr. Mercola
For the past half century, cholesterol has been touted as a grave health hazard, and dietary fat and cholesterol have been portrayed as being among the "deadliest" foods you could possibly eat.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Protein and Strength Training--Two Important Components for Healthy Aging
03-02-2015
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http://fitness.mercola.com, By Dr. Mercola
As you age, it becomes harder to maintain muscle strength and bone health. Muscles tend to reduce in size unless you consistently exercise, which decreases strength and increases the likelihood of falls and fractures.
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
The "dependent victim" psyop
03-02-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Jon Rappoport
I could have titled this piece: "What government fears: the black entrepreneur."
But the situation is much wider than that--
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News Link • Self-Defense
AR-15 Bullet Sales Surge After ATF Ban Announcement
03-02-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Customers are purchasing AR-15 ammo in volumes up to 20 times the normal rate in some gun stores across the country in reaction to the ATF's plan to ban 5.56 mm steel-tipped bullets.
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News Link • Police State
Private police carry guns and make arrests, and their ranks are swelling
03-02-2015
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Justin Jouvenal
Michael Youlen stopped a driver in a Manassas apartment complex on a recent night and wrote the man a ticket for driving on a suspended license.
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News Link • Inventions
Ikea turns furniture into wireless phone chargers
03-02-2015
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http://news.yahoo.com, AFP
Global furniture giant Ikea announced on Sunday the launch of desks, tables and lamps that will wirelessly charge phones and other devices.
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News Link • Racism
U. of Texas fraternity goes unpunished for 'border patrol' party
03-02-2015
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http://college.usatoday.com, By: Alexandra Samuels
The University of Texas at Austin's Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity -- commonly referred to as Fiji â€" attracted attention from UT students and others after hosting a "border patrol" themed party Feb. 7. Guests reportedly arrived wearing sombrero
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News Link • Mexico
Judge approves settlement allowing return of some Mexicans expelled from California
03-02-2015
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https://ca.news.yahoo.com, By Marty Graham
A court ruling clears the way for hundreds and perhaps thousands of immigrants improperly expelled to Mexico from Southern California to be allowed to return to seek legal U.S. residency, an official with a civil rights group said on Saturday.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Americans Have Obeyed Their Last Gun Law:
A cyberpamphlet by L. Neil Smith
03-02-2015
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Some 2 dozen people had just been murdered in an American public school, herded into traps where they were physically unable or illegally forbidden to defend themselves, and I knew those most fundamentally responsible would never
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA Spying Wins Another Rubber Stamp
03-02-2015
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The National Journal
A federal court again renewed an order allowing the National Security Agency to continue its bulk collection of Americans' phone records, that comes more than a year after President Obama pledged to end the controversial program.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Spam Uses Default Passwords to Hack Routers
03-02-2015
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Krebs on Security
Phishers are sending out links that, when clicked, quietly alter the settings on vulnerable routers to harvest online banking credentials and other sensitive data from victims.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Assad or no Assad, West asks, as IS rises and conflict rages
03-02-2015
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AFP
Faced with a seemingly unending bloody conflict in Syria and the rise of the Islamic State group, is President Bashar al-Assad the lesser of the country's evils and should the West re-engage with him?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Pittsburgh man writes police chief after witnessing police brutality and seeing immediate coverup
03-02-2015
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Daily Kos
Pittsburgh resident Samm Hodges bore witness not only to an extreme case of police brutality, but the quick coverup and lies that police often spin to cover their tracks. So disturbed by what he saw, he wrote this letter to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Text Messages Show Officers Who Shot 137 Rounds Into Car Knew Suspects Were Unarmed
03-02-2015
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The Free Thought Proiject
Officer Michael Brelo is preparing to stand trial for a November 29, 2012 shooting in which him and 12 other officers fired 137 shots at multiple unarmed victims.
Brelo stands accused of firing 46 shots, some while on the hood of the victims' ca
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Truth in Media: The Origin of ISIS
03-02-2015
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Ben Swann
Angela Keaton, the founder of Antiwar.com, said that ISIS is "entirely a creation of the United States' behavior in Iraq."
"That's how we got to where we are, because of war, because of occupation, because of torture," Keaton said. "
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt jails prominent blogger and activists for breaking protest law
02-28-2015
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http://www.globalpost.com, Laura Dean
Alaa Abdel Fattah was one of the guiding voices of Egypt's 2011 revolution.
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News Link • Gun Rights
OH Supreme Court Says Gun Law Doesn't Apply to Cops
02-28-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com,by Jao171
Last week the Ohio Supreme Court essentially ruled that current gun laws should not be enforced equally across the population.
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
FBI Tries To 'FLIP' Open Carry Activist After Arrest At Political Rally
02-28-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by MIKAEL THALEN
The activist, Anthony Bosworth, was participating in the "Our State, Our Rights" rally outside the city's federal courthouse when members of multiple federal agencies approached and began demanding identification.
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News Link • Political Theory
When is the Patriot Economic Boycott going to start?
02-28-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Ralph Waldo
I'm afraid the Neo-Cons are going to lure the liberty-minded patriots into once again wasting their time, money, hopes and dreams (and two more years), in believing they can elect a president who can change things in D.C.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Hyperinflation in Ukraine Sends Gold Price Soaring; Currency halt expected
02-28-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by SteveMT
As Ukraine's socio-economic situation goes from wost to worst-er, today's announcement by President Poroshenko that the government will take actions to stabilize the currency (which as we previously noted, appears to be heading for hyperinflation) ha
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News Link • TERRORISM
ISIS explained by Ben Swann
02-28-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by scawarren
ISIS? Who are they and where did they come from? Ben Swann explains in his latest great piece.
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
What Gandhi said about vaccines
02-28-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com,by Jdayh
Almost one century ago, Gandhi published a book where he deconstructed the dangers and lack of effectiveness of vaccines and the agendas surrounding them. His voice rings true now more than ever.
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News Link • Police State
Adam Kokesh threatened & detained by courthouse cop
02-28-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com,by MMJ Ministry
As part of his probation, Adam has to check in with his probation officer at the Santa Monica Courthouse every month. So he thought he'd film people coming out of the courthouse. It doesn't go smoothly.
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News Link • Economy - International
Ukraine To Halt Currency Trading Again Any Minute
02-28-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
With Prime Minister Yatsenyuk putting his foot down and squeezing the central bank to lift capital controls, Ukraine's currency is totally collapsing this morning.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Recession is On the Way: Questioning One's Sanity; Beat the Crowd, Panic Now!
02-28-2015
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
In 2006-2007 I called for a recession. We got a big one. I called for another one in 2011, as did the ECRI. That recession never happened.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NeoCons
The Neoconservative Threat To International Relations
02-28-2015
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paulcraigroberts.org
This week I was invited to address an important conference of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
The Economic Consequences Of Greece
02-28-2015
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zerohedge.com
The first sentence of the 1957 Treaty of Rome â€" the founding document of what would eventually become the European Union â€"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Puerto Rico's 3rd Largest Bank Fails
02-28-2015
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zerohedge.com
Based on Bloomberg data, Doral Bank is the 3rd largest (by assets) bank in Puerto Rico...or rather was.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Senate Passes One-Week DHS-Funding Stop-Gap Bill, House Expected To Pass
02-28-2015
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zerohedge.com
UPDATE: In late night negotiations, the Senate has managed to buy themselves a week before this whole farce is played over again:
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News Link • China
China Just Sided With Russia Over The Ukraine Conflict
02-28-2015
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zerohedge.com
When it comes to the Ukraine proxy war, which started in earnest just about one year ago with the violent coup that overthrew then president Yanukovich and replaced him with a local pro-US oligarch,...
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Exclusive: Chicago nears fiscal free fall with latest downgrade
02-28-2015
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Reuters
Chicago drew closer to a fiscal free fall with a rating downgrade from Moody's that could trigger the immediate termination of 4 interest-rate swap agreements, costing the city about $58 million and raising the prospect of more
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News Link • European Union
Germany Emerges
02-28-2015
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arclein
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, accompanied by French President Francois Hollande, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Feb. 6. Then she met with U.S. President Barack Obama on Feb. 9. The primary subject was Ukraine, but the first issue dis
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Stephen Hawking and the Meaning of Non-Aggression
02-27-2015
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Ron Paul dissects famous physicist Stephen Hawking's latest pronouncement that aggression is the most serious human failing.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Internet, RIP?
02-27-2015
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Lew Rockwell blog
Today the Federal Communications Commission, a non-elected federal government agency, voted 3-to-2 to reclassify broadband Internet as a common carrier service under Title II of the Communications Act. This means that
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Nevada Cops Pull Women From Car After Driver Refuses to Roll Window Fully Down
02-27-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Nevada cop who pulled a woman over for speeding ended up dragging her out of the car after she refused to roll her window down all the way, even though she had already rolled it down halfway and already handed him her driver license.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYCLU Victory in NYPD Quota Case Protects Speech of Officers, Public Employees
02-27-2015
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ACLU
"Quotas lead to illegal arrests, criminal summonses and ruined lives. They undermine the trust between the police and the people they are supposed to be protecting and serving," said NYCLU Associate Legal Director
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
I-Team: Collector car owners experience daylight nightmare
02-27-2015
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CBS News
A Washington couple says they were falsely arrested by the Nevada Highway Patrol for stealing a collector car they actually owned.
The highway patrol admitted two errors that led to Robin and Beverly Bruins being removed from their car at gunpoint
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News Link • New World Order
Loretta Lynch Is A Dubious Nominee For Attorney General
02-27-2015
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Empty Wheel
But, all the above ignores the Swiss Alps sized mountains of evidence that we know Lynch was aware of and blithely swept under the rug by her HSBC DPA. So, we are basically left to decide whether Lynch is a bankster loving toady that is her own woman
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Death row inmate gets hearing to review claims of prosecutor misconduct
02-27-2015
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Houston Chronicle
In affidavits supplied to Carty's current defense team last year, in 2014, a DEA agent and two of Carty's co-defendants allege that Harris County prosecutors crossed ethical boundaries and threatened them to ensure Carty's conviction.
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