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Date Sent: 2013-04-05
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, April 5, 2013 |
Iowa’s mysterious ‘Project Catapult’ data center grows bigger
Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance -- Veteran’s Guns Confiscated After Forced ‘Psychiatric Evaluation’ -- "State Control": What the UN Firearms Treaty is All About -- How Toxic Dumping Led To Tragedy In A Small Seaside Town -- The Changing Forensic Science Of Arson Is Freeing Innocent Convicts -- Why Tesla Survived and Fisker Won’t -- New Zealand troops begin withdrawal from Afghanistan -- U.S. official: We are ‘not on the brink of war’ with North Korea -- U.S. Stocks Rise as Stimulus Efforts Overshadow Jobs Data --
States With Fewer Gun Laws Are the Most Violent, Study Finds -- India
Jobs Program Scam Pays Wages to Dead Workers -- North Korea Seen Unable
to Deliver Nuclear Attack on U.S. -- Secret Service investigating hack of director's information -- Asian Stocks Rise, led by Japan, on Central Bank Stimulus -- Syria says will support currency after plunge in value -- Obama must take the lead on Medicare reform -- The rise of the bitcoin: Virtual gold or cyber-bubble? -- Bribery scandals widen; assemblyman was informant since '09 -- No King But Caesar - by Chuck Baldwin -- Bank of Japan 2% Inflation Goal Is Unrealistic, Gross Says -- Connecticut lawmakers pass sweeping gun control bill in wake of Newtown massacre -- SARS-like virus seems to cause deadly lung infection -- China
reports tenth case of H7N9 bird flu -- Biofuel breakthrough turns
virtually any plant into hydrogen -- Italian priest arrested for 4
million-euro fraud on Vatican-linked hospital -- Authorities seek
two white supremacists in connection to Colorado slaying -- Egypt’s navy
‘intercepts arms-laden ship from Israel’ -- Scientists use 3D printer to make tissue-like material -- Texas
demands its physical gold reserves be returned by the Fed -- Local
Republicans in turmoil - Coconino County, Arizona -- Armed Grandma
Uses Gun to Detain Burglar -- Conn. Gun Control Bill 1160 smells
funny to me -- Discover a safe
alternative to mammography and prevent cancer - naturally
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday, April 6th, 2013; Silver Circle at Pollack Tempe Cinemas
TICKETS NOW ON SALE - April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ -- Lincoln Day
Dinner and Auction with Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack,
Apr. 13
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Iowa’s mysterious ‘Project Catapult’ data center grows bigger
04-04-2013
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Slashdot via RawStory.com
There’s something mysterious happening in Iowa"a massive data center is going up, thought to be the home of a next-generation facility from Apple, Google, or another major provider.
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News Link • Surveillance
Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance
04-04-2013
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c/Net
Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are "impossible to intercept," even with a warrant.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Veteran’s Guns Confiscated After Forced ‘Psychiatric Evaluation’
04-04-2013
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InfoWars
A US Navy veteran had his guns confiscated by police following a forced “psychiatric evaluation” in another purge of armed ex-servicemembers in accordance with a federal government demonization campaign labeling vets domestic terrorists.
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News Link • Gun Rights
"State Control": What the UN Firearms Treaty is All About
04-04-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
White House mouthpiece Jay Carney says the Obama administration will “conduct a thorough review” of the UN’s newly enacted gun control pact “to determine whether to sign the treaty.” The suspense is hardly unbearable, given that
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News Link • Energy
Solar Panels Now Make More Electricity Than They Use
04-04-2013
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Francie Diep via PopSci.com
And by 2020, the solar industry will have completely "paid back" the energy it took to produce the world's panels.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Changing Forensic Science Of Arson Is Freeing Innocent Convicts
04-04-2013
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Francie Diep via PopSci.com
A man who spent 42 years in prison walked free yesterday, released because the evidence that he had committed arson was faulty.
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News Link • Police State
Border Patrol's Newest Tool? VADER On A Drone
04-04-2013
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Kelsey D. Atherton via PopSci.com
Capable of sensing people over a large area, this radar can find and track people hiding in the desert.
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News Link • Military
New Zealand troops begin withdrawal from Afghanistan
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
New Zealand troops began their withdrawal from Afghanistan Friday, with the lowering of the flag for the last time at their base in Bamiyan to mark the end of a 10-year involvement in the war.
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News Link • Work Exchange
U.S. official: We are ‘not on the brink of war’ with North Korea
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
After weeks of intensifying warnings from Washington and threats by Pyongyang, US policymakers are hoping to stop the crisis from spiraling into war while still standing firm on North Korea.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Stocks Rise as Stimulus Efforts Overshadow Jobs Data
04-04-2013
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Bloomber.com
U.S. stocks rose, rebounding from the biggest selloff in more than a month for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, as central banks’ pledges on stimulus efforts overshadowed a rise in American jobless claims.
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News Link • Gun Rights
States With Fewer Gun Laws Are the Most Violent, Study Finds
04-04-2013
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William Selway via Bloomberg.com
U.S. states with the least restrictive gun laws are among those with the highest rates of firearm-related violence such as homicides, suicides and assaults, according to a study of national crime data.
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News Link • Military
North Korea Seen Unable to Deliver Nuclear Attack on U.S.
04-04-2013
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David Lerman via Bloomberg.com
North Korea has displayed a formidable arsenal of rhetoric, threats and symbolic moves in its confrontation with South Korea and the U.S.
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News Link • Surveillance
Secret Service investigating hack of director's information
04-04-2013
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Reuters
The Secret Service was investigating the new Director Julia Pierson's personal information had been hacked and published on a website, another in a string of such incidents including first lady Michelle Obama and CIA Director John Brennan.
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian Stocks Rise, led by Japan, on Central Bank Stimulus
04-04-2013
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Adam Haigh via Bloomberg.com
Asian stocks rose, with Japanese shares surging toward the highest level in almost five years, after the Bank of Japan’s new governor announced unprecedented monetary easing to end two decades of economic stagnation.
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News Link • Syria
Syria says will support currency after plunge in value
04-04-2013
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Reuters
Syria announced on Thursday that it will take steps next week to support its currency after the pound plunged by nearly a quarter last month against the dollar, part of a two-year slide caused by a revolt and ensuing civil war.
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Obama must take the lead on Medicare reform
04-04-2013
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Washington Post
REFORMING MEDICARE must be part of long-term deficit reduction. Alas, between House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s plan to replace Medicare with a “premium support” and President Obama’s refusal to countenance it,
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News Link • Bitcoin
The rise of the bitcoin: Virtual gold or cyber-bubble?
04-04-2013
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Washington Post
A currency surging in value at a breathtaking rate this week belongs to no nation and is issued by no central bank. It can be used to buy gold in California, a hamburger in Berlin or a house in Alberta. When desired, it can offer largely untraceable
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News Link • Corruption
Bribery scandals widen; assemblyman was informant since '09
04-04-2013
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A state assemblyman revealed he has been an informant since 2009 helpeing prosecutors in public-corruption cases " sending shock waves through Albany and leading to speculation that more lawmakers could be taken down in a widening probe.
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Opinion • Religion: Believers
No King But Caesar
04-04-2013
Chuck Baldwin
With the Easter message fresh on my mind, I am again reminded of what the Jewish leaders said to Pilate when they tried to coerce him to crucify Jesus. They said, “We have no king but Caesar.” Remember, these were the Jewish Pharisees, scribes, elder
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News Link • Economy - International
Bank of Japan 2% Inflation Goal Is Unrealistic, Gross Says
04-04-2013
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Susanne Walker via Bloomberg.com
Pacific Investment Management Co.’s Bill Gross said the Bank of Japan’s goal to reach a 2 percent inflation target in two years using its record bond-buying program may be “unrealistic.”
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hackers attack North Korea news website
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
Activist hackers appeared Thursday to have infiltrated North Korea’s official news website and its accompanying Twitter and Flickr feeds, posting unflattering images of leader Kim Jong-Un.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Connecticut lawmakers pass sweeping gun control bill in wake of Newtown massacre
04-04-2013
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Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.com
Lawmakers in Connecticut’s House voted in the early hours of Thursday morning to approve a bill that limits...
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News Link • Activism
Fast food workers stage surprise strike in New York City
04-04-2013
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David Ferguson via The RawStory.com
Workers at more than 70 fast food chain restaurants planned a walkout for Thursday in what organizers are saying is the largest-ever protest of its kind.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
SARS-like virus seems to cause deadly lung infection
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
A new and deadly virus that has killed 11 of the 17 patients treated for it in the Middle East and Britain appears to cause an infection deep in the lungs, researchers said.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
China reports tenth case of H7N9 bird flu
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
Chinese authorities on Thursday reported a man in the eastern province of Zhejiang has been infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu, the tenth human case of the disease which has claimed three lives.
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News Link • Energy
Biofuel breakthrough turns virtually any plant into hydrogen
04-04-2013
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Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.com
Researchers at Virginia Tech announced Thursday that their latest breakthrough in hydrogen extraction technology could lead to widespread adoption of the substance as a fuel due to its ease of availability in virtually all plant matter.
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News Link • Activism
Italian priest arrested for 4 million-euro fraud on Vatican-linked hospital
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
Italian police on Thursday arrested a priest accused of defrauding a Vatican-linked hospital in Rome that he managed of four million euros ($5.1 million), part of which he used to buy an 18-room villa in Tuscany set on 23 hectares of land.
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News Link • Police State
Authorities seek two white supremacists in connection to Colorado slaying
04-04-2013
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Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.com
Law enforcement officials are searching for two men potentially connected to the killing of a top Colorado prisons official, warning that they are both armed and dangerous members of a white supremacist gang.
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News Link • Israel
Egypt’s navy ‘intercepts arms-laden ship from Israel’
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
Egypt’s navy on Thursday seized a weapons-laden ship and detained its crew who had set off from the Israeli port of Eilat en route to the African country of Togo, security officials said.
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News Link • Activism
Animal rights groups slam fox hunting organization after horse dies on first day of meet
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
Animal rights campaigners slammed Grand National organisers after a horse died on the first day of the meeting at Aintree on Thursday.
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News Link • Military
Navy relieves four of duties after minesweeper runs aground in the Philippines
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
The commanding officer and three crew of a US minesweeper which ran aground on a protected coral reef in the Philippines have been relieved of their duties, the US Navy said Thursday.
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News Link • Military
U.S. taking ‘necessary precautions’ on North Korea
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
The United States is taking “all the necessary precautions” in the face of escalating threats from North Korea, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Thursday.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Scientists use 3D printer to make tissue-like material
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
British scientists have used a custom-made 3D printer to make living tissue-like material that could one day serve medical purposes, according to findings released Thursday.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Texas demands its physical gold reserves be returned by the Fed
04-04-2013
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by J. D. Heyes
The seizure of privately held savings accounts by the government of Cyprus, in order to finance a European Union-led bailout, is having reverberations far beyond the shores of that bankrupt nation.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Local Republicans in turmoil - Coconino County, Arizona
04-04-2013
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http://azdailysun.com
A dispute over who's in and who's out of leadership at the Coconino County Republican Committee temporarily landed at the Flagstaff Police Department after the group's bank account was emptied.
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News Link • Political Theory
Defining Democracy
04-04-2013
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arclein
·elected officials not unduly influenced by unelected groups such as the military or religious leaders.
If any one of these conditions is routinely violated, the country is deemed undemocratic, or at least less democratic than countries that do m
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News Link • Science
Mapping Breakthrough for Plant Insect Bipomes
04-04-2013
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arclein
we developed DNA extraction techniques and full DNA barcode libraries that allowed us to identify host plants to the species level," said Carlos Garcia-Robledo, a post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian and lead author of the study. "Another uniqu
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News Link • Gun Rights
Armed Grandma Uses Gun to Detain Burglar
04-04-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Sandra Mize, 63, woke up in the wee hours of Wednesday morning to the noise of someone smashing in the back door of her Spokane, Wash., home.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Conn. Gun Control Bill 1160 smells funny to me.
04-04-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Here are the most dangerous parts of Connecticut's draconian and Unconstitutional gun "Bannng" laws.
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News Link • Agriculture
Aquaponic Gurus on AJ's Show Today! (coming up @ 2:45 pm Central)
04-04-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Two of my close friends were in studio guests on the Alex Jones Show, guest hosted by Mike Adams today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Wikileaks Was Just a Preview: We're Headed for an Even Bigger Showdown Over Secrets
03-22-2013
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Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival; the state has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish anyone who so much as tiptoes across t
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Suspect ID'd in W.Va. sheriff's fatal shooting
04-03-2013
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AP
A new sheriff who was cracking down on the drug trade in southern West Virginia's coalfields was shot to death in the spot where he usually parked his car for lunch, and State Police said the suspect was in a hospital with gunshot wounds inflicted by
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News Link • Gun Rights
Australia's gun controls a political template for the U.S.
04-03-2013
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Reuters
Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard wore a bullet proof vest under his suit when he addressed an angry crowd of gun owners in 1996, telling them he was going to ban automatic and semi-automatic weapons for the safety of all Australians.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan Taliban kill 44 in suicide attack on courtroom
04-03-2013
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Reuters
Nine Taliban suicide bombers killed themselves and 44 others on Wednesday in an attack on a courtroom in western Afghanistan where 10 of their comrades were on trial, a local official said.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Maryland set to become latest state to enact stiff gun-control measure
04-03-2013
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Reuters
Maryland was set to become the latest U.S. state to enact stiff gun control measures, with the approval by the state's House of Delegates of legislation that includes a ban on dozens of assault weapons and limits on magazine size.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Water Prank May Land Radio Show Hosts in Jail
04/03/2013
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worldordernews.com
Two popular radio show hosts may find themselves locked up for telling their listeners the truth, that Dihydrogen Monoxide (water) is flowing from their household taps! Dihydrogen Monoxide is just the chemical name for H2O, that’s right, water! But u
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News Link • Police State
Dr. David Bruce Allen seeks $551 million in lawsuit against Jackson County, Sheriff Mike Byrd
03-28-2013
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April M. Havens, Gulf Live
Former heart surgeon Dr. David Allen -- who in 2009 was accused of growing marijuana at his home, spent 14 months in jail and later had his charges dismissed -- has filed a lawsuit alleging federal civil, constitutional and human rights violations.
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News Link • Government Waste
Where did all the money go? How $700 million in Katrina relief money went missing
04/3/2013
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Yahoo News
Where did all the money go?
“Your guess is as good as mine,” David Montoya, the inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says of $700 million in missing taxpayer money that Louisiana homeowners were given in the wake of
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