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Date Sent: 2014-08-25
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Monday, August 25, 2014 |
Autopsy report shows Louisiana police lied about suspect's suicide by shooting self in back
Woman set reservation fire to give friends work -- Dating On Duty: Officers Accused Of Screening Dates Using Police System -- TX police draw guns on mother and young kids they mistook for gun-waving black men
-- Obama to Citizens of Ferguson: Carrying a Gun 'Undermines Justice'
-- Why "Good Cops" Stay Silent: The Persecution of Officer Adam Basford
-- Activists carry coffin of mentally ill woman killed by Phoenix police
-- Darknet drug markets kept alive by great customer service -- The
Deeply Thoughtful Discussion On Force (Yada, Yada, Yada) -- Wonder Why The Folks In Ferguson Are Up In Arms About Their Police?
-- Suffield's 'Chicken Chick' won't give up her chickens, despite
cease-and-desist order -- Ukraine's Independence Day -- Why and How We
Must Protect the Right to Film Cops in Ferguson -- U.S. Copyright Office Denies Monkeys Rights To Their Selfies -- Silver Bullet Bullion Generates Gleeful Grins -- Israel's Genocidal Killing Machine -- USGS: 6.0 earthquake shakes California's Bay Area
AZ: [Tempe] LIBERTY ELECTION NIGHT PARTY - Tuesday, August 26,
2014, 7:00 PM
NH: Freecoast Festival Schedule Filling Out
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Autopsy report shows Louisiana police lied about suspect's suicide by shooting self in back
08-24-2014
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Rawstory
According to the official autopsy report Victor White died from a gunshot to the chest, not in his back as reported by the arresting officer. White was arrested by State Police on narcotics charges and was handcuffed behind his back, in the back of a
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Woman set reservation fire to give friends work
08-24-2014
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Associated Press
She was riding in a car and lit a small firework and threw it out the window, where it ignited brush, court records say. Johnson was arrested days after posting on Facebook, "Like my fire?"
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Dating On Duty: Officers Accused Of Screening Dates Using Police System
08-24-2014
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CBS News
Fairfield Police Officers used company time and equipment to search for women on internet dating sites. Then used the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System ? the police database ? to screen the women they liked.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
TX police draw guns on mother and young kids they mistook for gun-waving black men
08-24-2014
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Rawstory
Police were responding to a 911 call about a tan-colored Toyota carrying four black males, one of whom was waving a handgun out the window ? which is why Kametra Barbour is confused as to why she and her four young children in a burgundy red Nissan M
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama to Citizens of Ferguson: Carrying a Gun 'Undermines Justice'
08-24-2014
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The Daily Sheeple
With National Guard now stationed in Ferguson, Missouri as the riots and protests continue over the shooting death of an unarmed teen by police, Obama held a press conference where he said citizens carrying guns undermines justice.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Why "Good Cops" Stay Silent: The Persecution of Officer Adam Basford
08-24-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
"I can't get killed for this job," observed one of Adam Basford's former colleagues in the Yakima Police Department, explaining why he had refused to come to Basford's aid during a hand-to-hand struggle with an armed suspect.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Activists carry coffin of mentally ill woman killed by Phoenix police
08-24-2014
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Reuters
Activists protesting the fatal shooting of a mentally ill woman by a Phoenix police sergeant last week carried her coffin to City Hall on Friday, demanding an independent investigation into her killing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Darknet drug markets kept alive by great customer service
08-24-2014
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ars technica
You can't access darknet markets using a normal browser. It's a natural place for an uncensored drugs marketplace, as it is for whistleblower websites and political dissidents, which use it to keep their visitors hidden.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Deeply Thoughtful Discussion On Force (Yada, Yada, Yada)
08-24-2014
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Simple Justice
Yes, it is a difficult job for "coppers out there." And it's not too sweet for the guys they kill, either. But hey, it's all about the "reasonable fear" of the police. There's no room for the reasonable expectation of a regular guy to live another
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Wonder Why The Folks In Ferguson Are Up In Arms About Their Police?
08-24-2014
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Jonathan Turley
It got me wondering why the folks in Ferguson, Mo. are demonstrating on a daily basis about their policing. Wonderment stopped last evening when I came across this video by 35-year veteran of the St. Louis County Police Department
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Chickens and Turkeys
Suffield's 'Chicken Chick' won't give up her chickens, despite cease-and-desist orde
08-24-2014
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Journal Inquirer
Even in the wake of a town-issued cease-and-desist order, Kathleen Mormino ? the self-proclaimed "Chicken Chick" ? isn't about to give up her chickens despite not possessing the required acreage on which to raise them.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Why and How We Must Protect the Right to Film Cops in Ferguson
08-24-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Josh Levy
The standoff in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson has had Americans, and many around the world, glued to their various screens.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Animals and Pets
U.S. Copyright Office Denies Monkeys Rights To Their Selfies
08-24-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Sarah Fecht
That means no more business for this monkey.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Eric Holder's police shooting record? Dismal: Column
08-24-2014
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http://www.usatoday.com, James Bovard
When the attorney general had the chance to be tough on police shootings, he did next to nothing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
Freecoast Festival Schedule Filling Out
08-22-2014
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Shire Liberty News
PORTSMOUTH - The Freecoast.org, which fosters the growing liberty movement in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire, has released new details about the upcoming first annual Freecoast Festival.
The event takes place Sept. 19-20, 2014 in the towns
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Sandy Pierre
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News Link • Precious Metals
Silver Bullet Bullion Generates Gleeful Grins
08-24-2014
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I stumbled on their ad while reading - Ed
"...the most powerful ammunition against deficit spending, fiat currency, sovereign debt, quantitative easing, failed Federal Reserve policy, and rampant inflation ever minted by man!"
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Geology
USGS: 6.0 earthquake shakes California's Bay Area
08-24-2014
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Associated Press
A large earthquake rolled through California's northern Bay Area early Sunday, damaging some buildings, knocking out power to thousands and sending residents running out of their homes in the darkness.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, August 24, 2014 Edition
08-22-2014
John Semmens
Congressman Wants to Ban Body Armor
Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA) has introduced legislation that would prohibit the sale, use, or possession of body armor by unauthorized persons. "Authorized persons" in Honda's view include government law-enforcement p
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News Link • Healthcare
Liberia quarantines entire villages
08-18-2014
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Next News Network
For several weeks now, the World Health Organization has been calling the Ebola outbreak an international emergency. And now, Liberia is stepping up their efforts to contain the disease. The local government is setting up quarantine zones for entire
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
The State of Medical Marijuana in Florida - Renne Petro Interview
08-19-2014
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Next News Network
Medical marijuana is now legal in more than 23 US states and Washington DC. In the last several years, many statehouses are starting to embrace change regarding cannabis, especially for sick patients.
But in states like Florida, many patients hav
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Police State
Killer Cops Terrorizing America
08-19-2014
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Next News Network
A pair of New York City police officers used an illegal chokehold to bring a man down several days ago. Cell phone video obtained by the New York Daily News shows officer Daniel Pantaleo using a choke hold to bring down a man they suspect was selling
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Police State
Ferguson Injustice Breeds Violence
08-18-2014
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Next News Network
The scene in Ferguson Missouri is still spiraling out of control. Nestled quietly in America?s heartland, most people probably never heard of Ferguson before a police officer shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown right in the middle of the r
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Danny Muller Discusses the Conflict in Gaza
08-17-2014
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Next News Network
For more than three weeks now, Israel and Hamas have been at war. Over a thousand people are dead, hundreds of thousands fled their homes, and both sides are accusing the other of committing war crimes against humanity.
Israeli Prime Minister Ben
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Economy - International
Slavery?s Modern Face in the Middle East with Robert Fulford
08-22-2014
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arclein
Much of the manual labour in these countries, and much of the domestic work, is performed by people who in the 19th century were known as indentured bond-slaves or coolies. The British Empire abolished slavery in the 1830s, the U.S. in the 1860s, but
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robert klein
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News Link • Drug War
Police Will Punish You for Being Charitable
08-21-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
One day while I was at work and there was no one in the house, this young man brought a friend and another person into my home and sold the stranger a couple of grams of marijuana. This other person (buyer) turned out to be an undercover cop. The fol
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The consequences of a "confrontation" with cops
08-21-2014
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He's on paid administrative leave and the Enfield Police investigated it as a crime, found probable cause for assault and submitted a warrant for third degree assault and fabricating evidence. Hartford State's Attorney rejected the warrant.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
A Test of Sorts: Kajieme Powell
08-21-2014
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Simple Justice
No doubt the St. Louis police were unaware that the whole scene was caught on video from a distance. Had they known, perhaps they would have been more circumspect in the story put out for public consumption. Or seized the video so no one
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Your Silence Confesses Your Guilt
08-21-2014
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by Wendy McElroy
In Salinas v. Texas, SCOTUS ruled that a defendant's refusal to answer police questions before his arrest and before being Mirandized could be admitted into court as substantive evidence of his guilt. If such a defendant did not explicitly
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Unlike Russia, the U.S. Government Won't Take Your Pension Outright
08-21-2014
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Bloomberg
Russia is not the first country to confiscate pension assets to pay its bills, and it probably won't be the last. Argentina, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, and Bulgaria have all done the same in the last six years.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
It's A Poor Mechanic Who Blames The Terry Stop
08-21-2014
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Simple Justice
I wonder whether Terry v. Ohio, improperly understood and mistakenly taught in police academies to give virtually unlimited power to stop (and frisk) citizens as they go about their business, emboldened generations of cops to be overly aggressive
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
The National Guard protects Ferguson's police, not its people
08-21-2014
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al-Jazerra
As Monday night's images of excessive force showed, the National Guard was called in to protect the police, not the people. Through wafts of tear gas, with guns ready, these troops provided military backup to an already militarized police force.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
US 'Concerned' by Arrest of American in Israel
08-21-2014
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Associated Press
The U.S. government has raised concerns about Israel's arrest of a Palestinian teenager with American citizenship whose cousin was burned to death by Israeli extremists earlier this summer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Perry Takes The Perp Walk
08-21-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Yesterday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry turned himself in response to the indictment for alleged abuse of power. Regardless of how you feel about Perry, he takes a damn good mug shot.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Got weapons? Nude body scanners easily defeated
08-21-2014
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ars technica
Researchers highlight how easy it is to get weapons through the nude body scanners that have been removed from US airports but have been placed at other government installations across the globe.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
School Kid Suspended And ARRESTED For Imagining Shooting A Dinosaur
08-21-2014
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Prison Planet
Furious parents not informed until police had taken son into custody
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Policeman Suspended For Pointing A Rifle At A Peaceful Protester In Missouri
08-21-2014
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Prison Planet
A St. Louis-area police officer was suspended indefinitely on Wednesday for pointing a semi-automatic assault rifle at a peaceful demonstrator as tensions flared during protests over the Aug. 9 police shooting of black teenager Michael Brown.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Propaganda
James Foley Beheading: What They're Not Telling You
08-21-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Controversial video a powerful new casus belli for war
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain Dips 37% Into Social Security "Piggy Bank"...
08-21-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com,
The "recovery" news in Spain keeps piling up. Via translation from El Economista, Government has already taken 37% of the total 'pensions piggy bank'. If extractions continue at the current rate, the fund would be exhausted in 4 years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Former Mob Boss Warns Of Stock Market Crash: "I Don't Trust Wall Street? Buy Gold And Silve
08-21-2014
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shtfplan.com
If you want to know how crooks behave and what you can do to protect yourself, why not ask a former mob boss?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Houston Mayor Releases Statement on Body Cameras
08-21-2014
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thelibertybeat.com
On Wednesday, Houston Mayor Annise Parker released a statement about the prospect of Houston Police officers wearing body cameras.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Electronic Frontier Foundation Releases Updated Cell Phone Guide For Protesters
08-21-2014
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thelibertybeat.com
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published an updated version of its cell phone guide to protesters.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Video: Swat Team Raids Innocent elderly Woman's Home; Lawsuit Filed
08-21-2014
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Daily Paul.com
An elderly woman's home was raided by police after she was suspected of making anonymous online threats against the Evansville police department and Chief Billy Bolin.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Turning America Into a War Zone, Where 'We the People' Are the Enemy
08-21-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by John W. Whitehead
"If you don't want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
US police given billions from Homeland Security for 'tactical' equipment
08-21-2014
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http://www.theguardian.com, Spencer Ackerman
With little oversight, federal agency awarded billions to local police for spending on drones, drugs, vehicles and 'animals and plants', among eligible purchases
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Imagine - A tribute to Ron Paul's 2009 radio address "Imagine" by Former IDF Officer
08-21-2014
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Daily Paul.com
"I grew up in Israel and served as an IDF officer. It took me years to realize that we had been brought up on lies, myths and propaganda and that Palestinians are no different from native Americans,.....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Worse than Nazis: Official US Army Manual 3-39.33 ok SNIPING UnArmed American Protesters...
08-21-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Read the PDF for yourselves; ready to have your minds blown: U.S. Army Techniques Publication 3-39.33: Civil Disturbances
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