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Date Sent: 2014-10-30
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, October 30, 2014 |
GOP Candidate for Arizona Governor has Family Ties to Organized Crime
British Spies Allowed to Access U.S. Data Without a Warrant -- Englishman Charged With Bestiality Over Video That Proved To Be A Man In A Tiger Costume -- Court: No Relief For Man Falsely Accused Of Running Red Light -- The Lead Vaccine Developer Comes Clean So She Can "Sleep At Night" -- FBI cut hotel Internet access, sent agents to "fix" it without warrants -- Irresponsibly Targeting Russia -- FBI Wiretapped Left-Wing Journalist Who Wrote Critical Stories About Nazis In America -- America's Deplorable Afghanistan Legacy -- Durable Goods Decline Second Month; Key Take-Aways -- Switzerland Gold Referendum A Healthy Conversation – Ron Paul -- Lockheed Announces Revolutionary Energy Breakthrough. Shares Fall. -- Jim Rogers: 'We're All Going to pay a Terrible Price' for Central Bank Stimulus -- Hackers Are Using Gmail Drafts to Update Their Malware and Steal Data -- A Day With Project Ara, Google's Crazy Modular Phone -- Lebanon's pot farmers gear up for a fight with Islamic State -- Fighting for Survival in the Sinai -- Putin's Complaint -- Skewering the "Shadow Government" -- How Much is Silver Worth? The Price of Silver & Gold Yesterday & Today -- Former Cop Headed to Trial for Raping a Child While Other Officers Watched -- Detroit man fights $30k child support bill for kid that is not his -- Ebola doctor 'lied' about NYC travels -- Maine, attorneys could be headed for showdown over Ebola-negative nurse -- The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Officially Here -- The Red Cross' Secret Disaster -- Mississippi, Burned: How the poorest, sickest state got left behind by Obamacare
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club, This Saturday, November 1st, 2014; Tonopah Rob's 8th Season Fall Opening / Veggie and Vendor List for 11/1/14; Survival Rendezvous – Young, AZ – November 8-11, 2014
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
GOP Candidate for Arizona Governor has Family Ties to Organized Crime
10-29-2014
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http://www.constantinereport.com
Doug Ducey, the Republican candidate for governor of Arizona in November's election, hails from a family that for two generations was involved in organized crime in Toledo, Ohio, according to a report by The Center for Investigative Reporting and P
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News Link • Surveillance
British Spies Allowed to Access U.S. Data Without a Warrant
10-30-2014
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Newly released documents from the British government reveal a lack of judicial oversight for how it sifts through communications data collected by the NSA and other foreign governments.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Englishman Charged With Bestiality Over Video That Proved To Be A Man In A Tiger Costume
10-30-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Andrew Holland said he has been in a nightmare. 6 months on bail, hire an attorney, and stood accused of a heinous crime. People ridiculed him and shunned him for allegedly possessing a film showing a woman having sex with a tiger.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Court: No Relief For Man Falsely Accused Of Running Red Light
10-30-2014
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The Newspaper
Lawrence Armstrong, a white man, was penalized because he shared a similar name with a Mitsubishi-driving black man who was photographed in California running a red light. In that state, red light camera tickets carry license points, so
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
The Lead Vaccine Developer Comes Clean So She Can "Sleep At Night"
10-30-2014
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Her speech was supposed to promote the Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines, but she instead turned on her corporate bosses in a very public way. Audience members came away feeling the vaccines should not be used.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
FBI cut hotel Internet access, sent agents to "fix" it without warrants
10-30-2014
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ars technica
Authorities built a case for a search warrant by turning off Internet access to villas and at various points, an agent of the FBI and a Nevada gaming official posed as a cable guy, secretly filming while gathering evidence of a bookmaking ring
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
FBI Wiretapped Left-Wing Journalist Who Wrote Critical Stories About Nazis In America
10-29-2014
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Washingtons Blog
In 1968, Mr. Hoover authorized the F.B.I. to wiretap a left-wing journalist who wrote critical stories about Nazis in America, internal records show. Mr. Hoover declared the journalist, Charles Allen, a potential threat to national security.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Arizona Breakfast Club, Saturday, November 1st, 2014.
10/29/2014
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Terry I. Major
Join us for the November meeting of the Arizona Breakfast Club held at Coco's Restaurant at Paradise Valley Mall, 4514 E. Cactus Rd., Phoenix, AZ.
Our speaker will be author, Benjamin Wick.
He will be speaking on the topic: "America: being a ci
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA releases more information on Antares explosion
10-29-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com
At a press conference arranged only a few hours after the event, NASA released details of the explosion of the Antares rocket carrying the unmanned Cygnus supply ship to the International Space Station (ISS).
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Durable Goods Decline Second Month; Key Take-Aways
10-29-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Inquiring minds are digging into the Census Bureau Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories and Orders for September 2014 for hints at 4th quarter GDP.
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News Link • How To
5 Discreet Weapons you can Carry (Almost) Anywhere
10-29-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
Let's face it: it would be nice to be able to carry a concealed firearm with you wherever you go to be able to protect yourself and your family from any of the millions of crazy people in the world who don't have your best interests in mind.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Switzerland Gold Referendum A Healthy Conversation â€" Ron Paul
10-29-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
Although it is unlikely Switzerland's gold referendum will pass, one U.S. politician said the country is embarking on a "healthy conversation" regarding the role of its national bank.
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News Link • Economy - International
Jim Rogers: 'We're All Going to pay a Terrible Price' for Central Bank Stimulus
10-29-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
Since the economic collapse a few years ago, the primary policy initiative for the Federal Reserve and central banks all over the world has been to print, reduce interest rates to near zero and provide cheap money to stock markets.
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News Link • 3D Printing
Formlabs Whips Up New Squishy, Shiny 3-D Printing Materials
10-29-2014
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http://www.wired.com
Low-cost 3-D printing has given designers and engineers tremendous freedomâ€"as long as they only need to design products made of plastic.
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News Link • Geology
Fantastically Wrong: The Real-Life Journey to the Center of the Earth That Almost Was
10-29-2014
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http://www.wired.com
Back in 1818, some 500 heads of state, scientific societies, and universities got what could generously be called one of the more singular letters they'd ever received.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hackers Are Using Gmail Drafts to Update Their Malware and Steal Data
10-29-2014
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http://www.wired.com
In his career-ending extramarital affair that came to light in 2012, General David Petraeus used a stealthy technique to communicate with his lover Paula Broadwell: the pair left messages for each other in the drafts folder of a shared Gmail account.
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News Link • Drug War
Lebanon's pot farmers gear up for a fight with Islamic State
10-29-2014
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http://www.washingtonpost.com
The cultivation of marijuana is illegal in Lebanon, but that doesn't mean people don't grow it.
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News Link • Israel
Fighting for Survival in the Sinai
10-29-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com
Sinai is both heaven and hell. This triangular desert boasts an arid landscape of hopeless horizons often interrupted by leftover military hardware from previous wars.
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News Link • World News
Putin's Complaint
10-29-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com
The idea that the United States must exercise "global leadership" is rationalized by our interventionists as a necessary prerequisite for maintaining some type of "world order." Who will guard the sea lanes?
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News Link • Gold and Silver
How Much is Silver Worth? The Price of Silver & Gold Yesterday & Today
10-29-2014
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https://www.moneymetals.com
What Could You Buy With $100 Worth of Silver or Gold if You Invested 40 Years Ago?
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Former Cop Headed to Trial for Raping a Child While Other Officers Watched
10-29-2014
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Accused Officer Mata of assaulting the minor 5 times, on 5 separate occasions, all while on duty as other Pharr police officers stood by and watched. The police department is also accused of engaging in a cover-up
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News Link • Police State
Detroit man fights $30k child support bill for kid that is not his
10-29-2014
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ABC News
The State of Michigan is ordering a Detroit man to pay tens of thousands of dollars, or go to prison. The reason? He owes back child support for a child that everyone agrees is not his.
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News Link • Police State
Ebola doctor 'lied' about NYC travels
10-29-2014
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New York Post
"He told the authorities that he self-quarantined. Detectives then reviewed his credit-card statement and MetroCard and found that he went over here, over there, up and down and all around," a source said.
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News Link • Police State
Maine, attorneys could be headed for showdown over Ebola-negative nurse
10-29-2014
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Tuesday's events set up a showdown between the state and nurse Kaci Hickox, who fueled the debate over state Ebola protocols by criticizing mandatory quarantine procedures in New Jersey, where she was held against her will.
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News Link • Israel
The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Officially Here
10-29-2014
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Jeffrey Goldberg, The Altlantic
The Obama administration's anger is "red-hot" over Israel's settlement policies, and the Netanyahu government openly expresses contempt for Obama's understanding of the Middle East. Profound changes in the relationship may be coming.
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News Link • Boondoggle and white elephants
The Red Cross' Secret Disaster
10-29-2014
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Justin Elliott and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,
Americans sent hundreds of millions of dollars to the Red Cross, confident their money would ease the suffering left behind by Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Isaac. They believed the charity was up to the job.
They were wrong.
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News Link • Obamacare
Mississippi, Burned: How the poorest, sickest state got left behind by Obamacare
10-29-2014
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SARAH VARNEY, Politico
The first year of the Affordable Care Act was, by almost every measure, an unmitigated disaster in Mississippi. In a state stricken by diabetes, heart disease, obesity and the highest mortality rate in the nation, President Barack Obama's landmark
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
ISS-bound rocket explodes on takeoff in Virginia (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
10-28-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
An unmanned rocket exploded shortly after takeoff Tuesday evening on Virginia's eastern shore. Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket was carrying thousands of pounds of equipment to restock the International Space Station.
The launch was supposed t
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News Link • World News
Once-peaceful Canada turns militaristic; blowback follows
10-28-2014
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http://www.presstv.ir
In 1968 the government of Canada decided to openly admit Americans seeking to avoid being drafted into the US war on Vietnam. Before, would-be immigrants were technically required to prove that they had been discharged from US military service.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
How come they keep having these 'elections,' and nothing ever changes?
10-28-2014
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com
For the most part, participating in "judgeship" elections is pointless at best, if not outright pernicious. Your participation will be interpreted as granting your consent and approval to what amounts to a huge, unconstitutional scam.
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Chicago Cop Sentenced After Breaking 89 Year-Old Man's Hip
10-28-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
(TheAntiMedia) On December 12th 2013, an officer named David Barrett walked into a shell station at 10601 S. Cicero Avenue on the Southwest Side of Chicago (Oak Lawn) and began yelling at the cashier because of some kind of problem with the gas pump.
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News Link • World News
Putin talks "end of the petrodollar"
10-28-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
"Russia's leader Vladimir, speaking in Sochi (following meetings with Middle East crown princes who confirmed Russia as a key partner - "isolated"?), has unleashed his most aggressive statements with regard the failing world order: *PUTIN SAYS U.S. D
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul and Julie Borowski Interview October 24, 2014
10-28-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
October 24, 2014 â€" In an interview with former Congressman Ron Paul, political analyst for FreedomWorks and VOL Contributor Julie Borowski.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Minnesota Tesla Owners Fight Iowa Test-Drive Ban: 'The Dealer Business Model Is Archaic'
10-28-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Suppose auto dealers in a neighboring state pressured their DoT to make Tesla Motors stop giving test drives of its Model S electric car--the same kind it now offers in more than a dozen other states.
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News Link • Economy - International
Copper Surges After Report Mysterious London Buyer Has Cornered Up To 90% Of Market
10-27-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Copper prices are surging this morning (in the face of Goldman's recent warnings of a plunge), jumping 4 handles apparently on the heels of a WSJ story in which LME admits that a single buyer has snapped up more than half the copper held in London Me
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News Link • NATO
In Historic Shift, NATO-Member Poland Is Moving Thousands Of Troops To Its...
10-27-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
In Historic Shift, NATO-Member Poland Is Moving Thousands Of Troops To Its Eastern Border.
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News Link • Gun Rights
New Report on Child Poverty Calls for Criminal Background Checks for All Gun...
10-27-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com
A new policy study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics proposes a mandatory criminal background check for every firearm sale as a way to protect children.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis
10-27-2014
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New York Times
In the decades after World War II, the CIA and other US agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government's ties to some still living in America
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Alejandro Natividad: America's "Tank Man"
10-27-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Like countless Americans, Alejandro Natividad was ordered by an emissary of the coercive caste to prostrate himself, and threatened with summary execution if he refused. Unlike most in that situation, Natividad refused to humiliate himself
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
In Arizona, a Navajo high school emerges as a defender of the Washington Redskins
10-27-2014
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http://www.washingtonpost.com
RED MESA, Ariz. â€" The fans poured into the bleachers on a Friday night, erupting in "Let's go, Redskins!" chants that echoed across a new field of artificial turf, glowing green against a vast dun-colored landscape.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
125 Seattle Cops Sue for Constitutional Right to Use Excessive Force
10-27-2014
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But some 125 Seattle police officers responded by filing a lawsuit challenging the new laws. In their view, the new policies infringe on their rights to use as much force as they deem necessary in self-protection. They represent about ten percent of
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Philly Cop Threatens to Beat Teen for Making Eye Contact
10-27-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
"Big man, do we have a problem?" the cop asks. "Because I notice that you keep trying to make eye contact with me. Is there a problem?" The teens' response is inaudible. "Okay, well keep fucking walking," the cop says. "The next time
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX's next booster stage will attempt to propulsively land on a floating platform
10-27-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com
Yesterday at MIT's AeroAstro Centennial Symposium, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his company will make a first attempt to land the booster stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating platform during the upcoming ISS resupply mission.
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News Link • World News
Vladimir Putin Is The Leader Of the Moral World
10-27-2014
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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org
Vladimir Putin's remarks at the 11th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club are worth more than a link in my latest column. These are the remarks of a humanitarian political leader, the like of which the world has not seen in my lifeti
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Analysis: Guilty Plea Spells Trouble For Redflex In Corruption Trial
10-27-2014
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The Newspaper
Redflex Traffic Systems, the embattled Australian photo ticketing company, faces an uphill battle maintaining its innocence now that a key party is turning state's evidence.
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News Link • Police State
Man Charged With Breaking a Trooper's Fist With His Face
10-27-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
"You've got a long f***ing night ahead," the officer menaced. "Do ya hear me?? Do ya f***ing hear me?!"
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Protect Yourself from Electronic Spying with 'Surveillance Self-Defense'
10-27-2014
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched its updated "Surveillance Self-Defense" report today, a comprehensive how-to guide to protecting yourself from electronic spying for Internet users all over the world.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Latinos say cash goes missing in Arizona arrests
10-27-2014
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Associated Press
Armando Gutierrez was headed to Las Vegas with cash from his 2011 tax refund when he and his friends were pulled over by a sheriff's deputy. Deputy Charley Armendariz found the driver and passenger had a small amount of pot
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Feds identify suspected 'second leaker' for Snowden reporters
10-27-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
The FBI recently searched a government contractor's home, but some officials worry the Justice Department has lost its 'appetite' for leak cases
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News Link • Police State
24 Cops and Armored Military Vehicle Sent To Loot A 75 Year Old's Retirement Fund
10-27-2014
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The Blaze
Hoeppner was arrested without any physical resistance, and was escorted to a bank where he was forced to withdraw $80,000 and hand it over to police.
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News Link • Government
PNAC Captured Part of the U.S. Government and Caused America to Attack Iraq in 2003
10-27-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
The U.S. government is not one thing or one entity. It is a collection of powers and agencies, turfs and fiefdoms, each of them being captured and used.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
ACLU Calls Schools' Policy to Search Devices and 'Approve' Kids' Web Posts...
10-27-2014
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http://www.wired.com
A school board in Tennessee is being accused of violating the constitutional rights of students over a policy that allows school officials to search any electronic devices students bring to campus and to monitor and control what students post on soci
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