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Date Sent: 2015-02-24
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, February 24, 2015 |
Cop Chains Innocent Man to Wall, Beats Him, Gouges Eyes After Refusing to Confess to a Crime
Embattled Libyan government loses grip as general expands power -- Leaked cables show Netanyahu's Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad -- JFK Airport officials filter fecal matter in search for drugs -- Secrecy around police surveillance equipment proves a case's undoing -- SWAT Raids for Mundanes, Taxi Rides for the Elite -- Media Manipulation And Elite Memes: A Real Life "Wag The Dog" -- Keep The NSA Out Of Your Email ... Avoid Unwarranted NSA Surveillance -- Meet The Forces That Are Pushing Obama Toward A New Cold War -- The Putin-Did-It Conspiracy Theory -- Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill -- Forced Arbitration: Supplanting Our Court Justice System -- Foreign Policy Failure Everywhere -- Top Foreign Holders of U.S. Debt -- Europe Will Implement Both Border and Capital Controls in the Coming Months -- India Lifts Ban On Bank Gold Imports: Gold Can Again Be Used As Loan Collateral -- Hong Kong's pro-Beijing leader asks residents to be like 'sheep' -- Officials Declare 'Eating Healthy' a Mental Disorder -- De-Dollarization Accelerates: Russia Launches SWIFT-Alternative Linking 91 Entities -- Central Banks Have Lost Control Of The World -- Lavrov in New York -- Al Jazeera Spy Cables -- The U.S. Government Is Making the Problem of Islamist Extremism Worse -- Recently Retired Online And Offline Security Expert Says Trust Nothing -- Where You Live Makes A Difference ! -- John McCain: 'I'm Ashamed Of My Country' -- FED's Charter Expired -- New York City is making a big push to settle lawsuits before they are even filed -- This European Nation's Poverty Rate Just Hit A Record High (Spoiler Alert: Not Greece) -- Putin Paranoia -- It's Official, McDonald's and Monsanto Are Both 'Losing Money Fast' -- France deploys aircraft carrier in Gulf for IS fight -- Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly assails GOP establishment for trying to coronate Jeb Bush -- 'Citizenfour' wins Oscar for best documentary -- Free: Gatto's Underground History of American Education -- Tspiras Claims to have "Won a Battle... -- No Let Up in Intense Anti-Russian Propaganda -- Google Chrome Approaching World Domination? -- Gun Rights Haters: Victims or Aggressors? -- Growers Are Making Bank on This Green, Fragrant Bud. No, Not That One.
AZ: Arizona Sci Tech Gila County Festival - February 26-28, 2015
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News Link • Police State
Cop Chains Innocent Man to Wall, Beats Him, Gouges Eyes After Refusing to Confess to a Crime
02-23-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Matt Agorist
Milwaukee, WI -- In August of 2013 former detective Rodolfo Gomez savagely beat Deron Love during an interrogation. He was chained to the wall.
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News Link • Libya
Embattled Libyan government loses grip as general expands power
02-24-2015
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Reuters
Growing frustration over the reality of life in eastern Libya, which contrasts with the promises of politicians, is feeding support for a former army general, Khalifa Haftar, who has set himself up as a warrior against Islamist militancy and who some
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News Link • Iran
Leaked cables show Netanyahu's Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad
02-24-2015
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The Guardian
Gulf between Israeli secret service and PM revealed in documents shared with the Guardian along with other secrets including CIA bids to contact Hamas.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
JFK Airport officials filter fecal matter in search for drugs
02-24-2015
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Washington Times
Doctors must be available round-the-clock in case CBP officers suspect they have a "swallower," which is what internal drug smugglers are known as. The doctors are charged with X-raying or otherwise examining suspects' body cavities,
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News Link • Surveillance
Secrecy around police surveillance equipment proves a case's undoing
02-24-2015
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Washington Post
The case against Tadrae McKenzie looked like an easy win for prosecutors. He and two buddies robbed a small-time pot dealer of $130 worth of weed using BB guns. His defense team detected use of a secret surveillance tool,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
SWAT Raids for Mundanes, Taxi Rides for the Elite
02-24-2015
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
"Once they charge you with something you don't know what the outcome will be, even if you're innocent," Mark commented, shortly after being acquitted "Once they stick a hook in you, you don't know if you'll get off it."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Media Manipulation And Elite Memes: A Real Life "Wag The Dog"
02-24-2015
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Government Denies Knowledge
To suggest that comparable manipulation exists in America or the Western world would likely result in you being labeled a "conspiracy theorist", and then summarily dismissed as a crank.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Keep The NSA Out Of Your Email â€" Avoid Unwarranted NSA Surveillance
02-24-2015
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How to Vanish
The NSA can read your emails, listen to your phone calls, see all of your purchases, and look at your library records without a warrant. They so extensively monitor your activity that there is hardly any aspect of your life that is not
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Meet The Forces That Are Pushing Obama Toward A New Cold War
02-24-2015
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Medium
Moscow's national-security interests are clear. Washington's are as well, albeit unrelated to the security of the nation in any meaningful sense. Given the stakes, the hard line being pushed against Russia can't solely be attributed to
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Putin-Did-It Conspiracy Theory
02-24-2015
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Consortium News
The Putin-Ukraine lie collapses under the most cursory examination based simply of what's publicly known [see below] and what makes sense.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill
02-24-2015
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Mad in America
Some activists lament how few anti-authoritarians there appear to be in the US. One reason could be many anti-authoritarians are now psychopathologized and medicated before they achieve political consciousness
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News Link • Science
Mysteries of Great Salt Lake
02-24-2015
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arclein
Located in the northern part of Utah, Great Salt Lake is the largest salt water lake in the world, and after the great lakes the largest lake by surface area in the United States. It covers an average area of around 1,700 square miles (4,400 km2), al
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News Link • Archaeology
The Sacred Omphalos Stone, Navel of the World and Communicator of the Gods
02-24-2015
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arclein
In Greek mythology, it is said that the titan Cronos devoured his children as soon as they were born, due to his mother's prophecy that he will be overthrown by his own children. Although Cronos managed to devour his first five children, his wife,
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Flowers for the Winter Blues
02-24-2015
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arclein
"We're not concerned about what happened in your childhood unless that's currently bothering you," said Dr. Carol Bennington, flower essence educator with the Bach International Education Program. "We're looking at what now is emotionally
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Forced Arbitration: Supplanting Our Court Justice System
02-24-2015
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arclein
Whether it is a credit card agreement, Netflix, Verizon, nursing homes?"almost everything we buy or purchase?"is governed by a contract, which has the fine print language that essentially bars us from going to a state or federal court to get some
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy Failure Everywhere
02-23-2015
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fff.org
If one tried to design a foreign policy to embroil Americans in endless conflicts that would otherwise be quite remote, one could hardly do better than recent presidents of the United States.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Top Foreign Holders of U.S. Debt
02-23-2015
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smaulgld.com
Foreigners and the Fed hold large percentages of US. Treasury Bonds. What happens when foreigners reduce their need for U.S. dollars and the Fed ends QE?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Europe Will Implement Both Border and Capital Controls in the Coming Months
02-23-2015
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zerohedge.com
Europe is going to begin both capital and border controls.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
India Lifts Ban On Bank Gold Imports: Gold Can Again Be Used As Loan Collateral
02-23-2015
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zerohedge.com
One week ago we reported that central bank purchases of gold in 2014 were the second highest in the past 50 years, driven by purchases out of Iraq, Kazakhstan and - most of all - Russia, with no offsetting selling.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Recently Retired Online And Offline Security Expert Says Trust Nothing
02-23-2015
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by Smudge Pot
A recently online and offline security expert recently shared with me some words.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
FED's Charter Expired
02-23-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com,by FSUJAG54
If the Federal Reserve was granted a 100-year charter on December 23, 1913; then under what authority are they currently operating?
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News Link • Transportation
Introducing TF-Xâ„¢: Terrafugia's Vision for the Future of Personal Transportation
02-23-2015
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https://www.youtube.com,TerrafugiaInc
TF-Xâ„¢ is the practical realization of the dream of countless visions of the future; it is designed to be the flying car for all of us.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
New York City is making a big push to settle lawsuits before they are even filed
02-23-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com,COLLEEN LONG
A trio of half brothers who were wrongfully convicted of murder received a $17 million settlement from the city. The family of a mentally ill former U.S. Marine who died in a hot jail cell was awarded $2.25 million. And a man who spent 23 years behin
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Map Shows the World's Ecosystems in Unprecedented Detail
02-23-2015
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http://www.wired.com, By Nick Stockton
Ecology has always been a bit doughy compared to subject like physics, chemistry, and hell, even biology.
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News Link • Activism
Hong Kong's pro-Beijing leader asks residents to be like 'sheep'
02-23-2015
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cnn.com
Hong Kong's unpopular chief executive C.Y. Leung, nicknamed "the wolf" by detractors, has one Lunar New Year's request for his city's people:
Be more like sheep.
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News Link • Seriously?
Officials Declare 'Eating Healthy' a Mental Disorder
02-23-2015
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globalresearch.ca
In an attempt to curb the mass rush for food change and reform, psychiatry has green lighted a public relations push to spread awareness about their new buzzword "orthorexia nervosa," defined as "a pathological obsession for biologically pure a
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
De-Dollarization Accelerates: Russia Launches SWIFT-Alternative Linking 91 Entities
02-23-2015
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zerohedge.com
Back in 2013, The NSA was first exposed for secretly 'monitoring' the SWIFT payments flows.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Central Banks Have Lost Control Of The World
02-23-2015
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zerohedge.com
With the world's oldest central bank - Sweden's Riksbank - taking the plunge into negative rates, there have been 19 'eases' by central banks this year, Morgan Stanley warns of "ghosts of the 1930s."
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News Link • Gun Rights
Where You Live Makes A Difference !
02-23-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by scawarren
You may have heard on the news about a Southern California man who was put under 72-hour psychiatric observation when it was found he owned 100 guns and allegedly had 100,000 rounds of ammunition stored in his home.
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News Link • General Opinion
John McCain: 'I'm Ashamed Of My Country...'
02-23-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by PeteJ
Arizona U.S. Sen. John McCain said something on CBS's "Face the Nation" Sunday about the U.S.'s handling of the ongoing standoff between Russia and Ukraine that surprised host Bob Schieffer.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
The cost of a one-day pass to Disney's Magic Kingdom just jumped to $105
02-23-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com,BARBARA LISTON
A one-day ticket to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando jumped on Sunday to $105 from $99, an increase that likely makes the Florida family attraction the first in the industry to breach the $100 psychological barrier.
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News Link • European Union
This European Nation's Poverty Rate Just Hit A Record High (Spoiler Alert: Not Greece)
02-23-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
For the last few years - and most especially the last few months - all eyes have been focused on Greece.
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News Link • World News
Putin Paranoia
02-23-2015
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http://russia-insider.com, Pat Buchanan
If we could negotiate with neo-Stalinists issues as grave as the the Berlin Wall, and ballistic missiles in Cuba, why can't we sit down with Vladimir Putin and discuss less earthshaking matters, such as whose flag should fly over Luhansk and Donetsk?
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News Link • Food
It's Official, McDonald's and Monsanto Are Both 'Losing Money Fast'
02-23-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Anthony Gucciardi
In a series of headlines that would pass as virtually unbelievable several years ago, mainstream economists are sounding the alarm over the financial decline of both fast food giant McDonald's and biotech juggernaut Monsanto.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
France deploys aircraft carrier in Gulf for IS fight
02-23-2015
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AFP
France deployed an aircraft carrier in the Gulf on Monday as part of the US-led military campaign against the Islamic State jihadist group in Iraq, a defense ministry official said.
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News Link • Political Parties
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly assails GOP establishment for trying to coronate Jeb Bush
02-23-2015
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http://www.washingtontimes.com, By Ralph Z. Hallow
Phyllis Schlafly has long argued that the American conservative movement's purpose is to influence, not echo, the Republican Party.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
'Citizenfour' wins Oscar for best documentary
02-23-2015
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Associated Press
Revealing state secrets turned into Oscar acclaim for the makers of the Edward Snowden documentary "Citizenfour." Laura Poitras' film documents her initial meeting in Hong Kong with Snowden, as well as journalist Glenn Greenwald
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News Link • Economy - International
Tspiras Claims to have "Won a Battle...
02-23-2015
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
On Friday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras backed down on nearly every promise made to the Greek electorate except one, to stay on the euro. After so much tough rhetoric, the question is why?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Google Chrome Approaching World Domination?
02-23-2015
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
A few moments ago a reader was having difficulty with an ad on my blog.
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News Link • Energy
America's Power Sector Is Aging, As Demand For Energy Keeps Going Up [Infographic]
02-23-2015
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton
We're gonna need a younger workforce
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Rights groups criticise US and UK spies for 'disturbing' sim cards hack
02-23-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com, Dominic Rushe
NSA and GCHQ told to stop pretending that law doesn't apply to them after revelations that they gained access to Dutch manufacturer Gemalto's encryption keys
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Rights Haters: Victims or Aggressors?
02-23-2015
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The International Libertarian
Now these perpetual "victims" want to learn about "Powerfully Peaceful Action in the Face of Armed and Aggressive Opposition". Why do they say they need to do this? Because, according to them, "Almost every group in the gun sense movement h
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News Link • Agriculture
Growers Are Making Bank on This Green, Fragrant Bud. No, Not That One.
02-23-2015
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arclein
In 2011, Jan-Erik Paino, a former construction worker and grape-picker, launched a new craft beer company in Sacramento inspired by Captain Frank Ruhstaller, a Swiss immigrant who owned several of the city's hundreds of breweries in the late 1800's
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Christians Can Opt Out of ObamaCare
02-23-2015
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arclein
Read a cry of Leftist moral outrage in The New York Times. The author is an untenured assistant professor on the public payroll at the University of North Carolina. If she gets tenure, she will be in fat city for the rest of her career. But if she do
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Every American Should Spend a Day In Jail
02-23-2015
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arclein
I get 200-300 emails everyday. I frequently hear from foreign nationals who read what I write on this website. These people write to me from global hot spots like Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, the Philippines, etc. There is a consistent theme that emanates f
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News Link • Racism
Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow
02-23-2015
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arclein
Muhammad explained the central role that black farmers had played during the civil rights movement, coordinating campaigns for desegregation and voting rights as well as providing food, housing, and safe haven for other organizers. With his resolute
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Your DNA is everywhere. Can the police analyze it?
02-21-2015
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ars technica
The cops need someone's DNA, but they don't have a warrant, so they invite the suspect to the station house, knowing some of the perp's genetic material will likely be left behind. Bingo, crime solved. Next case.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Accused British hacker, wanted for crimes in US, won't give up crypto keys
02-21-2015
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ars technica
"I cannot speak to the contents," he said. "Except that they are mine. This is the only salient detail as far as I'm concerned. I am not on trial, nor is my data, and I am under no obligation to speak for it. But my property is
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, February 22, 2015 Edition
02-21-2015
John Semmens
Government Panel Calls for Measures to Upgrade Our Health
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) issued a 571 page report outlining its recommendations for transforming Americans' health. Citing persistent high levels of overweight and o
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Opinion • Police State
Kent Hovind: Political Prisoner?
02-20-2015
Chuck Baldwin
Kent Hovind is a creation-science evangelist and Baptist minister who has already served eight years of a ten-year prison sentence for alleged tax evasion. Kent has a master's degree in education. He founded and operated Creation Science Evangelism
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