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Date Sent: 2012-08-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, August 2, 2012 AM edition |
Obama authorizes secret support for Syrian rebels -- US mulls more bombers, subs for Pacific
Porn Trial: This Time it's Extreme -- The Police: Useless, but not Harmless - by William Grigg -- New Jersey Town Rips Up Working-Class Neighborhood For Private Developers -- Teachers’ Unions Now Sending Lawyers After Private Schools -- Marines Catch ‘Deserter’ … 5 Years After His Honorable Discharge -- Colorado Killer and a Judge's Coverup -- Activists push city to be first in U.S. to prohibit use of drones -- Congressman Ron Paul's Speech Against Iran Sanctions August 1, 2012 -- Port Orange police charge woman after she re-enacts domestic abuse claim on cop -- The Most Important Trade Agreement That We Know Nothing About -- Cop Suspects Dad with His Kid of Being a Predator; “You Should THANK Me” -- Overzealous Legislative Effort Against Online Child Prostitution Ads Fails -- Rep. Laura Richardson broke federal law, obstructed probe, House ethics panel finds -- White House analyst warned saving Solyndra could cost more than letting it fail -- Aging power grid on overload as U.S. demands more electricity -- Rep. Markey proposes privacy rules for domestic drone licenses -- Wikileaks lawyer Garzon 'worried' for Assange health -- Obama hits Romney over finding tax plan would benefit America’s richest -- Chick-fil-A store breaks with founder to sponsor LGBT Pride -- Insights On The Porn Industry From Model Victoria Rae Black -- Retiree From Rural Michigan Tells Us The Moment He Figured Out How To Beat The State's Lottery -- Conservatives... To Make 'Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day' A Huge Success -- Even The Judges Were Amazed By McKayla Maroney's Perfect Vault -- Julian Assange: The 60 Minutes Interview -- David Icke: Obama and the Agenda to Destroy America ... -- Welcome to eStreetPlastics, your online source for Plexiglass and other plastics
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News Link • Syria
Obama authorizes secret support for Syrian rebels
08-01-2012
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Reuters
President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, sources familiar with the matter said.
Obama's order, approved earlier this year and known
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
U.S. to mull more bombers, submarines for Pacific
08-01-2012
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Reuters
Pentagon planners will consider adding bombers and attack submarines as part of a growing U.S. focus on security challenges in the Asia-Pacific, a senior Defense Department official said on Wednesday.
"We will take another look" at sending more su
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Porn Trial: This Time it's Extreme
08-01-2012
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The Crown Prosecution Service will attempt to persuade a jury that images of fisting should be classified as “extreme pornography” with the risk to the defendant of 3 years in jail, inclusion on the sex offenders' list and damage to his personal and
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Police: Useless, but not Harmless
08-01-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
The bad news for Rafael Lopez was that the 27-year-old Iraq war veteran had been robbed and severely beaten by a gang of at least 10 men on the street outside the Aqua nightclub in Minneapolis. The good news " or Lopez initially thought " was that th
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News Link • Eminent Domain
New Jersey Town Rips Up Working-Class Neighborhood For Private Developers
08-01-2012
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Huffington Post
Santos Cruz still remembers the first time he heard the demolition crews. "They came without any warning at 6 a.m. outside my home," he said in a recent interview with The Huffington Post. "The ground started shaking and there was a tremendous amount
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
Teachers’ Unions Now Sending Lawyers After Private Schools
08-01-2012
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The Louisiana Association of Educators is sending demand letters to private schools participating in the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence program, the state voucher plan, insisting that those schools pull out of the program.
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News Link • Military
Marines Catch ‘Deserter’ … 5 Years After His Honorable Discharge
08-01-2012
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Wired
On Jan. 26, 2011, a pair of U.S. Marines put Alan Gourgue in handcuffs and a restraint belt and hauled him across the country to face trial as a deserter. Gourgue was distraught and completely confused; he had been honorably discharged in 2006 and fi
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News Link • Conspiracies
Colorado Killer and a Judge's Coverup
08-01-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The University of Colorado went into CYA mode, and has lucked out now that the judge in the case has ruled that the University is exempt from open-records laws on matters related to the killings. Court records have been altered to remove mention of t
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News Link • Surveillance
Activists push city to be first in U.S. to prohibit use of drones
08-01-2012
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"You guys have an opportunity to make Buffalo the first drone-free city in the United States, and I hope you take that seriously," John Washington of Occupy Buffalo told lawmakers.
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News Link • Iran
Congressman Ron Paul's Speech Against Iran Sanctions August 1, 2012
08-01-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Congressman Ron Paul's floor speech against Iran Sanctions bill on August 1, 2012.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Port Orange police charge woman after she re-enacts domestic abuse claim on cop
08-01-2012
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A Port Orange police officer asked a woman to show him how her husband tried to strangle her and when the woman put two fingers on the policeman's neck, she got arrested, records show.
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News Link • Free Trade
The Most Important Trade Agreement That We Know Nothing About
08-01-2012
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Slate
The Trans-Pacific Partnership could completely change intellectual property law. But the details are being kept secret.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop Suspects Dad with His Kid of Being a Predator; “You Should THANK Me”
08-01-2012
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My youngest daughter and I were walking to the library together, and she was holding my hand and trying to pull me into telephone poles which is a silly game that she enjoys. Suddenly a police car pulled up beside us, lights on and
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News Link • Internet
Overzealous Legislative Effort Against Online Child Prostitution Ads Fails
08-01-2012
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Forbes
Congress enacted a powerful statutory immunity for user-generated content that websites aren’t liable for 3rd party content except in 3 specific situations giving online providers a robust way to avoid liability for what users say and do.
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News Link • Corruption
Rep. Laura Richardson broke federal law, obstructed probe, House ethics panel finds
08-01-2012
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Washington Post
The House Ethics Committee on Wednesday called for the full chamber to reprimand Rep. Laura Richardson, accusing the California Democrat of breaking federal law, violating House rules and obstructing the committee’s investigation.
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House analyst warned saving Solyndra could cost more than letting it fail
08-01-2012
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Washington Post
As the Obama administration moved last year to bail out Solyndra, the embattled flagship of the president’s initiative to promote alternative energy, a White House budget analyst calculated that millions of taxpayer dollars might be saved by cutting
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News Link • Adult Stem Cell Technology
Researchers find cancer stem cells that cause tumor regrowth
08-01-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Researchers presented evidence Wednesday for the existence of cancer stem cells, with three different studies seeking to end a decades-old scientific dispute about how tumours grow.
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News Link • Energy
Aging power grid on overload as U.S. demands more electricity
08-01-2012
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Washington Post
They began to bend in the roaring wind, then their steel girders snapped like twigs, the towers toppled and the lights went out.
Minutes before the windstorm arrived to pummel the Washington area on June 29, it swept east through West Virginia, cr
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Rep. Markey proposes privacy rules for domestic drone licenses
08-01-2012
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Eric W. Dolan via The Raw Story.com
Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) on Wednesday released a discussion draft of legislation that aims to add privacy protections and greater transparency to the authorization of aerial drone flights within the United States.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Wikileaks lawyer Garzon 'worried' for Assange health
08-01-2012
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AFP
THE renowned Spanish lawyer representing Julian Assange has said he is worried about the WikiLeaks founder's health due to the pressure on him as he fights efforts to extradite him from Britain. Baltasar Garzon, known for pursuing Chile's former dict
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News Link • Government
Obama hits Romney over finding tax plan would benefit America’s richest
08-01-2012
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Paul Harris, The Guardian
A fresh row has broken out over Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney’s vow to extend tax cuts for America’s richest people after a study found it would likely see the fiscal burden placed on poorer and working class families increase.
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News Link • OLYMPICS London Summer 2012
Cyclist killed in collision with Olympics shuttle bus
08-01-2012
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The Raw Story.com
A man was killed Wednesday when a bicycle was involved in a collision with an Olympics shuttle bus just outside the site of the Games in London, police said.
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News Link • Marriage
Chick-fil-A store breaks with founder to sponsor LGBT Pride
08-01-2012
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David Edwards via The Raw Story.com
New Hampshire’s only Chick-fil-A restaurant is going against the wishes of chicken chain founder Dan Cathy by pledging to co-sponsor an LGBT Pride Festival in the state.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Insights On The Porn Industry From Model Victoria Rae Black
08-01-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Ashley Lutz
Porn star and former Playboy model Victoria Rae Black shared some smart comments on sex and the sex industry in a Reddit Ask Me Anything.
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News Link • How To
Retiree From Rural Michigan Tells Us The Moment He Figured Out How To Beat The State's Lottery
08-01-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
The 73-year-old retired store owner from rural Michigan who still prefers paper to computers occasionally played Pick-3s and Pick-4s, and even more rarely instant games or scratch-offs.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
No longer trusted to tell them what’s ‘news’
08-01-2012
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com,
For centuries, a few hundred wealthy individuals, families and corporations have had de facto control over what we consume as “news” " simply because they could afford to buy big printing presses, and ink by the barrel.
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News Link • Government
Conservatives... To Make 'Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day' A Huge Success
08-01-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brett LoGiurato
Today is Gov. Mike Huckabee's "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day," and based on early reports it looks like it will be a huge success for the company.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Watch This Bird Dive 150 Feet To Hang Out On The Bottom Of The Ocean
08-01-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jennifer Welsh
About 3,500 breeding pairs of the birds live in Punta Leon, a coastal protected area. Here, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society have captured a video of these birds diving in the ocean, searching for food. The video was made with the
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The Phocus Is A Must-Have iPhone Photography Accessory
08-01-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Dylan Love
Your iPhone is already a more-than-capable point-and-shoot camera, but what if you could trick it out with some high-quality lenses?
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News Link • European Union
7 Reasons September Is Going To Be A Huge Month For Europe
08-01-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
Ever since European central bank president Mario Draghi said the ECB will "do whatever it takes to preserve the euro", market expectations have been raised for its meeting tomorrow.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Even The Judges Were Amazed By McKayla Maroney's Perfect Vault
08-01-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Leah Goldman
McKayla Maroney started the US off on the right foot last night with a beautiful vault that she scored a 16.233 on.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Welcome to eStreetPlastics, your online source for Plexiglass and other plastics.
08-01-2012
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http://www.estreetplastics.com,
eStreetPlastics offers a broad range of stock sizes of Clear Plexiglass sheets, Colored Plexiglass, Transparent Colored Plexiglass, and Acrylic Mirror.
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News Link • Corruption
Refusing To Put A Normal Child On Psych Drugs Results In Swat Teams and a TANK. This is in America!
07-31-2012
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www.youtube.com
This may shed some light on why Ron Paul wants forced psychiatric drugging of our school children STOPPED! A caring and competent Michigan mother refuses to let child services take her very normal child and forcibly drug her with psychiatric medicati
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News Link • Corruption
Nancy Schaefer who Exposed the CPS found Shot Dead with Her Husband (March 2010)
07-31-2012
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www.redicecreations.com
Nancy Schaefer sought to expose the stealing of children by the "child protection" mafia
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News Link • Corruption
Child Protective Services - Predators and Corruption - Senator Nancy Schaefer
07-31-2012
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www.youtube.com
To receive the adoption incentives, or bonuses, local CPS must have more children, they must have more merchandise, to sell. Funding is available when a child is placed in a foster home with strangers, or placed in a mental health facility and medica
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News Link • Obama Administration
Panetta and Israel to discuss war plans against Iran?
07-31-2012
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http://rt.com/usa
Israeli officials are denying reports that the White House has provided them with a contingency plan in case of a showdown with Iran.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Man sentenced to jail for collecting rainwater in Oregon
07-31-2012
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http://rt.com
An Oregon man is expected to spend a month in jail after being convicted on nine misdemeanor charges related to his illegal use of…water.
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News Link • Activism
Peaceful Protest Over Tar Sands Takes a Violent Turn in Burlington, Vt.
07-31-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
A Sunday tar sands protest in Burlington, Vermont turned violent when riot police shot protesters with pepper spray and rubber bullets.
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News Link • Police State
Riot Gear Orders Pile Up As DHS And Army Prepare For Civil Unrest
07-31-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, End The Lie
It’s more than just stockpiling surveillance drones to spy on US citizens: the United States Army is attempting to procure an arsenal of riot gear in case the military must go toe-to-toe with civilians on US soil.
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News Link • Surveillance
All U.S. citizens, including babies, will receive a mandatory microchip soon.
07-31-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Paul Mcguire
All U.S. citizens, including babies, will receive a mandatory microchip soon.
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News Link • Drug War
Truck owner wants DEA to pay up after botched sting
07-30-2012
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Houston Chronicle
The truck had been everywhere but in the repair shop.. Commandeered by one of his drivers, who was secretly working with federal agents, the truck had been hauling marijuana from the border as part of an undercover operation.
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News Link • Gun Rights
5 ATF Officials Singled Out in GOP Report
07-30-2012
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AP
After an 18-month investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, a Republican congressional draft report concludes that five officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives share much of the blame for what went wrong with the gun
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News Link • Syria
War Under Table: Ex-Blackwater mercs in Syria 'backed by US'
07-30-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
The opposition fighters in Syria might be getting help from a different source - in the form of training from the US private security firm, formerly known as the notorious Blackwater group. Security circles reportedly confirmed the information which
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News Link • Gun Rights
Keep the Guns; Abolish the Police
07-30-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Anderson " who saw enough to recognize that a robbery was underway " had spied a uniformed officer in a marked police car The cop replied he was off duty and said to call 911. He then rolled up his window and drove away.
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News Link • New World Order
Agenda 21 EXPLAINED, full version
07-30-2012
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www.youtube.com
Here is a detailed presentation on what is really in Agenda 21 and the sustainable development movement as defined by the UN. How it will ultimately compromise your property rights..
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News Link • Syria
America's Syrian Jihad
07-30-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Americans can be forgiven for scratching their heads at the reality that the US government is actively supporting in Syria what it has spent the last eleven years fighting just a few thousand miles away in Afghanistan.
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News Link • Internet
This Cute Chat Site Could Save Your Life and Help Overthrow Your Government
07-30-2012
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Wired
21-year-old student Nadim Kobeissi is the creator of Cryptocat, a project “to combine my love of cryptography and cats,” he explained to an overflowing audience of hackers at the HOPE conference on Saturday, July 14.
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News Link • Drug War
Chicago steals cars if passenger has drugs
07-30-2012
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An Illinois appellate court rejected Ivy Jackson’s challenge to Chicago Municipal Code which provides the owner of a vehicle found to contain controlled substances or cannabis is liable for the taking of their vehicle.
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