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Date Sent: 2013-07-20
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, July 20, 2013
 
Panama sent ex-CIA officer to US, not Italy -- Judge "troubled" over drone killing powers

US: Marty The Magician Must Submit Disaster Plan for Casey The Rabbit -- Why is US Ambassador McFaul Sticking His Nose Into the Navalny Trial? -- They Blinded Us With Science -- "I'm Going to Take Him Out" - by William Grigg -- In General’s Court-Martial, Selection Begins for a Jury of High-Ranking Peers -- NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials say -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, July 21, 2013 Edition -- Chase, Once Considered "The Good Bank," Is About to Pay Another Massive Settlement By Mat -- Five Months Away From the Biggest Depopulation Event in US History -- Evolution of the Throw -- Union Push Back on Obamacare -- 5th Annual California Mobile Command Center Rally a Success in Sacramento -- Commerce: The Permanent Rebellion -- Are we in a police state yet?? -- USDA Protection Racket Demands 47% of Raisin Crops – Destroys Small Farmers -- 07-19-13 -- Leah Ballou (walking across America) - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EDT) -- Justice Department places a 'hold' on George Zimmerman's gun -- Another brick in the Ron Paul - Jordan Page -- US Prepares For "Kinetic Strikes" Against Syria -- Larry Elder Explodes At Piers Over Zimmerman: You’re Condescending, ‘Stupid,’ -- MSNBC: Glenn Greenwald Comments on the Progress and the Hypocrisy 7-17-13 -- Ben Swann on the Liberty Rising Truth in Media Project and the State of US Journalism -- Mars Atmosphere Loss Mystery: Probe Will Investigate --  US Courts Approve Indefinite Detention and Torture -- America's Surveillance Society

AZ: VPA Mesquite Harvesting Class Now FREE! this Sat morning; The Jackalope Freedom Festival is right around the corner! Aug 2-4, 2013 in northeast Arizona

 

US: Panama sent ex-CIA officer to US, not Italy News Link  •  Central Intelligence Agency
US: Panama sent ex-CIA officer to US, not Italy
07-19-2013  •  AP 
A fugitive former CIA base chief detained in Panama this week was being sent to the United States instead of Italy, which wanted him to serve prison time in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect, the Obama administration said Friday.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Judge “troubled” over drone killing powers News Link  •  Police State
Judge “troubled” over drone killing powers
07-19-2013  • 
The Obama administration’s argument that federal judges should not “second-guess” the government policy of using unmanned aerial drones overseas to kill suspected terrorists, even if they are U.S. citizens, drew a strong and sustained negative respon  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
US: Marty The Magician Must Submit Disaster Plan for Casey The Rabbit News Link  •  Government
US: Marty The Magician Must Submit Disaster Plan for Casey The Rabbit
07-19-2013  •  Jonathan Turley 
Hahne does magic shows for kids and performs the classic rabbit trick. The US government insists he needs a license for the rabbit. And he needs a rabbit disaster plan to handle fire, floods, air conditioning outages etc.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Why is US Ambassador McFaul Sticking His Nose Into the Navalny Trial? News Link  •  Foreign Policy
Why is US Ambassador McFaul Sticking His Nose Into the Navalny Trial?
07-19-2013  •  Lew Rockwell blog 
As Bradley Manning finds his escape routes from a life sentence for his whistle-blowing quickly shut down by judges who are closely tied to the prosecutors, and as whistle-blower Edward Snowden faces life on the run from the largest intelligence  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
They Blinded Us With Science News Link  •  Death Penalty
They Blinded Us With Science
07-19-2013  •  Simple Justice 
No doubt they will feel pretty darned bad about the ones they wrongly executed. Who wouldn’t? Not that it’s going to do them much good, though their families may get some money for it and will feel some sort of cathartic release when their loved  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
News Link  •  Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"I'm Going to Take Him Out"
07-19-2013  •  by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate) 
“You’re dead, mother****r!” Those were the last words spoken to 41-year-old Kamas, Utah resident Wade Pennington as he bled to death from two gunshot wounds inflicted at point-blank range. The man who hurled that sadistic taunt at Pennington,  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
In General’s Court-Martial, Selection Begins for a Jury of High-Ranking Peers News Link  •  Military
In General’s Court-Martial, Selection Begins for a Jury of High-Ranking Peers
07-19-2013  •  New York Times 
Two dozen United States Army generals converged here this week from their posts around the world, not for high-level discussions on the future of warfare, but to be considered as jurors in the court-martial of one of their peers.   Read Full Story
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NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials say News Link  •  Surveillance
NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials say
07-19-2013  •  Washington Post 
A secret court on Friday extended the National Security Agency’s authority to collect and store the phone records of tens of millions of American cellphone customers, the top U.S. intelligence official confirmed.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, July 21, 2013 Edition Opinion  •  Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, July 21, 2013 Edition
07-19-2013
John Semmens
   AG Assails Zimmerman Verdict The acquittal of George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin spurred an incensed Attorney General Eric Holder to vow to rein-in “the senseless concept of self-defense.” A Florida jury decided that Zimmerm
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Part 5: Bicycling the Continental Divide Opinion  •  Entertainment: Outdoor Recreation
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Part 5: Bicycling the Continental Divide"Mexico to Canada"loving the art
07-19-2013
Frosty Wooldridge
   “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are.” ~Ernest Hemingway
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Welcome to PlantVillage News Link  •  Food
Welcome to PlantVillage " Free and Easy Interactive Planting Resource!
07-19-2013  •  Farm Wars 
Have you got questions about planting and growing your own food? Don’t know where to find answers? PlantVillage is totally free, and built on the premise that all knowledge that helps people grow food should be openly accessible to anyone.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Barbara Peterson
Chase, Once Considered News Link  •  MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Chase, Once Considered "The Good Bank," Is About to Pay Another Massive Settlement By Mat
07-19-2013  •  http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblo 
Memo to colleagues on the White House pool: could someone please ask the president if Jamie Dimon is still his favorite banker?   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Mike Brosnahan
Five Months Away From the Biggest Depopulation Event in US History News Link  •  Healthcare Industry
Five Months Away From the Biggest Depopulation Event in US History
07-19-2013  •  Dave Hodges 
At a time when many Americans have been angered by the abuses at the Internal Revenue Service, the National Security Agency and the Justice Department, the introduction of a powerful and largely unaccountable board into health care merits special scr  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock
What Do Ants Know That We Don’t? News Link  •  Science
What Do Ants Know That We Don’t?
07-19-2013  •  arclein 
But insect behavior mimicking human networks " another example are the ant-like solutions to the traveling salesman problem provided by the ant colony optimization algorithm " is actually not what’s most interesting about ant networks. What’s far mor  Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein
Guayusa and Lucid Dreaming News Link  •  Science, Medicine and Technology
Guayusa and Lucid Dreaming
07-19-2013  •  arclein 
This is a more direct technique that tends to be favored by lucid dream researchers. It’s weird. As one passes out of wakefulness and into sleep, one drifts into a state where what’s known as hypnagognic imagery flashes before your eyes. It also happ  Read Full Story
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Evolution of the Throw News Link  •  Anthropology
Evolution of the Throw
07-19-2013  •  arclein 
That ability " to throw an object with great speed and accuracy " is a uniquely human adaptation, one that Roach believes was crucial in our evolutionary past. How, when and why humans evolved the ability to throw so well is the subject of a study pu  Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein
Union Push Back on Obamacare News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
Union Push Back on Obamacare
07-19-2013  •  arclein 
But for the big unions to use these terms publicly gives you an idea just how bad an idea Obamcare is. That they would hand such language to their opponents is remarkable. Think about how bad they must think things are going to get for the Teamsters   Read Full Story
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5th Annual California Mobile Command Center Rally a Success in Sacramento Feature Article  •  Police State
5th Annual California Mobile Command Center Rally a Success in Sacramento
Starchild
   With 30 state-of-the-art mobile command and communication centers of all shapes and sizes, from law enforcement, fire, EMS, military, utility companies and other support agencies, this year’s open-vehicle display focused on interoperability, networki
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Commerce: The Permanent Rebellion News Link  •  Free Trade
Commerce: The Permanent Rebellion
07-19-2013  •  FreemansPerspective.Com 
Commerce, by its very nature, is born free. And more than this, it forever fights to remain free. At almost every time and place, commerce evades regulations and controls; it serves its own will, not the wills of rulers.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock
Are we in a police state yet?? News Link  •  Police State
Are we in a police state yet??
07-19-2013  •  www.jonathanturley.org 
Portland: A Citizen Can Be Handcuffed, Locked Into Car, And Driven To A Different Location But Still Not Be “Under Arrest”   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock
USDA Protection Racket Demands 47% of Raisin Crops News Link  •  Corruption
USDA Protection Racket Demands 47% of Raisin Crops " Destroys Small Farmers
07-19-2013  •  Farm Wars 
The difference between the mob demanding a portion of your profits for "protection" and the government demanding a portion of your crops for "protection?" NOTHING!!!  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Barbara Peterson
Radio/TV Show  •  Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host: Ernest Hancock
07-19-13 -- Leah Ballou (walking across America) (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
   Leah Ballou (songliner.blogspot.com) at 21, decided she didn't know enough about the world or the people in it, so is on a walk across America to discover more about both.
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Justice Department places a 'hold' on George Zimmerman's gun News Link  •  Criminal Justice System
Justice Department places a 'hold' on George Zimmerman's gun
07-19-2013  •  Daily Mail 
The US Justice Dept, overseen by Attorney General Eric Holder, has ordered the Sanford, Florida police department to keep possession of all the evidence from George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial - including his gun.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
The Jackalope Freedom Festival is right around the corner! Aug 2-4, 2013 in northeast Arizona News Link  •  Events: Arizona
The Jackalope Freedom Festival is right around the corner! Aug 2-4, 2013 in northeast Arizona
07-19-2013  •  The Jackalpe Freedom Festival 
The Jackalope Freedom Festival is where liberty loving individuals come to be left alone to connect with each other. (BTW - $300 fine for not having both a License Registration for Off Road Vehicle (ORV) AND a new ORV from the State of Arizona.) Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock
Detroit Files For Bankruptcy News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
Detroit Files For Bankruptcy
07-18-2013  •  Lew Rockwell blog 
As is often the case, Matthew Yglesias offers up an unsophisticated and lifeless assessment of the issue in about 190 dull-as-dishwater words. Ho hum. But he made it into the “firsters” club.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
WWOOF - World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms News Link  •  Activism
WWOOF - World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
07-19-2013  •  WWOOF International 
Linking volunteers with organic farms and growers  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock
Another brick in the Ron Paul - Jordan Page News Link  •  Entertainment: Music
Another brick in the Ron Paul - Jordan Page
07-19-2013  •  Morpheus Titania 
Another brick in the Ron Paul - Jordan Page Jordan Page does a private concert for his very good friend Reed out of Dallas. Reed wants to give a present to his sister Heidi for her Birthday: something that she will never forget. Shes a Ron Paul Ac  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Thomas Costanzo
Detroit May File For Bankruptcy Overnight News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
Detroit May File For Bankruptcy Overnight
07-19-2013  •  zerohedge.com 
Presenting default you can believe in, as the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history, involing the one-time iconic "motor city" which now has a population of 700,000 and some $20 billion in liabilities, is about to become reality.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

US Prepares For News Link  •  Government Debt & Financing
US Prepares For "Kinetic Strikes" Against Syria
07-19-2013  •  zerohedge.com 
The chart below will likely come as a surprise to most. It shows total nominal US defense spending, more importantly it shows that such spending has been rapidly declining since 2010.  Read Full Story
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The First Footage Of Jamie Foxx's 'Amazing Spider-Man 2' Villain
News Link  •  Entertainment: Movies
The First Footage Of Jamie Foxx's 'Amazing Spider-Man 2' Villain
07-19-2013  •  Business Insider 
While Emmy nominations are out, today is also the first day of San Diego Comic-Con. To get prepared, Sony released the first footage of Jamie Foxx as villain Electro in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2."   Read Full Story
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A Dad Shot This Amazing Film Of His Son's First Year On Earth

News Link  •  Inspiration
A Dad Shot This Amazing Film Of His Son's First Year On Earth
07-19-2013  •  Business Insider 
When photographer Sam Christopher Cornwell's son Indigo was born on July 9th, 2012, he wanted to do something special.   Read Full Story
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Larry Elder Explodes At Piers Over Zimmerman: You’re Condescending, ‘Stupid,’ News Link  •  General Opinion
Larry Elder Explodes At Piers Over Zimmerman: You’re Condescending, ‘Stupid,’
07-19-2013  •  Daily Paul.com 
Piers Morgan clearly has no qualms about inviting people on his show who fiercely disagree with him or even attack him personally, and tonight's opening interview with radio host Larry Elder did not disappoint.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee
MSNBC: Glenn Greenwald Comments on the Progress and the Hypocrisy 7-17-13 News Link  •  Whistleblowers
MSNBC: Glenn Greenwald Comments on the Progress and the Hypocrisy 7-17-13
07-19-2013  •  Daily Paul.com 
Q: He [Snowden] is seeking refuge in Countries with abysmal human rights records... and he even went so far as to say he wanted to congratulate the leaders of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Russia for standing up on this issue and being .....  Read Full Story
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Ben Swann on the Liberty Rising Truth in Media Project and the State of US Journalism News Link  •  MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Ben Swann on the Liberty Rising Truth in Media Project and the State of US Journalism
07-19-2013  •  The Daily Bell 
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Ben Swann.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee
Top US Military Officer: America Is Considering Entering Syrian War News Link  •  Syria
Top US Military Officer: America Is Considering Entering Syrian War
07-19-2013  •  Prison Planet  
America’s top military officer told a Senate committee that the Obama administration is considering the use of military force in Syria, Richard Lardner of the Associated Press reports.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee
Mars Atmosphere Loss Mystery: Probe Will Investigate News Link  •  Space Travel and Exploration
Mars Atmosphere Loss Mystery: Probe Will Investigate
07-19-2013  •  space.com 
NASA's MAVEN mission's Neutral Gas Ion Mass Spectrometer will look at how matter interacts with the solar wind in the Martian atmosphere. This data could reveal why the formally wet Red Planet has become the barren world we see today.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee
Next in Wearable Computing: A Device for Dogs News Link  •  Techno Gadgets
Next in Wearable Computing: A Device for Dogs
07-19-2013  •  Technologyreview.com 
As Google Glass gains momentum, companies and researchers are trying to decide what will be the next big breakthrough in wearable technology  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee
US Courts Approve Indefinite Detention and Torture Feature Article  •  Police State
US Courts Approve Indefinite Detention and Torture
Stephen Lendman
   police state
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America's Surveillance Society Feature Article  •  Police State
America's Surveillance Society
Stephen Lendman
   police state
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Five Months Away From the Biggest Depopulation Event in US History Reference Link  •  Eugenics
Five Months Away From the Biggest Depopulation Event in US History
www.thecommonsenseshow.com 
   Soon, the director of HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, will be making all of our important healthcare decisions. It might behoove us to ask what kind of person is Kathleen Sebelius since she will soon have the complete power of life and death over all of us.
Entered by: Dave Hodges
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Bradley Manning: Aiding the Enemy Charge Sticks Feature Article  •  Police State
Bradley Manning: Aiding the Enemy Charge Sticks
Stephen Lendman
   police state
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BOVARD: AmeriCorps’ national service charade Feature Article  •  Police State
BOVARD: AmeriCorps’ national service charade
Jim Bovard
   Paying youths to push big government makes a mockery of volunteerism
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Bitcoin: Subvert Your Government News Link  •  Activism
Bitcoin: Subvert Your Government " PorcFest X
07-18-2013  Market and peace advocates have been granted a tool of unimaginable power for the subversion of the state. Bitcoin, as the most popular free-market currency in the world, is a profound apparatus for wresting power from the maniacs who seek to control  Read Full Story
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Former President and Commander-In-Chief: America Is No Longer a Democracy News Link  •  NeoCons
Former President and Commander-In-Chief: America Is No Longer a Democracy
07-18-2013  •  InfoWars 
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter … in the wake of the NSA spying scandal criticized the American political system. “America has no functioning democracy,” Carter said Tuesday at a meeting of the “Atlantic Bridge” in Atlanta.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
North Korea demands its arms-cargo ship back News Link  •  World News
North Korea demands its arms-cargo ship back
07-18-2013  •  youtube 
North Korea has demanded that its cargo ship, which was recently intercepted in Panama, be released immediately.Panama has asked the UN Security Council to investigate the seizure of weapons, including missiles, which it found on the vessel.  Read Full Story
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An Open Letter to the Media on the 'Irony' of Snowden's Request for Asylum in Venezuela News Link  •  Free Speech
An Open Letter to the Media on the 'Irony' of Snowden's Request for Asylum in Venezuela
07-18-2013  •  Common Dreams 
Most consumers of the U.S. media unfortunately don’t know better, since they have not been to these countries and have not been able to see that the majority of media are overwhelmingly anti-government, and that it gets away with more than the U.S...  Read Full Story
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Obama’s Pick for UN Envoy Vows to Work Tirelessly News Link  •  United Nations
Obama’s Pick for UN Envoy Vows to Work Tirelessly " For Israel
07-18-2013  •  antiwar.com 
Will Push for Israeli Seat on Security Council  Read Full Story
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Appeals Court Affirms NDAA Indefinite Detentions
 News Link  •  Justice and Judges
Appeals Court Affirms NDAA Indefinite Detentions
07-18-2013  •  antiwar.com 
Throws Out Previous Court's Ban on Enforcement  Read Full Story
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Rolling Stone Boston Bomber Cover Story: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Image Stirs Controversy, Boycotts News Link  •  Homeland Security
Rolling Stone Boston Bomber Cover Story: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Image Stirs Controversy, Boycotts
07-16-2013  •  The Huffington Post, By Peter Finocchiaro  
The photo even appeared on the front page of The New York Times in May. However, its presence on the cover of Rolling Stone, a space typically occupied by rock stars and actors, sparked outrage on Twitter and Facebook, where many observers objected t  Read Full Story
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TSA Searches Valet Parked Car (!?!) News Link  •  Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Searches Valet Parked Car (!?!)
07-18-2013  •  WHEC New York via Rense.com 
Running late for a flight, why not valet-park your car, rather than search for a spot in the garage...?  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ed Vallejo
Big Brother Is Watching You Swipe: The NSA’s Credit Card Data Grab News Link  •  Surveillance
Big Brother Is Watching You Swipe: The NSA’s Credit Card Data Grab
07-11-2013  •  Martha C. White, Time 
The National Security Agency isn’t just snooping into phone and online communications. It also appears to be keeping a close eye on credit card transactions. Why? And what can they see? The presumed purpose of NSA’s credit card tracking is to help i  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Leon Felkins
5 things to know about lawsuit against NSA News Link  •  Intelligence: Use and Abuse
5 things to know about lawsuit against NSA
07-17-2013  •  Eric Boehm , Watchdog.com 
Led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit law firm, more than 20 groups from across the political spectrum filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the National Security Agency, FBI and the U.S. government challenging the constitutionality of wid  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Leon Felkins
America’s “Intelligence-industrial Complex” News Link  •  Military Industrial Complex
America’s “Intelligence-industrial Complex”
07-15-2013  •  Joseph Kishore, Global Research 
Microsoft worked with the NSA to develop procedures to get around the company’s own encryption mechanisms, allowing unfettered access to its Outlook.com service, which includes Hotmail, Messenger and other widely used programs. It also collaborated w  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Leon Felkins
As the NSA Follows You, We Follow the Money News Link  •  Military Industrial Complex
As the NSA Follows You, We Follow the Money
07-16-2013  •  Emily Masters, Independent 
According to the Project on Government Oversight, $300 billion a year is now spent on a “shadow government of private contractors.” At the center of this arrangement is an interlocking web of current and former high-level government officials, major   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Leon Felkins
Woman has been stopped 70 TIMES by police 'after splitting from her PC lover' News Link  •  Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Woman has been stopped 70 TIMES by police 'after splitting from her PC lover'
07-17-2013  •  Daily Mail 
Katie Bowman, who has never been convicted of a crime, claims police interest in her " which saw her stopped 70 times for suspected offenses ranging from drink-driving to assault " meant she could ‘barely leave the house’.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Due to Increased Regulations, Millions of Americans Abroad Forced to Reconsider US Citizenship News Link  •  TAXES: Federal
Due to Increased Regulations, Millions of Americans Abroad Forced to Reconsider US Citizenship
07-17-2013  •  The Weekly Standard 
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or Fatca, is forcing millions of Americans living abroad to reconsider their U.S. citizenship, a lawyer, Colleen Graffy, writes in the Wall Street Journal.  Read Full Story
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City Subcontractor Demolished Wrong House News Link  •  Eminent Domain
City Subcontractor Demolished Wrong House
07-17-2013  •  CBS News 
Imagine driving up to your home " or vacation home " and realizing it’s not there. It happened in the Lake Worth section of Fort Worth last Friday when a city subcontracted demolition crew took down the wrong house.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
U.S. prosecutor warns Wall Street about repeat violations News Link  •  Criminal Justice System
U.S. prosecutor warns Wall Street about repeat violations
07-17-2013  •  Reuters 
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said investment firms that repeatedly violate the law should be concerned that they will eventually be held accountable.  Read Full Story
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U.S. appeals court tosses injunction limiting indefinite detention News Link  •  Torture
U.S. appeals court tosses injunction limiting indefinite detention
07-17-2013  •  Reuters 
A federal appeals court on Wednesday lifted a lower court order that would have prevented the U.S. military from indefinitely detaining people believed to have helped al Qaeda or the Taliban.  Read Full Story
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Bernanke: We Are Printing Money, Just 'Not Literally' News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke: We Are Printing Money, Just 'Not Literally'
07-17-2013  •  Forbes 
We are printing money, just not literally, Bernanke told policymakers, while contradicting himself regarding recent record highs in stock markets, first attributing them both to the strength of the economy and the impacts of monetary policy.   Read Full Story
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10 Ways That The Iron Grip Of The Big Brother Prison Grid Is Tightening On All Of Our Lives News Link  •  Police State
10 Ways That The Iron Grip Of The Big Brother Prison Grid Is Tightening On All Of Our Lives
07-17-2013  •  http://chrisinmaryville.net/ 
Do you ever feel trapped in an invisible control grid that is slowly but surely closing in all around you? Do you ever feel like virtually everything that you do is being watched, tracked, monitored and recorded? If so, unfortunately it is not just  Read Full Story
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Giant Unions Turn on the Prez: Obamacare Will Shatter Backbone of Middle Class News Link  •  Healthcare Industry
Giant Unions Turn on the Prez: Obamacare Will Shatter Backbone of Middle Class
07-17-2013  •  http://chrisinmaryville.net/ 
James Hoffa of the Teamsters, Joseph Hansen of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and Donald Taylor, the president of Unite-Here, penned a letter to the president explaining to him that Obamacare is set to destroy the unionized m  Read Full Story
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Unmarked Military Base Discovered in Las Vegas (Video) News Link  •  Military
Unmarked Military Base Discovered in Las Vegas (Video)
07-17-2013  •  http://chrisinmaryville.net/ 
LAS VEGAS, NV " A stockpile of military vehicles were recently discovered occupying a secluded commercial property on the outskirts of Las Vegas at the address of 5750 Sky Pointe Dr. It doesn’t seem as if the Humvees and other military-grade vehic  Read Full Story
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New House Bill Wipes Mortgage Fraud Clean For Banksters News Link  •  Housing
New House Bill Wipes Mortgage Fraud Clean For Banksters
07-17-2013  •  http://chrisinmaryville.net/ 
The House Financial Services Committee (HFSC), headed by chair Jeb Hensarling, has approved proposed bill entitled, “Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners Act” (PATH) that is being sold to the American public as a way “to create a sustainable   Read Full Story
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