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News Link Drug War
Valley 'pot clubs' growing in popularity
10-31-2011
www.abc15.com
PHOENIX - A legal battle is brewing over so-called pot clubs that have popped up in the wake of Arizona's new medical marijuana law.
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AZ Capitol Times: Cities prepare for fight over funds
11-29-2010
fwix.com
Arizona cities are preparing for a fight over the money they receive annually from the state, but its not entirely clear if Republican lawmakers are even planning on tinkering with the nearly 40-year-old program that sends hundreds of millions of do
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Harper proposes state-sanctioned militia to patrol border
11-24-2010
http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/11/24/harper-p
Sen. Jack Harper, a Republican from Surprise, said he plans to introduce legislation next year that would create a government-sanctioned militia that would be allowed to patrol the border to observe illegal activity and report it to enforcement autho
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Arizona Department of Revenue director resigns
11-24-2010
www.abc15.com
PHOENIX - Arizona's tax man is moving on.
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Az. Infragard President Frank J. Grimmelmann
11-15-2010
azinfragard.org
Was researching the board members of Infragard's Az. chapter just for the hell of it, to see who it is that working so closely with the FBI as "civilian" liazons with commercial industry.
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Generous pension benefits for Arizona elected officials
11-15-2010
Arizona Republic
There was a move in 2002 when Jane Dee Hull was Arizona's governor to raise her $95,000 salary because it was among the lowest of the nation's governors. The raise never materialized. But thanks to a generous pension system for Arizona's elected offi
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Arizona public servants have to be told to not drink out of toilets
11-14-2010
Arizona Republic
Chandler's new City Hall comes with some features that have municipal workers and visitors scratching their heads. Like the restroom signs that tell people not to drink out of the urinals and toilets.
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Marijuana ballot measure nears approval
11-13-2010
Capitol Media Services
Arizona appears on the verge of finally getting a law that will allow patients to obtain marijuana legally.
Figures released late Friday show Proposition 203 ahead by 4,421 votes out of more than 1.6 million cast.
Maricopa County Recorder Helen
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Arizona Sheriff used hidden database to misspend up to $80 million
11-12-2010
RawStory.com
A hidden computer database recently discovered in the course of a racial profiling investigation shows Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio misspent up to $80 million in funds intended for jail operations, according to Maricopa County supervisors...
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Federal court ruling may thwart online child porn investigations
11-07-2010
Capitol Media Services
A new federal appellate court ruling involving a Tucson man could throw roadblocks in the path of police and prosecutors trying to catch and convict people of sending child pornography over the Internet. In a unanimous decision, the 9th Circuit Court
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News Link Media: Radio
Truth Squad Radio Show this Sunday New 2 Hour Format! S510 waits in the wings like a vulture
11-05-2010
Farm Wars
Harry Reid owes a lot of the stakeholders in S.510 a return on their massive investments in his campaign. The vultures are at Reids door and now they want to be fed!
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News Link China
China-Japan 'ship collision video' leaked on YouTube
11-05-2010
AFP
Video footage apparently showing a tense maritime incident between China and Japan two months ago was posted on YouTube early Friday, threatening to further inflame a bitter row between the Asian giants.
Japan's coastguard in early September arres
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News Link Property Rights
1.5-million-dollar verdict in US music piracy case
11-05-2010
AFP
A US jury has ordered a woman to pay $1.5 million dollars for illegally downloading 24 songs in a high-profile digital piracy case. A single mother of 4, was found liable by a jury of copyright infringement for downloading 24 songs over the Internet.
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News Link Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
White ex-transit officer given 2-year prison term
11-05-2010
AP
Hundreds of protesters on Friday took to the streets of Oakland after a white former transit officer was sentenced to the minimum possible prison sentence of two years for fatally shooting an unarmed black man on a California train platform.
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News Link Internet
Britain urges action over extremist U.S. website
11-05-2010
Reuters
"Jihadist content" on a US-based website calling for action against British lawmakers who backed the Iraq War has been removed after Britain contacted US authorities. The RevolutionMuslim.com website printed the details after Roshonara Choudhry was j
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News Link Anthropology
World's oldest axe found in Australia
11-05-2010
AFP
Archaeologists revealed they have found a piece of a stone axe dated as 35,500 years old on sacred Aboriginal land in Australia, the oldest object of its type ever found.
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News Link TAXES: Local
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to no longer hear appeals in code cases
11-05-2010
Arizona Republic
The Maricopa Co. Board of Supervisors no longer wants to get between owners of blighted properties and their neighbors. The board took an unusual step when it voted to delegate responsibility for judging code-violation appeals to a panel of appointee
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News Link TAXES: Local
Appeals court upholds Mesa new home fees for cultural facilities
11-05-2010
Capitol Media Services
Ruling that cultural facilities can be considered "necessary public services," the Arizona Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a Mesa levy on new homes to fund them.
In a unanimous decision, the judges said they have to give city council members b
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News Link Criminal Justice System
Ohio Court Reverses Conviction In Microwave Death
11-05-2010
AP
A state appeals court reversed a woman's murder conviction in her baby daughter's burning death in a microwave oven. There was prosecutorial misconduct and the trial court erred in not allowing a material witness to testify in China Arnold's defense
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News Link Transportation: Air Travel
Swiss man performs aerial loops with jet wings
11-05-2010
AP
Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy jumped from a hot-air balloon Friday and completed two aerial loops using just his custom-made jet-propelled wingsuit -- the first time such maneuvers have been performed.
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News Link History
President-elect Lincoln arrived to a less-than-monumental Washington
11-05-2010
Washington Post
The city that awaited Lincoln that fall remained a far cry from the populous, gleaming capital that it would become after -- and largely because of -- the Civil War. It was, as author Margaret Leech wrote in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Reveille
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News Link Arizona's Top News
Fountain Hills moves to 1 trash-hauling service despite protest
11-05-2010
Arizona Republic
Fountain Hills will become a one trash-hauler town next year, after the Town Council narrowly endorsed the change despite protests from numerous residents.
A divided Fountain Hills Town Council voted Thursday to switch to a single hauler for resid
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News Link WAR: About that War
War Is Sold Just Like Soda or Toothpaste
11-05-2010
White House chief of Staff Andrew Card famously said in explaining why the Bush administration waited until September to make its case for war in Iraq:
From a marketing point of view, you dont introduce new products in August.
War is i
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News Link Gold and Silver
Goldman Sachs Predicts Gold Will Go To $1650 oz. in next 12 months
11-05-2010
Zero Hedge
With these guys having Uncle Sam by the short hairs and making him sing their tune,...you might want to pay attention.
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News Link r3VOLution
Amazing Banksy "Flower Thrower" Costume
11/05/2010
Craft.com
You see that picture right there? That's not a stencil... that's a guy in a costume. Seriously, check out the full story!
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News Link Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
The Anarchist Yacht Clubb: Hold Fast
11-05-2010
blueanarchy.org
Stories of maniac sailors, anarchist castaways, and the voyage of the S/V Pestilence.
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News Link Justice and Judges
Consumers' right to file class actions is in danger
11-05-2010
LA Times
If a majority of the nine justices vote the telecom giant's way, any business that issues a contract to customers such as for credit cards, cellphones or cable TV would be able to prevent them from joining class-action lawsuits.
This would tak
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News Link Transportation: Air Travel
Yemen cargo bombs prompt restrictions on toner
11-05-2010
Associated Content
Ryan Air chief executive officer Michael O'Leary predicted it, and sure enough, Britain enacted barn door restrictions in response to the Oct. 29 discovery of bombs inside toner cartridges in printers shipped as cargo from Yemen to the United States
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News Link Central Intelligence Agency
CIA's Valerie Plame, in spotlight again
11-05-2010
AP
Not for nothing have they called Valerie Plame Wilson the Glamorous Spy.
And yet for years, she lived a life of secrecy that most of us would have trouble fathoming, unable to tell her best friends what she actually did for a living, or her own hu
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News Link Gun Rights
Feds Bust Navy Seal & Others For Smuggling Machineguns Into US From Iraq, Claim Destined For Cartels
11-05-2010
Yahoo News
Bickle is accused of smuggling about 80 AK-47 weapons from Iraq or Afghanistan, that the complaint said would be difficult or impossible to trace. "...this was possible because Navy SEALs are not searched when returning from deployments,"
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