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The Stasi Comes to Wal-Mart

12-06-2010 • YouTube

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano's PSA on behalf of Wal-Mart.

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TSA-Style Pat Downs Hit The Streets

12-06-2010 • prisonplanet.com

In Philly, You Don’t Have To Go To The Airport To Be Molested By The Government

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UK Uncut protesters spied upon by undercover police

12-05-2010 • The Guardian

Scotland Yard has deployed undercover officers to spy on a network of activists whose viral campaign against tax avoiders threatens to close down hundreds of shops in the run-up to Christmas. The surveillance officers were first used at a protest in

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Terrorism makes NYC more wary, gradually

12-05-2010 • AP

Not far from the New York Stock Exchange, a small crowd of tourists stopped to watch as a bomb-sniffing dog checked out a delivery van. The cobblestoned street was blocked by a line of brass cubes with holes that glowed red like the inside of a toast

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FBI Targets Barbie Video Girl as Tool for Predators

12-05-2010 • Speak Truth 2 Power

What next? Maybe we should just outlaw all cameras, telephones, Barbie Dolls and anything else that people use. After all, anything could be used to “lure children.”

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Think you can avoid the TSA by driving? Think again.

12-02-2010 • Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Local law enforcement and federal agents conducted a checkpoint operation Tuesday afternoon in Douglas County, the Federal Air Marshal Service told the AJC. But the operation, which also involves the Transportation Security Administration, is top-sec

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Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war (Publisher: Powerful Video... expect this for us)

12-02-2010 • Ted Talk

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people -- appalling, and largely ignored -- compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson in this bold, courage

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Lawyer: Sweden investigating Assange for sex without condom

12-02-2010 • RawStory.com

Prosecutors 'making it up as they go along' - A lawyer who recently represented Julian Assange says the Swedish sex assault investigation into the WikiLeaks founder is based on claims he didn't use condoms during sex with two Swedish women.

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We Are Change Colorado Opts Out of Naked Body Scanners

12-01-2010 • Sharlene Holt, Musicians 4 Freedom

I had the privilege on Wednesday, Nov. 24th, of accompanying the We Are Change Colorado “Underwear Interviewers” for “Opt-Out Day” at the Denver “New World” Airport. Some folks from Campaign for Liberty were there, as well, distributing literature

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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange: How much trouble is he in?

12-01-2010 • Christian Science Monitor

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could be prosecuted under the Espionage Act, but the US has historically avoided pursuing leak recipients. His primary concern is a 'red alert' issued by Interpol for alleged sex crimes in Sweden.

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Staggering Picasso trove turns up in France

12-01-2010 • JAMEY KEATEN via Yahoo! News

Pablo Picasso almost never stopped creating, leaving thousands of drawings, paintings and sculptures that lure crowds to museums and mansions worldwide. Now, a retired electrician says that he has 271 of them.

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TSA - You don't HAVE to fly

11-29-2010 • TSA.Gov YouTube

This video explains the seven simple steps to make travelers' security screening as liberty-depriving as possible while doing very little to keep anyone safe.

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Mask-wearing protestors in D.C. can now be arrested

11-29-2010 • washingtonexaminer.com

Wearing a mask while protesting outside a residence without telling D.C. police first could now get you arrested.

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Zodiac actor placed on terror list for opposing oil drilling method

11-28-2010 • Rawstory

Indie actor Mark Ruffalo found himself on the Pennsylvania Homeland Security office's terror watch list for organizing screening of an oil-drilling documentary. He found it "pretty fucking funny" that he would be suspected of terrorism for raising th

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What the TSA is NOT Telling You about Full Body Scans...

11-27-2010 •

LAWSUIT - According to the group, the imaging machines constitute a suspicionless search of all airport travelers in an extremely invasive way -- so invasive that it violates the reasonable standard contained in the Fourth Amendment.

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Willie Nelson charged with pot possession in Texas

11-27-2010 • Rolling Stone(d)

Willie Nelson was arrested yesterday at a border patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas after agents reportedly found 6 ounces of marijuana on his tour bus.

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Big Sis’ Street Scanners Target Of FOIA Request

11-26-2010 • PrisonPlanet.com

FOIA request that seeks to unveil the truth behind Homeland Security’s hundreds of roaming backscatter devices that are now radiating Americans in their homes and vehicles at internal checkpoints in the name of “safety”.

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Man Charged With Resisting Arrest for Covering Head During Beating

11-26-2010 • RawStory.com

"All he tried to do is cover his head, until he passed out. They beat him until he was unconscious, and they had to take him to Jackson [Memorial Hospital]," said Martinez-Cid.

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Drug War: Land Forfeiture Gang Strikes Musical Festival Property

11-26-2010 • LewRockwell.com

Under the Orwellian standards governing federal "civil asset forfeiture," Tebeau's property has already been found "guilty" of involvement in a crime. The agencies that seized it will be permitted to keep and divide it among themselves...

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Music Linking Site Raided By Dept. of Homeland Security / ICE

11-25-2010 • TorrentFreak

A large file-sharing link site dedicated to rap and hiphop music and news has been raided by the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The servers of RapGodFathers, a site with close to 150,000 members, were seized

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Sting Lures Alleged Malaysian Hacker to U.S. for Arrest

11-23-2010 • Kim Zetter via WIRED.com

A Malaysian man has been arrested after Secret Service agents caught him in a sting operation and found 400,000 bank card numbers on his computer.

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Protests Over Patdowns - TV12 Phx

11-23-2010 • KNXV TV 12

Jewel, ASU Students for Liberty / Tom Jenny, Americans for Prosperity

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FCC Updating 911 for the Texting Generation, SRSLY

11-22-2010 • Ryan Singel via WIRED.com

In a bid to bring the life-saving emergency service 911 into the 21st century, the FCC is looking at letting citizens report crimes through text messages and even stream video from their mobile phones to emergency centers.