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FOIA Docs: US Cities Plan Spy Drone Fleets
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzLawsuit Provides Glimpse Into America's Drone-Filled Future
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Grand Prix Disgrace
Stephen LendmanBlood in the streets
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"The NSA Is Lying": U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails Says NSA Whistleblow
• YouTube.comHe estimates the NSA has assembled 20 trillion "transactions" — phone calls, emails and other forms of data — from Americans. This likely includes copies of almost all of the emails sent and received from most people living in the United States.
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Protesting for Justice in Bahrain
Stephen LendmanBahrain is one of the world's most despotic states
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Grand Prix Hypocrisy in Bahrain
Stephen LendmanRacing in a war zone
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Regulating domestic drones on a deadline
• Washington PostHow do you put large numbers of unmanned systems in the air without endangering commercial and general aviation? Who can fly a UAV — not to mention, of what size, how high and how far — without its posing a threat? What rules should apply, and how sh
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Kurt Vonnegut and the American Police State
• www.counterpunch.orgJust Say "Hi-Ho!" as They Strip Search You
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'It left me no doubt about her sexual preference':
• www.dailymail.co.ukIsrael supermodel, Bar Refaeli, felt violated after airport pat down by female security guard
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Undercover T.S.A. Spies To Ride Houston Buses
• http://govtslaves.info, Paul Joseph WatsonA new program in Houston will place undercover TSA agents and police officers on buses whose job it will be to perform bag searches, watch for “suspicious activity” and interrogate passengers in order to ‘curb crime and terrorism’.
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All transactions to be conducted in the presence of a tax collector
• www.sovereignman.comThe tax ‘reforms’ of Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd century were so rigid and unwavering that many people were driven to starvation and bankruptcy. The state went so far as to chase around widows and children to collect taxes owed.
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NYPD Raid Occupy's Sleep-In Protest
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staffArrests in defiance of 2000 court ruling allowing such protests
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Homeland Security Unveils Monstrous SWAT Trucks
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, cryptogon.comThe vehicles are right out of Team America: World Police.
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IRS Travel Ban: Revoking Citizenship By Stealth
• www.prisonplanet.comEfforts to pass a bill that would allow the IRS to deny travel rights to U.S. citizens who the feds merely claim owe $50,000 or more in delinquent taxes represents a de facto move to revoke the citizenship of Americans without due process and in comp
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Tarek Mehanna: Criminalized for Doing the Right Thing
Stephen LendmanPolice state America
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UAE Signs Deal to Integrate National IDs Into Mobile Phones
• www.eff.orgThe UAE has had a national ID system since 2004, with IDs carrying a chip similar to one on a credit card and holding a person's name, birthday, gender, photograph, fingerprint, and ID number.
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Miami-Dade PD Releases Information about Its Drone Program; Will the FAA Follow Suit?
• www.eff.orgMiami-Dade PD records include the Federal Aviation Administration-issued Certificate of Authorization (COA) to fly the MDPD drones. This appears to be the first time a law enforcement agency has made its COA available to the public without redactions
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Police Checkpoint On Trial
Terry BressiAs previously reported, the final pretrial conference in my nine year running civil rights lawsuit against several Tohono O'odham police officers for conducting an illegal checkpoint operation in December of 2002 was held on March 19, 2012.
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Spain accused of 'draconian' plans to clamp down on protests
• Daily TelegraphUnder the laws, a minimum jail term of two years could be imposed on those found guilty of instigating and carrying out violent acts of protest under a new package of measures unveiled. But it has raised fears that the new measures could be used to s
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UC Davis Pepper Spray Report Released: Campus Police Force 'Very Dysfunctional'
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staffPepper spraying incident 'should and could have been prevented'
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Task force: Police shouldn't have used pepper-spray on protesters
• APA University of California task force said Wednesday that UC Davis police should not have used pepper-spray on student demonstrators in an incident that prompted national outrage and calls for the chancellor’s resignation after online videos of the c
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MILITARIZATION AND THE TRILATERAL NORTH AMERICAN POLICE STATE
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Dana GabrielWhile bilateral initiatives have dominated North American issues over the last couple of years, the trilateral relationship has suffered.
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The Police State Strips Away Its Mask
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Glenn GreenwaldApril 08, 2012 "Salon" -- One of the more extreme government abuses of the post-9/11 era targets U.S. citizens re-entering their own country, and it has received far too little attention.
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Abdulhadi Alkhawaja Near Death
Stephen LendmanBahrain and Washington want him silenced, not heard
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Police Mysteriously Lose Video Of Megaupload Raid
• http://govtslaves.info, Stephen C. WebsterVideo footage of a police raid on the home of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is missing, and authorities claim they’re not quire sure what happened to it.
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Documents show Britain initiated extraordinary rendition of Libyan woman
• The GuardianJust when Fatima Bouchar thought it couldn’t get any worse, the Americans forced her to lie on a stretcher and began wrapping tape around her feet. They moved upwards, along her legs, winding the tape around and around, binding her to the stretcher.
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A Life Sentence, Then a New Life
Menckens Ghost"Escape From Camp 14" tells the story of one man's incarceration and personal awakening in North Korea's highest-security prison.
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Infowars Nightly News: DOJ Attempts to Install Monitor in Sheriff Joe’s Office
• http://www.prisonplanet.comThe Department of Justice in Washington has accused Sheriff Joe Arapio’s Office of engaging in what they describe as ‘racial profiling and mistreatment of illegals aliens and hispanics’ and alleged ‘human rights violations’
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Single Payer Doctor Carol Paris Packs It Up
• http://www.commondreams.org, by Russell MokhiberDr. Carol Paris is a psychiatrist. She’s practiced for 13 years in southern Maryland. And she’s fought hard for a single payer system.
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Abdulhadi Alkhawaja: Dying for Justice
Stephen LendmanPolice state and valued US ally
