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NEWSPEAK: CIA Approved AP Report That Triggered Investigation

The Associated Press and the administration of United States President Barack Obama are at odds over whether or not the AP’s publishing of a May 2012 article on a foiled al-Qaeda bomb threat put the US in danger. The AP announced on Monday that the US Department of Justice seized two months’ worth of phone records belonging to journalists, an act the news agency’s CEO condemned as a “massive and unprecedent ...

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Court Rules That FLASHING LIGHTS TO WARN OF COPS AHEAD IS PROTECTED SPEECH

In most states, it’s common practice to flash your headlights to warn of road hazards ahead. The warning can apply to a wide range of dangers, but it’s most often used to warn oncoming motorists about policespeed enforcement. In a perfect world, law enforcement would support this behavior, since (in theory, anyway) it has a similar traffic-calming effect to the presence of a police vehicle. In the real worl ...

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KEEP QUIET: Lawmakers Accuse Obama Administration Of Abusing Free Speech Rights

U.S. lawmakers accused the Obama administration on Wednesday of trampling on free speech rights and evading questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of Associated Press telephone records. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, testifying before a House of Representatives panel, provided limited responses on the issue, noting he had been recused from the probe into a government leak that led to th ...

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Justice Department secretly spied on Associated Press staff

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP o ...

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FASCISM: Eroding Freedom in America

US democracy is illusory. America never was beautiful. It's not the land of the free and home of the brave. It wasn't created that way. More than ever, it's not now. Freedom is a four-letter word. It's fast disappearing. It's an endangered species. Wealth, power and privilege alone matter. America's war on terror priorities advance them. International, constitutional and US statute laws are spurned. Rogue s ...

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Tennessee Governor Will Veto “Ag-Gag” Bill

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam announced today that he intends to veto a bill that would require photos or video of animal abuse be turned it in to law enforcement within 48 hours or the photographer can be fined up to $500. The bill HB 1191/SB 1248 passed the General Assembly this session and would go into effect July 1st if Haslam signed it into law. Instead, Haslam is so concerned that the law would make ...

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STASI: OBAMA ADMIN TAPPED PRESS PHONE RECORDS FOR MONTHS

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters ...

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The Government Double Standard – Internet Security

The Government is fighting hard to take away our right for a free internet, but they don’t want to include themselves in the mix. RT.com has recently published an article on the US Government running a quantum internet for almost 2 years now. The article described a completely secure internet that protects against hackers, wiretapping, etc., which in return would protect information transferred and shared t ...

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