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Biometric Database Plans Hidden In Immigration Bill

Monday, May 13, 2013

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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/10/145224/biometric-database-plans-hidden-in-immigration-bill

FBI Fake Terror Plot History: Judge Napolitano

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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FBI Fake Terror Plot History: Judge Napolitano Watch this video on YouTube.

The Meaning of Income Taxation

Thursday, April 18, 2013

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/135633.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

The search warrant section, so far – The Illustrated Guide to Law

Thursday, April 11, 2013

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http://thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com/post/47520369226/the-search-warrant-section-so-far

Google defies FBI, asks federal judge to challenge ‘national security letters’

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-defies-fbi-asks-federal-judge-to-challenge-national-security-letters/2013/04/05/83b1dd1e-9d6b-11e2-9219-51eb8387e8f1_story.html

Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. So the DEA Put Him in Prison

Thursday, April 4, 2013

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/alfred-anaya/all/

Smile & Wave! Fed pushes big bro drones despite public outcry in US

Thursday, March 28, 2013

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Watch this video on YouTube.

[Noisebridge-discuss] National Security Letters (NSLs)

Monday, March 25, 2013

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https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-March/035200.html * Around January, upon logging into the Google account, Google showed a strange NOTICE message asking me to accept the terms of usage of my account. This was odd, because in a decade of being a Google user, I had never seen this. I am told that this is Google’s way of “telling you [...]

UK initiates Blogger Licensing

Thursday, March 21, 2013

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/mar/19/bloggers-libel-fines-press-regulation

Hawaiian Law EnFORCEment

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

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http://hawaiianlibertarian.blogspot.ch/2013/03/law-enforcement.html

Google Outs FBI National Security Letter Requests in Annual Transparency Report

Thursday, March 14, 2013

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http://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/google-outs-fbi-national-security-letter-requests-in-annual-transparency-report-5607.html

Cops’ firing for drugs reversed

Friday, March 8, 2013

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http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/03/cops_firing_for_drugs_reversed Some of them made excuses for their failed tests, including Bridgeforth, who told the commission he may have had false positive tests because he brushed white powder off the seat of his cruiser, which he “assumed was confectionery powder from doughnuts.” He also said he lived in a townhouse that shared a heating vent [...]

Enjoy This Montage of People Refusing to Cooperate with DHS Checkpoints

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

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http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/26/enjoy-this-montage-of-people-refusing-to?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: reason/HitandRun (Reason Online – Hit & Run Blog)

PANOPTICON: The documentary about your privacy

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

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PANOPTICON: The documentary about your privacy Watch this video on YouTube.

Aussie Gov Seizes all “Inactive” Bank Accounts Money

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

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http://www.news.com.au/money/banking/cash-grab-inactive-bank-accounts-to-be-seized/story-e6frfmcr-1226585867131

RIOT gear: your online trail just got way more visible

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

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http://theconversation.edu.au/riot-gear-your-online-trail-just-got-way-more-visible-12146

If your Fly is Down, Cops Don’t Need Warrant for Cavity Search

Friday, February 22, 2013

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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/21/1343231/cellphone-privacy-in-canada-encryption-triggers-need-for-warrant?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

If your Fly is Down, Cops Don’t Need Warrant for Cavity Search

Friday, February 22, 2013

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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/21/1343231/cellphone-privacy-in-canada-encryption-triggers-need-for-warrant?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

“Camover” Raids Hit U.S.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/camover-raids-hit-u-s/ When asked by Vice “aren’t you just wasting taxpayers’ money, since the government will inevitably re-install any CCTV you take out?” Camover’s originators responded, “Isn’t the government just going to waste taxpayers’ money when they replace the cameras that we are inevitably going to take down again?” It’s a direct approach to fight the [...]

Google Moves to Destroy Online Anonymity … Helping Authoritarian Governments In the Process

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

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http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-02-10/google-moves-destroy-online-anonymity-…-helping-authoritarian-governments-pro

US Constitution Free Zones: DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border

Sunday, February 10, 2013

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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/09/0054212/dhs-can-seize-your-electronics-within-100-miof-us-border-says-dhs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

jmcmichael — Charlie Stross: Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship

Saturday, February 9, 2013

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http://jmcmichael.com/post/42609418388/charlie-stross-political-failure-modes-and-the-beige

As Trigger-Happy LAPD Shoots Innocents, California Moves to Disarm Citizens

Saturday, February 9, 2013

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http://www.the-spearhead.com/2013/02/08/as-trigger-happy-lapd-shoots-innocents-california-moves-to-disarm-citizens/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: TheSpearhead (The Spearhead)

US Border Patrol Gets Hit By Rocks, Shoots Mexican Kid 11 Times in the Back

Friday, February 8, 2013

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http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/boy-16-shot-11-times-in-the.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: boingboing/iBag (Boing Boing)

US Cops Slaughter Unarmed Couple In Hail Of 140 Bullets

Thursday, February 7, 2013

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http://jonathanturley.org/2013/02/06/cleveland-police-under-investigation-after-unarmed-couple-killed-in-hail-of-140-bullets/

Schneier on Security: Power and the Internet

Saturday, February 2, 2013

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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/power_and_the_i.html

Book review: Cypherpunks on Freedom and the Future of the Internet

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

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http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-cypherpunks-on-freedom-and-the-future-of-the-internet/2013/01/24?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: P2pFoundation (P2P Foundation)

Deception Is Futile When Big Brother’s Lie Detector Turns Its Eyes on You

Thursday, January 24, 2013

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/ff-lie-detector/all/

UK Police Stalk Citizens on Facebook to Arrest for Taking A Picture With A Knife

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

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http://www.libertariannews.org/2013/01/21/uk-police-arrest-people-for-taking-a-picture-with-a-knife/

United States v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency

Monday, January 21, 2013

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_v._$124,700

The FBI Needs Hackers, Not Backdoors

Friday, January 18, 2013

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http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/01/wiretap-backdoors/

FBI “Surveillance Strategy Is Privileged and Confidential”

Thursday, January 17, 2013

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/fbi-surveillance-strategy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: wired/index (Wired: Top Stories) What has been made public is that, following the high court’s Jan. 23 decision, the Federal Bureau of Investigation pulled the plug on some 3,000 GPS trackers. The bureau’s general counsel, Andrew Weissmann, acknowledged that fact while speaking at a legal symposium at the University of San Francisco last year. [...]

The US Is an Assassination State: A transcript of the Lew Rockwell Show episode 339 with James W. Douglass

Thursday, January 17, 2013

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http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/douglass2.1.1.html

Did Hitler Ban Guns or No?

Thursday, January 17, 2013

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http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1249.html

Invasion of the Body Searchers: The Loss of Bodily Integrity in an Emerging Police State

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

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http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead68.1.html

Anonymous hacks MIT after Aaron Swartz’s suicide

Monday, January 14, 2013

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57563752-93/anonymous-hacks-mit-after-aaron-swartzs-suicide/

Lessig on the DoJ’s vindictive prosecution of Aaron Swartz

Saturday, January 12, 2013

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http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/lessig-on-the-dojs-vindictiv.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: boingboing/iBag (Boing Boing)

The Monetary Future: U.S. Secret Service Bans Certain Gold and Silver Coins On eBay

Thursday, January 10, 2013

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http://themonetaryfuture.blogspot.de/2012/12/us-secret-service-bans-certain-gold-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: TheMonetaryFuture (The Monetary Future)

US Software Company Prosecuted for Illegal Use of It’s Product

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

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http://www.salon.com/2013/01/03/software_maker_faces_jail_because_his_product_was_illegally_used/ In another unnerving aspect of the case, Stuart told Wired how the New York D.A.’s office had offered him a plea agreement in order to have him hack into his clients’ systems and obtain names and passwords so New York authorities could track down those involved with illegal gambling operations in the state. Wire [...]

US Media Ignores Terrorist Bombing of Social Security Building

Thursday, December 13, 2012

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http://theintelhub.com/2012/12/13/media-ignores-bombing-of-social-security-building/

Expiring US Warrantless Spy Bill to Be Reauthorized by Year’s End

Thursday, December 13, 2012

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/fisa-act-reauthorization/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: wired/index (Wired: Top Stories)

Cops get boners over handcuffs that would administer shocks, drugs

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57558038-71/futuristic-handcuffs-would-administer-shocks-drugs/

7 Technologies That Will Make It Easier for the Next President to Hunt and Kill You

Thursday, December 6, 2012

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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/president-hunt-you/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: wired/index (Wired: Top Stories)&utm_content=Google Feedfetcher&pid=1620&viewall=true

News: Salt Lake City police about to adopt head cameras

Saturday, November 24, 2012

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The police chief in Salt Lake City, Utah, wants to make head cameras mandatory at his police department: This US police force wants to clip cameras on the side of all their officers’ heads via glasses, helmets or hats. The head cameras can record...

The Ultimate Net Monitoring Tool

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

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http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/05/70914

NSA Spying: ‘If We Tell You, We’ll Have to Kill You’

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

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http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.de/2012/07/nsa-spying-if-we-tell-you-well-have-to.html

NSA Whistleblower: Spy Agency Gathering Info on ‘Virtually Every US Citizen’

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

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http://news.antiwar.com/2012/07/14/nsa-whistleblower-spy-agency-gathering-info-on-virtually-every-us-citizen/

German tax authorities raiding homes of ‘suspected’ evaders

Friday, July 13, 2012

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http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/german-tax-authorities-raiding-homes-of-suspected-evaders/ “When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see [...]

Wonderful World Of Drones with Christopher McDonald

Thursday, July 12, 2012

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Wonderful World Of Drones with Christopher McDonald Wonderful World Of Drones with Christopher McDonald from Christopher McDonald

In The UK, You Will Go To Jail Not Just For Encryption, But For Astronomical Radio Noise, Too

Thursday, July 12, 2012

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http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/12/in-the-uk-you-will-go-to-jail-not-just-for-encryption-but-for-astronomical-noise-too/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Falkvinge-on-Infopolicy (Falkvinge on Infopolicy) But it’s worse than that. Much worse. You’re not going to be sent to jail for refusal to give up encryption keys. You’re going to be sent to jail for an inability to unlock something that the police think is encrypted. Yes, this is where the hairs rise on our [...]

Pentagon’s Mega Stun Gun Could Blast You Unconscious

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/mega-stun-gun/

Hidden Government Scanners Will Instantly Know Everything About You From 164 Feet Away

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

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http://gizmodo.com/5923980/the-secret-government-laser-that-instantly-knows-everything-about-you

Secretly Monitor Cop Stops With New ACLU App

Friday, July 6, 2012

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/monitor-police-app/

Bamford Claims NSA Has Made “An Enormous Breakthrough” in Cryptanalysis

Monday, March 19, 2012

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http://cryptogon.com/?p=28078

Canadian cops want to add a spying tax to phone bills to pay for warrantless wiretapping

Monday, March 19, 2012

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http://boingboing.net/2012/03/16/canadian-cops-want-to-add-a-sp.html

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

Monday, March 19, 2012

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1

Bamford Claims NSA Has Made “An Enormous Breakthrough” in Cryptanalysis

Monday, March 19, 2012

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http://cryptogon.com/?p=28078

Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable

Thursday, March 15, 2012

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/feds-seize-foreign-sites/?intcid=story_ribbon

Surveillance Inc: How Western Tech Firms Are Helping Arab Dictators

Thursday, March 15, 2012

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http://www.readability.com/read?url=http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/surveillance-inc-how-western-tech-firms-are-helping-arab-dictators/254008/ These technologies turn activists’ phones against them, allowing governments to listen in on phone calls, read text messages, even scan cell networks and pinpoint callers with voice recognition. They allow intelligence agents to monitor movements of activists via a GPS locator updated every fifteen seconds. And by tricking users into installing malware on their [...]

The NYPD Tapes Confirmed

Thursday, March 15, 2012

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http://www.readability.com/read?url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-03-07/news/the-nypd-tapes-confirmed/

Illinois judge: law barring recording police is unconstitutional

Thursday, March 15, 2012

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/illinois-judge-law-barring-recording-police-is-unconstitutional.ars

The Right to Tell Lies

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

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http://www.readability.com/read?url=http://prospect.org/article/right-tell-lies

From encryption to darknets: Advances in bypassing Government Snooping

Friday, February 24, 2012

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http://arstechnica.com/business/the-networked-society/2012/02/from-encryption-to-darknets-as-governments-snoop-activists-fight-back.ars

Life in US Prison without Trial (via “Contempt of Court”) until you Decrypt your Laptop?

Friday, February 24, 2012

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/laptop-decryption-appeal-rejected/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: wired/index (Wired: Index 3 (Top Stories 2))

BitcoinMoney.com: New FATF AML Recommendations And Bitcoin

Sunday, February 19, 2012

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New FATF AML Recommendations And Bitcoin The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an global inter-governmental body, updated its anti-money laundering (AML) recommendations (PDF) (last updated 2003) and includes some wording that is relevant to Bitcoin: From the glossary: Funds:The term funds refers to assets of every kind, whether corporeal or incorporeal, tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, [...]

Must read: Details of Elite Anti-Terror Police Raid of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Home

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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http://torrentfreak.com/elite-anti-terror-police-went-after-megauploads-kim-dotcom-120207/

The Copyright Cartels Enforcers: The FBI – Global Guerrillas

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/01/the-copyright-cartels-enforcers-the-fbi.html

Cloud in the US? All Your Jurisdiction Belong to U.S.

Friday, February 3, 2012

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http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/cloud/what-will-you-do-when-the-us-comes-for-you-20120125-1qhc1.html

Retroactively policing the population

Friday, February 3, 2012

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http://delimiter.com.au/2012/01/24/isp-data-retention-still-an-issue-ludlam-warns/

Twitter, your local tyrants best friend.

Friday, February 3, 2012

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http://www.itworld.com/244937/twitter-can-now-block-tweets-specific-countries

SOPA Opponents May Use the ‘Nuclear Option’

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57349540-281/sopa-opponents-may-go-nuclear-and-other-2012-predictions/

Belarus: Browsing Foreign Websites a Misdemeanor?

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

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http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402929_text

Twitter Use by Shabab in Somalia Incites U.S.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/world/africa/us-considers-combating-shabab-militants-twitter-use.html?_r=3

Oath Keepers: Declaration Of Orders We Will Not Obey

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/

Did the US already Privatize Big Brother?

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

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http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/12/the-us-privatizes-big-brother-see-it-in-action.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: typepad/rzYD (Global Guerrillas)

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