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APRIL 27, 2020

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

Human Lab Rats: The U.S. Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments 

COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society? 

COVID-19’s Challenge to the Christian Church: What Would Jesus Do? 

Draconian Lockdown Powers: It’s a Slippery Slope from Handwashing to House Arrest

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

Rutherford Institute Warns Maryland Officials Not to ‘Weaponize’ COVID-19 Restrictions to Suppress First Amendment Rights of Protesters 

Victory: U.S. Supreme Court Holds States Accountable to Abiding by Sixth Amendment Standard of a Unanimous Jury Verdict in Criminal Cases 

Appeals Court Chills First Amendment Activity by Allowing Cops to Retaliate Against Nonviolent Protesters 

The Rutherford Institute's Statement on the Right to Religious Freedom During COVID-19 

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Blank Check Policing, Allows Cops to Stop Cars Registered to Unlicensed Owners, Whether or Not Owners Are Driving 
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IN THE COURTS

Judges Say Prosecutors Can Be Sued For Using Fake Subpoenas 

Judge Dismisses Twitter Lawsuit Pushing to Reveal Us Surveillance Requests 

Judge Forces Health Dept. to Provide Names of All COVID-19 Patients to Police

PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE

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Suspending the Constitution: Police State Uses Crises to Expand Its Lockdown Powers

Draconian Lockdown Powers: It’s a Slippery Slope from Handwashing to House Arrest

This Is a Test: How Will the Constitution Fare During a Nationwide Lockdown?

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Time to Start Acting Like Americans: Interview with John W. Whitehead

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COVID-19

A Pandemic of Corruption: $40 Masks, Questionable Contracts, Rice-Stealing Bureaucrats Mar Coronavirus Response 

Louisiana Pastor Breaks House Arrest to Hold Sunday Service Amid Coronavirus Stay-at-Home Orders  

Police Get 3 Drones to Battle COVID-19 Pandemic 

Police Testing ‘Pandemic Drone’ to Monitor Social Distancing, Health Issues

The Seven-Step Path from Pandemic to Totalitarianism 

Wuhan’s Return to Life: Temperature Checks and Constant Anxiety 

U.S. Civil Rights Agency Says Employers Can Test Workers for COVID-19 

Police Ban Protests at California Capitol After Rally Against Stay-at-Home Order 

Top Economist Says US Coronavirus Response Is Like ‘Third World’ Country 

NY Conducts Antibody Testing at Local Grocery Stores 

CCTV Cameras Are Being Turned Into Heartbeat Measuring Social Distancing Monsters 

Risk a $1,000 Fine if You Don’t Cover Your Face in Public in Houston 

Seniors Are Shaming Each Other Into Social Distancing 

Kentucky To Record License Plates At Churches, Quarantine Occupants 

NJ Police Use Chinese Drones To Enforce Social Distancing 

NYPD Seizes Drone Of Photojournalist Documenting Mass Burials On Hart Island 

US May Have to Keep Some Social Distancing Measures Until 2022: Study 

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Orders All People to Wear Masks in Public 

COVID-19 Checkpoints Targeting Out-of-State Residents Draw Complaints and Legal Scrutiny

AMERICAN POLICE STATE

Texas Cops Use Undercover Sting Operation to Arrest Women Offering Salon Services at Their Homes 

New Role for New York Police: Breaking Up Crowds at Trader Joe’s

AMERICA AT WAR

Blue Angels And Thunderbirds Plan To Soar Together Over American Cities

BEHIND BARS

Prisons Attempt to Track Coronavirus-Related Keywords in Inmate Phone Calls 

New York Tried to Get Rid of Bail. Then the Backlash Came
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GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION

FBI Agent Worked for Mobsters on the Side

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Chinese Scientists Gene-Hacked Super Smart Human-Monkey Hybrids 

Facial Recognition Door Locks Exploit Our Fears 

Hitachi Develops World's Smallest RFID Chip

ECONOMY

Tech Giants Are Profiting — and Getting More Powerful — Even As the Global Economy Tanks

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Vaccines Linked to Mental Disorders by Yale Study 

Bill Gates, MIT Develop New ‘Tattoo ID’ to Check For Vaccinations 

Gates Foundation Calls for Global Cooperation on Vaccine for 7 Billion People

RESISTANCE

NYC Housing Activists Urge "Massive Wave" Of Rent-Strikes 

San Diego Woman Faces 90 Days in Prison for Organizing Anti-Lockdown Protest 

Duncan Lemp’s Parents Threatened With Jail For Protesting His Killing 
 

POLITICS

Inside the Conservative Network Backing the Anti-Quarantine Protests 

U.S. Government Gave $3.7million Grant to Wuhan Lab That Experimented on Coronavirus Source Bats

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