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** MAY 9, 2020
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** WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES
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Technofascism: Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age ([link removed])

Your Freedoms Don’t Have to Be Muzzled Just Because You’re Wearing a Mask ([link removed])

Human Lab Rats: The U.S. Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments ([link removed])

COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society? ([link removed])


** RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES
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Supreme Court Paves the Way for Government to Punish Anti-Government Speech That Encourages Resistance to Tyranny Through Civil Disobedience ([link removed])

Rutherford Institute Warns Maryland Officials Not to ‘Weaponize’ COVID-19 Restrictions to Suppress First Amendment Rights of Protesters ([link removed])

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

Appeals Court Chills First Amendment Activity by Allowing Cops to Retaliate Against Nonviolent Protesters ([link removed])
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** IN THE COURTS
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Reuters Analyzed Court Data on Qualified Immunity ([link removed])

Kentucky’s Covid-19 Travel Ban Ruled Unconstitutional ([link removed])

Federal Judge Cites "National Security" as Reason to Throw out Lawsuit over NSA Spying ([link removed])

Michigan Stay-At-Home Order Did Not Infringe Rights, Court Finds ([link removed])

North Carolina Supreme Court: Middle Finger Didn’t Warrant Traffic Stop ([link removed])

Judge: Forced Catheterizations by South Dakota Law Enforcement Violated Constitution ([link removed])

Supreme Court Affirms That No One Owns the Law ([link removed])

Fifth Circuit Throws Out Challenge to Texas Ban on Boycotting Israel ([link removed])

Virginia Order Closing Gun Ranges Exceeded Governor's Authority, Judge Rules ([link removed])

Court Rules Detroit Students Have Constitutional Right To An Education ([link removed])


** PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE
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Human Lab Rats: The U.S. Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments ([link removed])

Draconian Lockdown Powers: It’s a Slippery Slope from Handwashing to House Arrest ([link removed])

Suspending the Constitution: Police State Uses Crises to Expand Its Lockdown Powers ([link removed])

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** VODCAST: ON TARGET
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American Horror Story: The Shameful Truth About the Government's Secret Experiments ([link removed])


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** COVID-19
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U.S. Companies Kept Shipping Masks Overseas Even As Hospitals Ran Out ([link removed])

Police Officer Under Investigation After Taking Down Maskless Woman at Walmart ([link removed])

States Explore House Arrest Technology to Enforce Quarantines ([link removed])

Surviving this Pandemic is Hard, For America’s Most Vulnerable, its Nearly Impossible ([link removed])

Georgia Kicks Off Chilling Door-to-Door COVID-19 Blood Collections ([link removed])

Smart City Tools Advanced To Fight COVID-19 ([link removed])

YouTube Censors Video Criticizing Fauci and Coronavirus Response ([link removed])

Coronavirus Survivors ‘Permanently Disqualified’ From Joining U.S. Military ([link removed])

Is Forced Face Masking a Civil Rights Offense? ([link removed])

Be Warned, Coronavirus Snitches: You Too May Be Snitched On ([link removed])

Miami Beach Issues 652 Face Mask Warnings After Parks Reopen ([link removed])


** JUSTICE SYSTEM
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Georgia Shooting Case Will Go to Grand Jury As Disturbing Video Surfaces Online ([link removed])


** AMERICAN POLICE STATE
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Video of NorCal Deputy Punching 14-Year-Old Boy Prompts Investigation ([link removed])

The COVID-19 Pandemic Didn't Stop This California Cop From Getting Physical During a Teen Smoking Arrest ([link removed])

Chicago Police Shoot Unarmed Man in the Back for Walking From One Train Car to Another ([link removed])


** BEHIND BARS
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Mistaking Cotton Candy for Meth, Cops Jail Woman for 94 Days ([link removed])

N.J. Tried to Ban Inmates From Talking to Media if They Are Released Amid Coronavirus Crisis ([link removed])
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** NATIONAL SECURITY
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Homeland Security's Biometrics Database Moves To Amazon's Cloud ([link removed])


** SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
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Fever-Reading Drones Heat Up Privacy Debate ([link removed])

Ring Docs Show Company Is Testing Consumer Enthusiasm For Facial Recognition, License Plate Reader Capabilities ([link removed])

Mobile Phone Data Show More Americans Are Leaving Their Homes, Despite Orders ([link removed])

‘Contact Tracing’: A Panopticon Grid Of Total Surveillance ([link removed])

Judge Clears Baltimore’s Planned Aerial Surveillance Test ([link removed])

Comcast Turns Their Voice-Activated Remote Into A Real-Time Tracking Device ([link removed])

China Is Installing Surveillance Cameras Outside People’s Front Doors … and Sometimes Inside Their Homes ([link removed])


** FREE SPEECH
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Protesters Say the NYPD Uses Social Distancing to Justify Coronavirus Crackdown ([link removed])

Facebook Names 20 People to Its ‘Supreme Court’ for Content Moderation ([link removed])

Twitter Tests Telling Users Their Tweet Replies May Be Offensive ([link removed])

City Passes Ominous Ordinance that Could Land People in Jail for Filming the Police ([link removed])

Why You Should Oppose The Censorship Of David Icke (Hint: It’s Got Nothing To Do With Icke) ([link removed])


** SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab With U.S. Dollars for Risky Coronavirus Research ([link removed])


** ECONOMY
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More Than 70% of Jobless Americans Did Not Receive March Unemployment Benefits ([link removed])

Small Business Administration Funds to Public Companies Top $1 Billion ([link removed])

Farmers Face Their Worst-Case Scenario: ‘Depopulating’ Chickens, Euthanizing Pigs And Dumping Milk ([link removed])

565 Americans Have Lost Their Job For Every Confirmed COVID-19 Death In The US ([link removed])

America's Super-Rich See Their Wealth Rise by $282 Billion in Three Weeks of Pandemic ([link removed])


** HEALTH & MEDICINE
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52 Years Ago, a Pandemic Flu Killed 100,000 in the US and Nothing Shut Down—Not Even Woodstock ([link removed])


** POLITICS
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Senators’ Stock Trades Would Make a Poker Cheat Blush ([link removed])

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