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MAY 9, 2020

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

Technofascism: Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age

Your Freedoms Don’t Have to Be Muzzled Just Because You’re Wearing a Mask 

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?

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

Supreme Court Paves the Way for Government to Punish Anti-Government Speech That Encourages Resistance to Tyranny Through Civil Disobedience 

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 
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IN THE COURTS

Reuters Analyzed Court Data on Qualified Immunity 

Kentucky’s Covid-19 Travel Ban Ruled Unconstitutional 

Federal Judge Cites "National Security" as Reason to Throw out Lawsuit over NSA Spying 

Michigan Stay-At-Home Order Did Not Infringe Rights, Court Finds 

North Carolina Supreme Court: Middle Finger Didn’t Warrant Traffic Stop 

Judge: Forced Catheterizations by South Dakota Law Enforcement Violated Constitution 

Supreme Court Affirms That No One Owns the Law 

Fifth Circuit Throws Out Challenge to Texas Ban on Boycotting Israel 

Virginia Order Closing Gun Ranges Exceeded Governor's Authority, Judge Rules 

Court Rules Detroit Students Have Constitutional Right To An Education

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Technofascism: Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age

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

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

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

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COVID-19

U.S. Companies Kept Shipping Masks Overseas Even As Hospitals Ran Out 

Police Officer Under Investigation After Taking Down Maskless Woman at Walmart 

States Explore House Arrest Technology to Enforce Quarantines 

Surviving this Pandemic is Hard, For America’s Most Vulnerable, its Nearly Impossible 

Georgia Kicks Off Chilling Door-to-Door COVID-19 Blood Collections 

Smart City Tools Advanced To Fight COVID-19 

YouTube Censors Video Criticizing Fauci and Coronavirus Response 

Coronavirus Survivors ‘Permanently Disqualified’ From Joining U.S. Military 

Is Forced Face Masking a Civil Rights Offense? 

Be Warned, Coronavirus Snitches: You Too May Be Snitched On 

Miami Beach Issues 652 Face Mask Warnings After Parks Reopen

JUSTICE SYSTEM

Georgia Shooting Case Will Go to Grand Jury As Disturbing Video Surfaces Online

AMERICAN POLICE STATE

Video of NorCal Deputy Punching 14-Year-Old Boy Prompts Investigation 

The COVID-19 Pandemic Didn't Stop This California Cop From Getting Physical During a Teen Smoking Arrest 

Chicago Police Shoot Unarmed Man in the Back for Walking From One Train Car to Another

BEHIND BARS

Mistaking Cotton Candy for Meth, Cops Jail Woman for 94 Days 

N.J. Tried to Ban Inmates From Talking to Media if They Are Released Amid Coronavirus Crisis
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NATIONAL SECURITY

Homeland Security's Biometrics Database Moves To Amazon's Cloud

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

Fever-Reading Drones Heat Up Privacy Debate 

Ring Docs Show Company Is Testing Consumer Enthusiasm For Facial Recognition, License Plate Reader Capabilities 

Mobile Phone Data Show More Americans Are Leaving Their Homes, Despite Orders 

‘Contact Tracing’: A Panopticon Grid Of Total Surveillance 

Judge Clears Baltimore’s Planned Aerial Surveillance Test 

Comcast Turns Their Voice-Activated Remote Into A Real-Time Tracking Device 

China Is Installing Surveillance Cameras Outside People’s Front Doors … and Sometimes Inside Their Homes

FREE SPEECH

Protesters Say the NYPD Uses Social Distancing to Justify Coronavirus Crackdown 

Facebook Names 20 People to Its ‘Supreme Court’ for Content Moderation 

Twitter Tests Telling Users Their Tweet Replies May Be Offensive 

City Passes Ominous Ordinance that Could Land People in Jail for Filming the Police 

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

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab With U.S. Dollars for Risky Coronavirus Research

ECONOMY

More Than 70% of Jobless Americans Did Not Receive March Unemployment Benefits 

Small Business Administration Funds to Public Companies Top $1 Billion 

Farmers Face Their Worst-Case Scenario: ‘Depopulating’ Chickens, Euthanizing Pigs And Dumping Milk 

565 Americans Have Lost Their Job For Every Confirmed COVID-19 Death In The US 

America's Super-Rich See Their Wealth Rise by $282 Billion in Three Weeks of Pandemic

HEALTH & MEDICINE

52 Years Ago, a Pandemic Flu Killed 100,000 in the US and Nothing Shut Down—Not Even Woodstock

POLITICS

Senators’ Stock Trades Would Make a Poker Cheat Blush

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