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AUGUST 9, 2020

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

P Is for Predator State: The Building Blocks of Tyranny from A to Z 

One Nation Under House Arrest: How Do COVID-19 Mandates Impact Our Freedoms? 

The Federal Coup to Overthrow the States and Nix the 10th Amendment Is Underway 

America, You’ve Been Blacklisted: McCarthyism Refashioned for a New Age 

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

Rutherford Institute Calls on U.S. Supreme Court to Apply Unanimous Jury Rule Retroactively to All Convictions That Violate the Sixth Amendment 

In a Victory for Religious Freedom, U.S. Supreme Court Prohibits Government From Meddling in Employment Decisions at Religious Schools 

Victory: U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Discriminatory Law Preventing Students From Using Scholarships to Attend Religious Private Schools 

COVID-19 DEVELOPMENTS

97,000 Children Reportedly Test Positive for Coronavirus in Two Weeks  

NYC to Set Up Quarantine Checkpoints at City Borders 

US Government & Yale Hold Clinical Trials On How Best to ‘Persuade’ Americans to Take COVID-19 Vaccine 

Google Says New "Contact Tracing" App To Launch In Coming Weeks 

Red Flags Soar As Big Pharma Will Be Exempt From COVID-19 Vaccine Liability Claims 

Military To 'Joint Venture' With CDC To Distribute Coming Vaccines 

Robotic Assistance Devices Announces Face Mask Detection Orders 

Miami Police Setting Up ‘Mask Traps,’ Issuing $100 Fines to People Wearing Masks Improperly 

Lawyers Weighing In on New Albemarle Co. and Charlottesville Mask Ordinances
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IN THE COURTS

Louisiana Supreme Court Rules Black Man Convicted of Garden Tool Theft 20 Years Ago Should Die in Prison   

As Prisons Across US Report Surge in Covid-19 Cases, Supreme Court Rules Jail Does Not Have to Provide Basic Protections to Inmates 

Judge’s Blistering Opinion Says Courts Have Placed Police Beyond Accountability

New York City Police Unions Sue to Block City’s Chokehold Ban 

EFF and ACLU Tell Federal Court that Forensic Software Source Code Must Be Disclosed 

In Historic Opinion, Third Circuit Protects Public School Students’ Off-Campus Social Media Speech 

New York Supreme Court Orders Release of NYC Gun Owners’ Private Info

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One Nation Under House Arrest: How Do COVID-19 Mandates Impact Our Freedoms? 

The Federal Coup to Overthrow the States and Nix the 10th Amendment Is Underway 

America, You’ve Been Blacklisted: McCarthyism Refashioned for a New Age 

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AMERICAN POLICE STATE

“Woke” Corporations Supporting Black Lives Matter Quietly Funding Police 

Who Profits from Militarizing the Police? 

Detroit Police Department Settles Another Dog Shooting Lawsuit After Video Contradicts Cop’s Account 

Police Spending Has Been Rising for Years 

NYPD Had Paid Informant Embedded in George Floyd Protests 

Federal Judge Pens Scathing Opinion on Qualified Immunity 

New York City Police Unions Sue to Block City’s Chokehold Ban 

Anonymous Stole and Leaked a Megatrove of Police Documents 

New Jersey Police Are Pressing Felony Charges for Retweeting an Officer’s Photo 

Deputies Accused of Being in Secret Societies Cost L.A. County Taxpayers $55 Million 

AMERICA AT WAR

Anonymous Stole and Leaked a Megatrove of Police Documents 

Chicago Homicides and Shootings Rise Sharply in 2020 

Who Profits from Militarizing the Police? 

New Pentagon Training Refers to Protesters, Journalists As ‘Adversaries’ 

No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public 

Trump Says He Could Send As Many as 75,000 Federal Agents to US Cities

BEHIND BARS

Massachusetts Department of Corrections Makes Prisoners Create Blue Lives Matter Flags 

Mississippi Teen Who Has Languished In Jail For 17 Months Without An Indictment Is Just 'One Of Thousands' 

In Portland, Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights
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NATIONAL SECURITY

Insecure Satellite Internet Is Threatening Ship and Plane Safety 

TSA’s Looking to Rapidly Verify Passengers Without Biometrics or Physical IDs 

Fusion Centers Have Secretly Created A National Citizen Spying Program 

NSA Warns Cellphone Location Data Could Pose National-Security Threat 

DHS Compiled ‘Intelligence Reports’ on Journalists Who Published Leaked Documents 

Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force

GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION

US ‘Plotted to Kill Julian Assange and Make It Look Like an Accident’ 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

Beware of Find-My-Phone, WI-Fi, and Bluetooth, NSA Tells Mobile Users 

Microphones Listening to More than Voice Commands with Google-ADT Home Security System 

What Are Stingrays and Dirtboxes? 

FREE SPEECH

Activist Wearing ‘F—12’ Mask Removed From American Airlines Flight

ASSET FORFEITURE

Homeland Security Seized $2 Billion in Cash From Travelers at U.S. Airports

TECHNOLOGY

Google Invests $450 Million in ADT Gets Exclusive Hardware Deal 

What’s New in Civic Tech: States Deploy Chatbots for Crisis 

Corporate Giant Invests in Rapid Weapons Detection Tech 

The Antitrust Hearing Reveals That Tech Is Inescapable 

EDUCATION

Georgia Students Suspended for Posting Photos of Packed School Hallways and Few Masks 

Immunizations Still Required for Virtual Learning

ECONOMY

43 Million Americans at Risk of Eviction As Relief Programs and Moratorium Expire

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Gov’t Safety Limits Don’t Protect Us from Unhealthy Levels of Radiation from “Smart” Meters

POLITICS

How Facebook Wrote Its Rules to Accommodate Trump 

Teen Models, Powerful Men and Private Dinners: When Trump Hosted Look of the Year

CULTURE

Fear of Authoritarian Regimes Is Pushing the Film Industry to Self-Censor

FURTHER READING 

The Elites Fiddle While America Burns 

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