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APRIL 11, 2021

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

Financial Tyranny: Footing the Tax Bill for the Government’s Fiscal Insanity 

Stand Up to Tyranny: How to Respond to the Evils of Our Age 

After a Year Under Lockdown, Will Our Freedoms Survive the Tyranny of COVID-19? 

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

Rutherford Institute Warns Against Schools Expanding Zero Tolerance by Monitoring and Punishing Students for Social Media Activity Off-Campus 

Federal Court Gives Denver Police the Green Light To Intimidate, Threaten & Retaliate Against Individuals Who Record Police Brutality, Misconduct 

Rutherford Institute Asks U.S. Supreme Court To Reconsider Mandatory Life Sentences for Young Adults Suffering Mental, Emotional Trauma 
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IN THE COURTS

Police Allowed To Use The Crime Victims Protect Act To  Hide Officers Names From The Public 

Appeals Court Reinstated A Fired Seattle Cop Who Fractured A Handcuffed Woman's Eye Socket 

Cops Can't Be Sued For Seizing An Innocent Man's Drivers License, Car And Shoes Because He Couldn't Prove It Offended His Rights 

Supreme Court Orders California to Allow in-Home Prayer Meetings 

Michigan Man Files Lawsuit Challenging ‘No-Fly List’ 

Judge Says DEA, TSA Can Continue To Be Sued For Stealing Cash From Airline Passengers 

First Circuit Upholds First Amendment Right to Secretly Audio Record the Police 

California Supreme Court Says Keeping People Locked Up Just Because They Can't Make Bail Is Unconstitutional 

Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down Mask Mandate 

State Appeals Court Says Flying A Drone Over Someone's Property Violates The Fourth Amendment 

Judges Rule in Favor of Catholic Professor Who Refused To Refer to a Male Student as a Female 

The 9th Circuit Says the Right To Bear Arms Does Not Extend Beyond Your Doorstep 

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The State of Our Freedoms After a Year Under Lockdown 

Digital Trails: How the FBI Is Identifying, Tracking and Rounding Up Dissidents 

Home Invasions: All the Ways the Government Can Lay Siege to Your Property 

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VODCAST: ON TARGET

Techno-Censorship: When Censoring ‘Disinformation’ Becomes Silencing Truth

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COVID-19

European Court Backs Mandatory Vaccinations For Children 

Florida Governor Vows To Ban ‘Vaccine Passports’ Over Privacy Concerns 

Idaho Becomes 3rd State to Ban COVID-19 'Vaccine Passports', Iowa Could Be Next 

You Can Fly! CDC Says Fully Vaccinated People Can Travel Safely within the U.S.

AMERICAN POLICE STATE

CDC Declares Racism ‘A Serious Public Health Threat’, While Ignoring Rampant Police Abuse 

Chauvin’s Attorney Argues Floyd Saying, ‘I Can’t Breathe,’ Was a Form of Resisting Arrest 

Cop Who Mistook Star Trek Memorabilia For Weapons Beat And Broke An Elderly Man's Arm 

NYPD “Goon Squad” Manual Teaches Officers to Violate Protesters’ Rights 

Police Beat Black Teen So Violently They Left a Boot Imprint on His Face—Over Speeding Ticket 

Black Army Officer Caron Nazario Held at Gunpoint, Pepper-Sprayed by Police 

Fort Lauderdale Enables Police Misconduct, New Lawsuit Says 

LAPD Video Shows Black Man Arrested in Search for White Suspect

OVERCRIMINALIZATION 

Undercover NYPD Cop Arrests Woman on Hate Charges for Yelling Anti-Asian Slur at Him 

Biden’s New Executive Orders Just Turned a Whole Lot of Gun Owners Into Felons

AMERICA AT WAR

Intelligence Report on “Extremism” Equates Anarchists With Right-Wing Militias 

The Flow of Military Equipment to Police Has Accelerated Under Biden 

The Pentagon’s Target List for Extremist Infiltrators — Right and Left 

Feds Confiscate Guns in Flathead Valley with 30 Vehicles, Three Tanks, and Helicopter  

FBI Raids Business Renting Anonymous Safety Deposit Boxes, Forces Customers To Reveal Identity To Get Stuff Back

BEHIND BARS

Texas Prisons Lose Money Every Year To Keep Prisoners Picking Cotton, Other Field Crops 

City Jail Populations Are Falling, So Why Are Their Budgets Increasing? 

Attorney-Client Privilege Rights In Federal Bureau Of Prisons Come Under Fire
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NATIONAL SECURITY

Former NSA General Counsel Wants To Create NSA, FBI, CISA Cybersecurity Fusion Centers 

Border Patrol Stops And Questions Drivers Who Look At Them Funny 

Feds Plan To Broadcast Government Propaganda To Streaming Platforms

GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION

TSA Has Never Stopped a Terrorist But They’ve Been "Legally" Robbing Travelers for Years 

When Police Kill, They Are Rarely Prosecuted and Hard To Convict 

Soldier Says She Was Sexually Assaulted by 22 Troops at Oklahoma Base

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

US Government Is Purchasing (Clear) Smart Data To Spy on Its Citizens 

Officials Use COVID To Create Statewide Vehicle Surveillance Programs 

LexisNexis to Provide Giant Database of Personal Information to ICE 

Cops Ran Thousands of AI Facial Recognition Searches — Often Without Any Oversight 

Your ‘Smart Home’ Is Watching – And Possibly Sharing Your Data With the Police 

Lawsuit Accuses Northwestern University of Unlawfully Collecting Students’ Biometric Data 

Smartphones Share Our Data Every 4 ½ Minutes Even When Devices Are Idle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Facebook Is Making an Augmented Reality Wristband That Lets You Control Computers With Your Brain 

Microsoft Scores $21.9 Billion U.S. Army Contract For Augmented Reality Headsets 

First-Ever “Pig-Monkey Chimeras” Born in Chinese Lab 

Harvard Halts Plans for Controversial Geoengineering Experiment

ECONOMY

IRS Tax Refund To Start in May for $10,200 Unemployment Tax Break

POLITICS

Hogan Vetoes Three Major Police Accountability Bills 

Biden To Announce Executive Action on Ghost Guns, Red Flag Laws 

Biden To Nominate Official From Gun-Control Group To Head ATF

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