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OCTOBER 17, 2021

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

Tyrants of the Nanny State: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best 

The Police State’s Reign of Terror Continues ... With Help from the Supreme Court 

COVID-19 Detention Camps: Are Government Round-Ups of Resistors in Our Future? 

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

Know Your Rights: How To Request a Religious Accommodation for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in the Workplace 

Special Report: Civil Liberties in the Age of COVID-19 

Supreme Court Strips Apartment Dwellers of Fourth Amendment Rights, Leaves Hallways Open to Warrantless Police Surveillance & Arrests 

U.S. Supreme Court Concurs: Trouble Understanding Police Orders Constitutes Resistance, Justifies Use of Excessive Force 

Rutherford Institute Asks Supreme Court to Protect the Right to Speak Out Against Government Corruption Without Legislative Retaliation 
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COVID-19

United Airlines Must Hold Off on Its Vaccine Mandate 

High School Student Arrested Over Refusal To Wear Mask 

Massachusetts National Guard To Aid COVID-19 School Testing 

Louisiana Will Expunge Your Criminal Record if You Agree To Get Vaccinated 

COVID-19 Could Nudge Minds and Societies Towards Authoritarianism

IN THE COURTS

FBI Used Geofence Warrants To Track Down January 6th Insurrectionists 

Feds Are Using Reverse Warrants To Demand Info On Google Searches 

Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Case Against State Trooper Who Killed Mentally Ill Man 

NY Appeals Court Rules on Guests Being Illegally Searched 

Can Police Be Sued for Entering a Person’s Home Without a Warrant Over a Baby’s Diaper Rash? 

Court: Arkansas State Police Filtering Out of "Pig," "Copper," "Jerk" in Facebook Posts Violates the First Amendment 

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Freedom from Fear: Stop Playing the Government’s Mind Games 

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VODCAST: ON TARGET

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

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AMERICAN POLICE STATE

FBI Can Take Everything in a Safe Deposit Box 

Government Snooping on Bank Transactions Over $600 a “Massive Search Without a Search Warrant”  

Police Place Secret Notes in License Plate Reader Systems 

Police Officers and Unions Helped Defeat Nearly Every Bill to End Qualified Immunity Bill 

DOJ Awards $7M in Grants to Promote Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness 

A Year After "Defund Police Movement", Police Departments Get Raises

AMERICA AT WAR

Military Is Developing “Cognitive Warfare” Weapons 

Hundreds of Billions Were Spent by the US on ‘Waste, Fraud and Abuse’ in Afghanistan

BEHIND BARS

Hundreds of Kids as Young as 7, Jailed in Tennessee — Some for Crimes That Don’t Exist 
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NATIONAL SECURITY

Digital Driver’s License: Here’s What You Should Know 

GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION

The U.S. Gov Just Ordered The Most Expensive Chevy Suburbans Ever From GM At $3.6 Million A Piece 

Probate Judge Accused of Looting Dead Man’s House

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

DHS Wants Wearables to Track Employee Health at Work and at Home 

New Records Reveal Scope of DEA Spying on 2020 Protests

FREE SPEECH

Angry Parents at School Board Meetings Have a Right To Speak 

Learning To Fear Free Speech: How Politicians Are Moving To Protect Us From Our Unhealthy Reading Choices 

TECHNOLOGY

Uh Oh, They Strapped a Sniper Rifle to a Robot Dog 

Former Google Exec Warns That AI Researchers Are “Creating God” 

Biden Employer Vaccine Mandate a Step Closer to Reality

DRONES

Flight of the Concord Drones 

ECONOMY

Millions of Americans Quit Their Jobs in Record Numbers in August 

HEALTH & MEDICINE

$11 for ‘Brief Emotion’? The Hidden Charges of Us Healthcare Are Utterly Enraging

SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook’s Secret Blacklist of “Dangerous” Groups and People

POLITICS

Biden’s Proposal to Empower I.R.S. Rattles Banks and Their Customers  

California Law Prohibits Secretly Removing Condom During Sex 

CULTURE

Destroying Comedy  

Dave Chappelle Addresses Backlash to Transphobic Jokes

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