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** DECEMBER 5, 2021
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** WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES
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The War Over Life, Liberty and Privacy Rights: From Abortion to COVID-19 and Beyond ([link removed])

The Road to Fascism: Paved with Vaccine Mandates and Corporate Collusion ([link removed])

The Metaverse Is Big Brother in Disguise: Freedom Meted Out by Technological Tyrants ([link removed])


** RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES
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Attorneys Sue to Prohibit Delaware From Using Emergency Powers to Restrict Religious Gatherings and Practices ([link removed])

Rutherford Institute Urges Supreme Court to Rule That Prolonged, Warrantless Spying by Police Using Hidden Cameras Is an Illegal Search ([link removed])

Challenging Technocensorship, Rutherford Institute Appeals to Federal Court to Prohibit Facebook From Censoring COVID-19 Vaccine Critics ([link removed])

Supreme Court Asked to Decide if Spiritual Requests by Death Row Inmates Should Take Precedence Over Prison Protocol in the Execution Chamber ([link removed])
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** IN THE COURTS
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PA Supreme Court: Warrant Not Needed for College Student’s School WiFi Records in Robbery Case ([link removed])

Supreme Court Refuses To Block Vaccine Mandate for Massachusetts Hospital Workers ([link removed])


** COVID-19
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A Microchip Containing Your Vaccine Passport Information Can Now be Embedded in Your Hand ([link removed])

House Passes Bill To Fund Federal Vaccination Database ([link removed])

The Origin of Omicron Is a Mystery ([link removed])

Military Will Help Treat Michigan COVID Patients Amid Surge ([link removed])

Military Vaccine Mandates Sow Chaos As Many Seek Exemptions ([link removed])

States Decide if Workers Fired Over Vaccine Mandates Can Collect Unemployment ([link removed])


** PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE
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The Road to Fascism: Paved with Vaccine Mandates and Corporate Collusion ([link removed])

The Empire of Lies Breaks Down ([link removed])

COVID-19 Detention Camps: Are Government Round-Ups of Resistors in Our Future? ([link removed])

The Metaverse Is Big Brother in Disguise ([link removed])

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** VODCAST: ON TARGET
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The Freedom Crisis in America ([link removed])


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** JUSTICE SYSTEM
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Michigan School Shooting Suspect’s Parents Are Being Charged With Manslaughter ([link removed])


** AMERICAN POLICE STATE
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Rethinking Police Expertise ([link removed])

Community Policing Found To Be Ineffective in Improving Trust or Reducing Crime ([link removed])

Road Raging Off-Duty Cop Kneels On Two Women's Necks (62 yr-old and 39 yr-old) In Parking Lot For More Than 5 Minutes ([link removed])

Man Bursts Into Flames After Being Tased by Police ([link removed])


** AMERICA AT WAR
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How To Blow Up a Podcast ([link removed])


** BEHIND BARS
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Prisons Transcribe Private Phone Calls With Inmates Using Speech-to-Text AI ([link removed])

Medicaid Change Sending Up to 70 California Inmates in Nursing Home Care Back to Prison ([link removed])

‘Blood Money’: How Profit Shapes U.S. Incarceration ([link removed])

One in 10 Black Men Put in Solitary Confinement Before Turning 32 ([link removed])
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** NATIONAL SECURITY
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D.C. Records 200th Homicide of the Year, a Mark Not Seen Since 2004 ([link removed])


** GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION
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FBI And Other Agencies Paid Informants $548 Million In Recent Years With Many Committing Authorized Crimes ([link removed])


** SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
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What Police Get When They Get Your Phone ([link removed])

Digital ID Is Set To Control Your Life ([link removed])

Nation's First Real-Time CCTV Camera Network Managed By A Cable Television Company ([link removed])


** TECHNOLOGY
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People Named Alexa Are Changing Their Names Because of Amazon’s Assistant ([link removed])

World’s First Living Robots Can Now Reproduce ([link removed])

American Smart Cities Planning for Flying Taxis, Hyperloops, Autonomous Delivery Vehicles, Delivery Drones, etc. ([link removed])

Digital Technology and Its Growing Threats to Our Livelihood ([link removed])

North Carolina Legalizes Driverless Delivery Vehicles ([link removed])

How 5G Will Transform Cities - And How Cities Are Preparing ([link removed])

Pokémon Go Creator Fears “Dystopian Nightmare” Metaverse ([link removed])


** EDUCATION
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Book Burning Urged By School Board Members ([link removed])


** HEALTH & MEDICINE
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Regardless Of When An Unborn Child Is Considered 'Viable,' It's Arbitrary ([link removed])

A Record 100,000 Overdose Deaths in 12 Months, Driven by Opioids, Fentanyl ([link removed])


** SOCIAL MEDIA
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Facebook Knew Its Algorithms Were Biased Against People of Color ([link removed])


** POLITICS
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DeSantis Proposes Civilian Florida State Guard Military Force He Would Control ([link removed])

How Greenwald, COVID and Rittenhouse Exposed a Plague Among Progressives ([link removed])


** CULTURE
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Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets ([link removed])

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