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DECEMBER 5, 2021

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

The War Over Life, Liberty and Privacy Rights: From Abortion to COVID-19 and Beyond

The Road to Fascism: Paved with Vaccine Mandates and Corporate Collusion 

The Metaverse Is Big Brother in Disguise: Freedom Meted Out by Technological Tyrants 

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

Attorneys Sue to Prohibit Delaware From Using Emergency Powers to Restrict Religious Gatherings and Practices 

Rutherford Institute Urges Supreme Court to Rule That Prolonged, Warrantless Spying by Police Using Hidden Cameras Is an Illegal Search 

Challenging Technocensorship, Rutherford Institute Appeals to Federal Court to Prohibit Facebook From Censoring COVID-19 Vaccine Critics 

Supreme Court Asked to Decide if Spiritual Requests by Death Row Inmates Should Take Precedence Over Prison Protocol in the Execution Chamber 
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IN THE COURTS

PA Supreme Court: Warrant Not Needed for College Student’s School WiFi Records in Robbery Case 

Supreme Court Refuses To Block Vaccine Mandate for Massachusetts Hospital Workers

COVID-19

A Microchip Containing Your Vaccine Passport Information Can Now be Embedded in Your Hand 

House Passes Bill To Fund Federal Vaccination Database 

The Origin of Omicron Is a Mystery 

Military Will Help Treat Michigan COVID Patients Amid Surge 

Military Vaccine Mandates Sow Chaos As Many Seek Exemptions 

States Decide if Workers Fired Over Vaccine Mandates Can Collect Unemployment

PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE

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The Road to Fascism: Paved with Vaccine Mandates and Corporate Collusion 

The Empire of Lies Breaks Down 

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

The Metaverse Is Big Brother in Disguise 

Podcast Archive

VODCAST: ON TARGET

The Freedom Crisis in America 

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JUSTICE SYSTEM

Michigan School Shooting Suspect’s Parents Are Being Charged With Manslaughter

AMERICAN POLICE STATE

Rethinking Police Expertise 

Community Policing Found To Be Ineffective in Improving Trust or Reducing Crime 

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 

Man Bursts Into Flames After Being Tased by Police

AMERICA AT WAR

How To Blow Up a Podcast 

BEHIND BARS

Prisons Transcribe Private Phone Calls With Inmates Using Speech-to-Text AI 

Medicaid Change Sending Up to 70 California Inmates in Nursing Home Care Back to Prison 

‘Blood Money’: How Profit Shapes U.S. Incarceration 

One in 10 Black Men Put in Solitary Confinement Before Turning 32
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NATIONAL SECURITY

D.C. Records 200th Homicide of the Year, a Mark Not Seen Since 2004

GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION

FBI And Other Agencies Paid Informants $548 Million In Recent Years With Many Committing Authorized Crimes

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

What Police Get When They Get Your Phone  

Digital ID Is Set To Control Your Life  

Nation's First Real-Time CCTV Camera Network Managed By A Cable Television Company

TECHNOLOGY

People Named Alexa Are Changing Their Names Because of Amazon’s Assistant 

World’s First Living Robots Can Now Reproduce  

American Smart Cities Planning for Flying Taxis, Hyperloops, Autonomous Delivery Vehicles, Delivery Drones, etc. 

Digital Technology and Its Growing Threats to Our Livelihood 

North Carolina Legalizes Driverless Delivery Vehicles 

How 5G Will Transform Cities - And How Cities Are Preparing 

Pokémon Go Creator Fears “Dystopian Nightmare” Metaverse

EDUCATION

Book Burning Urged By School Board Members

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Regardless Of When An Unborn Child Is Considered 'Viable,' It's Arbitrary 

A Record 100,000 Overdose Deaths in 12 Months, Driven by Opioids, Fentanyl

SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook Knew Its Algorithms Were Biased Against People of Color

POLITICS

DeSantis Proposes Civilian Florida State Guard Military Force He Would Control 

How Greenwald, COVID and Rittenhouse Exposed a Plague Among Progressives 

CULTURE

Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets

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