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JULY 21, 2019

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

It’s Un-American To Be Anti-Free Speech: Protect the Right to Criticize the Government 

The Heart of Darkness: The Sexual Predators Within America’s Power Elite 

It’s Time to Declare Your Independence from Tyranny, America

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

Rutherford Institute Calls on DHS to Disclose Government Surveillance Program That Tracks, Monitors and Mines Social Media Influencers & Posts 

Victory: TSA Agrees to Drop $2600 Fine Against Texas Man Who Opted Not to Board a Flight Rather Than Be Subjected to Invasive Pat-Down Search 

Victory: Virginia Officials Agree to Suspend Campaign Sign Restrictions That Discriminate Against Political Speech
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IN THE COURTS

Eleventh Circuit Grants Immunity to Officer Who Shot Child Lying on the Ground

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It’s Un-American To Be Anti-Free Speech: Protect the Right to Criticize the Government 

The Heart of Darkness: The Sexual Predators Within America’s Power Elite
 
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VODCAST: ON TARGET

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JUSTICE SYSTEM

Wisconsin Courts Are Pioneering the Use of Automated Alcohol Screening

AMERICAN POLICE STATE

NJ Cop Overdoses on Heroin in Police Car While on Duty 

Ex-Florida Officer Accused of Traffic Stop Rape Gets 2 Months for Assault 

NYPD Used Deadly Force to Stop Cyclist Suspected of Running Red Light 

Maryland Police Agencies Have for Years Broken Law Mandating Reporting of Excessive Force, Charges Against Officers 

Police in America Have Killed 12.8 Times More Citizens Than Mass Shooters in Just the Last 4 Years 

Police Investigating Arrest of Man Who Officers Stunned and Punched in Face 

City Rules Cops Who Executed Sleeping Man, Shooting Him 55 Times in 3 Seconds, ‘Acted Reasonably’ 

City Pays Former Marine $116,000 to Settle Excessive Force Lawsuit 

Police Officer Charged With Multiple Rapes After DNA Links Him to Cold Case

OVERCRIMINALIZATION 

A Florida Woman Was Fined $100,000 for a Dirty Pool and Overgrown Grass. When Do Fines Become Excessive?

AMERICA AT WAR

Majorities of U.S. Veterans, Public Say the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Were Not Worth Fighting 

Google Has Been a Military-Intel Contractor From the Very Beginning 

Report Shows How War Profiteers Are Now Refugee Profiteers, Too
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NATIONAL SECURITY

ICE and the Ever-Widening Surveillance Dragnet 

GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION

Florida’s DMV Is Selling Drivers’ Personal Information to Bill Collectors and Data Brokers

WAR ON KIDS, FAMILY

CPS Is Taking Kids Away Based on ‘Predictive Analytics’ Computer Program To Judge Parents 

The US Is Quietly Opening Shelters for Babies and Young Kids. One Has 12 Children and No Mothers

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

Google Admits “Home” Smart Device Is Listening To Your Recorded Audio 

No Shirt, No Shoes, No Facescan, No Service: Welcome To 21st Century Convenience Store Shopping 

Palantir Manual Shows How Law Enforcement Tracks Families 

DARPA To Put Nuclear, Biological And Chemical Detectors In Public Venues 

Adding These Chrome and Firefox Extensions Puts Your Privacy at Risk

FREE SPEECH

Napolitano: The Limits of Free Speech

TECHNOLOGY

Brainworks Uses Smartphone Camera and AI to Detect Your Heart Rate, Breathing 

Snowden Warns: Big Tech Will "Indenture Entire Populations Into Servitude" To Corps & Govts 

City Halls Use Facial Recognition To Blacklist And Ban Residents 

Primer on Stingray Device Capabilities 

Elon Musk Announces Plan to 'Merge' Human Brains With AI 

Swedes Are Getting Implants in Their Hands to Replace Cash, Credit Cards 

London Metropolitan Police's Facial Recognition System Is Now Only Misidentifying People 81% Of The Time

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Largest U.S. Drug Companies Flooded Country With 76 Billion Opioid Pills 

House Orders Pentagon to Review If It Exposed Americans to Weaponised Ticks

SOCIAL MEDIA

Faceapp: Privacy Warning Issued Over App That Lets Users Turn Themselves Old 

FaceApp Now Owns Access To More Than 150 Million People’s Faces And Names, And Users Are Angry

POLITICS

Meet the Rich and Powerful People in Jeffrey Epstein’s Orbit, From Donald Trump to Bill Clinton 

Jeffrey Epstein, Accused of Sexually Abusing Teenage Girls, Surrounded Himself With Influential Network of Defenders 

Tape Shows Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Discussing Women at 1992 Party

FURTHER READING 

When Nazis Took Manhattan

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