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• That one shoe you may have forgotten finally dropped

  
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  pic via ssoosay at flickr.com I know it seems rather quaint compared to what the NSA can do, but cases against Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp continue to percolate along in regard to the hacking of phone calls. What has been missing, is a suit alleging that News Corp hacked into phones in America. Until now… and in ...
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• Will The Judge Let A Teatoot Beat Papaw Steve?

  
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  State lawmakers may have to redraw the boundaries of Kentucky’s six congressional districts later this year when they meet in a special session to remake state legislative districts, Gov. Steve Beshear said Monday. [ Bluegrass Politics ] The Supreme Court says deals between pharmaceutical corporations and their ...
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• Udall, Wyden introduce bill to curtail surveillance

  
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  Senators Ron Wyden, Dianne Feinstein, and Pat Roberts in an Intelligence Committee meeting. Democratic Sens. Mark Udall and Ron Wyden have been warning for more than two years of the massive dragnet the NSA has been conducting on phone and Internet records, revealed last week by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The ...
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• United States of Surveillance

  
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  The NSA surveillance program that harvests everyones data can be very useful in building a terrorist profile.  Thanks to data-mining, the authorities could be tipped off to an individual who makes telephone calls to a Muslim from Somalia.  This person also regularly makes and receives phone calls from a convicted ...
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• Greg Stumbo Loves Spending All Your Money

  
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  The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report Thursday on the medical helicopter crash that killed three people in Manchester June 6, but the board revealed no cause. [ H-L ] A fresh debate has erupted this week within the GOP over explosive social issues, as House Republicans press for a ...
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• Survey: Many Americans say ‘Big Brother’ is here

  
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  There’s little wonder why George Orwell’s novel 1984 is seeing a resurgence in sales. More than half of Americans polled in a survey released Thursday said they agreed with the statement “We are really in the era of Big Brother.” The survey from the University of Southern California was conducted last year, ...
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• It’s The Profiling, Stupid! Obama, Trust And The NSA

  
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  - by Mark Alexander - “All men having power ought to be distrusted…” –James Madison (1787) Last week, Barack Hussein Obama deflected new concerns about the National Security Administration’s intrusive domestic data-mining operations, saying, “If people can’t trust … the... Read More ›
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• Late Night: The Brotherhood of the Burning Pants

  
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  Lying has certainly come a long way in the new century.  Those of us us born in the 1900′s can still remember a time when being caught publicly lying could bring down a President (Nixon), or at the very least, get one impeached (Clinton).  In those sepia-toned days, lying was a content-neutral affront; Barry ...
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• 米議員「NSA暴露は氷山の一角」：NSA revelation only the tip of the iceberg, @LorettaSanchez learned

  
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  "What we learned in there is significantly more than what is out in the media today. I cant speak to what we learned in there, and I dont know if there are other leaks, if theres more information somewhere, if somebody else is going to step up, but I will tell you that I believe its the tip of the iceberg." "I think ...
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• Special In The 56th Is Getting Way More Exciting

  
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  The Lexington Public Library has asked a Fayette Circuit Court judge to vacate an arbitration panel’s ruling that would award $927,491 to Kathleen Imhoff, the library’s former chief executive officer. [ H-L ] The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has filed lawsuits seeking to restore $4.9 million of misused ...
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• The Senate is broken when it comes to oversight, too

  
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  Harry "See no evil" Reid The head of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith Alexander, testified before a Senate committee Wednesday, defending his agencys massive phone and internet surveillance programs, and saying that the leaks of those programs have done "great harm" to the nations security. Alexander said ...
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• Bank Robbery Suspect Wants NSA Secret Phone Data For His Defense

  
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  The NSA program of mining the data of Americans has generated quite a bit of controversy, but for one bank robbery suspect it might win him his freedom. A South Florida man accused in a series of bank robberies is hoping the recently revealed program to spy on Americans by the federal government will yield the ...
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• Does Anyone Actually Watch His TV Appearances?

  
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  NSA whistleblower mess = perfect opportunity for Rand Paul to stumble in front of a television camera or three: Because he’s got nothing better to do.
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• How to Fight NSA Wiretapping

  
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  If it isnt on the Internet, the government cant find it.
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• This Modern World: The Five Stages of Living in a National Surveillance State

  
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• Are You Addicted to the Drug Called Convenience?

  
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  Electronic “government”* spying has been occurring for decades.  Recently, it has become a hot-topic because of Edward Snowden’s whistle-blowing.  The news of this, however, is not a new thing.  There has been warrantless wiretapping, NSA spying, and all sorts of communications databasing happening since W. ...
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• Am I on Speaker? PA Supreme Court to Decide Whether Wiretapping Act Applies

  
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  ( Image Credit: technodiaries.org ) The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently accepted the case of Commonwealth vs. Spence , on appeal from the Superior Court.   This criminal case involves the issue of whether eavesdropping on a speaker-phone telephone call constitutes a violation of Pennsylvania’s Wiretapping ...
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• NSA surveillance can do anything ... even rewrite history

  
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  Thats from FBI Director Robert Mueller, testifying Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee on counterterrorism practices. Gee, what else might have derailed the 9/11 plotters? Maybe an official warning to the president. Something like “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.” Or maybe a president who didnt ...
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• NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden just went from American hero to traitor for his South China Morning Post interview.

  
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  Moving from NSA Whistleblower to traitor as Edward Snowden just did is as easy as moving from self-defense to malice. As a martial artist, you can turn a legally supported act of self defense in a jail sentence when you go further beyond to act with malice-hitting or inflicting injury on the very same attacker [...]
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• Not breaking news: Sean Hannity is a hypocritical blowhard

  
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  And just a week ago, he was calling President Obama a hypocrite . Sorry, Sean. If Americans "have a right to privacy," and if the actions of the president "are a very clear violation of the Fourth Amendment" and do not "respect and honor the Constitution," then its just as bad under one president as it is the ...
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