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<title><![CDATA[Girl buys water, spends night in jail]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Felony charges were dropped on Thursday against a 20-year-old University of Virginia student who says she panicked when undercover agents from the state's Alcohol Beverage Control division mistook her water purchase for beer.  According to Charlottesville  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Atheists unveil Fla monument near Ten Commandments]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A group of atheists unveiled a monument to their nonbelief in God on Saturday to sit alongside a granite slab that lists the Ten Commandments in front of the Bradford County courthouse.  As a small group of protesters blasted Christian country music and  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court strikes down DOMA]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court released two major decisions expanding gay rights across the country on Wednesday as hordes of cheering demonstrators greeted the news outside. The justices struck down a federal law barring the recognition of same-sex marriage in   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lawmakers introduce new bill to compel gov�t to declassify secret court opinions]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ In the wake of two newly published orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) by The Guardian, two American legislators have introduced a bill that would require the government to declassify FISC opinions that describe how the secret   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court Decided Your Silence Can Be Used Against You]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A nation continues to wait for final word on the Supreme Court's Big Four cases this term � voting rights, affirmative action, DOMA, and Proposition 8 � but the justices' closest decision arrived first on Monday, in a 5-4 ruling on Salinas v. Texas in   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama loses German hearts and minds ahead of Berlin visit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When Barack Obama last visited Berlin back in 2008, Constanze Fr�hlich felt like she was part of history. �He was about to become the first black president�I wanted to support that,� the 35-year-old university researcher told Yahoo News. �It was really   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[If you live in a surveillance state for long enough, you create a censor in your head]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ What do you do when you know nobody can stop you? Me, I like to travel. In the past three years, I�ve been lucky enough to spend time in a number of world cities, but lately when I come back home to London and ride the Underground, I am struck by a naggin  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Today, the Guardian newspaper confirmed what EFF (and many others) have long claimed: the NSA is conducting widespread, untargeted, domestic surveillance on millions of Americans. This revelation should end, once and for all, the government's   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Liberty Was Also Attacked in Boston]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint to be searched without probable cause. Businesses forced to close. Transport shut down.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DHS claims authority to inspect safety deposit boxes without warrants]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ On Saturday, Investment Watch Blog revealed that in June of 2011, the Department of Homeland Security had sent written messages to banks throughout the United States informing them that the agency has the authority, �under the Patriot Act,� to inspect  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court has menu of options in gay marriage case]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Four years ago, many gay rights advocates shook their heads when super-lawyers Theodore B. Olson and David Boies announced they would challenge California's ban on gay marriages in federal court and take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Judge: FBI surveillance method violates First Amendment]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A judge in California has ruled that National Security Letters, more commonly called NSLs, are in violation of the First Amendment. This is a significant ruling, and comes at a time when the FBI has come under fire for using them with false claims  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Judge throws out NYC�s ban on large sugary drinks]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A New York state judge on Monday threw out a ban on large sugary drinks set to go into effect in New York City on Tuesday, calling the new regulation �arbitrary and capricious.� Championed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg as a way to fight the city's growing  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Texas Surveillance Bill Would Curb Warrantless Cellphone Tracking]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ According to the Department of Justice, cellphone users can be tracked without a warrant because �no reasonable expectation of privacy� applies to location data. But lawmakers in Texas disagree�and are proposing strict new tracking regulations that could   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[International Terrorist Stopped, America Reunited Thanks to Walmart (sarcasm)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A Walmart employe in Indiana has been charged with felony theft after she was caught munching Oreos filched from the store's shelves, police said. When confronted by cops with video of the alleged theft, Penny S. Winters, 63, admitted she ate the cookies   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Someone Just Leaked Obama's Rules for Assassinating American Citizens]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ For over a year now journalists, civil liberties advocates, and members of Congress have been asking the Obama administration to release internal memoranda from the Office of Legal Counsel justifying Obama's targeted killing program. While the White House  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The 5 Highest Tax States for Top Earners]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When people talk tax rates, they usually talk federal income taxes. But state tax rates, along with local taxes and sales taxes, can be just as significant when it comes to family finances. A new study from the Institute on Taxation and Finance tallied up  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Prosecution of Swartz Typical for the "Sick Culture" Pervading the DOJ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ According to a report in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, State prosecutors had planned to let Swartz off with a warning and Swartz would not have faced any criminal proceedings or prison time had it not been for the decision of Carmen Ortiz's office to   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[it's only $ 25 a year to join the NRA]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Game to destroy CCTV cameras: vandalism or valid protest?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ As a youth in a ski mask marches down a Berlin U-Bahn train, dressed head-to-toe in black, commuters may feel their only protection is the ceiling-mounted CCTV camera nearby. But he is not interested in stealing wallets or iPhones � he is after the  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lawmakers in Ireland Vote to Allow �Moderate� Drunk-Driving]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Local police in Ireland's Kerry county will be allowed to permit some residents to drive drunk if a measure passed yesterday by county councilors is approved by the Department of Justice.  By a vote of five to three with 12 councilors absent, lawmakers  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court to consider if silence can be evidence of guilt]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether a suspect's refusal to answer police questions prior to being arrested and read his rights can be introduced as evidence of guilt at his subsequent murder trial.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[School Kicks Out Sophomore in RFID Student-ID Flap]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A Texas high school on Friday barred a girl from attending class as part of the fallout from a legal flap that began when the sophomore refused to wear around her neck an RFID-chip student ID she claims is the �Mark of the Beast,� lawyers connected to the  [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FBI to ACLU: Nope, we won't tell you how, when, or why we track you]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Back in August 2012, we reported on how the American Civil Liberties Union was compelling the FBI to fully disclose how it interprets the results of the United States v. Jones case�a unanimous Supreme Court decision establishing that law enforcement does   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EFF Gets Secret Interpretation Of FISA Spying Law... And It's Almost Entirely Redacted]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ We've talked about the absolute ridiculousness of having a secret interpretation of a US law on surveillance such that the law actually means something different than what most people (including the politicians voting on it) think it means -- and yet the   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Government Unable to Define �Homeland Security�]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ What is �homeland security?� The federal bureaucracy doesn�t know, and that�s problematic for a government that has been fighting the ill-defined �war on terror� following 9/11, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service.  In short,  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How the Police and Politicians Can Regain the Public Trust.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A few months ago, I asked what we should do about law enforcement officials that broke the law in a piece called "Is it time to police the police?". It�s taken me some time, but now I've compiled the responses and got some suggestions to float to the  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[School District Wins Suit Filed Against It By Student Who Refused To Wear School-Issued Location Tracking ID Cards]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Back in November we covered the story of a Texas student whose refusal to wear a school-issued ID card with an embedded RFID chip led to her suspension. Her family, along with the Rutherford Institute, took the school district to court, seeking a   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fired State Trooper Accused of Faking DUI Arrests]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A class-action lawsuit has been filed against a former Utah Highway Patrol trooper and her superiors alleging that she filed false DUI charges during her career. The department fired Lisa Steed in November for alleged misconduct related to her duties.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Inmate ordered retried in '80 'waiting ever since']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  Jerry Hartfield was still a young man when an uncle visited him in prison to tell him that his murder conviction had been overturned and he would get a new trial. Not long afterward, he was moved off of death row. "A sergeant told me to pack my stuff and  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NDAA Signed Into Law]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 on Wednesday, despite his own threat to veto it over prohibitions on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.  Civil liberties advocates had roundly criticized the bill over  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Adam and Eve, Not Ford and Accord: Illinois Gay Marriage Tacked as Amendment to Rental Car Bill]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The future of gay couples' right to marry in Illinois could very well, as god intended, rely on the automobile industry. Illinois Senators have attached the legalization of gay marriage as an amendment to House Bill 4963, which itself amends the state's   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[White House Responses To 'We The People' Petitions Slowing To A Hand-Picked Crawl Of Canned Responses]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The administration's goal of becoming the "most transparent" in history still needs a lot of improvement to get anywhere near the lofty goals announced during the (first) inauguration. One of the few steps in the right direction has been the   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall � so mystifying at the time � was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FISA Is Renewed, With All Its Problems Still Intact]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ After three key amendments that would have brought some oversight to the NSA's ongoing spying program were rejected last night, and the final such amendment was rejected this morning, there was little doubt that the Senate would move ahead with renewing   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Feds Requiring �Black Boxes� in All Motor Vehicles]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Federal regulators are proposing that new automobiles sold in the United States after September 2014 come equipped with black boxes, so-called �event data recorders� that chronicle everything from how fast a vehicle was traveling, the number of passengers  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Court: 'Irresistible' Workers Can Be Fired]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ An Iowa dentist was within his legal rights when he fired a longtime employee he found to be "irresistible" and a threat to his marriage, the State Supreme Court unanimously ruled. The seven justices, all male, affirmed on Friday a lower court's decision   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Michael Wilson writes in the NY Times that top intelligence officials in the New York Police Department are looking for ways to target "apolitical or deranged killers before they become active shooters" using techniques similar to those being used  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Superintendent of the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District said around 2 pm Tuesday, a 16 year old student demonstrated behavior that caused concern. A teacher noticed drawings of what appeared to be weapons in his notebook.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Women Banned from Using Mobile Phones in Indian Villages]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A village council in the Indian state of Bihar banned the use of mobile phones by women in the Sunderbari village, roughly 385 kilometers (239 miles) east of Patna, the capital of Bihar. The population of Bihar is 104 million, larger than any European  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[These Terrifying Handcuffs Can Shock And Drug Prisoners]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ An Arizona-based company recently filed a patent for high-tech futuristic handcuffs that are, in a word, terrifying. In addition to restraining prisoners, the cuffs can also deliver electric shocks and sedatives. They're still in the patent phase right   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Microphones to Record Passenger Conversations]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses that would give them the ability to record and store private conversations, according to documents obtained by a news outlet.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Appeals Court Holds Firm: The Government Cannot Be Sued For Violating Its Own Wiretapping Laws]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ There's more bad news on the Fourth Amendment front as the appeals court reviewing a lawsuit filed against the US government for illegally spying on American citizens has declined to rehear the Al-Haramain case. A federal appeals court is refusing to  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court to Hear Two Challenges to Gay Marriage]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would enter the national debate over same-sex marriage, agreeing to hear a pair of cases challenging state and federal laws that define marriage to include only unions of a man and a woman.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Police Can Record Video Inside Your Home Without A Warrant, Appeals Court Says]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court provided some comfort to those fearing the seemingly limitless potential of new technologies to enable government privacy invasion. In holding that police could not attach a GPS device to a car and track it for 30  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NYPD Proves Street Artist Right by Tracking Him Down and Arresting Him]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Essam Attia is the New York street artist responsible for placing fake NYPD ads reading "Drones: Protection When You Least Expect It" around town. In September, he gave a video interview to Animal NY, with his identity and voice obscured, in which he  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook 'Likes' Considered Key Evidence In 'Terrorist' Plot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ We've written a few times about how the FBI has been doing a bang up job foiling its own terrorist plots, so we're a bit skeptical every time we see headlines of some giant "terrorist bust." Almost every time, once you dig into the details, it involves  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courts Divided Over Searches of Cellphones]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Judges and lawmakers across the country are wrangling over whether and when law enforcement authorities can peer into suspects� cellphones, and the cornucopia of evidence they provide.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Terrorist Risk of Food Trucks]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This is idiotic: Public Intelligence recently posted a Powerpoint presentation from the NYC fire department (FDNY) discussing the unique safety issues mobile food trucks present. Along with some actual concerns (many food trucks use propane and/or   [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Senator Wyden Puts Hold On Intelligence Authorization Act Over Free Speech Concerns]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Once again, Senator Ron Wyden seems like one of a very small number of people in Congress actually willing to stand up against bad bills that are pushed forward with fear mongering. Earlier this year, we noted just how absolutely ridiculous it was that   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The poor in America: In need of help]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ WHEN Barack Obama first ran for president, Emma Hamilton was part of that politically crucial cohort, the white working class. A tall woman with tawny hair, broad shoulders, a firm handshake and a forthright, direct manner, Ms Hamilton worked as a loader   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Los Angeles mandates condoms for porn actors, industry threatens suit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  Los Angeles County voters passed a ballot initiative mandating that pornographic film actors wear condoms during sex scenes, prompting a trade group on Wednesday to threaten to sue and take production elsewhere. Measure B, which was sponsored by the  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ACLU and EFF Challenge Free Speech Restrictions in California's Proposition 35]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Today the ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a federal class-action lawsuit to block implementation of unconstitutional provisions of Proposition 35 � a ballot measure passed by California voters   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Iowa, Ohio and Texas Take Stand Against Transparent Elections]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ If you�ve ever heard something like �America is the greatest democratic country in the world� take heed. While many believe that to be the case, the State Governors of both Iowa and Texas are afraid to put that to the test. They�ve threatened independent   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[America Has Already Lost Tuesday's Election]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Germans see the US election as a battle between the good Obama and the evil Romney. But this is a mistake. Regardless of who wins the election on Tuesday, total capitalism is America's true ruler, and it has the power to destroy the country.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Feds Ordered to Disclose Data About Wiretap Backdoors]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A federal judge is ordering the Justice Department to disclose more information about its so-called �Going Dark� program, an initiative to extend its ability to wiretap virtually all forms of electronic communications.  The ruling by U.S. District Judge   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Police allowed to install cameras on private property without warrant]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A federal judge has ruled that police officers in Wisconsin did not violate the Fourth Amendment when they secretly installed cameras on private property without judicial approval.  The officers installed the cameras in an open field where they suspected   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['ID cards by the back door': Drivers face order to carry licence at all times]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Motorists could be required to keep driving licences in their cars under a new proposal being derided as a national ID card scheme �by the back door�. A senior magistrate wants Britain�s 38&#8201;million drivers to be forced to carry their documents so that the  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ohio Student Suspended for Growing Out Hair ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Zachary Aufderheide has run afoul of his Ohio high school's dress code because of his desire to grow his hair long enough to donate it to Locks of Love, an organization that provides wigs to needy children who've lost their hair because of medical problem  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down DOMA In Opinion By Republican-Appointed Judge]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs is a very conservative judge. He joined a court decision effectively declaring corporations immune to international human rights law � even when they �trade in or exploit slaves, employ mercenary armies to do dirty work   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Lower Class Is the Most Important Class]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Obama administration is changing some rules about how people can repay their student loans based on their income, to make that debt repayment somewhat less onerous for people whose incomes are low. Which is good. But not as good as it could be. As in   [..]]]></description>
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