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States push for nationwide prescription drug monitoring programs

http://www.msnbc.msn.com

Under the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act signed by President Bush in 2005, more than $50 million has been appropriated to states for programs where doctors and other authorized users, such as police in some cases, can access patient records. Now lawmakers want to extend the reach by crossing state lines and morphing this horrific "act" into a federal program.

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McDonald's Happy Meals Banned in Santa Clara County, California

http://www.treehugger.com

Santa Clara County in California has just ushered in a sad day for Happy Meals -- by banning them, along with other such promotions for unhealthy kids' meals. But this sad day for McDonald's may lead to many happier ones for all those kids who might now have a better shot at growing up with healthier eating habits. That is, if you believe the ordinance will work -- and don't think the measure is altogether out of line.

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EPA Staffers Were Forced to Ignore Science, Investigation Finds

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EPA staffers say they were forced to ignore scientific data and lacked crucial information needed to fully protect the public.

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more censorship from the Feds at least this guy is going to fight it

http://reason.tv

Porn producer John Stagliano faces up to 32 years in federal prison for distributing the adult films Milk Nymphos and Storm Squirters 2: Target Practice and a promo reel for similar material via his website for Evil Angel Productions (adults only: http://evilangel.com). (Full disclosure: Stagliano is a donor to Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes this website.)

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Dems spark alarm with call for national ID card

http://thehill.com

Dems proposed requiring every worker in the nation to carry a national identification card with biometric information.

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WARNING: Census workers start knocking on doors today, Saturday May 1

http://www.google.com

Federal employees unleashed on American public starting today.

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Constitition Free Zone

http://www.aclu.org

Due to the fact that border patrol agents can demand proof of citizenship within 100miles of any border including oceans, here's an interactive map showing this aggression

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Couple Arrested For Asking For Directions

http://www.wbaltv.com

Baltimore City police arrested a Virginia couple over the weekend after they asked an officer for directions.

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US Media is the 24th Most Free in the World – and Dropping

http://www.williamkwolfrum.com

Freedom of the press has declined for the eighth year in a row, according to Freedom House’s annual report. And while the media has focused on the lack of media freedoms in such places as China and Venezuela, they’ve virtually ignored the U.S. position – No. 24

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CAUGHT ON TAPE: Deputy Slaps Inmate in Head

http://www.fox8.com

AKRON, Ohio - A Summit County Sheriff's Deputy has been suspended after video showed him assaulting an inmate. Surveillance cameras were rolling in the booking area of the Summit County Jail on February 21, as 42-year-old Douglas Brown waited to be booked on a charge of disorderly conduct. Deputy Jeffrey Dempsey then instructed Brown to put down a fingerprint reader he was holding. When Brown refused, and gave him the finger, the deputy slapped him in the head and threw him to the ground.

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IFPI’s strategy using child porn as a 1st step to filtering the net

http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com

”Child pornography is great,” the speaker at the podium declared enthusiastically. ”It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they have done that, we can get them to start blocking file sharing sites”.

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But who will build the ROADS???

http://www.lewrockwell.com

This article about El Salvador has this wonderful paragraph:

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Police Wiretapping Jumps 26 Percent

http://www.wired.com

Courts authorized 2,376 criminal wiretap orders in 2009, with 96 percent targeting mobile phones in drug cases, according to the report. Federal officials requested 663 of the wiretaps, while 24 states accounted for 1,713 orders.

Not one request for a wiretap was turned down.

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Rep. Waxman sneaks anti-vitamin amendment into Wall St. Reform

http://www.naturalnews.com

Of all the sneaky tactics practiced in Washington D.C., this recent action by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) is one of the most insidious: While no one was looking, he injected amendment language into the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 4173) that would expand the powers of the FTC (not the FDA, but the FTC) to terrorize nutritional supplement companies by greatly expanding the power of the FTC to make its own laws that target dietary supplement companies.

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Cops on Rampage: Beat and Arrest Chinese Diplomat in Houston

http://www.theglobeandmail.com

According to a CBS News report, Houston police last Saturday tried to stop a car which was missing a license plate. When the car didn't stop, they pursued it into a garage without realizing the garage belonged to the Chinese Consulate. Police handcuffed and arrested the driver, injuring him, the CBS report said.

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Want to get rich? Work for feds

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com

For decades, public sector unions have peddled the fantasy that government employees were paid less than their counterparts in the private sector. In fact, the pay disparity is the other way around. Government workers, especially at the federal level, make salaries that are scandalously higher than those paid to private sector workers. And let's not forget private sector workers not only have to be sufficiently productive to earn their paychecks, they also must pay the taxes that support the more generous jobs in the public sector.

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Police force catheter into man suspected of DUI

http://www.nbc-2.com

An Indiana man has filed a lawsuit claiming that police forcibly withdrew urine from his body during a drunken driving arrest.

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Kop who shoved bicyclist found guilty, faces 4yrs

http://www.nytimes.com

A former police officer was convicted on Thursday of lying about a confrontation with a bicyclist who was participating in a Critical Mass bike rally in Times Square in 2008 — a collision that was videotaped and became a viral presence on the Internet.

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U.S. Army Training to Take On Tea Party

http://www.infowars.com

On April 17, the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, reported on a military exercise dubbed “Mangudai,” named after the special forces of Genghis Khan’s Mongol army who could fight for days without food or sleep. The Kentucky newspaper portrayed the exercise as an effort to train soldiers to battle the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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US-trained Somali soldiers defect to al-Qaida

http://www.guardian.co.uk

Hundreds of Somali soldiers trained with US funding have deserted, with some crossing over to the al-Qaida-linked militants they are supposed to be fighting, it emerged today.

The troops, backed with millions of US dollars, are leaving the ranks because they are not receiving their $100 (£65) monthly wage. The desertions raise fears that an American-backed drive next month to strengthen Somalia's army may increase the ranks of the insurgency.

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