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The following articles by various authors are of significant interest. They cover many important topics including current events, historical documentation, commentaries, subjects in law, natural rights, and more. Take the time to educate yourself and form your own opinions. You will find it to be time well spent.

Disney World scanners mock TSA!

ORLANDO, Florida - May 26, 2011 - By the time they arrive at Disney World, families would normally expect they'd seen the last of TSA's infamously rigorous full-body scans.

Instead, when they enter one of the revamped rides in Orlando, Florida, they'll find themselves subject to apparently stringent checks - at the hands of two Star Wars droids.

But in fact the scans are f

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Greeks mobilize to protect endangered seeds from GM encroachment!

ATHENS, Greece - May 25, 2011 - The remote valley of Mesohori in northeastern Greece seems an unusual choice for a stand against genetically modified crop conglomerates who are knocking on Europe's door.

Yet thousands of organic farming advocates seeking to bar so-called "Frankenstein" foods from the continent made the journey here to Greece to help raise awareness about dangers to s

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U.S. to store passenger data for 15 years!

WASHINGTON - May 25, 2011 - The personal data of millions of passengers who fly between the U.S. and Europe, including credit card details, phone numbers and home addresses, may be stored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for 15 years, according to a draft agreement between Washington and Brussels leaked to The Guardian.

The "restricted" draft, which emerged from negotiatio

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Police State Chronicles: No dancing allowed inside Jefferson Memorial!

WASHINGTON - May 24, 2011 - Martha Reeves may have beckoned us all to come dancing in the street, but don't take that revelry to Jefferson Memorial. The D.C. Circuit has upheld a lower court's decision that spontaneous dancing at the memorial is tantamount to a demonstration, and prohibited with out a permit.

The case stemmed from the April 2008 arrest of Mary Brooke Oberwetter, who

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Watchdog says 70,000 more should be evacuated from Fukushima!

PARIS, France - May 24, 2011 - Seventy thousand people living beyond the 12-mile no-go zone around Fukushima should be evacuated because of radioactivity deposited by the crippled nuclear plant, a watchdog said.

Updating its assessment of the March 11 disaster, France's Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) highlighted an area northwest of the plant that lie

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Advocacy group pushes back on government wiretapping!

WASHINGTON - May 23, 2011 - The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a Freedom of Information Act request, demanding that the Department of Justice explain why the government can access citizen phone records and other private information.

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) has been controversial since it was implemented in 1986. Since then, the wiretapping law's big

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Iran president says west is causing drought!

TEHERAN, Iran - May 21, 2011 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week accused western countries of devising plans to "cause drought" in the Islamic republic, as he inaugurated a dam in a central province.

"Western countries have designed plans to cause drought in certain areas of the world, including Iran," the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in the ce