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Date Sent: 2012-01-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, January 16, 2012 AM edition |
Major U.S.-Israel military drill postponed -- Retired general assumes presidency in Guatemala
12-year-old's homicide confession is case for debate on recorded
interrogations -- The Worst Prosecutor of the Year Goes to . . . John
Bradley -- New Mexico: Report Finds No Proven Red Light Camera Benefit
-- Murdered by the Maricopa Co. Attorney: RIP Carola Jacobson -- Public Schools: The War on Kids -- Huntsman to Drop Out of GOP Race; Will Endorse Romney -- Public School Surveillance of Inmates -- Cracking Down on the Pupil Personnel (Suspected Skippers) -- TSA Air Marshal Arrested For Slapping Woman, Stealing iPhone -- Captain's conduct blasted as divers find more dead -- 10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free - by Jonathan Turley -- Jan 16th, 2012- Chris Lawless- Larken Rose- Sibel Edmonds-
Watch Live on JustinTV, M-F, 9am-Noon EST -- Obama to Veto SOPA? --
Almost 3,000-year-old tomb of female singer found in Egypt -- China vows cooperation with Taiwan after poll --
Russia Mars probe ‘crashes into Pacific Ocean’: military -- Florida
Senate pushes to privatize prisons in 18 counties -- Study shows humans
were skilled fishermen 42,000 years ago -- Ron Paul Wins Texas
Presidential Straw Poll -- ON RON PAUL AND “ELECTABILITY” - by Professor
Steve Yates
AZ: GOP Debate watching party at
Hancock's - today, Jan
16th, 2012 - 6 p.m. til?? from South Carolina; Ron Paul Volunteer
Activists Supplies Available; Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN 2012
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6 pm, Mesa Arts Center
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News Link • Military
Major U.S.-Israel military drill postponed
01-15-2012
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The RawStory.com
Israel and the United States have agreed to postpone a major military defence exercise scheduled for spring, a senior security official said Sunday, amid rising regional tension over Iran’s nuclear programme.
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News Link • World News
Retired general assumes presidency in Guatemala
01-15-2012
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The RawStory.com
Retired general Otto Perez was sworn in Saturday as president of Guatemala, assuming power in a country awash in drug-related violence that he has promised to tackle with the military’s help.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
12-year-old's homicide confession is case for debate on recorded interrogations
01-15-2012
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A 12-year-old reclusive bookworm with a speech impediment proved no match for a team of seasoned police investigators who pressured him to confess to strangling his younger sister. Did police pry the truth from a cunning killer, or bully a boy into g
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Worst Prosecutor of the Year Goes to . . .
01-15-2012
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The Agitator
Williamson County, Texas, District Attorney John Bradley is the winner of our 2011 Worst Prosecutor of the Year award. It was a tight four-way race for the first day. North Carolina DA Tracey Cline then broke open a small lead on day two, before Brad
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
New Mexico: Report Finds No Proven Red Light Camera Benefit
01-15-2012
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The Newspaper
The city council has been searching for a justification to continue with the automated ticketing program which was expected to yield $5 million in revenue last year. City leaders showed no concern about early signs that the program failed to live up
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Murdered by the Maricopa Co. Attorney: RIP Carola Jacobson
01-15-2012
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I have sad news to report: Carola Jacobson, a truly wonderful woman and a mother who stood alone against the Maricopa County Mafia, has succumbed to breast cancer, dying on December 30. Her memorial service is today in Phoenix.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Public Schools: The War on Kids
01-15-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Here is a brilliant documentary on the horrors of public school prisons in America, where children are subjected to monitoring, authoritarian supervision, arbitrary rules, conformity, coerced abstinence, zero tolerance insanity, irrational fears, inv
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Huntsman to Drop Out of GOP Race; Will Endorse Romney
01-15-2012
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Michael Falcone, abc
Jon Huntsman will drop out of the Republican presidential race on Monday, a campaign spokesman told ABC News.
A source close to the Huntsman campaign said the former ambassador to China and Utah governor was “proud of the race that he ran” but “d
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Public School Surveillance of Inmates
01-15-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Wristwatch-like devices called Polar active monitors will be used by older students in PE classes at all elementary schools to help improve the students' fitness and academic achievement. The district plans to collect data about activity levels and e
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Cracking Down on the Pupil Personnel (Suspected Skippers)
01-15-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
A new city ordinance has police taking school truancy into their own hands. If kids are caught skipping school they could now be arrested on misdemeanor charges. If their parents are complicit in the hooky-playing, they too could be hauled into court
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Air Marshal Arrested For Slapping Woman, Snatching iPhone
01-15-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Transportation Security Administration air marshal was arrested for slapping an Occupy Boston activist, then stealing her iPhone after she video recorded him.
Adam Marshall, 29, was arrested December 10, but the incident is just coming to light
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Debate watching party at Hancock's - Monday, Jan 16th, 2012 - 6 p.m. til?? from S Carolina..
01-13-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Fox News will host a debate with the Republican Party of South Carolina at Myrtle Beach Convention Center on January 16th from 9:00-11:00 PM/ET.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
Captain's conduct blasted as divers find more dead
01-15-2012
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AP
Maritime authorities, passengers and mounting evidence pointed Sunday toward the captain of a cruise liner that ran aground and capsized off the Tuscan coast, amid accusations that he abandoned ship before everyone was safely evacuated and was showin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free - by Jonathan Turley
01-15-2012
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Washington Post
Even as we pass judgment on countries we consider unfree, Americans remain confident that any definition of a free nation must include their own " the land of free. Yet, the laws and practices of the land should shake that confidence. In the decade s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
In D.C. loan program, mortgage defaults abound
01-15-2012
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Washington Post
D.C. housing officials have routinely subsidized home purchases that low-income buyers could not afford, paving the way for foreclosures, liens and financial hardships.
Nearly one in five buyers participating in the city’s 35-year-old loan program
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Intellectual Property
Obama to Veto SOPA?
01-15-2012
Huffington Post reports a small victory against SOPA (H.R. 3261 “Stop Online Piracy Act”) and it's counterpart in the Senate, PIPA (“Protect IP Act”), claiming that President Obama will not support the current legislation. A statement released on be
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • World News
Almost 3,000-year-old tomb of female singer found in Egypt
01-15-2012
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The RawStory.com
Swiss archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a female singer dating back almost 3,000 years in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said on Sunday.
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News Link • World News
China vows cooperation with Taiwan after poll
01-15-2012
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The RawStory.com
China said it will cooperate with Taiwan after the Beijing-friendly leader Ma Ying-jeou claimed victory in the island’s presidential polls.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russia Mars probe ‘crashes into Pacific Ocean’: military
01-15-2012
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TheRawStory.com
Russia believes fragments of its Phobos-Grunt probe which spiralled back to Earth after failing to head on a mission to Mars crashed Sunday into the Pacific Ocean, a spokesman for its space forces said.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Florida Senate pushes to privatize prisons in 18 counties
01-15-2012
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Eric W. Dolan via The RawStory.com
The Florida Senate Rules Committee has proposed a bill that would require the state’s Department of Corrections to privatize all prisons and other correctional facilities in 18 counties, according to the News Service of Florida.
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News Link • History
Study shows humans were skilled fishermen 42,000 years ago
01-15-2012
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TheRawStory.com
Fish hooks and fishbones dating back 42,000 years found in a cave in East Timor suggest that humans were capable of skilled, deep-sea fishing 30,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers in Australia and Japan said on Friday.
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News Link • General Opinion
ON RON PAUL AND “ELECTABILITY” by Professor Steve Yates
01-15-2012
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News with Views via Rense.com
"...if Romney is the best the GOP can do, it only guarantees more of the same because"as with McCain vs. Obama back in 2008"the differences are more cosmetic than substantive."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Gun Rights
U.S. judge backs ATF multiple rifle sales reporting
01-13-2012
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Reuters
A U.S. judge in a victory for the Obama administration, upheld new federal rules requiring gun dealers in four states bordering Mexico to report the sales of multiple semi-automatic rifles, despite a challenge by the gun industry. The administration
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Israel used “false flag” operation to recruit anti-Iran militants
01-13-2012
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Foreign Policy
A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Audit AZ takes transparent election fight to court
01-13-2012
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http://www.fox11az.com
TUCSON, Ariz. -- A non-partisan organization in Tucson is on a mission to make sure future
Pima County elections are done fairly.
Audit AZ says its long battle with the county, stemming from voting irregularities in a 2006 election for the Region
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Drew
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News Link • Economy - International
Standard & Poor’s cuts credit ratings for France and eight other European nations
01-13-2012
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Washington Post
Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit ratings of France and eight other European nations Friday, further weakening the region’s finances and potentially raising costs for governments at time when they already face a debt crisis.
The downgrade ro
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
German Hackers Are Building a DIY Space Program to Put Their Own Uncensored Internet into Space
1-13-12
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http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-01/g
Syncom 1, the First Geosynchronous Satellite What NASA could do in the 1960s, we can do now. At least, that's the line of thought underpinning the Hackerspace Global Grid, a project that aims to build a space-based network of communications satellit
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