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Date Sent: 2012-04-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 5, 2012 AM edition |
Prison time for New Orleans ex-cops in post-Katrina killings
Accused September 11 mastermind to face trial at Guantanamo -- Agents of the State Attack Peaceful Protesters -- National Lottery to Fund Government? -- Marijuana advocates blast Obama over Oaksterdam University raid -- Google Gets Transparent With Glass, Its Augmented Reality Project -- Spain back in the crosshairs of crisis -- Regulators: JPMorgan illegally let Lehman Bros. count customers’ funds as its own -- MIGHT ARIZONA BAN ICLEI and AGENDA 21? -- Father Gets a New Trial in the Death of His Little Boy -- How China Blocks the Tor Anonymity
Network -- Where (and When) to Place Your Investment Bets? -- ICC Absolves
Israeli Lawlessness -- 04-04-12 -- Anton Howes - (MP3 & Videos
Loaded)
CA: Ron Paul will speak at Berkeley today, April 5
AZ: AZ Breakfast Club, this Sat-April 7th, 2012 -
features Jeff Cook, Jr., West Point Grad, Iraq Vet.
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News Link • Police State
Prison time for New Orleans ex-cops in post-Katrina killings
04-04-2012
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Reuters
Four former New Orleans policemen convicted of shootings in 2005 that killed two unarmed people and wounded four others following Hurricane Katrina were given sentences on Wednesday ranging from 38 to 65 years in prison.
A fifth former police offi
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News Link • Police State
Five New Orleans police officers sentenced in hurricane Katrina killings
04-04-2012
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Chris McGreal via Guardian.co.uk
Four officers, along with a fifth who helped cover up the 2005 crimes, are sentenced to between six and 65 years in prison
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News Link • Events: America
Ron Paul will speak at Chico State April 3rd, UCLA April 4th, Berkeley April 5
04-03-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, papoose34328
2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul will visit California this week for a three-day campaign tour.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Accused September 11 mastermind to face trial at Guantanamo
04-04-2012
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Reuters
Accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four suspected co-conspirators were ordered to stand trial before a Guantanamo war crimes tribunal, the Pentagon said, a move that throws the politically charged case into the limelight in an
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News Link • Activism
Agents of the State Attack Peaceful Protesters
04-04-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Syria? No, Santa Monica, CA. Can we expect a UN Security Council resolution calling for President Obama to step down after disarming the police forces? No, "Responsibility to Protect" does not (yet) apply to the Empire.
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News Link • Climate Change
New research proves rising carbon dioxide levels led to climate change before
04-04-2012
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Fiona Harvey, The Guardian
A scientific conundrum that has puzzled climate experts for years may have been solved with the publication of research showing how an increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere contributed to rising temperatures millions of years ago.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
National Lottery to Fund Government?
4-4-2012
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Free Patriot Press
Many States rely on lottery revenues to fund various projects. With the recent record breaking Mega Millions jackpot I began thinking about the possibility that all government funding should come from similar voluntary means. Consider the following p
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Doctors unveil campaign to cut 45 unnecessary medical tests
04-04-2012
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
A group of nine medical specialty boards representing 375,000 doctors on Wednesday announced a list of 45 tests and procedures that they say doctors should perform less often or not at all.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Marijuana advocates blast Obama over Oaksterdam University raid
04-04-2012
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Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.com
Six organizations looking to reform U.S. drug laws urged President Barack Obama to halt raids on medical marijuana providers following the raid on Oaksterdam University in California.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Google Gets Transparent With Glass, Its Augmented Reality Project
04-04-2012
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Steven Levy via WIRED.com
Larry Page and Sergey Brin have long had the dream of a hands-free, mobile Google, where search was a seamless process as you moved around the world.
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain back in the crosshairs of crisis
04-04-2012
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Washington Post
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy warned Wednesday that his country was facing “extreme difficulty” as its cost of borrowing money on global markets jumped and doubts increased about whether the government can stick to the strict austerity program
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News Link • Corruption
Regulators: JPMorgan illegally let Lehman Bros. count customers’ funds as its own
04-04-2012
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Washington Post
JPMorgan Chase illegally allowed Lehman Brothers, the investment bank whose 2008 bankruptcy brought the financial system to the brink of collapse, to count customers’ money as its own, according to federal regulators.
The arrangement boosted the a
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News Link • United Nations
MIGHT ARIZONA BAN ICLEI and AGENDA 21?
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www.varight.com
The bill to ban ICLEI and the implementation of Agenda 21 is only a house vote and a governor's signature away form becoming law! It will be a great victory for the effort to rid the nation of Agenda 21 and ICLEI and protect our sovereignty and lib
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Father Gets a New Trial in the Death of His Little Boy
04-04-2012
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Phoenix New Times
The allegations, some of which were stunning, led to an extended court hearing where the judge and attorneys for both the prosecution and defense questioned each panelist " 12 deliberating jurors and three remaining alternates.
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News Link • Energy
Solar Cell Thinner Than Spider Silk Could Power Internet of Things
04-04-2012
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Christopher Mims via TechnologyReview.com
When you think about how to power a distributed network of environmental sensors, the kind we'll want to have in order to connect the entirety of our physical world to the Internet of Things, the answer is obvious: solar power.
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News Link • Energy
Does It Matter If Electric Car Maker Fisker Fails?
04-04-2012
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
Tesla and new fuel-economy standards have already jump-started battery-powered vehicles.
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
04-04-12 -- Anton Howes - (MP3 & Videos Loaded)
Anton Howes, director of Liberty League (the UK's network of young and student liberals and libertarians) and student at King's College in London, talks about the rise of the pro-freedom movement on campuses across the UK.
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News Link • Media: Television
NBC issues apology on Zimmerman tape screw-up
04-03-2012
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Washington Post
NBC has completed its investigation into the mishandling of the police dispatcher’s conversation with George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case. And the process ends with a finding of error, plus an apology. Here is the statement just issued by the
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News Link • Government
Why Living In The American Empire Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be
04-03-2012
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www.businessinsider.com, The Daily Reckoning
Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands exceeded the value of conquest and governance
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News Link • Military
VIDEO: US Draws Up Plans For NUCLEAR Drones
04-03-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by emalvini
The next generation of surveillance drones will be nuclear powered. Instead of flying for hours, the new drones will be able to stay in the air for months.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Video: Judge Napolitano Slams President Obama's SCOTUS Criticism as Incomprehensible!
04-03-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, ronpaul4freedom2012
"He’s rejecting a basic premise of American law that’s not been seriously questioned in 175 years!
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News Link • History
Bacon's Rebellion
04-03-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Murray N. Rothbard
In 1676, Nathaniel Bacon began a mutiny against the governor of Virginia, William Berkeley, because Bacon (and many other Virginians) wanted to pursue a more vigorous war against the Indians than Berkeley would allow.
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News Link • Government
Hedges: NDAA is ‘chilling’ the practice of journalism
04-03-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Stephen C. Webster
Speaking about his lawsuit against the U.S. government over its claim that it may indefinitely imprison anyone it believes to be involved in terrorism
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News Link • Libya
Libya: What the Intervention Has Wrought
04-03-2012
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Libya's current politics offer two lessons -- ones we really shouldn't have to learn yet again.
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS To Grant Illegal Aliens “Unlawful Presence Waivers”
04-03-2012
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http://www.judicialwatch.org
In its quest to implement stealth amnesty, the Obama Administration is working behind the scenes to halt the deportation of certain illegal immigrants by granting them “unlawful presence waivers.”
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News Link • Surveillance
Canada's Privacy czar sounds alarm on drones patrolling U.S. border
04-03-2012
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Ottowa Notebook
With the so-called “Three Amigos” meeting in Washington, Ottawa’s privacy czar is expressing fears that unmanned aircraft could soon be peering down onto all three countries in North America.
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News Link • Israel
Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA
04-03-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By James Bamford
Army General Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, is having a busy year " hopping around the country, cutting ribbons at secret bases and bringing to life the agency’s greatly expanded eavesdropping network.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Dutch 'flying car' makes first test flight
04-02-2012
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www.foxnews.com
According to its creators, the Personal Air and Land Vehicle (hence the name PAL-V) can reach speeds of 110 mph both on the ground and in the air and has a flying range of 350 miles per tank, which more than doubles when being driven.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
FBI 'mosque outreach' program used to spy on Muslims
04-03-2012
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MSNBC
The FBI in San Francisco used a public relations program billed as "mosque outreach" to collect information on the religious views and practices of Muslims in Northern California and then shared the intelligence with other government agencies, accord
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News Link • Conspiracies
Treacherous Treaties: American Imperialism, World Government and the Bilderbergers
04-03-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Prof. John Kozy
Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Hundreds Arrested At Pre-Chicago NATO Protest
04-03-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
'A military alliance that intervenes all over the world and has nuclear weapons is a threat to world peace'
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Supreme Court: Strip searches in jail OK even for minor offenses
04-03-2012
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http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com, By Pete Williams
Siding with security needs over privacy rights, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that jailers may subject people arrested for minor offenses to invasive strip searches.
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News Link • Drug War
Feds Raid Oakland's Oaksterdam
04-03-2012
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nbcbayarea.com, Lori Preuitt and Christie Smith
Monday's raid was the latest move by the federal government to crack down on California's thriving medical marijuana industry.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Texas Straight Talk 4/2/2012: The Supreme Court and Obamacare
04-03-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning the constitutionality of the Obamacare law, focusing on the mandate requiring every American to buy health insurance or pay fines enforced by the IRS
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