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Date Sent: 2012-05-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, May 18, 2012 |
Obama caught in drug deal -- NATO summit to drone along in Chicago
Senators to Unveil the 'Ex-Patriot Act' to Respond to Facebook's Saverin's Tax ' -- Wall Street Editorial Page: If the Government Claims You Are a Terrorist, Then You ARE a Terrorist -- Watchdog blasts ‘excessive’ policing at G20 Toronto summit -- Remember Stuxnet? Why the U.S. is still vulnerable -- Plaintiff in NDAA case: U.S. has ‘gone insane’ in its war on terror -- Cost of Greek exit from euro put at $1tn -- North Carolina Man Arrested For Trying To Report Suspected Crime -- Broward Sheriff's Deputy Criminally Charged After Deleting Video -- Trayvon Martin autopsy indicates hand-to-hand struggle with George Zimmerman -- The American Response to Saverin -- Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii' -- GET READY: This Is What Happens If Greece Exits The Euro -- Precious Metals Market Manipulation?
AZ: Save America Seminar - Phoenix
2012 - May 19th, 2012
Sunday: Solar Eclipse Visible from
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Obama caught in drug deal
05-17-2012
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Washington Examiner
Three years ago, President Obama cut a secret deal with pharmaceutical company lobbyists to secure the industry’s support for his national health care law. Despite Obama’s promises during his campaign to run a transparent administration, the deal has
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
NATO summit to drone along in Chicago
05-17-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
This was filmed in Elgin, Illinois about 40 miles from Chicago. I assume it's for the NATO summit this week as a security measure.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Senators to Unveil the 'Ex-Patriot Act' to Respond to Facebook's Saverin's Tax '
05-17-2012
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ABC News
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Wall Street Editorial Page: If the Government Claims You Are a Terrorist, Then You ARE a Terrorist
05-17-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Cheering on every lie and abuse has been the neocon (emphasis on "con") Wall Street Journal editorial page and today we see the Journal's viewpoint in all its evil: the government should not have to face any restrictions at all when it comes to pursu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Watchdog blasts ‘excessive’ policing at G20 Toronto summit
05-17-2012
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AFP
Canadian police used “excessive force,” ignored civil rights and made “unlawful” mass arrests in cracking down on unruly protests at a G20 summit in Toronto two years ago, a watchdog said Wednesday.
Gerry McNeilly, head of the Office of the Indepe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Remember Stuxnet? Why the U.S. is still vulnerable
05-17-2012
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Pro Publia
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed a rash of cyber attacks on natural gas pipeline companies. Just as with previous cyber attacks on infrastructure, there was no known physical damage. But security experts worry it may only be a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Plaintiff in NDAA case: U.S. has ‘gone insane’ in its war on terror
05-17-2012
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Rawstory
Journalist Tangerine Bolen, who along with other activists and writers filed suit over an indefinite detention law, said Thursday that the citizens United States had become indifferent about their rights.
“This panoply of laws and circumstances ov
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Cost of Greek exit from euro put at $1tn
05-17-2012
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The Guardian
The British government is making urgent preparations to cope with the fallout of a possible Greek exit from the single currency, after the governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, warned that Europe was "tearing itself apart".
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
North Carolina Man Arrested For Trying To Report Suspected Crime
05-17-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
John Nix pulled out his cell phone after spotting what he thought was a gang of thugs mugging a man in the parking lot of a North Carolina shopping mall last week.
The former city council candidate ended up in jail after the men who were in street
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Broward Sheriff's Deputy Criminally Charged After Deleting Video
05-17-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Here is something you don’t see often; a law enforcement officer arrested for deleting video footage.
His own, in fact, when he realized it would be used against him by investigators.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Ancient life, potentially millions of years old and barely alive, found beneath ocean floor
05-17-2012
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Washington Post
Extraordinarily old, bizarrely low-key bacteria have been found in sediments 100 feet below the sea floor of the Pacific Ocean, far removed from sunlight, fresh nutrients and what humans would consider anything interesting to do.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Trayvon Martin autopsy indicates hand-to-hand struggle with George Zimmerman
05-17-2012
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Washington Post
Includes laboratory reports that show traces of blood in Martin’s fingernails, Zimmerman’s blood on Martin’s sweatshirt and Martin’s blood on Zimmerman’s red jacket. Martin’s autopsy report shows that he had a small abrasion on his left fourth finger
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
The American Response to Saverin
05-17-2012
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NeoAbolition.com
The ideals of freedom and individual sovereignty that America once stood for are nothing more than legends of the past. The discussion of citizenship and immigration, taxation and wealth taking place today serves as further evidence of this.
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Ryan Gauger
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii'
05-17-2012
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http://www.breitbart.com, by Joel B. Pollak
Andrew Breitbart was never a "Birther," and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of "Birtherism." In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
FINALLY: Watch The First 'Anchorman 2' Teaser Trailer
05-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kirsten Acuna
Finally, someone has uploaded the much-anticipated teaser trailer for "Anchorman 2" that's airing before "The Dictator."
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
An Aspiring PGA Golfer Might Have Shot The Lowest Round In The History Of Golf Last Weekend
05-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Tony Manfred
A 26-year-old Aussie named Rhein Gibson shot an unbelievable 55 in Oklahoma last Saturday.
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News Link • European Union
GET READY: This Is What Happens If Greece Exits The Euro
05-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Simone Foxman
More and more analysts are beginning to predict that Greece will leave the eurozone, as EU leaders continue to demand more austerity and support for anti-bailout parties mounts.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
What Do You Make When You're Tired Of Working On The iPhone? This.
05-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Steve Kovach
Hugo Fiennes, the hardware boss behind the first four iPhones, has a brilliant new startup called Electric Imp.
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Feature Article • Currencies
Free Lakota Bank
Donna Hancock
In 2008 the Lakota people launched the Free Lakota Bank, in accordance with the demands of the treaty council, in partnership with the American Open Currency Standard and with protection from the Strong Heart Warrior Society.
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
Honoring a ‘Terror War’ Architect
05-16-2012
Ray McGovern
Since even readers of the New York Times are aware of deputy national security adviser John Brennan’s open identification with torture, secret prisons and other abuses of national and international law, Fordham University’s invitation to him to give
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Judge rules that millions can sue NYPD over stop-and-frisk
05-17-2012
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http://rt.com
A federal judge in New York has given the go ahead for a class action lawsuit to move forward against the city’s police department over allegations that its stop-and-frisk program has continuously allowed officers to discriminate against minorities.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
New Hampshire legislator apologizes for taunting Speaker with “Sieg Heil”
05-16-2012
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Rawstory
A New Hampshire state representative sent the statehouse into chaos when he responded to what he regarded as an autocratic procedural maneuver on the part of the Speaker of the House by yelling out the Nazi salute, “Sieg Heil!”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Young Turks host: Louisiana’s sheriffs get a cut of America’s ‘prison capital’
05-16-2012
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Rawstory
Young Turks host Ana Kasparian explained how Louisiana sheriffs had an incentive to keep the inmate population high. “Non-violent drug offenders end up in these prisons for very, very long sentences just because these sheriff’s departments profit fro
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Guantanamo lawyers want ex-CIA official to testify
05-16-2012
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Reuters
Defense lawyers want to force a former CIA official who supervised what they called torture of al Qaeda captives to testify in the war crimes tribunal for five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks.
They argue that Jose
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Judge Grants Class-Action Status to Stop-and-Frisk Suit
05-16-2012
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New York Times
A federal judge granted class-action status to a lawsuit challenging the NYPD's stop-and-frisk tactics, saying she was disturbed by the city’s “deeply troubling apathy towards New Yorkers’ most fundamental constitutional rights.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' - and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook
05-16-2012
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Rolling Stone
At an Occupy encampment in Cleveland, "suspicious males with walkie-talkies around their necks" and "scarves or towels around their heads" were heard grumbling at the protesters' unwillingness to act violently.
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News Link • Police State
President Obama executive order gives Treasury authority to freeze Yemeni assets in U.S.
05-16-2012
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Washington Post
President Obama issued an executive order giving the Treasury Dept. authority to freeze the US-based assets of any US citizen who “obstructs” implementation of the administration-backed political transition in Yemen.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
If Cops Can't Taze a Pregnant Woman, The Terrorists Will Win
05-16-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Thanks to a misbegotten ruling from a divided 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, police in 9 states have been left at an insurmountable disadvantage when dealing with criminal suspects. At least, that’s what we’re told in a legal brief submitted to the Su
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
U.S. Department of Justice Slaps Baltimore Police Over Right to Record Issue
05-16-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
That letter provoked the police dept. into issuing a General Order to its officers stating citizens have the “absolute right” to record cops in public as long as they did not "violate any section of any law, ordinance, code or criminal article."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Military Detention Law [NDAA FY 2012] Blocked by New York Judge
05-16-2012
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Bloomberg
A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of a part of the National Defense Authorization Act that opponents claim could subject them to indefinite military detention for activities including news reporting and political activism.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Documents Show that Goldman Sachs Engaged in Naked Short Selling
05-16-2012
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Rolling Stone
It doesn't happen often, but sometimes, God smiles on us. Last week, he smiled on investigative reporters everywhere, when the lawyers for Goldman Sachs slipped on one whopper of a legal banana peel, inadvertently delivering some of the banks' darke
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Food
20% 'Fat Tax' Needed to Fight Obesity
05-16-2012
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http://www.livescience.com,Christopher Wanjek
It's a proposition some might find hard to swallow: a 20-percent tax on unhealthy food to improve the health of the nation.
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News Link • Economy - International
Greeks Rush the Banks; Lines Form at ATMs; Nearly $1 Billion Withdrawn in Past Week
05-16-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Without a government for the last eleven days, and amid mainstream discussion of a Euro Zone exit, the Greek people are realizing that the economic and political system as they know it is rapidly descending into chaos.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Judge Napolitano: First Patriot To Shoot Down A Government Spy Drone Will Be A Hero
05-16-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Napolitano also said that “The first American patriot that shoots down one of these drones that comes too close to his children in his backyard will be an American hero.”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Government
Should We Obey All Laws?
05-16-2012
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lewrockwell.com/Walter Williams
Let's think about whether all acts of Congress deserve our respect and obedience. Suppose Congress enacted a law " and the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional " requiring American families to attend church services at least three times a month.
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News Link • NATO
NATO in Chicago - Fencing Goes Up Near McCormick Place
05-16-2012
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www.nbc.chicago.com
Four days before the NATO Summit in Chicago, fencing was erected around the site of the weekend meetings.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. has 55 daily encounters with "suspected terrorists"
05-16-2012
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www.ca.news.yahoo.com
Law enforcement and homeland security personnel face an average of 55 daily encounters with "known or suspected terrorists" named on government watchlists, officials told Reuters.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
FAA To Ease Rules For Police Agencies To Fly Unmanned Drones
05-16-2012
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www.losangeles.cbslocal.com
Surveillance aircraft used by the U.S. military overseas could soon be coming to the skies above Los Angeles County.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military
Israeli Company Has FAA Permission to Fly Drones in U.S. Airspace!
05-16-2012
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www.veteranstoday.com
The Israeli company Stark Aerospace of Mississippi is not so much from Mississippi as it is from Israel. Stark Aerospace of Mississippi is a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries! And the Federal Aviation Administration has given them permission
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News Link • Conferences
Save America Seminar - Phoenix 2012 - May 19th, 2012
05-15-2012
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www.truthattack.org
Seminar Teaches 1) the kind of federal government intended by the Founding Fathers and created by the Constitution; 2) how the government slipped its chains, escaped the castle and now runs amok through the village, trampling rights and liberty and r
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