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Date Sent: 2012-10-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, October 30, 2012 AM edition |
Obama Justice Department Set to Overrule any State that Legalizes Marijuana
"Officer Safety" - by Kent McManigal -- The 47% Aren't Really The Problem. Its The 53% That Are REALLY Causing The Trouble! -- Miami-Dade Police Sued Over Failing to Provide Public Records for my Case -- Cops Raid Free Poker Tournament, Because in Florida Gambling Does Not Require Betting -- How Bernanke's Medieval 'Usury Laws' Are Destroying the Economy --
Creepy Cameraman Reemerges as “Surveillance Camera Man” -- Democrats Endorse Marc Victor :) -- What’s dragging down the U.S. economy? -- 4409: $cottsdale Police call me a terrorist -- The Greek Stock Market Is Getting Smoked Today -- One Crew Member Dead, One Missing In HMS Bounty Shipwreck -- Sandy battering the northeast U.S. -- LaGuardia Airport May Be Underwater By Tonight -- Safety Director: ATLANTIC CITY UNDER WATER -- Gigantic Storm Hits The East Coast [PHOTOS] -- European Markets Close Down, Italy Tanks -- Update - my conversation with the DEA (Edward 'NJWeedman' Forchion) -- Hurricane Hits: Crane dangles from NYC high-rise, clearing streets
RT to host final US presidential third-party debate Oct. 30th;
Here's where you can get some of those 'Vote For Nobody -
Leadership We Can Trust' Signs
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday; Election Night
Party - Hancock's - Libertarian Candidates & Activists Invited
- 6:30-11 p.m.
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News Link • Drug War
Obama Justice Department Set to Overrule any State that Legalizes Marijuana
10-29-2012
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Depending on the outcome of initiatives in 3 states, a confrontation awaits between the US Dept of Justice and legalizing marijuana. If one or more of the measures passes expect Justice to take action to stop any state from decriminalizing
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"Officer safety" - by Kent McManigal
10-29-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
I despise the bogus concept of "officer safety". What a completely disgusting justification for anything some corrupt cop (redundancy alert) wants to do to you. Why would a reaver's safety be more important than mine or anyone else's?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
The 47% Aren't Really The Problem. Its The 53% That Are REALLY Causing The Trouble!
10-29-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
The problem is people paying taxes. We need to stop it from occurring anymore. Taxes are the lifeblood of government. Taxes enable government to spend money to regulate our lives. Taxes enable the government to "provide services" that "everybody need
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Miami-Dade Police Sued Over Failing to Provide Public Records for my Case
10-29-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
My attorney, Arnold Trevilla, had also requested her personnel file months ago but has not received anything. Meanwhile, we’ve already had to have two trials continued because of her lies and refusal to provide public records.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops Raid Free Poker Tournament, Because in Florida Gambling Does Not Require Betting
10-29-2012
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Reason magazine
Since there is no fee to play and no money is wagered on the games, Nutz's owner believed he was complying with Florida's gambling laws. Evidently Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco disagreed by sending its agents, assisted by black-masked local police
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
How Bernanke's Medieval 'Usury Laws' Are Destroying the Economy
10-29-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Usury laws impose price ceilings on interest rates. They are government-imposed maximum prices. They were popular with the Medieval Catholic church until the church wised up several hundred years ago. They still exist in every American state,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Creepy Cameraman Reemerges as “Surveillance Camera Man”
10-29-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The creepy cameraman we saw last month entering a college and video recording into random classrooms reemerged as “surveillance camera man” where he continues to wreak havoc on random citizens on the streets in what appears to be Seattle.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What’s dragging down the U.S. economy?
10-29-2012
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Washington Post
More than three years after the recovery began " in name, at least " the economy is still in a giant hole. But what, precisely, is still dragging it down? What sectors are the culprits? A simple model delivers some answers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Rise of the Titan: ‘World’s fastest’ supercomputer goes live
10-29-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
After falling behind Asia and Europe in the great race, where success is measured in FLOPS (floating-point operations per second), the US has struck back at the new high-tech Olympians with Titan: quite possibly the fastest supercomputer in the world
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Natural Disasters
How To Prepare For A Hurricane? Some Lessons That Preppers Can Learn From Hurricane Sandy
10-29-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Michael Snyder
If you are just starting to prepare for Hurricane Sandy, the truth is that you are already too late.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Google Announces Its New Superphone, The Nexus 4
10-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jay Yarow
Google has officially announced its latest flagship smartphone, the Nexus 4.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
The Greek Stock Market Is Getting Smoked Today
10-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
The Athens Stock Exchange General Index is down 6.3 percent today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
One Crew Member Dead, One Missing In HMS Bounty Shipwreck
10-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
One of the world's most famous ships, the HMS Bounty is a victim of Hurricane Sandy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Natural Disasters
LaGuardia Airport May Be Underwater By Tonight
10-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Dina Spector
Parts of New York City, including Battery Park, Red Hook in Brooklyn and the end of Wall Street are already underwater.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
European Markets Close Down, Italy Tanks
10-29-2012
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Matthew Boesler Business Insider
European stock markets are in the red across the board heading into the close.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Update - my conversation with the DEA (Edward 'NJWeedman' Forchion)
10-29-2012
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www.youtube.com
It's over - I'm closing the US Collective.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Don't Tread on Me: Protesting the Josey Fundraiser (video)
10-28-2012
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The International Libertarian
On October 28, 2012 the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police threw a fundraiser for the fired Officer Josey. Many different groups and communities came together to protest, so great was the outrage. You can see in the video the solidarity of the pe
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Hurricane Hits: Crane dangles from NYC high-rise, clearing streets
10-29-2012
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Yahoo! News blog
A construction crane atop a $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan collapsed in high winds and dangled precariously, prompting plans for engineers and inspectors to climb 74 flights of stairs to examine it as a huge storm bore down on the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Great Crime of China
10-29-2012
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arclein
But Bo Xilai’s fanaticism did not save him. He was eventually imprisoned and served five years, released in 1976 along with the other members of his family after the Cultural Revolution collapsed.
The cruelty Bo suffered in prison made him shady,
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robert klein
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Opinion • World News
Why are Asians and Jews at the top?
10-29-2012
Menckens Ghost
The following article discusses the economic and academic success of Asian-Americans and Jewish-Americans. The article's author hints at one of the main reasons why these two groups are much more successful than the rest of America, but political co
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Watch Hurricane Sandy Live From Every Corner Of New York!
10-28-2012
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www.businessinsider.com/watch-hurricane-sandy-live
Climate Adaptation's Michael Cote has pulled together a list of webcams from around New York City, New Jersey, Long Island and Virginia Beach so we can watch Hurricane Sandy unleash her fury on roads, buildings and trees from the safety of our own ho
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Micro-Drones Combined With DNA Hacking Could Create A Very Scary Future
10-28-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Sightings of insect-sized micro drones have been occurring for years, but combined with the direction of genome sequencing outlined in this Atlantic piece " the pair make for a futuristic and potentially deadly mix.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Obama offered to reestablish full ties with Iran, Israeli paper reports
10-28-2012
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Soon after he took office, President Obama began a process ultimately designed to reestablish full US diplomatic relations with Iran, including a reopening of embassies. The initiative, part of a wider shift in America’s diplomatic orientation, aimed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Junk Bonds Grow More Popular and Turn Even Riskier
10-28-2012
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New York Times
Companies with junk credit ratings have been increasingly issuing bonds for riskier purposes that could hinder their ability to pay back bondholders. Demand for junk bonds has touched record levels this year as investors reach for their rich yields,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
FISA needs to balance security and liberty
10-28-2012
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Washington Post
The Supreme Court will hear part of a suit from the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In addition to modernizing FISA, originally drafted in 1978, the ACLU and others
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Accusations against generals cast dark shadow over Army
10-28-2012
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Washington Post
A one-star general was flown home from Afghanistan this spring to face criminal charges, including sexual assault. A four-star general formerly in charge of the increasingly vital Africa command was accused of financial mismanagement, accepting inapp
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News Link • Food
Joel Salatin on Autocratic Institutions
10-28-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Farmer, author, and activist Joel Salatin discusses his new book, "Folks, This Ain't Normal," as well as sustainable farming, food policy, and solutions to America's food woes.
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News Link • Obama Administration
'Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?' Biden's bizarre question
10-28-2012
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Daily Mail
The father of one of the Navy SEALs who was killed in the Libya consulate attack has criticized the White House reaction to his son's death - especially a bizarre and obscene comment Joe Biden made to him.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics
Presidential Election: What If Nobody Wins?
10-28-2012
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Free Press Publications
The Presidential election is just days away and the pundits are speculating about who will win and by what margin. Some talking heads are even saying that one candidate or another will act as a “spoiler” for one of the major party candidates in one o
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Vote for Nobody's Jim Babb at Democracy Unplugged (Publisher Recommended Video)
10-25-2012
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The International Libertarian
At this Democracy Unplugged (http://www.democracyunplugged.net/) forum for alternative parties the Vote for Nobody Campaign (http://www.anti-politics.ws/) participated for the first time. While the other presidential candidate's representatives talk
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Chapter On Failed U.S. Education System Added To Textbook
10-27-2012
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http://www.theonion.com
A birthday card is discreetly passed around the office like some sort of covert CIA operation
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
A Global Bond Bubble Is Emerging That Professionals Never Could Have Imagined
10-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
Europe is on the ropes as investors shun peripheral euro-area government debt. In the United States, interest rates are fixed at zero, and government bonds are arguably already quite far along in an epic 30-years-and-running bull market.
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News Link • Drug War
Jury Nullification Keeps NJ Weedman Out of Jail; DEA Comes Calling
10-27-2012
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www.reason.com
"Two hours," Forchion gripes. "Two hours after I won, I got a call from the DEA in L.A. They had a 'Google Alert' on me. Sore losers."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
For DHS, Cybersecurity Education Begins in Kindergarten
10-27-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Melanie Hunter
In a blog on the Department of Homeland Security website, Secretary Janet Napolitano said her department is working to develop the next generation of leaders in cybersecurity beginning in kindergarten.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
REPORT: Shell Is Looking Into Using Grains Instead Of Cash To Pay Off A Debt To Iran
10-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Richard Mably
Oil major Royal Dutch/Shell is seeking to work around international sanctions by repaying a $1.4 billion oil debt to Iran with a grain barter deal via U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill, industry sources said.
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News Link • Government
America: The Food Stamp Nation
10-27-2012
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http://demonocracy.info
America has over 44 million people on Food Stamps. The food stamps program's real name is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
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Opinion • Religion: Believers
How Did Christians Become Warmongers?
10-27-2012
Chuck Baldwin
Historically, Christians have always attempted to be"and have always publicly taught the importance of being"peacemakers. Have not Christians preached"and tried to practice"love and brotherhood? The early church was born in a baptism of love and unit
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Opinion • Economy - International
Will the USA continue to overcome its handicaps of racial diversity and size?
10-27-2012
Menckens Ghost
The 12 wealthiest nations and city states according to most sources are Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Norway, Switzerland, Australia, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, the USA, Canada, and Singapore. (Excluded are the tiny monarchies of Monaco and
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News Link • Death Penalty
The President's kill List
10-27-2012
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arclein
then insisted on approving every new name on an expanding “kill list,” poring over terrorist suspects’ biographies on what one official calls the macabre “baseball cards” of an unconventional war. When a rare op
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Reference Link • Corruption
The Relentless Evil of Goldman Sachs
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The GMO poison food producer, Monsanto, and the great profiteer from all tragedies, Goldman Sachs, are engaged in their own special version of who is the most evil corporation on the face of the earth.
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