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Date Sent: 2012-12-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 26, 2012 AM edition |
When U.S. drones kill civilians, Yemen’s government tries to conceal it
Egypt Constitution Passes, Economic Crunch Looms -- Legal Curbs Said to Hamper A.T.F. in Gun Inquiries -- Halloween decorations carry haunting message of forced labor -- School Obama's Daughters Attend Has 11 Armed Guards -- Ex-TSA Screener: Officers “Laughing” At Your Naked Image -- No Fiscal Cliff Deal Could Cause Jails To Release Inmates -- DC Police Investigating NBC's Gregory for Brandishing Illegal Magazine -- Dakota Indians mark hangings of 1862 with trek on horseback --
Philadelphia high schools to welcome students back with free condom
dispensers -- Radiation worries curtail kids’ exercise time in Fukushima -- George H.W. Bush still hospitalized after health ‘setbacks’ -- Globalists’ Divide and Conquer: Don’t Allow Yourself To Be Used -- Four More Years of War -- Syria's Liberating Struggle Continues --
Activist: Georgia’s GOP caucus pushing for looser gun restrictions
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News Link • Military
When U.S. drones kill civilians, Yemen’s government tries to conceal it
12-25-2012
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Washington Post
A rickety Toyota truck packed with 14 people rumbled down a desert road from the town of Radda, which al-Qaeda militants once controlled. Suddenly a missile hurtled from the sky and flipped the vehicle over.
Chaos. Flames. Corpses. Then, a second
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News Link • World News
Egypt Constitution Passes, Economic Crunch Looms
12-25-2012
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New York Times
The official approval of Egypt's disputed, Islamist-backed constitution held out little hope of stabilizing the country after 2 years of turmoil and Islamist President Morsi may now face a more immediate crisis with the economy falling deeper into di
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Legal Curbs Said to Hamper A.T.F. in Gun Inquiries
12-25-2012
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New York Times
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms' ability to thwart gun violence is hamstrung by legislative restrictions and by loopholes in federal gun laws, many law enforcement officials and advocates of tighter gun regulations say.
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News Link • China
Halloween decorations carry haunting message of forced labor
12-25-2012
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"If you occasionally buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right Organization. Thousands people here who are under the persicution of the Chinese Communist Party Government will thank and remember you forever."
The
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News Link • Gun Rights
School Obama's Daughters Attend Has 11 Armed Guards
12-25-2012
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Breitbart
Some interesting news has broken in the wake of the latest push for gun control by President Obama and Senate Democrats: Obama sends his kids to a school where armed guards are used as a matter of fact.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Ex-TSA Screener: Officers “Laughing” At Your Naked Image
12-25-2012
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InfoWars
A former TSA screener turned blogger who is now causing embarrassment for the federal agency has revealed that TSA officers routinely laugh at and make fun of passengers’ nude body scanner images in back rooms.
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News Link • Government
No Fiscal Cliff Deal Could Cause Jails To Release Inmates
12-25-2012
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CBS News
A scenario that police in western Oregon feared came true in the thick of holiday season after two dozen inmates were freed from a county jail that could no longer afford to hold them.
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News Link • Media: Television
DC Police Investigating NBC's Gregory for Brandishing Illegal Magazine
12-25-2012
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Breitbart
Washington D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has confirmed that the department is looking into allegations that NBC's David Gregory violated D.C.'s gun banning laws during a recent taping of Meet the Press.
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News Link • Government
Dakota Indians mark hangings of 1862 with trek on horseback
12-25-2012
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Reuters
The day after Christmas will be sombre for Dakota Indians marking what they consider a travesty of justice 150 years ago, when 38 of their ancestors were executed in the biggest mass hanging in U.S. history.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Philadelphia high schools to welcome students back with free condom dispensers
12-25-2012
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The Daily Caller
The Philadelphia Health Department will install clear plastic dispensers brimming with free condoms at 22 of Philadelphia’s public high schools over winter break.
The schools chosen for the pilot program have the highest rates of students infected
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Radiation worries curtail kids’ exercise time in Fukushima
12-25-2012
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The RawStory.com
Children in Fukushima are getting fatter as outdoor activities have been cut in the area due to radiation fears after last year’s nuclear disaster, a Japanese government report said Tuesday.
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News Link • Government
George H.W. Bush still hospitalized after health ‘setbacks’
12-25-2012
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The RawStory.com
Former US president George H.W. Bush celebrated Christmas in a Texas hospital with his family Tuesday after a series of health setbacks that have delayed his release, his spokesman said.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Composites for Large Scale Manafacturing
12-25-2012
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arclein
uous fiber-reinforced structures are difficult to shape, on the other, joining the continuous fibers with a highly viscous thermoplastic matrix material is a highly complex process. To date, there is no economically profitable production technology f
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News Link • China
Chinese Data Reliability
12-25-2012
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arclein
To be fair to the mainstream media in China, there are exceptions, the most notable being Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan, who did exceptional reporting highlighting the overwhelmingly dark side of life in China. Her writing was broad and in-depth, coveri
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Christian Growth Momentum
12-25-2012
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arclein
In contrast, Islam under the Ottomans, as under the Arabs before them, advanced largely through conquest, plunder and often-brutal taxation of its subjects. Half a millennium ago, the Islamic Ottoman Empire stagnated and then steadily sank, its final
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News Link • World News
Today on LewRockwell.com - Christmas 2012
12-25-2012
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LewRockwell.com
The NRA Is Wrong - Government security is just another form of violence, says Ron Paul / Truth Is the First Casualty of War, See Newtown, for example / Frankenfish?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Ben Stein on religion and the breakdown of society!
12-25-2012
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The Political Commentator
Ben Stein talks about how society has come to forbid God and religion from being brought into the mainstream while at the same time allowing things that are either immoral or irrelevant to become woven in!
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
NHL lockout hits 100th day with no end in sight
12-24-2012
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The RawStory.com
National Hockey League players and club owners reached the 100th day of the league’s shutdown over money issues Monday with no talks planned and shrinking hope to salvage even a shortened season.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Cloud-Powered GPS Chip Slashes Smartphone Power Consumption
12-24-2012
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Kate Greene via TechnologyReview.com
A Microsoft Research project offloads data and calculations to save battery life.
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News Link • Energy
Photonic Crystals Reinvent Tungsten Light Bulbs
12-23-2012
Photonic crystals of tungsten emit visible light but without the same wasteful emission of infrared, say researchers aiming to reinvent the light bulb
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Horseshoe Crimes: Close Enough
12-23-2012
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Simple Justice
The cop told the truth as to the reason for the stop, and the facts gave rise to no violation of the traffic code, and therefore no legal justification to stop the defendant. The ensuing search which produced drugs, would never have happened
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
NC Governor Bev Perdue: Pardon the Wilmington Ten
12-23-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
When I was 19, a prosecutor framed me and nine other civil rights activists for firebombing a building in Wilmington, NC. We were dubbed the Wilmington Ten, convicted by a jury that included multiple KKK members, and sentenced to 29 years in prison.
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Scourge of Concealed Weapons
12-23-2012
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New York Times
Over the years, states have made it increasingly possible for almost any adult to carry a concealed handgun in public, including on college campuses, in churches and in state parks " places where people tend to congregate in large numbers and
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Hoody Syndrome
12-23-2012
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Simple Justice
Some may wonder why Martinez didn't stop when told to do so. To the overly compliant, such defiance offers more than sufficient justification for anything that follows. It might have been that he chose to exercise his constitutional right to be lef
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News Link • Government
Freedom of Information, Courtesy of the Chandler Brothers
12-23-2012
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Simple Justice
I also wouldn’t have been able to do it without the Chandler brothers, specifically Robert, who was able to pry public records from the Miami-Dade Police Department when Major Nancy Perez was refusing to provide requested public records to [Carlos' l
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News Link • Police State
She Will Not Pledge Her Allegiance
12-23-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
I was given a command, and I disobeyed. A moment of freedom in a small town.
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News Link • Food
The Battlefront in the Front Yard
12-23-2012
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New York Times
JASON HELVENSTON was at work on his second crop, spreading compost to fertilize the carrots, bok choy, kale and dozens of other vegetables he grows organically on his property in Orlando, Fla., when the trouble began.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop vs. Cop
12-23-2012
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Simple Justice
Most dreams of cops, executing a warrant at the home of a family of innocents, fail to produce the outcome we would hope for. A big compensatory award coupled with punitive damages against the cops involved personally. The good news is that it happ
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News Link • Free Speech
Judge: Louisiana Woman Can Flip Finger In Holiday Lights
12-23-2012
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CBS News (video)
A Louisiana woman ran afoul of police when she gave her neighbors an unusual holiday greeting, hanging Christmas lights in the shape of a middle finger. Neighbors complained and police threatened to arrest her, so she sued the city. A judge ruled in
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
US Senate demands Village Voice takes down its 'adult entertainment' section
12-23-2012
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The Hill
The Senate passed a resolution calling on the newspaper Village Voice “to act as a responsible global citizen” by taking down its “adult entertainment” section of its classified advertising website that promotes child sex trafficking in the United St
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Chrome LOVE REVOLUTION Car Badge
12-22-2012
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http://revolutioncarbadges.com/
Wow! Thanks to Tom Woods for mentioning RCB! I’ve sold out of the first batch of badges in less than a week! The second shipment is scheduled to arrive around Feb 2013.
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Libertarian Enterprise
12-23-2012
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http://www.ncc-1776.org/
I'll just say Merry Christmas! and leave it at that. Ken Holder - Editor-in-Chief - editor@ncc-1776.org
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Can an Anti-interventionist be Secretary of Defense?
12-23-2012
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Free Press Publications
President Obama has already tapped John Kerry as his next Secretary of State, a pick that should pass the Senate without issue. However, the “leading candidate” for Secretary of Defense is facing an uphill battle. John Glaser of Antiwar.com writes, “
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Review of FBI forensics does not extend to federally trained state, local examiners
12-23-2012
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Washington Post
Thousands of criminal cases at the state and local level relied on exaggerated testimony or false forensic evidence to convict defendants of murder, rape and other felonies.
The forensic experts in these cases were trained by the same liars
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News Link • Misinformation
Libor Hearings, School Shootings and Disinfo, Oh My!
12-22-2012
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Farm Wars
Propaganda does not require evidence to prove itself. It simply utilizes the ignorant masses that believe what they see and tend to repeat the lie as fact to their friends, family, [and] repost to message boards, comment threads, social media sites,
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
It's Becoming Abundantly Clear That Google Doesn't Want To Share Android Anymore
12-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Steve Kovach
When Google bought Motorola for $12.5 billion last year, tech pundits had a ton of theories for what the move was really about.
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News Link • Transportation
American Vehicle Miles Driven Haven't Been This Low Since The 1990s
12-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Doug Short
The Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Commission has released the latest report on Traffic Volume Trends, data through October.
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News Link • Government
And now the clock chimes, and all the impostors drop their masks …
12-22-2012
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com
“U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada said Wednesday he would not rule out allowing tax rates to increase for higher-income Americans if it is coupled with substantial spending cuts … in a bid to avoid the ‘fiscal cliff,’” the Las Vegas Review-Journal re
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News Link • Police State
The coming drone attack on America
12-22-2012
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Naomi Wolf - www.guardian.co.uk
Drones on domestic surveillance duties are already deployed by police and corporations. In time, they will likely be weaponized.
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Reference Link • Healthcare Industry
Ban the Pills, Not the Guns
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The correlation between psychiatric drugs and random acts of violence and homicide is well documented as the Food and Drug Administration requires black box warnings on the inserts of psychotropic drugs with regard to their relationship to violent be
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News Link • Police State
Cops with AR-15s to patrol town, harass people on the street
12-22-2012
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Prison Planet
In a tactic that would have made Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Hugo Chavez proud, city officials in one Arkansas town are deploying police dressed in combat gear and carrying AR-15 assault rifles.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
FDA: Drug Companies Faked Thousands of Drug Documents
12-22-2012
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Prison Planet
According to the Food and Drug Administration, a major drug research contractor has been found faking documents and manipulating samples.
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News Link • Science
Thorium Not So Wonderful?
12-22-2012
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arclein
"Small-scale chemical reprocessing of irradiated thorium can create an isotope of uranium - uranium-233 - that could be used in nuclear weapons. If nothing else, this raises a serious proliferation concern."
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News Link • Gun Rights
NY Governor Wants Your Guns While He’s Protected 24/7 by Armed Security
12-22-2012
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Prison Planet
New York governor Andrew Cuomo says the state of New York is serious about gun confiscation.
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News Link • Police State
The Glaring Problem With The NRA's Cop-In-Every-School Plan
12-22-2012
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Business Insider
At a press conference in response to last week's tragic Sandy Hook shootings, the National Rifle Association called on Congress to put armed police officers in every school in America.
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