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Date Sent: 2013-04-03
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, April 3, 2013 |
NYC PD Commissioner admitted cops target blacks, Hispanics in 'stop-frisk,' NY lawmaker testifies
FBI busts state senator and 5 others in plot to rig New York City mayoral race -- Italy bans minors from buying electronic cigarettes -- State auditor: California's net worth at negative $127.2 billion -- Obama launches $100 million brain-mapping project -- U.S. deploys sea-based radar amid North Korea crisis -- Tennessee Republicans threaten to kill GOP voucher bill over fear of funding Muslim schools -- TSA denies man his medicine for neurological condition -- Cisco Won't Buy Any US Companies Or Hire Any US Workers Until The Tax Code Changed -- GAO: 401(k) companies often mislead account holders -- Recent Action in Silver ETFs Is Bad News for Precious-Metals Bears -- Anonymous to North Koreans: 'Anons Are Here To Set You Free' -- Pay by the Pound: Samoa Air Becomes First Airline to Charge Overweight Passengers More -- Lowell City Council To Vote On Plan That Tracks Police With GPS -- To Fight Gridlock, a City Synchronizes Every Red Light -- Google
This: The Cult of Cesar Chavez -- Stocks Gain, S&P Nears All-Time
High; HPQ Falls -- Georgia town passes law requiring residents to own guns
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
FBI busts state senator and 5 others in plot to rig New York City mayoral race
04-02-2013
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Rawstory
The FBI arrested NY state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D) and 5 others including Republican NYC Councilman Daniel Halloran in an elaborate plot to secure Smith the Republican mayoral nomination for New York City.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ray Kelly admitted cops target blacks, Hispanics in 'stop-frisk,' NY lawmaker testifies
04-02-2013
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New York Post
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly admitted that cops target blacks and Hispanics for the city's controversial "stop and frisk" program to keep guns off the street, a state lawmaker testified this morning.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State auditor: California's net worth at negative $127.2 billion
04-02-2013
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The report, which covers the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, says that the state's negative status -- all of its assets minus all of its liabilities -- increased that year, largely because it spent more than it received in revenue.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Czech pharmacies begin selling medical marijuana
04-02-2013
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The RawStory.com
Medical marijuana legally went on sale Tuesday in pharmacies across the Czech Republic for patients suffering from cancer, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis or psoriasis.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Obama launches $100 million brain-mapping project
04-02-2013
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The RawStory.com
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a $100 million project to map the intricate inner mysteries of the human brain, targeting cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s.
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News Link • Military
U.S. deploys sea-based radar amid North Korea crisis
04-02-2013
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The RawStory.com
The United States has deployed a sophisticated sea-based radar to the ocean east of Japan to track any North Korean ballistic missile launches, a Pentagon official said Tuesday.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Tennessee Republicans threaten to kill GOP voucher bill over fear of funding Muslim schools
04-02-2013
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are threatening to block Republican Gov. Bill Haslam’s school voucher bill over fears that Muslim schools could receive funding.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Cisco Won't Buy Any US Companies Or Hire Any US Workers Until The Tax Code Changed
04-02-2013
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Business Insider
For years, he has been trying to get the U.S. to change that tax rule. He's said before that this prevents him from hiring more U.S. workers. But now he's said he's also stopped shopping for acquisition targets in the U.S., too.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GAO: 401(k) companies often mislead account holders
04-02-2013
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Washington Post
Money management firms frequently offer workers misleading and self-serving information about how to handle their retirement savings when they change jobs, according to a Government Accountability Office report to be released Wednesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
LEAKED: Here's What The New Facebook Phone Will Look Like
04-02-2013
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Business Insider
Here's a leaked render of the HTC First, the so-called "Facebook Phone" that the two companies will use to demonstrate a tweaked Android app called Facebook Home.
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News Link • Anonymous
Anonymous to North Koreans: 'Anons Are Here To Set You Free'
04-02-2013
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Business Insider
Hackers aligned with Anonymous claim to be carrying out numerous cyberattacks against North Korean websites, urging North Korean citizens to rise up against their "oppressive" government.
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News Link • Transportation
Sanjay Dastoor: A skateboard, with a boost
04-02-2013
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ted.com
Imagine an electric vehicle that can get you to work -- or anywhere in a six-mile radius -- quickly, without traffic frustrations or gasoline. Now imagine you can pick it up and carry it with you.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Lowell City Council To Vote On Plan That Tracks Police With GPS
04-02-2013
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boston.cbslocal.com
Lowell’s City Council will vote Tuesday night on a new police patrolmen’s contract that includes a controversial plan to track officers.
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News Link • Activism
Google This: The Cult of Cesar Chavez
04-02-2013
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breitbart.com
Time and again, the left is shocked when the freedom and prosperity-hating personalities that they idolize and the statist systems that they dream up descend into chaos, madness, and violence.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Terminator Seeds and the Boy Who Cried Wolf
04-02-2013
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Farm Wars
Could it be that the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” strategy is being used to pave the way for Monsanto to release Terminator technology on a complacent populace?
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stocks Gain, S&P Nears All-Time High; HPQ Falls
04-02-2013
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cnbc.com
Stocks traded in positive territory Tuesday, with the Dow hitting a new intraday record and the S&P 500 within striking distance of its all-time high, boosted by the health care sector.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Georgia town passes law requiring residents to own guns
04-02-2013
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Reuters
A small Georgia town on Monday passed a law requiring the head of each household to own a gun as a way to keep crime down.
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Feature Article • Agriculture
Harvesting Without Trying to Sow
Jim Bovard
In their March 27 response to my "Rotten Tomatoes for a Billion-Dollar Farm Payout," Philip Fraas and David Frantz, the lead counsel for the Pigford case, disparage the notion that many black claimants merely "attempted to farm."
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News Link • Bill of Rights
New England Town Declares Food Soveignty
03-25-2013
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From
"It shall be unlawful for any law or regulation adopted by the state or federal government to interfere with the rights recognized by this Ordinance." - The key word is recognized.
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H. Skip Robinson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stockton, California eligible for municipal bankruptcy protection: judge
04-01-2013
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Reuters
Stockton, California, was ruled eligible for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 9 of the U.S. bankruptcy code, a US judge said, turning aside creditors' arguments the city was not truly insolvent when it sought protection and had improperly
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
US Navy Moving Warship Closer To North Korea In Response To Threats
04-01-2013
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Business Insider
Officials tell NBC News that the U.S. Navy is shifting the USS Fitzgerald " a guided-missile destroyer in the Pacific Ocean " amid ongoing North Korean threats.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
03-30-2013
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DAVID A. STOCKMAN, New York Times
The Main Street economy is failing while Washington is piling a soaring debt burden on our descendants, unable to rein in either the warfare state or the welfare state or raise the taxes needed to pay the nation’s bills. By default, the Fed has resor
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery
04-01-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Cyprus has highlighted the fundamental weakness in the European banking system and the extreme fragility of fractional reserve banking. Cypriot banks invested heavily in Greek sovereign debt, and last summer's Greek debt restructuring
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • United Nations
The dark underbelly of sustainable development: Agenda 21
04-01-2013
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naturalnews.com
Sustainable development has been the catchphrase of the environmental movement for over 20 years and rarely are underlying motives questioned.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Blocking new jobs, blocking the recovery
04-01-2013
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vinsuprynowicz.com
What’s slowing down job creation in Nevada, where the real unemployment rate " counting part-timers who would prefer full-time work, and those who’ve given up looking " averaged 20.3 percent in 2012?
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News Link • Gun Rights
The endless befuddlement over ‘need’
04-01-2013
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vinsuprynowicz.com
A letter poured in last week:
“Please tell me who needs an assault weapon other than our military??????
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Guest Post: Preparing for Inflationary Times
04-01-2013
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zerohedge.com
"All this money printing, massive debt, and reckless deficit spending " and we have 2% inflation? I'm beginning to believe that either the deflationists are right, or the Fed's interventions are working." " Anonymous Casey Research reader
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Weimar vs USA: The Fall Of The Second Empire Of Debt
04-01-2013
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zerohedge.com
While being distracted by the developments of this insolvent European sovereign or that, coupled with increasingly prevalent episodes of deposit confiscation, is all the rage these days, the fundamental problems summarized by these three simple words
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
David Stockman: We've Been Lied To, Robbed, And Misled
04-01-2013
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In "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America," Stockman lays out how we have devolved from a free market economy into a managed one that operates for the benefit of a privileged few. And when trouble arises, these few are bailed
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News Link • European Union
Cyprus Parliament President Says "No Future" Under Troika, Calls For "Iceland" S
04-01-2013
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zerohedge.com
Just last week Yiannakis Omirou, Cypriot House of Representatives President, was calling for the nation to accept it is "time for responsibility" as they progressed towards a final solution;
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Central Banking Is Central Planning
04-01-2013
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The Daily Bell
A book review in the Wall Street Journal by associate professor of economics at San Jose State University Jeffrey Hummel entitled "The New Central Planning" tends to confirm the perspective that the Federal Reserve is under continued attack.
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News Link • Currencies
Australia And China To Enable Direct Currency Convertibility
04-01-2013
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zerohedge.com
A month ago we pointed out that as a result of Australia's unprecedented reliance on China as a target export market, accounting for nearly 30% of all Australian exports...
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News Link • Obama Administration
‘Obama must be thinking he has better things to do than tend to 166 Arabs stuck in Gitmo’
04-01-2013
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RT.com
Obama, the one person with the authority to shut down Guantanamo, lacks the political will to put the issue at the top of his priorities, Thomas Wilner, an attorney representing Gitmo inmates, told RT.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Prison-Wide Hunger Strike Still Rages at Guantánamo
04-01-2013
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http://fff.org, by Andy Worthington
Three weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled, “A Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo,” in which I reported the stories emerging from Guantánamo of a prison-wide hunger strike, the most severe since George W. Bush was president, and the gulf between what
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
22 Egyptian policemen injured in attacks on police stations
04-01-2013
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news.xinhuanet.com
At least 22 policemen were injured in Egypt in attacks on two police stations in the governorates of Alexandria and Beheira, north of the capital Cairo, state-run news agency MENA reported Saturday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
NY SAFE Act Nabs its First Gun Owner: An Iraq War vet (VIDEO)
04-01-2013
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http://www.guns.com, by S.H. Blannelberry
A Western New York man now faces seven years in prison for violating Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new gun control-law, the NY Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act (or SAFE Act).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Self-Defense
Texas DA Slain in His Home; Had Armed Himself
04-01-2013
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By NOMAAN MERCHANT and NICHOLAS RICCARDI
Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland took no chances after one of his assistant prosecutors was gunned down two months ago. McLelland said he carried a gun everywhere he went and was extra careful when answering the door at his home.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ecuador raises Julian Assange case with Labour
04-01-2013
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The Guardian
Diplomat brings up subject of WikiLeaks founder taking refuge in embassy at meeting with Kerry McCarthy MP
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Cypriot President's Family Transferred $10+Million to London Before Deposits Seized
04-01-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com/280238/cypriot-presidents
Cyprus President's Family Transferred Tens Of Millions To London Days Before Deposit Haircuts
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
As Feds Suggest ‘Guidance,’ Bitcoin Foundation Pushes Back
04-01-2013
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slashdot
Bitcoin is under increased scrutiny by regulators as it increases in value. But the Bitcoin Foundation wants nothing to do with them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Australia And China To Enable Direct Currency Convertibility...Bye Bye US Dollar
04-01-2013
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Zero Hedge
Australian is set to say goodbye to the world's "reserve currency" in its trade dealings with economic power, China, and will enable the direct convertibility of the Australian dollar into Chinese yuan, without US Dollar intermediation
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