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Date Sent: 2013-05-22
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, May 22, 2013 |
Senate panel approves sweeping immigration reform bill -- Top IRS Official to Invoke Fifth
California Cop Panics Over Cell Phone Camera, Thinking it Could be a Gun --
Oregon Rodeo “No Video Allowed” Policy Applies only to Out-of-Towners
-- Petraeus’s role in drafting Benghazi talking points raises questions
-- Won't You Be My Neighbor - AquaDome (UPDATE) -- Russia Is Building Robots To 'Neutralize' Terrorists --
U.S. Has Depleted Two Lake Eries' Worth Of Groundwater Since 1900 --
Oklahoma Students Design Drones That Can Fly Into Tornadoes -- Adam Kokesh Legal Defense Fund -- Ecocide or We Decide? -- A nanotechnology use for grapefruits in improving drug delivery
AZ: Worldwide ‘March Against Monsanto’ Protests Planned for May
25th, 8 a.m. - Noon PDT
AZ: Fundraiser raffle for Steve Porak's Cancer Treatment -
36" Ferret .50 BMG on an Olympic AR-15 Lower Receiver
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News Link • Immigration
Senate panel approves sweeping immigration reform bill
05-21-2013
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Washington Post
A Senate committee approved a sweeping immigration reform bill Tuesday that would provide a path to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants, setting the stage for the full Senate to consider the landmark legislation next month.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Top IRS Official to Invoke Fifth, Issa Subpoenas
05-21-2013
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National Journal
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who headed the tax-exempt division when the targeting of tea-party groups took place, plans to invoke her Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions before Congress on Wednesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
California Cop Panics Over Cell Phone Camera, Thinking it Could be a Gun
05-21-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A California cop who was being video recorded by a smartphone said she was in fear for her life because the phone could have possibly been a gun, marking at least the 4th time this year a cop uttered those nonsensical words.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Oregon Rodeo “No Video Allowed” Policy Applies only to Out-of-Towners
05-21-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Officials at the Eastern Oregon rodeo where an activist was arrested were very clear about their policy forbidding videography. The restrictions applied to everybody except the “good folks who want to film their relatives or friends.”
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Petraeus’s role in drafting Benghazi talking points raises questions
05-21-2013
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Washington Post
A close reading of recently released government e-mails sent during the editing process, and interviews with senior officials from several government agencies, reveal Petraeus’s early role and ambitions in going well beyond the committee’s request,
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
U.S. Has Depleted Two Lake Eries' Worth Of Groundwater Since 1900
05-21-2013
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popsci.com
Aquifer water levels are rapidly falling across most of the U.S., according to a new study.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Drones
Oklahoma Students Design Drones That Can Fly Into Tornadoes
05-21-2013
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popsci.com
The remotely piloted vehicles could one day replace storm chasers, who risk their lives to capture valuable data about tornadoes.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Adam vs The Man
Adam Kokesh Legal Defense Fund
5/21/2013
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freeadam.net
Fund to get a lawyer for Adam's hearing on Thursday. Adam was falsely arrested for Felony Assault on a Federal Officer. Video shows otherwise.
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Reported by:
G Cone
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News Link • Activism
Ecocide or We Decide?
05-21-2013
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Farm Wars
The education system drops us off the end of a production line as a ready slave for a job market that depends on trashing the world's resources to exist.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A nanotechnology use for grapefruits in improving drug delivery
05-21-2013
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nanowerk.com
Grapefruits have long been known for their health benefits, and the subtropical fruit may revolutionize how medical therapies like anti-cancer drugs are delivered to specific tumor cells.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Immigration
Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports
05-20-2013
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AP
Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation’s 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added Monday to a sweeping immigration bill.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Denver Cops Arrest Italian Shotgun Manufacturer as a Terrorist
05-20-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
Daniele Perazzi was arrested on Saturday after a cab driver turned him into police as a terrorist.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun control: Cartridge ID law to take effect
05-20-2013
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Bob Egelko
A hotly contested gun-control law that was passed in 2007 is finally ready to be implemented, Attorney General Kamala Harris said Friday: a requirement that every new semiautomatic handgun contain "micro-stamping" technology that would allow poli
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Activism
Planting Drugs on Adam Kokesh??
05-20-2013
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www.youtube.com
While he was being detained, another man (possibly an undercover) attempted to plant drugs on Adam Kokesh as seen in the video. Multiple angles reveal the operation in action. What do you think?
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Free Adam Kokesh Call Flood - 8:00am until 5:00pm in EDT Monday, May 20, 2013
05-20-2013
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Facebook
Please pick up your phone for Adam, call and politely but firmly demand his immediate and unconditional release.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
‘Smart Rifle’ Guarantees 100% Long Range Accuracy, Begins Shipping To Gun Owners This Week
05/20/2013
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The Liberty Crier
A Texas startup has developed a “smart rifle” that barely needs to be aimed.
The maker of the gun, being shipped to stores this week, brags that “even a novice shooter can become an elite long-range marksman in minutes.”
The company, TrackingP
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Inventions
Teen Invents Supercharger Ten Times More Powerful Than Conventional Batteries
05-20-2013
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http://www.natureworldnews.com, By Isabel Alface
In all, she is just a teenage, but unlikely most teens, Esha Khare, a 12th grade student of Lynbrook High School in San Jose, California, can boast having captured not only one of the top prizes at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
Should anyone be taxed over 100% of income? Happened to some in France for tax year 2011
05-20-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Vive le France? Well, one of the reasons there is less “vive” in France these days is because of asinine policies such as the one imposed by France’s current Socialist government which is highlighted below.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
The IRS’s Job Is To Violate Our Liberties - by Ron Paul
05-19-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
“What do you expect when you target the President?” This is what an IRS agent allegedly said to the head of a conservative organization that was being audited after calling for the impeachment of then-President Clinton.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
2nd Amendment Activist James Kaleda Ejected from Gun Control Hearing
05-19-2013
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Second Amendment activist, James Kaleda, was forcefully removed from a hearing on a new gun control bill in NJ during his testimony. Notice the legislators laugh as they have their armed security remove Kaleda before he finishes
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
5 Monkeys
07-12-2010
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youtube (h/t John Stuart)
Start with a cage containing 5 monkeys.... this story illustrates how human society keeps doing the same things over and over again because - "that's the way....
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Corruption in the DOJ & IRS
05-19-2013
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Free Press Publications
Someone once said “When it rains, it pours.” That statement seems to be true in a metaphorical sense, especially given the breadth of major stories coming out of D.C. recently.
On May 13 it was reported, “The Justice Department secretly ob
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
AP chief says phone probe makes news sources reluctant to talk
05-19-2013
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Reuters
The Justice Department's seizure of phone records for journalists at the Associated Press is hurting the agency's ability to gather news, the wire service's Chief Executive and President Gary Pruitt said.
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Powell Gammill
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