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Date Sent: 2013-08-30
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, August 30, 2013 |
English Parliament Balks At Obama’s Latest Demand For Military Intervention
'Shadow' banks face 2015 deadline to comply with first global rules -- U.S. allows states to legalize recreational marijuana within limits -- North Carolina Cop Suspended 1 Month, Without Pay, for Arresting Man Video Recording him -- New Study Finds That State Crime Labs Are Paid Per Conviction -- Argentina debt ruling could set bad precedent - Brazil -- 6th Circuit to Dr. Michael LaPaglia: No More Rectal Love For You -- US spy network’s successes, failures and objectives leaked in ‘black
budget’ summary -- 25 Quotes About The Coming War With Syria That Every
American Should See -- Corruption Hits Red Light Camera Company Bottom
Line -- The Fed's millionaires -- Peru Declares State of Emergency in Puno as Temperatures Drop
AZ: #NoWarWithSyria RALLY SATURDAY!!
CA: Libertopia Historic meeting of the minds, August 30
- Sept. 2, 2013, San Diego
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News Link • WAR: About that War
English Parliament Balks At Obama’s Latest Demand For Military Intervention
08-29-2013
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Jonathan Turley
While President Obama continues to maintain that only he decides what constitutes a war and requires consultation (let alone a declaration) from Congress, there remains a modicum of democratic process in England.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
'Shadow' banks face 2015 deadline to comply with first global rules
08-29-2013
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Reuters
National regulators must also be equipped with a set of tools to allow imposition of capital and liquidity requirements or temporary limits on how much cash clients can pull out to avoid the destabilizing "runs" on money market funds seen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
U.S. allows states to legalize recreational marijuana within limits
08-29-2013
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Reuters
In a move marijuana advocates hailed as an historic shift, the Obama administration began giving states wide leeway to experiment with pot legalization and started by letting Colorado and Washington carry out new laws permitting recreational use.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
North Carolina Cop Suspended " Without Pay " for Arresting Man Video Recording him
08-29-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Here is something you don’t see everyday, a police officer getting caught on camera violating a citizen’s right to record in public and actually get disciplined for it.
In this case, a 28-day suspension without pay.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
New Study Finds That State Crime Labs Are Paid Per Conviction
08-29-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
Funding crime labs through court-assessed fees creates another channel for bias to enter crime lab analyses. In jurisdictions with this practice the crime lab receives a sum of money for each conviction of a given type.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Argentina debt ruling could set bad precedent - Brazil
08-29-2013
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Reuters
A U.S. court ruling for Argentina to repay creditors who rejected the restructuring of its defaulted debt could set a bad precedent for other countries, Brazilian central bank chief Alexandre Tombini said on Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
6th Circuit to Dr. Michael LaPaglia: No More Rectal Love For You
08-29-2013
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Simple Justice
Where there’s a forced digital rectal insertion, Michael LaPaglia seems to be close at hand, along with a couple of cops smiling at the mere thought of Vaseline and latex reminding a perp they can do anything they want, including the warrantless
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
US spy network’s successes, failures and objectives leaked in ‘black budget’ summary
08-29-2013
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Washington Post
US spy agencies built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government’s top-secret budget.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
25 Quotes About The Coming War With Syria That Every American Should See
08-29-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
If Barack Obama is going to attack Syria, he is going to do it without the support of the American people, without the approval of Congress, without the approval of the United Nations, and without the help of the British. Now that the British Parlia
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Corruption Hits Red Light Camera Company Bottom Line
08-29-2013
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The Newspaper
Redflex Traffic Systems announced its after-tax profit plunged 51.6% over the year. The Australian firm continues to reel from revelations top management set up a $2 million scheme to bribe the Chicago,official responsible for the camera contract.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
The Fed's millionaires
08-29-2013
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http://www.money.cnn.com/2013/08/28/news/economy/f
There are an awful lot of millionaires at the Federal Reserve.
Financial disclosure forms released Tuesday show that all seven current members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors have assets worth more than $1 million.
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Environment
Peru Declares State of Emergency in Puno as Temperatures Drop
08-28-2013
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Andean Air Mail & PERUVIAN TIMES
Peru’s government has declared a state of emergency in parts of the southern Andean region of Puno that have been hit with the coldest temperatures in a decade, daily El Comercio reported.
President Ollanta Humala, visiting the area this week, ann
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Leon Felkins
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Opinion • Syria
Ctrl - Alt - Delete
Watch the Birdie! --
Why Syria? and Why now?
08-28-2013
Mike Dugger
The following is my response to an email I received today asking "Are you ready?" for what is coming with respect to the situation in Syria. I'll characterize my answer as one couched in cynical realism. Things are seldom what they seem.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Teacher Admits To Sex With 14-Year-Old Student Who Kills Herself Sentenced To 30 Days
08-27-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Stacey Dean Rambold, 54, is a former teacher who confessed to a sexual relationship with Cherice Morales, a 14-year-old girl at his high school " a girl who later committed suicide. Despite the original charge of multiple counts of statutory rape and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Tennis Fans Complain About Long Security Lines On Day 1 Of US Open
08-27-2013
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CBS News
The additional security checks had some fans lined up waiting to enter the grounds for up to two hours earlier Monday. The Associated Press reported that the lines snaked for a quarter mile or more
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Print
New York Times Website Taken Out, Syrian Electronic Army Takes Credit
08-27-2013
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ABC News
For the second time this month, the New York Times' website has gone down.
However, unlike the first outage on Aug. 14, which was blamed on server problems, the company said it believed today's outage was a result of external "malicious attack."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Former U.S. Attorney Faces Questions Over Confrontation With Filmmaker
08-27-2013
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Jonathan Turley
There is a controversy brewing at Tulane Law School which was the scene of a confrontation between controversial conservative filmmaker and activist James O’Keefe and former U.S. Attorney James Letten whose office handled the prosecution of O’Keefe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
George Zimmerman Will Ask Florida to Reimburse Him for Trial Costs
08-27-2013
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ABC News (video)
George Zimmerman wants Florida to reimburse him for the costs of mounting his defense in the Trayvon Martin shooting case. Zimmerman's attorney plans to file a motion to recoup as much as $300,000 in legal costs spent defending Zimmerman.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The “Moral Obscenity” of Washington’s Empire
08-27-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
John Kerry insists that it is “undeniable” that the Syrian government conducted a chemical weapons attack against civilians, and then made a “cynical attempt to cover it up” by hiding the evidence.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
As West debated air strikes on Syria, where was peace envoy Blair? On a yacht in the Mediterranean
08-27-2013
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Daily Mail
He boasted recently of having ‘toiled over years’ to bring peace to the Middle East " and wrote of his concern at the ‘living nightmare’ in Syria. But if Tony Blair was toiling in his role as Special Envoy to the long-troubled region it is apparently
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Syria crisis: warplanes spotted in Cyprus as tensions rise in Damascus
08-27-2013
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The Guardian
Commercial pilots who regularly fly from Larnaca said they had seen C-130 transport planes from their cockpit windows as well as small formations of fighter jets on their radar screens, which they believe had flown from Europe.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Exclusive: Syria strike due in days, West tells opposition - sources
08-27-2013
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Reuters
Western powers have told the Syrian opposition to expect a strike against President Bashar al-Assad's forces within days, according to sources who attended a meeting between envoys and the Syrian National Coalition in Istanbul.
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News Link • Surveillance
Take Back Your Power " Say NO to Smart Meters!
08-27-2013
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Farm Wars
Utility companies are replacing electricity, gas and water meters worldwide with new generation “smart” meters at an unprecedented rate.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Leaked Documents: U.S. Framed Syria in Chemical Weapons Attack
08-27-2013
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Farm Wars
Make no mistake this was a crime against humanity… but the gas was NOT used by the Syrian government, it was used by the NATO backed rebels.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Whistleblowers
How Snowden did it
08-27-2013
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By Richard Esposito and Matthew Cole
When Edward Snowden stole the crown jewels of the National Security Agency, he didn’t need to use any sophisticated devices or software or go around any computer firewall.
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News Link • Government
4 Year Old’s Veggie Garden Must Go Says USDA Subcontractor
08-27-2013
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by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
With each passing day, it seems the United States of America, “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave” is becoming more and more like the Communist Russia I learned about in elementary school where people weren’t allowed to grow their own food unless
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Uncle Sam Comes Callin', Asks Jamie Dimon For Another $6 Billion
08-27-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The US is demanding a sum of $6 billion - the total loss associated with the "London Whale" debacle - in compensation for JPMorgan's mis-selling of mortgage-backed-securities.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Guest Post: The Long View On Interest Rates
08-27-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
This is the long term view on interest rates. The chart shows both the "Fed Funds" equivalent short term rate versus long term interest rates. There has been much discussion as of late about the need for interest rates to rise as they have been his
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News Link • WAR: About that War
General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned - Seven Countries In Five Years
08-27-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, FacelesswithEyesOpen
I said, "We're going to war with Iraq? Why?" He said, "I don't know." He said, "I guess they don't know what else to do."
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News Link • Syria
Meet Saudi Arabia's Bandar bin Sultan: The Puppetmaster Behind The Syrian War
08-27-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Yesterday the Telegraph's Evans-Pritchard dug up a note that we had posted almost a month ago, relating to the "secret" meeting between Saudi Arabia and Russia...
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Broader Stakes of Syrian Crisis
08-27-2013
Ray McGovern
Though some intelligence analysts still doubt that the Syrian government launched a chemical attack, the political momentum for a U.S. retaliatory strike may be unstoppable. Broader framework of the crisis involves the Israeli-Iranian dispute...
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Public School Is One Of The Most Dangerous Places You Could Possibly Put Your Children
08-27-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Would you willingly send your kids into a war zone? No way. Would you willingly send your children into a federal prison? Of course not. So why would you send them to a public school? In America today, kids are being killed on the way to school,
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