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Date Sent: 2013-09-14
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, September 14, 2013 |
Wall Street Banks Obtain Market Data Ten Minutes Before Everyone Else
Merced Police Policy Of Taking Injured Animals To Shooting Range Comes Under Fire -- Google Jet Fleet Loses a Pentagon Fuel Perk -- Armed man critically wounded in Tempe police shooting -- NSA disguised itself as Google to spy, say reports -- Tax lien sales canceled after Post investigation; Gray calls for reforms -- A Rogue State and Failed Social Visions -- The Limits of Consent: Cellphone Edition -- Virginia: City Hides Data Showing Increased Red Light Camera Injuries -- Vote Pact - How principled progressives work with conscientious conservatives. -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, September 15, 2013 Edition
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Wall Street Banks Obtain Market Data Ten Minutes Before Everyone Else
09-13-2013
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Matt Taibbi of the Rolling Stone magazine has reported that media company Thomson Reuters has been providing sensitive market information to certain financial institutions before everyone else, allowing them to front run the markets.
Now joining us
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Merced Police Policy Of Taking Injured Animals To Shooting Range Comes Under Fire
09-13-2013
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CBS News
“…any officer… may, with the approval of his or her immediate superior, humanely destroy any abandoned animal in the field in any case where the animal is too severely injured to move or where a veterinarian is not available and it would be more huma
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Google Jet Fleet Loses a Pentagon Fuel Perk
09-13-2013
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Wall Street Journal
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin may have to dig deeper to operate their fleet of private jets, after the US ended an arrangement that for years allowed the billionaires to travel on sharply discounted jet fuel bought from the Pentagon
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Armed man critically wounded in Tempe police shooting
09-13-2013
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CBS News
"They surrounded the guy in a triangle and with their firearms drawn and it looked like he was pulling a box cutter or something out of his pocket," said witness Jeffrey Hollingsworth.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA disguised itself as Google to spy, say reports
09-13-2013
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c/Net
A technique commonly used by hackers, a MITM attack involves using a fake security certificate to pose as a legitimate Web service, bypass browser security settings, and then intercept data that an unsuspecting person is sending to that service.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Tax lien sales canceled after Post investigation; Gray calls for reforms
09-13-2013
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Washington Post
District leaders said they will institute broad reforms that would protect property owners from losing their homes over small debts, including canceling dozens of tax liens sold at the annual auction 2 months ago and creating an ombudsman to work
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
A Rogue State and Failed Social Visions
09-13-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
In mid-June Obama “authorized” sending weapons to Syrian rebels. Those weapons are now arriving. Obama’s “authorization” is worthless because he doesn’t have any legal authority to take the U.S. into this war. He’s actually violating both
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Limits of Consent: Cellphone Edition
09-13-2013
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Simple Justice
The defendant was in a car believed by Border Patrol Agent Soto to be picking up people who had illegally cross the border. After the stop, Soto asked: “Can I look in the phones? Can I search the phones?” Lopez consented by responding “yes.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Virginia: City Hides Data Showing Increased Red Light Camera Injuries
09-13-2013
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The Newspaper
After holding out for more than three years, officials in Virginia Beach, Virginia finally released accident data that raise serious questions about whether the use of red light cameras has improved traffic safety in the city.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Bill to compel journalists to give up sources clears Senate panel
09-13-2013
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Los Angeles Times
Federal officials still may "compel disclosure" from a journalist who has information that could stop or prevent crimes such as murder, kidnapping or child abduction or prevent "acts of terrorism" or significant harm to national security.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D Printing: Is it in Your Future?, by Kevin L.
09-13-2013
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Survivalblog.com
There is a lot of talk in the media these days about three dimensional (3D) printers. For our community there is the Liberator, a 3D printed gun.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Vote Pact - How principled progressives work with conscientious conservatives.
09-13-2013
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http://www.votepact.org
The Perennially “Unusual” Yet Somehow Ubiquitous Left-Right Alliance: Towards Acknowledging an Anti-Establishment Center
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
9 Surprising Foods With More Sugar Than a Krispy Kreme Doughnut
09-13-2013
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http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/09/9-s
Not so fast. According to a new report by Credit Suisse, you might be better off eating a doughnut than some of the stuff marketed as healthy. Here are nine surprising foods that have more sugar than a Krispy Kreme doughnut, which, at 10 grams, seems
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Plasmonic nanocircuits enable optics on a microchip
09-13-2013
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nanowerk.com
Researchers from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), and California Institute of Technology (Caltech), demonstrate that it is possible to operate extremely compact optical
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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Reference Link • Police State
Is This What Martial Law Will Look Like?
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
With the DHS federalization of local police departments, some of our local police departments have become a major threat to public safety. And this is what a federalized police force looks like...
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Dave Hodges
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Opinion • Media: Print
The Great Ones Are Leaving Us
09-12-2013
Chuck Baldwin
I just found out a short time ago that Charley Reese recently passed away. He died in May of this year. Amazingly, I did not even read a eulogy of his passing. Holy cow! How quickly people forget us after we are gone. I heard about his death via word
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Ex-LA TSA worker charged, tied to anti-US website
09-12-2013
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AP
The letters were posted on a website apparently operated by Nna Alpha Onuoha, 29, who was charged with one count each of making a false threat and making threats affecting interstate commerce, the day after quitting his job with the TSA
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Florida pastor arrested before he could burn 2,998 Qurans on anniversary of 9/11 attacks
09-11-2013
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AP
A Florida pastor has been arrested before he could set fire to almost 3,000 Qurans. Polk County sheriff's officials say the Rev. Terry Jones and his associate pastor were arrested on unspecified felony charges
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
U.S. can’t prove Bashar Assad approved chemical attacks in Syria
09-11-2013
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Washington Times
US intelligence has yet to uncover evidence that Syrian President Assad directly ordered the chemical attacks on civilians in a suburb of Damascus, though the consensus inside US agencies and Congress is members of Mr. Assad’s inner circle likely
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
U.N. Report Will Point to Assad Regime in Massive Chemical Attack
09-11-2013
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U.N. inspectors have collected a "wealth" of evidence on the use of nerve agents that points to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against his own people, according to a senior Western official.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Yahoo CEO fears defying NSA could mean prison
09-11-2013
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AFP
Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer said she feared winding up in prison for treason if she refused to comply with US spy demands for data. Her comments came after being asked what she is doing to protect Yahoo users from "tyrannical government"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA begins delivery of weapons to Syrian rebels
09-11-2013
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Washington Post
The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration, according to U.S. officials and Syrian figures. The shipments began streaming into the country over the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
D.C. executive linked to secret 2008 aid to Hillary Clinton
09-11-2013
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Washington Post
Jeffrey Thompson, a city contractor who allegedly financed a secret campaign for then-mayoral candidate Vincent Gray in 2010, financed an independent effort to reach urban voters on behalf of Clinton in Texas and at least 3 other states
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel
09-11-2013
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The Guardian
The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Syrian forces responsible for Banias massacres: U.N. report
09-11-2013
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ABC News
U.N. rights investigators have established that Syrian government forces were almost certainly responsible for two massacres last May in which up to 450 civilians were killed, a report published on Wednesday said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
TPD subjected woman to 'police brutality' during DUI arrest
09-11-2013
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A woman who suffered a broken orbital bone in her face and other injuries during her arrest on a DUI charge was the victim of police brutality, her lawyer said.
Christina West, 44, was arrested in the early morning hours of Aug. 10 by officers wit
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News Link • Surveillance
Text of Letter From Iran Prisoner Hekmati to John Kerry
09-11-2013
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New York Times
Following is the text of a handwritten letter from Amir Hekmati, an American of Iranian descent who has been incarcerated in Iran for more than two years on espionage charges, addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Missouri Tax Cuts Die as Lawmakers Fail to Override Governor's Veto
09-11-2013
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Bloomberg
Missouri’s Republican-controlled legislature failed to override Democratic Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of cuts in personal and corporate income taxes, slowing a political prairie fire that began in neighboring Kansas.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Houston Family Sues Harris County For Police Abuse Caught On Tape
09-11-2013
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Jonathan Turley
A federal civil rights suit filed raises troubling questions about the conduct of Harris Co. deputies. As shown on the video below, David Scherz was arrested on Sept. 10, 2011, along with his father, mother, sister and aunt in front of their Houston
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Ben Swann Reality Check: More Americans "Rethinking" 9/11?
09-11-2013
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Ben Swann Reality Check
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at claims by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth about why they say the official story on the collapse of Building 7 is not only untrue, it is not possible. Also, a new poll shows that more and more Americans
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Arab Intellectual Calls For Theological-Cognitive Revolution To Extricate Arab World From Backwardne
09-04-2013
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The Middle East Media Reasearch Institute
Hashem Saleh, an Arab intellectual of Syrian origin who currently resides in Morocco, wrote in his August 10, 2013 column in the London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that in order to extricate itself from crises, backwardness and internecine warfare,
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Drug War
The Real Reason The Federal Government Is Coming Around On Marijuana Legalization
09-11-2013
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http://libertycrier.com,
In recent news Eric Holder announced the Federal Government would ‘allow’ the states of Colorado and Washington to keep their marijuana legalization laws in place and that they would not seek to jail marijuana consumers or sanctioned suppliers of Mar
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Meanwhile, This Is What Putin Is Doing...
09-11-2013
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zerohedge.com
For the last few days we have been bombarded with words that appear 'peaceful' and problem-solving from Russia with love.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Twelve Years After 9-11: Let’s End the Politics of Fear
09-11-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Robin Koerner
Since 9-11, it seems that the American Left and the American Right have agreed on something of profound importance: we’re scared.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
America's Next "Debt Ceiling": At Least $17.8 Trillion
09-11-2013
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zerohedge.com
The theatrics this time around will certainly be spectacular, but the end result will be the same: after much yelling, screaming, posturing and crying, the US debt ceiling will once again be raised.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Awesome Letter That A Dying Military Veteran Sent To His Representatives In Congress
09-11-2013
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http://endoftheamericandream.com, Michael Snyder
You will be amazed by the things that a dying military veteran wrote in a letter to the two U.S. Senators that are representing his state.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Russia’s ‘carrier-killer’ Moskva enters Mediterranean
09-11-2013
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http://rt.com
Russia’s Moskva missile cruiser, dubbed a “carrier-killer” by NATO, has passed through the Straits of Gibraltar and is now heading toward the eastern Mediterranean to assume command of the Russian naval force there.
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News Link • Energy
The Power Has Gone Out In Downtown Detroit
09-11-2013
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Business Insider
Downtown Detroit was hit by a power outage at around 1 p.m. today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Poll: More Americans Believe WTC 7 Was Demolished than Believe the Government’s Explanation
09-11-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Washingtons Blog
What Do You Believe?
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