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Date Sent: 2013-12-28
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, December 28, 2013 |
ACLU v. Clapper Ruling -- NY district judge rules that NSA phone surveillance is legal
Kansas Cops Bully Man into Arrest for Trying to Record Them -- Sharpton, Obama, and the “Hate Crime” Fraud -- Albany Faces The Second Battle of the Lies -- Newly found species fills evolutionary gap between fish and land animals -- Controversial Montana Judge Sentences Man Who Brutally Attacked Woman To Writing -- PA Boy, 10, Suspended for Using Imaginary Bow and Arrow -- Family banned from homeschooling after divorce -- Incoming Utah Attorney General Announces That He Will Appeal Sister Wives Ruling -- Growers resume push for Christmas tree 'tax' -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, December 29, 2013 Edition -- Saving Internet information from the Memory Hole
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club, Dave Hodges speaking, Sat. Jan. 4,
2014
NV: Ernie Hancock at Passport to Freedom 2014, Jan. 23-25
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News Link • Surveillance
NY district judge rules that NSA phone surveillance is legal
12-27-2013
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ars technica
Judge Pauley ruled that the National Security Agency’s mass collection of phone records is lawful. The judge ruled that Fourth Amendment protections do not extend to records held by third parties, like telecom companies.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Kansas Cops Bully Man into Arrest for Trying to Record Them
12-27-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Nevertheless, the man said he would provide his identification, but wanted to put his camera down first. However, the pair of cops began crowding him in typical bully fashion until they arrested him. “I don’t sit here and wait for you to give me ID
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Racism
Sharpton, Obama, and the “Hate Crime” Fraud
12-27-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
For the past several months, gangs of mostly black thugs have been sucker punching mostly elderly white, Asian, and Jewish men and women, even killing several people, in what they call the “knockout game.” Self-appointed “civil rights leaders”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Albany Faces The Second Battle of the Lies
12-27-2013
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Simple Justice
This was a watershed decision, where the court upheld “pretext stops,” a benign phrase meaning police can lie to eviscerate a person’s right to be left alone. Lies were elevated above constitutional rights, because it was an effective law enforcemen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Newly found species fills evolutionary gap between fish and land animals
12-27-2013
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Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a species that provides the missing evolutionary link between fish and the first animals that walked out of water onto land about 375 million years ago. The newly found species, Tiktaalik roseae, has a skull
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Controversial Montana Judge Sentences Man Who Brutally Attacked Woman To Writing
12-27-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Montana District Judge Todd Baugh is the subject of national criticism (again) in his handling of a criminal case. Baugh previously caused a national uproar over his treatment of a rape of a 14 year old girl who he described as “older than her chrono
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
PA Boy, 10, Suspended for Using Imaginary Bow and Arrow
12-27-2013
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A 5th-grader was suspended from school for using an imaginary bow and arrow. Johnny Jones, 10, fell prey to South Eastern Middle School’s zero-tolerance weapons policy when he used a No. 2 pencil to engage in a playful back-and-forth
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Family banned from homeschooling after divorce
12-27-2013
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WND
A Florida judge has ordered several children in a homeschooling family into public school district classes based on the “gut reaction” of a court appointee in a divorce and custody case where homeschooling wasn’t even an issue.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Incoming Utah Attorney General Announces That He Will Appeal Sister Wives Ruling
12-27-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Incoming Utah Attorney General Reyes announced his office intends to appeal the ruling striking down the criminalization of cohabitation in the Sister Wives case. The decision will ultimately send the case to the US Court of Appeals.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Growers resume push for Christmas tree 'tax'
12-27-2013
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FOX News
The push for a Christmas tree "tax" is back. The initiative first surfaced, and then screeched to a halt, in 2011. Christmas tree growers petitioned the Department of Agriculture to impose a fee on trees, in order to fund a new board to promote their
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Saving Internet information from the Memory Hole
12-27-2013
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Files That Last
The questions I’m addressing here are: (1) If you want to wipe some information from the Internet, can you do it? (2) If someone tries to wipe information which you suddenly realize you want, how much can you recover?
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Feature Article • Conferences
Passport to Freedom 2014
Donna Hancock
Join Ernest Hancock and learn how to protect your liberties and assets " before it’s too late…Ernest will be one of the featured speakers at the Passport to Freedom Event in Las Vegas, NV January 23-25th, 2014
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Reference Link • Prepping
Save Yourself While You Still Can
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Many websites focus on saving the ignorant sheep. It is time to focus on those who can be helped. But most of all, it is time to focus on saving yourself first and foremost while you are still able.
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Government
VA hospital refuses to accept 'Merry Christmas' cards
12-25-2013
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FOX News
But the bedridden veterans at the VA hospital will never get to see Gracie’s card. Nor will they see the cards made by 51 other students. That’s because the Christmas cards violated VA policy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Imprisoned Pussy Riot members underwent daily ‘forced gynecological examinations’
12-25-2013
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Rawstory
Bareheaded despite the -25C cold, Tolokonnikova walked out of prison in Krasnoyarsk, flashing a victory sign to reporters waiting outside. “How do you like our Siberian weather here?” she asked, before shouting “Russia without Putin!”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The worst police misconduct of 2013
12-25-2013
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Rawstory
Below are some " but not all " of the worse police abuses to have occurred or come to light in 2013. Much of the misconduct involves racial or sexual elements, a fact that is entirely unsurprising but still disturbing.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Convicted Alabama rapist again avoids prison time after re-sentencing
12-25-2013
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Rawstory
The original sentence sparked a public outcry because it didn’t require prison time, and prosecutors appealed the sentence. An appeals court ordered a re-sentencing. District Attorney Brian Jones has appealed the new sentence, arguing it is illegal.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
A New Twist in International Relations: The Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-the-U.S. Clause
12-25-2013
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Bloomberg
Some companies are apparently so concerned about the NSA snooping on their data that they're requiring - in writing - that their technology suppliers store their data outside the U.S.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA Lawsuit Attorney: Ignore White House Panel
12-25-2013
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US News
Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman, right, says he continues to encounter strange email and phone glitches as he sues to stop National Security Agency surveillance programs.
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News Link • NeoCons
Iranian MPs propose bill to enrich uranium up to 60 percent
12-25-2013
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Reuters
Iran's hardline lawmakers are seeking to increase uranium enrichment under the country's nuclear program to a level that can produce bomb-grade material. The bill could bring Tehran into direct conflict with the major powers that reached an agreement
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News Link • World News
Erdogan defiant as three Turkey ministers quit over scandal
12-25-2013
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Reuters
Three members of Turkey's cabinet resigned over a high-level corruption scandal, and one called on Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to follow suit. The unprecedented challenge raised the temperature in a week-long crisis that has pitted a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Target hackers got your encrypted bank PIN numbers as well
12-25-2013
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Reuters
The hackers who attacked Target Corp and compromised up to 40 million credit cards and debit cards also managed to steal encrypted personal identification numbers (PINs), according to a senior payments executive familiar with the situation.
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News Link • Environment
Russia drops charges against Greenpeace activists
12-25-2013
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Reuters
Russia on Wednesday formally dropped criminal charges against Greenpeace activists arrested in a protest against Arctic oil drilling on Wednesday and was expected to shortly do the same for all 30, the environmental group said.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Rockets land in US embassy compound in Kabul, no injuries
12-25-2013
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AFP
Two Taliban rockets have landed inside the US embassy compound in Kabul, causing no casualties but underlining Afghanistan's continuing security problems as many foreigners in the capital marked Christmas Day.
The Taliban, which has been fighting
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Christmas Day bombings in Iraq's capital kill 37
12-25-2013
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AP
Militants in Iraq targeted Christians in 3 separate Christmas Day bombings in Baghdad, killing at least 37 people. In one attack, a car bomb went off near a church in the capital’s southern Dora neighborhood, killing 26 people and wounding 38
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News Link • Free Trade
Bloomberg: Trans Pacific Partnership Is “Corporatist Power Grab”
12-25-2013
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Prison Planet
“As Democratic And Transparent As A One-Party State,” Shrouded In “Big Brother-Like Secrecy”
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Push of a Button: This Is How Fast They Can Lock Down the Entire Banking System
12-25-2013
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shtfplan.com
Late last week it was learned that some 40 million charge cards were obtained using physical processing systems located in Target retail locations nationwide.
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News Link • Police State
Mass Roundups: “Men, Women and Children Will Be Taken From Their Homes”
12-25-2013
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shtfplan.com
Editor’s Note: What you are about to read comes from Dave Hodges of The Commons Sense Show and deals with a topic that most Americans, even those of us who are aware of the possibilities, would prefer to not even think about.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Vs Twitter
12-25-2013
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zerohedge.com
One of these is an "asset" that produces no profit based on an underlying architecture with low barriers to entry, the other is a virtual currency...
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News Link • Gold and Silver
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A Year Later, The Bundesbank Has Repatriated Only 37 Tons Of Gold (Of 700 Total)
12-25-2013
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zerohedge.com
Procuring physical gold seems to be a rather problematic and time-consuming process, as the Bundesbank is learning.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Agriculture
Doug Bell on the Decline of the Green Revolution and the Future of Farming
12-25-2013
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thedailybell.com
Daily Bell: So give us an update. What's been going on with Grasslands?
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News Link • Surveillance
Snowden urges end to mass surveillance in Christmas message
12-24-2013
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www.sbs.com.au/news
US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden will call citizens to work together to end mass surveillance when he delivers a Christmas Day broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 television network.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
'Duck Dynasty' and the New Blacklist
12-24-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick J. Buchanan
Pope Francis’ call for a truce notwithstanding, the culture war rages on in America.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Alan Turing, code-breaker castrated for homosexuality, receives royal pardon
12-24-2013
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edition.cnn.com
Alan Turing, a British code-breaker during World War II who was later subjected to chemical castration for homosexual activity, has received a royal pardon nearly 60 years after he committed suicide.
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