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Date Sent: 2014-01-01
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Wednesday, January 1, 2014 |
Court Upholds Willy-Nilly Gadget Searches Along U.S. Border
2013: A dirty year when it came to public corruption in Miami-Dade -- Retired judge finds ‘human mistakes’ but no corruption in Bath officials’ property sale -- St. Louis a DUI No Refusal Zone – Driver Blood Tests Required Starting on New Year's Eve -- A New Year And New Meaning Of Flashing Lights -- Fighting Irrelevance Army’s ‘Pacific Pathways’ initiative sets up turf battle with Marines -- Chicago Police only torturing around half the suspects they bring in --
U.S. justice grants exemption in contraception mandate challenge --
Judge strikes down Florida law mandating drug tests for welfare -- New York Gun Law Is Largely Upheld by a Federal Judge -- In Wave of Anti-Christian Defeats, Duck Commander Victory Sweet --
Be True To Your Inner Intellectual. Don't Drink & Drive
(IntellectualRevolution.TV) -- How Will The Economy Improve In
2014 If Almost Everyone Has Less Money To Spend? -- SEC
Network Hires Tim Tebow for Pregame Show SEC Nation, Additional ESPN
Duties -- Cost of Being Mayor? $650 Million, if He’s Rich --
REFILE-PRECIOUS-Gold slips, set for biggest annual loss in 32 years
-- Gold Declines on Way to Worst Year Since 1981 as Silver Drops -- Socialist Economist Predicts Soros and Crew Will Fleece the
Rich in 2014
AZ: AZ Breakfast Club this Saturday January 4th,
2014, 8-10 a.m. @ Coco's (PV Mall) - NEW LOCATION, Dave Hodges
speaking; Freedom Summit 2014 Meetup
NV: Ernie Hancock at Passport to Freedom 2014, Jan. 23-25, 2014
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News Link • Immigration
Court Upholds Willy-Nilly Gadget Searches Along U.S. Border
12-31-2013
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Wired
A federal judge today upheld a President Barack Obama administration policy allowing authorities along the U.S. border to seize and search laptops, smartphones and other electronic devices for any reason.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
2013: A dirty year when it came to public corruption in Miami-Dade
12-31-2013
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Bag-men lobbyists paid off allegedly corrupt mayors in an FBI sting. Another mayor was charged with working a clandestine consulting gig and misspending campaign money. There were arrests for elections, tax and securities fraud. Crooked cops
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Retired judge finds ‘human mistakes’ but no corruption in Bath officials’ property sale
12-31-2013
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The city bought the former hospital, more than a decade ago for $1 and [secretly?] agreed to sell it to Robert Smith of Phippsburg for $799,000 in May. The building had an assessed value of $6.5 million, according to the city’s online database.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
St. Louis a DUI No Refusal Zone " Driver Blood Tests Required Starting on New Year's Eve
12-31-2013
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City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce is establishing a DUI “no refusal zone” inside the city limits of St. Louis. Starting today, drivers may face a blood test without consent if they are suspected of driving under the influence.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
A New Year And New Meaning Of Flashing Lights
12-31-2013
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Simple Justice
As New Year’s Eve approaches, preparations are made by police across the nation to block the paths of cars. No longer is it limited to drivers who sipped more than the Mothers Against Stuff They Don’t Like think they should, but to those who may hav
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Fighting Irrelevance Army’s ‘Pacific Pathways’ initiative sets up turf battle with Marines
12-31-2013
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Washington Post
Fearful that the new strategy will cut its share of the defense budget, the Army is launching an ambitious campaign to transform itself and assert its relevance in the Pacific. And that, in turn, is drawing the Army into a fight. With the Marines.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Chicago Police only torturing around half the suspects they bring in
12-31-2013
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Chicago Tribune
Since its inception in 2009, the commission has battled funding and staffing issues, slowing its work. So far, it has found 14 credible instances of police torture but sided with the prosecution in 16 other cases. Not all the cases are related to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
U.S. justice grants exemption in contraception mandate challenge
12-31-2013
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Reuters
Roman Catholic Church-affiliated organizations on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to block implementation of a part of the Obamacare healthcare law that requires employers to provide insurance policies that cover contraception.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Judge strikes down Florida law mandating drug tests for welfare
12-31-2013
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Reuters
A US judge struck down a Florida law requiring drug screening for welfare recipients, saying that it violated the constitutional protection against unreasonable searches. Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Republican who campaigned
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
New York Gun Law Is Largely Upheld by a Federal Judge
12-31-2013
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New York Times
Skretny upheld 2 key elements of the law, the state’s ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and his rejection of a 3rd component, the 7-round limit for magazines. The judge called the 7-round limit “tenuous, strained and unsupported.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Be True To Your Inner Intellectual. Don't Drink & Drive (IntellectualRevolution.TV)
12-31-2013
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IntellectualRevolution.TV
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How Will The Economy Improve In 2014 If Almost Everyone Has Less Money To Spend?
12-31-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Is the U.S. consumer tapped out? If so, how in the world will the U.S. economy possibly improve in 2014? Most Americans know that the U.S. economy is heavily dependent on consumer spending. If average Americans are not out there spending money, th
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
SEC Network Hires Tim Tebow for Pregame Show SEC Nation, Additional ESPN Duties
12-31-2013
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espnmediazone.com
Will Make Analyst Debut During ESPN’s VIZIO BCS National Championship Coverage January 6 from Pasadena
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
REFILE-PRECIOUS-Gold slips, set for biggest annual loss in 32 years
12-31-2013
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Reuters
* Gold under pressure from firm equities
* SPDR gold holdings fall 3 tonnes on Friday
* Nov. China imports from Hong Kong down 42 pct
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Declines on Way to Worst Year Since 1981 as Silver Drops
12-31-2013
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bloomberg.com
Gold fell for the first time in four sessions in New York, set for its biggest annual loss in three decades, as an improving economy cut demand for a protection of wealth. Silver futures also retreated.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Socialist Economist Predicts Soros and Crew Will Fleece the Rich in 2014
12-31-2013
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Prison Planet
Stealing money from producers is the final solution to “economic inequality”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Anderson Silva Suffers Gruesome Leg Injury In UFC Title Defeat " Watch
12-31-2013
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hollywoodlife.com
(“WARNING GRAPHIC”)Remember Kevin Ware’s broken leg last basketball season? This may be worse. The UFC fighter’s bid for the championship belt against Chris Weidman on Dec. 28 came to a gruesome end when he horrifically broke his leg.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Toward quantitative nanomechanical measurements on live cells
12-31-2013
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nanowerk.com
Measuring and mapping mechanical properties of live cells is of high importance in today’s biological research. Atomic force microscopy1 has been recognized since the mid-eighties as an excellent technique to image a wide range of samples in their n
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News Link • Internet
Microwave Love: How The Post Office and NSA Track Your Every Move
12-31-2013
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Nakedcapitalism.com
If nothing else, watch the section starting at 48:30. Oh, and in case you missed it, the NSA can compromise “air gapped” (as in never connected to the Internet) computers. And don’t miss the part that starts at 55:00.
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Jack Gregson
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Opinion • Surveillance
Ray McGovern: My Take
Gen. Michael ‘No Probable Cause’ Hayden
12-29-2013
Ray McGovern
Ex-NSA chief Michael Hayden, who once declared that “probable cause” is not part of the Fourth Amendment, is sure to hurl more stones at NSA leaker Edward Snowden, especially after a New York judge endorsed the NSA’s “metadata” as legal, says ex-CIA
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News Link • Bitcoin
Overstock CEO On Bitcoins, Gold, Austrian Economics, And... Zombies
12-29-2013
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zerohedge.com
Patrick Byrne, the embattled CEO of Overstock.com, had plenty to say in a recent Fortune interview.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Corruption
Tracking IMF Money Manipulation to Pakistan and Beyond
12-29-2013
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thedailybell.com
The Nation magazine recently posted a small articled entitled, "Pakistan gets second tranche of $553.5m from IMF."
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Manipulations Rule the Markets
12-29-2013
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thedailybell.com
The Federal Reserve's announcement on December 18 that beginning in January its monthly purchases of mortgage-backed financial instruments and US Treasury bonds would each be cut by $5 billion is puzzling, as is the financial press's account of the m
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News Link • Activism
Amid Detroit’s Bankruptcy, A New Vibrancy Emerges
12-29-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
For years the news media have revealed Detroit as nothing more than a dumping ground of endless ruin and “war-torn” neighborhoods abandoned by both businesses and residents.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
No Austerity for Military Budget in 2014
12-29-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org
NDAA offers limited reforms to Guantánamo and military sexual assault policy, yet keeps 'war economy' dollars flowing
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Report: Kerry Offered Pollard Release to Israel
12-29-2013
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antiwar.com
Officials: Obama Hadn't Approved of Idea
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Robert Lee
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, Best of 2013
12-28-2013
John Semmens
President Says “Right of Conscience” Not Valid for Military Personnel
“I am the Commander-in-Chief,” Obama explained. “It is every soldier's duty to carry out my orders without hesitation or mental reservation. No religious dogma can be permitted
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News Link • Gold and Silver
COMEX on verge of default
12-28-2013
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www.dailypaul.com
Something dramatic MUST happen over the next 30 days. Either metal arrives into inventory or it doesn't. Either metal shows up or the COMEX will default. This is a pretty simple observation.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Stock Market Has Officially Entered Crazytown Territory
12-28-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
It is time to crank up the Looney Tunes theme song because Wall Street has officially entered crazytown territory. Stocks just keep going higher and higher, and at this point what is happening in the stock market does not bear any resemblance to wha
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff: Interest Rates Headed Higher and the Economy is Too Broke to Afford It!
12-28-2013
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Daily Paul.com
“This bubble is too big to pop and the Fed knows it, so they’re going to keep supplying air.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
C-span Question: Is The U.S. A Police State? Really! (Video)
12-28-2013
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Daily Paul.com
"It is surprising that C-Span would ponder such a question."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Connecticut media pushes propaganda as citizens ignore unconstitutional gun registration law
12-28-2013
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bearingarms.com
Gun registration laws exist for one reason: to identify all gun owners and firearms for future confiscation efforts.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obamacare and Crony Capitalism: Is Washington Engineering an Insurance Industry Bailout?
12-28-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, ProudAmericanFirst
"The insurance and healthcare industries know how to play the game. In fact, the healthcare industry spent $243 million in 2013 to lobby for Obamacare"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Is the NSA's Spying Constitutional? It Depends On Which Judge You Ask
12-27-2013
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Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic
Two recent rulings draw diametrically opposed conclusions about the same set of facts.
This is why we have a justice system in which lower-court conflicts rise up for resolution by a single, supreme court. This is why the law can seem, at times, to
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Leon Felkins
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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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News Link • Obama Administration
Snowden Stole Everything
12-28-2013
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arclein
Another official from the NSA task force commissioned to assess the data stolen and leaked by Snowden said on television recently that granting Snowden amnesty is “worth having a conversation about” in order to secure any potential stolen data.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Civil War Rages in Iowa as Ron / Rand Paul Supporter AJ Spiker Fights Establishment
12-28-2013
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Daily Paul.com
The same rift between insurgent Republicans and old-line party establishment figures that is rattling Washington is also playing out in states such as Iowa, where open warfare has broken out between veteran ....
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Mediate: Greenwald Snarks at MSNBC
12-28-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Journalist Glenn Greenwald appeared on MSNBC Thursday, one day after Edward Snowden delivered a Christmas address to television viewers in the UK and around the world from Russia.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Drone-spotting: Survival Guide Informs on New Breed of Aerial Predators
12-28-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Russia Today
A Drone Survival Guide with hints and tips on how to thwart the “robotic birds” has been published on the internet.
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