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Date Sent: 2014-01-18
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, January 18, 2014 |
Obama Declares “Reforms” While Dismissing Influence Of Snowden on NSA
Elderly Hollywood man’s home still heading to tax sale -- Washington State Woman Proudly Posts Weight Loss Picture . . . Facebook Removes It -- Oklahoma Highway Police Accused Of Beating Elderly Deaf Man For Failing To Respond To Oral Commands --
Dallas Cops Fight For the First Rule of Policing -- Bullied Student
Files Internal Affairs Report Against Lying, Mocking Cop as Dad Records
-- 4409: WTF is Veterans Court? -- Federal judge sent hundreds of bigoted emails -- Abu Mazen Admits Lacking Legal Authority to Make Peace with the Jews -- Al-Jazeera: Why can’t Arab armies be more humane like the Israel Defense Forces? -- The Great Global Warming Swindle -- Why the DEA Let the World's Tech-Savviest Drug Cartel Do As It Pleased for 12 Years -- Proof that the Bible is Anti-Government -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, January 19, 2014 Edition -- US Spending Bill Keeps Full $3.1 Billion in Israeli Aid -- Maliki Wants Arms, US Troops for Training -- Congress Blocks Plan to Transfer Drone Control From CIA to Pentagon -- Bitcoin Breaks Out, You Can Now Pay The IRS In Cryptocurrency -- The Minimum Wage Law -- Judge Rules No Fly List Unconstitutional -- Study: Chris Christie's New Jersey Least Economically Solvent State in U.S. -- Pushback Against Federal Roadside Checkpoints Increasing
AZ: In Remembrance of Joan Walling TODAY;
Freedom Tech Workshop #1 - Saturday February 1st 2014; Freedom
Summit 2014 Meetup
CA: 5th Annual Southern Calif Libertarian
Regional Conference today, Jan 18, 2014 Noon-5 p.m.
Ontario, CA
NV: Ernie Hancock at Passport to Freedom 2014, Jan.
23-25, 2014
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News Link • Internet
Washington State Woman Proudly Posts Weight Loss Picture . . . Facebook Removes It
01-17-2014
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Jonathan Turley
We recently discussed a weight-loss advocate who was taken off Facebook for potential hate speech in criticizing a plus-sized clothing ad campaign. Now, Marilyn McKenna of Washington State says that a similar thing happened to her. McKenna posted an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Abu Mazen Admits Lacking Legal Authority to Make Peace with the Jews
01-13-2014
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Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi
The current political negotiations, or any future negotiations, cannot bring about a signed, stable, and lasting political agreement that will bring an end to the conflict and all claims. The first Palestinian objective in their order of priorities i
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Free Speech
The French Were Right to Ban Dieudonné’s Offensive ‘Performance Art’
01-14-2014
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Bernard-Henri Lévy
Dieudonné, the ‘performance artist’ banned by the French high court, was not a satirist or comedian of any kind. He was an incendiary, anti-Semitic ideologue whose silencing poses no threat to real freedom of speech.
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Syria
Al-Jazeera: Why can’t Arab armies be more humane like the Israel Defense Forces?
01-14-2014
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Al-Jazeera Arabic
Al Jazeera Arabic argues about humane treatment of demonstrators, argues that Israel and France are more humane and popular in Syria than the various sunni fighters there.
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Breaks Out, You Can Now Pay The IRS In Cryptocurrency
01-17-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, twilson1utk
As bitcoin moves away from being known only to the tech cognoscenti and becomes a real viable currency that is adopted broadly, more organizations arise that look to leverage all this attention and add something of value to bitcoin holders.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
The truth about Israel's secret nuclear arsenal
01-16-2014
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theguardian.com
Israel has been stealing nuclear secrets and covertly making bombs since the 1950s. And western governments, including Britain and the US, turn a blind eye. But how can we expect Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions if the Israelis won't come clean?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell open to the idea of players using medical marijuana
01-16-2014
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk,
Medical marijuana is a banned substance in the NFL, even for players in states where it is legal
Many argue marijuana could better treat pain for NFL players than prescription narcotics
Former NFL player suspects half of all current players current
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israel Lobby Thwarted in Iran Sanctions Bid for Now
01-16-2014
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antiwar.com
In what looks to be a clear victory " at least for now " for President Barack Obama, a major effort by the Israel lobby and its most powerful constituent, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), to pass a new sanctions bill against Iran
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Teen View
More Than 11 Million Young People Have Fled Facebook Since 2011
01-16-2014
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http://business.time.com, By Christopher Matthews
Skeptics of Facebook’s business model have long pointed to anecdotal evidence that the social network is losing its luster with teens as evidence that the firm will ultimately be unable to justify its $140 billion valuation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Beijing air pollution at dangerously high levels
01-16-2014
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http://hosted.ap.org
Beijing's skyscrapers receded into a dense gray smog Thursday as the capital saw the season's first wave of extremely dangerous pollution, with the concentration of toxic small particles registering more than two dozen times the level considered saf
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Robert Lee
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