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Date Sent: 2014-08-17
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, August 17, 2014 |
Missouri police deploy tear gas to impose Ferguson curfew
New Hampshire declares state of emergency over poisonous synthetic pot -- One sentence that explains why local police don't need military weapons -- West faces tough choices if Russia, Ukraine fight -- U.S. says conducts air strikes in Iraq near Arbil and Mosul dam -- Ukraine foreign minister calls on NATO, EU to give military support -- Look, no hands! Test driving a Google car -- UK must use 'military prowess' to help stop Islamic State: PM Cameron -- Ukraine says troops entered rebel-held city -- UBER or LYFT for the skies? FAA says nyet to private pilots
advertizing available seats -- The Events In Ferguson
Demonstrate How Close We Are to a Second American Revolution -- How
The Rothschilds Created Modern Finance And A Vast Fortune That Has
Lasted For Centuries -- Treasury Yield 30 Years (^TYX) --
The Military Occupation Of Ferguson, Missouri Is Just A Preview Of
What Is Coming To America -- Putting A 9/11 Mystery On The
Ballot -- The Dumbing Down of America By Design -- Panel wants
L.A. to look at using prizes to boost voter turnout -- The New
York Times War on Truth -- MSM War on Gaza -- How High Up
Did the Madoff Fraud Go at JPMorgan? - by Pam Martens and
Russ Martens
AZ: Dinesh D'Souza, Jacob Hornberger, and Andrei Cherny are
coming to Yuma!
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News Link • Police State
Missouri police deploy tear gas to impose Ferguson curfew
08-17-2014
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Associated Press
The first night of a state-imposed curfew in Ferguson, Missouri, ended with tear gas and arrests of some protesters, as a team of officers from the Highway Patrol, St. Louis city and county police moved armored vehicles down the street
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News Link • Drug War
New Hampshire declares state of emergency over poisonous synthetic pot
08-17-2014
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Reuters
The state of emergency authorizes public health officials to investigate stores and quarantine the product, and Hassan directed the officials to work with local police departments to do so. "These products pose a serious threat to public health,
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News Link • Homeland Security
One sentence that explains why local police don't need military weapons
08-17-2014
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Police get all this [military] equipment and, as a condition of the program, need to use it within a year. What they don't get is training.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
West faces tough choices if Russia, Ukraine fight
08-17-2014
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Reuters
If Russia and Ukraine slide into outright war, the United States and allies will face tough choices on how to support a friendly state they have no intention of making a full NATO member.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
U.S. says conducts air strikes in Iraq near Arbil and Mosul dam
08-17-2014
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Reuters
The United States on Saturday conducted air strikes in Iraq against Islamic State fighters near the Kurdish capital of Arbil and the Mosul dam, the U.S. Central Command said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Ukraine foreign minister calls on NATO, EU to give military support
08-17-2014
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Reuters
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin called on NATO and the European Union to provide military support for Ukrainian troops fighting pro-Russian separatists and said the Western military alliance needed to come up with a new strategy
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News Link • Transportation
Look, no hands! Test driving a Google car
08-17-2014
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Reuters
The car stopped at stop signs. It glided around curves. It didn't lurch or jolt. The most remarkable thing about the drive was it was utterly unremarkable. This is high praise for the car in question: Google Inc.'s driverless car.
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News Link • Iraq
UK must use 'military prowess' to help stop Islamic State: PM Cameron
08-17-2014
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Reuters
Britain should use its military prowess to tackle Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday, saying they had to be stopped from creating "a terrorist state on the shores of the Mediterranean".
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Ukraine says troops entered rebel-held city
08-17-2014
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Associated Press
Ukraine's government said separatists shot down a Ukrainian fighter plane after army troops entered deep inside a rebel-controlled city in the east in what could prove a breakthrough development in the four-month long conflict.
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News Link • Transportation
UBER or LYFT for the skies? FAA says nyet to private pilots advertizing available seats
08-16-2014
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Tech Crunch
FAA ruling released today that prohibits private pilots from publicly offering seats on their planes in exchange for gas money, including via startups like AirPooler and Flytenow.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • History
How The Rothschilds Created Modern Finance And A Vast Fortune That Has Lasted For Centuries
08-16-2014
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Business Insider
Just say the name "Rothschild" and you'll open any conversation up to a world of wealth, power, and dynastic conspiracy theories.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
We Did The Math: Here's How Old You Probably Are Based On Your Name
08-16-2014
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Business Insider
We downloaded all Social Security name data since 1880 and adjusted the data to show only people still living today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
The Military Occupation Of Ferguson, Missouri Is Just A Preview Of What Is Coming To America
08-16-2014
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rightsidenews.com
Let's be honest ? Ferguson, Missouri is under military occupation right now, and the entire world is watching in horror as Ferguson-Militarized-Police-YouTube-Screenshotmilitarized police fire tear gas and rubber bullets at unarmed protesters.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Putting A 9/11 Mystery On The Ballot
08-16-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
I was standing blocks from Building 7 of the World Trade Center complex and staring directly at it when it collapsed.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Big Rigs Of The Illuminati
08-16-2014
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hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com
Rockefeller once stated, "The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism is gone never to return. Competition is a sin".
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
The Dumbing Down of America ? By Design
08-16-2014
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globalresearch.ca
It seems an insidious federal agenda has been implemented to condition and brainwash a population of mindless, robotic citizenry that simply does what it's told, and of course the brainwashing commences early in America's schools.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Panel wants L.A. to look at using prizes to boost voter turnout
08-16-2014
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L.A. Times
Hmmm,...how do we get people to vote for us to keep giving away free shit? Oh,...how about we give away free shit just to show up and vote for us to give away free shit?!
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
How High Up Did the Madoff Fraud Go at JPMorgan?
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
08-15-2014
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http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/08/how-high-up-
Helen Davis Chaitman is a nationally recognized litigator and author of The Law of Lender Liability. And she is two other things as well ? a Bernie Madoff victim who lost a large part of her life savings to his Ponzi scheme and the tenacious lawyer w
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, August 17, 2014 Edition
08-15-2014
John Semmens
Ferguson Looting Said to Be Fitting Tribute to Michael Brown
The emergence of a convenience store security video tape of Michael Brown roughing up the shopkeeper and stealing boxes of cigars was said to vindicate the looting rampage that followed
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New York Governor Candidate Arrested for Recording Aggressive Arrest, Charged with "Menacing&qu
08-14-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Randy Credico, the challenger to Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York's upcoming primary election, was arrested, handcuffed and jailed for video recording 2 plainclothes police officers aggressively arresting a man ? only days after the NYPD
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News Link • Anonymous
Anonymous Releases Audio in St. Louis Shooting
08-14-2014
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St. Louis County police haven't released audio regarding the shooting of black teenager Michael Brown, but the hacker collective Anonymous took care of that today, reports Mashable.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"Outside Agitators" in Ferguson
08-14-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Neither Hannity nor Ferguson mentioned the role of influences outside of Ferguson or the State of Missouri in facilitating the hyper-aggressive violence of the town's police department.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Los Angeles police investigate shooting of unarmed black man
08-14-2014
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Reuters
Los Angeles police are investigating the shooting death of an unarmed black man by an officer during an "investigative stop" that led to a struggle, a police spokeswoman said. The suspect allegedly tried to grab an officer's gun.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
The Constitution? Not In This Court
08-14-2014
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Simple Justice
It would let Congress shunt all overbreadth objections to federal regulations to a specialized court, and thus bar First Amendment overbreadth defenses in federal prosecutions for violating particular regulations, far outside the
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News Link • Police State
Missouri takes control of security away from Ferguson police
08-14-2014
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Reuters
Missouri's governor moved on Thursday to calm days of racially charged protests over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager, naming an African-American captain of the Highway Patrol to oversee security in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Newest PINAC Staff Member Arrested, Cameras Confiscated, for Holding Signs Outside Airport
08-14-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A JAA police officer walked up to Hoffman, identified him by name, and told him he was "being trespassed" off the property and had five minutes to leave. Hoffman's signs read "Police State," "Liars Investigating Liars," "F??K THE TSA," and "IRS = Te
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Five American Muslims sue FBI, attorney general over travel watch list
08-14-2014
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ars technica
The lawsuit accuses numerous leaders?including the attorney general, the directors of the FBI and Homeland Security, and others?of violating their constitutional rights to due process and the right to be free from religious discrimination.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
U.S. sovereign group's leader convicted of selling fake IDs
08-14-2014
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Reuters
A federal jury in Virginia has found an Ohio man who led an anti-government group guilty of selling fake diplomatic IDs to help group members avoid arrest or paying taxes and debts, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria.
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News Link • Israel
What Israel's Spiritual Leader Thought Should Happen To Us
08-14-2014
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texemarrs.com
"God's retribution," is due not only blacks but also Jesus, the "hateful one," and all Christians. Such are "idolaters" and while Israel is not yet powerful enough to make war on all Christians, it is only a matter of time. We must, he stressed...
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News Link • World News
US Sending 600 Troops, APCs And Tanks To Countries Bordering Russia...
08-14-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
US Sending 600 Troops, APCs And Tanks To Countries Bordering Russia To "Reassure Threatened Allies"
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Will Grigg on Scott Horton Show Aug. 12, 2014: Michael Brown shot in the back...
08-14-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by AnCapMercenary
Will Grigg on Scott Horton Show Aug. 12, 2014: Michael Brown shot in the back, 'cause the Cruiser Door bounced back into the Cop
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News Link • Police State
Highway police take control over all police operations in Ferguson
08-14-2014
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http://rt.com,
The governor of Missouri relieved St. Louis County law enforcement from policing the ongoing demonstrations in the town of Ferguson, putting Highway Patrol in charge instead.
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News Link • Police State
Have We Reached a Tipping Point in the Police State?
08-14-2014
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economicpolicyjournal.com
Thanks to a collaboration between the Department of Defense and the entertainment industry, the American taxpayer is paying for what amounts to a propaganda campaign aimed at entrenching the power of the military in American society.
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Teen Shooting Underscores Soaring Police Violence Trend
08-14-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com,By Gerald Celente
The tragic shooting death of an unarmed African-American teen by a policeman in a St. Louis suburb has escalated into national outrage over what is being viewed as a racial incident, fueled by an apparent history of racial tensions between the largel
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Police in Ferguson Tear-Gassed a TV Camera Crew, Then Dismantled Their Equipment
08-14-2014
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http://www.slate.com
Remarkable footage from St. Louis station KSDK shows a SWAT team in Ferguson, Missouri, overnight firing tear gas at a TV camera crew from Al-Jazeera, then dismantling the crew's equipment after they've fled.
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News Link • Police State
Police in Ferguson Reportedly Arrest St. Louis Alderman for Getting Out of His Car
08-14-2014
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slate.com
St. Louis alderman Antonio French has been a regular presence in Ferguson, Missouri, in recent days as protests over the police killing of Michael Brown have been ongoing. Tonight, BuzzFeed's Joel Anderson reports, French was arrested.
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News Link • Police State
Surviving a Traffic Stop
08-14-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Being pulled over by a police officer can be a stressful experience. By Marc J. Victor
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News Link • Police State
The Violent Oppressive State: Lessons from the Ferguson
08-14-2014
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economicpolicyjournal.com
The confrontation between the state and the people of Ferguson, MO, following the shooting of the unarmed 19 year old teenager, Michael Brown, pits the most raw evidence of the true nature of the state, government force, versus...
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