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Date Sent: 2014-11-18
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, November 18, 2014 |
Video Emerges of Ferguson Cop Darren Wilson Arresting Man for Recording Him
China's New Exoskeletons: Not just for Call of Duty or Tom Cruise Anymore -- The 'USA Freedom Act' Is A Fraud -- Can China Contain America? -- Hagel: Pentagon Needs 'Game-Changing' Technology to Extend Military Edge -- Lantern: One Device, Free Data From Space Forever -- 10-18-14 -- Tom Denham - Paul Puey -- LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Instead of the Ambulance She Needed, This Woman Got Assaulted By Cops After Dialing 9-1-1 -- British Police Call On Nation To 'Save a Life, Surrender Your Knife' As 'Knife Violence& -- In Defense of Dr. Matt Taylor -- Besieged by stupid Americans, Media circles the wagons around Gruber -- The Obamacare deception of 'stupid' Americans -- New Jersey Cops Pepper Spray Student for "Obstruction of Identification" -- Atlantic City bans realistic toy guns -- FSU Football Player Drove On Suspended License, Totaled a Car, Fled Scene, Given 2 Minor Tickets -- Political Relativity and the Infinite Cynicism of Prohibitionists -- Who Really Designed Obamacare? -- What Is HAARP? -- George Will Confirms Nixon's Vietnam Treason -- The 9 Billion Dollar Witness -- Obama's Amnesty Grave Threat to Our Country: Take Action
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video Emerges of Ferguson Cop Darren Wilson Arresting Man for Recording
11-17-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A video showing Wilson arresting a man for recording him, telling him, "If you wanna take a picture of me one more time, I'm gonna lock your ass up." The man told Wilson he was recording, not taking photos, which, of course, got him locked up
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News Link • China
China's New Exoskeletons: Not just for Call of Duty or Tom Cruise Anymore
11-17-2014
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http://www.popsci.com
Powered exoskeletons have long been a staple of future warfare visions, seen in everything from movies like Aliens and Edge of Tomorrow to the latest Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare video game. Their real world equivalents have been under development
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News Link • Government
The 'USA Freedom Act' Is A Fraud
11-17-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com
In the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations, the rush was on to rein in â€" or appear to rein in â€" the Surveillance State.
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News Link • China
Can China Contain America?
11-17-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com
"Can America Contain China?" it is often asked in the West. But given America's endless wars and assaults on the developing nations of the world, the question ought to be, "Can China Contain America"?
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News Link • Libya
Who are James and Joanne Moriarty? Our story intro
11-17-2014
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http://www.turtletuffshelters.net
We were business people doing business in Libya since 2007 January. We made a unique enzyme that rejuvenates oil wells and cleans up sludge pits, cleans out pipelines and tanks and does a whole lot of neat things to oil.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Instead of the Ambulance She Needed, This Woman Got Assaulted By Cops After Dialing 9-1-1
11-17-2014
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An epileptic woman was attacked by police and arrested after she called 911 to report she was having seizures and needed medical attention.
They assumed that she was resisting arrest, so they beat her into submission.
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News Link • Gun Rights
British Police Call On Nation To 'Save a Life, Surrender Your Knife' As 'Knife Violence&
11-17-2014
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The news out of the United Kingdom almost reads like a satire piece from The Onion. But as strange as it may sound to people around the world, and especially in the United States, the British police push to ban knives is no joke.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
In Defense of Dr. Matt Taylor
11-17-2014
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by Wendy McElroy
The saga of Dr. Matt Taylor, Project Scientist for the Rosetta mission, which just performed the astounding, historic feat of landing a space probe on a comet was blasted for wearing a shirt with artwork of scantily clad women
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News Link • Obamacare
Besieged by stupid Americans, Media circles the wagons around Gruber
11-17-2014
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Those in the center-left press who have deigned to debase themselves by addressing a story of interest to conservatives insist that there is nothing much to see here. Not only was Gruber's admission that the ACA was
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News Link • Obamacare
The Obamacare deception of 'stupid' Americans
11-17-2014
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by James Bovard
Paternalism is a desperate gamble that lying politicians will honestly care for those who fall under their power. A video of the architect of Obamacare, admitting the administration conned the public and blaming dumb voters for the flimflam.
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News Link • Police State
New Jersey Cops Pepper Spray Student for "Obstruction of Identification"
11-17-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
New Jersey campus police struggled to arrest a 27-year-old college student for more than 7 minutes, pepper spraying him in the process, in a video going viral, never once providing probable cause, despite being asked several times.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Atlantic City bans realistic toy guns
11-17-2014
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Atlantic City Council approved ordinances at its Wednesday meeting that would reduce its legal obligation to police officers working security details and ban realistic toy guns. It also pulled an ordinance regulating public safety job titles,
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
FSU Football Player Drove On Suspended License, Totaled a Car, Fled Scene, Given 2 Minor Tickets
11-17-2014
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Jonathan Turley
There are serious questions raised this week as to whether a star football player from Florida State was given preferential treatment not only by university police but Tallahasee police after a hit-and-run where two cars were totaled.
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News Link • Drug War
Political Relativity and the Infinite Cynicism of Prohibitionists
11-17-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Last June, Boise, Idaho resident William James Esbensen, who operated a medical marijuana co-op in Ontario, Oregon, was found guilty of receiving "proceeds" from marijuana sales, under a law that was no longer in effect.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Who Really Designed Obamacare?
11-17-2014
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 was aptly named Obamacare, of course, after President Obama. After all, it was his pride and joy, and the center stone of his 2008 election, paving his path to the White House. But with some curious comments from an MI
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News Link • Politics
Ferguson Decision Looming
11-14-2014
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Next News Netowrk
In Ferguson, Missouri, calm before the storm. That's the predominant feeling, as protesters and police mill about, waiting for an answer regarding the Michael Brown case. Will the officer who shot Michael Brown, be indicted?
18 year old Michael B
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
What Is HAARP?
11-17-2014
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arclein
The ionosphere is a layer of charged particles (or "ions") located about 60-90 kilometers above the Earth's surface. It is the layer which reflects short wave radio waves and makes it possible for a transmitter in New York to send a signal to Toky
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News Link • Science
Extreme Graphene and the Coming Super Materials Gold Rush
11-17-2014
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arclein
Over the coming years, the price of graphene will go through an exponential price drop similar to Moore's Law.
Here's why graphene and a host of other super materials are turning material science into the hottest of all hot new fields of resea
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News Link • History
George Will Confirms Nixon's Vietnam Treason
11-17-2014
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arclein
Published as the 40th Anniversary of Nixon's resignation approaches, Will's column confirms that Nixon feared public disclosure of his role in sabotaging the 1968 Vietnam peace talks. Will says Nixon established a "plumbers unit" to stop potentia
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The 9 Billion Dollar Witness
11-17-2014
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arclein
She was blocked at every turn: by asleep-on-the-job regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission, by a court system that allowed Chase to use its billions to bury her evidence, and, finally, by officials like outgoing Attorney General Eric
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News Link • Eugenics
Eugenics Program Only Makes News Due to Many Deaths
11-14-2014
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http://politicaloutcast.com, by Mark Horne
First, the Associated Press reported eight fatalities in the eugnics program. Then Bloomberg reported that ten women have died. The Hindu claimed in a later report that eleven were dead.
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
'Exigent circumstances,' warrantless searches and lethal force
11-14-2014
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Radley Balko
Yesterday, a Columbus, Ohio police officer shot a man in the neck and cheek and wounded a woman after blindly firing into a closed door.
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News Link • Transportation
Motoped Survival: Black Ops edition â€" a fully functional zombie hunting moped
11-14-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Loz Blain
The Motoped Black Ops is a shameless, shallow grab for attention that has 100 percent done its job on me.
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News Link • NATO
Tanks and Nukes: NATO Statements on Ukraine; McCain Will Go Ballistic
11-14-2014
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Mike Shedlock
In the wake of renewed fighting following the breakdown of the Ukraine ceasefire agreement, Nato Accuses Moscow of Helping Ukraine Rebels to Carve Out State.
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News Link • Government Waste
Pentagon Says "Stop Defense Cut Madness"; Mish Investigates Alleged "Cuts"
11-14-2014
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Mike Shedlock
Thanks to the sequester (long forgotten by most), alleged "cuts" in spending were scheduled to happen automatically.
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
While violence among citizens has dropped, violence against citizens carried out by police has been
11-14-2014
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com/prison-statistics
According to new FBI statistics released this week, violent crime rates in the US fell over 4% in the past year alone, bringing the amount of violent crimes lower than it has been in nearly 40 years. The statistics showed that there were an estimated
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News Link • Conspiracies
They'll Be Back: PATCON, Oklahoma City, and Jesse Trentadue's Lonely Crusade for Justice
11-14-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
"His name used to be Don Jarrett," long-time federal asset John Matthews told FBI Special Agent Adam Quirk. Matthews was concerned he would have to testify in a lawsuit seeking long-concealed video tapes
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Elections as Execution Day for Rights & Liberties
11-14-2014
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James Bovard
President Obama and a heap of politicians are imploring us to view voting as the ultimate expression of our freedom and self-government. The reality is the vast majority of politicians will do as they damn well please after Election Day.
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News Link • Government
Oil Lubricates Political Machine
11-13-2014
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Next News Netowrk
Long-stalled legislation to finish the Keystone XL pipeline got a new lease on life Wednesday.
It happened after Senate Democrats suddenly abandoned efforts to block the controversial oil pipeline.
The Democrats gave up blocking the Keystone for po
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News Link • Politics
Governor Pardons His Own Son
11-13-2014
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Next News Netowrk
You know what they say: It's nice to have friends in high places. That's especially true for Kyle Beebe. He's the son of Arkansas state Governor, Mike Beebe, and for the first time in over a decade, Kyle is technically no longer a felon.
It a
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News Link • Iraq
US considers use of ground troops [about 80,000] against IS in Iraq
11-14-2014
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Spencer Ackerman and Raya Jalabi, Irish Times
Iraq will need about 80,000 troops to retake the terrain it lost to IS, a top US general said yesterday.
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News Link • Iraq
Pentagon considers having U.S. ground troops fight beside Iraqi forces
11-14-2014
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W.J. Hennigan, LA Times
The Pentagon is considering sending U.S. troops to fight beside Iraqi soldiers as they take on more complex missions in the battle against Islamic State militants, according to Gen. Martin Dempsey, the nation's top military officer.
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News Link • History
The Enemy Within
11-14-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Bionic Mosquito
Tuesday marked Armistice Day across much of the West â€" the last day of the Great War in 1918.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
The Case for Optimism
11-14-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Jeff Deist
I promised you some optimism today. Perhaps one of the most optimistic libertarians ever was Murray Rothbard, a happy intellectual warrior if ever there was one.
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News Link • Government
Crony Environmentalism
11-14-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Thomas DiLorenzo
Al Gore, a career "public servant," reportedly became a billionaire just a few years after leaving his last government job as vice president of the United States.
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News Link • Government
Questions for the Nominee
11-14-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Andrew P. Napolitan
Within hours of realizing that his party lost control of the U.S. Senate last week, President Obama nominated Loretta Lynch, the chief federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, N.Y., and an outstanding and apolitical professional, to be the next attorney gener
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook Rolls Out Clearer Privacy Policy, But You Still Can't Control Your Data
11-14-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Issie Lapowsky
Facebook has condensed its complex and legalese-loaded privacy policy by two-thirds, in hopes of making it easier for the average user to understand.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
A Lesson in Interventionism in Iraq
11-13-2014
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http://fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
The great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises pointed out that one government intervention inevitably produces a crisis, which then causes government officials to enact a new intervention to address the crisis.
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Neocon Plan for War and More War
11-13-2014
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http://consortiumnews.com, By Robert Parry
A major test for President Obama is whether he will â€" in the face of the Republican midterm victories â€" submit to neocon demands for more wars in the Middle East and a costly Cold War with Russia or finally earn the Nobel Peace Prize that he got
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
"War is a Racket" - by Major Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.)(Glenn Jacobs' narration)
05-28-2012
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Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC, double recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. "I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers." (Publisher Recommended)
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News Link • Iran
Senate Hawks Vow to Kill Any 'Unacceptable' Iran Deal
11-13-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com,
Would Impose Sanctions to Deliberately Violate Terms of Pact
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
10 women die after botched surgery at government sterilization 'camp' in India
11-13-2014
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http://www.globalpost.com, Jatindra Dash
Deaths due to sterilization are not a new problem in India, where more than four million sterilizations were performed in 2013-14, according to the government.
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News Link • Government
Talk about the hypocrite from New York City
11-13-2014
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com
It's sort of like one of those old "Twilight Zone" episodes. What if you had a billion dollars, but you couldn't use it to buy what you wanted?
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News Link • Military
The Most Isolated US Military Base Could Get A Lot More Important
11-13-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Over 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Greenland sits one of the US's most isolated military installations
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