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Date Sent: 2014-12-09
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, December 8, 2014 |
Syria Complains to UN After Israel Attacks Damascus Airport
Operation Endless War -- Hagel: Afghan training is key in war's final act -- Pearl Harbor and the Engineers of War -- House Chooses New Cold War With Russia -- Why Hasn't the IAEA Followed Up Iran's Inspection Offer? -- Obama Extends NSA Spying Powers Yet Again -- AMERICA'S MILITARY: A force adrift -- UN Details Israeli Military Ties With Syrian Rebels -- Syria Repels ISIS Attack on Eastern Air Base -- West Wants Putin Deposed -- Scottsdale Police Union Gives Telemarketer Two-Thirds Of Donations -- How To Reduce Police Violence...Eliminate Nanny State Crimes -- Bail Ins and Empty Pockets -- Monsanto Is Using Big Data to Take Over the World -- Don't Forget Why Marijuana Legalization Is Winning -- Obama's World -- Toxic Trash Contamination on US Military Bases
AZ: Christmas Party 2014 @ the home of Ernest and Donna Hancock, Sat Dec 13th, 6 p.m. til?; Dec. 15: This Year's Bill of Rights Day Celebration In Phoenix; Magpoc Homestead Tour/Christmas Party, Dec 20
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News Link • Syria
Syria Complains to UN After Israel Attacks Damascus Airport
12-08-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com-Jason Ditz
Lebanese TV Claims Sites Were Iranian Intelligence Locations.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Hagel: Afghan training is key in war's final act
12-08-2014
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http://apnews.excite.com-ROBERT BURNS
TACTICAL BASE GAMBERI, Afghanistan (AP) -- It's only a slight stretch to say America's longest war stops here.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
House Chooses New Cold War With Russia
12-08-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com-Ron Paul
Last week the US House voted overwhelmingly in favor of an anti-Russia resolution so full of war propaganda that it rivals the rhetoric from chilliest era of the Cold War.
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News Link • Iran
Why Hasn't the IAEA Followed Up Iran's Inspection Offer?
12-08-2014
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http://www.lobelog.com-Gareth Porter
When Iran offered last month to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to visit the Marivan region near the border with Iraq, the IAEA might have been expected to respond with alacrity to the opportunity.
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News Link • Agriculture
Monsanto Is Using Big Data to Take Over the World
12-08-2014
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arclein
It was around this time that Robb Fraley, now Monsanto's chief technology officer, joined the company as a mid-level biotechnology scientist. Back then, he recalls, the company had its hand in oil wells, plastics, carpets?"you name it. It wasn't u
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News Link • Drug War
Don't Forget Why Marijuana Legalization Is Winning
12-08-2014
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arclein
Testifying before Congress, LAPD chief Daryl Gates said that casual drug users "ought to be taken out and shot," and the DARE drug prevention program he founded saw nothing ominous in encouraging kids to turn their parents in to the police if the
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News Link • Science
Mysterious Objects at the Edge of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
12-08-2014
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arclein
The light we see with human eyes consists of photons with energies in the range 2 to 3 electron volts. The gamma-rays Fermi detects are billions of times more energetic, from 20 million to more than 300 billion electron volts. These gamma-ray photons
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News Link • History
Thanksgiving and Puritan Geopolitics in the Americas
12-08-2014
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arclein
The first winter took many of the English at Plymouth. By fall 1621, only 53 remained of the 132 who had arrived on the Mayflower. But those who had survived brought in a harvest. And so, in keeping with tradition, the governor called the living 53 t
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robert klein
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News Link • Afghanistan
Obama Plans to Increase Number of Troops in Afghanistan in 2015
12-06-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Officials Say Talks With NATO Ongoing on How Many More Troops
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Operation Auroragold
12-06-2014
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https://firstlook.org, By Ryan Gallagher
In March 2011, two weeks before the Western intervention in Libya, a secret message was delivered to the National Security Agency. An intelligence unit within the U.S. military's Africa Command needed help to hack into Libya's cellphone networks
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Eric Garner's Murder Reveals the Ugly Core of Government and Law Enforcement
12-05-2014
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Reason Magazine
"The grand jury...was subjected to the type of evidence that only trial juries hear, including a soliloquy from the cop himself and all the exculpatory evidence the prosecutor could find." The powers that be didn't take any chances in that case--the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ex-police chief who boasted about being corrupt wants out of prison after finding God
12-05-2014
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Rawstory
A former Pennsylvania police chief, serving time in prison for extorting nearly $8,000 from undercover FBI agents he thought were drug dealers, has asked a federal judge to reduce his sentence, saying he has found God behind bars,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYPD officer who shot Gurley in stairwell was texting union rep as victim dying
12-05-2014
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In the six and a half minutes after Peter Liang discharged a single bullet that struck Gurley, 28, he and his partner couldn't be reached. Instead of calling for help for the dying man, Liang was texting his union representative.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Utah orders startup to raise prices so competitors are "treated fairly"
12-05-2014
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"The Utah Insurance Department has an important responsibility to maintain a fair, competitive insurance business environment for all licensees" -- e.g. insurance brokers, wrote commissioner Todd Kiser.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
America's Cluster Bomb Congress - by James Bovard
12-05-2014
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James Bovard
The IRS is seizing both federal and state tax refunds for individuals whom the Social Security Administration accuses of having received excessive benefits years ago often with zero evidence of the overpayments,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Lawrence O'Donnell: Missouri atty. general admits Ferguson grand jury was misled
12-05-2014
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Rawstory
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster (D) admitted that the grand jury in the Darren Wilson case was given misleading information regarding the use of deadly force by police, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell reported on Wednesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
White teen killed by black cop in Alabama mirrors Ferguson
12-05-2014
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Washington Times
A two-year-old case involving the shooting death of an unarmed 18-year-old white man by a black police officer is gaining attention on social media in the wake of this week's protests and rioting in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Undercover Cops Busted At Anti-Police Brutality Protest
12-05-2014
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CounterCurrentNews.com
Have you ever been to a protest and wondered who the new, overly-zealous guy is?
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Judge: Give NSA unlimited access to digital data
12-05-2014
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The National Security Agency should have an unlimited ability to collect digital information in the name of protecting the country against terrorism and other threats, an influential federal judge said. "I think privacy is actually overvalued,"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
McFelony: Iowa Man Arrested After Allegedly Using McChicken As A Weapon In Domestic Assault
12-05-2014
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Jonathan Turley
We have seen a trend in criminal charges where police are defining virtually any object as a weapon to elevate the potential penalties in a given case. The charges against Marvin Tramaine Hill II, 21, appear to be such a case.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Today Was a Great Day in History
12-05-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Why, because the 21st Amendment to the Constitution that ended Prohibition by repealing the 18th Amendment was ratified.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Emails show FBI worked to debunk conspiracy theories about reporter Michael Hastings' death
12-05-2014
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Rawstory
Internal emails show the FBI worked to knock down rumors and conspiracy theories that circulated following the death last year of journalist Michael Hastings in a car crash.
The claims went mainstream after WikiLeaks tweeted the day after the June
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
'I hate n*ggers. That is all': 5 Ohio deputies probed for years of racist text messages
12-05-2014
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Rawstory
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Department revealed 5 deputies were under investigation for allegedly sending racist text messages while on duty. 2 of the 5 deputies had been placed on indefinite paid administrative leave
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ex-South Carolina police chief indicted on murder charge for shooting black man
12-05-2014
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Reuters
A white former police chief in Eutawville, South Carolina, has been indicted on a murder charge in the 2011 shooting death of an unarmed black man he was trying to arrest, according to records released on Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Justice Department finds Cleveland police systematically engaged in excessive use of force
12-05-2014
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Reuters
An investigation by the U.S. Justice Department has found the Cleveland Police Department systematically engages in excessive use of force against civilians, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police refuse to ID retired cop who led them on drunken chase after armed standoff
12-05-2014
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Rawstory
A retired Connecticut police officer was arrested after leading officers on a brief car chase following an armed standoff. Police disputed reports West Haven police officers engaged in a "shootout" with the retired city cop.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
A Ban On Carry-On Bags? Travelers Say 'No Way'
12-05-2014
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CBS News
Could there ever really be a ban on carry-on bags when you fly? According to a report by National Public Radio, a ban on carry-on luggage was discussed by U.S. counter-terrorism officials.
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
CDC: Flu virus mutations mean your shot may not be worth much this year
12-05-2014
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Rawstory
The CDC said in a statement that about 48 percent of virus samples taken between Oct. 1 and Nov. 22 matched a particular strain, known as Influenza A or H3N2, that is not covered in this year's vaccine.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop allowed to resign a week after video exposes him putting woman in chokehold
12-05-2014
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Rawstory
An off-duty Texas law enforcement officer who was caught on video using a chokehold while trying to get information from a witness has been allowed to resign instead of being fired.
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News Link • Death
Nathaniel Branden, RIP
12-05-2014
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The Atlas Society
December 3, 2014 -- We note with sadness the death today of Nathaniel Branden. His 20-lecture course, The Basic Principles of Objectivism, was the first systematic statement of the philosophy--and the first of many courses offered
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