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Date Sent: 2015-01-01
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, January 1, 2015 |
Off-Duty Cop Wrestles, Slams Woman Into Car After Fender-Bender
Representative Grimm to step down following guilty plea -- Without "Qualified Immunity," Would Cops Be So Quick to Kill? -- Ezell Ford Update: Autopsy shows gunshot in back at close range; Ford family 'outraged' -- Tinker, Tailor, Stalker, Spy -- The Imperial Collapse Playbook -- Police In Scotland Tweet Out Plans To 'Investigate' Any 'Offensive Comments' On Social Media -- Criticism for proposed asset-forfeiture law -- The Future the US Budget Foretells -- 1000% Inflation in Venezuela? -- Fed Hiring An "Emergency Preparedness Specialist"
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club, Saturday - January 3rd, 2015; AZ Legislative Forecast Luncheon featuring Governor-elect Doug Ducey 01-09-15; World Liberty Conference Bali 2015 - June 29-July 3rd, 2015 (ISIL)
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Off-Duty Cop Wrestles, Slams Woman Into Car After Fender-Bender
12-31-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Where the police would normally arrest a man who approached a person after a fender bender and initiated physically violence, the as yet unnamed officer is of course given immunity by his police department, while the woman he assaulted
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Representative Grimm to step down following guilty plea
12-31-2014
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Reuters
U.S. Representative Michael Grimm of New York, who pleaded guilty last week to a federal felony tax charge, will resign his seat on Jan. 5 because he does not feel he can be completely effective in Congress, he said on Monday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Without "Qualified Immunity," Would Cops Be So Quick to Kill?
12-31-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Despite overwhelming evidence neither cop was in the path of the vehicle at the time the fatal shots were fired, Judge Dever accepted the defendant's claim that he "reasonably believed" the non-compliant driver posed a potential threat.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ezell Ford Update: Autopsy shows gunshot in back at close range; Ford family 'outraged'
12-31-2014
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NPR
Two LAPD anti-gang officers shot Ezell Ford three times in the right side, back and right arm during a fatal confrontation in South Los Angeles in August, according to a copy of the coroner's report released Monday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Tinker, Tailor, Stalker, Spy
12-31-2014
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National Review
Agents of the National Security Agency, the spookiest spooks in all our vast spookocracy, are a bunch of stalkers, using the effectively boundless surveillance powers of their organization to spy on husbands and wives,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Imperialism (open)
The Imperial Collapse Playbook
12-31-2014
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Wake Up From Your Slumber!
The largest development of 2014 is, very broadly, this: the Anglo-imperialists are finally being forced out of Eurasia. How can we tell?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Police In Scotland Tweet Out Plans To 'Investigate' Any 'Offensive Comments' On Soci
12-31-2014
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tech dirt
So we just had a story about a 19-year-old guy being arrested for making a (bad) joke tweet about an out of control garbage truck. The Northumbria police who arrested Ross Loraine are insisting that the bad joke was a "malicious communication"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Criticism for proposed asset-forfeiture law
12-31-2014
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Times Herald-Record
2 dozen speakers denounced a proposed Orange County law that would allow authorities to keep cash and other assets involved in misdemeanor drug cases once the defendant has been convicted or pleads guilty.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Future the US Budget Foretells
12-31-2014
The key drafters of the U.S. Constitution may have had dreams of a government to "promote the general Welfare" but that goal has long since been lost to factionalism and special interests, a reality that is growing worse as money increasingly buy
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
1000% Inflation in Venezuela?
12-31-2014
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.Mish
Those looking for hyperinflation can find it in Venezuela. Here's the question of the day: How bad is Venezuelan inflation and how bad can it get?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed Hiring An "Emergency Preparedness Specialist"
12-31-2014
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zerohedge.com
The only question is why does the Fed - a uniformly safe institution, where economists engage in deep contemplation and decide how much of the US deficit they will monetize - need a person with these qualifications?
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Jack Gregson
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Feature Article • Events: Arizona
Arizona Breakfast Club, Saturday - January 3rd, 2015 - Coco's PV Mall - 8-10 a.m. AZ TIME.
Donna Hancock
It's 2015 - Now What? Various organizations and groups' ideas are shared....The legislative agenda vs the people's agenda (Rick Dalton, Matt Papke, Dave Hodges, Barry Hess, Alan Korwin, Leo Magpoc and Alma Sommer, Dennis Reed, Shane Krauser,
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Feature Article • Iraq
What Makes ISIS Tick?
Ivan Eland
According to The New York Times, Maj. Gen. Michael K. Nagata, the commander of American Special Operations forces in the Middle East, is trying to figure out why the brutal Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) is such a dynamic force in Iraq and
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: Best of 2014, Part 2
12-30-2014
John Semmens
June 8
President Calls Return of Bergdahl a "Mission of Mercy"
President Obama continued to insist that Sgt Bergdahl's health was a major factor in his decision to negotiate the exchange with the Taliban.
"On the videos I saw he looked
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, Best of 2014
12-30-2014
John Semmens
January 5
New NYC Mayor Vows to "Crush Inequality"
Newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told those attending the ceremony that he would "put an end to inequality in this City. For too long we have tolerated a situation whe
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News Link • NATO
Taliban declares victory as NATO marks end of 13-year war in Afghanistan
12-29-2014
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http://www.globalpost.com
NATO formally ended its war in Afghanistan on Sunday at a low-key ceremony in Kabul arranged in secret due to the threat of Taliban strikes.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military
US Military Stockpiling "Massive Amounts" Of Gear Near Iraq
12-29-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com-Tyler Durden
Since June, the U.S. military has been slowly stockpiling massive amounts of its gear coming out of Afghanistan at a depot in Kuwait adjacent to a bustling commercial port, in preparation for ultimately shipping it across the border into Iraq for an
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News Link • Marriage
Obama's Golf Game Disrupts Soldiers' Wedding
12-29-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com-Tyler Durden
Natalie Heimel and her fiancé, Edward Mallue Jr., a pair of captains in the Army, received two letters from President Obama in less than 24 hours as they prepared for their wedding ceremony at Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course in Hawaii.
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News Link • World News
Russia's New Heavy-Lift Rocket Aces First Test Flight
12-29-2014
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http://www.space.com-Warren Ferster
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, successfully demonstrated the heavy-lift version of its long-awaited Angara series of rockets Dec. 23 from the Plesetsk Cosmosrome in northern Russia, the agency said.
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News Link • China
Google Dead In China, All Google Products Blocked; Reserve Currency Silliness Review
12-29-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com-Mike S.
Access to Gmail in China was difficult, but not impossible. Workarounds included Outlook, Apple Mail, and third-party Gmail hosts.
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News Link • History
Hoppe On Democracy, Progress, and The State
12-29-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com-David Gordon
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is a master of theoretical history. He tells us that it is not my purpose here to engage in standard history, i.e., history as it is written by historians, but to offer a logical or sociological reconstruction of history, informed
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News Link • Bitcoin
An Extortionist Has Been Making Life Hell for Bitcoin's Earliest Adopters
12-29-2014
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http://www.wired.com-ROBERT MCMILLAN
The call came while Hal Finney was in the final stages of his five-year battle with Lou Gehrig's disease. When the phone rang, his wife Fran was giving him a shower, with help from his nurse.
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News Link • NATO
NATO touts Afgan War 'End,' With Transition to New, US Led War
12-29-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com-Jason Ditz
NATO flags were lowered today in Afghanistan, marking what is nominally the "end" of the NATO-led occupation which has lasted over 13 years. Yet the war as such is far from over, despite officials trying to spin it as such.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Curious Copyright Case of "It's A Wonderful Life"
12-29-2014
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https://www.youtube.com-filmmaker IQ
It's A Wonderful Life has become a holiday tradition bolstered by near constant plays on television as the film fell into the public domain in 1975. But in the 90s, a studio would regain control over the film and put copyright to the test.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Need to Know Basis: You Only Know What the TV Wants You to Know
12-29-2014
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Activist Post
It means a person makes reasoned judgements based on taking a factual assessment of any given situation before deciding to allow their brain cells to accept what they are told simply because someone with a suit, a fancy backdrop and
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News Link • NATO
Ukraine drops nonaligned status
12-29-2014
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Associated Press
The Ukrainian president has signed a bill dropping his country's nonaligned status but signaled that he will hold a referendum before seeking NATO membership.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security
12-28-2014
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Spiegel Online
US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack all types of encrypted Internet communication. The cloud is full of holes. New Snowden documents show that some forms of encryption still cause problems for the NSA.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Food
Seed libraries struggle with state laws limiting exchanges
12-29-2014
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Associated Press
For thousands of years, people have exchanged seeds to grow terrific tomatoes or produce the perfect potato, but a new effort to loan and borrow seeds has created a conflict between gardeners and state agriculture officials
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