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Date Sent: 2011-06-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, June 27, 2011 AM ed. |
Supreme Court Ruling Accepts No Substitutes in Crime Lab Testimony
Asteroid to Pass Extremely Close By Earth On Monday -- Venezuela denies Chavez in critical condition -- N.C. Blogger Threatened With Arrest For Photographing Arrest -- Go Daddy to be Sold for $2.5 Billion --
Fort Lee cops disciplined for leaving teens in van -- Clear His
Schedule Later So He Can Apologize For Completely Losing His Shit Like
This -- Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA search -- TSA making money for Texas -- New Times
Files Appeal with Ninth Circuit in Lacey v. Arpaio -- Japan hopes to
convince public of nuclear reactor safety -- Energy industry defends
safety of ‘fracking’ -- Six indicted in Oregon bust of record marijuana
farm
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this
Saturday with Alan Korwin on "The Global Collapse"
PA: Outreach Table - DECLARE PEACE FAIR this Saturday in Philadelphia
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Supreme Court Ruling Accepts No Substitutes in Crime Lab Testimony
06-26-2011
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NY Times
But on Thursday, in another 5-to-4 decision, the court disappointed law enforcement officials by reaffirming Melendez-Diaz. The court went on to extend the Melendez-Diaz decision, saying that what it called surrogate testimony would not do.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Asteroid to Pass Extremely Close By Earth On Monday
06-26-2011
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Space
The asteroid will make its closest approach at 1:14 p.m. EDT on June 27 and will pass just over 7,500 miles above the Earth's surface. The best estimates suggest that this asteroid is between 29 to 98 feet wide.
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News Link • World News
Venezuela denies Chavez in critical condition
06-26-2011
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AFP
The Venezuelan government rejected reports that President Hugo Chavez is in critical condition following emergency surgery in Cuba, insisting the firebrand leftist leader was "recovering well."
Chavez's government said he had an operation for a pe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
N.C. Blogger Threatened With Arrest For Photographing Arrest
06-26-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A North Carolina blogger was threatened with arrest Thursday after attempting to photograph a cop making an arrest.
When the blogger demanded the cop’s name, he lied and provided the name of a fellow cop.
The woman who runs Crime in Charlotte t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Go Daddy to be Sold for $2.5 Billion
06-26-2011
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Wall Street Journal
Private-equity firms KKR & Co. and Silver Lake Partners, along with a third investor, are nearing a deal to buy GoDaddy Group Inc., a closely-held company that registers Internet domain names, for between $2 billion and $2.5 billion, people familiar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Fort Lee cops disciplined for leaving teens in van
06-26-2011
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Ten or 11 police officers were disciplined for their actions the night five teenagers were left in a locked police van at the Fort Lee Police Department, according to Borough Attorney Lee Cohen, who said he could not remember the exact number of offi
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News Link • Obama Administration
Clear His Schedule Later So He Can Apologize For Completely Losing His Shit Like This
06-26-2011
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Popehat
Whose side am I on? You vulgar, upjumped, snake-oil-selling, midway-barker huckster. You venal, amoral, mendacious harpy. You vile, preening, scheming hack. Whose side am I on? I’m on the side of fuck you, bitch. I’m on the side of the Constitution,
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA search
06-26-2011
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Jean Weber of Destin filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after her 95-year-old mother was detained and extensively searched last Saturday while trying to board a plane to fly to Michigan to be with family members during the fin
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA making money for Texas
06-26-2011
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Reason magazine
Need a knife? A snow globe? A grenade-shaped belt buckle? Someone may have left one for you at a Texas airport. The Austin American-Statesman reports that the Texas state surplus store offers various airport contraband for low, low prices.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
New Times Files Appeal with Ninth Circuit in Lacey v. Arpaio
06-26-2011
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Phoenix New Times
New Times had named Sheriff Joe Arpaio, former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, and Thomas' one-time special prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik as defendants. But a two judge majority on the appeals panel found that of these three, only Wilenchik did
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News Link • World News
British climber finds six dead in French Alps
06-26-2011
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RawStory.com
An English climber on Sunday found the bodies of six mountaineers in the French Alps who appeared to have died after a fall caused by an avalanche of snow and stones, officials said.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Vandals slash tires of 51 gay pride parade floats in Chicago
06-26-2011
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Kase Wickman via RawStory.com
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that vandals Saturday night broke into the storage facility of Associated Attractions, a company that helps design, create and store floats.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japan hopes to convince public of nuclear reactor safety
06-26-2011
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RawStory.com
Japan began a campaign Sunday to convince communities hosting nuclear reactors to let operations resume, with several local governments blocking nuclear power generation after the atomic crisis in Fukushima.
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News Link • Marriage
Gay pride parades in Europe celebrate same sex marriage victory in New York
06-26-2011
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Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.com
The annual gay pride parade in Paris was enlivened by same sex marriage legislation in New York that was recently signed into law. Similar legislation in France, proposed by the Socialist Party, was blocked by conservatives.
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News Link • Racism
Heart Mountain
06-26-2011
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Vimeo
A somber video photostory with music highlighting the racist mentality of the “progressive” FDR Administration, as revealed in a World War II Japanese-American “relocation” camp near Powell, Wyoming, which housed over 10,000 men, women and children.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Outreach Table - DECLARE PEACE FAIR
06-26-2011
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Focus on Peace
The DECLARE PEACE FAIR will be held at Independence Visitors Center lawn area)6th & Market Streets, Phila., PA on Saturday, July 2 from 1 p.m."3:30 p.m.
Focus on Peace will have a table at the event. Come out and support us in our outreach efforts
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Energy
Energy industry defends safety of ‘fracking’
06-26-2011
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RawStory.com
The United States is seeing a natural gas boom thanks to discoveries of abundant shale gas, and at the same time a groundswell of opposition from critics who say the environmental risks from drilling are too great.
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News Link • Environment
Arctic-crossing algae, whale show threat to Atlantic
06-26-2011
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RawStory.com
Tiny algae and a whale native to the Pacific have crossed a thawing Arctic Ocean in what may portend a marine invasion threatening Atlantic fish stocks, scientists said on Sunday.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Six indicted in Oregon bust of record marijuana farm
06-26-2011
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RawStory.com
Six men were indicted on federal drug charges on Friday in connection with more than 90,000 marijuana plants stumbled on by bear hunters in a remote patch of forest that local authorities described as the largest cannabis farm ever found in Oregon.
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