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Date Sent: 2011-07-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, July 5, 2011 AM edition |
Drone Wars: Global race on to match US drone capabilities -- Hacker breaches Florida voting database
$500,000 in murder by sheriff's deputy -- New discipline policy at LAPD results in some officers avoiding punishment
-- Stricter offensive bumper sticker law takes effect -- Mississippi
Supreme Court declares man rotting in prison 680 days awaiting trial OK
-- BATF: Firearms Bureau Finds Itself in a Rough Patch --
Fears Rise With Arrests in Restive Syrian City -- Military Retirement
on the Chopping Block? -- The motives of Bradley Manning -- How your
community is implementing AGENDA 21 -- LulzSec
hacker: ‘There’s no going back’ -- Creepy app uses facial recognition to count women in bars
-- 4409: Political control Freaks take over Farmers Market -- L'il Hitler and Goon Squad Terrorize Quartzsite,
Arizona's Citizens. -- Declare Independence From Tyranny -- ‘Anonymous’ hacks Apple, publishes
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Drone Wars: Global race on to match U.S. drone capabilities
07-05-2011
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Washington Post
In a video the thin, sleek drone locates a U.S. aircraft carrier group near an island with a striking resemblance to Taiwan and sends targeting information back to shore, triggering a devastating barrage of cruise missiles toward the ships.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Hacker allegedly breaches Florida voting database
07-04-2011
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
Voters concerned about the reliability of electronic voting may now have another reason to worry.
A hacker known as Abhaxas claimed Saturday to have released data from one of Florida's internal voting databases.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Police State
Military Police Threaten To Confiscate Cameras From Wedding Photographer
07-01-2011
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Carlos Miller
The soldiers threatened to confiscate his cameras because there happened to be a military checkpoint in the vicinity.
But even if there was a checkpoint, it is unlikely that he would have been banned from photographing it, according to Mickey Oste
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Parents of Avery Cody expected to get $500,000 in murder by sheriff's deputy
07-05-2011
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LA Times
In March, a judge abruptly ended the wrongful death case of Avery Cody Jr. after the attorney for the slain 16-year-old's family announced in court that he had a videotape that he said contradicted sworn statements made by the deputy.
The video sh
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New discipline policy at LAPD results in some officers avoiding punishment
07-05-2011
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LA Times
In many cases, misconduct that once brought suspension without pay now brings a warning that future offenses will bring severe penalties. Members of the Police Commission express skepticism about the approach.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Speech
Stricter offensive bumper sticker law takes effect
07-05-2011
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Starting Friday, Tennessee drivers caught with obscene or patently offensive bumper stickers, window signs or other markings on their vehicle visible to other drivers face an automatic $50 fine. The law also includes movies other drivers can see play
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Mississippi Supreme Court declares man rotting in prison 680 days awaiting trial OK
07-05-2011
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Johnson’s trial was delayed 680 days. The "justices" opinion concedes Johnson proved 3 of 4 factors for a speedy trial claim in his favorâ€" the delay was well past the 8 month period that was presumptively prejudicial, he made timely demands for a t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
BATF: Firearms Bureau Finds Itself in a Rough Patch
07-05-2011
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NY Times
Today, the bureau is again under scrutiny, this time over a gun-trafficking investigation in which federal agents knowingly let weapons slip across the Mexican border; two later turned up in Arizona, where an American Border Patrol agent was killed i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Fears Rise With Arrests in Restive Syrian City
07-05-2011
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NY Times
Syrian security forces arrested dozens of people on Monday in a new offensive, their largest foray into a central Syrian city since withdrawing last month, prompting residents to build barricades to block a more ambitious assault, residents said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Military Retirement on the Chopping Block?
07-05-2011
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MOAA
Outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates and incoming Secretary Leon Panetta joined a growing chorus of leading voices calling for cuts in the military retirement system to address budget shortfalls.
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The motives of Bradley Manning
07-04-2011
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Glenn Greenwald
Like millions of people, Manning concluded that the war in Iraq, far from being a magnanimous endeavor to help the Iraqi people, was in fact an inhumane, monstrous act of aggression that indiscriminately killed huge numbers of innocent people; but un
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • Death
R.I.P: HR&IH Otto von Habsburg, Requiescat in Pace
07-04-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Sad news today that one of the greatest men of the 20th century, Otto von Habsburg, has died at age 98. I will leave it to others more qualified than I to reflect on the enormous impact Habsburg had on the 20th century. How he demonstrated the incred
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
LulzSec hacker: ‘There’s no going back’
07-04-2011
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Muriel Kane via RawStory.com
In an exclusive interview published on Monday by New Scientist, a key member of the notorious hacker group LulzSec spoke directly for the first time about how he sees himself and his motivations.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Studies: Autism may be triggered in the womb
07-04-2011
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RawStory.com
Environmental factors may play a greater role in autism than previously thought, tipping the scale away from a strict focus on genetics, two studies released on Monday suggest.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Drug War
ACLU & Elon James White: Just Say NO to the War On Drugs
07-04-2011
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YouTube / acluvideos
Comedian Elon James White takes on America's failed forty-year war on drugs.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Transportation
Motorcyclist protesting helmet law dies of head injury
07-04-2011
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Kase Wickman via RawStory.com
The man, Philip Contos, was bare-headed on purpose â€" the group he was riding with was protesting New York's law requiring that motorcyclists wear helmets.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Pfizer’s quit smoking drug raises heart risks by 72 percent
07-04-2011
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RawStory.com
Healthy, middle-aged smokers who take Pfizer's Chantix or Champix, one of the most popular quit-smoking drugs on the market, have a higher risk of suffering heart attacks or other serious heart problems, a study found on Monday.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
L'il Hitler and Goon Squad Terrorize Quartzsite, Arizona's Citizens.
07-04-2011
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Private Video
Government at the point of a gun. If every single one of the officers is not in jail tomorrow---it'll mean the People have already given in to the police state. No sense in complaining.
Regardless of what happens to the bonehead councilman who see
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Barry Hess
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News Link • Police State
Declare Independence From Tyranny
7/4/11
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Free Patriot Press
Gary North asks, “What would libertarians â€" even conservatives â€" give today in order to return to an era in which the central government extracted 1% of the nation's wealth? Where there was no income tax?
Would they describe such a society as tyr
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
‘Anonymous’ hacks Apple, publishes data
07-04-2011
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RawStory.com
The Internet vigilante hacker group Anonymous claimed to have broken into an Apple Inc server and published a small number of usernames and passwords for one of the U.S. technology company's websites.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Tiny camera strapped to lit firework captures its flight
07-04-2011
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Kase Wickman
Ever wonder what a lit firework would see, if it were more than gunpowder and chemicals packed in a very specific order into a cardboard tube? Even if you didn’t, there’s now video footage to satisfy your curiosity.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Leader of Pima County's GOP faces removal effort for criticizing murderous SWAT raid
07-04-2011
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Arizona Daily Star
Pima County Republican Party leaders voted to take the party chairman’s keys to the headquarters away and call a special meeting to try to remove him from his post after he criticized a SWAT raid that resulted in the shooting death of a veteran
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Israel
Ray McGovern: My Take
A July Fourth Shame on the Founders
07-03-2011
Ray McGovern
A group of American humanitarians and activists are still trying to make their way to Gaza in protest of the harsh Israeli embargo on the 1.6 million Palestinians confined there.
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