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Date Sent: 2011-10-31
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 31, 2011 AM edition |
Houston SWAT Operators Get Their Own Airborne Weapons Platform
Journalist Uses Flip Camera To Document Own Arrest -- NYPD Cops Turn On Media Covering
Arraignments Of Fellow Officers -- Endless Evil: The Drug
War’s Continuing Collateral Damage, Part 1 -- Dash Cam Video Shows Florida State
Trooper Pulling Miami Cop Over At Gunpoint -- Tech-Savvy
Occupy Protesters Use Cellphone Video, Social Networking To
Publicize Police Abuse -- A New York Police Union Threatens to Sue
Protesters -- Harris County
district attorney called to testify in DWI trial -- Man
Convicted for Murdering a Man Killed by Police Officer -- Experts: Inflating derivatives bubble
could doom entire world financial system -- Security
Commission: Evidence China interfered with US satellites
AZ: John Stuart's trial continues today (the State rested the
24th); Phoenix - Rock the Revolution Tour is now set; Project Appleseed 2011 Tour - November
5-6, 2011
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Houston SWAT Operators Get Their Own Airborne Weapons Platform
10-30-2011
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Lew Rockwell
"I'm tickled to death," giggled Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Officer in Texas. The source of McDaniel's childish glee was his department's latest lethal toy, a $300,000 ShadowHawk UAV weapons platform purchased by wa
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Massive Rally in Lahore: Imran Khan Leads Calls for Pakistan to End US Alliance
10-30-2011
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AntiWar.com
“Our leaders owned this war on terror for the sake of dollars,” Khan declared, “let me curse you.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • European Union
Europe Might Have Blown Last Chance to End Its Crisis: View
10-30-2011
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Bloomberg.Com
The euphoria over Europe’s latest rescue package faded quickly. Now the question is whether European leaders will ever agree on measures needed to end the sovereign debt crisis, and whether they will get another chance.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Todd Kuiken: A prosthetic arm that "feels"
10-30-2011
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TED Talks
Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system -- improving motion, control and even feeling. Onstage, patient Amanda Kitts helps demonstrate this next-gen robotic arm.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Journalist Uses Flip Camera To Document Own Arrest
10-30-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
One cop can be heard telling another cop to book him for “resisting arrest.”
Meador ended up being booked on public intoxication, which was never part of the conversation during the arrest.
And he comes across extremely sober while interviewing
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
NYPD Cops Turn On Media Covering Arraignments Of Fellow Officers
10-30-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Hundreds of New York City cops crammed into a courthouse Friday in support of fellow officers accused of crimes, blocking photojournalists from accessing the courtroom, including one instance of grabbing a videographer's lens and shoving him backward
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Endless Evil: The Drug War’s Continuing Collateral Damage, Part 1
10-30-2011
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Future of Freedom Foundation
Shortly after Ayers returned to his car from the ATM, a black Escalade tore into the parking lot. Three police officers, all undercover, got out of the vehicle and raced toward Ayers’s car. The startled pastor started his car and attempted to flee th
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
No Freedom of 'Farm to Fork'
10-30-2011
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Lew Rockwell
The health department hack returned, this time with local police. Thankfully, the police officers, not understanding why they were called, did nothing and left.
This is just another reminder that people are not free to make their own choices regar
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Dash Cam Video Shows Florida State Trooper Pulling Miami Cop Over At Gunpoint
10-30-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Miami police officer was running late to his off-duty job, so he drove his squad car at speeds of more than 120 mph, refusing to stop for a Florida Highway Patrol officer who was trying to pull him over.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Tech-Savvy Occupy Protesters Use Cellphone Video, Social Networking To Publicize Police Abuse
10-30-2011
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Huffington Post
George Orwell once wrote that if you want a vision of the future, "imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever." Governments have suppressed citizen dissent for as long as there have been governments and citizens to dissent against them. But o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
A New York Police Union Threatens to Sue Protesters
10-30-2011
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The Atlantic Wire
"Any assault on a police officer is not only punishable as a felony in the State of New York, but will also be met with swift and certain legal action by the SBA, which will seek monetary damages against any individual who causes injury to a New York
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Harris County district attorney called to testify in DWI trial
10-30-2011
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Houston Chronicle
"The reliability of the BAT vans has come into serious question by the chief prosecutor of Harris County herself," declared a defense attorney in a DWI trial. "If they're so unreliable, then why are you prosecuting someone with evidence you deem unre
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Man Convicted for Murdering a Man Killed by Police Officer
10-30-2011
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Free Patriot Press
It is not unusual for a Police Officer to shoot and kill someone, it is also not rare for Police Officers to get away without being charged. However, I don't recall hearing or reading about someone that didn't pull the trigger to be convicted of a
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Reported by:
Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Experts: Inflating derivatives bubble could doom entire world financial system
10-30-2011
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Terrence Aym
Many of the world's financial experts have reached a consensus concerning the fate of the global economy and what they see in their economic crystal balls is enough to give even Nostradamus a case of the jitters. They see an uncontrolled financia
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • China
Security Commission: Evidence China interfered with US satellites
10-30-2011
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Terrence Aym
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission has just finished a very disturbing report that lends credence to those US intelligence officers who've been arguing that a "cyber state of war" exists between America and China.The report is
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Terrence Aym
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