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Date Sent: 2012-06-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, June 21, 2012 AM edition |
CIA Picks Its Syrian Chalabi? -- U.S. to slap "terrorist" label on Nigerian militants
Fed extends 'Twist' program to drive rates lower -- Getting harder to stack juries -- NATO protesters indicted on 11 counts in Chicago, including terror-related and other charges -- Va. DNA data support innocence of 33 convicted of sex crimes, study concludes -- Watergate Lies Multiplied -- Solitary confinement 'is driving men insane,' exonerated convict testifies -- Attorney General Eric Holder, “Fast & Furious”, Contempt and Executive Privilege -- How to Nullify Suspicionless Checkpoints -- Oil Price Differentials: Caught Between the Sands and the Pipelines
William H. Peterson, RIP
MARV is Being Raffled!
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Picks Its Syrian Chalabi?
06-20-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
"Sieda has publicly repeated most of the positions the council has become known for: do not negotiate with Assad, continue to request foreign intervention through the establishment of a no-fly zone and a humanitarian corridor to ultimately unseat Ass
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. to slap "terrorist" label on Nigerian militants
06-20-2012
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Reuters
The U.S. government is expected to formally apply a "foreign terrorist" label on Thursday to three alleged leading figures of the violent Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, officials said.
The action by the State and Treasury departments follows
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed extends 'Twist' program to drive rates lower
06-20-2012
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AP
The Federal Reserve is trying again to jolt the American economy out of its stalled recovery. It's extending a program that aims to encourage borrowing and spending by reducing long-term interest rates.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
House panel votes Holder in contempt of Congress
06-20-2012
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Reuters
A U.S. congressional panel voted to charge Attorney General Holder with contempt of Congress after the Obama administration invoked executive privilege for the first time since coming to office, withholding some documents related to a failed gun-runn
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Getting harder to stack juries
06-20-2012
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The Agitator
Wheeler " who was eventually picked for the jury " was even more surprised by the answers. She said yes, but 50 out of 130 jurors said no, they would not convict someone even if it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
“I was surprised it was that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
NATO protesters indicted on 11 counts in Chicago, including terror-related and other charges
06-20-2012
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Washington Post
A grand jury handed down an 11-count indictment against 3 NATO-summit protesters jailed since May, including 4 terrorism-related counts and 6 new charges. Tacking on more charges gives prosecutors more leverage in negotiating a plea deal later or in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Va. DNA data support innocence of 33 convicted of sex crimes, study concludes
06-20-2012
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Data from Virginia's post-conviction DNA project support the innocence of 33 persons convicted of sexual assaults from 1973 to 1987 concludes an Urban Institute study.
Findings released today indicate more people remain to be cleared by the Virgin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Watergate Lies Multiplied
06-20-2012
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Isn’t this the same mainstream press that shows not the slightest interest in say, the omission of any mention at all in the official 9/11 report of the collapse, demolition-style, of World Trade Center Building 7 or of who might have been behind the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Solitary confinement 'is driving men insane,' exonerated convict testifies
06-20-2012
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Los Angeles Times
"Solitary confinement does one thing: It breaks a man's will to live and he ends up deteriorating. He's never the same person again," said Graves, who served over 18 years in a Texas prison before being exonerated of all crimes in 2010.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
‘This Is Like Deja Vu All Over Again’ " Yogi Berra
06-20-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Reading the Vatican Banker Running Scared: This account perfectly fits within the broad context of power elite analysis regarding international banking, their relationship with high governing elites, their connections to organized crime, money-launde
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics
Attorney General Eric Holder, “Fast & Furious”, Contempt and Executive Privilege
06-20-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Well, is the heat being turned up on Attorney General Eric Holder regarding operation Fast & Furious today, and what will the resulting outcome be? The House Committee holds Holder in Contempt. The party-line vote was 23-17. The controversy goes ne
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
How to Nullify Suspicionless Checkpoints
06-19-2012
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Arm Your Mind for Liberty
This past weekend in the Philadelphia suburb of Willow Grove, eight courageous liberty activists nullified a suspicionless sobriety checkpoint. With their investment of $50 and a few hours of their time, they rerouted drivers around the massive multi
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Activism
MARV is Being Raffled!
06-20-2012
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libertyontour.com
A random raffle ticket will be selected at 12:00am EST on June 24th (the last night of PorcFest in Lancaster, NH)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Death
William H. Peterson, RIP
06-19-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Economist and libertarian Bill Peterson died today at 91. Bill had a distinguished academic and corporate career"including serving as a colleague at NYU to Ludwig von Mises"but he was never happier or more effective than teaching the truths of the fr
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Powell Gammill
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