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Date Sent: 2012-04-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, April 27, 2012 |
U.S. comes to agreement with Japan to move 9,000 Marines off Okinawa
US: Mexico Seized 68,000 Guns From US Since 2006 -- Hollywood's
glorification of torture so military officials appeal to tone it down -- Neoconservative Marco Rubio wants to rule the world -- New Secret Service scandal centers on strippers, prostitutes in El Salvador -- WikiLeaks Truck Owner Arrested For Photographing Cops; Image Deleted -- Hundreds of 5-year-old municipal vehicles found in Miami that were never used -- Former TSA boss: Resentment of TSA ‘dangerous to security’ -- Seniors get the TSA runaround, lose $300 -- Illinois is running out of time and money -- Arizona Immigration Argument May Lead
to National ID -- 'Real' trading in US markets is down to
16 percent; the rest is machines -- DOJ Confirms Previously-Denied File Said to Implicate US
Officials in Nuclear Espionage
NH: PorcFest 2012, you don't want
to miss this one (Video & Web Banners)
NV: Freedom Fest 2012, July 11-14,
2012, Bally's Las Vegas
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News Link • Foreign Policy
U.S. comes to agreement with Japan to move 9,000 Marines off Okinawa
04-26-2012
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Washington Post
The U.S. and Japanese governments said Thursday that they will move about 9,000 Marines off Okinawa to other bases in the Western Pacific, in a bid to remove a persistent irritant in the relationship between the two allies.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
US: Mexico Seized 68,000 Guns From US Since 2006
04-26-2012
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AP
The controversial tactic of "letting guns walk" out of gun shops in the hands of suspected straw purchasers was used in Operation Fast and Furious at ATF in Phoenix in an effort to track the guns to major weapons traffickers and drug cartels in order
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
04-26-12 - Tarrin Lupo - Wes Wagner (Video & MP3 Loaded)
Tarrin Lupo discusses kid farming - Wes Wagner, Chairperson, Libertarian Party of Oregon, discusses region formation, the National Chair race, and what is going on with the Libertarian Party and the build up to May 2012 Nat. Convention.
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News Link • Events: America
Freedom Fest 2012, July 11-14, 2012, Bally's Las Vegas
04-26-2012
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FreedomFest.Com
FreedomFest is an annual festival where free minds meet to celebrate “great books, great ideas, and great thinkers” in an open-minded society. It is independent, non-partisan, and not affiliated with any organization or think tank.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Torture
Hollywood's glorification of torture so military officials appeal to tone it down
04-26-2012
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how the new Hollywood is far more grotesque than the famously dark Hollywood of the '50s. No other modern society has so glorified torture, Unz says, and glorifying torture in media has real world consequences.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
Neoconservative Marco Rubio wants to rule the world
04-26-2012
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Daily Telegraph
Rubio is top of Romney’s list to be the Vice Presidential nominee " and the press was struck by its statesmanlike tone and attempt to bridge the partisan divide. But while the sound of the talk was moderate, its content was not. This was the most haw
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
New Secret Service scandal centers on strippers, prostitutes in El Salvador
04-26-2012
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U.S. Secret Service agents brag they routinely use third-world prostitutes while conducting out-of-country security detail for Presidential visits
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
WikiLeaks Truck Owner Arrested For Photographing Cops; Image Deleted
04-26-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Metropolitan Transit Authority police arrested a man for photographing them at Penn Station in New York City this afternoon " deleting his photo " before releasing him from a jail cell an hour later.
Clark Stoeckley was issued a summons charging h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Hundreds of 5-year-old municipal vehicles found in Miami that were never used
04-26-2012
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Have you ever bought a brand new cars only to forget where you put it? How about 300 of them? Probably not " unless you're Miami-Dade County, which was recently reunited with 298 vehicles it bought brand new in 2006
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Former TSA boss: Resentment of agency ‘dangerous to security’
04-26-2012
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The Daily Caller
Former Transportation Security Administration Administrator Kip Hawley told The Daily Caller that the threat of terrorism “is not going away” and that widespread public mistrust of TSA agents is “dangerous.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Seniors get the TSA runaround, lose $300
04-26-2012
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Petti, who is 95 years old, has two artificial knees and Woodward, at 85, has had her hip replaced. But they sure didn't expect to be subjected to accusations, extreme pat-downs, and to be missing $300 in cash.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Illinois is running out of time and money
04-26-2012
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Washington Post
After trying to tax Illinois to governmental solvency and economic dynamism, Pat Quinn, a Democrat who has been governor since 2009, now says “our rendezvous with reality has arrived.” Actually, Illinois is still reality-averse
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Arizona Immigration Argument May Lead to National ID
04-26-2012
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Bloomberg
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the issue -- and from what the justices said at oral argument, it seems the U.S. might soon be getting more European. Or at least one step closer to requiring a national ID card.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Environment
Bears and Salmon and Us
04-26-2012
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arclein
The relationship between salmon and bears is basic, Levi said. "Bears are salmon-consuming machines. Give them more salmon and they will consume more-and importantly, they will occur at higher densities. So, letting more salmon spawn and be a
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nanotube Sponge Developed
04-26-2012
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arclein
The team found for the first time that boron puts kinks and elbows into the nanotubes as they grow and promotes the formation of covalent bonds, which give the sponges their robust qualities.
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Changing Climate Consensus
04-26-2012
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arclein
Studies, with which it is affiliated, of diddling with the facts. They write: “We believe that [their] claims that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering tho
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Elixir of Youth?
04-26-2012
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arclein
he results beg the question - what is going on here? Is the life extension just for those lucky rats again, or is there a mechanism that might transfer over to humans? The study was aimed at discovering if a diet of buckyballs has any toxic effects,
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robert klein
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News Link • Activism
Want to start collecting, saving and sharing good, clean, non-GMO seed? Here is how.
04-26-2012
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Seed Lady Network
The Seed Lady Network SLN is dedicated to open source seed sharing, free from transgenic contamination and patent piracy.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
'Real' trading in US markets is down to 16 percent; the rest is machines
04-26-2012
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GATA
(Can you say Plunge Protection Team) Trading by "real" investors is taking up the smallest share of US stock market volumes in more than a decade, according to a recent study. The findings highlight how US trading activity is increasingly being fuel
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Pentagon sets up new spy agency to eavesdrop on a changing world
04-26-2012
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Guardian
The Pentagon is to create a new spy service to focus on global strategic threats and the challenges posed by countries including Iran, North Korea and China. The move will bring to 17 the total number of intelligence organisations in the US
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Whistleblowers
DOJ Confirms Previously-Denied File Said to Implicate US Officials in Nuclear Espionage
04-26-2012
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Open Ed News
In a March 12, 2012 FOIA(Freedom Of Information Act) appeal response, the US Dept of Justice (DOJ) implicitly acknowledged the existence of FBI File 203A-WF0@210023, which FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has said contains evidence of top US officials
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Is 'The Fix' Official?
04-26-2012
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Washington Post via (ugh) mittromneycentral.com
...said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus. “In order to maximize our efforts I have directed my staff at the RNC to open lines of communication with the Romney campaign.”
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Swiss woman dies after following Indian guru's 'sunlight only' diet
04-26-2012
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Newstrack India
The woman, who was in her fifties, apparently got the idea after watching the documentary film 'In the Beginning, There Was Light' which features an Indian guru who claims to not have eaten anything in 70 years.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • United States Postal Service
Senate Passes Plan To Keep Post Offices Running
04-26-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by David Welna
The U.S. Postal Service is so much a part of this country, it's in the Constitution.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
For Some, 'Frustration' Over Mortgage Settlement
04-26-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Yuki Noguchi
Earlier this month, a judge approved a settlement between five major banks and nearly all of the state attorneys general.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
WSJ: Black Boxes Are Real, But Alex Jones Is “Paranoid”
04-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Sam Favate
The Wall Street Journal admits that mandatory black boxes will be spying on us but then labels Infowars “paranoid” for being concerned about the intrusion.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Opposes CISPA, But Will Sign It Anyway
04-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Get ready for another NDAA-style bait and switch
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
5 New Lies That The Federal Reserve Is Telling The American People
04-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, The Economic Collapse
The Federal Reserve says that everything is going to be okay. The Fed says that unemployment is going to go down, inflation is going to remain low and economic growth is going to steadily increase.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Trials Without Crimes Or Evidence
04-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Craig Roberts
Andy Worthington is a superb reporter who has specialized in providing the facts of the US government’s illegal abuse of “detainees,” against whom no evidence exists.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Domestic Policy
CIVIL LIBERTIES, REMOTE SPYING AND THE DRONE LOBBY: Opening US Domestic Airspace to Unmanned Drones
04-26-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca
The repercussions of the drone lobby’s success in forcing opening US domestic airspace to unmanned drones by 2015 are beginning to be felt across the US as civil liberties groups and politicians wake up to the implications for safety and privacy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
ECHELON: Exposing the Global Surveillance System
04-26-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Nicky Hagar
This important article was published more than 15 years ago (February 1997) in Covert Action Quarterly
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
MILITARIZATION OF THE BALKANS: Directed against Russia?
04-26-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Rick Rozoff
On April 18 U.S. Air Forces in Europe began the largest air exercise in the history of Bulgaria, no doubt in that of the Balkans as a whole, when 24-32 American F-16 fighter jets and 500 airmen joined Bulgarian counterparts for the opening of the alm
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank CEOs Gain as Millions Lose Dreams, Retirement to Foreclosure
04-26-2012
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commondreams.org, by John Cavanagh and Scott Kling
Inside and outside of Wells Fargo’s annual meeting in San Francisco yesterday, thousands of angry protesters decried the bank’s leading role in the loss of millions of American homes to foreclosure.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Bradley Manning's Trial To Begin September 21
04-26-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Presiding Judge, Colonel Denise Lind, order prosecution to present official "damage assessment" reports
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Sayef's Story and the Forgotten Children of Fallujah
04-26-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Robert Fisk
The phosphorus shells that devastated this city were fired in 2004. But are the victims of America's dirty war still being born?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
US 'expands Yemen drone strikes policy'
04-26-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com,
CIA and Pentagon given right to launch attacks even when identity of those in harm's way is not known, reports say.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Blast in Syria's Hama kills many
04-26-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com,
An explosion has destroyed a building in Syria's central city of Hama, reportedly killing up to 69 people, many of them children.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Young men in Mexico say the U.S. no longer offers them a better future
04-26-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Edward Helmore
In a typical year, the young men in this agricultural region of western Mexico would have made the journey north to America.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
WAR! Economists Are Freaking Out At Bernanke Like We've Never Seen Before
04-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
Ben Bernanke always takes a lot of flak.
People say he's going to print so much money that we're becoming Weimar. Other people say he's committing treason!
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