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Date Sent: 2013-01-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, January 30, 2013 AM edition |
Obama Reportedly Considering Intervention Into Syrian Civil War
Obama On Football -- No, Mr. Vice President. Cops Today Are Not 'Outgunned.' -- Why is it a “Crime” to Disarm a Uniformed Aggressor? - by William Grigg -- 4 of Illinois' Last 7 Governors Went to Prison -- Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield -- Journalist Accosted by Security over Mayor Bloomberg Gun Control Question -- The Civilian Disarmament Dialectic - by William Grigg -- Bridgeport Officers Suspended After YouTube Video Showing Them
Beating Suspect -- Philadelphia School Searches Elementary Student After
Finding Paper Gun -- U.S. Recognition Doesn’t Bode Well for Somalia -- Egypt's protests reveal deficit of trust in Muslim Brotherhood -- U.S. 'backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad's regime -- Medical Marijuana? No Guns For You! -- Bad pharma: Drug research riddled with half truths, omissions, lies -- Senate Approves Kerry for Secretary of State -- Immigration Reform Places Interests of Illegal Aliens Ahead of Americans -- Chinese Communist Party Mouthpiece Demands Obama Disarm Americans
Mary Anne Buttrick passes away
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 with
Alan Korwin
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News Link • Syria
Obama Reportedly Considering Intervention Into Syrian Civil War
01-29-2013
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Jonathan Turley
During President Obama’s first term, I represented members of Congress in challenging Obama’s unilateral intervention into the Libyan civil war without authorization of Congress. Our case was dismissed on standing grounds
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama On Football
01-29-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
So, the Emperor is concerned about violence in football? Men voluntarily getting together to play a rough-and-tumble game troubles him, but killing innocent men, women and children in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and who knows where else;
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
No, Mr. Vice President. Cops Today Are Not 'Outgunned.'
01-29-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
I suppose it's no surprise that Vice President Biden was put in charge of President Obama's gun control initiative. Biden has always been an innovator when it comes to finding new reasons to put people in prison, and for longer periods of time.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Why is it a “Crime” to Disarm a Uniformed Aggressor?
01-29-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
After being attacked without cause on his own property, Goss removed the Taser barbs and then knocked the weapon out of the assailant’s hands. This act of self-defense was later described as the supposed crime of “disarming an officer.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
4 of Illinois' Last 7 Governors Went to Prison
01-29-2013
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AP
Former Illinois Gov. Ryan will be leaving prison and heading to a halfway house after serving more than 5 years for corruption. His departure from prison follows a rich, if ignominious, history in Illinois of ex-governors arriving in and departing fr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
01-29-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Premiering this week at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the new documentary, “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield,” follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill to Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen as he chases down the hidden truths behind Amer
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Government
Journalist Accosted by Security over Mayor Bloomberg Gun Control Question
01-29-2013
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Breitbart
Security guards for billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg accosted senior Talk Radio Network investigative reporter Jason Mattera when he asked the mayor about his strong support for gun control.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Civilian Disarmament Dialectic
01-29-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
“Law-abiding citizens have every right to own legal firearms….” Here he takes refuge in a familiar statist tautology: Our “Second Amendment [sic] rights,” consist of the freedom to own whatever firearms the government permits us to have.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Bridgeport Officers Suspended After YouTube Video Showing Them Beating Suspect
01-29-2013
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Jonathan Turley
3 Bridgeport police officers are suspended after a video was posted on YouTube showing them beating a suspect who had already been brought down with a stun gun. The ten-year-veterans " Elson Morales, Joseph Lawlor and Clive Higgins " are now under in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
01-29-2013
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It was in the remote south of the forest in the summer of 1978. A helicopter sent to find a safe spot to land a party of geologists was skimming the treeline a hundred or so miles from the Mongolian border when it dropped into the thickly wooded vall
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Philadelphia School Searches Elementary Student After Finding Paper Gun
01-29-2013
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Jonathan Turley
The Philadelphia school district is adding its name to this ignoble list after standing by the decision to not only scold but to search a 5th grade student after Melody Valentin was found in possession of a paper gun.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
U.S. Recognition Doesn’t Bode Well for Somalia
01-29-2013
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http://www.independent.org
Official recognition brings official largess in the form of development aid that will do little to promote development. Worse yet, recognition might help to legitimize what is likely to be yet another oppressive African government.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt's protests reveal deficit of trust in Muslim Brotherhood
01-29-2013
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http://www.csmonitor.com
Open defiance of Egypt's president in street protests shows how much the Muslim Brotherhood needs to leave Islam outside the door of democracy.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Check Out the New Gun that Allows Cops to Shoot and Capture Your DNA
01-29-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A new tool that would allow law enforcement to prevent criminals from running away or disappearing into a crowd before arrest was highlighted last week at The SHOT Show in Las Vegas.
The High Velocity DNA Tagging system by the U.K.-based security
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Water Issues-Water Fluoridation
Fluoride Deception (VIDEO)
01-29-2013
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http://www.youtube.com
In this video, award-winning journalist Christopher Bryson examines one of the great secret narratives of the industrial era; how a grim workplace poison and the most damaging environmental pollutant of the cold war was added to our drinking water an
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. 'backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad's regime**
01-29-2013
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http://market-ticker.org
Leaked emails have allegedly proved that the White House gave the green light to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that could be blamed on Assad's regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Medical Marijuana? No Guns For You!
01-29-2013
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http://market-ticker.org
4473 form? Yeah, the one that asks about the use of illegal drugs? Well, what about medical marijuana? Guess what -- there appears to be a rather strong presumption at the federal level that this is a disqualification for ownership of firearms!
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Bad pharma: Drug research riddled with half truths, omissions, lies
01-29-2013
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http://www.salon.com
Industry-funded trials are too common, can't be trusted -- and bring pills to market that likely don't work
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Senate Approves Kerry for Secretary of State
01-29-2013
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http://www.nytimes.com
WASHINGTON " The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Senator John Kerry as secretary of state, filling a key job in President Obama’s second-term national security team.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Cruz to Rahm: Don’t mess with Texas
01-29-2013
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http://freebeacon.com
Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) has a message for firearms manufacturers and banks under attack from Chicago Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel: Texas welcomes you.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Chinese Communist Party Mouthpiece Demands Obama Disarm Americans
01-29-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Beijing state media calls for “urgent gun control” in US
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Mary Anne Buttrick passes away
01-29-2013
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Arizona Republic
Mary Anne Buttrick, 60, of Phoenix, Arizona passed away on January 22, 2013 after a five year battle with cancer. Mary Anne was married to John Buttrick who is an attorney, was a Maricopa County Superior Court Judge, and Libertarian Candidate for AZ
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
US Action in Mali is Another Undeclared War - by Ron Paul
01-28-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
President Obama last week began his second term by promising that “a decade of war is now ending.” As he spoke, the US military was rapidly working its way into another war, this time in the impoverished African country of Mali.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Books
Fascinating Facts
01-28-2013
Menckens Ghost
Of the many non-fiction books that I have read over the last year, several in particular contain fascinating facts that challenge the conventional wisdom and propaganda from the media, academia, the government, and the two political parties. Sample
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News Link • Imperialism
Belgian MP Laurent Speaks Against War In Mali - Youtube video going viral
1/17/2013
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posted by Feuillien Geraldine
The Ron Paul of Belgian lays out in a Close Captioned speech, how the US, France, Belgian and other G-20 counties are attaching resource rich developing nations under the false pretence of building democracy and fighting terrorism. Press CC on bottom
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H. Skip Robinson
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mamet on Guns and the State
01-28-2013
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weeklystandard.com
Karl Marx summed up Communism as “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” This is a good, pithy saying, which, in practice, has succeeded in bringing, upon those under its sway, misery, poverty, rape, torture......
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Iran
Iran denies blast at Fordow site
01-28-2013
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upi.com
Iran Monday denied western reports of an explosion that damaged the Fordow uranium enrichment installation last week, calling them "sheer lies."
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Iran
Mystery over 'explosion' at Iran's Fordow nuclear site
01-28-2013
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telegraph.co.uk
Israeli and Iranian officials have both failed to explain the mystery of a reported explosion said to have rocked the notoriously impregnable Fordow nuclear site in Iran.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ecuador to take legal action over Assange extradition
01-28-2013
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euronews.com
Ecuador will seek judicial help to ensure the safe passage from Britain of WiliLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Pentagon to increase cyber security force fivefold - report
01-28-2013
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RT.com
The Pentagon will expand its cyber security force from 900 personnel to a massive 4,900 troops and civilians over the next few years following numerous concerns over the dangerously vulnerable state of their defenses, according to US officials.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt clashes continue after Morsi’s ‘emergency’ announcement
01-28-2013
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RT.com
Police tear-gassed protesters Cairo on Monday as clashes still gripped Egypt despite a state of emergency being declared. Some 50 people have died in five days of unrest, and there are reports of yet another death near Tahrir Square
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israel uses deadly weapons on unarmed Palestinian protesters - watchdog
01-28-2013
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RT.com
Israel is using lethal force on unarmed Palestinian protesters in the West Bank, according to the latest report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. It says 56 people were killed in the clashes, with an average age of 18.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran responds to EU oil and gas sanctions with… oil and gas sanctions
01-28-2013
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RT.com
Iran has slapped a ban on oil and gas exports to the European Union, even though the EU has already forbidden Iranian petrochemicals from entering its territory.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
'Vaccine court' awards millions to two autistic children damaged by vaccines
01-28-2013
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naturalnews.com
Quietly and without much fanfare, the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program , has essentially admitted that vaccines cause autism.
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Robert Lee
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