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Date Sent: 2012-06-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, June 26, 2012 PM edition |
Furious Turkey mobilizes tanks, troops to Syrian border -- Ron Paul’s Task: Build Up the Remnant
Romney brags to Neocon Bill Kristol: I’m briefed by Israelis -- Phoenix police: Officer shoots man who punches him -- Profanity Rally Protesters Slam Town's Anti-Swearing Law -- Stockton, Calif. to take up bankruptcy budget plan -- TSA agent spills grandfather’s ashes in confrontation with passenger
-- Bumblebee Collapse -- Your Military Industrial Complex at Work:
123,000 workers at risk of being laid off [Sure!] -- Extreme Judicial Makeover -- The
Fascist Threat -- The ABCs Of
State Liquor Control -- Hands-On Accountability for the
Police Murder of Stanley Gibson -- Moment in monetary history - bitcoin by vending machine at
PorcFest 2012 -- 40 Years of Growing Surveillance -- Syria Blamed for Turkish Provocation -- Social Justice Protests
in Israel -- Army Dumps All-Seeing
Chopper Drone -- Global leaders: Drug war ‘the main
reason’ for continuing HIV/AIDS epidemic -- WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning wins
battle over U.S. documents -- Israeli army says soldiers
suspected of drug-running
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News Link • Syria
Furious Turkey mobilizes tanks, troops to Syrian border
06-26-2012
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“The rules of engagement of the Turkish Armed Forces have changed,” Erdogan said. “Any military element that approaches the Turkish border from Syria posing a security risk and danger will be regarded as a threat and treated as a military target.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Political Parties
Ron Paul’s Task: Build Up the Remnant
06-26-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com,by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Few people in public life ever stray from the three-by-five card of approved opinion.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney brags to donors and Bill Kristol: I’m briefed by Israelis
06-26-2012
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The question must be asked, Why is Mitt Romney willing to adopt the most hawkish positions on Israel, now bragging about being briefed by Israeli officials on foreign policy?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix police: Officer shoots man who punches him
06-26-2012
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Arizona Republic
A Phoenix police sergeant shot a man in south Phoenix after authorities said the man assaulted the officer in his car, officials said.
The sergeant was driving in an unmarked car
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/06/26/2012
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Profanity Rally Protesters Slam Town's Anti-Swearing Law
06-26-2012
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MSNBC
The protest rally was organized by Adam Kokesh, a libertarian who publishes podcasts online from a Virginia studio. He says police can "steal from you if they don't like what's coming out of your mouth."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stockton, Calif. to take up bankruptcy budget plan
06-26-2012
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Reuters
Stockton, California was poised to take a major step toward becoming the largest U.S. city ever to file for bankruptcy after talks with its creditors. Negotiations aimed at averting bankruptcy may press on informally
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA agent spills grandfather’s ashes in confrontation with passenger
06-26-2012
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Raw Story
A TSA agent opened a jar of ashes of a relative belonging to a passenger, proceeded to stick her finger in the ashes spilling them, and then laughed about it. Another example of the cream of the crap working for the Testicle Squeezing Authoritarians.
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Reported by:
Bob Ross
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News Link • Agriculture
Bumblebee Collapse
06-26-2012
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arclein
Amid the plague of colony collapse disorder (CCD), some farmers are looking back to native pollinators like the rusty-patched bumblebee " as well as hummingbirds and butterflies " to help ensure that the nation can continue growing food. And in the
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robert klein
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News Link • Food
Wild Plant Foraging
06-26-2012
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arclein
A professional forager, Wong co-authored Foraged Flavor with Eddy Leroux, chef at the New York restaurant Daniel. The book offers up detailed instructions on the when, where, and how of foraging and presents dishes centered around 72 of Wong and Lero
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Science of Illusion
06-26-2012
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arclein
: a false transfer that exploits a lag in the brain’s perception of motion, called persistence of vision. When done right, the spectator will actually see the coin in the left palm
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
The Big Bang Did Not Need God
06-26-2012
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arclein
ig Bang could've occurred as a result of just the laws of physics being there," said astrophysicist Alex Filippenko of the University of California, Berkeley. "With the laws of physics, you can get universes."
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robert klein
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Your Military Industrial Complex at Work: 123,000 workers at risk of being laid off [Sure!]
06-25-2012
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The New Republic
Right before Election Day, Lockheed Martin is likely to notify the “vast majority” of its 123,000 workers that they’re at risk of being laid off, said Greg Walters, the company’s vice president of legislative affairs.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
What Does It Mean to Be a Fat-Burning Beast?
06-26-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Mark Sisson
My wife Cynthia and I embarked on a six month journey and discovered what it means to be Fat-Burning Beasts.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
The race to build a successor to Concorde
06-26-2012
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Daily Mail Reporter
Aircraft enthusiasts are waiting with growing anticipation for the unveiling of plans for a supersonic jet that may be able to fly London to Sydney in just four hours.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Immigration
Ron Holland on Moving Offshore, Executive Orders, Rand Paul, TSA and Political Eunuchs
06-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, with Anthony Wile
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Ron Holland
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Extreme Judicial Makeover
06-26-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org, Deseret News
I have previously and repeatedly written against the use of shaming and novel sentencing by judges around the country (here and here and here).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
The Fascist Threat
06-26-2012
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http://www.mises.org,
Everyone knows that the term fascist is a pejorative, often used to describe any political position a speaker doesn't like.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
The ABCs Of State Liquor Control
06-26-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org,
We have previously discussed the socialistic nature of state liquor boards even in conservative states.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Moment in monetary history - bitcoin by vending machine at PorcFest 2012
06-26-2012
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http://www.youtube.com
Moment in monetary history - bitcoin by vending machine at PorcFest 2012
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
40 Years of Growing Surveillance
06-26-2012
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http://www.cato.org, by Nat Hentoff
The Watergate legacy of disabling opponents by wiretaps and other suspensions of the Bill of Rights has since been protected by the current administration in federal court.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Army Dumps All-Seeing Chopper Drone
06-25-2012
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Robert Beckhusen via WIRED.com
This month, the Army planned to deploy to Afghanistan an unusual new drone: an unmanned eye-in-the-sky helicopter programmed to use high-tech cameras to monitor vast amounts of territory.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Drug War
Global leaders: Drug war ‘the main reason’ for continuing HIV/AIDS epidemic
06-25-2012
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Stephen C. Webster via The Raw Story.com
The Global Commission on Drug Policy, an assemblage of former national leaders, policy makers and experts, has issued a new report (PDF) that calls the war on drugs “the main reason” for the continuing HIV/AIDS epidemic around the world.
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News Link • Military
WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning wins battle over U.S. documents
06-25-2012
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The Raw Story.com
A US military judge ordered prosecutors Monday to share more documents with WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning after defense lawyers accused them of hiding information that could help their client’s case.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Israeli army says soldiers suspected of drug-running
06-25-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Israeli military police have arrested 15 people, most of them soldiers, accused of helping smuggle drugs from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula across the southern Israeli border, the army said on Monday.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Three police shot dead at Mexico City airport
06-25-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Three federal police officers were shot and killed Monday when they tried to arrest drug trafficking suspects at Mexico City’s international airport, officials said.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
IL Supreme Court Upholds 8-Year Sentence for Taking Pictures of Legal Sex
06-25-2012
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Reason magazine
Both girls were above the age of consent for sex, they were below the federal age of consent for appearing in sexually explicit images"a two-year difference that resulted in a 15-year sentence for Rinehart.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Moody's cuts Spanish banks on sovereign downgrade
06-25-2012
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Reuters
Moody's Investors Service on Monday downgraded the long-term debt and deposit ratings for 28 Spanish banks and two issuer ratings, following on the heels of a cut to Spain's sovereign rating to just above junk status earlier this month.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
With No Vote, Taxpayers Stuck With Tab on Bonds
06-25-2012
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New York Times
Surprised local taxpayers from Stockton, Calif., to Scranton, Pa., are finding themselves obligated for parking garages, hockey arenas and other enterprises that can no longer pay their debts.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Why Is the Government Collecting Your Biometric Data?
06-25-2012
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Tana Geneva
EFF's Jennifer Lynch discusses the expansion of biometric data collection, the growth of databases and the impact on increased surveillance.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Unplugged metal detector triggers JFK chaos: sources
06-25-2012
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NY Post
The TSA reached a new low over the weekend when one of its "agents" failed to realize that the metal detector he was using to screen passengers was shut off. The mistake caused several dozen passengers to be re-screened.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Free Trade
America: A Fire Sale to Foreign Corporations
06-25-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Brian Moench
This maybe one of the most important stories ever ignored by the "lame stream, liberal" media.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Media Promotes Troops On Streets to “Cut Down on Crime”
06-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
St. Louis residents praise sight of military vehicles in neighborhoods
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
Antarctic ice shelves not melting at all, new field data show
06-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Lewis Page
Twenty-year-old models which have suggested serious ice loss in the eastern Antarctic have been compared with reality for the first time " and found to be wrong, so much so that it now appears that no ice is being lost at all.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Sudan up in smoke: Anti-government protests engulf NE African nation (VIDEO)
06-25-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Sudanese police are trying to subdue anti-government demonstrations that have gripped the country for a week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Paraguay's Lugo condemns 'parliamentary coup'
06-25-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com, Agencies
Leftist South American leaders step up criticism of new government as deposed president brands it "illegitimate".
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Robert Lee
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