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Date Sent: 2011-07-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, July 30, 2011 |
Man sentenced for pamphleteering -- A $1 Trillion Coin Seems Like a Nice Idea
House passes debt limit raise; Senate blocks -- U.S. military chief aims to reassure Afghans after attacks --
Revisit: Homeless Man Dies After Being Brutally Beaten by Five
Fullerton Cops -- If at First You Don't Get a Prison Sentence, Try, Try
Again -- Polygamist leader, in court outburst, says is persecuted -- Bush explains slow reaction to September 11 attacks -- "What is a Dollar?" Ron Paul at Dr Thomas Hoenig July 27, 2011 --
Threat Of Right-Wing Extremism In U.S. Debated By Feds, Analysts --
Grandmother jailed for 12 days after oil mistaken for heroin -- An
un-American response to the Oslo attack -- AG Horne Finds Reasonable Cause to Believe Open Meeting Law Has Been Violated in Quartzsite -- The Buzz Around Gold is Growing Louder -- Judge Napolitano's Freedom Files: 3 Freedoms You Lost This Week -- Dwight D. Eisenhower - Farewell Address 01-17-1961 (Publisher: And JFK's 4 months later) -- The US *Will* Be Downgraded -- It’s Another Assault On Retirement Accounts -- Ghost towns on the increase as rural America accounts for just 16% of population -- Democratic Party Supports Institutionalized Looting by Banks
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Man sentenced for pamphleteering
07-29-2011
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Mark Schmidter was found guilty of “indirect criminal contempt” Tuesday for passing out pamphlets in Orlando during the Casey Anthony trial, according to the Sentinel.
The pamphlets he was handing out described jury nullification, the power of a j
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A $1 Trillion Coin Seems Like a Nice Idea
07-29-2011
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The Atlantic Wire
Days ago, a Yale Law professor wrote an op-ed for CNN that mentioned a crazy-seeming idea for averting a debt meltdown that doesn't sound crazy anymore: have the Treasury Department exploit a loophole to mint two $1 trillion coins and use those to pa
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Longtime Rabble-Rouser Files Suit Alleging Violation Of Photography Rights
07-29-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A man with a long history of filing lawsuits filed a suit against the Boston Police Department this month, accusing them of violating his rights to take pictures.
Max Strahan, who has gone by Richard Max Strahan in previous suits against various g
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
House passes Boehner’s debt ceiling plan"and Senate puts it on ice
07-29-2011
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The Ticket
After a grinding week of negotiations in the House of Representatives, the chamber's GOP majority finally approved Speaker John Boehner's plan to increase the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling just ahead of the the Aug. 2 deadline for its expirati
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. military chief aims to reassure Afghans after attacks
07-29-2011
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Reuters
The top U.S. military officer made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Friday, aiming to reassure a country rattled by a wave of high-profile attacks and assassinations.
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff,
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Homeless Man Dies After Being Brutally Beaten by Five Fullerton Cops
07-29-2011
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Reason magazine
Kelly Thomas' father, a retired Orange County police officer, did not recognize his own son when he went watch him die at the UC Irvine Medical Center after police beat him into a coma on July 5. The officers were responding to a call about vandalize
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Cuba approves flights from 9 more American cities
07-29-2011
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Reuters
Air travel between the United States and Cuba will become easier with the opening of charter flights to the forbidden island from an additional nine U.S. cities announced by Cuba authorities on Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
If at First You Don't Get a Prison Sentence, Try, Try Again
07-29-2011
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Reason magazine
Two years ago Steven D. Ballinger of Collinsville, Illinois, was sentenced to two and a half years of probation in state court after he pleaded guilty to sexual abuse and child pornography charges stemming from his videotaped encounter with a 12-year
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Polygamist leader, in court outburst, says is persecuted
07-29-2011
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Reuters
"You are stomping on sacred ground. You are treading on a people of peace. This religion deserves protection. The government of the United States has no right to infringe on the right of a peaceful people. The mockery must cease. This religious perse
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Bush explains slow reaction to September 11 attacks
07-29-2011
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Reuters
Former President George W. Bush says his apparent lack of reaction to the first news of the September 11 2001 attacks was a conscious decision to project an aura of calm in a crisis.
In a rare interview with the National Geographic Channel, Bush r
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
"What is a Dollar?" Ron Paul at Dr Thomas Hoenig July 27, 2011
07-29-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Lawfully speaking, a dollar is still 371 grains of fine silver.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Threat Of Right-Wing Extremism In U.S. Debated By Feds, Analysts
07-29-2011
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Huffington Post
The bombing and shooting spree in Norway on Friday has raised questions about whether federal law enforcement agencies in the United States are devoting enough resources and attention to the threat posed by right-wing extremists here. On the alert fo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Grandmother jailed for 12 days after oil mistaken for heroin
07-29-2011
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A Minnesota senior was jailed by Canadian border guards at a Manitoba port of entry after a jar containing some motor oil was mistaken for heroin.
Janet Goodin, 66, a retired girl scout registrar and grandmother of 12, was on her way to Sprague, M
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
An un-American response to the Oslo attack
07-29-2011
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Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
Over the last decade, virtually every Terrorist plot aimed at the U.S. -- whether successful or failed -- has provoked greater security and surveillance measures. Within a matter of mere weeks, the 9/11 attacks infamously spawned a vast new surveill
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Incompetence Sets A Precedent " GE Alfalfa
07-29-2011
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Farm Wars
The GE alfalfa case (Forage Genetics and Monsanto v Geertson Seed Farms) is disturbing because it appears that a dangerous precedent has been set.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Surveillance
Meet ALPR's Big Brother, ANPR (2011)
07-29-2011
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Dailymail.co.uk via DrudgeReport.com
"We only deal with people we're interested in stopping..."
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
AG Horne Finds Reasonable Cause to Believe Open Meeting Law Has Been Violated in Quartzsite
07-29-2011
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AZAG.GOV via KGUN Article
“Normally, we do not release the results of an investigation until it has been completed. However, because this is a matter of unusual public interest, we are prepared to say..."
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Massport dismissed from 9/11 wrongful death suit
07-29-2011
New York (CNN) -- Attorneys for the family of a 9/11 victim said they will push forward with a wrongful death lawsuit against United Airlines and a private security company despite a federal judge's decision to dismiss the Massachusetts Port Authorit
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Obama Administration
The birth certificate please! Subpoena to be delivered
07-29-2011
Attorney, doc experts to show up at Hawaii Department of Health with court document
President Barack Obama in the Oval Office April 4.
Computer scanning expert Doug Vogt and typesetting expert Paul Irey say they will accompany attorney Orly Taitz w
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The US *Will* Be Downgraded
07-29-2011
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Market-ticker.org
If what I heard yesterday in the so-called "debate" on the floor of the House is an honest indication of what we can expect from Congress we're just plain screwed.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
It’s Another Assault On Retirement Accounts
07-29-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Retirement funds have become the ultimate fudge making tool of corrupt fiscal policy around the world. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been robbing federal pensions for the last several months in the absence of a debt deal...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Anthropology
Ghost towns on the increase as rural America accounts for just 16% of population
07-29-2011
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dailymail.co.uk/news
'Many rural areas can't attract workers because there aren't any jobs, and businesses won't relocate there because there aren't enough qualified workers. So they are caught in a downward spiral.'
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Democratic Party Supports Institutionalized Looting by Banks
07-29-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
The Democratic party has made clear that it supports institutionalized looting by banks, via the innocuous-seemeing device of rejecting the idea of writedowns on bonds they hold.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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