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Date Sent: 2011-12-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, December 2, 2011 |
ACLU: FBI Spied on Muslims Through Community Outreach -- UN: Syria in a state of civil war
Fetus in trash, NYC woman accused of self-abortion -- Police Say Flex Your Rights DVD is Evidence of Criminal Activity -- Mexican Smugglers Exploit the Corrupt Reputation of U.S. Border Officers -- I TOLD YOU SO - by L. Neil Smith -- Massachusetts sues major banks over unlawful foreclosure practices such as robo-signing - -- Trade in surveillance technology raises worries -- For Jobless, Little Hope of Restoring a Lifestyle -- So, there's a rootkit hidden in millions of cellphones -- Russia launches radar system to counter US missile shield -- Sen. Mark Kirk floor speech on S. 1867 -- Woman Arrested After Closing Citibank Account in Protest Files Federal Suit Against NYC, NYPD -- Islamists On Track to Take Majority in Egyptian Election -- Obama
won't apologize for deadly raid in Pakistan -- PAUL: War on terror
doesn't justify retreat on rights -- The Media’s Blackout Of The
National Defense Authorization Act Is Shameful -- December 1, 2011
Sherif Gaber - From Egypt on Egyptian uprising -- McCain Justifies
Indefinite Detention of American Citizens with Debunked Statistics
-- US military admits to guarding, assisting lucrative opium trade
in Afghanistan -- Stewart Rhodes: CROSSROADS, NDAA Bill is Pure
Treason!! -- Chinese General Threatens “Third World War” To Protect
Iran -- Foreclosure fraud whistleblower found dead --
No Wonder America's Founders Distrusted Standing Armies -- McCain says American Citizens Can Be
Sent to Guantanamo
AZ: Arizona
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Party at the Hancock's, Saturday, December 10th,
2011 6 p.m. til ???
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
ACLU: FBI Spied on Muslims Through Community Outreach
12-01-2011
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The Atlantic Wire
The ACLU claimed the bureau actually spies on [Muslims] through its own community outreach programs. The documents detail the FBI's outreach efforts which the Washington Post called "a major priority since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks." The Post sums
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
UN: Syria in a state of civil war
12-01-2011
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AFP
Syria has entered a state of civil war with more than 4000 people dead and an increasing number of soldiers defecting from the army to fight President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the United Nations has declared.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Fetus in trash, NYC woman accused of self-abortion
12-01-2011
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AP
Authorities are investigating whether a woman whose fetus was found among trash illegally ended her pregnancy by drinking an herbal concoction billed as an abortion-causing tea, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Police Say Flex Your Rights DVD is Evidence of Criminal Activity
12-01-2011
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A controversial police raid of a popular hemp stores in Washington, D.C. has become more interesting with the release of the affidavit filed by an undercover officer seeking a judge’s approval to search the premises for evidence of drug paraphernalia
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Mexican Smugglers Exploit the Corrupt Reputation of U.S. Border Officers
12-01-2011
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Phoenix New Times
Michael Angelo Atondo's U.S. Border Patrol truck is backed up to the Arizona-Mexico border near an opening in the fence. The three men with him stand on the south side of the border next to a pair of Jeep Cherokees also parked close to the gap.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Gun Rights
The Libertarian Enterprise
I TOLD YOU SO
12-01-2011
L. Neil Smith
you can learn everything you need to know about any politician if you find out where he stands with regard to your individual right to obtain, own, and carry weapons. If he won’t trust you, you can’t trust him.
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News Link • Housing
Massachusetts sues major banks over unlawful foreclosure practices such as robo-signing
12-01-2011
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Washington Post
Massachusetts sued five major banks Thursday over deceptive foreclosure practices such as the “robo-signing” of documents, potentially undermining negotiations between lenders and state prosecutors across the nation over the same issue.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Trade in surveillance technology raises worries
12-01-2011
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Washington Post
“You need two things for a dictatorship to survive " propaganda and secret police,” said Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.), who proposed to restrict the sale of surveillance technology overseas. “Both of those are enabled in a huge way by the high-tech
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
For Jobless, Little Hope of Restoring a Lifestyle
12-01-2011
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NY Times
Just 7% of those who lost jobs after the financial crisis have returned to or exceeded their previous financial position and maintained their lifestyles. The vast majority say they have diminished lifestyles, and about 15% say the reduction in their
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
So, there's a rootkit hidden in millions of cellphones
12-01-2011
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www.zdnet.com/
The rootkit belongs to a company called Carrier IQ and it seems that it has low-level access to the system that allows it to spy on pretty much everything that you do with your handset. This, on the face of it, seems like an extremely serious breach
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russia launches radar system to counter US missile shield
12-01-2011
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articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com
In its bid to counter Western plans for a US missile shield in Europe, Russia on Tuesday launched a state-of-the art antimissile radar with a detection range of 6,000 kilometres, close to the borders of NATO alliance members Poland and Lithuania on t
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Sen. Mark Kirk floor speech on S. 1867
11-30-2011
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YouTube
Sen. Kirk gets it mostly correct. (VIDEO)
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Kenneth Rineer
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
David Axelrod's Pattern of Sexual Misbehavior by Ann Coulter (Re: Herman Cain)
12-01-2011
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Ann Coulter via www.humanevents.com
Cain lived and worked all over the country -- ID, GA, MN, NB, KS, D.C. -- but never in Chicago. So it's curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Woman Arrested After Closing Citibank Account in Protest Files Federal Suit Against NYC, NYPD
12-01-2011
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bradblog.com
Federal complaint charges NYPD making indiscriminate mass arrests on behalf of Wall Street banks...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Islamists On Track to Take Majority in Egyptian Election
12-01-2011
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The Slatest
Egypt's military rulers announced Thursday that they're postponing the announcement of election results until Friday or Saturday, CNN is reporting. Officials remain "tight lipped" on confirming expected results announced earlier by Islamist parties i
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama won't apologize for deadly raid in Pakistan
12-01-2011
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rt.com
Days after a NATO airstrike killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers amid worsening tensions between Islamabad and Washington, the White House says that President Obama does not plan to offer an apology for the executions.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
PAUL: War on terror doesn’t justify retreat on rights
12-01-2011
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WashingtonTimes.com
Constitution entitles American citizens to civilian trial
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Mayor Bloomberg: ‘I Have My Own Army’
12-01-2011
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politickerny.com
“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washing
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
The Media’s Blackout Of The National Defense Authorization Act Is Shameful
12-01-2011
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prisonplanet.com
The broadcast media’s ignorance and unwillingness to cover the National Defense Authorization Act, a radical piece of legislation which outrageously redefines the US homeland as a “battlefield” and makes US citizens subject to military apprehension a
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
McCain Justifies Indefinite Detention of American Citizens with Debunked Statistics
12-01-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Forget about the obvious violation of Constitutional rights that the recently-approved $662 billion Defense Authorization bill inflicts by allowing for indefinite military detention of United States citizens without formal charges or trial by a jury
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
US military admits to guarding, assisting lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan
12-01-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
US military has been specifically tasked with guarding Afghan poppy fields, from which opium is derived, in order to protect this multibillion dollar industry that enriches Wall Street, the CIA, MI6, and various other groups that profit big time from
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Stewart Rhodes: CROSSROADS, NDAA Bill is Pure Treason!!
12-01-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Guest Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, joins Alex to discuss the implications of indefinite detention and torture for American citizens under the looming National Defense Authorization Act.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
Chinese General Threatens “Third World War” To Protect Iran
12-01-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
US dispatches three more warships to Middle East
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Bullet switch proves Sirhan Sirhan innocent of Robert F Kennedy assassination, claim lawyers
12-01-2011
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dailyrecord.co.uk
Experts have said Sirhan was programmed through hypnosis to fire shots as a diversion for the US senator's real killer.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Justice at Last
12-01-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Fred Reed
The Look Like America bill, originally H.R. 1533, seemed a perfectly ordinary piece of feel-good legislation when proposed by Barack Osama Obama.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Foreclosure fraud whistleblower found dead
12-01-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
A notary public who signed tens of thousands of false documents in a massive foreclosure scam before blowing the whistle on the scandal has been found dead in her Las Vegas home.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
The New National Defense Authorization Act Is Ridiculously Scary
12-01-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
By the end of this week, the US government very likely will have the power to lock up US citizens for life at Guantanamo Bay or other military prisons " without charge and without trial.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
McCain says American Citizens Can Be Sent to Guantanamo
12-01-2011
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The Progressive
U.S. citizens beware: A bill being debated on the Senate floor this week is likely to pass, and if it becomes law, you could be sent to Guantanamo Bay.
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