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Date Sent: 2012-08-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 3, 2012 |
Vermont farmer crushes 7 police cars with tractor over pot arrest
U.S. model for a future war fans tensions with China and inside Pentagon -- Cash rewards keep people on their medications -- Opponents of Glendale sales-tax increase aim for appeal in judge's
ruling -- Court Upholds Domestic Drone Use in Arrest of American
Citizen -- US Nuclear bomb facility shut after security
breach -- Mother gets 50 hours punishment over daughter’s chalk drawings -- The Neoconservative War Criminals In Our Midst -- Ron
Paul's Delegate Fight with the GOP -- Court Demands TSA Explain
Why It Is Defying Nude Body Scanner Order -- Daphne Koller:
What we're learning from online education -- Ron Paul on CNBC's
Closing Bell, 8/1/12 -- Execs In The Gaming Industry
Are Going Crazy Over This Virtual Reality Headset -- WATCH: Jon
Stewart Mocks Mitt Romney, The 'Generic Republican' -- Chick-Fil-As Across The Country Were Absolutely Jam-Packed --
VIDEO: Rand Paul in Reporter Controversy -- Yet Another Study
Predicting a 'Worldwide Glut of Oil' -- Eight Badminton Players
Kicked Out Of The Olympics For Throwing Matches -- Do Olympic or
Competitive Swimmers Ever Pee in the Pool?
Arizona Breakfast Club, this Saturday, Sarah Sandy on the evils of Child Protective Services
Paul Festival Commemorative Dime Cards Fundraiser - READY FOR
PURCHASE NOW!
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News Link • Government
Vermont farmer crushes 7 police cars with tractor over pot arrest
08-02-2012
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Rawstory
A Vermont farmer used his tractor to crush 7 Orleans Co. Sheriff’s Dept squad cars because he was angry about being arrested on marijuana charges last month. “It’s more than half our fleet,” Chief Deputy Sheriff Brooks explained
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News Link • China
U.S. model for a future war fans tensions with China and inside Pentagon
08-02-2012
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Washington Post
When President Obama called on the US military to shift its focus to Asia earlier this year, a 91-year-old futurist, had a vision of what to do. His small Pentagon office has spent the past 2 decades planning for a war against China.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Cash rewards keep people on their medications
08-02-2012
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Reuters
Weekly rewards of as little as $5 could keep people on track with their medications. "It helps the patient understand that we are serious about helping them get treated," said Dr. Deb Sodt. Fewer than half of people don't follow doctors' medication o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Opponents of Glendale sales-tax increase aim for appeal in judge's ruling
08-02-2012
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Arizona Republic
A business group behind a proposed ballot measure that aims to reverse a Glendale sales-tax hike is seeking an appeal days after a judge ruled their initiative would not appear on the November ballot.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Court Upholds Domestic Drone Use in Arrest of American Citizen
08-02-2012
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US News & World Report
A North Dakota court has preliminarily upheld the first-ever use of an unmanned drone to assist in the arrest of an American citizen.
A judge denied a request to dismiss charges Wednesday against Rodney Brossart, a man arrested last year
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
US Nuclear bomb facility shut after security breach
08-02-2012
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Reuters
The US government's only facility for handling, processing and storing weapons-grade uranium was temporarily shut this week after anti-nuclear activists, including an 82-year-old nun, breached security fences, government officials said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Mother gets 50 hours punishment over daughter’s chalk drawings
08-02-2012
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Rawstory
A Virginia mother agreed to 50 hours of community service after her 4-year-old daughter used chalk to draw on rocks on Belle Isle in Richmond. A judge determined there was enough evidence to convict her on charges of vandalism
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Court Demands TSA Explain Why It Is Defying Nude Body Scanner Order
08-02-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
Transportation Security Administration to explain why it hasn’t complied with the court’s year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the rules and regulations pertaining to the so-called nude body scanners installed in U.S
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News Link • Internet
Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education
08-02-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, by TEDtalksDirector
Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
America Is Falling In Love With The Chubby Kid In This New Nike Ad
08-02-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jim Edwards
Nike is not an Olympic sponsor this year but that hasn't stopped it from borrowing interest in what it takes to compete in the games.
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Execs In The Gaming Industry Are Going Crazy Over This Virtual Reality Headset
08-02-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Ana Douglas
The latest project on KickStarter, a "funding platform" for independent projects, is a virtual reality headset that is the future of 3-D gaming.
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News Link • Events: America
Chick-Fil-As Across The Country Were Absolutely Jam-Packed
08-02-2012
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Brett LoGiurato and Kim Bhasin
By all early accounts, Gov. Mike Huckabee's "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day" seems like a wild success.
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News Link • Government
VIDEO: Rand Paul in Reporter Controversy
08-02-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Luke Rudkowski talks with Abby Martin of MediaRoots.org and RT about U.S. Senator Rand Paul's attempt to get her arrested and stripped of her press credentials for asking him tough questions in the Capitol building
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News Link • Future Predictions
Yet Another Study Predicting a 'Worldwide Glut of Oil'
08-02-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
There are many opportunities for us to say "told you so," as the 2000s wind on. We've been "on the money" about gold and silver going up, about the establishment of an Islamic crescent arc in the Middle East and generally about the elite's phony scar
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Eight Badminton Players Kicked Out Of The Olympics For Throwing Matches
08-02-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Tony Manfred
Eight women's doubles badminton players from China, South Korea, and Indonesia were disqualified today after throwing matches in order to manipulate future match-ups.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Do Olympic or Competitive Swimmers Ever Pee in the Pool?
08-02-2012
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http://www.slate.com, By Quora Contributor
Nearly 100 percent of elite competitive swimmers pee in the pool. Regularly. Some deny it, some proudly embrace it, but everyone does.
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
A Persian Gulf ‘Hot Line’ Proposed
08-02-2012
Ray McGovern
With tensions again rising in the Persian Gulf, an accident or provocation around the narrow Strait of Hormuz could precipitate a war. In this memo for President Obama, 11 former U.S. intelligence officials urge a U.S.-Iranian system for communicatio
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Police: Useless, but not Harmless
08-01-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
The bad news for Rafael Lopez was that the 27-year-old Iraq war veteran had been robbed and severely beaten by a gang of at least 10 men on the street outside the Aqua nightclub in Minneapolis. The good news " or Lopez initially thought " was that th
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
Teachers’ Unions Now Sending Lawyers After Private Schools
08-01-2012
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The Louisiana Association of Educators is sending demand letters to private schools participating in the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence program, the state voucher plan, insisting that those schools pull out of the program.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Colorado Killer and a Judge's Coverup
08-01-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The University of Colorado went into CYA mode, and has lucked out now that the judge in the case has ruled that the University is exempt from open-records laws on matters related to the killings. Court records have been altered to remove mention of t
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News Link • Free Trade
The Most Important Trade Agreement That We Know Nothing About
08-01-2012
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Slate
The Trans-Pacific Partnership could completely change intellectual property law. But the details are being kept secret.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop Suspects Dad with His Kid of Being a Predator; “You Should THANK Me”
08-01-2012
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My youngest daughter and I were walking to the library together, and she was holding my hand and trying to pull me into telephone poles which is a silly game that she enjoys. Suddenly a police car pulled up beside us, lights on and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Rep. Laura Richardson broke federal law, obstructed probe, House ethics panel finds
08-01-2012
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Washington Post
The House Ethics Committee on Wednesday called for the full chamber to reprimand Rep. Laura Richardson, accusing the California Democrat of breaking federal law, violating House rules and obstructing the committee’s investigation.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
U.S. to mull more bombers, submarines for Pacific
08-01-2012
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Reuters
Pentagon planners will consider adding bombers and attack submarines as part of a growing U.S. focus on security challenges in the Asia-Pacific, a senior Defense Department official said on Wednesday.
"We will take another look" at sending more su
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Rep. Markey proposes privacy rules for domestic drone licenses
08-01-2012
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Eric W. Dolan via The Raw Story.com
Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) on Wednesday released a discussion draft of legislation that aims to add privacy protections and greater transparency to the authorization of aerial drone flights within the United States.
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News Link • Syria
Obama authorizes secret support for Syrian rebels
08-01-2012
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Reuters
President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, sources familiar with the matter said.
Obama's order, approved earlier this year and known
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
No longer trusted to tell them what’s ‘news’
08-01-2012
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com,
For centuries, a few hundred wealthy individuals, families and corporations have had de facto control over what we consume as “news” " simply because they could afford to buy big printing presses, and ink by the barrel.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Pepper-spray cop no longer employed by UC Davis
08-01-2012
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The Lookout
Lt. John Pike, the University of California Davis police officer who pepper-sprayed student protesters last November, is no longer employed by the university. The circumstances of his departure are not known.
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News Link • Child Protective Services
Mother Who Questions Vax at Hospital Has Newborn Taken Away
08-01-2012
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Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
A new mother who intended to give birth at home is subjected to her worst nightmare as her newborn is taken from her at the hospital she had to go to due to early labor. CPS is eventually called in to question the new parents.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Scottsdale students conditioned to wear ID badges
08-01-2012
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ABC 15.com
Scottsdale Unified School District officials say middle and high school students will be required to wear student ID cards so that they are clearly visible during the school day.
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News Link • American History
Christine Smith's interview with Gore Vidal
08-01-2012
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C. Smith
When I asked Gore Vidal to define love, he told me, "Both Wisdom and Love can be defined by the same word: ‘acceptance." I share my 2005 interview with him with you.
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News Link • Government
19 Examples Of How Control Freaks Are Killing America With Their Completely Ridiculous Regulations
08-01-2012
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http://endoftheamericandream.com
Our founding fathers intended to establish a nation where Americans would be free to pursue "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" in an environment where freedom was maximized and government interference was minimized.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Apple Wants Your Fingerprints On File
08-01-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Dan Tynan
Big news: Apple has just scooped up AuthenTec for nearly $360 million.
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News Link • Police State
Is Anaheim California Under Martial Law?
08-01-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Dan Horn
If you’d been following the news from California following Tuesday’s Anaheim riots spurred by a protest of a nonexistent police force continuum that lead to two fatal shootings of suspects in the Southern California city, chances are you haven’t been
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Mass. Gov. Patrick blasts ‘warehousing of non-violent drug offenders’
08-01-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Eric W. Dolan
While signing a sentencing reform bill into law on Tuesday, Massachusetts Gov. Devel Patrick (D) condemned the mass imprisonment of non-violent drug offenders.
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