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Date Sent: 2012-12-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, December 20, 2012 AM edition |
Roadside Cavity Searches in Texas -- FISA spy bill could be renewed without discussion
4 Are Out at State Dept. After Scathing Report on Benghazi Attack -- Robert H. Bork, conservative judicial icon, dies at 85 -- Too little punishment for Pr. George’s police officer’s assault -- Red, White, and Wrong: Filipino Teachers Exploited in America -- Fannie, Freddie may have lost $3 billion in Libor: watchdog -- Americans to lose right to adopt in Russia -- Texas landowner: Judge delays TransCanada hearing -- Judge blocks bid to stop bankrupt Alabama county's cost cuts -- It is not about revenue, it is about spending - by Powell Gammill -- 12-19-12 -- Freedom's Phoenix Headline News Gun Right in Arizona -- (MP3 & Video Loaded) -- A shocking report on white families -- How to stop a massacre:
Surveillance video reveals simple, low-cost solution that works
everywhere -- Arizona group eyes allowing guns in schools -- My 20
Minutes With Globalist Whore, Michael Moore -- Egyptian Islamists
plan mass protest ahead of constitution vote -- Obama threatens veto
of Republican plan, fiscal talks turn sour -- Major Anonymous account suspended by
Twitter -- A New Earth? Potentially habitable planet discovered orbiting
nearby star similar to our sun -- Intervention in Syria Risks
Blowback and Regional War -- Social Security and the Obama Cave-In
AZ: 2012 Doomsday/End of the World Party, Friday, 6:30PM-
until ????
SPECIAL: Drawing for One-of-a-Kind Custom Saiga by Gerry Sweet
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Roadside Cavity Searches in Texas
12-19-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Video shows 2 women given roadside cavity searches because they were suspected of having a little pot on them. None was found. The state trooper uses the same rubber glove when sticking her hands in the private parts, front and back, of the women.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
FISA spy bill could be renewed without discussion
12-19-2012
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RT.com
A Republican lawmaker is urging his colleagues in the Senate to approve without debate a bill that reaffirms the government’s power to place warrantless wiretaps on US citizens.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
SPECIAL: Drawing for One-of-a-Kind Custom Saiga by Gerry Sweet (offered by JPFO)
12-18-2012
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JPFO
One purchase is just $10 " no limit to multiple purchases - just enter quantity value of choice. There are 500 purchases available and these will be going quickly! Last day to purchase is March 14, 2013.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
4 Are Out at State Dept. After Scathing Report on Benghazi Attack
12-19-2012
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New York Times
4 State Dept officials were removed from their posts after an independent panel criticized the “grossly inadequate” security at a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that was attacked on Sept. 11, leading to the deaths of Ambassador J. Christophe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death
Robert H. Bork, conservative judicial icon, dies at 85
12-19-2012
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Washington Post
Robert H. Bork, the conservative jurist who fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox during the “Saturday Night Massacre” in 1973 and whose failed nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987 sparked an enduring political schism over judicial
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Too little punishment for Pr. George’s police officer’s assault
12-19-2012
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Washington Post OpEd
IF A WITNESS hadn’t shot video of two Prince George’s County police officers savagely beating John McKenna, a University of Maryland student, after a March 2010 men’s basketball game, that would probably have been the end of it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Red, White, and Wrong: Filipino Teachers Exploited in America
12-19-2012
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Yahoo! News blog
The jury agreed fees were not properly represented and contracts were illegal, although it rejected the human trafficking claim. "The jury sent a message exploitative and abusive business practices involving federal guest workers will not be tolerate
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Fannie, Freddie may have lost $3 billion in Libor: watchdog
12-19-2012
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Reuters
Mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may have suffered more than $3 billion in losses due to manipulation of the benchmark interest rate known as Libor, according to an internal memo by a federal watchdog.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Trade
Americans to lose right to adopt in Russia
12-19-2012
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AP
Russia's parliament on Wednesday gave overwhelming preliminary approval to a measure banning Americans from adopting Russian children, a harsh retaliatory move against U.S. human rights legislation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Texas landowner: Judge delays TransCanada hearing
12-19-2012
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AP
A Texas landowner battling TransCanada Corp. says a judge declined to hear arguments on whether to temporarily stop work on the property. A County judge put off a hearing until he can determine whether the matter should be in state court.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Judge blocks bid to stop bankrupt Alabama county's cost cuts
12-19-2012
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Reuters
The judge overseeing America's biggest municipal bankruptcy blocked a legal bid to force Alabama's Jefferson County to keep running a hospital that serves the poor, which the county says it can no longer afford to operate.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
How to stop a massacre: Surveillance video reveals simple, low-cost solution that works everywhere
07-24-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
In the aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado Batman movie theater shooting, a surveillance video has surfaced that shows the simple, obvious answer to the question on everybody’s mind: How do we stop a massacre?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona group eyes allowing guns in schools
12-19-2012
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Associated Press
A group that advocates for pro-gun, state legislation said Wednesday guns should be allowed in Arizona public schools to provide protection against shootings such as the one in Connecticut.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
Egyptian Islamists plan mass protest ahead of constitution vote
12-19-2012
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Reuters
Egyptian Islamist groups are planning a mass protest in Alexandria on Friday, a move that will raise tensions a day before the final stage of a referendum on a new constitution that has split the nation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama threatens veto of Republican plan, fiscal talks turn sour
12-19-2012
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Reuters
Progress in talks in avoid a fiscal crisis appeared to stall on Wednesday as President Barack Obama accused Republicans of digging in their heels due to a personal grudge against him, while a Republican leader called the president "irrational."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Snowstorm hits Rockies, heads to Midwest
12-19-2012
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Associated Press
A storm that has dumped more than a foot of snow in the Rocky Mountains could cause headaches for travelers as it tracks into the Midwest and Great Lakes region.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
Major Anonymous account suspended by Twitter
12-19-2012
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RT.com
YourAnonNews, a Twitter account used by members of Anonymous to relay messages pertinent to the hacktivist movement, has been suspended.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Russian illusionist makes boiling water 'disappear' in subzero weather
12-19-2012
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RT.com
An illusionist has made surviving the cruel Russian winter much more entertaining through science and a little bit of magic, by showing the world what happens when boiling water meets -40 degrees Celsius winter temperatures.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
A New Earth? Potentially habitable planet discovered orbiting nearby star similar to our sun
12-19-2012
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RT.com
Astronomers have discovered that the closest Sun-like star, Tau Ceti, is orbited by five planets, one of which is in the “habitable range”.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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Reference Link • Gun Rights
“What are you going to do with your gun?”
Bleeding Heart Libertarians
The history of gun control in this country is an interesting one, and a struggle where guns were used to prevent tyranny was in the case of the civil rights movement. Guns played a huge role in curbing the oppression of black individuals by the state
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun lobbyist ready to give up by Alan Korwin
12-18-2012
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www.gunlaws.com
A gun lobbyist, traumatized by the evil in Newtown, Conn., under pressure by reporters for an interview, asked me desperately for help. What is he supposed to say? How can he respond to such slaughter, how can he defend guns in the light of this mass
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging - Full Movie
12-17-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com
This video provides the facts about psychotropic drugs and the huge profits they create for the pharmaceutical industry. PUBLISHER RECOMMENDED
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Tempe Police Officer Hid Evidence in His Garage
12-18-2012
An internal investigation reveals officer Tony Trow of the Tempe Police Department hid evidence in his garage.
CBS 5 KPHO News asks Criminal Defense Attorney Marc J. Victor about his thoughts on this matter.
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Gun Rights
A History Of Gun Control Laws Shows US Citizens Don't Have An Absolute Right To Bear Arms
12-18-2012
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Business Insider
The Second Amendment, which was added to the Constitution in 1791, gives everyone an inalienable right to bear arms, gun enthusiasts have argued.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
In the US, mass child killings are tragedies. In Pakistan, mere bug splats
12-18-2012
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The Guardian
Barack Obama's tears for the children of Newtown are in stark contrast to his silence over the children murdered by his drones.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Wave of Bombings Batters Iraq in Deadliest Attacks in Months
12-18-2012
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antiwar.com
At Least 92 Killed on Eve of US Pullout Anniversary
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israel Plans Another 6,000 Settlement Homes
12-18-2012
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news.antiwar.com
Despite International Criticism, Interior Ministry Pushing Through More Schemes
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Judge Napolitano for POTUS
01-12-2013
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http://andrewnapolitano.com/
Judge Napolitano would be a candidate, perhaps the only candidate from within the Liberty Movement whom everyone in the Movement could rally round enthusiastically and who really could win the presidency on principle in 2016.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Man Attempts to Open Fire on Crowd at Movie Theater, Off-Duty Sheriff’s Deputy Drops Him
12-18-2012
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WOAI LOCAL NEWS/The Blaze
A man upset over a recent break up tried to open fire in a movie theater lobby only to have his gun jam and an off duty female deputy chase him down, shoot him, and take his gun.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Gun Rights
Death by "Gun Control"
12-18-2012
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JPFO
Why must all decent non-violent people fight against "gun control"? Why is the right to keep and bear arms truly a fundamental individual right?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
'Virtual Currency Schemes' (document put out by European Central Bank)
12-18-2012
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European Central Bank (ECB)
Virtual communities have proliferated in recent years " a phenomenon triggered by technological developments and by the increased use of the internet. In some cases, these communities have created and circulated their own currency for exchanging the
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
'Lone Gunman': Suspicious Similarities, Norwegian, Australian, American Shooters
12-18-2012
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http://www.strike-the-root.com,by Douglas Herman
I rarely watch the most popular TV shows on American television, the CSI series, because I have a low tolerance for triviality. Behind every great crime, wrote Balzac, is a great fortune.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Events: America
DODGE CITY USA
12-18-2012
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http://ericmargolis.com, by Eric Margolis
After the massacre of 28 people at a Connecticut school" 20 of them children " Americans are bitterly asking themselves what has gone wrong in their country. School and work place shootings have become almost as common as sports events. What can be
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News Link • Gun Rights
Society Is Crumbling Right In Front Of Our Eyes And Banning Guns Won't Help
12-18-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
What in the world is happening to America?
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News Link • Afghanistan
Insight: Afghans turn to AK-47, fearing Taliban return or civil war
12-18-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Martin Petty
Afghan father-of-four Mohammad Nasir has a secret he's been keeping from his family.
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News Link • Bitcoin
"Elliptic Curve Cryptography, the Foundation of Bitcoin"
12-18-2012
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https://www.youtube.com, Matt Whitlock
On December 15, 2012, activist group Truth, Freedom, Prosperity hosted the East Coast Bitcoin Summit at Underground Arts in Philadelphia.
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News Link • Military
'Did We Just Kill A Kid?' " Six Words That Ended A US Drone Pilot's Career
12-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
The New Mexico desert gets blistering hot, but inside the small windowless container where Brandon Bryant worked as a drone operator for the U.S. Air Force it stays a cool 63 degrees all year long.
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News Link • Gun Rights
GunOwners of America
12-18-2012
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https://twitter.com
The only no-compromise pro gun lobby in Washington DC. Determined to fight tooth and nail to keep American freedom and liberty in all 50 states.
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News Link • Self-Defense
Oath Keepers to Provide Teachers With Free Firearms and Self-Defense Training
12-18-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, BarracudaTrader
Oath Keepers Founder, Stewart Rhodes, issued a statement:
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