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Date Sent: 2013-01-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, January 24, 2013 AM edition |
Pupil expelled after finding ‘sloppy coding’ that compromised security
House passes 'no budget, no pay' bill, but is it unconstitutional? -- Women in combat: Will they have to register for the draft? -- White House says it will proceed with Gen. John Allen’s nomination to become NATO commander -- The last hope for filibuster reformers is…Mitch McConnell? -- Stealing is not stealing, and six months is life -- Leveson: EU wants power to sack journalists -- Financial Crisis Suit Suggests Bad Behavior at Morgan Stanley -- Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin Interviews Emmy Award-Winning Whistle Blower Amber Lyon --
Growing List of Sheriffs Saying ‘NO’ to Obama Gun Control -- Donald
Trump Exploring Improbable Ways He Might Buy the New York Times -- NYPD Commissioner says department will begin testing a new high-tech device -- Google teams with Biden to host ‘fireside’ video chat on gun control -- Google Complies With Government Requests for User Data 88% of the Time -- Cuba's mystery fiber-optic Internet cable stirs to life -- Tiger Woods admits he left California because of high tax rates -- Hillary Clinton: Habitual Liar
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Pupil expelled after finding ‘sloppy coding’ that compromised security
01-23-2013
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A student has been expelled from Montreal’s Dawson College after he discovered a flaw in the computer system used by most Quebec Colleges, one which compromised the security of over 250,000 students’ personal information.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
House passes 'no budget, no pay' bill, but is it unconstitutional?
01-23-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
The House passed its “no budget, no pay” bill, which suspends the debt ceiling and calls upon both chambers of Congress to pass a budget resolution for fiscal year 2014 by April 15. If lawmakers miss that deadline their salaries are withheld.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Draft
Women in combat: Will they have to register for the draft?
01-23-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
Now that the Pentagon is lifting its ban on women in combat, does this mean that women could potentially be drafted, too? When women turn 18, will they now need to register, as men do, so that they can be conscripted in the event of a World War
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House says it will proceed with Gen. John Allen’s nomination to become NATO commander
01-23-2013
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Washington Post
The White House said Wednesday it will go ahead with Gen. John Allen’s nomination to become commander of NATO forces in Europe, following his exoneration in a Pentagon investigation of questionable email exchanges with a Florida woman
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
The last hope for filibuster reformers is…Mitch McConnell?
01-23-2013
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Washington Post
Reid has embraced a carrot-and-stick strategy on the filibuster reform. The “carrot” is the deal he’s offering McConnell. Its major provisions include eliminating filibusters on the motion to proceed and speeding the process of breaking filibusters a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Stealing is not stealing, and six months is life
01-23-2013
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Wendy McElroy
US Attorney Carmen Ortiz is now busy attempting to absolve herself from any responsibility for Aaron Swartz's suicide. (This is the 2nd suicide for her colleague, Stephen Heymann, which may explain his silence.) Her defenses are bullshit.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Leveson: EU wants power to sack journalists
01-23-2013
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Daily Telegraph
A European Union report has urged tight press regulation and demanded that Brussels officials are given control of national media supervisors with new powers to enforce fines or the sacking of journalists.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Financial Crisis Suit Suggests Bad Behavior at Morgan Stanley
01-23-2013
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New York Times
On March 16, 2007, Morgan Stanley employees working on one of the toxic assets that helped blow up the world economy discussed what to name it. “Subprime Meltdown,” “Hitman,” “Nuclear Holocaust” and “Mike Tyson’s Punchout,”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin Interviews Emmy Award-Winning Whistle Blower Amber Lyon
01-23-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Christina Tobin of Free & Equal interviews Amber Lyon, Emmy Award winning journalist and whistle blower. Free & Equal has been on the fore front against the limited choices that We The People have been stuck with thanks to the two party duopoly sitt
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gun Rights
Growing List of Sheriffs Saying ‘NO’ to Obama Gun Control
01-23-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Sheriffs have risen up all over our great nation to stand up against the unconstitutional gun control measures being taken.
The following is a list of sheriffs and state sheriff’s associations from who have vowed to uphold and defend the Constitut
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Donald Trump Exploring Improbable Ways He Might Buy the New York Times
01-23-2013
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nymag.com
Donald Trump has spent a lot of time in the last year trying to make news, first with his birther obsession, and more recently demanding comedian Bill Maher pay him $5 million.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
NYPD Commissioner says department will begin testing a new high-tech device
01-23-2013
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.nydailynews.com
The device, which tests for terahertz radiation, is small enough to be placed in a police vehicle or stationed at a street corner where gunplay is common
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News Link • Gun Rights
Google teams with Biden to host ‘fireside’ video chat on gun control
01-23-2013
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washingtonexaminer.com
Google is teaming up with Vice President Joe Biden to host a video conversation with voters about gun control.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Internet
Google Complies With Government Requests for User Data 88% of the Time
01-23-2013
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weeklystandard.com
Internet company Google complies with requests for user data 88 percent of the time government asks, according to data released today by Google.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Cuba
Cuba's mystery fiber-optic Internet cable stirs to life
01-23-2013
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Reuters
An undersea fiber-optic cable that promises to bring Cuban Internet and phone communications into the 21st Century stirred to life this week, two years after it was laid between Venezuela and the Caribbean island.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Politics
The Republican Party seeks to learn from its mistakes"and it wants your help
1/23/2013
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Yahoo News
You think they're really listening?? HAH I doubt it. But lets give them a large dose of libertarian or anarchism anyway. To kick off this week's Republican National Committee's winter strategy session, which will focus in part on how to broaden t
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • TAXES: State
Tiger Woods admits he left California because of high tax rates
01-23-2013
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dailymail.co.uk
Tiger Woods said today that the reason he left California in the mid-Nineties was because the state's taxes were too high.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Hillary Clinton: Habitual Liar
01-23-2013
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patriotupdate.com
I’ve decided to reprint a piece of work I did nearly five years ago, because it seems very relevant today given Hillary Clinton’s performance in the Benghazi hearings.
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Reference Link • Gun Rights
The Truth About Assault Weapons
http://www.assaultweapon.info/
Prior to 1989, the term "assault weapon" did not exist in the lexicon of firearms. It is a political term, developed by anti-gun publicists to expand the category of "assault rifles."
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Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
State of Mind: The Psychology of Control (Documentary coming March 1, 2013)
01-22-2013
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IMDb.Com
Are we controlled? To what extent and by whom? What does it mean for humanity's future? (Documentary - Head Writer, Richard Grove of Tragedy & Hope and Peace Revolution Podcast)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Climate Change
Snowpocalypse Russia
01-22-2013
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arclein
On Friday, Moscow was on a verge of traffic collapse as more than 10 inches of snow fell on the city, which is more than half of January’s average.
Thousands of passengers were stranded overnight in the capital’s major airports, as several dozen f
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robert klein
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News Link • Police State
CopBlock.org Protection Membership
01-21-2013
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www.copblock.org
CopBlock.org Protection Members have peace of mind knowing that if they ever have police interaction a CopBlock.org Protection Specialist will work directly with them to highlight the member’s encounter with law enforcement.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
The Rockefeller Foundation's Molecular Vision of Life
01-22-2013
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Cholesterol and Health
How the Aims of Eugenics, Social Control, and Human Engineering Shaped Molecular Biology and 20th Century Science
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • History
Peace Revolution episode 068: From Feudalism to Agenda 21 by Richard Grove
01-22-2013
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Peace Revolution Podcast by Richard Grove
Richard Grove (Tragedy & Hope and Peace Revolution Podcast) on this history of how we got to where we are today. Includes information from Rosa Koire, Walter Veith, Webster Tarpley, Henrik Palmgren, Leonard C. Lewin and more.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Vin Suprynowicz's Columns Archive
Clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right
01-22-2013
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vinsuprynowicz.com
It’s been half a century since Jack Finney’s 1954 novel (and Don Siegel’s 1956 film adaptation) “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” introduced us to the notion of “pod people” " creatures that look like our neighbors but turn out to be pod-grown clones
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. begins transporting French troops, equipment to Mali
01-22-2013
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Reuters
The United States has started transporting French soldiers and equipment to Mali as part of its logistical aid to French forces fighting Islamist militants in the north of the country, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death
Japanese Finance Minister: Government Should Let Old People 'Hurry Up And Die'
01-22-2013
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Business Insider
Japan's finance minister Taro Aso said Monday the elderly should be allowed to "hurry up and die" instead of costing the government money for end-of-life medical care.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • China
Revolutionary Japan is suddenly the centre of world affairs
01-22-2013
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Daily Telegraph
Takahasi was the first of his era to tear up rule book completely. He took Japan off gold in December 1931. He ran "Keynesian" budget deficits deliberately, launching a New Deal blitz before Franklin Roosevelt took office.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Mega-Rich Golfer Phil Mickelson Complains About His Tax Rate, Hints He Might Move Out Of California
01-22-2013
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Business Insider
Phil Mickelson has set the golf world atwitter with comments about his tax rate.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Newspapers Are So Poor, They're Leasing Out Laid Off Reporters' Desks
01-22-2013
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The Atlantic Wire
A new trend of newspapers running tiny real estate business by leasing out abandoned areas of their offices. Those areas are abandoned because the papers have been slashing staff and those jobs just aren't going to come back.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China Already Has A Plan To Sink The US Fleet In Any Upcoming Battles
01-22-2013
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Business Insider
As the U.S. makes clear it will defend Japan should China try and lay claim to the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, this Chinese announcement from mid-2012 offers additional perspective.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Internet
Kim Dotcom - Mega is Live! Are you signing up?
01-22-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Mega is a free service just launched by Kim Dotcom, the creator of Megaupload whose mansion was raided over piracy allegations.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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