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Date Sent: 2011-01-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, January 26, 2011 AM edition |
Gitmo detainee gets life sentence -- Obama Picks Copyright Enforcer As Solicitor General
Activists get screwed by police -- I was arrested for stealing my own car, says Bronx man who is suing NYPD -- US can’t link Julian Assange to Bradley Manning: report -- UK Report: Time to 'Move On' from Climategate -- Google Comes Under Fire for 'Secret' Relationship with NSA -- SEC probing statements on Illinois pension -- Leaked Document: US General Aware of Torture -- Sentence challenged in leading terror-support case -- Blackwater suit tossed 7 years after grisly deaths -- Ohio is latest state switching drugs for executions -- BofA's Countrywide sued, accused of massive fraud -- Trial set for ringleader of rogue Afghanistan Army unit -- Yes, You CAN Beat IRS -- Cops and Citizens – Who’s Killing Who? -- The Probate Murders -- GOP pushes for ISPs to record all user
activity for later review by police -- Lawmakers approve bill to
let Glendale steal Tohono O'odham land -- The Global Fund and UNDP Under
Investigation for Missing Millions -- Rand Paul - National
Right To Work Act -- Identity
Ecosystem? The Outline For Obama's "Trusted Identity" Plan --
Massive So. Cal. Urban Warfare Center: Who They Training To Kill Now?
-- Stuart Vener-Real Estate and
Mortgage Expert / Chris Bliss-MyBillOfRights.org Executive Director --
Senator Murkowski Showing Her True Colors? -- Eleven Cops Shot Nationwide in 24 Hours;
feeling paranoid -- Adam & Pete from Liberty on Tour are
BOTH in a Cage! -- There's An App For
That . . . But There Shouldn't Be -- Carnegie Touts Green
Credentials Of Genghis Khan For Slaughtering 40 Million People
National: FREE PETE – Wearing a Hat
is NOT a Crime
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Gitmo detainee gets life sentence in embassy plot
01-25-2011
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AP
The first, and possibly the last, Guantanamo detainee to have a U.S. civilian trial was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, a case that nearly unraveled when the defendant was convicted on just one of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Internet Whacked: Obama Picks Copyright Enforcer As Solicitor General
01-25-2011
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rawstory.com
During his private practice, Verrilli had been involved in a number of prominent cases involving online file-sharing and copyright infringement, arguing on behalf of the recording and entertainment industry.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Activists get screwed by police
01-26-2011
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The Guardian
Women activists are to blockade Scotland Yard today, intending to demand to know the identity of any undercover police who have infiltrated their organizations [and their pants]. As evidence continued to emerge of police officers having had sexual re
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
I was arrested for stealing my own car, says Bronx man who is suing NYPD
01-26-2011
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AP
Four months later, Prince says, he found the Yukon, parked three blocks from the stationhouse.
He drove off, thinking everything was okay, but cops rolled up to his home and arrested him a week later - accusing him of removing police property with
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
US can’t link Julian Assange to Bradley Manning: report
01-26-2011
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Rawstory
One avenue by which the United States could press charges against Julian Assange appeared to have closed Monday, with US military officials' admission that they can't find a link between the WikiLeaks founder and PFC Bradley Manning, the alleged sour
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
UK Report: Time to 'Move On' from Climategate
01-26-2011
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LiveScience
A new report by a U.K. House of Commons committee maintains "some reservations" about previous investigations into "Climategate," the leaking of thousands of e-mails between climate researchers. Despite these reservations, the committee recommends mo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Google Comes Under Fire for 'Secret' Relationship with NSA
01-26-2011
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PC World
The group asked Issa to investigate contracts at several U.S. agencies for Google technology and services, the "secretive" relationship between Google and the U.S. National Security Agency, and the company's use of a U.S. National Aeronautics and Spa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
SEC probing statements on Illinois pension
01-26-2011
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Reuters
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission launched an inquiry into statements put out by the state of Illinois regarding the potential long-term savings from a pension reform law, a spokeswoman for Governor Pat Quinn said on Tuesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Leaked Document: US General Aware of Torture
01-26-2011
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AP
A senior U.S. military officer who oversaw the training of Palestinian security forces in the West Bank was aware that some engaged in the torture of detainees. The transcript of a 2009 meeting between Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton and chief Palestinian nego
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Sentence challenged in leading terror-support case
01-26-2011
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AP
In 2002, Mohamad Hammoud was found guilty of raising money for the militant group Hezbollah under a law prohibiting aid to designated terrorist groups. But he has been awaiting a new judgment since the 2005 Supreme Court ruling that determined that f
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Blackwater suit tossed 7 years after grisly deaths
01-26-2011
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AP
U.S. District Judge James C. Fox said court-ordered arbitration fell apart because neither side was paying the [lawyers] costs of that process, so he decided to shut the case nearly seven years after the killings.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Ohio is latest state switching drugs for executions
01-26-2011
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Reuters
Ohio said on Tuesday it would join other U.S. states in switching to a drug for executions often used to euthanize pets, after a U.S. company bowed to European Union pressure and stopped making a preferred drug.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
BofA's Countrywide sued, accused of massive fraud
01-26-2011
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Reuters
The investors bought hundreds of millions of dollars of Countrywide securities they thought were "conservative, low-risk investments." Countrywide misrepresented the securities' safety and compromised their investments by ignoring its underwriting gu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Trial set for ringleader of rogue Afghanistan Army unit
01-26-2011
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Reuters
Army Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs is charged with premeditated murder and assaulting unarmed Afghan civilians, as well as with cutting off fingers from corpses and beating a fellow soldier who had alerted superiors to widespread hashish use in his uni
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Yes, You CAN Beat IRS
01-25-2011
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Gene Kernan TheAmericanRepublic.com
On January 21, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the dismissal of 2 (out of 21) counts in a lawsuit brought against “the” United States for IRS misconduct. This is the second time that the D.C. Ci
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Gene Kernan
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Opinion • Police State
Cops and Citizens " Who’s Killing Who?
01-25-2011
David Alpha
Police apologists around the nation are exploiting the deaths of officers in a brazen attempt to collectively play victim, while daring to blame the people for waging a “war on cops.” “There's a perception among officers in the field that there’s a w
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News Link • Corruption
Probate Murders Part 3
01-25-11
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The PPJ Gazette
For over six years, the Golins have been fighting for the safe return of their daughter, who was put under conservatorship in a hearing fraught with fraud and false testimony on the part of the state. Along the way, Jeff and Elsie Golin were arrested
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Corruption
The Probate Murders: Part Two Melodie Scott and the State of California"In the Business of Death?
01-25-11
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The PPJ Gazette
Time after time, C.A.R.E. has filed for conservatorship of elderly women, left vulnerable after the death of a spouse, with offspring or other family members either out of state or otherwise absent from the picture. When there are family members pres
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Corruption
The Probate Murders: Part One
01-25-11
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The PPJ Gazette
ISOLATE " IMMOBILIZE " EUTHANIZE
“Mom just wasn’t dying fast enough,” states Megan, and those who had the family fortune in their sights needed to do something about that, in order to secure the money.
Over protestations from Megan, the mother
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Internet
GOP pushes for ISPs to record all user activity for later review by police
01/25/2011
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godlikeproductions.com
GOP pushing for ISPs to record user data
The House Republicans' first major technology initiative is about to be unveiled: a push to force Internet companies to keep track of what their users are doing.
A House panel chaired by Rep. F. James S
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Lawmakers approve bill to let Glendale steal Tohono O'odham land
01-25-2011
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Capitol Media Services
With only 1 Republican opposed, the state House voted to let Glendale annex land now owned by the Tohono O'odham Nation in a last-ditch bid to prevent the tribe from building a casino there. The 39-21 vote came over the objections of Rep. Eddie Farns
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • United Nations
The Global Fund and UNDP Under Investigation for Missing Millions
01-25-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
Against an ambiance of somber music with a few upbeat notes suggestive of hope, Bono appears on our flat-screen TVs and softly intones, “Through the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, over three-and-a-half thousand lives are saved e
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Politics
Rand Paul - National Right To Work Act
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www.drscoundrels.com
Rand Paul is backing the National Right To Work Act that will work to propagate the ability for people to choose whether or not to support unions. This is an act that is important to have a national discussion on due to the changing nature of the wor
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Surveillance
Identity Ecosystem? The Outline For Obama's "Trusted Identity" Plan
01-25-2011
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arstechnica.com/
On Friday the United States Department of Commerce and a host of privacy and security experts met at Stanford University to discuss the mapping out of an "Identity Ecosystem" for cyberspace.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
Massive So. Cal. Urban Warfare Center: Who They Training To Kill Now?
01-25-2011
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news.yahoo.com/
A 1,560-building mock city that's roughly the size of San Diego has risen in the Southern California desert.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Senator Murkowski Showing Her True Colors?
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www.drscoundrels.com
Lisa Murkowski promised to get out of the race if she lost the primary. Lisa ran as an independent promising to support the GOP, promising to stay conservative like the Alaskan voters wanted. Lisa won based on ideals that the voters bought - lock, st
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Eleven Cops Shot Nationwide in 24 Hours; feeling paranoid
01-25-2011
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Officer.com
The slaying of two police officers as they helped serve a warrant stunned a state already mourning police deaths in Miami and capped a bloody 24 hours nationwide that saw 11 officers shot in five states.
"That's not normal," said Steven Groenin
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Surveillance
There's An App For That -- But There Shouldn't Be
01-25-2011
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National Motorists Association
We reported a few newsletters ago (Issue #93) that the overwhelmed police department in Delhi, India is encouraging people to post alleged traffic violations to the department’s Facebook page.
Now Shazam co-founder Philip Inghelbrecht has upped th
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Police State
Keene Cops Assault, Kidnap Man for Wearing Hat
01-25-2011
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freekeene.com
It’s happened again. Last time was in Milford, two years ago. This morning a peaceful activist, Pete, was assaulted and kidnapped by armed men because he was wearing a hat. Copblock.org has a full report. Here’s video, first inside the court:
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Climate Change
Carnegie Touts Green Credentials Of Genghis Khan For Slaughtering 40 Million People
01-25-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Massive depopulation led to lower CO2 emissions, increased forest growth
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Sierra Hancock
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Reference Link • Justice and Judges
FREE PETE " Wearing a Hat is NOT a Crime
http://www.copblock.org
This morning, two activist from Keene, NH had court for different reasons. As is common in Keene several other folks show up to support those who are facing justice from the man which is why Pete and I were in court, even though it was -15 degrees (s
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Drew
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