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Date Sent: 2011-05-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, May 24, 2011 PM edition |
Death Squad Damage Control in Tucson - by Will Grigg -- Highway Robbery
"Toward a Police Reform Movement" - by L. Neil Smith -- Saudi woman accused of inciting others to defy driving ban -- Housing Cheerleaders Whacked: New Home Sales Off 23 Percent From 2010 -- Oath Keepers Speaks Out Against Bradley Manning's Treatment -- First guilty plea in US online poker case -- Federal judges OK with en masse guilty pleas for illegal immigrants
-- Taxpayer's pay for foreign airline purchases of American jetliners
-- Terry Bressi - Border/Immigration - Checkpoint USA -
www.checkpointusa.org -- Stunning 360 Degree Images of Abandoned
Property Sites in Detroit -- "America's Poor Have To Make A Choice" Pay
For Gas Or Their Mortgage -- Pinal County Sheriff’s Office To Take Biometrics To The Street
-- Payments and the disappearing cash register: Your phone is your
wallet -- Congress to Authorize Perpetual War With No End -- New Citizens Pay A Biometric Fee to Become Slaves In Amerika -- Obama's Own Assassination Crew: Joint Special Operations Command -- Obama Administration Thinks Gift Cards Should Be Registered and Tracked -- DC Police Claim Man in Wheelchair Fell -- Spanish Voters Reject Austerity -- Obama Genuflects to AIPAC -- Test for Life Expectancy
CA: Jordan Page Concert, Thursday May
26th 8pm in Los Angeles
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Death Squad Damage Control in Tucson - by Will Grigg
05-24-2011
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Pro Liberate
People seeking to defend the manifestly indefensible often sabotage themselves by disclosing critical details that undermine their argument. Mike Storie, the police union lawyer representing the SWAT operators who murdered Jose Guerena in his home on
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Highway Robbery
05-24-2011
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The Agitator (video)
Note that even if you buy into this crap"that the drug war is worth fighting, and that asset forfeiture is an essential part of fighting it"the cops are letting the drugs go in order to pursue the cash. And that’s not just in Tennessee.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"Toward a Police Reform Movement" - by L. Neil Smith
05-24-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
When you see 3 police cars pulled over at the side of a city street to deal with a single miscreant bicycle rider, you realize there are too many cops. When all the heroes on television carry badges and a government franchise, you know we're in real
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Saudi woman accused of inciting others to defy driving ban
05-24-2011
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AFP
A Saudi woman has been charged with inciting females to defy a driving ban, a "violation" for which the penalty remains unclear and that is not covered by a clear law. She was arrested while driving a day after she posted a video showing her driving.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Housing Cheerleaders Whacked: New Home Sales Off 23 Percent From 2010
05-24-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Sales of new one-family houses in April 2011 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 323,000 ... This is 7.3 percent (±16.6%)* above the revised March rate of 301,000, but is 23.1 percent (±9.7%) below the April 2010 estimate of 420,000.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Torture
Oath Keepers Speaks Out Against Bradley Manning's Treatment
05-24-2011
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Slate
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and director of Oath Keepers. "He hasn't been convicted of anything!" Rhodes said of Manning. "Look, you shouldn't be punished until you're convicted. It's ridiculous to put him in isolation. And what's happening is happen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
First guilty plea in US online poker case
05-24-2011
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AFP
Bradley Franzen, 41, pleaded guilty in a Manhattan court to bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling offenses. Franzen was one of 11 people charged in a crackdown on the 3 largest online poker companies operating in the USA.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Federal judges OK with en masse guilty pleas for illegal immigrants
05-24-2011
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Capitol Media Services
At the heart of the dispute is Operation Streamline. Under that system, a group of up to 70 people accused of misdemeanor violations of illegally entering the United States have their initial appearance, guilty pleas and sentencing in a single hearin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Corporate
Taxpayer's pay for foreign airline purchases of American jetliners
05-24-2011
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Wendy McElroy
The federal government is now in the commercial airline loan guarantee business to aid Boeing with sales of its 737 jet to foreign airlines. The feds will payoff the loan if a foreign airline defaults in paying for a jet. [it gets worse]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stunning 360 Degree Images of Abandoned Property Sites in Detroit
05-24-2011
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globaleconomicanalysis & photo.photojpl.com/
Please take a look at this link of a 360 degree photo tour of several spots in or around Detroit, including the abandoned Michigan Central Train station.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
"America's Poor Have To Make A Choice" Pay For Gas Or Their Mortgage
05-24-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The Fed's uberthinkers, in this case Elizabeth Duke: "Families, particularly those with low-to-moderate incomes, are actually facing the decision between buying gas to drive long distances to work and paying their mortgage."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Pinal County Sheriff’s Office To Take Biometrics To The Street
05-24-2011
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SanTanValleyToday.com
PCSO plans to implement the technology in the field to enable patrol deputies, detectives and SWAT members to verify the identity, and access criminal background, on suspects using a hand-held, wireless and multi-modal (iris, fingerprint and facial).
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Payments and the disappearing cash register: Your phone is your wallet
05-24-2011
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betanews.com
We'll be examining such trends as the shift to digital payment systems, near field communications (NFC), as well as Point of Sale software and security. All of these factors will contribute to the eventual obsolescence of the old-fashioned cash till.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Congress to Authorize Perpetual War With No End
05-20-2011
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J. D. Heyes NaturalNews
Defense spending legislation currently pending before Congress could lead to “the single biggest hand-over of unchecked war authorityfrom Congress to the executive branch in modern American history,” the ACLU has warned. Here’s what it does in a nuts
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Surveillance
Say What: New Citizens Pay A Biometric Fee to Become Slaves In Amerika
05-24-2011
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SignOnSanDiego.com
The total cost to apply for naturalization, which includes a biometrics fee, is currently $680.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Own Assassination Crew: Joint Special Operations Command
05-24-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
Known as "JSOC" -- Joint Special Operations Command. They report directly to the president and, as National Journal reporter Marc Ambinder put it "operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential direction.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Agriculture
Study Reveals Incas Prospered Thanks to Llama Poop
05-23-2011
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Hispanic News
New research identifies llama dung as the key to the success of the Incan empire before the arrival of Europeans in South America.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Surveillance
Obama Administration Thinks Gift Cards Should Be Registered and Tracked
05-24-2011
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AZcentral.com
A safer and increasingly attractive alternative for today's criminal is electronic cash loaded on stored-value or prepaid cards. Getting them doesn't require a bank account, and many types can be used anonymously.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Gasoline Prices Painful For 4 in 10
05-24-2011
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AZcentral.com
Overall in the poll, 71 percent said rising prices will cause some hardship for them and their family, including 41 percent who called it a "serious" hardship. Just 29 percent said rising prices are not causing a negative impact on their finances.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
DC Police Claim Man in Wheelchair Fell
05-24-2011
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http://www.copblock.org
On Thursday, May 19, the Metro Transit Police on routine patrol at the U St. Metrorail station observed a patron in a wheelchair drinking an alcoholic beverage. The officers asked the patron to leave the area and he refused. The officers then att
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Drew
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News Link • Science
New Light on Permian Extinction
05-24-2011
During the end-Permian extinction, some 250 million years ago, entire groups of animals and plants either vanished altogether or decreased significantly in numbers, and the recovery of the survivors was at times slow and prolonged before new radiatio
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Activated Graphite Oxide Supercapacitors
05-24-2011
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arclein
they expand using microwaves to generate what they have dubbed "microwave-expanded graphite oxide" (MEGO). The MEGO is then treated with potassium hydroxide so that its surface is covered (or decorated) with the chemical. After heating at 800 °C fo
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Test for Life Expectancy
05-24-2011
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arclein
A blood test that can show how fast someone is ageing " and offers the tantalising possibility of estimating how long they have left to live " is to go on sale to the general public in Britain later this year.
The controversial test measures vit
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Hyper-thermal Earth
05-24-2011
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arclein
The hyperthermals took place roughly every 400,000 years during a warm period of Earth's history that prevailed some 50 million years ago. The strongest of them coincided with an event known as the Paleocene"Eocene Thermal Maximum, the transition be
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robert klein
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Reference Link • Economy - Economics USA
Financial Repression: The New Buzzword
The International Monetary Fund
"Financial repression includes directed lending to government by captive domestic audiences, caps on interest rates, regulation of cross-border capital movements, and a tighter connection between government and banks." PDF download.
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