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Date Sent: 2012-01-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, January 24, 2012 AM edition |
Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Obama Admin’s Effort to Conduct Warrantless GPS searches
Burial problems found at other VA cemeteries -- Fannie, Freddie
writedowns too costly: regulator -- Ron Paul Highlights in 1/23/12
Debate (Video) -- Ex-C.I.A. Agent Accused of Leaking Identity of Covert Officer -- Euro zone ministers reject private bondholders' Greece offer -- Marine pleads guilty, ending final Haditha trial -- Tibetans Fired Upon in Protest in China -- Pakistan Rejects U.S. Account of Clash That Ended With Airstrike -- Europe and U.S. Tighten Vise of Sanctions on Iran -- As Race Moves to Florida, Facing Political Implications of a Housing
Crisis -- By Land, Air and Sea, Freedoms Phoenix is on the Move (NEW
Mobile Studio 2min VIDEO) -- Crash More, Costa Less: Cruise Company Offers Crash Victims 30% Discount On Their Next Trip -- Recession and Black Swan Events -- It’s time to end the failed war on drugs -- David Stockman on Crony Capitalism -- Megaupload founder appears in New Zealand court seeking bail --
Yemen's president heads to U.S. for treatment -- A monkey explains the
popularity of Gingrich, Obama, and other scoundrels -- Paul skipping primary night in Florida -- Occupy Wall Street Meets the Tea Party -- Human Rights Watch Warns of Iraq’s ‘Budding Police State’ -- Voter Fraud: Dead People Cast Over 950 Ballots In South Carolina --
AZ: Obama to
visit Phoenix area on Wednesday, Jan. 25; Jan. 28, "God on Trial" Book
Signing; Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN 2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6
pm, Mesa Arts Center (BUY TICKETS NOW!)
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News Link • Police State
Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Obama Admin’s Effort to Conduct Warrantless GPS searches
01-23-2012
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www.jonathanturley.org
I previously wrote about the pending case of United States v. Jones and the effort of the Administration to establish precedent allowing the government to follow citizens with Global Positioning Devices (GPS) without any showing of probable cause.
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News Link • Surveillance
Supreme Court Court Rejects Willy-Nilly GPS Tracking
01-23-2012
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
The Supreme Court said Monday that law enforcement authorities might need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor its every move â€" but the justices did not say that a warrant was needed in all cases.
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News Link • Surveillance
Justices rule against police, say GPS surveillance requires search warrant
01-23-2012
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www.cnn.com
Police erred by not obtaining an extended search warrant before attaching a tracking device to a drug suspect's car, the Supreme Court said in a unanimous ruling Monday.
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Donna Hancock
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Reference Link • Bill of Rights
Yes! Supremes Throw Out GPS Surveillance!
Gene Kernan
In an essentially unanimous decision (Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, and Sotomayor joined. Sotomayor also filed a concurring opinion, and Alito filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Ginsb
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News Link • Military
Burial problems found at other VA cemeteries
01-23-2012
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Washington Post
The Department of Veterans Affairs has found scores of misplaced headstones and at least eight cases of people buried in the wrong places at several military cemeteries across the country.
The review by the VA’s National Cemetery Administration fo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Fannie, Freddie writedowns too costly: regulator
01-23-2012
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Reuters
The regulator for Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) and Freddie Mac (FMCC.OB) told lawmakers that forcing the government-controlled mortgage firms to write down the principal on underwater home loans would require more than $100 billion in fresh taxpayer funds.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
First patients shown to improve with embryonic stem cells
01-23-2012
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Reuters
Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart. She has suffered from Stargardt's disease, the most common form of macular degeneration in young patients, since she was a tee
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul Highlights in 1/23/12 Debate (Video)
01-23-2012
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StopTheLie.com
Visit RonPaulNow.com for previous Ron Paul highlights and other interviews.
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Ex-C.I.A. Agent Accused of Leaking Identity of Covert Officer
01-23-2012
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New York Times
The Justice Department on Monday charged a former Central Intelligence Agency officer with disclosing classified information to journalists about the capture and brutal interrogation of a suspected member of Al Qaeda, Abu Zubaydah â€" adding another ch
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News Link • Economy - International
Euro zone ministers reject private bondholders' Greece offer
01-23-2012
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Reuters
Euro zone finance ministers Monday rejected as insufficient an offer made by private bondholders to help restructure Greece's debts, sending negotiators back to the drawing board and raising the threat of Greek default.
At a meeting in Brussels, m
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Huge Solar Eruption Sparks Strongest Radiation Storm in 7 Years
01-23-2012
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LiveScience
A powerful solar eruption is expected to blast a stream of charged particles toward Earth tomorrow (Jan. 24), as the strongest radiation storm since 2005 rages on the sun.
Early this morning (0359 GMT Jan. 23, which corresponds to late Sunday, Jan
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News Link • Archaeology
Mysterious 'Winged' Structure from Ancient Rome Discovered
01-23-2012
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LiveScience
A recently discovered mysterious "winged" structure in England, which in the Roman period may have been used as a temple, presents a puzzle for archaeologists, who say the building has no known parallels.
Built around 1,800 years ago, the structur
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Marine pleads guilty, ending final Haditha trial
01-23-2012
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Reuters
The U.S. Marine sergeant accused of leading a massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha pleaded guilty on Monday to dereliction of duty, ending the final prosecution stemming from a 2005 incident that brought international condemnation of U.S. troops
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News Link • China
Tibetans Fired Upon in Protest in China
01-23-2012
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New York Times
Security forces opened fire on Tibetan protesters in western China on Monday, wounding at least 32 people and killing at least one of them in the largest violent confrontation in ethnic Tibetan areas of China since 2008, two Tibetan rights groups and
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News Link • Afghanistan
Pakistan Rejects U.S. Account of Clash That Ended With Airstrike
01-23-2012
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New York Times
Pakistan’s military issued an uncompromising formal rejection on Monday of the United States report last month on a contentious border exchange of fire that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, dealing a fresh blow to American hopes of reviving a troubled s
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News Link • Iran
Europe and U.S. Tighten Vise of Sanctions on Iran
01-23-2012
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New York Times
The European Union agreed to impose a phased ban on oil purchases from Iran that officials said was needed to help force a shift in policy and avert the risk of military strikes against Tehran, as the United States expanded its sanctions to include t
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News Link • Housing
As Race Moves to Florida, Facing Political Implications of a Housing Crisis
01-23-2012
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New York Times
When Mitt Romney swept into the contentious battleground state of Florida on Sunday, the first local issue he raised was the nation’s mortgage foreclosure crisis, which is arguably at its worst here, from this city on the northern coast to the ghost-
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Top Air Force scientist wants to 'peer into souls'
01-23-2012
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Terrence Aym
The United States Air Force's (USAF) top resident genius, Dr. Mark Maybury, wants to create a sensor network allowing operators to read the "hearts and minds" of enemies and predict future wars in advance.
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News Link • Humor
Diebold accidentally releases November Presidential election results
01-23-2012
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The Onion
Diebold spokesman: "We apologize to our shadowy overlords and ask for mercy."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Inventions
New See-Through Michelin Tire With No Value Stems and No Air
01-23-2012
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wfxd.com
The U.S. Military is seemingly always looking for a better technology, a better way for our troops. Announcing a new airless tire. I got a hold of some actual pictures in a South Carolina plant.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • World News
Crash More, Costa Less: Cruise Company Offers Crash Victims 30% Discount On Their Next Trip
01-23-2012
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www.jonathanturley.org
One can certainly understand why victims of the recently wreck of the Costa Concordia were a little put out by a recent offer.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Recession and Black Swan Events
01-23-2012
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Survivalblog.com
As the economy struggles through the next recession, we need to be alert for signals that the Federal Reserve has screwed up and overshot its goal of controlling deflation. A big miss with too much monetary expansion and the US economy could lurch i
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Why World War I Resonates
01-23-2012
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www.nytimes.com
The last old soldier or sailor has died and almost all of the witnesses have gone, but the war exerts a tenacious hold on the imagination.
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News Link • Drug War
It’s time to end the failed war on drugs
01-23-2012
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www.telegraph.co.uk
Over the past 50 years, more than $1 trillion has been spent fighting this battle, and all we have to show for it is increased drug use, overflowing jails, billions of pounds and dollars of taxpayers’ money wasted, and thriving crime syndicates. It i
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
When NatGeo talks, people listen - DOOMSDAY PREPPERS - new series airs 2/7/12
01-23-2012
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National Geographic
The more mainstream these ideals become, the better off people and the Nation will be! I'm looking forward to the show.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Action Figures - Instant Collector's Items - Limited Supply
01-23-2012
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RonPaulActionFigures.Com
A fundraising project of the RevolutionPAC - All proceeds go to support efforts to elect Ron Paul
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
David Stockman on Crony Capitalism
01-23-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com
Welcome. This week we’re continuing our exploration of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned its Back on the Middle Class.
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News Link • Internet
Megaupload founder appears in New Zealand court seeking bail
01-23-2012
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www.cnn.com
The founder of the shuttered file-sharing site Megaupload appeared in a New Zealand court Monday, as the U.S. Department of Justice seeks to extradite him and other company officials on criminal charges.
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News Link • World News
Yemen's president heads to U.S. for treatment
01-23-2012
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www.cnn.com
President Ali Abdullah Saleh left Yemen on Sunday and stopped in Oman before continuing Monday on a trip to the United States, Yemeni government sources said.
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Opinion • Political Theory
A monkey explains the popularity of Gingrich, Obama, and other scoundrels
01-23-2012
Menckens Ghost
You’ve no doubt seen the standing ovations for Newt Gingrich, the cheering and swooning for Barack Obama, and the similar cooing for other venal, lying, hypocritical, platitudinous, populist, egotistical, power-hungry, control-hungry, war-mongering p
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
TRENDING: Paul skipping primary night in Florida
01-23-2012
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www.politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
While the Republican presidential candidate and longtime congressman from Texas will attend both of the GOP debates being held in Florida this week (including a CNN debate on Thursday night in Jacksonville), Paul won't be in the Sunshine State on pri
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News Link • Constitution
Occupy Wall Street Meets the Tea Party.
01-12-2012
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Mike Holler, Tres Melton, and RockyMountainStreams
The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street see the same problem from different
perspectives. The problem is Fascism in America, which is not an epithet to
be tossed at those with whom we disagree, but the government of the United
States as it oper
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News Link • Iraq
Human Rights Watch Warns of Iraq’s ‘Budding Police State’
01-23-2012
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antiwar.com
Despite the Obama Administration’s claims that the US had transformed Iraq into a free society by way of its eight and a half year occupation, a new report today from Human Rights Watch warns of an unsettling move toward authoritarianism.
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News Link • World News
Actual Great Escape Tunnel Found
01-23-2012
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www.dailymail.co.uk
It has lain hidden for nearly 70 years and looks, to the untrained eye, like a building site. But this insignificant tunnel opening in the soft sand of western Poland represents one of the greatest examples of British wartime heroism. And the sensati
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Voter Fraud: Dead People Cast Over 950 Ballots In South Carolina
01-23-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Several more strange eyewitness stories emerge indicating potential widespread vote deception
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