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Date Sent: 2012-01-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, January 29, 2012 |
Police fire tear gas at Oakland, 200 arrested -- Megaupload users to sue FBI
For CIA family, a deadly suicide bombing leads to painful divisions -- AZ State & Maricopa County Republican Straw Poll Results Raise Disparity Questions -- Congress tries to police itself on insider trading -- Police roll out video surveillance truck called The Peacemaker -- Libyan PM calls for security meeting over weapons -- Euro, rich-poor gap proved key issues at Davos -- Egyptians move to reclaim streets through graffiti -- Paul says he has no intention of dropping out -- Officer shot, killed by fellow police in Calif. -- Family Battles Sex Assault Claim Against 6-Year-Old -- Washington's War on Syria -- America’s Constitutionalist Resistance Battles On -- Video (Rated R for frontal nudity) as Ukrainian women protest the World Economic Forum in Davos -- Targeting Iranian Nationals -- Politicians Lash Out, Wear Guy Fawkes Masks After EU Signs SOPA's Big Brother -- Former GE CEO Jack Welch Says Ron Paul Should Drop Out: ‘He’s Not A Party Regular’ -- FITCH GOES ON RAMPAGE: CUTS SPAIN, ITALY, BELGIUM, CYPRUS, AND SLOVENIA -- With Gov't Protection a Failure, Regular Mexicans Taking Up Illegal Guns
AZ: Sign
painting for Ron Paul right now -
'Revenge of the Patriots' - Noon til ?? Sun 1/29/12 - At the
Hancock's; today; Do You Know a Homeless Veteran? Arizona
Stand-down Can Help! Feb 3rd-5th at AVMC -- Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN 2012
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6 pm, Mesa Arts Center (BUY TICKETS
NOW!)
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News Link • Activism
Police fire tear gas at Oakland, 200 arrested
01-29-2012
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Reuters
Riot police fought running skirmishes with anti-Wall Street protesters on Saturday, firing tear gas and bean bag projectiles and arresting more than 200 people in clashes that injured three officers and at least one demonstrator.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Megaupload users to sue FBI
1/27/2012
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rt.com
First federal prosecutors said that the file-sharing site Megaupload was responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage to the music and film industry.
Users of the now defunct site are making allegations of their own now too â€" and
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
For CIA family, a deadly suicide bombing leads to painful divisions
01-29-2012
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Washington Post
The call from the Central Intelligence Agency came on a December afternoon in 2009 while Gary Anderson was skiing with his three children. It’s about your wife, the agency man said.
Standing inside Eagle Rock ski lodge in Pennsylvania, Anderson pl
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
AZ State & Maricopa County Republican Straw Poll Results Raise Disparity Questions
01-29-2012
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Ed Vallejo - AZ GOP PC & 'Volunteer'
How did Ron Paul go from 'Least acceptable candidate' to outright LANDSLIDE winner in one month?
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Congress tries to police itself on insider trading
01-29-2012
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AP
Aware that most Americans would like to dump them all, members of Congress hope to regain some sense of trust by subjecting themselves to tougher penalties for insider trading, prohibiting members of Congress from using nonpublic information for thei
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Police roll out video surveillance truck called The Peacemaker
01-29-2012
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Sun Sentinel
Tania Ouaknine is convinced the police are watching her.
She's not paranoid â€" it says as much on the red sign painted along the side on the hulking armored truck that's been parked in front of her eight-room Parisian Motel for several days.
"Wa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Libya
Libyan PM calls for security meeting over weapons
01-29-2012
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Reuters
Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib called on Sunday for a regional security conference to tackle a proliferation of weapons by exiled supporters of former leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The Libyan civil war may have given militant groups in Africa'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Euro, rich-poor gap proved key issues at Davos
01-29-2012
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AP
Europe's crippling debt crisis dominated the world's foremost gathering of business and political leaders, but for the first time the growing inequality between the planet's haves and have-nots became an issue, thanks largely to the Arab Spring upris
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Egyptians move to reclaim streets through graffiti
01-29-2012
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AP
The conflict between Egypt's ruling military and pro-democracy protesters isn't just on the streets of Cairo, it's on the walls as well, as graffiti artists from each side duel it out with spray paint and stencils.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul says he has no intention of dropping out
01-29-2012
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AP
Ron Paul said Saturday the Republican presidential race has "a ways to go" and he doesn't intend to get out or get behind another candidate anytime soon.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Officer shot, killed by fellow police in Calif.
01-29-2012
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AP
A police officer under investigation for sexual misconduct with a teenage minor was shot and killed while on duty by fellow officers as they tried to arrest him on California's central coast, authorities said. The officer was manning a DUI checkpoint
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Hercules Family Battles Sex Assault Claim Against 6-Year-Old
01-29-2012
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CBS News
An dad claims a game of tag on the playground resulted in his 6-year-old son being was kept in the principal’s office for 2 hours until he confessed. He was suspended, and a sexual battery charge was placed on his permanent school record.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Sign painting for Ron Paul - 'Revenge of the Patriots' - Noon til ?? Sun 1/29/12
01-29-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
There will be a sign painting party at the Hancock's this Sunday from Noon til ?? to paint Ron Paul Patriot signs that will be shipped to Indiana - they will be put up by activists there to blanket around the Superbowl!
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
America’s Constitutionalist Resistance Battles On
01-29-2012
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Canada Free Press
[Good Read] With the Republican primaries having devolved to the Establishment’s preferred scenario, and all the Tea Party-favored candidates having been either eliminated or marginalized, some are beginning to ask an unavoidable question: Was the co
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Activism
Video (Rated R for frontal nudity) as Ukrainian women protest the World Economic Forum in Davos
01-29-2012
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The Political Commentator
If there has to be peaceful protest, let it all look something like this!
These women are protesting the fact that women have an extremely small share of the representation at the table both at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos and at the ta
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Internet
Politicians Lash Out, Wear Guy Fawkes Masks After EU Signs SOPA's Big Brother
1/27/2012
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Maximum PC
With all the headlines about SOPA and PIPA, it's easy to forget that President Obama already signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement way back in October. ACTA bypassed the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Police State
New Mexico driver arrested and forgotten in jail for two years
1/28/2012
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rt.com
A 58-year-old New Mexico man has been awarded $22 million in one of the largest ever federal civil rights settlements of its kind. For 22 months, Stephen Slevin was held in solitary confinement and never brought to trial.
He wasn’t the victim of the
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Former GE CEO Jack Welch Says Ron Paul Should Drop Out: ‘He’s Not A Party Regular’
01-28-2012
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www.mediaite.com
Former GE CEO Jack Welch and his wife Suzy appeared on CNN’s Starting Point and told host Soledad O’Brien that they were calling upon Ron Paul to drop out of the race â€" although all of their kids were for Ron Paul!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
FITCH GOES ON RAMPAGE: CUTS SPAIN, ITALY, BELGIUM, CYPRUS, AND SLOVENIA
01-28-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
In Fitch's opinion, the eurozone crisis will only be resolved as and when there is broad economic recovery. It is evident that further substantial reforms of the governance of the eurozone will be required to secure economic and financial stability,
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
With Gov't Protection a Failure, Regular Mexicans Taking Up Illegal Guns
01-28-2012
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NPR
Law-abiding Mexicans who want a gun to defend themselves have no good options. Either they fight government red tape to get a legal permit, or they buy one on the black market.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Passenger Gets $1 After Excessive Cop Tasering
01-28-2012
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The Newspaper
A passenger who walked away from a traffic stop in Barling, Arkansas was tasered and beaten by local police. Though the force used was excessive, a federal judge ruled on December 27 that Derrol Dee Kirby III should only get $1 for his pain and suffe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Fmr Obama staffer accused of stealing ID of Iowa secretary of state
01-28-2012
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Yahoo! News blog
A former staffer for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has been charged with attempting to steal the identity of Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz in a scheme to frame the official in some sort of illegal activity.
The Iowa Department of Pub
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Navy wants commando ‘mothership’ in Middle East
01-28-2012
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Washington Post
The Pentagon is rushing to send a large floating base for commando teams to the Middle East as tensions rise with Iran, al-Qaeda in Yemen and Somali pirates, among other threats.
The Navy is converting an aging warship into a makeshift staging base
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Corruption in Vatican Budget Revealed
01-28-2012
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arclein
another letter to the pope on April 4, 2011, Vigano says he discovered the management of some Vatican City investments was entrusted to two funds managed by a committee of Italian bankers "who looked after their own interests more than ours."
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robert klein
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
"Sh*t People Say" Contest: Liberty Theme
01-25-2012
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Silver Underground
There’s this meme floating around on YouTube. There’s these videos satirizing the ridiculous things people say, usually broken down by demographic. Shit white people say. Shit black people say. Shit rich people say. Shit hipsters say. Shit zombies sa
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Megan Duffield
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News Link • Gun Rights
NJ Assembly Committee To Consider Ammo Ban In The Name Of Police Safety
01-27-12
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AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
Common hunting, target, and self-defense ammunition would be subject to ban under A588, along with BB’s, airgun pellets, and plastic airsoft pellets...
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Fredy Riehl
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News Link • Police State
Breaking: LAX FEMA Rendition Site Confirmed
01-27-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Alex presents newly exposed footage filmed at LAX airport in Los Angeles confirming a ‘rendition hub’ capable of processing thousands of people per hour from straight off the tarmac and other transportation points.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Active duty cop: ‘The war on drugs is a war on people’
01-27-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Speaking to Raw Story recently, an active duty police officer who asked not to be named threw down the gauntlet over the part of his job he hates most: the drug war.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA to pull officer from NYPD after internal probe
01-27-2012
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www.miamiherald.com
The inspector general opened its investigation after a series of AP articles that revealed how the NYPD, working in close collaboration with the CIA, set up spying operations that put Muslim communities under scrutiny.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Pic Of Sleeping Sub Nets Student Suspension
01-27-2012
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Mustang Public Schools officials said a ninth-grader snapped a photo of a snoozing substitute with a cellphone last Friday at Mustang Mid-High School.
The student was later suspended.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
The Three Biggest Lies the Government Is Telling You
01-27-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Charles Goyette
...our current crisis has been chiefly enabled by monetary policy, fiscal policy, and the global military empire.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Twitter announces it will censor some tweets; activists worried
01-27-2012
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www.nydailynews.com
Policy would allow same message to be seen in some countries but not others
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Donna Hancock
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