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Date Sent: 2012-04-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, April 18, 2012 AM edition |
DOJ review of flawed FBI forensics processes lacked transparency
CU Hopes To Snuff Out 4/20 Pot Event -- Tax time pushes some Americans to give up citizenship -- Milledgeville Police Handcuff 6-Year-Old Girl for Misbehaving at School -- Secret Service detains reporter who asked Gingrich about Fox News -- Frenzied Hours for U.S. on Fate of a China Insider -- Afghanistan wants written US pledge on funding, raising new hurdle to partnership pact -- Several nations trying to penetrate U.S. cyber-networks, says ex-FBI official -- Secret Service looking into Ted Nugent violent anti-Obama message --
Egypt’s election commission ejects front-runners from presidential race
-- Debauchery: An American specialty -- SpaceX Given Green Light for
First Launch to Space Station -- All transactions to be conducted in the
presence of a tax collector -- Undercover TSA on Houston TX buses -- Why is it the Government’s
Business? -- As Italy's value implodes, those with gold send it out
of the country to Switzerland -- Rabbis For Violence,
Brutality and Abuse -- Blowback Fears
Grow over US Drone Program in Yemen
AZ: Becoming an Arizona GOP Delegate for
Ron Paul
MARV Raffle: The Evolution Continues
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
DOJ review of flawed FBI forensics processes lacked transparency
04-17-2012
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Washington Post
Frederic Whitehurst, a chemist and lawyer who worked in the FBI’s crime lab, testified he was told by his superiors to ignore findings that did not support the prosecution’s theory of the bombing. “There was a great deal of pressure put upon me to bi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
CU Hopes To Snuff Out 4/20 Pot Event
04-17-2012
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CBS News
The University of Colorado in Boulder hopes sealing off the campus will help it snuff out the popular pot smoking event called 4/20.
Last April 20 approximately 10,000 people attended the annual smoke fest.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Tax time pushes some Americans to give up citizenship
04-17-2012
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Reuters
A year ago, in Action Comics, Superman declared plans to renounce his U.S. citizenship.
"'Truth, justice, and the American way' - it's not enough anymore," the comic book superhero said, after both the Iranian and American governments criticized h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Milledgeville Police Handcuff 6-Year-Old Girl for Misbehaving at School
04-17-2012
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Acting police chief, Dray Swicord, said he stands by an officer's decision to handcuff an elementary school student for safety Friday after she allegedly threw a tantrum.
Swicord said the arresting officer is not under investigation for his action
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Secret Service detains reporter who asked Gingrich about Fox News
04-17-2012
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Rawstory
The United States Secret Service detained a North Carolina reporter over the weekend after he asked Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich about recent comments that were critical of Fox News.
During a private campaign event at Wesley Col
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Frenzied Hours for U.S. on Fate of a China Insider
04-17-2012
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New York Times
On the evening of Feb. 6, a vice mayor of a major Chinese city who had a reputation as a crime fighter turned up at the American Consulate in an agitated state, telling a tale of corruption and murder that has ensnared Obama
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan wants written US pledge on security funds, raising new hurdle to partnership pact
04-17-2012
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Washington Post
Afghanistan’s president raised another condition for a long-awaited strategic partnership with the USA: The accord must spell out the yearly U.S. commitment to pay billions of dollars for the Afghan security forces.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Several nations trying to penetrate U.S. cyber-networks, says ex-FBI official
04-17-2012
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Washington Post
At least half a dozen countries with offensive cyber-capabilities are probing U.S. corporate and military computer systems, looking for data and a toehold should they one day want to disrupt or destroy the networks, according to the FBI’s former top
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Secret Service looking into Ted Nugent violent anti-Obama message
04-17-2012
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The Ticket
The U.S. Secret Service is looking into a violent rant by "Catch Scratch Fever" rocker Ted Nugent in which he denounced President Obama and his top advisers as "evil" and urged NRA members to "chop their heads off in November."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Egypt’s election commission ejects front-runners from presidential race
04-17-2012
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Washington Post
Egypt’s presidential electoral commission on Tuesday permanently disqualified 10 candidates, including three front-runners, upending the contest just weeks before the vote and drawing accusations that the pillars of the Hosni Mubarak regime are still
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Debauchery: An American specialty
04-17-2012
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Washington Post
Before we get to the dancing penises at the National Institutes of Health, let’s begin our discussion with the Secret Service agents’ dalliance with prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia.
“We’re representing the people of the United States,” Presiden
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX Given Green Light for First Launch to Space Station
04-17-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jason Paur
SpaceX and NASA are moving ahead with the scheduled April 30 launch date of the Dragon spacecraft and its historic docking with the International Space Station after the flight readiness review was approved at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Tex
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Police State
All transactions to be conducted in the presence of a tax collector
04-17-2012
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www.sovereignman.com
The tax ‘reforms’ of Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd century were so rigid and unwavering that many people were driven to starvation and bankruptcy. The state went so far as to chase around widows and children to collect taxes owed.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
Undercover TSA on Houston TX buses
04-17-12
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Paul Joseph Watson
A new program in Houston will place undercover TSA agents and police officers on buses whose job it will be to perform bag searches, watch for “suspicious activity” and interrogate passengers in order to ‘curb crime and terrorism’.
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Christopher Campbell
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News Link • Solar Flares
Russian space probe destroyed by blast from sun
04-16-2012
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Terrence Aym
A powerful solar flare likely caused the spectacular failure of the Russian Federation's bold space mission Fobos-Grunt (in English, "Phobos-Soil"). That's the conclusion of a panel of space scientists working with an interministerial committee c
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Government
Why is it the Government’s Business?
04/17/2012
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Tom Rhodes
Why does the government have any say it what is clearly not their business? Consider the whole Rosen debacle where one of Obama’s strategist claims that housewives, stay at home mom’s, have shouldn’t have the right to talk about the economy, and have
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Matt Schnackenberg
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News Link • Gold and Silver
As Italy's value implodes, those with gold send it out of the country to Switzerland.
04-17-2012
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The Telegraph
Italy exported a total of 120 tonnes of gold to Switzerland last year. The solid gold bars are now Italy's fastest growing export.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Inventions
100 miles per gallon car with a 5 star crash rating!
You can get one for $25,000
04-17-12
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http://www.wikispeed.com/NotableFacts
Wikispeed Car
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Agorist Alma
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News Link • Inventions
Tinted Windows that Generate Electricity
04-17-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin Bullis
A German company borrows the materials and manufacturing process of OLED displays to make a new kind of solar panel.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Samsung Galaxy S III: Where Will It Fit Between the Galaxies Nexus and Note?
04-17-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Nathan Olivarez-Giles
Samsung emailed, tweeted and blogged Monday about a May 3 event in which reporters are being invited to “come and meet the next Galaxy.”
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News Link • Energy
Behind the Wheel of Ford’s First Electric Vehicle
04-17-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Damon Lavrinc
Ford is at the onset of a massive push towards electrification. The Blue Oval estimates that between 10 and 25 percent of its products will be “electrified” by 2020, with a mix of traditional hybrids and plug-in versions joining a brace of new EVs.
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News Link • American History
Space Shuttle Discovery Lands in Washington D.C. for Smithsonian Display
04-17-2012
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http://www.space.com, by Robert Z. Pearlman
The space shuttle Discovery, NASA's fleet leader and the world's most-flown spacecraft, arrived in Washington, D.C. Tuesday (April 17), where it will go on permanent display at the Smithsonian later this week.
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News Link • Israel
Rabbis For Violence, Brutality and Abuse
04-17-2012
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http://www.gilad.co.uk, By Gilad Atzmon
In recent years we have learned about a few sporadic Rabbis who promote peace, justice and humanism. But more often it seems, Israel’s prominent Rabbis are more openly enthusiastic about violence, brutality and abuse.
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News Link • Military
Blowback Fears Grow over US Drone Program in Yemen
04-17-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
'Every US attack conducted in Yemen only grows al Qaeda's power'
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