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Date Sent: 2012-06-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, June 23, 2012 |
Arkansas Supreme Court declares execution law unconstitutional, siding with death row inmates
IRS whistleblower tax take plunges, senator frets -- Wells Fargo's mushrooming mortgage risk -- How To Gum Up Any Institution - by Gary North -- PINAC Public Records Request of Emails Reveals Prosecutor Strategy for My Trial -- Biometric National IDs and Passports: A False Sense of Security -- Ex-Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky convicted of 45 counts in sex-abuse trial -- Indiana police Tase Alzheimer patient -- Hands-On Accountability for the Police Murder of Stanley Gibson - by William Grigg -- 100,000 dashcam videos disappear from SPD database -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News June 24, 2012 Edition -- Pa. Catholic official convicted of endangerment -- 06-22-12 -- Bill Buppert - John Bush, Cat Bleish - Dan D'Amico - Brett Veinotte - MP3 Loaded -- JULY 4th: PROTEST! -- Sidewalk Chalk Ban: Emerson Cohen, 3-Year-Old, Prohibited From Drawing In Denver Neighborhood -- 06-21-12 -- Jason Talley - Ron Helwig - Jody Underwood - MP3 Loaded -- Rand Paul Votes NO on GMO Labeling
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News Link • Death Penalty
Arkansas Supreme Court declares execution law unconstitutional, siding with death row inmates
06-22-2012
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AP
“It is evident to this court that the Legislature has abdicated its responsibility and passed to the executive branch, in this case the (Arkansas Department of Correction), the unfettered discretion to determine all protocol and procedures, most nota
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS whistleblower tax take plunges, senator frets
06-22-2012
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Reuters
The office brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue for the government that would not have been collected without whistleblower tips. But in 2011, the IRS collected only $48 million, down from $464 million in 2010.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wells Fargo's mushrooming mortgage risk
06-22-2012
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Reuters
The new center of U.S. mortgage lending is a nondescript office building in the American heartland, far from the California subprime lenders and the New York investment banks that drove the housing market into a bust.
One out of every three home l
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
How To Gum Up Any Institution - by Gary North
06-22-2012
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Lew Rockwell
Bukovsky became an assembly-line producer of official protests. By the end of his career as a "zek," he had taught hundreds of other inmates to follow his lead. By following certain procedures that were specified by the complaint system, Bukovsky's p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
PINAC Public Records Request of Emails Reveals Prosecutor Strategy for My Trial
06-22-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Normally, conversations between client and attorney are confidential. But not when both are public employees and discussing a pending case via email on the county dime. My case to be exact, discussing how to convict me.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Biometric National IDs and Passports: A False Sense of Security
06-22-2012
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EFF
Regulators in several jurisdictions continue to romanticize the security and accuracy of face, fingerprint, and iris automatic recognition biometric technologies. But the existence of a significant amount of falsified biometric identification documen
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Ex-Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky convicted of 45 counts in sex-abuse trial
06-22-2012
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AP
Jerry Sandusky was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years, accusations that had sent shock waves through the college campus known as Happy Valley and led to the firing of Penn State's beloved Hall of Fame coach, Joe Paterno.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Indiana police Tase Alzheimer patient
06-22-2012
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At least one Peru police officer is on administrative leave after a 64-year-old nursing home resident with advanced-stage Alzheimer’s was Tased three times. Police said he wouldn’t obey their commands.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Hands-On Accountability for the Police Murder of Stanley Gibson
06-22-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Stanley Gibson, a disabled Gulf War veteran, was murdered in a Las Vegas parking lot last December 12. He was shot seven times in the back of the head, without provocation, by a stranger wielding an AR-15 rifle.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
100,000 dashcam videos disappear from SPD database
06-22-2012
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
More than 100,000 dashcam videos have disappeared from the Seattle Police Department, prompting city investigators to recommend the department do a better job of tracking and saving those videos.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
June 24, 2012 Edition
06-22-2012
John Semmens
Press Secretary Parries Questions on “Fast & Furious” Scandal
Press Secretary Jay Carney denied that President Obama's grant of “Executive Privilege” status to the Department of Justice correspondence on the scheme to get guns into the hands of Me
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Pa. Catholic official convicted of endangerment
06-22-2012
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AP
A Roman Catholic church official was convicted Friday of child endangerment but acquitted of conspiracy in a groundbreaking clergy-abuse trial, becoming the first U.S. church official convicted of a crime for mishandling abuse claims.
Monsignor Wi
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Feature Article • Activism
JULY 4th: PROTEST!
David McElroy
We have NO INDEPENDENCE in America. Psychopath Uncle Sam recognizes none of our God-given rights nor respects the constraints of the U.S. Constitution. He wars against us! PROTEST!
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News Link • Seriously?
Sidewalk Chalk Ban: Emerson Cohen, 3-Year-Old, Prohibited From Drawing In Denver Neighborhood
06-22-2012
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Huffington Post
There's a new threat pervading the streets of Colorado, and it is one that needs to be stopped---immediately!
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Media: Internet
Where There’s Smoke . . .
06-22-2012
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Liberty Underground
Ever see the Fast & Furious movies? If so you know that where there’s smoke, there’s wheel spinning. Today Obama started spinning his wheels making a lot of smoke. He exerted “executive privilege” denying congress access to Justice Department documen
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Matt Schnackenberg
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News Link • Food
Rand Paul Votes NO on GMO Labeling
06-22-2012
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Farm Wars
Rand Paul votes NO on GMO labeling “to permit States to require that any food, beverage, or other edible product offered for sale have a label on indicating that the food, beverage, or other edible product contains a genetically engineered ingredient
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Obama Administration
WH rejects requests for 'targeted killing' papers
06-21-2012
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AP
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Times and the ACLU sought records regarding the legal justifications for the alleged U.S. government killing of U.S. citizens and others associated with al-Qaida and other terrorist groups.
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News Link • Internet
Online innovation threatened by governments, Clinton adviser warns
06-21-2012
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Rawstory
An adviser on innovation in the US state department, said governments across the globe will soon begin “lashing back” in a bid to regain control of cyberspace. “The biggest threat to your ability to innovate comes from government,
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News Link • Justice and Judges
US steals dinosaur skeleton in NY Friday
06-21-2012
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AP
A dinosaur skeleton is scheduled to be taken by U.S. authorities on Friday from the custody of an auction house after a judge permitted its seizure for its likely return home to Mongolia.
Heritage Auctions Co-Chairman Jim Halperin said the Dallas-
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News Link • Drug War
Miami-Dade Commission Approves Bath Salt Ban
06-21-2012
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CBS News
Bath salts” have made headlines ever since it was rumored Rudy Eugene may have been under their influence when he chewed off half of Ronald Poppo’s face on the MacArthur Causeway before he was shot and killed by a Miami police officer.
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News Link • Obama Administration
John Bryson resigns as commerce secretary, citing recent seizure
06-21-2012
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Washington Post
John Bryson resigned late Wednesday as commerce secretary, less than two weeks after suffering a seizure and hitting two cars in an incident still shrouded in some mystery.
Bryson, who spent only eight months in his Cabinet post, said in a letter
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News Link • Marriage
Justice Dept. sues Arizona, Utah polygamous towns
06-21-2012
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AP
Authorities in a pair of polygamous Utah-Arizona border towns have supported a campaign of intimidation against the unfaithful, denying them housing and municipal services and allowing members of the dominant religious sect to destroy their crops and
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Moody's cuts ratings of 15 banks, Morgan Stanley down 2 notches
06-21-2012
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Reuters
Ratings agency Moody's downgraded 15 of the world's biggest banks on Thursday, lowering credit ratings by one to three notches to reflect the risk of losses they face from volatile capital markets activities, but banks criticized the move as backward
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Adopted son accuses Sandusky of abuse
06-21-2012
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Washington Post
One of Jerry Sandusky’s adopted sons is accusing his father of abuse, a news flash that raced through this rural village shortly after a jury began deliberations on 48 charges of child molestation leveled against the former Penn State assistant footb
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News Link • Government
Doctors Want Soda Taxes To Fund Government Meddling...
06-21-2012
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http://secure.campaigner.com
More Government is the Wrong Medicine, Says National Center for Public Policy Research
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News Link • Obama Administration
Deliberative or Evasive? Obama Asserts Privilege Over “Fast and Furious”
06-21-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org
President Barack Obama today asserted executive privilege over documents long sought by Congress in the investigation of the “Fast and Furious” operation.
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News Link • Corruption
Judge Accused Of Allowing Clerks To Dismiss Cases and Issue Orders While She Vacationed...
06-21-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org
Associate Circuit Judge Barbara T. Peebles is under investigation for allegedly allowing her clerks to handle litigation matters as she vacationed in China last year.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Judge Napolitano Points Out Obama Complicity in F & F 'Executive Privilege' Declaration
06-21-2012
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YouTube via RTR.ORG post
Video title: "Judge Napolitano: Executive Privilege Only Applies If Obama Involved" - 4:59 long.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Police chief fired over Trayvon Martin shooting
06-21-2012
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AP
The Sanford City Manager said he relieved Chief Bill Lee of duty because he "determined the Police Chief needs to have the trust and respect of the elected officials and the confidence of the entire community."
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News Link • Gun Rights
George Zimmerman's Reenactment of Trayvon Martin Shooting
06-21-2012
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ABC News (video)
"....when I shifted my jacket came up…and it exposed my firearm. That's when he said you are going to die tonight. He took one hand off my mouth, and slid it down my chest. I took my gun aimed it at him and fired."
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