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Date Sent: 2012-06-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, June 26, 2012 AM edition |
Illinois Supreme Court Upholds 8-Year Sentence for Taking Pictures of LEGAL Sex
Three police shot dead at Mexico City airport -- UK hackers admit plotting attacks on CIA, firms -- Carter Is Correct — but Ignores the Growth of the Predatory State -- Moody's cuts Spanish banks on sovereign downgrade -- U.S spy chief toughens employee polygraph to stem leaks -- With No Vote, Taxpayers Stuck With Tab on Bonds -- How Many Computers to Identify a Cat? 16,000 -- Why Is the Government Collecting Your Biometric Data? -- Unplugged metal detector triggers JFK chaos: sources
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
IL Supreme Court Upholds 8-Year Sentence for Taking Pictures of Legal Sex
06-25-2012
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Reason magazine
Both girls were above the age of consent for sex, they were below the federal age of consent for appearing in sexually explicit images"a two-year difference that resulted in a 15-year sentence for Rinehart.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Three police shot dead at Mexico City airport
06-25-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Three federal police officers were shot and killed Monday when they tried to arrest drug trafficking suspects at Mexico City’s international airport, officials said.
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News Link • Internet
UK hackers admit plotting attacks on CIA, firms
06-25-2012
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Reuters
Two British hackers pleaded guilty in a London court to plotting attacks against computers of international firms, law enforcement bodies and government agencies including the CIA, in a cyber crime spree that gained global attention.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Carter Is Correct " but Ignores the Growth of the Predatory State
06-25-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Finally, a prominent Democrat is speaking out about the Obama administration's drone murders and its sending of death squads around the world to assassinate people the president considers to be "enemies."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Moody's cuts Spanish banks on sovereign downgrade
06-25-2012
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Reuters
Moody's Investors Service on Monday downgraded the long-term debt and deposit ratings for 28 Spanish banks and two issuer ratings, following on the heels of a cut to Spain's sovereign rating to just above junk status earlier this month.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
U.S spy chief toughens employee polygraph to stem leaks
06-25-2012
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Reuters
The top U.S. intelligence official on Monday ordered that a new question be added to federal employee lie-detector tests to help uncover any leaks of secret information to the media. In true spy-agency form, the wording of the question was not made p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
With No Vote, Taxpayers Stuck With Tab on Bonds
06-25-2012
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New York Times
Surprised local taxpayers from Stockton, Calif., to Scranton, Pa., are finding themselves obligated for parking garages, hockey arenas and other enterprises that can no longer pay their debts.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
How Many Computers to Identify a Cat? 16,000
06-25-2012
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New York Times
Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Why Is the Government Collecting Your Biometric Data?
06-25-2012
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Tana Geneva
EFF's Jennifer Lynch discusses the expansion of biometric data collection, the growth of databases and the impact on increased surveillance.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Unplugged metal detector triggers JFK chaos: sources
06-25-2012
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NY Post
The TSA reached a new low over the weekend when one of its "agents" failed to realize that the metal detector he was using to screen passengers was shut off. The mistake caused several dozen passengers to be re-screened.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Propaganda
Pentagon Propaganda for You (and Paid by You)
06-24-2012
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Russia Today (h/t LewRocwell blog)
The Pentagon budgets half a billion dollars to market its wars in the US. Call it public relations or call it propaganda, it's meant to win the hearts and minds of Americans. But is it coming at the price of the truth?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Austin Man Facing 10 Years in Prison After Photographing Cop Making Arrest
06-24-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
By January 4, he had obtained a video from a witness who had been standing across the street watching the exchange between Buehler and Oborski.
The video doesn’t show Buehler spitting on the cop but it might be difficult to capture that from acros
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Norfolk, Virginia, While Abusing Eminent Domain, Attempts To Silence Free Speech
06-24-2012
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They commissioned a 375-square-foot banner and hung it on their building to protest the taking. The banner worked. Almost immediately, Central Radio started getting calls and letters of support from Norfolk-area residents
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
U.S. Drug Agent Kills Suspect in Honduran Drug Raid
06-24-2012
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New York Times
A United States Drug Enforcement Administration agent shot a man to death in Honduras during a raid on a smuggling operation early Saturday, a spokesman for the American Embassy in Honduras said Sunday. The man who was killed had been reaching for hi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Pension funds in Arizona facing bleak future
06-24-2012
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Arizona Republic
Taxpayers next week will start paying more to prop up four of Arizona's ailing public retirement plans, which continue to suffer such heavy market losses that their values are far below what they owe pensioners over the long term.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Greek EU/ECB/IMF "troika" postpones Athens visit
06-24-2012
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Reuters
Officials from Greece's 'troika' of international lenders have postponed a planned visit to Athens on Monday given that the country's new prime minister and incoming finance minister are in hospital, an EU official told Reuters on Sunday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
Turkey hits Kurdish rebels deep inside Iraq
06-24-2012
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AP
Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel hideouts deep inside northern Iraq, and Kurdish rebels killed one policeman and wounded three others in a roadside bomb attack inside Turkey on Sunday, authorities said.
The military said on its website
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News Link • Syria
NATO to discuss downing of Turkish plane by Syria
06-24-2012
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AP
NATO will hold emergency talks on Tuesday to discuss Syria's downing of a Turkish jet fighter, but the alliance is not expected to take military action, even if it confirms Turkey's claim the unarmed plane was attacked in international airspace.
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News Link • Police State
Peru police announce seat-belt crackdown [America, the Land of the Free!]
06-24-2012
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News Tribune
Peru police plan a crackdown on drunken and unbuckled drivers June 22-July 4. The effort will focus on late-night hours, when there are more traffic deaths, drunken drivers and motorists not wearing seat belts. [Equal Evils?]
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military
“Don’t Be Alarmed”: Army Trains MPs To Drive Tanks On U.S. Streets
06-24-2012
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http://www.infowars.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Sightings of vehicles provokes fears of martial law
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Paraguay: Obama's Second Latin American Coup
06-24-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Shamus Cooke
The recent coup against Paraguay's democratically elected president is not only a blow to democracy, but an attack against the working and poor population that supported and elected President Fernando Lugo, whom they see as a bulwark against the weal
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Water Issues-Water Fluoridation
Poison is Treatment: The Campaign to Fluoridate America
06-24-2012
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www.globalresearch.ca, by Prof. James F. Tracy
The wide scale US acceptance of fluoride-related compounds in drinking water and a wide variety of consumer products over the past half century is a textbook case of social engineering orchestrated by Sigmund Freud's nephew and the “father of public
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