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Date Sent: 2013-03-09
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, March 9, 2013 |
Pentagon Ran Torture Centers in Iraq, Atrocities Revealed
Florida Police Raid Home of Sick Woman Hours After She Is Featured In Medical Marijuana Story -- New Mexico Man Held 22 Months Without Trial Is Awarded $15.5 Million -- Alabama Judge Orders Governor Not To Sign Controversial Education Bill -- Trial of Osama's Son-in-Law Will Be on US Soil, a Rarity -- PIGSTY - by Glenn Jacobs -- Activist who shot hidden camera video settles with former community group worker for $100K -- After Rand Paul's filibuster, Ron Paul pushes GOP to transform -- Global leaders, celebrities honor Chavez at funeral -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 10, 2013 Edition - by John Semmens -- The Coming Crash in the Bond Market -- Rand Paul challenges Obama spokesman's comment on son of terrorist killed by drone strike -- Rand Paul’s Message to Obama: Don’t Drone Me Bro -- Bombardier
Reveals The Jet That Makes It A Threat To Airbus And Boeing -- How To 'Mine' Bitcoins And Make Real Money -- 5 Mandatory Steps for Protecting Data From Eavesdroppers
AZ: FIRST EVER PRIVATE GUN SHOW - today March 9th,
2013 in Lakeside, AZ; Silver Circle at
Pollack Tempe Cinemas - April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ -- Lincoln
Day Dinner and Auction with Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack,
Apr. 13
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News Link • Torture
Pentagon Ran Torture Centers in Iraq, Atrocities Revealed
03-08-2013
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antiwar
“The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the ‘dirty wars’ in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents,” The Guardian reports. “These units conduct
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News Link • Drug War
Florida Police Raid Home of Sick Woman Hours After She Is Featured In Medical Marijuana Story
03-08-2013
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Jonathan Turley
For Cathy Jordan it began as a banner day. A hearing was just held unveiling the “Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act,” legislation to legalize medical marijuana for people like her who suffers from Lou Gehrig’s Disease and is wheelchair-bound.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
New Mexico Man Held 22 Months Without Trial Is Awarded $15.5 Million
03-08-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Dona Ana County in New Mexico has agreed to pay Stephen Slevin, 59, $15.5 million after it kept Slevin in solitary confinement for 22 months without a trial for a DUI arrest. The horrific case was made worse by the county refusing to pay a verdict
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Alabama Judge Orders Governor Not To Sign Controversial Education Bill
03-08-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Circuit Judge Charles Price has issued an order blocking a governor from signing a controversial education bill. Price wants to have a hearing on the legal issues surrounding the education bill and does not want Governor to sign it until then.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Trial of Osama's Son-in-Law Will Be on US Soil, a Rarity
03-08-2013
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AP
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law was charged with conspiring to kill Americans in his role as al-Qaeda's top propagandist. His trial will mark one of the first prosecutions of senior al-Qaeda leaders on US soil. The case marks a legal victory for
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Opinion • Philosophy: Libertarianism
PIGSTY
03-08-2013
Glenn Jacobs
I was reminded of Animal Farm recently when I flew into my home airport. As I was walking to the parking lot, I noticed a very nice, expensive car parked in the “Authorized Cars Only” area of the airport. This parking area is much closer to the termi
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Activist who shot hidden camera video settles with former community group worker for $100K
03-08-2013
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Washington Post
The videos showed Vera and other ACORN employees appearing to give O’Keefe and Giles advice regarding prostitution, illegal immigration and other activities. The widely aired footage and the resulting outrage led to ACORN disbanding.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
After Rand Paul's filibuster, Ron Paul pushes GOP to transform
03-08-2013
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The Guardian
Ron Paul was telling Canadian conservatives that a transformative time is upon us. We are moving away from "interventionism", he said, and toward a new kind of societal dismantling, thanks to rampant debt and government overspending.
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News Link • World News
Global leaders, celebrities honor Chavez at funeral
03-08-2013
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Reuters
From Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Oscar-winner Sean Penn, an eclectic mix of mourners bid farewell to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez at a state funeral for the charismatic but divisive leader who changed the face of South American politics.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 10, 2013 Edition
03-08-2013
John Semmens
McCain Calls Fellow Senators “Wacko Birds”
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz) assailed fellow Senators Rand Paul (R-Ken) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex) as “wacko birds” for participating in a 13-hour long filibuster against the confirmation of CIA Director nomine
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News Link • Drones
Rand Paul challenges Obama spokesman's comment on son of terrorist killed by drone strike
03-08-2013
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Politifact.com
The killing of the 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, on Oct. 14, 2011, is a lot less well-known. The younger al-Awlaki was reportedly killed two weeks after his father and was also an American citizen, born in Denver in 1995.
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Open-Sourcing Outer Space: 3-D Printing Meets Rocket Science
03-08-2013
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Wired.com
Sure a 3D printed car is cool, but it doesn’t go to space. And there’s probably a good reason for that, but now a competition is aiming to launch the newest manufacturing fad into the final frontier by challenging people to design 3D printed rocket
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Bumpy whale fins set to spark a revolution in aerodynamics
03-08-2013
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gizmag.com
March 21, 2008 It seems despite man's endless ingenuity and the incredible modeling power available to inventors through CAD systems, we keep looking to nature to find ever more effective ways of doing things.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
Frozen Android phones give up data secrets
03-08-2013
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bbc.co.uk
Freezing an Android phone can help reveal its confidential contents, German security researchers have found.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
Colbert: North Korean threat is the ‘world’s most disturbing karaoke video’
03-08-2013
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Raw Story
Stephen Colbert discussed North Korea’s recent threats against South Korea and the U.S. and characterized its recent threats against South Korea and the U.S. as “the world’s most disturbing karaoke video.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Rand Paul’s Message to Obama: Don’t Drone Me Bro
03-08-2013
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Antiwar.com
The most positive outcome of Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster " which ended when Paul was forced to take a bathroom break " was giving the American public a sense of the treacherous path that President Obama’s drone program could take,.........
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News Link • Political Parties
36 Hours That Changed The Republican Party
03-08-2013
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Business Insider
With his 13-hour filibuster on civil liberties, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul has emerged as a national political leader, having unexpectedly unified, if only briefly, divergent wings of the Republican Party on the issue of civil liberties.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Bombardier Reveals The Jet That Makes It A Threat To Airbus And Boeing
03-08-2013
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Business Insider
Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier Aerospace, long known for producing smaller business jets, has revealed the passenger plane it believes will be it a serious competitor for industry giants Airbus and Boeing.
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News Link • Bitcoin
How To 'Mine' Bitcoins And Make Real Money
03-08-2013
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Business Insider
Bitcoins are a completely anonymous digital currency that can be converted into real cash.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
5 Mandatory Steps for Protecting Data From Eavesdroppers
03-08-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Every day we hear news reports in the mainstream media about social network hacking, malware, malicious account takeovers and protecting data.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Silver Circle Movie at Pollack Tempe Cinemas - April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ
03-07-2013
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Silver Circle Movie
Liberty Coin and Precious Metals along with our friends at FreedomsPhoenix.com will be helping put on a one-night event to remember at the Pollack Cinema! We will have tickets available here, or pending the show isn't sold out, you can purchase your
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News Link • European Union
With Italy's Election, the EU Chasm Grows
03-07-2013
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The Daily Bell
Italy's Bersani on collision course with Germany and ECB over austerity ... Italy's Pier Luigi Bersani vowed to break free of the country's austerity regime as he laid out plans for a centre-Left government, risking a serious clash with Germany and t
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke Drives Bull Market to 4th Birthday, 130 Percent Gain
03-07-2013
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cnbc.com
One of the longest and most powerful equity bull markets in history turns 4 years old today. And traders believe there is just one man to thank: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Trafficking Bill Approved By Senate Committee
03-07-2013
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AP
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved making gun trafficking a federal crime by creating penalties of up to 25 years in prison for people who legally buy guns but give them to others who use them in crimes.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Video: Janet Napolitano Ignores Question Asked by Luke Rudkowski About DHS's 2,700 Armored Truck
03-07-2013
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www.dailypaul.com
At an airline security conference, Luke Rudkowski asked Janet Napolitano about the Department of Homeland Security's purchase of 2,700 armored trucks that will be deployed to local law enforcement agencies around the country
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News Link • Israel
UNICEF Study: Israel Abuses Palestinian Child Detainees
03-07-2013
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www.antiwar.com
A scathing new report (PDF) from UNICEF blasts the Israeli government for its treatment of the hundreds of Palestinian children it captures and holds as “detainees” annually, referring to their treatment as “cruel, inhuman and degrading.”
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News Link • Marc Victor
Attorney For Freedom Show With Marc Victor
03-07-2013
Attorney for Freedom Show live on the Dave Pratt DoubleWide Network. Show Number 1 with Marc Victor, Mike Wasdin and Traci Victor. Freedom is the answer, what's the question?
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News Link • Media: Print
Time Warner Ends Talks With Meredith and Will Spin Off Time Inc. Into Separate Company
03-07-2013
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New York Times
Time Warner found its answer on Wednesday. It announced it would spin off its Time Inc. magazine unit into a separate, publicly traded company, a move that will allow the media conglomerate to focus entirely on its cable television and film businesse
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News Link • Self-Defense
Flight attendants protest new policy on knives
03-07-2013
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AP
The vice president of a flight attendants union says a new policy that would allow airline passengers to carry small knives is "outrageous."
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News Link • World News
North Korea says it will launch nuclear attack on America
03-07-2013
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TheSun.Co.UK
The provocative statement comes weeks after the country conducted underground nuclear tests which caused a massive earthquake. America’s west coast cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco are feared to be in Kim’s sights.
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News Link • Police State
'For Your Own Protection'
03-07-2013
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lewrockwell.com/William Norman Grigg
There is no situation that cannot be made instantly and immeasurably worse through police intervention. A splendid illustration of this principle is found in a recent ruling from the the Arkansas Court of Appeals.
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News Link • Political Parties
Liberal actor, John Cusack, on Filibuster "For God's Sake, Where Are Democrats?"
03-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Liberal Actor (John Cusack) on GOP-Led Filibuster Over Drones:
"For God's Sake, Where Are Democrats?"
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News Link • Activism
Starting a Strike movement against the killing of Americans, gun control and phony government
03-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
I've been thinking this over, and I think we should start encouraging striking days against this government.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
The Supreme Court Is On The Verge Of Making An Unprecedented Power Grab
03-07-2013
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Business Insider
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was torn to shreds in the media for calling the Voting Rights Act a "racial entitlement" during heated arguments last week.
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News Link • Police State
McCain and Schumer Move to Force Americans to Use Biometric ID for Employment
02-01-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
“I’m for it,” McCain told a Politico Playbook breakfast earlier this week when asked if he supports “a super Social Security card that would have some sort of biometric thing like a fingerprint.”
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News Link • Israel
Why Is The US Spending Hundreds Of Millions On These Secret Israeli Bunkers?
03-07-2013
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Business Insider
Last year it was announced the U.S. was looking to build a secret underground complex in Israel.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
This Means War? N.Korea fights back South-US drills with ceasefire scrap
03-07-2013
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youtube
North Korea has threatened to end the decades long ceasefire with its Southern neighbor if it goes ahead with its joint military drills with the US. Pyongyang also cited the US-led attempts to slap it with sanctions, as being behind the decision.
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