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Date Sent: 2013-04-18
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, April 18, 2013 |
Obama Covering Up Saudi Link to Boston Bombing? -- Rich Paul, Guilty On All Charges
04-18-13 -- Rosa Koire (Agenda 21) (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- Megaregions of the United States -- Pakistan's Musharraf flees court as judges order his arrest -- Ron Paul Delegate Sues City of St. Peters Over Caucus Arrest --
College Professor Arrested for Profane Rant at Pro-Life Students --
Cop in
slow McDonald's line accused of aiming gun at customer ahead of him
-- Rescuers searching for victims of Texas fertilizer plant
blast -- Fear and Flying, Then and Now -- Post-Boston Bombings Fear-Mongering --
Washington v. Venezuela
AZ: Join Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan/Tour de Peace Cyclists Sat,
April 20, 11 a.m. at McCain/Flake's PHX; Spring Party and meet Cindy Sheehan at the Hancock's, Sat 4/20/13 @
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Covering Up Saudi Link to Boston Bombing?
04-18-2013
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InfoWars
The Saudi “person of interest” suspected of being involved in the Boston Marathon bombings is being deported from the United States on “national security grounds,” after an unscheduled meeting between Obama and Saudi Foreign Minister
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Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Drug War
Rich Paul, Guilty On All Charges
Powell Gammill
Rich’s trial for selling cannabis resumes at 9a. As you may already be aware, Rich is heroically facing 81 years in prison for selling cannabis. He has refused the plea deals and will be facing trial by jury.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Spring Party and a chance to meet Cindy Sheehan at the Hancock's, Sat 4/20/13 @ 4pm til ???
04-05-2013
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Spring Party at the Hancock's and a chance to meet and hang out with Cindy Sheehan as she travels thru Phoenix on her Tour de Peace bike ride across the country. There will be other riders here along with Cindy, so come down and show them the LOV3!
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
04-18-13 -- Rosa Koire (Agenda 21) (MP3 & Video LOADED)
Rosa Koire (Executive Director of the Post Sustainability Institute, author of BEHIND THE GREEN MASK: UN Agenda 21, and blogger at her website DemocratsAgainstUNAgenda21.Com) on her fight to keep 'sustainable development' policies from being implemen
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News Link • New World Order
Megaregions of the United States
04-18-2013
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Wikipedia
Megaregions of the United States are clustered networks of American cities whose population ranges or is projected to range from about 7 to 63 million by the year 2025
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul Delegate Sues City of St. Peters Over Caucus Arrest
04-18-2013
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Yahoo! News blog
The plaintiff alleges two police officers, hired by GOP leaders to provide security at the meeting, were told to "expect 'trouble'" from Paul supporters. Stafford claims in his complaint that the "'trouble' ... was that Ron Paul would win."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Rescuers searching for victims of Texas fertilizer plant blast
04-18-2013
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Reuters
Rescue crews searched the wreckage of a fertilizer plant and dozens of demolished homes for bodies on Thursday after a fiery explosion injured more than 160 people and prompted the evacuation of half a small Texas town.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
College Professor Arrested for Profane Rant at Pro-Life Students
04-18-2013
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Professor Laura Curry screamed at students, yelling at them: “Where does it say I can’t use the f**k word in public. I can swear because that’s part of my vocabulary. That’s part of my First Amendment rights.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
David versus Monsanto
04-18-2013
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arclein
The maker of Agent Orange, Monsanto’s former motto used to be, “Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible.” Today its tag line is “Committed to Sustainable Agriculture, Committed to Farmers.” Its website claims the company helps farmers “be
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Deep Photosynthesis
04-18-2013
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arclein
Carotenoids, the same pigments which give orange color to carrots and red to tomatoes, are often found together in plants with chlorophyll pigments that harvest solar energy. Their main function is photoprotection when rays of light from the sun are
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Dark Lightning
04-18-2013
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arclein
thunderstorms unleash sprays of X-rays and even intense bursts of gamma rays, a form of radiation normally associated with such cosmic spectacles as collapsing stars.
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robert klein
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Korean Unification
04-18-2013
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arclein
Unfolding events in the Koreas and their respective mentor states, the United States and China, resemble the run ups to the collapse of communism in the USSR and Central and Southeastern Europe and the reunification of the two Germanys. Few foresaw t
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robert klein
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News Link • Afghanistan
Pakistan's Musharraf flees court as judges order his arrest
04-18-2013
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Reuters
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was forced to flee a courtroom on Thursday moments after judges ordered his arrest, dealing a fresh blow to his fast-fading hopes of reviving his political career at next month's general elections.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop in slow McDonald's line accused of aiming gun at customer ahead of him
04-18-2013
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NBC News (video)
A police officer who was waiting in the drive-thru line at a McDonald's restaurant in Forsyth County is accused of pulling a gun on the customer ahead of him because the officer was angry at having to wait for his food.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Court: Police Can't Force Blood Tests
04-17-2013
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Washington Post
The Supreme Court ruled police can't force a drunken driving suspect to submit to a blood draw unless they have a warrant or can show an urgent need to act without one. The 8-1 opinion rejected a position backed by the Obama administration
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • General Opinion
Commentary on Violence & A Review/Recommendation of the film “Funny Games U.S.”
04-13-2013
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Christine Smith's Blog
To be in denial of reality is always a weakness, and it is there I place many others when it comes to the subject of violence. Violence " it can be aggressive…and it can be non-aggressive (truly defensive).
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News Link • Immigration
Immigration measure’s opponents hope delays will kill bipartisan bill
04-16-2013
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Washington Post
Leading Capitol Hill opponents of a Senate proposal to overhaul the nation’s immigration system are coalescing around a strategy to kill the bill by delaying the legislative process as long as possible, providing time to offer “poison pill” amendment
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Ricin-laced letter sent to Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker
04-16-2013
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Washington Post
A letter addressed to a U.S. senator had been discovered to contain a potential poison. It was intercepted at an off-site facility where congressional mail has been examined before delivery since anthrax-laced letters were sent to Capitol Hill in 200
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Boston Marathon bombs had simple but harmful design, early clues indicate
04-16-2013
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Washington Post
The devices’ design was immediately recognized by counterterrorism experts as a type touted by al-Qaeda for use by its operatives around the world. Similar devices have been used by terrorists in mass-casualty bombings in numerous countries,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
FDA Bars Generic Versions of Painkiller OxyContin
04-16-2013
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Wall Street Journal
The FDA decision extends Purdue Pharma LP's patent protection of OxyContin for at least another year, if not much longer. The blockbuster pain drug racked up sales of $2.8 billion last year. By blocking generic entrants, the FDA will reward companies
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Something to Ponder About the Boston Marathon Murderer(s)
04-16-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
The bombs were made of 1 1/2 gallon metal pressure cookers filled with ball bearings and nails and a detonation device. They must have been heavy. Why has not one surveillance camera captured someone lugging and struggling with
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops armed with cameras meet with mixed reviews
04-16-2013
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AZ Family TV-3 (BELO)
The Mesa Police Department is halfway through a yearlong high-tech experiment, equipping officers with cameras. The cameras attach to glasses and record everything the officer sees, and hears. While some volunteered for the trial, others
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Boston Marathon Explosions Reveal Hypocrisy Behind Police Attitude Towards Photographers
04-16-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
After more than a decade of profiling citizens with cameras as potential terrorists, law enforcement officials are now hoping these same citizens with cameras will help them nab the culprits behind the Boston Marathon terrorist explosions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Boston, Oklahoma City, Waco: Why Patriots Day?
04-16-2013
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CNN (video)
It didn't take long for speculation to ramp up online over the timing of the Boston Marathon bombings, which came on Patriots Day, a Masschusetts state holiday commemorating the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Political Theory
Compromise: Political Poison
04-16-2013
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http://www.ncc-1776.org, by L. Neil Smith
As American kids grow up, authority figures all around them"public school teachers, local and national political leaders, the broadcast and print media, ministers and priests, and other useless busybodies"are always very enthusiastic about the idea o
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Cuba
Ron Paul's Straight Talk 4/15/13: Why Can't We All Travel To Cuba?
04-16-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, minnesotachris
Earlier this month, entertainers Jay-Z and Beyoncé were given a license by the US government to travel to Cuba.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Winding down the War on Drugs
04-16-2013
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com
Nevada voters approved medical marijuana at the polls, placing it in the state constitution in the year 2000 and instructing “The Legislature shall provide by law for … appropriate methods for supply of the plant to patients authorized to use it.”
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hackers Attack 90,000 WordPress Blogs
04-16-2013
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, by Marshall Honorof
Keeping the default settings on any Internet-connected service is just asking for trouble. It's easy enough to scoff at people whose brilliant "12345" password fell victim to hackers, but it's just as simple to target usernames.
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News Link • Energy
‘Sustainable’? Tell me your time frame
04-16-2013
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com
A regular reader writes in to protest my assertion that America now has enough proven fossil fuel reserves to last for centuries, warning “Fracking technology isn’t sustainable.”
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
SCHIFF: Wall Street And Gold Were Never A Good Match
04-16-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Peter Schiff
In the opening years of the last decade, most mainstream investors sat on the sidelines while "tin hat" goldbugs rode the bull market from below $300 to just over $1,000 per ounce.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Lessons Learned From Hurricane Sandy
04-16-2013
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by The Angry Prepper
Hurricane Sandy tore through the northern eastern seaboard. The hurricane combined with two other weather systems to create a Super storm (Some say). The Hurricane or Super Storm created a destructive path that hasn’t been seen this far up north, e
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Maryland Governor Taxes Rain
04-16-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Matthew Boyle
Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
All US Reactors Flawed
04-16-2013
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arclein
I was just thinking about the issues more, and watching as the industry and the regulators and the whole nuclear safety community continues to try to figure out how to address these very, very difficult problems,” which were made more evident by the
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robert klein
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News Link • WAR: About that War
How North Korea Tipped Its Hand
04-16-2013
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arclein
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released a classified assessment last month saying that it now has “moderate confidence” that the “North currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles however the reliability will be lo
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robert klein
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News Link • Gun Rights
Unintended Consequences - DOWNLOAD PDF, MOBI, OR AZW File of book (UPDATED 2019-09-18)
02-20-2013
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Accurate Press
The next printing is going to be softcover and will probably be priced at $28.95 and $6 shipping. Download PDF, MOBI or AZW of entire book - NOW While you still can. Also available on AccuratePress.Net and Amazon (links provided)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
CBS: Saudi Man In Custody Was Tackled By Bystanders At Boston Marathon
04-16-2013
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CBS News
The Saudi Arabian man who is reportedly in police custody following the Boston Marathon bombing was chased and tackled by bystanders shortly after the blast, according to CBS.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • TERRORISM
Eyewitness: Authorities Announced “Drill” Before Boston Explosions
04-16-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
UM coach “thought it was odd” bomb sniffing dogs were at start and finish lines
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