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Date Sent: 2013-08-18
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, August 18, 2013 |
Indiana police threaten to Taser black firefighter in the face for waving at them
Police charged student with felony for wearing fashion belt made from fake ammunition -- Swiss government urges voters to keep military conscription service -- Texas deputy accused of raping mother in front of her children resigns -- Texas deputy sues woman for ‘mental anguish’ after he kills her son-in-law -- Police tell victims: Call 911 and you’ll get evicted under ‘nuisance’ laws --
Seeing threats, feds target instructors of polygraph-beating methods --
Video: Sheriff Deputies Raid Home To Enforce A Civil Fine -- Prisoner Released After DNA Clears Him . . . Judge Fires Clerk Who Told Prisoner How To Seek Testing -- A Plane You Can Park in the Garage: The ICON A5 -- Elio Motors: Join
the Revolution -- The Terrifying Future of The United States -- Obama supporters will go hysterical over this well sourced list of
252 examples of his lying -- SWAT Ties Up Students, Blows Out
Tires During Bus Hijacking Drill -- Justice seeking to block
Bernanke testimony -- The Attorney For Freedom Show -
Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- Institutionalized US Spying: More Than NSA
Involved -- The Mother of All Conspiracies Aimed At Our
Children -- One Man. One March. One Speech. -- KISS Buys
Football Team, Names Team KISS -- Lee Daniels' The Butler -- Area 51 Revealed in CIA Spy Plane Documents -- Police State
Egypt -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, August 18, 2013
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Indiana police threaten to Taser black firefighter in the face for waving at them
08-17-2013
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Rawstory
A police department in Indiana has launched an internal investigation after a firefighter said he was thrown to the ground and threatened with a Taser for waving at several officers, who thought he was flipping them off.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police charged student with felony for wearing fashion belt made from fake ammunition
08-17-2013
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Police dropped gun charges last Thursday against a former Fitchburg State University (FSU) student, after they had initially charged him for wearing a decorative belt made of inert ammunition.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Draft
Swiss government urges voters to keep military conscription service
08-17-2013
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AFP
It said that without compulsory service the Swiss military “will no longer be able to fulfill its current tasks,” pointing out that what gets done will depend on how many “skilled people volunteer to serve in the army.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Texas deputy accused of raping mother in front of her children resigns
08-17-2013
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Rawstory
A deputy in Texas accused of raping a woman in front of her children has resigned. The deputy came to her home to question her about harassing phone calls. During the questioning, the deputy allegedly sexually assaulted her in her own home.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Texas deputy sues woman for ‘mental anguish’ after he kills her son-in-law
08-17-2013
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Rawstory
A Texas deputy has filed a lawsuit against a woman for past and future “mental anguish” after he was called to her house last year on a 911 call and forced to kill her son-in-law, who was allegedly behaving irrationally after using drugs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police tell victims: Call 911 and you’ll get evicted under ‘nuisance’ laws
08-17-2013
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Rawstory
In Pennsylvania and other states, police can force landlords to evict tenants. Under “nuisance property” laws, individuals like domestic violence victims can be told by police if they call 911 one more time, they’ll be forced out of their homes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Seeing threats, feds target instructors of polygraph-beating methods
08-17-2013
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McClatchy News
Federal agents have launched a criminal investigation of instructors who claim they can teach job applicants how to pass lie detector tests as part of the Obama administration’s unprecedented crackdown on security violators and leakers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Calculated Ignorance Is Not An Acceptable Excuse
08-17-2013
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Simple Justice
The story of Alfred Anaya doesn’t stop at the point of his facilitating drug dealing, but with his refusal, after being caught in a sting, to become a DEA rat. For that, the full weight of the government fell hard on him, as a co-conspirator
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video: Sheriff Deputies Raid Home To Enforce A Civil Fine
08-17-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Georgia DeKalb Sheriff deputies came to their home around 1:30 am and virtually tore down their door over an unpaid civil fine by the mother, Natania Griffin, who was 15 days late in paying $1,000. The deputy repeatedly threatening
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Prisoner Released After DNA Clears Him . . . Judge Fires Clerk Who Told Prisoner How To Seek Testing
08-17-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Kansas Judge David Byrn was the presiding judge in the case of Robert Nelson, 49, who was sentenced to 70 years for a rape that he insisted that he did not commit. Byrn refused repeated requests from Nelson to prove his innocence
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
A Plane You Can Park in the Garage: The ICON A5
08-17-2013
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http://www.iconaircraft.com, youtube
Steen Strand and Kirk Hawkins, founders of ICON Aircraft, describe the features of their groundbreaking A5 light-sport aircraft.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Elio Motors: Join the Revolution
08-17-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, Elio Motors
Elio Motors had their new Reverse Trike in St. Louis, Missouri on May 15, 2013 for a show open to the general public in Stacy Park.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Terrifying Future of The United States
08-17-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, StormCloudsGathering
If this doesn't wake you up, I don't know what will.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama supporters will go hysterical over this well sourced list of 252 examples of his lying
08-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, No.7
1) Carried out military interventionism in Libya without Congressional approval
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Just For Fun!
The American public goes wild at this political rally!
08-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, NY4RP
Man talking at a sheep political rally
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
SWAT Ties Up Students, Blows Out Tires During Bus Hijacking Drill
08-17-2013
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http://www.infowars.com, Julie Wilson
“Then he started tying everybody down and it just got really scary”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Justice seeking to block Bernanke testimony
08-17-2013
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http://finance.yahoo.com, Associated Press
Gov't says Bernanke should not have to testify in AIG case absent extraordinary circumstances
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Goats to Help Tend Historic Grave Sites in the Nation’s Capital
08-17-2013
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arclein
“The revolutionary use of eco-goats eliminates the need for harmful herbicides and prevents the invasive and often foreign species from killing large mature trees in the cemetery’s wooded area, which can fall onto the grounds as a result and damage i
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robert klein
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Stepping into a Parallel Dimension with Offutt
08-17-2013
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arclein
Rain pounded McElheney’s car as she drove through San Bernardino, California, to spend a few days at a sheepdog trial in Perris, California. As she topped a hill south of the city, she saw a road sign for nearby Riverside. Her family roots were put d
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Most Important Number In The Entire U.S. Economy
08-17-2013
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arclein
Historically speaking, rates are still super low, but what is alarming is that it looks like we hit a “bottom” last year and that interest rates are only going to go up from here. In fact, according to CNBC many experts believe that we will soon be
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robert klein
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News Link • Communications
No Northern Ice Age
08-17-2013
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arclein
The globe still received the same amount of heat, but the two super cold poles tempered both hemispheres pretty much in balance. Africa remained habitable as did much of Asia and South America. Much of the continental shelves were also available fo
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robert klein
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News Link • Marc Victor
The Attorney For Freedom Show- Sheriff Joe Arpaio
08-17-2013
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Attorney For Freedom Show
Join Host Attorney Marc J. Victor and Co-Host Mike Wasdin as they put Sheriff Joe Arpaio on the hot seat and see what he is really all about.
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - Saturday, August 17th, 2013
08-17-2013
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LewRockwell.com
An Action Plan for Anarcho-Capitalists / The Nile Runs Red With Blood / Did the Secret Service Help Kill JFK? / Adam Gabbatt on the Ron Paul Channel / Vaccine Developer Reveals the Truth / Are You Ready for Powdered Beer? / Area 51
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Activism
One Man. One March. One Speech.
08-17-2013
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Time
Fifty years ago, 250,000 people gathered on the National Mall for the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. shared his dream for America. TIME talks to the people who helped make the march a success"
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News Link • Housing
This Land Is Your Land: When Desperate Cities Give Away Homes
08-17-2013
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Time
Towns have taken to offering land for next to nothing " or, sometimes, literally nothing
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Lee Daniels' The Butler
08-17-2013
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rollingstone.com
There's no denying the stumbles that mar this alternately riveting and risible historical epic (big stars in bad makeup doing cameos as American presidents " yikes!).
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The Hard-Shell Luggage Supervillains Would Use
08-17-2013
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Wired.com
During the Cold War, the most dangerous piece of luggage in the world was the nuclear football, an aluminum Zero Halliburton briefcase that never strayed too far from the President’s side.
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News Link • Drones
Launch This New 9-Hour Solar-Powered Drone from Your Shoulder
08-17-2013
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Wired.com
A new small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) boasts something no other has been able to do thus far: continuous flight for 9 hours and all on the clean energy of solar power.
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News Link • Energy
New rechargeable flow battery enables cheaper, large-scale energy storage
08-17-2013
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web.mit.edu
Design may support widespread use of solar and wind energy.
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News Link • Transportation
Could Electric Cars Threaten the Grid?
08-17-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Some neighborhood grids just aren’t built for huge spikes in power demand. The rise of the electric car has utilities scrambling to adjust.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Area 51 Revealed in CIA Spy Plane Documents
08-17-2013
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abcnews.go.com
Area 51 in Nevada has long been the subject of wild conspiracy theories about extraterrestrials, time travel and alien autopsies, but newly released declassified documents from the CIA finally acknowledge its existence.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, August 18, 2013 Edition
08-16-2013
John Semmens
EEOC Vows to Appeal Judge's Ruling
This past week, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Titus dismissed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's contention that the use of criminal background checks for prospective employees unfairly discriminates
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Bypasses Congress Again to Fund Universal Preschool
08-16-2013
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breitbart.com
States are receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in "discretionary spending," to fund universal preschool, Barack Obama’s new pet project.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Fox News covers suspicious crash of Michael Hastings' CIA connection
08-16-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Journalist Michael Hastings reportedly working on story about CIA chief before death (That's the title of the article.)
Journalist Michael Hastings, who was killed in a fiery car crash in June, reportedly had been working on several big stories ....
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News Link • Police State
N.H. City Wants a "Tank" to Use Against Occupiers and Libertarians
08-16-2013
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motherjones.com
Concord police listed the nonviolent groups as domestic terror threats in a federal grant application.
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News Link • Free Speech
NSA Targets T-Shirt Makers Over Parody Designs
08-16-2013
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Prison Planet
The NSA is targeting t-shirt makers who produce designs parodying the federal agency’s involvement in the spying scandal, shutting down free speech by means of intimidating threats of copyright infringement.
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News Link • Habeas Corpus
The Habeas Corpus Myth
08-16-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Anthony Gregory
We know many things about habeas corpus. We know that it goes back to the Magna Carta and that the U.S. Constitution affirmed this bulwark of Anglo-American liberty.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Kerry: Internet, Instant Communication Making It Much Harder to Govern
08-16-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Informed Public Not So Easy to Organize, Kerry Laments
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
If Eric Holder won't prosecute reporters, why did the FBI target me?
08-16-2013
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http://www.theguardian.com, James Ball
It's unnerving to learn my journalism for WikiLeaks led to being named in an FBI probe. Mainstream media need to pay attention
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Jackson Given Less Than Three Years For Stealing $750,000
08-15-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Jesse Jackson, Jr. was sentenced to 2 1/2 years for his crimes while a congressman from Illinois. His wife, former Ald. Sandi Jackson was sentenced to 12 months in prison for her role in the crimes. The couple was shocked by sentence,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Report: Secret Service Targeted Aaron Swartz
08-15-2013
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Jonathan Turley
This week we got another insight into the focus of the security agencies in the United States. Documents revealed that the U.S. Secret Service kept free-information activist Aaron Swartz under close watch until he killed himself following an abusive
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
By Matt Taibbi
08-15-2013
In a way, America itself is violating the Truth in Lending Act. It's cheering millions of high school graduates toward college every year, feeding them into the debt grinder under the banner of increased opportunity, when full disclosure would requi
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