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Date Sent: 2014-01-20
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Monday, January 20, 2014 |
Philadelphia teen suffers ruptured testicle and hit with misdemeanors during police patdown
Oklahoma cop arrested for selling colleague’s gun to felon -- The Outrage of the Kelly Thomas Cops’ Acquittal -- "Being anxious and afraid does not justify attempting to execute a man on his way to go surfing -- Shaky Syrian Peace Talks -- How Israel Gets Away with Murder -- America’s Great Game: The C.I.A.’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East -- 2d Circuit Court: Aw, Come On. That Can’t Be True -- Vigilantes reclaim another town in western Mexico -- First comprehensive test to detect genetic modification in food -- Congress Just Authorized $1.1 Trillion in Spending … And Nobody Read the Bill -- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Whitewashed by Radical Leftists! -- Promised Land Disenchantment -- Paul Revere, 9/11 and the NSA -- Russian Motivations to Attack the US
AZ: Freedom Tech Workshop #1 - Saturday February
1st 2014; Freedom Summit 2014 Meetup
NV: Ernie Hancock at Passport to Freedom 2014, Jan.
23-25, 2014
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Philadelphia teen suffers ruptured testicle and hit with misdemeanors during police patdown
01-20-2014
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Rawstory
A straight-A student suffered a ruptured testicle during a patdown by Philadelphia police and was then charged with resisting arrest. Darrin Manning got off the subway on his way to play in a high school basketball game with 12 teammates
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Oklahoma cop arrested for selling colleague’s gun to felon
01-20-2014
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Rawstory
A police officer in Union City, Oklahoma, was arrested for allegedly stealing a former colleague’s gun and selling it to a convicted felon. 32-year-old Officer Scottie Brothers was charged with possession of stolen property and providing firearms
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Outrage of the Kelly Thomas Cops’ Acquittal
01-20-2014
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Simple Justice
As much as we may believe the acquittal is an outrage, and our sense of justice is fundamentally offended by this outcome, it’s time to step back from the emotional reaction and consider the doctrinal consequences of this call for reprosecution.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"Being anxious and afraid does not justify attempting to execute a man on his way to go surfing
01-20-2014
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by Radley Balko (Washington Post)
Except apparently it does, if you work in law enforcement. The quote is from the lawyer for David Perdue, one of 3 people police in California mistakenly fired upon during last February's manhunt for cop killer (and former cop) Christopher Dorner.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
America’s Great Game: The C.I.A.’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
01-19-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Intelligence historian Hugh Wilford discusses his new book, America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East. Here is a New York Times review of the book. His previous books include The Mighty Wurlitzer: How t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
2d Circuit: Aw, Come On. That Can’t Be True
01-19-2014
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Simple Justice
One of the great joys of sitting on an appellate bench is that one is never compelled to accept as fact things that were hashed out at enormous length and effort before the trial court. As Appellate Squawk likes to point out, facts are for kids.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Mexico
Vigilantes reclaim another town in western Mexico
01-19-2014
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AFP
Self-defense groups made up of Mexican farmers and other local people have taken over another town that had been overrun by drug traffickers in the restive state of Michoacan. About 80 men armed with high-powered rifles Friday moved into the village
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
First comprehensive test to detect genetic modification in food
01-19-2014
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They developed a test they call "MACRO," which stands for: multiplex amplification on a chip with readout on an oligo microarray. It combines 2 well-known genetic methods to flag about 97% of the known commercialized modifications,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Congress Just Authorized $1.1 Trillion in Spending … And Nobody Read the Bill
01-19-2014
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On Capitol Hill, CNSNews.com asked Rep. Blumenauer: “The omnibus bill yesterday, it was 1,582 pages, did you have a chance to read all the pages before voting on it?” Blumenauer laughed and said: “Nobody did!” “Nobody did?” asked the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Paul Revere, 9/11 and the NSA
1-19-2014
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Free Press Publications
President Obama recently gave a speech about possible reforms at the NSA. Obama began his speech by invoking the name Paul Revere. He stated that Revere and the Sons of Liberty “would patrol the streets, reporting back any signs that the British were
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Darryl W. Perry
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, January 19, 2014 Edition
01-17-2014
John Semmens
DOJ Refuses to Press Charges for IRS Abuses
After investigating the IRS's discriminatory treatment of the President's political opponents, Barbara Bosserman, a lawyer in the Department of Justice’s civil rights division, has determined that “no ch
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News Link • Bitcoin
Overstock.com CEO Attacks Krugman: “Hopefully Bitcoin Will Destroy Central Banking”
01-17-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Diamond Dog
Krugman: “Hopefully Bitcoin Will Destroy Central Banking”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge Rules No Fly List Unconstitutional
01-17-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Paul Joseph Watson
A judge has ruled that the U.S. government must remove a Malaysian academic from the no fly list, rendering the infamous policy unconstitutional.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
America’s Police State: Worse than Communist North Korea?
01-17-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
If Kelly Thomas had lived in Communist North Korea, rather than conservative Orange County, California, he might have survived his encounter with the police.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Study: Chris Christie's New Jersey Least Economically Solvent State in U.S.
01-17-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Frances Martel
Study: Chris Christie's New Jersey Least Economically Solvent State in U.S.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • American History
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States.
01-17-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, sethr11
I just watched this 10 part series and thought it was excellent.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Pushback Against Federal Roadside Checkpoints Increasing
01-17-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
With some 60 cities participating in federal checkpoints, pushback from citizens and local police and sheriff’s departments is increasing.
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Robert Lee
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Opinion • Economy - Economics USA
Questions about Income Inequality
01-17-2014
Menckens Ghost
Once again we’re being drowned in inanities, banalities, sophistries, platitudes, nostrums, tropes, canards, lies, half-truths, statistical distortions, and propaganda.
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
01-17-2014
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The Guardian
The National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million text messages a day from across the globe, using them to extract data including location, contact networks and credit card details, according to top-secret documents.
The National Securit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Television
Five Ways North Koreans Are Defying the Regime
01-17-2014
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PBS Frontline
In Secret State of North Korea, which airs Tuesday at 10 p.m. EST, FRONTLINE follows several North Koreans who are working to fight back against the regime.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Russell Brand rules out ‘little ejaculations’ like voting " he wants revolution ‘b*kkake’
01-17-2014
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Rawstory
“They’re only in charge of us if we allow it,” Brand said. “Complete noncompliance, complete disobedience, then the alternatives will emerge. We need to create a paradigm that makes the old one obsolete. That’s what we have to do. Not comply to it,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Stop And Frisk Solved? Top Cop Delivers Bold Statement
01-17-2014
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According to Commissioner Bratton, the problem of stop and frisk is more or less solved. He says, "The number of stops has fallen dramatically and in some instances it has stopped altogether."
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News Link • Drug War
Man gives change to homeless person, is handcuffed and held by police for an hour
01-17-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
Greg Snider was in a Houston, Texas parking lot, on the phone making a business call. While in the lot, a homeless man approached his car and asked for change. Snider gave him 75 cents and then drove off. The shocking thing that happened next
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
The International Monetary Fund Lays The Groundwork For Global Wealth Confiscation
01-16-2014
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Forbes
The appeal is that such a tax, if it is implemented before avoidance is possible and there is a belief that it will never be repeated, does not distort behavior (and may be seen by some as fair). … The conditions for success are strong, but also nee
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News Link • Police State
Gun owners beware: Man pulled over, harassed for having permit but no gun
01-17-2014
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bizpacreview.com
Those who support the Second Amendment rights often get harassed " even when they’re not exercising those rights. It happened to a Tampa-area businessman recently, and it wasn’t pretty.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Famous Whistleblower Has Some Good Advice For Edward Snowden
01-17-2014
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Business Insider
Daniel Ellsberg " the leaker of the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers " did a Reddit Ask-Me-Anything (AmA) this week, during which he talked about the NSA surveillance state and explained why Edward Snowden should never come home.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Who Are The Top Holders Of US Treasurys
01-17-2014
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zerohedge.com
Yesterday, when the Treasury released its TIC data early by mistake, the update that China's holdings rose to a record $1.317 trillion caused a stir.
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News Link • Free Trade
WikiLeaks Releases Entire TPP Draft " Still, We Have Our Suspicions
01-17-2014
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thedailybell.com
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) ... WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding Chairs' Report.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
My Doctor Can Disclose My Medical Records to the NSA Without My Authorization (and so can yours)
01-17-2014
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dissenter.firedoglake.com
You can learn a lot about a person from their medical records" what’s that STD test all about?
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News Link • Government
Gothamist on asset forfeiture abuse at NYPD
01-16-2014
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by Radley Balko (Washington Post)
In the middle of the night in March of 2012, NYPD officers burst into the Bronx home of Gerald Bryan, ransacking his belongings, tearing out light fixtures, punching through walls, and confiscating $4,800 in cash.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New Mexico Town and County Settle Notorious Cavity Search Case For $1.8 Million
01-16-2014
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http://jonathanturley.org
You may recall that Eckert filed a federal case against the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office, police officers with the City of Deming and medical professionals at the Gila Regional Medical Center. Eckert was stopped on a minor traffic violation
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News Link • Police State
Jailing of an Alabama blogger: It’s worse than we thought
01-16-2014
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Salon
Shuler has a reputation for exposing corruption and hypocrisy within the Alabama state house. It is certainly fair to say that his journalism has earned him some powerful enemies. It’s worth scrutinizing not only the blogger’s imprisonment,
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News Link • Activism
Aaron Swartz Documentary: SOPA and The Day We Fight Back
01-16-2014
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Daily Paul.com
One year after Internet activist Aaron Swartz's death, a group of activists and online platforms are uniting for a day of activism against the National Security Agency's surveillance tactics.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China Mobilizes 100,000 Troops In Preparation For Korean Peninsula Crisis
01-17-2014
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Prison Planet
PLA source says number of troops involved is unusually rare
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News Link • European Union
Nigel Farage Booms “Europe Is Now Run By Big Banks, Big Business, And Big Bureaucrats”
01-17-2014
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Prison Planet
With Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras settling into his role as EU President, UKIP’s Nigel Farage stunned the “Goldman Sachs puppet” with a 150-second tirade of truthiness he has likely never experienced.
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
FEMA Seeking Contractors Who Can Supply Biohazard Disposal Facilities, Tarps and ......
01-17-2014
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shtfplan.com
FEMA is seeking contractors who can supply medical biohazard disposal capabilities and 40 yard dumpsters to 1,000 tent hospitals across the United States;
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News Link • Just For Fun!
The Internet is Getting Dangerously Close to Collapsing
01-17-2014
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Tarrin Lupo
How the Internet works is a complete mystery to most people, and might as well be considered magic. Even prominent leaders like Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens told the world, “The internet is not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court Gives Monsanto Full Ability to Sue Farmers
01-17-2014
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theorganicprepper.ca
Do you remember the 2011 lawsuit from the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association 80+ plaintiffs (farmers and small businesses) against Monsanto?
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim O’Neill: Global income redistribution could be coming
01-17-2014
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CNBC.Com
With discussion of income inequality reaching a fever pitch"from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's "tale of two cities" message to the headline-grabbing sermons of Pope Francis"former Goldman Sachs asset management chairman Jim O'Neill believes th
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