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Date Sent: 2014-01-29
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, January 29, 2014 |
Afghan president Hamid Karzai suspects U.S. secretly behind Kabul restaurant bombing
Dallas police officer accused of raping woman after traffic stop -- Bank Run Fears Escalate as Russian Lender Bans Cash Withdrawals -- Ohio Appeals Court Green Lights Class Action Suit Over Photo Tickets -- Neighborhood Big Brother -- Vermont child caseworker gets 18 months behind bars for unlawful sexual contact with Maine girl -- Florida congressman Radel resigns after cocaine charge -- Ex-Traffic Court supervisor pleads guilty in ticket-fixing case -- Plunder-Lusting Quislings Seek to Repeal Posse Comitatus - by William Grigg -- 4409: What is the Freedom Summit? -- 4409 Interviews Ernest Hancock about the
upcoming Freedom Summit 2014 in Phoenix, AZ -- 01-28-14 -- Peter
Schiff - Jim Bruce - Francis Boyle (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- Mass
Surveillance Called Illegal -- Ron Paul Live Tweets the REAL State of the Union
-- FreedomsPhoenix - Android Market
Smartphone Application ready for DOWNLOAD
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club Saturday Feb 1st, 2014, 8-10 a.m.
@ Coco's (Paradise Valley Mall) with Patrick Wood speaking; Freedom Tech Workshop #1 - Saturday February
1st 2014; Memorial for Jack McLamb Saturday February 22nd, 2014,
2-4 p.m. (MST) - Phoenix, AZ; Freedom Summit 2014 Meetup
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan president Hamid Karzai suspects U.S. secretly behind Kabul restaurant bombing
01-28-2014
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AFP
Afghan President Hamid Karzai suspects the United States may have backed insurgent-style attacks to undermine his government but has no evidence to support his theory, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Karzai, whose relations with Washington h
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Dallas police officer accused of raping woman after traffic stop
01-28-2014
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Rawstory
According a Dallas Police Department statement obtained by WFAA, Ofc. La’Cori Johnson stopped the woman on Larga Dr. in September and told her that she could have sex with him to avoid being taken to jail for an outstanding warrant.
“He then took
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Bank Run Fears Escalate as Russian Lender Bans Cash Withdrawals
01-28-2014
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“Bloomberg reports ‘My Bank’ " one of Russia’s top 200 lenders by assets " introduced a complete ban on cash withdrawals until next week. While the Ruble has been losing ground rapidly, we suspect few have been expecting bank runs
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Ohio Appeals Court Green Lights Class Action Suit Over Photo Tickets
01-28-2014
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The Newspaper
Photo enforcement companies are in trouble in Ohio. A class action suit is proceeding to refund all speed camera tickets issued in Elmwood Place, and the state Supreme Court has repeatedly rebuffed the town's pleas to intervene.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Neighborhood Big Brother
01-28-2014
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BloodWillow.com
o, today started out like any other day. I woke up, showered, shaved, and proceeded to surf the inner-tubes (Internet) for the latest news on the NWO agenda. After watching the Snowden interview with German TV, I received a knock on my front door. Fi
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Xander Holman
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News Link • Family
Vermont child caseworker gets 18 months behind bars for unlawful sexual contact with Maine girl
01-28-2014
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A child caseworker from Vermont will spend 18 months behind bars for inappropriately touching a girl in Maine. Jeffrey Parfitt, 26, was sentenced Friday to six years in prison with all but 18 months suspended, including 3 years of probation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Florida congressman Radel resigns after cocaine charge
01-28-2014
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Reuters
Republican Representative Trey Radel, who was charged in November with buying cocaine, resigned from Congress on Monday, saying he could no longer effectively serve the people he represents in southern Florida.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Ex-Traffic Court supervisor pleads guilty in ticket-fixing case
01-28-2014
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A FORMER Philadelphia Traffic Court supervisor pleaded guilty in the wide-ranging ticket-fixing scandal that rocked the court last year and caused it to be abolished. William Hird, 68, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Plunder-Lusting Quislings Seek to Repeal Posse Comitatus
01-28-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
While visiting the elite Battle Command Training Program at Fort Leavenworth, “I head discussion of the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids the National Guard to act as a local police force,” reported Robert D. Kaplan in his 1996 book An Empire Wilder
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Quest to grow human organs inside pigs in Japan
01-28-2014
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arclein
The unconscious pig is about to become a surrogate mother - and the embryos she is now carrying are very special. They are chimeric, that is, they carry genetic material from two different species.
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robert klein
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News Link • Food
Maca Root
01-28-2014
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arclein
Maca is a nutritionally dense super-food that contains high amounts of vitamins, minerals, enzymes and all of the essential amino acids. It is rich in B-vitamins, the energy vitamins, which makes the plant a great supplement for vegans and vegetarian
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Researcher Finds Image of Mysterious Triangular Object on Moon
01-28-2014
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arclein
It's really there, not faked and I have no clue what it is,' WowForReeel wrote. 'I found nothing else like it in any of the other craters.'
"Is it just a weird-looking crater? Or is it something else?," asks WowForReeel.
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robert klein
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Defend Your Life
Dennis Miller
Obamacare still seems like a vague thing to most folks, particularly to those who may be most affected by it. Dr. Vliet, an independent physician herself, dives into the areas of the law that impact seniors the most and offers some tips on how to bet
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Live Tweets the REAL State of the Union
01-28-2014
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www.ronpaulchannel.com
"Where do we really stand as a nation? Watch the State of the Union here as Ron live tweets his reactions to Obama’s speech."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
17 of Your Favorite Movie Quotes, Done as Infographics
01-28-2014
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Wired.com
Unquestionably, the most famous line in Forrest Gump is when he compares life to a box of chocolates. Is it cheesy? Totally.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death
One of America's Greats, Singer/Activist Pete Seeger, Dead
01-28-2014
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AP
Buoyed by his characteristically soaring spirit, the surging crowd around him and a pair of canes, Pete Seeger walked through the streets of Manhattan leading an Occupy Movement protest in 2011.
Though he would later admit the attention embarrasse
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
U.S. frees tech companies to give more spying data
01-27-2014
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Reuters
Companies such as Google Inc and Microsoft Corp have been prohibited from disclosing even an approximate number of orders they received from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. They could give only an aggregate number of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA and GCHQ target 'leaky' phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data
01-27-2014
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The Guardian
The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been taking advantage of "leaky" smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users' private information across the internet,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Marriage
Oklahoma Lawmakers Consider Getting Government Out of the Marriage Business
01-27-2014
State lawmakers are considering throwing out marriage in Oklahoma. The idea stems from a bill filed by Rep. Mike Turner (R-Edmond). Turner says it's an attempt to keep same-sex marriage illegal in Oklahoma while satisfying the U.S. Constitution.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Justin Bieber and “Resisting Arrest Without Violence”
01-27-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Though he is adored as a minor deity in the degenerate world of pop culture, when confronted by a member of the State’s punitive priesthood Justin Bieber is just another Mundane. This explains how the alleged singer has found himself charged with
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Maybe the Most Orwellian Text Message a Government's Ever Sent
01-27-2014
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“Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”
That's a text message that thousands of Ukrainian protesters spontaneously received on their cell phones today, as a new law prohibiting public demonstrations
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
BATFE Confirms: All Gun Owners Subject to Arrest in Cars - by Alan Korwin
01-27-2014
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
BATFE has confirmed that everyone is subject to arrest and permanent loss of gun rights for gun possession within 1,000 feet of a school; a carry permit provides no protection outside your home state; lack of a permit puts you at complete risk
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Sony’s credit rating crash hits junk status
01-27-2014
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ars technica
In November 2012, Moody’s downgraded Sony’s long-term debt rating to one notch above junk status. That marked the second time in a month Sony was hit with a downgrade. On Monday, Moody’s pushed Sony’s rating to Ba1"aka junk status.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
(No) Honor Among Thugs
01-27-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
The Pomona, California police officers who beat Arreola in front of his wife told the terrified woman that they would make sure that the victim lost his job. That sadistic prediction was fulfilled within a day, after which Arreola discovered that hi
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News Link • Drug War
I Told You So"Again
01-27-2014
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
Among the War on Pleasure's countless victims, they have been made to feel guilty about everything that they think, and feel, and say, and do -- and most of all, enjoy. They have been the subjects of more vicious bigotry than European Jews
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Redflex Bribery Scandal Spreads Nationwide
01-27-2014
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The Newspaper
Local Officials in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Tennessee and Washington received gifts and other financial incentives intended to encourage them to do business with Redflex.
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News Link • Propaganda
We Win the NY Times Prize
01-27-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The New York Times, whistling past the financial graveyard, paused over the weekend to smear the Mises Institute, Ron Paul, our other scholars, hardcore libertarianism, and me. Why? Because our ideas and our youth movement are gaining real traction.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Working Age Americans are the Majority of People on Food Stamps for the First Time
01-27-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
When people ask me to describe the state of the U.S. economy, what I always say is that it can best characterized as an ongoing state-sanctioned theft. This theft consists of the 0.01% oligarch class intentionally leveraging a corrupt monetary and po
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Idiocracy? The White House’s ‘Healthy’ Diet Plan for Kids, Brought to You by Subway
01-27-2014
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theorganicprepper.ca
Hey kids, can you say “corporatism”? Now eat up (don’t read the ingredients, though).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
This World Map Shows The Enormity Of America's Prison Problem
01-27-2014
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businessinsider.com
About 2.4 million people live behind bars in America " the highest number in the world. That's a little more than 0.7% of the population and more than 700 for every 100,000 people.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
New Bill Incites Fears of “Fringe” Beliefs in Schools
01-27-2014
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theorganicprepper.ca
Upon first reading reports of an “anti-science” and “muzzling” bill, you could easily get the impression that “mum’s the word” for any further discussion on science/health topics like GMOs, vaccines, climate change, raw milk etc
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Robert Lee
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News Link • New World Order
Important Reuters Article on the Middle East
01-27-2014
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thedailybell.com
Seven reasons why the Arab uprisings are eclipsing western values ...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
DC Police Misconduct: Over 100 Arrested, 47 Convicted in Last 5 Years
01-27-2014
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thedailysheeple.com
In the last month, three D.C. officers were accused in unrelated investigations involving child pornography, attempted murder and the running of a prostitution operation involving teenage girls.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Trade
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
01-27-2014
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eff.org
What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Nations Largest Cocaine Smuggler Revealed: The DEA
01-27-2014
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informationclearinghouse.info
Newly released documents, and testimony from Justice Department and DEA officials now show the stories of government running cocaine are true.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Farmers Abandoning GMO Seeds and the Reason Will Surprise You
01-27-2014
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cornucopia.org
A growing number of farmers are abandoning genetically modified seeds, but it’s not because they are ideologically opposed to the industry.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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