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Date Sent: 2014-12-20
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, December 20, 2014 |
Police Say They Believe Witness Who Says A Conservative MP Killed A Boy
Penn. cops refusing to help dying suspect after shooting him 16 times -- NYPD Cop Running Up and Punching 12-year-old Detained by 3 Other Cops -- Fallout grows over Calif. chief's participation in protest -- Phoenix police chief fired after press conference -- Our Jails Are a Scandal -- After Silk Road takedowns, Dark Web drug sites still thriving -- Philadelphians Save Homes From Civil Forfeiture Machine But Continue Legal Fight -- Hollywood v. Goliath: Inside the aggressive studio effort to bring Google to heel -- The Rising Cost of Felony Creep -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, December 21, 2014 Edition -- Fidel's Legacy -- 12-19-14 -- Will Grigg - Michael Belfiore (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- Russia Has Begun Selling Its Gold, According To SocGen -- Graham Hancock on Psychedelics: This TED Talk was banned, it's the greatest one I ever watched -- The Army Auctioned Off Humvees For As Little As $21,500 -- Russia & US leaders briefly meet in Rome...Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul -- Grand Jury Witness 40's Claim That Michael Brown Charged "Like a Football Player" -- Save Tonopah Rob's Farm -- America's Health Care System: How We Got Into This Mess & How We Can Get Out -- Israel to Veto Palestinian Statehood Bid -- German researchers discover a flaw that could let anyone listen to your cell calls
AZ: TODAY, Magpoc Homestead Tour/Christmas Party, Dec 20; AZ Legislative Forecast Luncheon featuring Governor-elect Doug Ducey 01-09-15
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News Link • Political Parties
BREAKING: Police Say They Believe Witness Who Says A Conservative MP Killed A Boy...
12-19-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com-Jim Edwards
BREAKING: Police Say They Believe Witness Who Says A Conservative MP Killed A Boy At Child Sex Party.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Penn. cops refusing to help dying suspect after shooting him 16 times
12-19-2014
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Rawstory
An $8 million federal civil rights lawsuit accused 2 police officers of failing to help a suspect who was dying after being shot at least 16 times. Footage of the encounter shows cops reassuring each other after shooting 40-year-old
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYPD Cop Running Up and Punching 12-year-old Detained by 3 Other Cops
12-19-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Police continue to rule the boroughs with that Blue Mafia style of policing as can be seen in the latest video where 3 cops detaining a 12-year-old who didn't appear to be resistant when a 4th cop ran up and started throwing punches,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Fallout grows over Calif. chief's participation in protest
12-19-2014
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Contra Costa Times
Richmond Police Officers Association attorney Alison Berry Wilkinson said Friday that by participating in the protest while in uniform, Magnus broke the law he is charged with upholding.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Phoenix police chief fired after press conference
12-19-2014
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USA Today
Union leaders called on members to cast "no-confidence" votes in their chief, buoyed by the suicide of a cop who had been fired by Garcia for a DUI. Garcia's woes escalated when an officer shot and killed an unarmed black man
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News Link • Internet
After Silk Road takedowns, Dark Web drug sites still thriving
12-19-2014
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ars technica
Over a year after the shuttering of the original Silk Road website and over a month after the seizure of Silk Road 2 and other similar sites, the sketchiest of Dark Web sites still persist.
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News Link • Eminent Domain
Philadelphians Save Homes From Civil Forfeiture Machine But Continue Legal Fight
12-19-2014
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Institute of Justice
Philadelphia's Office of the District Attorney agreed to dismiss its civil-forfeiture proceedings against the family homes of Christos Sourovelis and Doila Welch. Both families will no longer have to worry about losing their homes
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Hollywood v. Goliath: Inside the aggressive studio effort to bring Google to heel
12-19-2014
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ars technica
Hood's investigation got revved up after at least a year of intense lobbying by the Motion Picture Association of America E-mails show the inner workings of how that lobbying advanced--and just how extensive it was.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Rising Cost of Felony Creep
12-19-2014
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ars technica
That July 2014 motion asks the court to find that the government is "violating the Fourth Amendment by their ongoing seizures and searches of plaintiffs' Internet communications."
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, December 21, 2014 Edition
12-19-2014
John Semmens
Judge Arthur Schwab of the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled that portions of President Obama's unilateral action on illegal immigrants violate the US Constitution's separation of powers.
"The alleged grounds of prosecutorial discretion are
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
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Ernest Hancock
12-19-14 -- Will Grigg - Michael Belfiore (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Will Grigg (award-winning investigative journalist, writer, producer) on the status of civil liberties in America, good cop vs. bad cop, freedom good...government bad - Michael Belfiore (Author: Rocketeers; Journalist; Mad Science Innovation Blog) p
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News Link • How To
How To Make Bulletproof Coffee With Butter For More Energy
12-19-2014
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by Matthew Stuart and Alana Kakoyiannis
Everybody loves coffee and Dave Asprey â€" author of "The Bulletproof Diet" â€" says he has come up with a coffee that will give its drinkers a lot more energy.
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
MaidSafe
12-19-2014
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http://maidsafe.net
MaidSafe consists of two key parts: the network and the client applications. The network is under active development and aims to be released by the end of 2014 (but for the time being is available for compilation from source via github.com).
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Russia Has Begun Selling Its Gold, According To SocGen
12-19-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com-Tyler Durden
A few days ago, we first reported a rumor that was floating around Wall Street desks, and which, according to some, was the "reason" that gold was being kept lower even as sovereign risk was exploding around the globe. The rumor was that Russia was s
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News Link • Anthropology
Graham Hancock on Psychedelics: This TED Talk was banned, it's the greatest one I...
12-19-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com-twilson1utk
Graham Hancock on Psychedelics: This TED Talk was banned, it's the greatest one I have heard...
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News Link • Inventions
Who Needs Flying Cars When You Can Have A $200,000 Jetpack?
12-19-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com-Mary Grady, Robb R.
The Martin Aircraft Company, based in New Zealand, is now taking deposits for the consumer version of its single-person jet pack, which has been in development for more than 30 years.
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News Link • World News
Russia & US leaders briefly meet in Rome...Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul...
12-19-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com-GoldenDawnMedia
Russia & US leaders briefly meet in Rome...Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Inst. weighs in.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Grand Jury Witness 40?s Claim That Michael Brown Charged "Like a Football Player"...
12-19-2014
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http://benswann.com-Barry Donegan
Grand Jury Witness 40?s Claim That Michael Brown Charged "Like a Football Player" Falls Apart.
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Feature Article • Events: Arizona
Save Tonopah Rob's Farm
Donna Hancock
I'm in dire need of financial help to maintain my farm and begin aquaponics, farming with fish and plants. I've run out of my own money to continue funding my farm. I farm according to wind directions, moon cycles and support a unique eco-system r
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News Link • Surveillance
German researchers discover a flaw that could let anyone listen to your cell calls
12-19-2014
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Washington Post
German researchers discovered security flaws that let hackers, spies and criminals listen to private phone calls and intercept text messages on a potentially massive scale â€" even using the most advanced encryption available.
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Opinion • Political Parties
Are You Mad Yet?
12-18-2014
Chuck Baldwin
In the poem, "The Masque of Pandora," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has Prometheus saying, "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." Accordingly, the would-be gods in the GOP leadership in Washington, D.C., must have rank-and-file Repu
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News Link • Gun Rights
Kansas Court Declares Plastic Bags Suspicious
12-17-2014
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The Newspaper
The second highest court in Kansas declared anyone driving with a torn plastic baggie is involved in the drug trade and can be searched without a warrant. The conviction of Cameron Howard, was found not with drugs but a lawfully purchased firearm.
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News Link • Surveillance
New World Systems: Police are spying on social media and assessing your 'threat rating'
12-17-2014
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Blacklisted News
For example, working off a home address, Beware can send an officer basic information about who lives there, their cell phone numbers, whether they have past convictions and the cars registered to the address. Police have had access to this informati
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Judge shames sucker-punching officer for snapping Good Samaritan woman's leg
12-17-2014
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Rawstory
"Watson kicked her to the side, a karate-kick that snapped her leg," the judge explained, adding that "Watson then jumped on her and punched her on the left side of her face. She turned face-down and Sgt. Watson kept kneeing her in the back."
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
"Mass sterilization": Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-fertility Agent in UN Tetanus Vaccine
12-17-2014
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Wake Up From Your Slumber!
According to LifeSiteNews, a Catholic publication, the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association is charging UNICEF and WHO with sterilizing millions of girls and women under cover of an anti-tetanus vaccination program sponsored by
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News Link • Internet
Sony leaks reveal Hollywood is trying to break DNS, the backbone of the internet
12-17-2014
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The Verge
Leaked documents reveal a frightening line of attack that's currently being considered by the MPAA: What if you simply erased any record that the site was there in the first place?
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News Link • Internet
Making the Internet a utility--what's the worst that could happen?
12-17-2014
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ars technica
To regulate Internet service providers (ISPs) as utilities, the FCC must reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service. It's a move that consumer advocacy groups and even President Obama have pushed the FCC to take.
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News Link • World News
54 Nigerian soldiers to be executed for mutiny
12-17-2014
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http://www.upi.com- Danielle Haynes
ABUJA, Nigeria, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Nigerian military court on Wednesday sentenced 54 soldiers to death for mutiny after refusing to fight Boko Haram terrorists, a lawyer for the soldiers said.
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News Link • Energy
'Biggest Fracking Victory Ever!' as New York Bans Dangerous Drilling in State
12-17-2014
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http://www.commondreams.org-Jon Queally
'Fracking has no place in New York or anywhere,' says prominent activist after announcement by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's historic opening to Cuba: A hint of things to come with Iran?
12-17-2014
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http://www.csmonitor.com-Howard LaFranchi
By restoring diplomatic ties with Cuba, President Obama has acted in accord with one of his most deeply-held principles: America must engage its enemies.
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News Link • Police State
Ignorance Is No Excuse for Wrongdoing, Unless You're a Cop
12-17-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
"[I]f the individual is no longer to be sovereign, if the police can pick him up whenever they do not like the cut of his jib, if they can 'seize' and 'search' him in their discretion, we enter a new regime."?"U.S. Supreme Court
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News Link • Economy - International
Financial Market Manipulation Is The New Trend: Can It Continue?
12-17-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A dangerous new trend is the successful manipulation of the financial markets by the Federal Reserve, other central banks, private banks, and the US Treasury. The Federal Reserve reduced real interest rates on US government debt obligations first to
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
U.S. terrorism insurance bill killed by objections in Senate
12-17-2014
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Reuters
A bill to extend an expiring federal terrorism insurance program effectively died on Tuesday when the U.S. Senate failed to reach an agreement to hold a vote before Congress wraps up its business for the year.
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News Link • Syria
Nearly 200 dead as Syria bases lost to Qaeda: monitor
12-17-2014
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AFP
Nearly 200 combatants on both sides were killed in 24 hours when the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda took two regime bases in Idlib province, a monitoring group said on Tuesday.
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News Link • Economy - International
Russia grapples with shocking fall of the ruble: 'What happened yesterday is a catastrophe
12-17-2014
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AFP
The Russian currency crashed to unprecedented lows Tuesday trading at 80 rubles to the dollar and 100 to the euro, testing Vladimir Putin's ability to ride out both the economic storm and his clash with the West.
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News Link • Surveillance
Cops illegally nailed webcam to utility pole for 6 weeks to spy on house
12-16-2014
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ars technica
A federal judge tossed evidence that was gathered by a webcam for 6 weeks that authorities nailed to a utility pole 100 yards from a suspected drug dealer's house. The Justice Dept. contended the webcam was no different from a police officer
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