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Date Sent: 2015-01-13
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, January 13, 2015 |
U.S. military command's Twitter account apparently hacked by ISIS
Cameron Government Moves To Impose Speech Code On English Universities -- UK prime minister wants backdoors into messaging apps or he'll ban them -- Cops' Rough Treatment of Tamir Rice's Sister as Her Younger Brother Lay Dying -- EFF: Law enforcement 'desperately' trying to hide use of surveillance cell towers -- The New CISPA Is Identical to the Old One, But the Political Climate Is Scarier -- Q&A: On the Untouchable 'Lords of Secrecy' -- 01-12-15 -- Drew Phillips - Doug Scribner -- Mark Hilgenberg (MP3/VIDEO LOADED) -- 2 Albuquerque officers charged with murder in shooting -- Charlie Hebdo staff try in vain to stifle laughter as pigeon craps on Francois Hollande -- Idaho prosecutor issues warrant for 9-year-old accused of stealing pack of gum -- Justices appear to favor small Arizona church over sign law -- Soros and Yatsenyuk: Partners in Crime -- Review of new book on genocide -- Paris Killings Aftermath: War on Civil Liberties -- Mike Huckabee Is Literally a Con Artist -- Ebola Vaccines Were Always in the Pipeline
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. military command's Twitter account apparently hacked by ISIS
01-12-2015
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Yahoo! News blog
The official Twitter account for U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, appears to have been hacked by someone claiming to be affiliated with ISIS.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Speech
Cameron Government Moves To Impose Speech Code On English Universities
01-12-2015
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Jonathan Turley
A proposed British law creates a serious threat to academic freedom and free speech. The law seeks to force universities to take action to stop young people being exposed to extremist ideas and speakers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
UK prime minister wants backdoors into messaging apps or he'll ban them
01-12-2015
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ars technica
David Cameron, the British Prime minister, is one-upping his Western allies when it comes to anti-encryption propaganda. Ahead of national elections in May, Cameron said that if re-elected, he would seek to ban encrypted online messaging apps unless
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops' Rough Treatment of Tamir Rice's Sister as Her Younger Brother Lay Dying
01-12-2015
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The Guardian
The 14-year old sister of Tamir Rice was pushed to the ground, handcuffed and then shoved into the back of a patrol car as her 12-year-old brother lay dying after being shot by a Cleveland police officer who
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
EFF: Law enforcement 'desperately' trying to hide use of surveillance cell towers
01-12-2015
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Venture Beat
"We're not just worried about how invasive these devices can be, but also that the government has been less than forthright with judges about how and when they use IMSI catchers. The public learned just how desperately law enforcement
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
The New CISPA Is Identical to the Old One, But the Political Climate Is Scarier
01-12-2015
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Motherboard
"CISPA would encourage the open sharing of personal data with nearly no privacy protections--a profound abuse of users' rights," said a lawyer. "It would create yet another surveillance regime, giving the NSA new sources of user data,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Q&A: On the Untouchable 'Lords of Secrecy'
01-12-2015
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The Intercept
Powerful, unaccountable, and operating far in the shadows, the Lords of Secrecy, as author Scott Horton calls them, are real, and they are in charge of our national security state.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
2 Albuquerque officers charged with murder in shooting
01-12-2015
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Associated Press
The Albuquerque district attorney said she would bypass the grand jury process and instead present the murder case to a judge at a preliminary hearing that will be open to the public.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics
Charlie Hebdo staff try in vain to stifle laughter as pigeon craps on Francois Hollande
01-12-2015
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Rawstory
While cameras focused on the moment the president of the republic, François Hollande, embraced Patrick Pelloux, the doctor and columnist at Charlie Hebdo who was one of the first to the scene after the attack, they also captured some unexpected foot
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Idaho prosecutor issues warrant for 9-year-old accused of stealing pack of gum
01-12-2015
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Rawstory
Haug noted the boy and his 15-year-old brother had failed to appear in court twice because the family had no way of getting them to the courthouse. "Had we known that before the court date we would have provided something
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Justices appear to favor small Arizona church over sign law
01-12-2015
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Associated Press
Liberal and conservative justices alike expressed misgivings with the Gilbert, Arizona, sign ordinance because it places more restrictions on the churches' temporary signs than those erected by political candidates, real estate agents and others.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Software
Watch My Bit - A Video Platform for the Art & Soul
01-12-2015
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Watch My Bit
The first Bitcoin enabled, micro-payment video streaming platform. Monetize your videos--earn bitcoin.
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Donna Hancock
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Letters to the Editor
Review of new book on genocide
Written by: Donna Hancock
The Unkindest Cut of All - Genocidal killing sprees have taken more than 100 million lives since the late 19th century--four times the toll of combatants in the 'regular' wars. (Sent from a Freedom's Phoenix Reader...)
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Mike Huckabee Is Literally a Con Artist
01-8-2015
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Paul Waldman, American Prospect
Mike Huckabee is widely known as an amiable fellow. Whatever you might think of his politics, he seems like a nice guy. But Mike Huckabee is a con artist. Literally.
Like many conservative pundits, Huckabee maintains an email list that he uses to ge
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ebola Vaccines Were Always in the Pipeline
01-12-2015
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arclein
Fast-tracked funding has led to a number of high-profile vaccine trials. While one Swiss trial was temporarily halted after a reported side effect of a rash, The Lancet reports that two experimental DNA vaccines to prevent Ebola (and the closely rela
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking that IQ Tests Miss
01-12-2015
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arclein
No doubt you know several folks with perfectly respectable IQs who repeatedly make poor decisions. The behavior of such people tells us that we are missing something important by treating intelligence as if it encompassed all cognitive abilities. I c
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Function of the Vagus Nerve With Dr Sircus
01-12-2015
Human Beings have an Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) that is actually comprised of three separate subsystems, the Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS), the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) and the Enteric Nervous System (ENS). The enteric nervous syst
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ayahuasca Can Help You Communicate with Plant Spirits, and Heal Your Body and Mind
01-12-2015
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arclein
If you haven't heard of ayahuasca, you may soon. While once consumed mainly by natives of the Amazon basin, today, thousands visit Latin American countries every year to imbibe it, with the hopes of seeing profound visions, having religious experie
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robert klein
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, January 11, 2015 Edition
01-09-2015
John Semmens
Muslim Terrorism Excused
Armed Muslim terrorists slew a dozen unarmed members of the editorial staff of the satirical paper Charlie Hebdo in a raid on the paper's Paris office this week. Though the gunman proclaimed these murders as retribution fo
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Officer takes drunk woman from jail, drives her to his house 'to pursue a personal relationship*
01-09-2015
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Rawstory
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer was disciplined with seven days of lost pay after he removed a drunk indigenous woman from jail and took her home to have a relationship with her.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Generating New Revenue Streams
01-09-2015
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Police Chief magazine
A group of experts assembled in April 2008 to identify new income streams that could be initiated by law enforcement. Their suggested new revenue streams serve as an example of ideas that can be generated in a short period of time.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
'Corrective' Actions Possible If NYPD Arrest Statistics Continue To Go South
01-09-2015
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CBS News
In the two weeks there was a 70 percent drop in DWI arrests, a nearly 96 percent drop in arrests for incidents in the subways, and nearly 80 percent fewer arrests on housing development property, Kramer reported.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Guy Who Attacked Female Worker Is a 'Hulking Brute.' Oh Wait, He's a Cop? Nevermind.
01-08-2015
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Liberty Crier
In a subsequent story, editors abandoned the frightening descriptors and reframed the tale in the passive voice. No longer had "a hulking brute grabbed a 28-year-old MTA employee." Rather, the employee "was allegedly put into a bear hug."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Checkpoints
Checkpoint Refusal Gone Horribly Wrong: Man Detained 19 Days for Flexing Rights
01-08-2015
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The Free Thought Proiject
You've probably seen them before: internal border checkpoint refusals. But for Greg Rosenberg, a naturalized U.S. citizen who speaks accented English, an encounter with border patrol resulted in weeks of jail time without a single charge
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Speech
Man jailed for a year after anti-Islam speech spurs alarm on subway train
01-08-2015
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National Post
Mr. Brazau's idea was to provoke debate among riders, and to that end he boarded the train with an acquaintance decked out in Israeli colors and carrying an Israeli flag, while Mr. Brazau began loudly denouncing Islam and the Koran.
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News Link • Free Speech
With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech
01-08-2015
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The Intercept
A British teenager, Azhar Ahmed,angrily object that the innocent Afghans killed by British soldiers receive almost no attention from British media. He opined that the UK's soldiers in Afghanistan are guilty, their deaths deserved, and
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge: Gov't can show murder-for-hire evidence in Silk Road trial
01-08-2015
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ars technica
Ulbricht's lawyer sought to remove the government's evidence about the alleged 6 murders-for-hire from the case, but US District Judge Katherine Forrest will allow it to be put in front of a jury, though Ulbricht does not face murder charges.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Lawmakers consider switching Arizona to daylight saving time
01-08-2015
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CBS News
Representative Phil Lovas, R-Peoria, has sponsored a bill that would have Arizona observe daylight saving time for the first time since 1967. "I loved daylight savings time as a kid, and I think the fact we'll have more time to play golf makes it eve
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News Link • Government
America Has Rotten Government
01-08-2015
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Lew Rockwell blog
The word "rotten" has 4 different meanings, and the US government qualifies on all 4 counts. One, suffering from decay. Yes, Washington (as center of government) is filled with maggots and worms. Washington is a heap of garbage.
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News Link • Corruption
Psychiatrists Now Say Non-Conformity is a Mental Illness: Only the Sheeple are 'Sane'
01-08-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com,By Jonathan Benson
Modern psychiatry has become a hotbed of corruption, particularly the kind that seeks to demonize and declare mentally ill anyone who deviates from what is regarded as the norm.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Hardline Israelis anger Palestinians by trying to reclaim prayer rights at Jerusalem's most...
01-08-2015
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk-Robert Tait
Hardline Israelis anger Palestinians by trying to reclaim prayer rights at Jerusalem's most famous holy site.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
'Selma' Director on Lyndon B. Johnson Portrayal: "I'm Not Gonna Argue History"
01-08-2015
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com-Scott Feinberg
Gay Talese, who covered the events chronicled in the film a half-century ago, said of Ava DuVernay, "I was there. I saw it. She wasn't there, but she got it."
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun rights demonstrators in Texas to 3D print guns on site at state capitol
01-08-2015
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Dallas Morning News
Come and Take It Texas is planning to use a manufacturing device to create firearms during its rally at the Capitol on Tuesday, when lawmakers' 2015 session begins.
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Chip Saunders
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