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Date Sent: 2012-06-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, June 5, 2012 AM edition |
Supreme Court protects Secret Service agents guarding Cheney
Elite Forces Denied in Bid for Expansion -- Facebook Will Disappear in 5 to 8 Years -- Florida 'stand your ground' law yields some shocking outcomes depending on how law is applied -- EPA Using Drones to Spy on Cattle Ranchers in Nebraska and Iowa -- Bloomberg Backs Plan to Limit Arrests for Marijuana -- Baltimore Authorities Jail Man for Two Months for Video Recording Drunken Brawl -- NASA gets two military spy telescopes for astronomy -- Accused Alaska militia leader portrays self as patriot -- 06-05-12 -- Karl Grossman-Coleen Rowley-Gilles Laurent-Edouard Hesse REBROADCAST FROM MAY 31ST SHOW -- G7 to hold emergency euro zone talks, Spain top concern -- Are You Ready to Work Until You’re 80? -- It is time for governments to borrow more money - by Larry Summers
Freedom's
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Ready for Download - Edition 13 June 2012
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Supreme Court protects Secret Service agents guarding Cheney
06-04-2012
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Washington Post
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Secret Service agents are shielded from a lawsuit brought by a man who said his free speech rights were violated when he was arrested after confronting Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Elite Forces Denied in Bid for Expansion
06-04-2012
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New York Times
n late April, the military’s Special Operations Command presented the State Department and Congress with an urgent request for new authority to train and equip security forces in places like Yemen and Kenya.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Facebook Will Disappear in 5 to 8 Years
06-04-2012
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www.cnbc.com
Facebook will lose dominance as a major web company in less than a decade, Eric Jackson, founder of Ironfire Capital said Monday on CNBC's Squawk on the Street.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Florida 'stand your ground' law yields shocking outcomes depending on how law is applied
06-04-2012
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Those who invoke "stand your ground" to avoid prosecution have been extremely successful. Nearly 70 percent have gone free.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
EPA Using Drones to Spy on Cattle Ranchers in Nebraska and Iowa
06-04-2012
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www.infowars.com
Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is using aerial drones to spy on farmers in Nebraska and Iowa.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Bloomberg Backs Plan to Limit Arrests for Marijuana
06-04-2012
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www.nytimes.com
The New York Police Department, the mayor and the city’s top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on t
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Baltimore Authorities Jail Man for Two Months for Video Recording Drunken Brawl
06-04-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Just when we thought we’ve seen the worst from the Baltimore Police Department, we are now learning they charged a man with attempted murder for doing nothing more than video recording a fight last year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA gets two military spy telescopes for astronomy
06-04-2012
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Washington Post
NASA’s windfall takes the pain out of the planned demise of the Hubble. The storied telescope, launched in 1990 and still operating, will lose functionality in coming years. NASA, lacking a space shuttle, has neither the means nor the money to repair
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Accused Alaska militia leader portrays self as patriot
06-04-2012
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Reuters
Cox got involved in politics as an organizer for Republican Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign and ran for the state legislature that year, losing in the GOP primary. Afterwards he wanted to continue with his political activism
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Meet the crafty spider that rolls like a wheel to escape predators (VIDEO)
06-04-2012
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The Sideshow
The Golden Wheel spider (Carparachne aureoflava) is the real deal and a marvel to behold. The desert spider has an incredibly rare method of escape: It curls its body into a wheel shape and rolls away at rapid speeds.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
G7 to hold emergency euro zone talks, Spain top concern
06-04-2012
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Reuters
Finance chiefs of the Group of Seven leading industrialized powers will hold emergency talks on the euro zone debt crisis on Tuesday in a sign of heightened global alarm about strains in the 17-nation European currency area.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Are You Ready to Work Until You’re 80?
06-04-2012
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Breakout
A seemingly off-hand remark made by Robert Benmosche the CEO of AIG (AIG) has become a bit of a viral online debate, as people of all ages and walks of life weigh in on the idea of bumping up the retirement age to 80. While Benmosche's comments to Bl
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
It is time for governments to borrow more money - by Larry Summers
06-04-2012
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Washington Post
The U.S. government can borrow in nominal terms at about 0.5 percent for five years, 1.5 percent for 10 years and 2.5 percent for 30 years. Rates are considerably lower in Germany and still lower in Japan.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Beetle Induced Forest Haze
06-04-2012
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arclein
The hordes of bark beetles that have bored their way through more than 6 billion trees in the western U.S. and British Columbia since the 1990s do more than damage and kill stately pine, spruce and other trees.
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robert klein
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News Link • Charles Goyette Show Archive
Romney: WAR PIG IN A POKE!
Americans are perfectly capable of buying a pig in a poke...
06-04-2012
With a win in the Texas Republican primary election Tuesday, Mitt Romney has clinched a spot in the November championship round. Or, so his corner tells us. Although there are some valid questions about the real delegate count, with Ron Paul having e
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Charles Goyette
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News Link • Science
Leaf Vein Architecture Reveals
06-04-2012
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arclein
The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, has a range of fundamental implications for global ecology and allows researchers to estimate original leaf sizes from just a fragment of a leaf. This will improve scientists' prediction
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robert klein
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