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Date Sent: 2013-01-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, January 7, 2013 AM edition |
Pentagon prepares plans for ‘up to 9,000 troops in Afghanistan’ after 2014
Colorado task force considers anti-marijuana tourism regulations --
Young Turks guest: ‘Marijuana is literally more popular in our state
than Barack Obama’ --Indian murder-rape victim's father says he wants
her named -- GOP senators hint Hagel’s in for tough confirmation fight -- Is Atlas Starting To Shrug? -- Ron Paul on Cavuto, Jan. 4, 2013 -- Illinois firefighters stand idle while man drowns [VIDEO] -- Federal judge rules EPA overstepped authority trying to regulate water as pollutant in Virginia -- Terrorism with a “Human Face”: The History of America’s Death Squads -- The four business gangs that run the US -- *VIDEO* US Marine on gun control: “Unconstitutional laws aren’t laws” -- The Zero State Solution: The Libertarian Answer to the “Arab/Israeli” Conflict -- Will gun buyback become bidding war? -- Obama's secret plan to reclassify your guns -- My Line In The Sand Is Drawn Here! -- The Department Of Homeland Security Is Hard At Work With One Billion New Bullets --
Bloomberg did IT in NY! Will Obama try to do IT in Washington? -- FELIX
SALMON: There Is Something Fishy About The Government's Official Jobs
Numbers -- Why Gold Is On Its Longest Losing Streak In 8 Years -- WINDOWS 8: Do People Really Want To 'Touch' Their Laptop Screens? -- More Than Two Months Since Hurricane Sandy, Here's What It STILL Looks Like On Rockaway Beach -- ART CASHIN: The End Of The Bond Bull Market Will Be Signaled By A Stampede -- MCCONNELL: 'Hopefully, We Don't Need To Get To The Point' Of Default -- America’s Biggest Killers: The Chart Anti-Gunners Don’t Want You To See
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine January 4th, 2013 Edition NOW
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News Link • Afghanistan
Pentagon prepares plans for ‘up to 9,000 troops in Afghanistan’ after 2014
01-06-2013
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AFP
The US Defense Department has prepared plans for a smaller presence in Afghanistan after the White House insisted on examining the option of leaving fewer troops in the country after 2014 than was initially proposed, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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News Link • Drug War
Colorado task force considers anti-marijuana tourism regulations
01-06-2013
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Rawstory
A Colorado task force charged with offering recommendations to the governor and the state legislature is considering whether or not out-of-state visitors should be allowed to grow, sell, or even use the drug within state borders, reported 9 News.
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News Link • Drug War
Young Turks guest: ‘Marijuana is literally more popular in our state than Barack Obama’
01-06-2013
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Rawstory
The owner of a new marijuana club in Colorado talked to Cenk Uygur on The Young Turks and discussed the club’s growing popularity and the risk of the federal government attempting to squash the state’s move to legalize the drug.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Indian murder-rape victim's father says he wants her named
01-06-2013
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Reuters
The father of an Indian student whose brutal rape provoked a global outcry said he wanted her name made public so she could be an inspiration to victims of sexual assault, a call that was quickly taken up by social media users
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News Link • Israel
GOP senators hint Hagel’s in for tough confirmation fight
01-06-2013
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The Ticket
Several Republican senators voiced concerns about President Obama's nomination of former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel for defense secretary over statements her made about Israel and gay rights--hinting his confirmation would not come
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Is Atlas Starting To Shrug?
01-06-2013
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In Ayn Rand’s "Atlas Shrugged," society begins to crumble after the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, inventors, scientists and business people withdraw their services from a culture that disdains success and rewards failure by
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul on Cavuto, Jan. 4, 2013
01-06-2013
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FOX News
Despite claims that the Administration and Congress saved America from the fiscal cliff with an early morning vote today, the fact is that government spending has already pushed Americans over the cliff.
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News Link • Government
Illinois firefighters stand idle while man drowns [VIDEO]
01-06-2013
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A Champaign, Illinois man drowned in a mall pond as increasingly angry observers demanded a rescue, at least 13 minutes after the local fire department arrived at the scene. The man slipped under the freezing water 18 minutes after
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News Link • Environment
Federal judge rules EPA overstepped authority trying to regulate water as pollutant in Virginia
01-06-2013
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FOX News
Virginia officials scored a key victory in their battle with the Environmental Protection Agency over what EPA critics describe as a land takeover. The EPA exceeded its authority by attempting to regulate stormwater runoff into a creek as a pollutant
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News Link • TERRORISM
Terrorism with a “Human Face”: The History of America’s Death Squads
01-06-2013
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Global Research
The recruitment of death squads is part of a well established US military-intelligence agenda. There is a long and gruesome US history of covert funding and support of terror brigades and targeted assassinations going back to the Vietnam war.
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News Link • Politics
The four business gangs that run the US
01-06-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In his book, The Price of Civilization, he says the US economy is caught in a feedback loop. ”Corporate wealth translates into political power through campaign financing, corporate lobbying and the revolving door of jobs between government and indust
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gun Rights
*VIDEO* US Marine on gun control: “Unconstitutional laws aren’t laws”
01-06-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Are unconstitutional laws really laws at all? US Marine Corporal Joshua Boston appeared on CNN today to defend his letter to Senator Diane Feinstein where he stated clearly how he opposed her attempts to regulate or register his weaponry.
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News Link • Israel
The Zero State Solution " The Libertarian Answer to the “Arab/Israeli” Conflict
01/05/2013
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Rafi Farber of Settlers of Samaria
In this post I will try to give the libertarian answer to a problem that has been nagging at all of us incessantly. The answer will probably shock you, so be prepared. There’s a problem. There’s this thing called the Jewish democratic State. It needs
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News Link • How To
Knife Sharpening The Western Stroke
01-06-2013
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youtube
In this sharpening video I will take a look at the "Western style" of lapping a knife to a stone. This is the way that most people have been taught to sharpen cutlery.
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News Link • How To
Knife Sharpening Basics
01-06-2013
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youtube
Sharpening our knives with several different types of sharpeners. This isn't an in depth tutorial, but we do cover the basics so you can get an idea of general sharpening.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Will gun buyback become bidding war?
01-06-2013
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kgun9.com
Tucson Councilmember Steve Kozachik's gun buy back plan has stirred up a storm; and now people who think it's a bad idea have an idea they like better.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama's secret plan to reclassify your guns
01-06-2013
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wnd.com
Obama's secret plan to reclassify your guns
President may ban certain firearms with 1 simple move
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Opinion • Gun Rights
My Line In The Sand Is Drawn Here!
01-06-2013
Chuck Baldwin
If Barack Obama and his gaggle of gun grabbers have their way, the American citizenry will have all of their firearms taken away. If their current attempt to outlaw semi-automatic rifles is successful, does anyone think it will stop there? Don’t be n
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News Link • Homeland Security
The Department Of Homeland Security Is Hard At Work With One Billion New Bullets
01-06-2013
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Business Insider
Last March we found 450 million rounds of .40 caliber ammunition slated for delivery to the Department of Homeland Service and its agencies.
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News Link • Politics
Bloomberg did IT in NY! Will Obama try to do IT in Washington?
01-06-2013
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The Political Commentator
If this proposed House amendment from Jose Serrano is any indication, will Barack Obama be looking to get a third term in the White House the same way Bloomberg got three terms as mayor of New York?
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
FELIX SALMON: There Is Something Fishy About The Government's Official Jobs Numbers
01-06-2013
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Business Insider
Reuters critic Felix Salmon thinks there's something fishy about the official BLS jobs numbers!
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
WINDOWS 8: Do People Really Want To 'Touch' Their Laptop Screens?
01-06-2013
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Business Insider
Paul Thurott at Supersite For Windows has an interesting explanation for why Windows 8 PCs are selling so badly:
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News Link • Natural Disasters
More Than Two Months Since Hurricane Sandy, Here's What It STILL Looks Like On Rockaway Beach
01-06-2013
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Business Insider
After days of tension political infighting and public eruptions, Congress finally voted Friday to approved $9.7 billion in disaster relief funds to provide flood insurance for victims of Hurricane Sandy.
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News Link • Gun Rights
America’s Biggest Killers: The Chart Anti-Gunners Don’t Want You To See
01-06-2013
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INFOWARS
If we look at homicide statistics in the United States it’s clear that more murders are committed with knives, bats, hammers and poisons than with firearms. As Kurt Nimmo recently noted, “ the number of murders committed annually with hammers and clu
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video Emerges Showing Seattle Cop Punching Citizen
01-04-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Seattle police went completely overboard in arresting him " not that they even had the grounds to do so in the first place " choking him, punching him and smothering his face with their hands. All while telling him to “relax” and to “stop resisting.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Gangs or Cops -- Or Do I Repeat Myself?
01-04-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Denver Police Officer Eric Sellers once choked an innocent pedestrian into unconsciousness while two other officers refused to intervene. This was an act of summary “street justice” imposed as a penalty for “contempt of cop”:
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds ‘flower’ on surface of Mars
01-04-2013
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The Sideshow
Boyle reached out to NASA spokesman Guy Webster. Interestingly, Webster shot down the plastic theory, saying in response, "That appears to be part of the rock, not debris from the spacecraft."
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News Link • Federal Reserve
$1.1 Million in Fake Bills, Using a Printer
01-04-2013
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New York Times
Making fake money remains a thriving enterprise in the United States, as it has been since before the Civil War. In more than two-thirds of all cases, criminals manipulate scanners, printers and toner ink to create money where once there was none.
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News Link • Food
F.D.A. Offers Sweeping Rules to Fight Food Contamination and Jack Prices
01-04-2013
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New York Times
The proposed rules represent a sea change in the way the agency polices food, a process that currently involves taking action after contamination has been identified. A long-awaited step toward codifying the food safety law Congress passed 2 years ag
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Off-duty cops caught egging house of superior officer
01-04-2013
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The Sideshow
Cops these days. It's like they have no respect for authority. Last month, several off-duty police officers were caught egging the home of a superior officer in a small Massachusetts town. Initially, police from Framingham suspected dastardly teenage
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News Link • Food
Productive Property vs. the Lawn Police
01-04-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
It's amazing to see the number of individuals who are being persecuted for using their own property for productive purposes. This house and garden in Florida violated an "appearance code." Appearance is always subjective, until the government
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Switzerland’s oldest bank pleads guilty to aiding U.S. tax evasion
01/03/2013
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Switzerland’s oldest bank pleads guilty to aiding U.S. tax evasion
Switzerland’s oldest bank pleaded guilty on Thursday to helping wealthy Americans hide more than $1.2 billion from the Internal Revenue Service.
The case marks the first time a
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, January 6, 2013 Edition
01-04-2013
John Semmens
Pelosi Defends Doctored Photo
A photo of the 61 female members of Congress including the photo-shopped images of four absentees was defended by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) who says that the altered image “more accurately portrayed
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News Link • Police State
Second trooper suspended for roadside cavity search in Texas
1/5/2013
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RT.com
A second Texas State trooper has been suspended without pay for being involved in a roadside cavity search that subjected two women to humiliating searches of their genital regions.
The two troopers are now facing a lawsuit by the women, who claim t
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama Administration Needs to Explain Drone Strikes
01-04-2013
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Common Dreams
The Obama administration, having killed a 16-year-old American boy, refuses to explain why in court.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The 'War on Terror' - by Design - Can Never End
01-04-2013
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Common Dreams
As the Pentagon's former top lawyer urges that the war be viewed as finite, the US moves in the opposite direction
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News Link • Government
Demand a Real Plan: Alex Jones on Democide (Death by Government)
01-04-2013
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Daily Paul.com
It's a parody of that Demand a Plan gun control video. Governments are the number one killer of people. I thought this was pretty well done, and I'm not a huge Infowars fan.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ben Swann looks at "Lone Wolf" shooters
01-04-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Ben Swann Full Disclosure looks at eyewittness accounts from the scenes of the colorado theater shooting, the wisconsin sikh temple shooting and the connecticut elementary school shooting that indicate more than one shooter may have been involved in
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News Link • Unintended Consequences
You will not read anything better today...
01-04-2013
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Daily Paul.com
I bought this for my son and he spent countless, blissful hours simulating massacres of weddings, funerals, and other family gatherings of brown skinned foreigners!
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
GE and Citi Bank Get Huge Tax Breaks Out Of Fiscal Cliff Deal - Ben Swann
01-04-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Ben mentions some of the other items of Corporate Welfare and how the vast majority of taxpayers are going to pay more in taxes in 2013.
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News Link • Internet
The Government Just Decided That Google Isn't an Illegal Monopoly. Here's Why.
01-04-2013
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slate.com
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday unanimously cleared Google of charges that it has been stifling competition by manipulating its search results to promote its own products"such as its shopping, travel, and local results pages"above those of i
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News Link • Police State
Here Are Some Tips on How to Avoid "Consensual" Police Encounters
01-04-2013
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slate.com
In November, I wrote about Joseph June, a Florida man sentenced to five years in prison for cocaine possession.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Intruder killed by north Phoenix homeowner had prior history of thefts
01-05-2013
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ABC 15 Phoenix AZ USA
Police have identified the man who was shot to death while trying to break into a north Phoenix home as 35-year-old Jason Wilson.
Police said he did not live in the area, but may have been staying with a friend.
Police said Wilson was spotted tryin
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News Link • Police State
MOTHER, SHOULD I TRUST THE GOVERNMENT?
01-03-2013
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An invisible government of wealthy, power hungry men have utilized the propaganda techniques of Edward Bernays and lured the American people into a narcissistic, techno-gadget, debt based servitude. Over the last one hundred years
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News Link • Gun Rights
Biden guaranteed Mayor of Boston ‘Menino’ by January 31st Obama will sign a Gun Ban/Laws
01-04-2013
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Seems the Vice President is very confident that gun bans will be passed. He has guaranteed the Mayor of Boston, Menino that Obama will sign a gun ban/law by January 31st.
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Nazi roots of U.S. gun-control laws (plus)
01-04-2013
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J.P.F.O.
Ellis Washington writes about the Nazi roots of U.S. gun-control laws -- a subject that JPFO has long pursued and which our late Founder Aaron Zelman felt passionately about.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
B.C. judge rules federal law on firearms offence to be unconstitutional
01-04-2013
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AP
The federal government’s mandatory-minimum sentence of three years imprisonment for the possession of a loaded and prohibited firearm is unconstitutional, says a provincial court judge in Surrey, B.C.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Inmate ordered retried in 1980 'waiting ever since'
01-04-2013
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AP
Jerry Hartfield was still a young man when an uncle visited him in prison to tell him that his murder conviction had been overturned and he would get a new trial. Not long afterward, he was moved off of death row. "A sergeant told me to pack my stuff
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mass Killings Stopped by Armed Citizens
01-04-2013
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Gunwatch.Blogspot.Com
There are several documented cases where armed citizens have stopped mass attacks by gunmen. Let me list a few: The Pearl, Mississippi school shooting was stopped by the vice principal Joel Myrick with a Colt .45, The Appalachian School shooting was
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News Link • Syria
IDF soldiers abandon post over refusal to do cleaning, guard duty
01-04-2013
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RT.com
Seventeen Golani Brigade soldiers abandoned their post near the Syrian border Wednesday night over allegedly humiliating treatment by senior officers
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Leader of Web piracy group sentenced to 5 years in prison for criminal copyright conspiracy
01-04-2013
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RT.com
The US leader of Internet piracy group IMAGiNE, which for two years distributed unauthorized versions of theatrical films online, has been sentenced to five years in jail.
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