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Date Sent: 2013-05-14
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
Obama seized AP phone records -- Detroit: City 'clearly insolvent,' bankruptcy looms
The Deepening Shame of Guantanamo - by Ray McGovern -- Glenn Greenwald and the Islamists -- "No Way Home" a film and the truth for many -- 05-14-13 -- Cody Wilson - Butler Shaffer - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Police STEAL $160,000 from man during Traffic Stop -- John Kerry’s brother Cam is named acting Commerce Secretary -- Philadelphia
Abortion Doctor Guilty of Murder -- Saudi Man Traveling With
Pressure Cooker Arrested -- Former Nixon Aide Claims He Has
Evidence L.B.J. Arranged John F. Kennedy's Assassination --
Garden Rebels: 10 Ways To Sow Revolution in Your Back Yard --
Symptoms Don't Lie -- Syria Not Worth a Crisis With Russia -- What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi - by Ron Paul -- Henry Kissenger to receive award - Defending Freedom &
Democracy -- Spain, Portugal demand quick action on bank union -- NY state's pension fund reaches record $160B -- Scientists
Measure LA's Carbon Footprint -- Guatemala court finds former
dictator guilty of genocide -- Obama hits out at claims of
scandal in tax drama -- The Persecution of Rita Hutchens -
by William Grigg -- Afghans Claim to Have Video of U.S.
Special Forces Guy Torturing Civilians -- New Kind of LED
Could Mean Better Google-Glass-Like Displays
Worldwide ‘March Against Monsanto’ Protests Planned for May 25th
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News Link • Surveillance
After Benghazi, IRS tea party probe: Govt seized AP phone records
05-13-2013
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The Ticket
On Monday, the Associated Press accused his administration of undermining that very pillar by secretly obtaining two months’ worth of telephone records of AP reporters and editors.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Detroit emergency manager says city 'clearly insolvent'
05-13-2013
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Reuters
Detroit is clearly insolvent and could face a possible bankruptcy if talks with labor unions and creditors do not make substantial progress on easing the city's cash crunch, the city's emergency financial manager said on Monday.
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Opinion • Guantanamo Bay
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Deepening Shame of Guantanamo
05-13-2013
Ray McGovern
For more than a decade, the Guantanamo Bay prison has been a blot on America’s conscience. President Obama vowed to close it but acceded to congressional demands to keep it open. Now, an emerging humanitarian crisis " a mass hunger strike " is drawin
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
"No Way Home" a film and the truth for many
05-13-2013
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Christine Smith's Blog
Sometimes home is as far as away you can get from those related to you by blood.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police STEAL $160,000 from man during Traffic Stop
05-13-2013
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
A brand new "policing for profit" case -- a case that resulted in a New York man losing a $160,000 on a Tennessee interstate. Even more startling it exposes a major loophole around a new law that's supposed to crack down on such abuses.
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Glenn Greenwald and the Islamists
05-13-2013
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The Jerusalem Post
If you are keeping up with news and views about Israel, you will likely know that the very popular and very opinionated blogger Glenn Greenwald has a well-deserved reputation for his intense dislike of Israel and its supporters.
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News Link • World News
Australian Woman Gang Raped in Dubai
05-13-2013
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The Blaze
After being drugged and gang-raped by three of her colleagues, Alicia Gali says she found no help from her superiors at the hotel. After she took herself to the hospital, she was thrown in jail for eight months for sex outside of marriage.
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News Link • Obama Administration
John Kerry’s brother Cam is named acting Commerce Secretary
05-13-2013
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Washington Post
Commerce Department general counsel Cameron Kerry " brother of Secretary of State John Kerry " has been named acting secretary of Commerce when the outgoing acting secretary, Rebecca Blank, leaves at the end of this month.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Philadelphia Abortion Doctor Guilty of Murder
05-13-2013
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AP
A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of 3 babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Saudi Man Traveling With Pressure Cooker Arrested
05-13-2013
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voanews.com
A Saudi man was arrested at the international airport in Detroit after authorities said he made a false statement about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker.
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News Link • Books
Former Nixon Aide Claims He Has Evidence L.B.J. Arranged John F. Kennedy's Assassination
05-13-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
A renowned Republican strategist and lobbyist has claimed that former president Lyndon B. Johnson set up John F. Kennedy’s assassination, which occurred on November 22, 1963.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Syria Not Worth a Crisis With Russia
05-13-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The vicious Syrian civil war has put the world’s two biggest nuclear powers on a collision course over a small Levantine nation of no strategic interest to Washington. This cannot be allowed to go on.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi - by Ron Paul
05-13-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Republicans smell a political opportunity....Are we are supposed to be shocked by such behavior? Are we supposed to forget that this kind of whitewashing of facts is standard operating procedure when it comes to the US government?
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News Link • B.O.R.G.
Henry Kissenger to receive award - Defending Freedom & Democracy
05-13-2013
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rootsaction.org
It sounds like satire, and it would be funny if it weren't true.
The Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum in New York City is planning to give Henry Kissinger an award on May 23rd for "defending freedom and democracy."
No living American has don
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain, Portugal demand quick action on bank union
05-13-2013
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AP
The leaders of Spain and Portugal demanded that the 17-nation eurozone speed up efforts to create a banking union and complained that credit is frozen in their countries, preventing economic growth and crucial job creation.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
NY state's pension fund reaches record $160B
05-13-2013
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AP
The New York pension fund for state and local government workers has topped $160 billion after reporting a 10.4 percent return on investment for its last fiscal year, the state comptroller's office reported Monday.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists Measure LA's Carbon Footprint
05-13-2013
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youtube
A project at CalTech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is trying to measure the carbon footprint of human activity in the Los Angeles basin.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Guatemala court finds former dictator guilty of genocide
05-13-2013
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youtube
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt has been found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. He's been sentenced to 80 years in prison.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama hits out at claims of scandal in tax drama
05-13-2013
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youtube
Seeking to quell a growing scandal, President Barack Obama said Monday it would be "outrageous" if US tax authorities targeted conservative groups fiercely opposed to his White House
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News Link • Police State
The Persecution of Rita Hutchens
05-13-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Sandpoint, Idaho resident Rita Hutchens is an opinionated 57-year-old quilt artist whose work has earned her international notoriety.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Torture
Afghans Claim to Have Video of U.S. Special Forces Guy Torturing Civilians
05-13-2013
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Wired.com
Afghan officials say they’ve got video of a man overseeing the torture of Afghan civilians. Exactly who ordered the man to torture is a matter of fierce dispute " and also helps explain this year’s erosion of trust between Washington and Kabul.
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Reference Link • False Flag Operations
Another False Flag Attack?
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Always watch the first new reports and official statements in a false flag attack, because this is where the perpetrators typically make their mistakes. This is proving to be the case in New Orleans in the wake of today’s Mother’s Day shooting in New
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News Link • Iran
Scientific Journals Must Not Touch Anything Related to Iran
05-11-2013
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antiwar.com
Must Keep Americans From Touching Anything Related to Iran
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Rational or Hysterical?
05-11-2013
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http://jonathanturley.org, JONATHAN TURLEY
Teachers were in a meeting in the Pine Eagle Charter School in Halfway, Oregon when two hooded figures burst into the room and sprayed screaming teachers with gunfire.
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News Link • Propaganda
UN Agenda 21′s Sustainability: Now It’s Being Pushed At Biltmore Estates
05-11-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Somewhere between the devil and the deep blue sea, there is truth. Today a friend of mine, who home-schools her children, received an invitation to the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC for a home-schoolers’ Fall celebration. (See promo below) The the
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
Automated License Plate Readers Threaten Our Privacy
05-11-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using sophisticated cameras, called “automated license plate readers,” or ALPRs, to scan and record the license plates of millions of cars across the country. These cameras, mounted on top of patrol cars and
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Forfeiture & Seizure
Farmer Faces Over 2 Years Jail, $10K Fines for Feeding Community
05-11-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Food rights activists from around North America will meet at the Sauk County Courthouse in this tiny town on May 20 to support Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger and food sovereignty. Hershberger, whose trial begins that day, is charged with f
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 12, 2013 Edition
05-10-2013
John Semmens
President Tells Grads that Fear of Tyranny a “Mental Illness”
In a commencement address to graduates of Ohio State University, President Obama urged them to eschew “the deranged rantings of those who see growth of government as antithetical to hum
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News Link • Gun Rights
Download your own 3D gun blueprint now! While You Can!
05-10-2013
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Wendy McElroy
Defense Distributed was forced to take down the blueprint for its 3D gun from the internet. The State Dept. cannot 'recall' the 100,000+ copies already downloaded. If you wish to add to that number, then the 3D gun blueprint is still available at....
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
California Deputies Seize Phones from Witnesses After Beating Man to Death
05-10-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Law enforcement authorities in California beat a man to death with their batons before seizing at least two cell phones from witnesses who captured the incident on video.
One of the phones was seized without a warrant. The second phone was seized
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Olegs Kozancenko, Beaten For What?
05-10-2013
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Simple Justice
Kozancenko said he first wanted to read the ticket before signing.
So Murrill was constrained to use force.
The 220-pound Murrill goes on to write in his report that the 6’ 165 pound Kozacenko was “actively resisting ” and “exhibited extrao
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News Link • World News
Former Guatemala dictator Rios Montt convicted of genocide
05-10-2013
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Reuters
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity during the bloodiest phase of the country's 36-year civil war and was sentenced to 80 years in prison.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Did It for the Money
05-10-2013
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TruthDig
The love fest between Barack Obama and his top fundraiser Penny Pritzker that has led to her being nominated as Commerce secretary would not be so unseemly if they both just confessed that they did it for the money. Her money, not his,
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News Link • Surveillance
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
05-10-2013
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Wired.com
The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
05-10-2013
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ted.com
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, .......
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News Link • China
Lijian stealth drone prepares for test flight
05-10-2013
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The Lijian is described as the world's third stealth combat drone. A newly designed Chinese drone is ready for its first flight test after completing its taxi test at an unknown airfield in the southeastern province of Jiangxi.
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News Link • Government
Mystery Aircraft Frightens Quincy Residents
05-10-2013
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CBS News (video)
A mystery in Quincy continues to deepen: Who is flying around the city from dusk to dawn, for the past ten days or so? “It’s frightening, not just weird, but frightening,” said one resident. Every night for nearly the last 2 weeks, residents have
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Michigan school district lays off all its teachers
05-10-2013
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The Lookout
The Board of Education in Buena Vista, MI has declared a financial emergency. The school district lacks funds to pay teachers for the rest of the school year. Students have not attended classes in a week. The district laid off all teachers earlier th
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News Link • Obama Administration
Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference
05-10-2013
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ABC News (video)
When it became clear last fall that the CIA's now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups
05-10-2013
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AP
The Internal Revenue Service inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status, a top IRS official said. Organizations were singled out
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News Link • Police State
Rise of the Militarized Police (Video)
05-10-2013
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The Rutherford Institute
In conjunction with the upcoming release of his new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, John W. Whitehead sits down to discuss several "pressure points" that are threatening the Bill of Rights and undermining our essenti
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News Link • Gun Rights
Senator Joe Manchin Steps up his Campaign of Lies
05-10-2013
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Gun Owners of America
Within the past 48 hours, we have seen clear evidence that West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin and his staff have openly lied about the status of talks with two Republican Senators.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Chronic Back Pain Cured?
05-10-2013
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arclein
The Danish team describe their work in two papers published in the European Spine Journal. In the first report, they explain how bacterial infections inside slipped discs can cause painful inflammation and tiny fractures in the surrounding vertebra
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News Link • Bitcoin
Watch Wired Get Rich Quick With Our Sleek Bitcoin Miner
05-10-2013
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Wired.com
We’ve set up own little digital mint in the corner of our office, and you too can share in the magic of Bitcoin mining, thanks to our BitCam.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Is Gov’t Response to Terror, Terror? " Prof. Beau Grosscup
05-10-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Is Gov’t Response to Terror, Terror? " Prof. Beau Grosscup (Video Interview)
Next News Network interviews Prof. Beau Grosscup regarding the governments response to terror threats and terror attacks.
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News Link • Currencies
Yen Falls Beyond 101 per Dollar on Bond Purchases; Franc Slides
05-10-2013
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www.businessweek.com, Lucy Meakin and Kevin Buckla
The yen weakened beyond 101 per dollar for the first time since April 2009 after a government report showed Japanese investors boosted holdings of overseas bonds, ending the longest streak of sales since January 2010.
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