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Date Sent: 2013-01-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, January 12, 2013 |
Bitcoin: Making Online Gambling Legal in the US? -- LA Governor proposes ending state income tax
Police Shoot Blind Stroke Victim With Taser In Back In Fear His White Stick Was Sword -- Florida Public Records Activists Come Down to Miami; Rabble-Rousing Ensues -- New Victims In The War On Painkillers - by Radley Balko -- Braces for the Kids Just Got More Expensive: Obamacare Tax Hike Case Study -- 4409: Sneak Preview: Nazi Checkpoint 2013 -- Why We Are in Afghanistan: What’s hidden below Afghanistan soil? (video) -- Senate Democrats urge Obama to bypass Republicans on the debt ceiling --
Tusks of Whimsical-Looking Whales Lead to Charges for 2 in a Maine
Courtroom -- Makers of Violent Video Games Marshal Support to Fend Off
Regulation -- US Law Prohibits Transferring Guantanamo Prisoners to America -- Judge Napolitano for POTUS -- Video on the Illusion of Choice.
Featuring Ron Paul, Judge Nap, and the hilarious George Carlin -- A National Digital ID, Courtesy of the U.S. Postal Service? --
National GOP Chairmanship: Is Reince Priebus going to lose to a Ron
Paul guy? --
The Real Root of School Violence - by Tom DeWeese --
S.A.F.E. (Second Amendment is For Everyone - Est. 1993) -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, January 13, 2013 Edition
AZ Event Monday, January 14th, 2013 - SURVIVING SOCIALIZED
MEDICINE with Dana Cody; Identity Ecosystem Phoenix
Event... (Have something to say?)
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin: Making Online Gambling Legal in the U.S.?
01-12-2013
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Bloomberg
Calgary-based Infiniti Poker, like several other new online gambling sites, plans to accept Bitcoin when it launches later this month. The online currency may allow American gamblers to avoid running afoul of complex U.S. laws
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News Link • TAXES: State
Louisiana Governor Jindal proposes ending state income tax
01-12-2013
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Reuters
Republican Governor Bobby Jindal said on Thursday he wants to eliminate all Louisiana personal and corporate income taxes to simplify the state's tax code and make it more friendly to business.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Shoot Blind Stroke Victim With Taser In Back In Fear His White Stick Was Sword
01-12-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Colin Farmer, 63, is a blind stroke victim who uses a standard white stick to walk. Farmer suddenly found himself on the ground after a police officer thought he was brandishing a samurai sword. He shot Farmer in the back with a 50,000-volt Taser stu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Florida Public Records Activists Come Down to Miami; Rabble-Rousing Ensues
01-12-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Last November, the Chandler brothers worked their way down to Miami from Tampa filing public records requests along the way. I joined them with my camera during visits to the Miami Police Department, the Coral Gables Police Department and the state-r
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
New Victims In The War On Painkillers
01-12-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
"OxyContin went from being the primary drug of abuse for 36% of prescription-drug misusers to just 13% about 21 months later." There were also some predictable negative consequences, like sending addicts back to street drugs like heroin.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Braces for the Kids Just Got More Expensive: Obamacare Tax Hike Case Study
01-12-2013
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In 2013, the tax increases in Obamacare will increasingly conspire against kitchen-table family healthcare decisions.
As just one example, below are some of the taxes that will impact the purchase of dental braces:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Why We Are in Afghanistan: What’s hidden below Afghanistan soil? (video)
01-12-2013
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Washington Post
[Boring first minute.] As President Obama announces a shift in the U.S. role in Afghanistan, we talk to the Woodrow Wilson Center's Michael Kugelman about a potential economy booster lying under the surface of the embattled country.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Senate Democrats urge Obama to bypass Republicans on the debt ceiling
01-12-2013
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Washington Post
Democratic leaders in the Senate urged President Obama to consider bypassing Congress to prevent the nation from defaulting on its spending obligations if lawmakers cannot agree to raise the nation’s $16.4 trillion debt ceiling next month.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Tusks of Whimsical-Looking Whales Lead to Charges for 2 in a Maine Courtroom
01-12-2013
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New York Times
He is a collector of animal-related items. During Mr. Conrad’s [initial] arraignment, the federal magistrate judge, Margaret J. Kravchuk, asked if some of those assets could be liquidated to cover his legal costs.
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Makers of Violent Video Games Marshal Support to Fend Off Regulation
01-12-2013
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New York Times
With the Newtown, Conn., massacre spurring concern over violent video games, makers of popular games like Call of Duty and Mortal Kombat are rallying Congressional support to try to fend off their biggest regulatory threat in two decades.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Judge Napolitano for POTUS
01-12-2013
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http://andrewnapolitano.com/
Judge Napolitano would be a candidate, perhaps the only candidate from within the Liberty Movement whom everyone in the Movement could rally round enthusiastically and who really could win the presidency on principle in 2016.
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News Link • Propaganda
Video on the Illusion of Choice. Featuring Ron Paul, Judge Nap, and the hilarious George Carlin
01-12-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com
We have the illusion of choice when it comes to our foods, the media, which gas station we chose, and worst of all, our vote... and our leaders.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
A National Digital ID, Courtesy of the U.S. Postal Service?
01-11-2013
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Bloomberg
The U.S. is .. slowly moving to a system where online personas are inextricably linked to real-world identities, an idea with huge privacy and security implications.
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Sheila Dean
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, January 13, 2013 Edition
01-11-2013
John Semmens
Veep Suggests Platinum Solution to Gun Control
In what he called a “stroke of genius,” Vice-President Joe Biden suggested that President Obama could bypass both Congress and the Constitution by using an Executive Order to solve the gun violence cr
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday January 11th 2013
01-11-2013
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LewRockwell.com
The Truth About Psychiatry / Orwell's Nightmare Is Coming True / It's Not Shootings, It's gun ownership that they/them/those hate / Don't Believe the Government About This, Either Peter Schiff on inflation propaganda / Is Russia USSR Freer Than the W
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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Gun Rights
Revolution?
01-10-2013
Chuck Baldwin
Firearms"especially semi-automatic rifles"in the hands of millions of American citizens is truly the only thing that stands between freedom and tyranny for the people of the United States.
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News Link • Police State
Keep Those Pathetic, Potbellied Pilferers from Stealing Your Stuff
01-10-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
But alas, airports are Ground Zero for sexual assault and theft. Indeed, you might think poor old Piers and his fellow morons would look to aviation’s gulag, where Our Rulers have disarmed passengers of everything but their fingernails, to see the re
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gun Rights
Americans never give up your guns - Pravda OpEd
01-10-2013
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These days, there are few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degenerating USA, but at least so far, one thing remains: the right to bear arms and use deadly force to defend one's self and possessions.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Lights, Camera -- Entrapment! Homeland Security Theater in Portland
01-10-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Osman Barre, a Somali-born software engineer living in Portland, Oregon, was concerned that his teenage son was being radicalized by exposure to jihadist literature. Barre expressed his concerns to the FBI
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News Link • NeoCons
Obama Oaf Warns Brits Not to Leave EU
01-10-2013
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“Britain has been such a special partner of the US. It shares our values, our interests and has significant resources to bring to the table. More than most, its voice in the EU is essential and critical to the US.” But he added: “Referendums have oft
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"Justified": Uniformed Invaders Shoot a Man 16 Times in his Bed
01-10-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Dustin Theoharis was asleep in his bed when 2 armed strangers entered his room and started to give him orders. Understandably startled, Theoharis reached for a flashlight. This prompted the intruders to open fire.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ben Swann - Reality Check 08 January 2013 - Alex Jones vs. Piers Morgan
01-10-2013
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http://www.youtube.com
"Britain, the most violent country in the EU"
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Crowd scene casting call for Alongside Night movie. Las Vegas Jan 19, 2013
01-09-2013
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Adam VS The Man
Filming for the movie of J. Neil Schulman's Alongside Night in Las Vegas. They are looking for folks to show up and be the crowd for a scene at a rally being held by Adam Kokesh
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News Link • Gun Rights
Owner of this Popular Gun Channel Murdered
01-10-2013
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http://www.youtube.com/user/FPSRussia
Big investigation effort by Law Enforcement you think?
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt's president invited to Iran, discusses Syria
01-10-2013
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Associated Press
Iran's foreign minister on Thursday invited Egypt's president to visit Tehran again, a sign of improved relations between the two nations since an Islamist government took over in Cairo.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Deadliest flu in a decade: Lethal influenza outbreak ravages US
01-10-2013
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RT.com
The US is experiencing its deadliest flu outbreak in a decade, prompting the city of Boston to declare a public health emergency after the virus killed more than a dozen people and left hundreds struggling to fight off the illness.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Warning shot: Gun violence lands US lowest life expectancy among rich nations
01-10-2013
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RT.com
Widespread gun ownership and lax firearms controls were deemed major reasons for the US topping a list of violent deaths in wealthy nations. The study comes amid a fiery gun control debate, triggered by the fatal school shooting at Sandy Elementary.
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News Link • Books
CIA Killers
01-10-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
ROCKWELL: Good morning. This is the Lew Rockwell Show. And how great to have as our guest this morning, Dr. Peter Janney. Dr. Janney is a psychologist in Massachusetts. He grew up, however, in Washington, D.C.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Cult YouTube gun channel boss found shot dead on rural Georgia road
01-10-2013
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Keith Ratliff was found shot to the head but had cache of weapons near him - He ran YouTube channel with three million subscribers and all videos combined have been viewed more than a HALF BILLION times - 32-year-old man leaves behind a wife and two-
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The CIA’s Hollywood Release: “Zero Dark Thirty”, or How People Lose Their Humanity
01-10-2013
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Global Research
I was shaking as I walked out of Zero Dark Thirty, the new film about the CIA’s 10-year search for Osama bin Laden. Shaking and queasy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
What Did Google Earth Spot in the Chinese Desert? Even an Ex-CIA Analyst Isn’t Sure
01-10-2013
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Wired.com
Late last month, former CIA analyst Allen Thomson was clicking through a space news website when he noticed a story about a new orbital tracking site being built near the small city of Kashgar in southwestern China.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Darpa Open Sources Code for Building Your Own Amphibious Tank
01-10-2013
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Wired.com
Two years ago, Defense Secretary Robert Gates killed off the Marines’ Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle " a $13 billion misfire of an attempt to build an armored boat that could make landfall and still get around on the beach.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Thank Goodness for Obamacare: Hidden Amendment Prevents Gun and Ammo Registry
01-10-2013
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Independent Journal Review
“Sometimes you have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it,” to paraphrase former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. As reported at IJR earlier today, a hidden amendment in Obamacare prevents a national gun and ammunition registry.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Why Stealing a $1 Trillion Coin Isn’t Worth the Price of a Getaway Van
01-10-2013
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Wired.com
Set aside the national existential implications of minting a $1 trillion coin to pay America’s obligations because Congress can’t get it together to raise the debt ceiling.
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