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Date Sent: 2013-04-27
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, April 27, 2013 |
"Evidence" of Syria chemical weapons use not up to U.N. standard
Louisiana Man Arrested Twice in One Month for Video Recording Cops -- California lawmakers to consider new sugar tax -- Israel fears end to 40-year peace on Syrian front -- California city council finds it can't afford to quit pension plan-- Officials: Boston bombing suspects’ mother also in US terror database -- Lawmakers fix flight delays caused by sequestration—before going to the airport --
South Florida Cops Forced to Return Phone After Court Order, Revealing
Unlawful Arrest Video -- New Documentary Says This US Soldier Is Alive
In Vietnam 44 Years After Being Left Behind -- Judge Insisted On Miranda Rights For Boston Suspect And FBI 'Was Not Happy' -- CISPA 'Dead For Now': 'Privacy Killer' Bill Hits A Wall In The Senate -- Businesses In This Cozy Berlin Neighborhood Are Going All-In On Bitcoin -- ALBERT EDWARDS: Stocks Will Crash, Hyperinflation Will Come, And
Gold Will Go Above $10,000 -- Just Four Companies Will Produce The
Microchips On Which The Global Economy Depends -- HUAWEI: Meet The Chinese Tech Superpower That Is Banned In The US --
The Family Sending All Ten of Their Home-Schooled Children to College
by the Age of 12 -- 'The Future Is Coming, the Future Is Coming,' Warns
the Paul Revere of Trends -- Time To Cash in Your Chips?
William Grigg: "An Explanation and Appeal."
Please Help!
AZ: INAUGURAL PREPPER FEST AZ EXPO COMING CONTINUES TODAY APRIL 26-28, 2013 ; April 30-May 1st, Future
of Freedom Foundation's Jacob Hornberger, Dick Cheatham (John
Rolfe) and Sheldon Richman in Yuma and Scottsdale, AZ – “Restoring
Liberty to America”; Language of Liberty Phoenix Seminar
May 3-4, 2013
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News Link • Syria
"Evidence" of Syria chemical weapons use not up to U.N. standard
04-26-2013
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Reuters
Assertions of chemical weapon use in Syria by Western and Israeli officials citing photos, sporadic shelling and traces of toxins do not meet the standard of proof needed for a U.N. team of experts waiting to gather their own field evidence.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
William Grigg: "An Explanation and Appeal." Please Help!
04-25-2013
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www.dailypaul.com
For all who have benefited from and appreciate the inimitable work of William Grigg over the many years he's been steadfastly and eloquently writing on behalf of liberty, this excerpt -- attached to the end of his latest piece -- is a must read.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
FFF in Scottsdale, AZ " “Restoring Liberty to America” TONIGHT - 6:30 p.m. Scottsdale Plaza Resort
04-25-2013
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http://fff.org
FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman will be giving a presentation in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Louisiana Man Arrested Twice in One Month for Video Recording Cops (Updated)
04-26-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Less than two weeks after he was arrested for video recording cops from a public street, Alex Lege was arrested again for the same thing.
This time it was the Eunice Police Department that arrested Lege,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
California lawmakers to consider new sugar tax
04-26-2013
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ABC News (video)
With a democratic super-majority, momentum is building in Sacramento for a sugar tax. The idea is to make sugary snacks and drinks just as expensive as their healthier counterparts. The controversial bill is before the State Senate's Government and F
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israel fears end to 40-year peace on Syrian front
04-26-2013
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AP
Against a vista of green fields and snowcapped mountains, all is silent but for a gusting wind. Then comes a burst of gunfire from the Syrian civil war raging next door, where jihadist rebels are battling Bashar Assad's troops in a village.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California city council finds it can't afford to quit Calpers
04-26-2013
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Reuters
The City Council of San Jose, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, wants to quit the state's public pension fund - which covers its current and former members - because it fears it can't afford the rising contributions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Officials: Boston bombing suspects’ mother also in US terror database
04-26-2013
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AP
The CIA asked for the Boston terror suspect and his mother to be added to a terrorist database in the fall of 2011, after the Russian government contacted the agency with concerns that both had become religious militants, according to officials brief
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Lawmakers fix flight delays caused by sequestration"before going to the airport
04-26-2013
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The Ticket
We learned this week, yet again, that if you make enough noise (and have the ear of members of Congress and a well-funded lobby shop in the nation's capital) you can be spared the pain caused by government belt-tightening.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
South Florida Cops Forced to Return Phone After Court Order, Revealing Unlawful Arrest Video
04-26-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Hialeah police officer Fritz Janvier vowed the footage of him and fellow officers arresting a man for recording them would never see the light of day. He held on to Eric Faden’s phone for 2 months as “evidence,” even after charges were dropped
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
2081 Universal Absurdity
04-26-2013
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Farm Wars
2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is “finally equal….”
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
New Documentary Says This US Soldier Is Alive In Vietnam 44 Years After Being Left Behind
04-26-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
The new documentary "Unclaimed" purports to introduce the world to former Army Sergeant John Robertson, lost over in Vietnam in 1968 and left behind for over four decades.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Judge Insisted On Miranda Rights For Boston Suspect And FBI 'Was Not Happy'
04-26-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Erin Fuchs
A federal judge decided to read 19-year-old Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights even though the FBI hated the idea, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Privacy Rights
CISPA 'Dead For Now': 'Privacy Killer' Bill Hits A Wall In The Senate
04-26-2013
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Business Insider
The controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is likely to die in the Senate, according to US News.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Bitcoin
Businesses In This Cozy Berlin Neighborhood Are Going All-In On Bitcoin
04-26-2013
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Business Insider
Nadim Chebli remembers well the first of his customers who decided to pay for the records they bought with virtual currency rather than cash or credit cards.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ALBERT EDWARDS: Stocks Will Crash, Hyperinflation Will Come, And Gold Will Go Above $10,000
04-26-2013
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Business Insider
This is always reassuring. SocGen strategist Albert Edwards remains an ultra-bear, and predicts everything will go to hell.
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News Link • Future Predictions
'The Future Is Coming, the Future Is Coming,' Warns the Paul Revere of Trends
04-26-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Gerald Celente
The future is rushing toward us at a speed never before experienced. Can anyone forecast what the future will look like and what it will bring?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
Time To Cash in Your Chips?
04-26-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Bill Bonner
We don't like the looks of it... Advisors are too bullish. Investors are too complacent. The financial authorities are too confident.
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Robert Lee
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Reference Link • Activism
Fat, Dumb and Not So Happy
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The facts are clear, America is a nation in an undeniable state of free fall. Of course, the establishment media will never give you the entire picture on how bleak of a future most of our children are looking at.
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Government
Boston and Freedom
04-25-2013
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www.lewrockwell.com/Andrew P. Napolitano
The government's fidelity to the Constitution is never more tested than in a time of crisis. The urge to do something " or to appear to be doing something " is nearly irresistible to those whom we have employed to protect our freedom and to keep us s
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drones
Rand Paul’s Orwellian Doublethink
04-24-2013
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Free Press Publications
In 1984, George Orwell wrote, doublethink is “[t]o know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Mercenaries
The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Armies
04-25-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
Its been a banner decade for modern military fighting.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
What It's Like To Live Life At The Mercy Of A Drone
04-25-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Grace Wyler
In a stirring Senate testimony Tuesday, Farea al-Muslimi, an American-educated Yemeni activist and journalist, described the effects of a U.S. drone strike on his home village just six days ago.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Australia police arrest hacker group LulzSec 'leader'
04-25-2013
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http://www.bbc.co.uk
Australian police say they have arrested a "self-proclaimed leader" of the hacking group LulzSec.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
When Homeland Security Theater goes Off-Script
04-24-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
While police in Watertown, Massachusetts closed in on the boat in which 19-year-old terrorist suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had concealed himself, FBI investigators in Chicago were snapping handcuffs on 18-year-old Abdella Ahmed Tounisi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Officials: Boston suspect had no firearm when barrage of bullets hit hiding place
04-24-2013
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Washington Post
Although police feared he was heavily armed, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing had no firearms when he came under a barrage of police gunfire that struck the boat where he was hiding, according to multiple federal law enforcement officials.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA pushed to add Boston bomber to terror watch list
04-24-2013
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Washington Post
The CIA pushed to have one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers placed on a U.S. counterterrorism watch list more than a year before the attacks, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Federal agents search Mississippi site in ricin investigation
04-24-2013
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Washington Post
Federal authorities descended Wednesday on a shuttered martial arts studio in Mississippi as the FBI sought to reinvigorate its investigation into ricin-laced letters sent this month to the White House, a U.S. senator and a county judge.
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News Link • Economy - International
Child Hunger Is Exploding In Greece " And 14 Signs That It Is Starting To Happen In America Too
04-24-2013
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
The world is heading into a horrific economic nightmare, and an inordinate amount of the suffering is going to fall on innocent children.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
"Panic" For Physical Gold Spreads To UK Where Royal Mint Sales Of Gold Coins Triple
04-24-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
...yesterday it was the US Mint's turn to announce it had halted shipments of the popular one-tenth ounce gold American Eagle coin as it had run out, following a surge in demand (we expect this shortage will soon spread widely to traditional one-ounc
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Exclusive: I Am Not An Anarcho Capitalist
04-24-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by robrigo80
Ron Paul in a speech at Oberlin College is asked about his thoughts on Anarcho-Capitalism. Ron Paul says that "He is not there yet" And that he supports a more minimalist view of government (minarchist).
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News Link • Bitcoin
Ron Paul on BitCoins: "I don't think it fits the definition of money"
04-24-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Ed Thinking
"I don't think it fits the definition of money" @ronpaul on #Bitcoin bloomberg.com/tv/" Katy Finneran (@KatyFinneran) April 23, 2013
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News Link • Drones
Video: Judge Napolitano got a call from Rand Paul on his stance on drones
04-24-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by fonzdrew
Video: Judge Napolitano got a call from Rand Paul on his stance on drones
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
The next shoe to drop: Internet sales tax to become reality
04-24-2013
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http://www.sovereignman.com, by Simon Black
Surprise, surprise… the completely insolvent US government has yet another idea to raise revenue in the Land of the Free: a new tax!
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News Link • Government
“The battlefield is the United States of America”
04-24-2013
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http://www.sovereignman.com, by Simon Black
When you’ve got a guy like Senator John McCain who says “The battlefield is the United States of America,” it tells you that almost nothing is safe in the Land of the Free.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston Bombing " DHS Contracted Security out to Israelis
04-24-2013
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http://www.veteranstoday.com
The dust has settled on Boston, America’s newest example and scene of national insecurity.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Even Harsh Frontline Program On Retirement Investments Understates How Bad They Are
04-24-2013
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nakedcapitalism.com
Wall Street must get indigestion every time Frontline rolls out another program showing the depths of its chicanery. The only problem is the industry deserves much worse punishment
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