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Date Sent: 2013-08-29
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, August 29, 2013 |
Gun Bill in Missouri Would Test Limits in Nullifying U.S. Law
Prosecutor Arrested For Dismissing Criminal Charge In Exchange For Sex -- Does Obama know he’s fighting on al-Qa’ida’s side? -- Obama’s Evidence of Syrian Chemical Weapons Use… -- Kentucky students to first lady Michelle Obama: Your food ‘tastes like vomit’ -- Chemical Weapons in Syria? Who Cares! -- Russian Police Shut Down
Art Gallery After They Show Painting of Putin In Women’s Underwear -- Fort Hood shooter sentenced to death for 2009 killings -- Researchers Grow 3-D Human Brain Tissues -- Airlines Still Trying to
Make Passenger Boarding Less Annoying -- Why Syria? and Why now? --
Israel Attacks Palestinians During Peace Talks
AZ: #NoWarWithSyria RALLY SATURDAY!!
CA: Libertopia Historic meeting of the minds, August 30
- Sept. 2, 2013, San Diego
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Bill in Missouri Would Test Limits in Nullifying U.S. Law
08-28-2013
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New York Times
The Missouri legislature is expected to nullify all federal gun laws in the state and make it a crime for federal agents to enforce them there. A Missourian arrested under federal firearm statutes would even be able to sue the arresting officer.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Prosecutor Arrested For Dismissing Criminal Charge In Exchange For Sex
08-28-2013
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Jonathan Turley
The attorney for the city of Union, William “Billy” Whitney Jr., 65,, has been arrested after being accused of dismissing criminal defendants in exchange for sexual favors. He was employed as a prosecuting attorney for Union in 2011 and
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Does Obama know he’s fighting on al-Qa’ida’s side?
08-28-2013
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The Independent
If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured " for the very first time in history " that the United States will be on the same side as al-Qa’ida.
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News Link • Syria
Obama’s Evidence of Syrian Chemical Weapons Use…
08-28-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
…comes exclusively from heavily compromised Israeli sources (remember “helpful” Israeli intel on Iraq’s WMD’s?). The Israelis are selling Obama a bill of goods that they have intercepted Syrian government telephone conversations admitting
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News Link • Obama Administration
Kentucky students to first lady Michelle Obama: Your food ‘tastes like vomit’
08-28-2013
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The Daily Caller
Students in a rural Kentucky county " and their parents " are the latest to join a growing national chorus of scorn for the healthy school lunches touted by first lady Michelle Obama. “They say it tastes like vomit,” said Harlan County Public Schools
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News Link • Syria
Chemical Weapons in Syria? Who Cares!
08-28-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
What difference does it make if Obama has “evidence” or not the Syrian government is using chemical weapons? It should be none of the business of the US regardless of the facts. By arguing whether Assad is using chemical weapons or
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News Link • World News
Russian Police Shut Down Art Gallery After They Show Painting of Putin In Women’s Underwear
08-28-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Russian police have shutdown an art gallery in the latest attack on free speech under President Vladimir Putin. The police declared a painting to be illegal and pornographic because it depicted Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmi
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News Link • Military
Fort Hood shooter sentenced to death for 2009 killings
08-28-2013
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Reuters
A military jury on Wednesday sentenced a U.S. Army psychiatrist to death for murdering 13 people in 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas, where he gunned down unarmed soldiers in what he later called retaliation for U.S. wars in the Muslim world.
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News Link • Energy
Swiss Researchers Make an 80-mpg Hybrid
08-28-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Researchers in Switzerland propose an ultra-efficient hybrid electric vehicle that runs on natural gas and diesel.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Airlines Still Trying to Make Passenger Boarding Less Annoying
08-28-2013
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Wired.com
Deep breaths. That’s usually what it takes to stay sane while watching somebody search for their neck pillow while standing in the aisle with 100 other passenger waiting to get to their seats.
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Opinion • Syria
Ctrl - Alt - Delete
Watch the Birdie! --
Why Syria? and Why now?
08-28-2013
Mike Dugger
The following is my response to an email I received today asking "Are you ready?" for what is coming with respect to the situation in Syria. I'll characterize my answer as one couched in cynical realism. Things are seldom what they seem.
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Broader Stakes of Syrian Crisis
08-27-2013
Ray McGovern
Though some intelligence analysts still doubt that the Syrian government launched a chemical attack, the political momentum for a U.S. retaliatory strike may be unstoppable. Broader framework of the crisis involves the Israeli-Iranian dispute...
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Feature Article • Food
"No Food For You"
Ernest Hancock
...food bearing plants are not legal in residential zoned areas. She had to remove her tangerine tree when she did a remodel on her house. The city inspector made her remove it before he would approve the remodel.
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Opinion • Ron Paul Says...
Is anti-Semitism Libertarian?
08-27-2013
Mike Renzulli
Two-time Presidential Republican Presidential candidate and former Congress Member Ron Paul is slated to be the headline speaker at a conference hosted by the Fatima Center who is allegedly a group of hard-core anti-Semites.
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News Link • Surveillance
Despite leaked evidence Obama Administration still claims no domestic spying exists
08-27-2013
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http://thelibertybeat.com, BY: Derrick Broze
Months after the initial leaks by Edward Snowden new information continues to pour out describing the national surveillance apparatus maintained by the National Security Agency (NSA).
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News Link • Syria
Reuters New Poll: Syria Intervention Even Less Popular Than Congress
08-27-2013
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Daily Paul.com
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll has finally found something that Americans like even less than Congress: the possibility of U.S. military intervention in Syria.
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News Link • Child Protective Services
"They Kidnapped Our Child": Why CPS Needs Transparency Now
08-27-2013
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youtube
In April 2013, police officers and a social worker from Sacramento County's Child Protective Services entered the home of Anna and Alex Nikolayev and took their baby, Sammy, away from them. They had no warrant.
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News Link • TAXES: State
L.A. Mayor Declares State of ‘Emergency’ As Movie, TV Production Flees Hollywood
08-27-2013
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http://variety.com, Ted Johnson
Eric Garcetti needs to convince skeptical politicians to fight against rich tax incentives from outside California.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYPD Cop Indicted for Filing False Report in Arrest of New York Times Photographer
08-26-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A New York City cop who arrested a New York Times photographer last year to prevent him from photographing an arrest was charged with falsifying records Monday, a charge that could land him in prison for seven years.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
County Pays $2.6 Million To Family After SWAT Team Raids Home, Starts Fire That Kills
08-26-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Monterey County has agreed to pay a family $2.6 million after police conducted a military-like raid on the home of an innocent man and burned down the home with the man inside while blocking fire trucks rushing to the scene.
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News Link • Food
Police Threaten to Arrest Volunteers Feeding Homeless Without Permit
08-26-2013
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Breitbart
"This morning we showed up at Moore Square at 9:00 a.m., just like we have done virtually every Saturday and Sunday for the last six years," wrote Rev. Hollowell. "Today, officers from Raleigh Police Department prevented us from doing our
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
10-Year-Old Girl Accused Of Raping 4-Year-Old During Game Of ‘Doctor’
08-26-2013
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CBS News
“I’ve never dealt with a child this young being accused of a crime,” Quanell X said. “In fact this was nothing more than inappropriate horseplay that has now led to a child that is 10-years-old being charged with aggravated rape.”
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News Link • Government
Federal Government Plans To Kill Hundreds Of Desert Tortoises To Save $1 Million A Year
08-26-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Due to a lack of federal funding, the federal government plans to euthanize hundreds of the tortoises " animals added to the endangered species list in 1990. The cost? One million dollars a year.
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News Link • NATO
NATO members could act against Syria without UN mandate
08-26-2013
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The Guardian
Obama is unlikely to have much trouble mustering a NATO coalition of the willing if Washington opts for military intervention in Syria in response to the alleged chemical weapons atrocities by the Assad regime. There is no prospect of a UN mandate
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News Link • Activism
Watch: Wisconsin Capitol police tackle man for photographing progressive protest
08-26-2013
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Rawstory
A photographer and activist was aggressively arrested at the Wisconsin Capitol on Monday during a daily singalong protest.
Video of the incident uploaded to YouTube showed two police officers approaching Damon Terrell, who can be heard saying, “Th
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
100 Days: Treasury Has Kept Debt Frozen at $16,699,396,000,000
08-26-2013
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CNS News
The Treasury Dept’s latest daily accounting of the US government’s receipts, expenditures and borrowings--released indicates the legally limited debt of the federal govt has now been exactly $16,699,396,000,000 for 100 straight days.
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News Link • Activism
Turkey’s ‘Standing Man’ protester to win human rights award
08-26-2013
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AFP
He became known around the world by remaining motionless for hours, staring, on Istanbul’s Taksim Square during protests that challenged Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in June and July. “With his silent protest, he became the icon
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News Link • Police State
Ohio Attorney General: State secretly uploaded all drivers license photos into police database
08-26-2013
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Rawstory
Police officers have performed 2,600 searches using the new database feature, which scans driver’s license photographs and police mug shots and compares them to any image, be it a photograph or a still-frame from a surveillance camera.
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News Link • Syria
Breaking: U.S. Cruise Missiles Preparing To Strike Syria
08-26-2013
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benswann.com
The U.S. military is now moving cruise missiles into position for a possible strike against Syrian government forces, reports CBS News Saturday.
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News Link • Syria
SyrianGirl "Chemical Weapons False Flag Against Syria Update"
08-26-2013
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Daily Paul.com
The bbc are insinuating at every opportunity that it is the governments actions while at the same time calling for un "experts" to go to the scene and find proof of who actually did it
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
A Christian Case for Libertarianism
08-26-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Okay, I've heard so many times that a person can't be libertarian and Christian at the same time. Well I'm going to make a case to prove those people wrong.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Yahoo News 1-30-13: US 'backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria
08-26-2013
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Daily Paul.com
The original link still works, but for how long?
http://in.news.yahoo.com/us-backed-plan-launch-chemical-weap...
US 'backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria, blame it on Assad govt': Report
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News Link • Secession
Will Texas Voters Decide Secession at the Primary ballot Box in 2014?
08-26-2013
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thelonestarwatchdog.com
I just attended a meeting of a Pro Texas Independence Group.
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News Link • Surveillance
Can’t fight the NSA?
08-26-2013
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http://www.backwoodshome.com,
Since the Snowden revelations, there’s been a lot of this sort of talk on the Tubz. Summary: You can’t fight the NSA’s surveillance because you can’t even understand the NSA’s capabilities and methods.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Seven Countries In Five Years - American General Lays It Out
08-26-2013
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Daily Paul.com
After hearing of the surprising decision to use force against Syria, I felt compelled to do a little reminiscing:
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Authoritarian Sociopathy
08-26-2013
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http://dailyanarchist.com, by Davi Barker
Many anarchists and libertarians eagerly study the psychology of tyrants in an effort to know their enemy in the battlefield of politics.
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News Link • Obama Administration
VIDEO: Assad Forces Find Chemical Agents In Rebel Tunnels, But West Won't Report It
08-26-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Assad Forces Find Chemical Agents In Rebel Tunnels, But West Won't Report It
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Forced sharing isn’t sharing
08-26-2013
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http://www.cnjonline.com, Kent Mcmanigal
Recently, in this column, I have been trying to illustrate concrete ways libertarianism works in real life, each and every day, sometimes for people who don’t even realize they are behaving as libertarians.
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News Link • Syria
US Set to Launch 'Iraq, The Sequel', in Syria
08-26-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Daniel McAdams
If you liked the run up to the US attack on Iraq, with the lurid fictional tales o fmobile chemical weapons labs and Saddam’s nukes, you will love “Iraq, The Sequel”, currently unfolding in Syria.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
A Long List of What We Know Thanks to Private Manning
08-26-2013
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http://www.thenation.com, Greg Mitchell
The debate in the media, and in political circles over Edward Snowden"Right or Wrong"often doubles back on references to Pfc. Manning, who was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison on Wednesday.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran
08-26-2013
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foreignpolicy.com
The U.S. knew Hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history -- and still gave him a hand.
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News Link • Obama Administration
We’re Indispensable!
08-26-2013
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http://authoritycon.blogspot.com
As President Obama contemplates what affirmative action the United States government should take regarding the civil war in Syria and bloody violence in Egypt, he haughtily proclaimed to CNN New Day anchor, Chris Cuomo, that the U.S. remains "one ind
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News Link • Obama Administration
America Eats Its Young
08-26-2013
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http://dollarvigilante.com, Wendy McElroy
Obama just signed the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act. It was cheered as a victory for students in higher ed because it keeps federal student loans at low interest rates through 2015. The victory is Pyrrhic.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Homeowner shoots, kills escaped prisoner in Iowa
08-26-2013
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http://www.foxnews.com,
Authorities say an escaped inmate suspected of shooting a southwest Iowa sheriff's deputy has been killed by a homeowner who said the armed man broke into his house.
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News Link • Syria
Dear World, Americans Don't Want War in Syria
08-26-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Open letter to the citizens of the world about our war-mongering government.
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News Link • Syria
Navy ready to launch first strike on Syria
08-26-2013
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telegraph.co.uk
Britain is planning to join forces with America and launch military action against Syria within days in response to the gas attack believed to have been carried out by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces against his own people.
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