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Date Sent: 2014-10-25
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, October 25, 2014 |
British activist gets $681,000 settlement after learning baby's father was undercover cop
The Making of the Warrior Cop -- NYC cops attacked by hatchet-wielding man, stoking terrorism fears -- The New Spousal Immunity Defense? Justice Department Invokes Executive Privilege -- Mayor who promised never to 'embarrass this community' arrested on child porn -- New Hampshire Supreme Court Takes Up Meter Feeding -- Meth witch? Arrested Oklahoma 'Wiccan' claims religious right to use drugs -- Worst Idea yet: American Evangelical Ex-Military Mercenaries Heading To Iraq to Fight ISIS For Jesus -- Here's (some of) what's at Stake if the Republicans Take the Senate -- Uruguay's presidential candidate wants to roll back landmark pot law -- Angry protests mushroom in Mexico over the forced disappearance of 43 students -- French Unemployed Hits Record High, Hollande Demands EU Budget "Must Be Adapted" -- Putin Warns Of Risk Of Major Conflict, Says Dollar Losing Reserve Currency Status -- 19 Very Surprising Facts About The Messed Up State Of The U.S. Economy -- Icelandic Commission Confirms That Video Of Mythical Sea Monster Lagarfljótsormur... -- Frank Zappa on Voting, Partisanship and Communicating Through the Arts -- Edward Snowden interviewed by Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessing (10/20/14) -- Rand Paul on Panel Discussion with Eric Schmidt, John Doerr on Technology and... -- The Putin Bullet Points (Dialogue Just Ending) -- IRS "Wins" Vs. Tea Party Due to Judge's Ridiculous Logic -- Chechen President Says IS Boss Works for CIA -- Woman pleads not guilty to rape of man in Seattle -- Valerie Jarrett Key Player in Fast and Furious Cover-Up After Holder Lied to Congress -- European Service Prices Plunge at Steepest Rate Since January 2010;... -- Japanese Style Deflation Coming? Where? Fed Falling Behind the Curve? Which Way? -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, October 26, 2014 Edition -- Canada, at War For 13 Years, Shocked That a Terrorist Attacked Its Soldiers -- Were Secret Service Agents too Hungover to Protect JFK? -- 9/11 In The Academic Community -- Hollow Justice and Courts of Order in an Age of Government-Sanctioned Tyranny -- US: ISIS Generates Tens of Millions of Dollars Monthly -- Treasury Dept Threatens Sanctions on Buyers of ISIS Oil
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
British activist gets $681,000 settlement after learning baby's father was undercover cop
10-25-2014
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AFP
"In reality he was a member of a secret police unit, the special demonstration squad, and was embarking on a 5-year mission to infiltrate environmental and animal rights groups." He disappeared when the child was 2 years old
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Making of the Warrior Cop
10-25-2014
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Mother Jones
The event was paid for mostly by the Dept of Homeland Security, but more than 100 corporations threw in money. Teams would try out the latest equipment on offer from Urban Shield's corporate sponsors many military supply companies
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYC cops attacked by hatchet-wielding man, stoking terrorism fears
10-25-2014
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Rawstory
A hatchet-wielding attacker charged a group of New York City police officers posing for a photograph on Thursday, wounded two, one critically, before the assailant was shot dead, police said.
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News Link • Obama Administration
The New Spousal Immunity Defense? Justice Department Invokes Executive Privilege
10-25-2014
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Jonathan Turley
The Administration is now reserving the claim of executive privilege over emails between Attorney General Holder and his wife as well as his mother. That's right, executive privilege over communications with your family.
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News Link • Government
Mayor who promised never to 'embarrass this community' arrested on child porn
10-25-2014
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Rawstory
Less than a year after being elected he stopped going to his office, and stopped responding to emails, phone calls, and text messages. After 5 months the man Longanecker beat in the election had to step in and act as mayor pro tem in order
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
New Hampshire Supreme Court Takes Up Meter Feeding
10-25-2014
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The Newspaper
Officials in the city of Keene, New Hampshire are irate that a band of residents calling themselves Robin Hood of Keene have been feeding the parking meters to prevent the issuance of parking tickets. The Robin Hood group documents
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News Link • Drug War
Meth witch? Arrested Oklahoma 'Wiccan' claims religious right to use drugs
10-25-2014
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Rawstory
A woman arrested for drug possession in Duncan, Oklahoma claims that it is her religious right as a Wiccan to possess and consume methamphetamine.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Worst Idea yet: American Evangelical Ex-Military Mercenaries Heading To Iraq to Fight ISIS "For
10-24-2014
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Frank Schaeffer
Can you think of a worse idea than evangelicals, who believe they are serving God by killing Muslims, fighting Muslims who think they are serving God by killing Christians?
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Here's (some of) what's at Stake if the Republicans Take the Senate
10-21-2014
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Frank Schaeffer
If Republicans gain the Senate majority in November, President Barack Obama will face pressure from Congress to send ground troops into Iraq and Syria.
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News Link • World News
Uruguay's presidential candidate wants to roll back landmark pot law
10-24-2014
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http://www.globalpost.com
Uruguay passed the marijuana law in December, but leftist incumbent President Jose Mujica has struggled to roll out the reform, which other Latin American states have followed closely.
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News Link • Mexico
Angry protests mushroom in Mexico over the forced disappearance of 43 students
10-24-2014
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http://www.globalpost.com
A mayor in hiding, corrupt cops and narco gunmen are all implicated in the crime, which thousands of officers so far haven't been able to solve.
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News Link • World News
French Unemployed Hits Record High, Hollande Demands EU Budget "Must Be Adapted"
10-24-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
France's President Francois Hollande states confidently that "everyone should respect treaties," then 'Junckers' it with this stunningly hypocritical bullshit, "budget rules must be adapted" to support growth and France "has done what it has to do" o
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News Link • World News
Putin Warns Of Risk Of Major Conflict, Says Dollar Losing Reserve Currency Status
10-24-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Having been relatively quiet for a while, Russia's leader Vladimir, speaking in Sochi (following meetings with Middle East crown princes who confirmed Russia as a key partner - "isolated"?), has unleashed his most aggressive statements with regard th
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
19 Very Surprising Facts About The Messed Up State Of The U.S. Economy
10-24-2014
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Barack Obama and the Federal Reserve are lying to you. The "economic recovery" that we all keep hearing about is mostly just a mirage.
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News Link • World News
Icelandic Commission Confirms That Video Of Mythical Sea Monster Lagarfljótsormur...
10-24-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Icelandic Commission Confirms That Video Of Mythical Sea Monster Lagarfljótsormur Is Actually Real.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Taylor Swift parody perfectly describes everything that's wrong with Obama's...
10-24-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Taylor Swift parody perfectly describes everything that's wrong with Obama's presidency.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Edward Snowden interviewed by Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessing (10/20/14)
10-24-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Edward Snowden interviewed by Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessing (10/20/14)
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News Link • General Opinion
Rand Paul on Panel Discussion with Eric Schmidt, John Doerr on Technology and...
10-24-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Rand Paul on Panel Discussion with Eric Schmidt, John Doerr on Technology and Politics at Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit.
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
The Putin Bullet Points (Dialogue Just Ending)
10-24-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Putin spoke just now LIVE at the 11th meeting of Valdai International Discussion Club.
These were the real time tweets from RIA Novosti across the last 3 hours.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
IRS "Wins" Vs. Tea Party Due to Judge's Ridiculous Logic
10-24-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Does everyone remember the massive scandal that was uncovered revealing a depth of illegal political bias at the IRS?
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Woman pleads not guilty to rape of man in Seattle
10-24-2014
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http://seattletimes.com
A 28-year-old Seattle woman entered a not-guilty plea Thursday to a second-degree-rape charge. Chantae Marie Gilman is accused of having sex with a man she didn't know after somehow entering his residence and climbing on top of him while he slept.
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News Link • Corruption
Valerie Jarrett Key Player in Fast and Furious Cover-Up After Holder Lied to Congress
10-24-2014
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http://www.judicialwatch.org
President Obama's trusted senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, was a key player in the effort to cover up that Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress about the Fast and Furious scandal, according to public records obtained by Judicial Watch.
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News Link • Inventions
Ground tests complete as world's fastest flying motorcycle seeks racing competition
10-24-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com
At the intersection of the motorcycle and the gyrocopter lives the flying motorcycle â€" combining the easy, cheap and safe flying abilities of the gyro with the loose road registration requirements of the motorbike.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Tuned Toyota Supra dragster hits 240 mph in 6 seconds, sets world record
10-24-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com
The Toyota Supra was no slouch in its time, but a newly-built drag racing version of the car has been taken to a new extreme. The Ekanoo Racing Outlaw Supra covered a quarter mile (0.4 km) in 6.05 seconds.
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News Link • Economy - International
European Service Prices Plunge at Steepest Rate Since January 2010;...
10-24-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
European Service Prices Plunge at Steepest Rate Since January 2010; Reflections on Keynesian Stupidity.
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News Link • Economy - International
Japanese Style Deflation Coming? Where? Fed Falling Behind the Curve? Which Way?
10-24-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
There's some interesting discussion points in the UK-based Absolute Return Partners October 2014 Letter, by Niels C. Jensen, most of which I agree with, others not.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Canada, at War For 13 Years, Shocked That 'a Terrorist Attacked Its Soldiers
10-24-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Glenn Greenwald
In Quebec on Monday, two Canadian soldiers were hit by a car driven by Martin Couture-Rouleau, a 25-year-old Canadian who, as The Globe and Mail reported, "converted to Islam recently and called himself Ahmad Rouleau."
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News Link • History
Were Secret Service Agents too Hungover to Protect JFK?
10-24-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Pete D'Amato
Questions raised over whether late drinking session affected response of men charged with protecting President
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News Link • History
Things Fall Apart
10-24-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick J. Buchanan
When this writer was 3 years old, the Empire of Japan devastated Battleship Row of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
9/11 In The Academic Community
10-24-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Michael S. Rozeff
Adnan Zuberi has produced and directed a filmed documentary titled "9/11 in the Academic Community" (2013), and it is a winner at the University of Toronto Film Festival.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
How the XPrize Foundation Is Building Our Next-Gen Health Sensors
10-24-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Davey Alba
Apple and Google aren't the only ones pushing for a new generation of wearables and gadgets that can monitor your health from minute to minute.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The Physics of the Hendo Hoverboard
10-24-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Rhett Allain
This hoverboard looks like the real deal â€" unlike the recent fake hoverboard. Although I'm not exactly sure how the Hendo Hoverboard works, I have a pretty good guess. Let's look at electromagnetic repulsion physics that it might use.
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News Link • Internet
Now Everyone Wants to Sell You a Magical Anonymity Router. Choose Wisely
10-24-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Andy Greenberg
Maintaining your privacy online, like investing in stocks or looking good naked, has become one of those nagging desires that leaves Americans with a surplus of stress and a deficit of facts.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Citizenfour's Escape to Freedom in Russia
10-24-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Ray McGovern
In early September in Russia, National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden told me about a documentary entitled Citizenfour, named after the alias he used when he asked filmmaker Laura Poitras to help him warn Americans about how deeply the
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Hollow Justice and Courts of Order in an Age of Government-Sanctioned Tyranny
10-24-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by John W. Whitehead
Justice in America makes less sense with each passing day.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Rand Paul Sketches an Alternative to Hawks Like Bush and Clinton
10-24-2014
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http://www.theatlantic.com, Conor Friedersdorf
In a speech touting "conservative realism," the Kentucky Republican probed the failures of post-9/11 foreign policy, including too much war.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
NY Post's Crudele: Perhaps Govt Stepped in to Support Stocks
10-24-2014
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http://www.moneynews.com, By Dan Weil
After registering a 10 percent drop from its Sept. 19 high last Wednesday, the S&P 500 index quickly rebounded, and New York Post columnist John Crudele suggests the government might have had something to do with that bounce.
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Opinion • Voting and Elections
"The Spirit Of Party"
10-23-2014
Chuck Baldwin
When I started my radio talk show back in 1994--and for the next six years hosting the show--I was considered a hero by conservatives everywhere. Between my leadership position with the Moral Majority back in the 1980s and my radio talk show in the 1
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News Link • Police State
Special report: America's perpetual state of emergency
10-22-2014
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USA Today
The USA is in a perpetual state of national emergency. Thirty separate emergencies, in fact. An emergency declared by President Jimmy Carter on the 10th day of the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979 remains in effect almost 35 years later.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security raids Kansas City boutique over Royals panties: report
10-22-2014
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Washington Times
A lingerie shop owner in Kansas City says her store was raided by Homeland Security agents Monday morning over a few dozen pair of panties she made in honor of her hometown baseball team.
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
What could go wrong? Volunteers go door-to-door 'ballot harvesting' in Colorado
10-22-2014
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Washington Times
It's harvest time in Colorado, and not just for pumpkins. Concerns are running high over door-to-door campaign workers asking voters for their mail-in ballots in what is known as "ballot harvesting." Now that all-mail voting is the law
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