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Date Sent: 2015-02-16
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Monday, February 16, 2015 |
Woman tortured by boyfriend told by court to write letters to her attacker or face jail
Missouri police chief backs cop who shot at unarmed fleeing suspect and failed to report it -- Great War of the American Empire or Great War II -- Protected My Ass---The Bottom Line - by L. Reichard White -- Four grand juries later, Mississippi's 'Run n****r, run' judge indicted for assault -- Judge gives epic lecture before sentencing 3 Mississippi men for lynching black man -- Hands Off The Internet---Abolish the FCC! - by L.Neil Smith -- Why the IRS Apology for Asset Seizure is Meaningless -- Britain and Canada Involved in Foiled US Venezuelan Coup Plot -- Copenhagen False Flag? -- Ceasefire in Donbas?
AZ: Arizona Sci Tech Gila County Festival - February 26-28, 2015; Heirs of the Republic Constitutional Study Group - Larry Reed Speaker - 03/11/15 - Tucson, AZ; BitcoinSummit.info - March 14th 2015 9am-5pm & Evening Party; World Liberty Conference Bali 2015 - June 29 - July 3rd, 2015 (ISIL)
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Woman tortured by boyfriend told by court to write letters to her attacker or face jail
02-15-2015
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Rawstory
A woman who was savagely beaten and had her throat slashed by the father of her children has been told she must write letters to her attacker in jail or face imprisonment herself.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Missouri police chief backs cop who shot at unarmed fleeing suspect and failed to report it
02-15-2015
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Rawstory
The police chief of Wellston, Missouri, is standing by one of his officers after it was discovered that the officer had shot at a fleeing suspect and then failed to report the incident,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
Great War of the American Empire or Great War II
02-15-2015
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Lew Rockwell blog
Battles have raged in Yugoslavia and Ukraine, in Africa, in the Middle East, and in central Asia. The American Empire has launched this country into a series of battles that have no end in sight and no location may not become
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Protected My Ass---The Bottom Line - by L. Reichard White
02-15-2015
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
In addition to not being able to protect us in the first place, legally they don't have to. They're not really interested anyway. Historian Howard Zinn: "The interests of the government and the interests of the people are not the same. ..."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Racism
Four grand juries later, Mississippi's 'Run n****r, run' judge indicted for assault
02-15-2015
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Rawstory
Almost one year after being accused of slapping a mentally disabled African-American man at a flea market and yelling "run, n-gger, run," a former Mississippi judge has been indicted by a grand jury for simple assault,....
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Racism
Judge gives epic lecture before sentencing 3 Mississippi men for lynching black man
02-15-2015
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Jonathan Turley
In the summer of 2011, James Craig Anderson, an African-American man, was the victim of one of the most brutal murders one could imagine. It was all caught on security cameras in a parking lot in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Hands Off The Internet---Abolish the FCC! - by L.Neil Smith
02-15-2015
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
I am deeply concerned with people in government expressing a desire to control what appears on the Internet, the greatest arena of free speech in human history, or to decide who can put it there. The Federal Communications Commission
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Why the IRS Apology for Asset Seizure is Meaningless
02-15-2015
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Activist Post
Despite the IRS apologizing for seizing the bank accounts of small business owners on mere suspicion of wrongdoing, Judge Napolitano highlights how this began and why it's likely to continue regardless of political posturing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
2 deadly shootings within hours in Copenhagen; 5 wounded
02-14-2015
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Associated Press
A shooting at a free speech event featuring an artist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad and a second shooting hours later outside a synagogue left two dead and five police officers wounded in Copenhagen
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, February 15, 2015 Edition
02-13-2015
John Semmens
Amnesty "Loophole" May Allow Illegals to Vote
Secretaries of state from Ohio and Kansas say that the documents--driver's licenses and Social Security numbers--being provided to the illegal immigrants granted amnesty by President Obama open a
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News Link • Camera Fraud
California: Appellate Red Light Camera Ruling Worries Redflex
02-12-2015
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The Newspaper
One of California's largest providers of red light camera systems believes a recent Court of Appeal decision spells trouble finding that proof of improper calibration was enough to cast doubt on an automated ticketing machine's reliability.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Guantanamo Bay
Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi reviewâ€" the global war on terror has found its true witn
02-13-2015
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Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian
An extraordinary account of rendition, captivity and torture reveals the radicalization of the US military-intellectual complex
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • European Union
Europe's Greek Showdown: The Sum Of All Statist Errors
02-13-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com,By David Stockman
The politicians of Europe are plunging into a form of ideological fratricide as they battle over Greece. And "fratricide" is precisely the right descriptor because in this battle there are no white hats or black hits---just statists.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fourth Turning â€" The Shadow of Crisis has not Passed
02-13-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com,By Jim Quinn
"Imagine some national (and probably global) volcanic eruption, initially flowing along channels of distress that were created during the Unraveling era and further widened by the catalyst.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
The MMR Vaccine Package Insert â€" Facts or Fibs?
02-13-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com,By Catherine J. Frompov
With all the media 'fear porn' about measles that's been inundating everyone recently, perhaps healthcare consumers ought to know some pertinent facts about the MMR vaccines that their MDs, pediatricians, and health agencies apparently NEGLECT
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
The NSA Acknowledges What We All Feared: Iran Learns From US Cyberattacks
02-13-2015
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http://www.wired.com,BY KIM ZETTER
After the Stuxnet digital weapon was discovered on machines in Iran in 2010, many security researchers warned that US adversaries would learn from this and other US attacks and develop similar techniques to target America and its allies.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin, Value, and Ponzi Schemes
02-13-2015
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MoneyandState.Com/Erik Voorhees
To his credit, Gary North clearly points us to his main argument: "The coins will never be the money of the future. This is my main argument." His justification for this position, carefully explained over several paragraphs, is simple as well,
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Art
'Lost' Leonardo da Vinci painting seized by Italy
02-12-2015
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The Telegraph
After being lost for centuries, the painting was rediscovered in 2013 in a collection of 400 artworks kept in a Swiss vault. The authorities then were alerted to the existence of the painting, but it went missing again.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Property Rights
Barking dog could cost Seattle family their home
02-12-2015
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Yahoo! News blog
Like bullies and illnesses, lawsuits can be ignored, but they won't go away. Denise Norton learned this valuable lesson the hard way when she found out that a lawsuit she has ignored could wind up costing her home.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wayne County Michigan â€" Following Detroit into Bankruptcy
02-12-2015
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Union Watch
Just as Detroit is coming out of bankruptcy, the entire county is about to go under. This will be especially aggravating because Detroit pensioners are already extremely upset with the pension haircuts they received.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
U.S. Makes Another Awful Decision to Harm Somalis
02-12-2015
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Reason Magazine
Some bad news for people in Somalia who rely on monetary remittances from America--and that's a lot of people: Merchants Bank of California is expected to close the accounts of all Somali-American money transfer companies on its books.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
La Isla Del Gordo: Puerto Rico Considers Tax For Obese Children
02-12-2015
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Jonathan Turley
Puerto Rico is considering an extreme response to childhood obesity: a fat tax. Sen. Valle introduced a bill to fine parents of obese children as a form of neglect. The bill suggests that fines would be imposed when the obesity is viewed as
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Brian Williams: A Necessary Sacrifice to the State-Media Complex
02-12-2015
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Liberty.me
Nobody within the liberty movement should be surprised, then, at how quickly the media turned on NBC anchor Brian Williams after he admitted to having spun tall tales about his time in Iraq in 2003. His downfall was ultimately caused not by the fact
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
FBI monitored and critiqued African American writers for decades
02-12-2015
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The Guardian
Newly declassified documents from the FBI reveal how the US federal agency under J Edgar Hoover monitored the activities of dozens of prominent African American writers for decades, devoting thousands of pages to detailing their activities and critiq
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News Link • World News
The Minsk Peace Deal: Farce Or Sellout?
02-12-2015
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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org,
Judging by the report on RT http://rt.com/news/231667-minsk-ceasefire-deal-breakup/
I conclude that the Ukraine peace deal worked out in Minsk by Putin, Merkel, Hollande, and Poroshenko has little chance of success.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Does a Real Anti-Aging Pill Already Exist?
02-12-2015
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http://www.bloomberg.com, by Bill Gifford
Inside Novartis's push to produce the first legitimate anti-aging drug
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Measles vs. MMR Vaccine: Risks and Benefits
02-12-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Donald W. Miller
Before there was a vaccine for it, just about every person in America got measles.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
DARPA to Begin Testing Satellite-Launching Fighter Jet This Year
02-12-2015
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space.com
The United States military's ambitious plan to launch satellites from the belly of a fighter jet should get its first in-air test later this year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New alloy of steel created that's as strong and light as titanium
02-12-2015
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gizmag.com
By altering metal alloy at a nanoscale level, researchers at the Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology (GIFT) at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea have created a new material that has the strength of steel and the lightnes
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Palestinian legislator barred from standing in Israeli election
02-12-2015
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jonathan-cook.net
Political parties ignore top law officer's objections as they disqualify Haneen Zoabi for 'supporting armed struggle'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Force Authorization Is a Blank Check for War Worldwide
02-12-2015
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antiwar.com
The president is requesting Congress to pass an authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) resolution against ISIS.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Thousands protest against Houthi rule in Yemen after embassies close
02-12-2015
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Reuters
Yemenis in the capital Sanaa and the central city of Taiz held the largest protests yet against a takeover by a Shi'ite Muslim militia group on Wednesday after the United States, Britain and France shut their embassies over security fears.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
A Crypto Trick That Makes Software Nearly Impossible to Reverse-Engineer
02-12-2015
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Wired.com
Software reverse engineering, the art of pulling programs apart to figure out how they work, is what makes it possible for sophisticated hackers to scour code for exploitable bugs.
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