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Date Sent: 2012-06-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, June 19, 2012 AM edition |
Baseball Great Roger Clemens jury verdict: Not guilty on all counts
Woman Sues City of Tulsa For Cutting Down Her Edible Garden -- Israel begins deportation of Sudanese refugees -- Bloomberg remains firm on stop and frisk policy despite march -- 'Roid-Raging Cop Shoots Up Neighborhood: Get Ready for More 'Gun Control' -- Man on life support after Minneapolis cop punches him for ‘talking loud’ -- U.S. warns Iran dissidents they must close Iraq camp -- Syrian forces pound cities as Obama, Putin meet -- Reuters on the Painkiller Issue -- Two Alaska militia members convicted of conspiracy to commit murder -- David's Hope: Prison, Solitary, and the Mentally Ill -- Google reports ‘alarming’ rise in government censorship requests -- Jon Stewart: On JPM Senate hearing & TN Sen. Bob Corker kissing his A$$ -- 06-19-12 -- Penny Langton-Freeman - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- The insanity of our electoral system -- Evidence of Algorithm Vote Flipping in GOP Primary Elections Layman's Executive Summary.pdf -- George Zimmerman’s jailhouse telephone recordings released -- Egypt’s High Court Tries to Stave Off Sharia
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Baseball Great Roger Clemens jury verdict: Not guilty on all counts
06-18-2012
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Yahoo! News blog
After 8 weeks, 46 witnesses, 2 dozing jurors and an estimated $2 million-$3 million spent in taxpayer money, the Roger Clemens trial has finally come to a close. The verdict: Not guilty on 3 counts of making false statements, not guilty on two counts
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Woman Sues City of Tulsa For Cutting Down Her Edible Garden
06-18-2012
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A Tulsa woman is suing the city's code enforcement officers after she said they cut down her garden with no cause.
Denise Morrison said she has more than 100 plant varieties in her front and back yards and all of them are edible and have a purpose
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israel begins deportation of Sudanese refugees
06-18-2012
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AFP
Interior Minister Eli Yishai, who has vowed to rid Israel first of all the illegal immigrants from South Sudan and the Ivory Coast, then those from Eritrea and Sudan, was on hand at the airport to see them off, the correspondent said.
Israeli Prim
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Bloomberg remains firm on stop and frisk policy despite march
06-18-2012
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AFP
For his part, Bloomberg defended the street checks and insisted that neither he nor New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly will permit abuses.
“I understand why some people want us to stop making stops. Innocent people who are stopped can be treat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
'Roid-Raging Cop Shoots Up Neighborhood: Get Ready for More 'Gun Control'
06-18-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Richard Klementovich, the 42-year-old Clifton, New Jersey police officer who barricaded himself in the home of his ex-wife in nearby Doylestown and turned a quiet neighborhood into a free-fire zone, was apparently attempting to commit “suicide by cop
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man on life support after Minneapolis cop punches him for ‘talking loud’
06-18-2012
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Rawstory
Sgt. David Clifford, a member of the Minneapolis SWAT team, turned himself in to authorities on Sunday after a father of four who he reportedly “sucker punched” for talking too loud spent Father’s Day in intensive care.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
U.S. warns Iran dissidents they must close Iraq camp
06-18-2012
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Reuters
The United States warned an Iranian dissident group on Monday to follow through on plans to close a base in Iraq founded under Saddam Hussein, saying it was "gravely mistaken" to believe there was any other option.
The State Department urged the g
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Syrian forces pound cities as Obama, Putin meet
06-18-2012
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Reuters
A Russian naval source said Moscow was preparing to send marines to Syria in the event it needed to protect personnel and remove equipment from its naval facility in Syria's Mediterranean port of Tartous, according to the Interfax news agency.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Reuters on the Painkiller Issue
06-18-2012
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The Agitator
The long article lays out the usual figures about painkiller addiction and overdose deaths, but then delves into the effects the resulting DEA crackdowns are having on doctors, patients, and pharmacists.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Two Alaska militia members convicted of conspiracy to commit murder
06-18-2012
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Reuters
The prosecution of Schaeffer Cox, 28, founder of the Alaska Peacekeepers Militia, and two followers, tested the limits of free-speech rights and the point at which violent talk can be interpreted as a threat to act violently.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
David's Hope: Prison, Solitary, and the Mentally Ill
06-18-2012
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Arizona Prison Watch
Arizona has a long history of brutality in its prisons, being first at producing a supermax prison and choosing to incarcerate endless numbers of individuals with serious mental illness within its walls. The current director has replaced rehabilitati
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Mike Shipley
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News Link • Internet
Google reports ‘alarming’ rise in government censorship requests
06-18-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Western governments, including the United States, appear to be stepping up efforts to censor Internet search results and YouTube videos, according to a “transparency report” released by Google.
“It’s alarming not only because free expression is at
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Politics
Jon Stewart " On JPM Senate hearing & TN Sen. Bob Corker kissing his A$$
06-18-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
No matter what position the video may show, these politicians are all on their knees. This happens to be a Senate hearing, same in the Congress. True in both houses and across aisles to include the Executive branch. Simply put, it like a high scho
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Chris Menke
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Reference Link • Voting - Election Integrity
The insanity of our electoral system
supplementally.wordpress.com
Let’s start with some basics: which voting system is best? We use almost exclusively the plurality voting system, which voting theorists have considered the worst voting system for satisfying voters. It is notorious for leading to a choice between “t
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Evidence of Algorithm Vote Flipping in GOP Primary Elections Layman's Executive Summary.pdf
06-18-2012
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dailypaul.com
This article links to a very interesting report that examines election returns in many 2012 Republican state primary races, and presents graphs illustrating "vote-flipping," almost always in favor of Romney, and usually to the detriment of Paul.
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Jefferson Paine
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
George Zimmerman’s jailhouse telephone recordings released
06-18-2012
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The Lookout
Audio recordings from phone calls Florida gunman Zimmerman made while in jail were released. The 6 phone calls are part of the state's evidence alleging that Zimmerman and his wife, misled the court during an bond hearing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Seriously?
Salafist group warns tomatoes are “Christian”
06-18-2012
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NOW Lebanon
Using a photo of a cross revealed in a tomato cut in half a Lebanese Salafist group is urging its followers not to eat tomatoes because the vegetable (or fruit) is a Christian food.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Vitimin D with Calcium Reduces Mortality
06-18-2012
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arclein
“Some studies have suggested calcium (with or without vitamin D) supplements can have adverse effects on cardiovascular health,” said Rejnmark. “Although our study does not rule out such effects, we found that calcium with vitamin D supplementation t
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Meditation Physically Modifies Brain Tissue
06-18-2012
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arclein
Deficits in activation for this area of the brain have been associated with attention deficit disorder, dementia, depression, schizophrenia and many other disorders, said Tang,
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Artificial Spinal Disc
06-18-2012
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arclein
Designed by BYU engineering professors Anton Bowden, Larry Howell and former BYU student Peter Halverson, the jointless elastic device is flexible enough to allow movement, but durable enough to withstand the sometimes crushing pressures that bui
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics
Egypt’s High Court Tries to Stave Off Sharia
06-18-2012
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arclein
Will the court’s action be enough to prevent Egypt from becoming an Islamic state? For that, it may be too late. Many see the upcoming runoff presidential election between Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi and secularist Ahmed Shafiq, a lon
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreign holdings of US debt hit record high
06-17-2012
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AP
Foreign demand for U.S. Treasury securities rose to a record high in April. China, the largest buyer of Treasury debt, increased its holdings slightly after trimming them for two straight months.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics
Charting the Cozy Connections between JP Morgan and the Senate Banking Committee
06-17-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, faced a Senate hearing over more than $2 billion in bank losses caused by risky hedges that blew up. Dimon said that the hedges"investments meant to protect the bank"had grown into “complex and hard-to manage
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
Police State Checkpoint Nullification in Upper Moreland, PA
06-15-2012
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The International Libertarian
The problem with these checkpoints is that they're warrantless, arbitrary searches. This goes against all standards of civilized behavior and is not tolerable in a free society. Not only are checkpoints violating our rights they're not effective.
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Darren Wolfe
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