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Date Sent: 2013-03-12
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
Judge mandates truth serum for Colorado shooter -- Judge tosses NYC's ban on large sugary drinks
U.S. publicly calls on China to stop commercial cyber-espionage, theft
of trade secrets -- Illinois Is Accused of Fraud by S.E.C. -- Harvard explains searching deans' email accounts to find whistleblower -- 2 U.S. troops, 5 Afghans killed in ‘insider attack’ -- Jury convicts ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of corruption; sent to jail until sentence -- Helicopter crash in Afghanistan kills five foreign troops: NATO -- The Minimum Wage: A Case Study in Laughable Liberal Logic -- Fertility Destroying Chemical Added To Tap, Milk, Salt -- International Law? A Corbett Report Exposé on The Rational Lie of International Criminal Law (Video) -- Administrative Bloat in US Public Schools -- Climate Change Is the Biggest Threat in the Pacific, Says Top U.S. Admiral -- NASA: The Sun Is Not Behaving As Expected -- Superbug scenario: Antibiotic resistance will be ‘catastrophe’ on par with terrorism -- 50 Truths about Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution -- Staring Financial Armageddon In The Face But Hiding It With Official Lies -- The Ongoing Great Gulf Coast Holocaust
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge OKs compulsory truth serum for Colorado shooting suspect interrogation
03-11-2013
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AP
The defendant in the deadly Colorado theater shooting could be given "truth serum" under a court order issued Monday to help determine whether he is insane if he pleads not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Judge throws out NYC’s ban on large sugary drinks
03-11-2013
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The Ticket
A NY state judge threw out a ban on large sugary drinks set to go into effect in New York City, calling the new regulation “arbitrary and capricious.” Championed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg as a way to fight the city's growing obesity epidemic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
U.S. publicly calls on China to stop commercial cyber-espionage, theft of trade secrets
03-11-2013
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Washington Post
In an unusually direct appeal, the Obama administration on Monday called on China to halt its persistent theft of trade secrets from corporate computers and engage in a dialogue to establish norms of behavior in cyberspace.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Illinois Is Accused of Fraud by S.E.C.
03-11-2013
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New York Times
For the second time in history, federal regulators have accused an American state of securities fraud, finding that Illinois misled investors about the condition of its public pension system from 2005 to 2009.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Harvard explains searching deans' email accounts to find whistleblower
03-11-2013
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Washington Post
Harvard University administrators offered an explanation for secretly searching resident dean emails last fall for the source of a leak to the media about a cheating scandal, saying the searches were done to protect confidential student information.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
2 U.S. troops, 5 Afghans killed in ‘insider attack’
03-11-2013
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Washington Post
An Afghan police officer opened fire Monday on a gathering of Americans and Afghans in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least two members of the U.S. Special Operations forces and five Afghan troops and police officers, officials said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Jury convicts ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of corruption; sent to jail until sentence
03-11-2013
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Washington Post
Jurors in a city buffeted by financial crisis convicted former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on corruption charges , capping a trial that exposed a brazen pay-to-play culture during his years in office while the distressed city lost jobs and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Helicopter crash in Afghanistan kills five foreign troops: NATO
03-11-2013
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Reuters
A helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan killed five members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, NATO said on Tuesday, although there were no immediate details about the cause of the crash.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Minimum Wage: A Case Study in Laughable Liberal Logic
03/11/2013
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Blue Collar Muse
In the wake of comments on an earlier post, The Minimum Wage and Liberal Math, I thought to look at the results of raising the Minimum Wage at a real company.
I chose Dunkin’ Donuts, a company Liberals highlighted in a recent email campaign as onl
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Daniel Lewis
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Fertility Destroying Chemical Added To Tap, Milk, Salt
03-11-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Fluoride is promoted above good nutrition as a ‘therapeutic’ chemical necessary to prevent cavities, but it lowers IQ, calcifies the pineal gland and harms fertility, among a wide range of other adverse health effects.
There is no question remaini
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Imperialism
International Law? A Corbett Report Exposé on The Rational Lie of International Criminal Law (Video)
03-11-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Truth. Justice. Accountability. The idea of an international rule of law appeals to our innate sense of justice, but the most horrific plans are often cloaked in the most beautiful lies. Just as the ideals of international law are used to cloak the i
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Administrative Bloat in US Public Schools
03-11-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.-Ludwig von Mises
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Chinese Knockoff iPhone 5S Runs on … Android
03-11-2013
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Wired.com
The ethically questionable Chinese smartphone maker GooPhone is at it again with another iPhone knockoff, an “iPhone 5S” that runs … Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
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News Link • Climate Change
Climate Change Is the Biggest Threat in the Pacific, Says Top U.S. Admiral
03-11-2013
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Wired.com
North Korea just annulled the 1953 armistice ending its war with South Korea. China and Japan are locked in a dispute over an island chain.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA: The Sun Is Not Behaving As Expected
03-11-2013
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Business Insider
The sun is currently nearing the peak of its 11-year solar cycle, which means we should be seeing a lot more action coming from the center of our solar system " in the form of coronal mass ejections, geomagnetic storms and auroras.
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News Link • Energy
Here's How NASA Is Testing A New Biofuel Made From Flowers
03-11-2013
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Business Insider
One way to deal with the high cost of jet fuel and its impact on the atmosphere is to use biofuels.
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News Link • Transportation
Brad Pitt Looks Really Thoughtful In This Chinese Cadillac Commercial
03-11-2013
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Business Insider
Cadillac wants to triple its sales in China by 2015, and to help it get to the 100,000 units per year mark, it has enlisted the help of Brad Pitt.
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News Link • Healthcare
Superbug scenario: Antibiotic resistance will be ‘catastrophe’ on par with terrorism
03-11-2013
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http://rt.com
Antibiotic-resistant superbugs will push medical science back to the 19th century, with people dying of minor infections says Britain’s top health official.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
50 Truths about Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution
03-11-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Salim Lamrani
President Hugo Chavez, who died on March 5, 2013 of cancer at age 58, marked forever the history of Venezuela and Latin America.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Staring Financial Armageddon In The Face But Hiding It With Official Lies
03-11-2013
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http://www.activistpost.com, Dr. Paul Craig Robert
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy created 236,000 new jobs in February.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gulf Oil Spill
The Ongoing Great Gulf Coast Holocaust
03-11-2013
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http://www.activistpost.com, Dave Hodges
It’s been labeled the worst environmental disaster in world history, and rightfully so, because the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is like the nightmarish gift that keeps on giving.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Elon Musk discusses hovering rocket, Mars and that NYT review
03-09-2013
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http://www.latimes.com
AUSTIN -- Elon Musk says if mankind doesn't make it to Mars by the time he dies, it'll be the biggest disappointment of his life.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gotcha! Feinstein: All Vets are Mentally-ill & Gvt should prevent 'em from owning Guns!
03-09-2013
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Daily Paul.com
if you’re going to do this, find a way that veterans who are incapacitated [as in any level of PTSD] for one reason or another mentally don’t have access to this kind of weapon.
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News Link • Government
Rand Paul’s Filibuster Divides the Left and Right
03-09-2013
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http://blog.independent.org, By Anthony Gregory
Senator Rand Paul’s thirteen-hour filibuster of Obama’s appointee for CIA chief, John Brennan, was the ninth longest filibuster in U.S. history, and unlike most such spectacles in U.S. history, it concerned fundamental, core issues of American libert
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Yes, This Exists: An Indiegogo Campaign For A Luxury Airship RV
03-09-2013
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popsci.com
I want to believe in the airship revival, but this crowdfunded luxury airship RV project just seems like, uh, dead air.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What Does the Dow Really Measure?
03-09-2013
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The Daily Bell
The Dow Isn't Really At A Record High (And It Wouldn't Matter If It Were) ... Just a quick, cranky reminder:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
31 Killed Across Iraq; Police Fire on Protesters
03-09-2013
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Margaret Griffis
Friday: 31 Killed, 22 Wounded
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Insider Attack: Afghan Soldiers Attack US Base in Kapisa, Kill Contractor
03-09-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Soldiers Were in Afghan Army Uniforms, Driving Military Vehicle
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
ACLU Has Concerns Over Military Weapons Used By Local Police
03-09-2013
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StLouis.CBSLocal.Com
The ACLU feels the surplus equipment, things like flash-bang grenades, shock cuffs, and tracking devices that are being handed down, are leading to more aggressive policing, especially in poor neighborhoods and neighborhoods of color.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
The True Purpose of Gov’t with Historian Tom Woods
03-09-2013
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www.infowars.com
The grassroots are finally turning to the local and state level for solutions to undo Washington’s tyranny, according to libertarian author Tom Woods, who joined the Alex Jones Show Friday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mail "Right to Bear Arms" Super Brochures across the country now!!!
03-09-2013
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SuperBrochure.Com
Creator of the Ron Paul Super Brochure now has a 'Right to Bear Arms' Super Brochure available to order - The media and politicians want the American public to believe their lies that we don't want our guns. Nothing could be farther from reality.
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Opinion • Philosophy: Libertarianism
PIGSTY
03-08-2013
Glenn Jacobs
I was reminded of Animal Farm recently when I flew into my home airport. As I was walking to the parking lot, I noticed a very nice, expensive car parked in the “Authorized Cars Only” area of the airport. This parking area is much closer to the termi
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News Link • Gun Rights
Stopping Illegally Funded Gun Buy-Backs
03-08-2013
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The International Libertarian
Mayor Joseph DiGirolamo and Director of Public Safety Fred Harran of Bensalem, PA state that their two day gun buy-back of February 6 and 16 was the first in the nation financed with federal funds seized from drug dealers.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Michigan School Confiscates 3rd-Grader’s Cupcakes Decorated With Toy Soldiers
03-09-2013
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http://govtslaves.info, Steve Watson
The nationwide panic over anything remotely related to guns continues apace as a third grader in Michigan was reprimanded by school officials when he brought a cupcake to school with a plastic toy soldier on top of it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
EPA Accused Of Blocking Scientific Advancement of Corexit In BP Cleanup
03-09-2013
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http://www.freedomsphoenix.com, by Farron Cousins
Oil Spill Eater International (OSEI), through the Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference group, issued a press release this week saying that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effectively blocked or otherwise delayed scientific advancement
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
US Unemployment Figures are a Camouflage. Boom in Corporate Profits, Collapsing Wages
03-09-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Andre Damon
The number of jobs in the US grew by 236,000 in February, and the official unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since 2008, according to the Labor Department’s latest jobs report released Friday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Court curbs laptop searches at U.S. border
03-09-2013
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Washington Times
A federal appeals court said the Border Patrol cannot confiscate or download every laptop or electronic device brought into the U.S., ruling people have an expectation their data are private and the government must have “reasonable suspicion”
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News Link • Military
Army’s First Interactive iPad Book Lets You Finger-Swipe Through Afghanistan
03-09-2013
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Wired.com
The Army has no shortage of battlefield maps. But until Friday, it didn’t have many that animate troop movements or enemy positions at the touch of a fingertip.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Phone Service Kills Roaming Charges With Virtual Local Numbers
03-09-2013
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Wired.com
You really ought to save your international friends money with a local number, or at least impress people with a number in Sweden. You can do that with VIR2SIM.
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News Link • Activism
Whole Foods announces mandatory GMO labeling by 2018; here's how it happened
03-09-2013
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naturalnews.com
In a huge victory for the alternative media and grassroots activism, Whole Foods announced on Friday that it would require GMO labels on all products by 2018.This announcement deals a significant blow to Monsanto, DuPont and all the GMO pushers ....
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