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Date Sent: 2013-05-25
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, May 25, 2013 |
Questionable Autopsy Determines David Silva Died of Heart Disease, not Deputy Beating
Adam Kokesh Released - No Conditions -- Saudi man investigated after
Boston Marathon speaks out -- Beijing Plans to Reduce the
State’s Role in the Economy -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent
News, May 26, 2013 Edition -- Illinois judge charged with heroin,
gun possession -- House Homeland Security Chair's: Obama Admin’s
One Of Biggest Security Threats -- Arizona investigating angry
email sent lawmakers -- Police in Australia issue warning on 3-D
printed gun -- Colorado votes to Nullify Unconstitutional
Hemp Farming Ban -- Statement about Independence Day on behalf
of Adam Kokesh - video and transcript -- Seeds Of Death – Full
Movie -- A Timely Talk By Murray Rothbard (1982) -- Last century:
Western nations lost an average 14 IQ points -- Food Myth
Busters: Do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world?
-- Arizona Freedom Fest –Major Freedom Activists Highlighted as
Speakers
AZ: Worldwide ‘March Against Monsanto’ Protests Planned for today, Saturday, May 25th, 8 a.m. - Noon PDT; Fundraiser
raffle for Steve Porak's Cancer Treatment - 36" Ferret .50
BMG on an Olympic AR-15 Lower Receiver
Free Adam Kokesh Legal Fund - Shield Mutual - George Donnelly
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Questionable Autopsy Determines David Silva Died of Heart Disease, not Deputy Beating
05-24-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The Kern County Coroner " who reports to the Sheriff - determined deputies did not cause the death of a 33-year-old man whom numerous witnesses said was beaten viciously with batons and kicked to the head before he was hogtied and slammed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Saudi man investigated after Boston Marathon speaks out
05-24-2013
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Washington Post
Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi’s interview, which is worth hearing in full, sheds more light on the messy investigative aftermath of the attacks, which saw several men " many of African and Middle Eastern descent " wrongly accused
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Beijing Plans to Reduce the State’s Role in the Economy
05-24-2013
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New York Times
The Chinese government is planning for private businesses and market forces to play a larger role in its economy, in a major policy shift intended to improve the middle class and make China an even stronger competitor on the global stage.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 26, 2013 Edition
05-24-2013
John Semmens
Pelosi Absolves President in Spate of Scandals
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) sought to absolve President Obama from any blame in the burgeoning plume of scandals surrounding his Administration by forcefully asserting that “he doesn'
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News Link • Drug War
Illinois judge charged with heroin, gun possession
05-24-2013
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AP
A southwestern Illinois judge whose colleague died of a cocaine overdose while the two were on a hunting trip together has been charged with possession of heroin and guns.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
House Homeland Security Chair's: Obama Admin’s One Of Biggest Security Threats
05-24-2013
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The Blaze
"Many (threats) are coming out of the Middle East but one of the bigger threats I talk about is the narrative being spun out of this administration that the war against Al Qaeda and radical Islam is over," McCaul said. "After bin Laden was killed,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona investigating angry email sent lawmakers
05-24-2013
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AP
Arizona's bitter debate over a signature part of President Obama's health care overhaul has sparked an investigation into lawmakers' safety after at least 9 legislators received a threatening email over Gov. Brewer's push to expand Medicaid access.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Police in Australia issue warning on 3-D printed gun
05-24-2013
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The Lookout
Despite the technical glitches, the NSW police force sees the printable gun as a potentially big problem, with Police Commissioner Scipione calling the Liberator "truly undetectable, untraceable, cheap and easy to make."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Colorado votes to Nullify Unconstitutional Hemp Farming Ban
05-24-2013
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Tenth Amendment Center
DENVER, Col. (May 6, 2013) " The Colorado state house today voted to approve SB13-241, a bill that would legalize the farming and production of “industrial hemp” within the state. If signed into law, the bill would effectively nullify the unconstitu
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Activism
Statement about Independence Day on behalf of Adam Kokesh - video and transcript
05-24-2013
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MikeSalvisWorld.Com
N.A. Poe, a fellow prisoner along with Kokesh in the Philadelphia federal detention center until yesterday, will make the statement on Kokesh’s behalf.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Seeds Of Death " Full Movie
05-24-2013
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Farm Wars
March Against Monsanto Special! Gary Null releases his movie “Seeds Of Death” for free viewing for a limited time in honor of the march on May 25.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Last century: Western nations lost an average 14 IQ points
05-23-2013
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UPI.com
BRUSSELS, May 23 (UPI) -- Since 1889 to 2004, IQ declined 14.1 points among those from Western nations, researchers in Europe say.
Michael A. Woodleya of Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, Jan te Nijenhuisc of the University of Amsterdam and Raegan M
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Agriculture
Food Myth Busters: Do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world?
05-24-2013
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Farm Wars
Learn why the "industrial agriculture is needed to feed the world" hype marketed by Monsanto is full of manure.
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Barbara Peterson
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Opinion • Food
The Case for Monsanto and GMO's
05-24-2013
Mike Renzulli
Genetically modified foods are a result of technological accomplishments. Since environmentalists oppose technology like this to the point of religious fervor grounded their hatred of human beings, they resort to smear and intimidation campaigns.
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News Link • Drones
Obama outlines rules for armed drone strikes
05-23-2013
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Reuters
In a wide-ranging speech on foreign policy on Thursday, President Barack Obama defended his administration's use of drones to kill terrorists abroad, and in a nod to concerns, outlined plans to limit the use of such strikes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Solar plane sets distance record on U.S. tour
05-23-2013
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AFP
Solar Impulse landed in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas at 1:08 am (0608 GMT) after an 18 hour and 21 minute flight from Phoenix, Arizona, a distance of 1,541 kilometers (950 miles), organizers said. “This leg was particularly challenging because
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Mexico
Small town vigilantes refuse to disarm in tense Mexican state of Michoacan
05-23-2013
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AFP
Interior Minister Miguel Angelo Osorio Chong said earlier that the soldiers were merely having a “dialogue” with the residents to resolve the dispute, but he insisted that the authorities would disarm and detain anyone with a weapon.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Electric carmaker Tesla Motors pays off government loan 9 years early
05-23-2013
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Rawstory
“I would like to thank the Department of Energy and the members of Congress that worked hard to create the ATVM program, and particularly the American taxpayer from whom these funds originate,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
The Value of Hemp
05-23-2013
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arclein
Hemp is a variety of cannabis sativa that has a long history of use in the United States. However, since the 1950s it has been lumped into the same category of marijuana, and thus the extremely versatile crop was doomed in the United States. Hemp is
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robert klein
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News Link • Water Issues-Water Fluoridation
Water fluoridation DEFEATED in Portland
05-23-2013
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naturalnews.com
Voters in Portland, Oregon solidly defeated a city-wide water fluoridation measure yesterday, with 60% of the voters saying "NO!" to the practice of adding toxic fluoride chemicals to the water.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Corruption
Reality Check Exclusive: Cincinnati agent giving orders in IRS scandal?
05-23-2013
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fox19.com
The claim that the ongoing IRS scandal is limited to low level employees is falling apart.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
New York Governor Reportedly Threatened The Jobs Of Sheriffs
05-23-2013
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Business Insider
Some critics have pointed to New York State’s new gun control law as chilling in its scope and intent.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
New College Grads Are Waking Up To A Huge Debt Hangover
05-23-2013
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Business Insider
If MTV really wants to show young people coming to grips with the "Real World" after college, how about slapping them with $35,000 worth of debt and shoving them out into the job market?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
DHS Bullet Shortage? No Problem. Print Your Own Ammo
05-22-2013
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Daily Mail
A video showing what is thought to be first ever 3D-printed bullet being fired has appeared on YouTube.
In the video, from user Taofledermaus, three bullets of different weights and shapes are fired at various targets using a Mossberg 590 shotgun.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Senate Votes Unanimously Toward War Against Iran
05-22-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Most alarming, however, is that this resolution contains among the clearest legislative language to date promising that should Israel decide to attack Iran, the US would back Israel militarily. It is breathtakingly foolhardy for the US Senate
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Forget Paris: Stymied by Socialist Policies, the French Start to Quit France
05-22-2013
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Time magazine
For months now, there has been a steady rumbling of people packing up and moving out. There are few reliable figures of the numbers of people leaving, in part because many are moving within the E.U., where there are no immigration requirements
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Argentina's Modest Proposal: Buy Bonds Or Go To Jail
05-22-2013
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Zero Hedge
Argentina's president Kirchner, a keen observer of recent events in Cyprus, has figured out a way to kill two birds with one stone, namely attempt to put an end to tax evasion, and fund the capex of the recently nationalized state oil company YPF
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Justice Department tells lawmakers no bank is too big to jail
05-22-2013
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Reuters
A Justice official insisted no financial company is too big to jail, in the latest effort to backpedal from statements made by Attorney General Holder that it can "become difficult" to prosecute major financial institutions accused of wrongdoing
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News Link • Drones
Holder: U.S. killed four Americans overseas in drone strikes since 2009
05-22-2013
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The Ticket
Attorney General Eric Holder informed Congress on Wednesday that the U.S. has killed four Americans in drone strikes since 2009: radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and three others who were “not specifically targeted.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security: Selling Counterfeit Goods is Now “Terrorism”
05-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
If the IRS scandal wasn’t enough to convince you that bloated, corrupt, bureaucratic government institutions pose a greater threat to our freedoms than any terrorist attack ever could, this story should settle it once and for all. In light of the fa
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - International
MasterCard Leading the Path Toward “A World Beyond Cash”
05-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
MasterCard is dedicating itself to a strategy that will set a standard and become influential to the future of payments. By coercing urbanized centers to the trendiness of going cashless, their influence on the behavior of consumers and their percept
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Chris Menke
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