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Date Sent: 2011-10-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, October 28, 2011 |
US drone base in Ethiopia operational -- In Slap at Syria, Turkey Shelters Anti-Assad Fighters
Submachine Guns Drawn, Police Break Down Door of Medical Marijuana Patient for 2 Tiny Plants -- Spending More Than 5 Minutes Taking Photos From One Spot Can Land You In Jail In D.C. -- Stockton SWAT Raid: Where Have We Seen This Before? -- Life is good in the capital of crony capitalism -- Media Turns Away As Oakland PD Fires Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets At Protesters --
Navy Ship Commander to Face General Court-Martial -- ACLU Sues Los
Angeles Sheriff's Department On Behalf Of Photographers -- Authorities Move to Charge 16 Officers After Widespread Ticket-Fixing -- Case Dismissed Against Man Arrested After Video Recording FEMA
Warehouse -- On Those Syrian 'Protestors' and Turkey: War Is Coming Soon
-- Google: Police Agency Asked That Police Misconduct Video Be Taken Down -- Only Twice as Long as World War II -- Unlimited Government (Audio)
-- It is time to stop Atheists from infringing on our religious rights
-- Occupy Wall Street Kitchen Staff Protesting Fixing Food for
Freeloaders -- Marines furious over police attack on "brother" at Occupy Oakland -- First Amendment Last Stand Protest
AZ: Phoenix -
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5-6, 2011
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. drone base in Ethiopia is operational
10-27-2011
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www.washingtonpost.com
The Air Force has been secretly flying armed Reaper drones on counterterrorism missions from a remote civilian airport in southern Ethiopia as part of a rapidly expanding U.S.-led proxy war against an al-Qaeda affiliate in East Africa, U.S. militar
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
In Slap at Syria, Turkey Shelters Anti-Assad Fighters
10-27-2011
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NY Times
Once one of Syria’s closest allies, Turkey is hosting an armed opposition group waging an insurgency against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, providing shelter to the commander and dozens of members of the group, the Free Syrian Army, and
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Submachine Guns Drawn, Police Break Down Door of Medical Marijuana Patient for 2 Tiny Plants
10-27-2011
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The Seattle Police Department and the mayor's office have repeatedly insisted that marijuana possession, per city law, is the lowest law enforcement priority. They also adhere, they say, to a state law that makes it legal for authorized patients to u
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Spending More Than 5 Minutes Taking Photos From One Spot Can Land You In Jail In D.C.
10-27-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The city that houses the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence has a list of 159 minor offenses that can land you in jail.
The Washington Post obtained the list after the recent controversy where thousands of residen
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Stockton SWAT Raid: Where Have We Seen This Before?
10-27-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Acting on what they insisted was valid intelligence, the strike force " 30 combat-equipped operators backed up by armored vehicles " didn’t bother to get a search warrant.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Life is good in the capital of crony capitalism
10-27-2011
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Washington Examiner
In the wake of Apple CEO Steve Jobs's death -- and in the midst of the ongoing "Occupy Wall Street" protests--came an ominous report from Bloomberg News last week:
"Beltway Earnings Make U.S. Capital Richer Than Silicon Valley." According to the l
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Media Turns Away As Oakland PD Fires Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets At Protesters
10-27-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Occupy Oakland activists were very adamant last week when they forbade reporters from recording them, even to the point of assaulting and siccing a dog on them.
So they shouldn’t be surprised when the media turned its cameras off as police fired t
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Navy Ship Commander to Face General Court-Martial
10-27-2011
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NY Times
A Navy ship commander accused of sexually assaulting two women on his crew this year is slated to appear in a San Diego military court Friday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
ACLU Sues Los Angeles Sheriff's Department On Behalf Of Photographers
10-27-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
One photographer was detained for photographing a subway turnstile and accused of being in cahoots with Al-Qaeda.
Another photographer was detained for photographing a courthouse and investigated for terrorist activity.
And another photographer
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Authorities Move to Charge 16 Officers After Widespread Ticket-Fixing
10-27-2011
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NY Times
Fifteen police officers were expected to surrender to the authorities in the Bronx by Friday morning to face criminal charges after a long-running grand jury investigation into the widespread practice of fixing tickets for colleagues, family members
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Case Dismissed Against Man Arrested After Video Recording FEMA Warehouse
10-27-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The case against Chris Geo, who was arrested in August after video recording in front of a FEMA warehouse, was dismissed. Geo was charged with failure to comply with a federal officer after he refused to provide his identification.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
On Those Syrian 'Protestors' and Turkey: War Is Coming Soon
10-27-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Hundreds of Syrian army and police forces have been killed by the much-vaunted "unarmed democracy protestors," a fact almost completely ignored by the US press. Instead, US media outlets, even some alternative and antiwar sites, focus exclusively on
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Google: Police Agency Asked That Police Misconduct Video Be Taken Down
10-27-2011
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The Agitator
And good on Google for refusing to do it.
TechCrunch still finds room to criticize the company, and I agree with most of that criticism. (It would be nice if they named the police agency.) Still, Google’s transparency report is in itself a pretty
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Only Twice as Long as World War II
10-27-2011
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Lew Rockwell
That's how long the U.S. involvement in the Iraq War is. This of course is not nearly enough senseless war and killing for your average, run-of-the-mill neocon.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • B.O.R.G.
Creating Designer Life and Remaking the World from the Atom up
10-27-2011
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Farm Wars
The same species that brought to life Chernobyl, Fukushima, Agent Orange, mass genocides, and planetary death via poisons and genetic manipulation, now thinks it has the expertise to “remake the world from the atom up,” and actually get it right.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Unlimited Government (Audio)
10-27-2011
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StopTheLie.com
Lew Rockwell talks to Judge Andrew Napolitano about the dangers of government unrestrained by law.
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Reported by:
Joe Plummer
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News Link • Religion: Believers
It is time to stop Atheists from infringing on our religious rights
10-27-2011
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The Examiner
An Atheist and his group have filed a complaint with an Alabama school district because one of the school's football teams says a prayer before each game invoking Jesus' name. This article looks at the real First Amendment language and shows why "
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Reported by:
James Hyde
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News Link • Activism
Occupy Wall Street Kitchen Staff Protesting Fixing Food for Freeloaders
10-27-2011
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NYPost.com via Drudgereport.com
The '99%' is looking to drop that percentage a few points... The shoe looks to be on the OTHER FOOT!
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Marines furious over police attack on "brother" at Occupy Oakland
10-27-2011
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rt.com
A six-year veteran of the United States Marines has posted a powerful photo of himself on the Internet in which he shows his dissatisfaction with the police raid in Oakland, California that put a fellow vet in critical condition.
A late-Tuesday c
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Reported by:
Ronald Bogner
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