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Date Sent: 2012-03-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, March 20, 2012 AM edition |
Russian Anti-Terror Troops Arrive in Syria -- "Iraqi civilians were being killed all the time"
Did One Man Massacre and Burn 16 Afghan Civilians at Panjwai?? -- Sorry We Mistakenly Beat the Hell Out of You and/or Wrongly Convicted and Imprisoned You -- Law firm fires 14 employees for wearing orange shirts -- Outrage Prompts U.S. Probe Into Killing of Florida Teenager -- Report on Ousted China Official Shows Effort at Damage Control --
Complications beset ‘posthumous conception’ case -- Economists offer
more pessimistic view on manufacturing in upcoming report -- ‘Standing Silent’ follows uncovering of sexual abuse in Baltimore’s Orthodox Jewish community -- Jews For Genocide -- Dutch Report: Boy Castrated in 1950s After Accusing Priests of Abuse -- ATK Awarded Contract to Supply 450 Million Rounds of .40 Caliber Ammunition to DHL -- 3-Year-Old Boy In Wheelchair Harassed By TSA -- The Rising Tsunami of the Police State -- Chicago cop tells reporters: ‘Your First Amendment right can be terminated’ -- Murder Is Not an Anomaly in War -- The United States Has Been Enabling Torture for Decades -- America's war in Afghanistan: murdered civilians, mistreated veterans -- NAPOLITANO: Can the Secret Service tell you to shut up? -- Sweden moving towards cashless economy -- Pawn shops going
virtual;...Will brick & mortar pawn places dwindle? --
Schwarzenegger's Horrible UN-Backed Sustainia Project -- Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 3/19/12: The Demolition of Due Process and the Rule of Law -- Ron Paul Returns to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 3/20/2012 -- Will Grigg - Anthony Gregory - Butler Shaffer - (mp3 & Video LOADED) -- Shock: Soviet Superweapon Attack On Shuttle Almost Started WWIII -- Falling In and Out of War
AZ: Donna Hancock - 50th Birthday
Party - Saturday, March 24th, 2012 - 2 p.m. til ???
CA: Ron Paul luncheon in Los
Angeles, today
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russian Anti-Terror Troops Arrive in Syria
03-19-2012
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ABC News (video)
A Russian military unit has arrived in Syria, according to Russian news reports, a development that a United Nations Security Council source told ABC News was "a bomb" certain to have serious repercussions.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
"Iraqi civilians were being killed all the time"
03-19-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
"Troops, traumatized by the rising violence and feeling constantly under siege, grew increasingly twitchy, killing more and more civilians in accidental encounters. Others became so desensitized and inured to the killing that they fired on Iraqi civi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Did One Man Massacre and Burn 16 Afghan Civilians at Panjwai??
03-19-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
witnesses report seeing helicopters dropping chaff during the attack, a measure used to hide targets from ground attack.
"Gillani added that locals suspect the massacre was revenge for attacks carried out last week on US forces that left several i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Sorry We Mistakenly Beat the Hell Out of You and/or Wrongly Convicted and Imprisoned You
03-19-2012
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The Agitator
The city of Pittsburgh has settled with Jordan Miles for a whopping . . . $75,000. The photo at right is what Miles looked like after three Pittsburgh cops beat the hell out of him. They mistook for a weapon the Mountain Dew bottle the 18-year-old mu
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Law firm fires 14 employees for wearing orange shirts
03-19-2012
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The Sideshow
The law offices of Elizabeth R. Wellborn, P.A. offered "no comment" to Sun-Sentinel reporter Doreen Hemlock, but four ex-employees tell the paper they were simply wearing their orange shirts to celebrate "pay day" and the upcoming Friday group happy
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Outrage Prompts U.S. Probe Into Killing of Florida Teenager
03-19-2012
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Reuters
Responding to spreading public outrage, the U.S. Justice Department opened an investigation into the shooting of a black teenager by a neighborhood watch captain who escaped arrest.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the FBI announ
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Report on Ousted China Official Shows Effort at Damage Control
03-19-2012
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New York Times
Communist Party leaders sacked Bo Xilai, the powerful party chief of metropolitan Chongqing, after being told that he had schemed to remove his police chief and impede a corruption investigation involving his family, according to a preliminary report
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Complications beset ‘posthumous conception’ case
03-19-2012
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Washington Post
Robert and Karen Capato’s twins were born in 2003 " 18 months after Robert Capato’s death. And in its first review of “posthumous conception,” the Supreme Court struggled to align modern reproductive techniques to a federal law written in 1939.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economists offer more pessimistic view on manufacturing in upcoming report
03-19-2012
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Washington Post
But a handful of economists are challenging that explanation, chipping away at the long-offered assurances that the state of U.S. manufacturing is not as bad as employment numbers make it look.
Instead, they say, it’s significantly worse.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
‘Standing Silent’ follows uncovering of sexual abuse in Baltimore’s Orthodox Jewish community
03-19-2012
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Washington Post
One by one the victims stood and described their alleged molesters: the Torah teacher, the rabbi, the ice cream truck driver, the man at the mikvah.
That meeting, held nearly six years ago in a small room in a synagogue in Pikesville, just outsid
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • General Opinion
Jews For Genocide
03-19-2012
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Mike Adams townhall.com
Dear Mr. Friedman:
I am deeply disappointed by your refusal to speak with me personally about some remarks you make to my editors at TownHall.com. I have given you ample time to respond to my phone calls.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • World News
Dutch Report: Boy Castrated in 1950s After Accusing Priests of Abuse
03-19-2012
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jonathanturley.org
There is a horrific Dutch story out this week. In the 1950s, a boy named Henk Heithuis came forward to allege abuse by priests.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Winning
03-19-2012
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by Anthony Wile, lewrockwell.com
We track dominant social themes here at the Daily Bell, and the spectacular implosion of the "Stop Kony 2012" campaign is a further example of how these memes are disintegrating under the pressure of what we call the Internet Reformation.
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News Link • Homeland Security
ATK Awarded Contract to Supply 450 Million Rounds of .40 Caliber Ammunition to DHL
03-19-2012
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The Intel Hub
ATK has secured a major Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity deal to supply up to 450 million rounds of .40 caliber ammunition to the Department of Homeland Security.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
3-Year-Old Boy In Wheelchair Harassed By TSA
03-19-2012
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Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com
The following video provides airports with yet another fantastic reason to evict TSA screeners and replace them with private security " the clip shows a 3-year-old boy with a broken leg in a wheelchair being harassed by a TSA worker.
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News Link • Police State
The Rising Tsunami of the Police State
03-19-2012
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backdoorsurvival.com
I received an email from a reader alerting me to the Executive Order " National Defense Resources Preparedness signed by President Obama on March 16.
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News Link • Constitution
Chicago cop tells reporters: ‘Your First Amendment right can be terminated’
03-19-2012
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By Stephen C. Webster, rawstory.com
If one Chicago police officer is to be believed, American citizens can lose their most fundamental rights simply by standing near an irritable cop.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Murder Is Not an Anomaly in War
03-19-2012
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By Chris Hedges truthdig.com
The war in Afghanistan"where the enemy is elusive and rarely seen, where the cultural and linguistic disconnect makes every trip outside the wire a visit to hostile territory,
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News Link • Torture
The United States Has Been Enabling Torture for Decades
03-19-2012
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truth-out.org by: Mark Karlin
You can get your copy of "The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse" with a minimum contribution to Truthout by clicking here.
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News Link • Afghanistan
America's war in Afghanistan: murdered civilians, mistreated veterans
03-19-2012
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guardian.co.uk/ by Amy Goodman
The longer this misguided occupation continues, the greater the human toll " on all sides " accrues.
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News Link • Military
Is Lewis-McChord really 'most troubled base in the military'?
03-19-2012
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Christian Hill and Adam Ashtonh mcclatchy.com
Is there something wrong with Joint Base Lewis-McChord?
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
Pawn shops going virtual;...Will brick & mortar pawn places dwindle?
03-19-2012
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BellinhamHerald.com
"It's concerning. Because the online pawn industry is so new, it's circumventing protections put in place for consumers," said a spokesman for the California Pawnbrokers Association. "The legalities haven't been fully explored."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Environment
Schwarzenegger's Horrible UN-Backed Sustainia Project
03-19-2012
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www.thedailybell.com
The Award is part of a new initiative to develop the world's first realistic model of a sustainable world in 2020 " and identify the companies and persons who can make it real.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hush-Hush Congressional Research Report: The Myth of Social Mobility ... Not
03-19-2012
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www.thedailybell.com
Income inequality in the United States is more pronounced than in other developed countries, a new report from the Congressional Research Service finds, while the possibility of economic mobility is more constrained than commonly believe
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
I've Got A Golden Ticket Contest!
03-19-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
The Ron Paul Chocolate Bar has gone Wonka to promote Sound Money by offering five chances to win a Golden Ticket! When you purchase any amount of Ron Paul Bars and are one of five lucky winners, you will be placed in a drawing to win a Golden Ticket
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Tebow To Dolphins Next?
03-19-2012
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cbslocal.com.
Now that the Miami Dolphins have moved on from Peyton Manning and lost out on free agent quarterback Matt Flynn, there’s another name that continues to percolate just below the surface who could be a major draw for Miami.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Returns to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 3/20/2012
03-19-2012
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RonPaul2012.com
Tuesday night Jay welcomes back Ron Paul, along with Frank Caliendo, and musical guests The WANTED.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Constitution
One snip here, one there, and there goes the Constitution
03/17/2012
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The Examiner
Major challenges to the Constitution are pretty easy to spot. It's the small snips here and here that present the greatest danger, in this case a free speech, right to assembly and redress of grievances got a hair cut.
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James Hyde
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Shock: Soviet Superweapon Attack On Shuttle Almost Started WWIII
03-19-2012
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Terrence Aym
New historical evidence has emerged of a shocking incident between the superpowers that almost turned the Cold War into a hot one. Fingers crept toward the nuclear trigger and launch codes prepared when American military and intelligence agencies dis
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Syria
Falling In and Out of War
03-18-2012
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BILL KELLER, New York Times
So here we are, finally, messily winding down the long war in Afghanistan and simultaneously being goaded toward new military ventures against the regimes in Syria and Iran.
What are the right questions the president should ask?
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Iran
Iran presses ahead with dollar attack
03-19-2012
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk, By Garry White
Last week, the Tehran Times noted that the Iranian oil bourse will start trading oil in currencies other than the dollar from March 20. This long-planned move is part of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s vision of economic war with the west.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist
03-19-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, Anthony Wile
Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian scholar and attorney in Houston. The Executive Editor of Libertarian Papers and Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF)
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
The Vetting - Holder 1995: We Must 'Brainwash' People on Guns
03-19-2012
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http://www.breitbart.com,
Breitbart.com has uncovered video from 1995 of then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announcing a public campaign to "really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way."
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News Link • Economics: Austrian
Greece develops cashless, Euro-free currency in tight economy
03-18-2012
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The Guardian
In return for his expert labour, Mavridis received a number of Local Alternative Units (known as tems in Greek) in his online network account. In return for the eggs, olive oil, tax advice and the rest, he transferred tems into other people’s account
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Democratic Senators Issue Strong Warning About Use of the Patriot Act
03-18-2012
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New York Times
For 2 years, a handful of Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee have warned that the government is secretly interpreting its surveillance powers under the Patriot Act in a way that would be alarming if the public " or even others in Congress
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News Link • Police State
President Obama signs Executive Order allowing for control over all US resources
03-18-2012
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The Examiner
On March 16th, President Obama signed a new Executive Order which expands upon a prior order issued in 1950 for Disaster Preparedness, and gives the office of the President complete control over all the resources in the United States in times of war
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan Panjwai Killing of 16: Two Stories Wildly at Variance
03-18-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
A new report could not be more different: "A parliamentary probe team on Thursday said up to 20 American troops were involved in Sunday’s killing of 16 civilians in southern Kandahar province." Another report says that the soldiers sexually assaulted
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News Link • Surveillance
The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
03-18-2012
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Wired
Code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle"financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications"will be heavily e
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News Link • Military
Arrested Protesting Sudanese War Crimes: Silent on American War Crimes
3-18-2012
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Free Patriot Press
By now, most people have probably heard about George Clooney's arrest on Friday, March 16, outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC. In addition to Clooney, several others were arrested, including his father Nick Clooney, Martin Luther King II
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