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Date Sent: 2012-04-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, April 25, 2012 AM edition |
Weeping four-year-old girl accused of carrying a GUN by TSA officers
"If I wanted America to fail" -- Should we return to the gold standard? -- Abusive Prosecutor Wilenchik Appointed to Real Estate Board by AZ Governor Brewer -- Blogging About the Paleo Diet Can Get You Shut Down in North Carolina -- Why Are Prisoners Committing Suicide in Pennsylvania? -- Former CIA spy boss made an unhesitating call to destroy interrogation tapes -- Bradley Manning Wikileaks: Court to Weigh Dismissal -- Ecuador's 2011 FDI Rises To $568 Million - Central Bank -- Ron Paul to hold town halls at Texas colleges -- Mad cow reemergence may hamper California's beef, dairy industries -- TSA Leaves Note Telling Passenger To “Go To Hell” -- Ron Paul gets the last laugh in Iowa, Minnesota -- Spain Temporarily Seals Border To Keep Out Anti-EU Protesters -- Secretive Bilderberg Group Set To Meet In Virginia May 31st-June 3rd -- See ya later, Santorum! Mitt Romney has his own war on porn -- Hypocrisy, USA: Obama will sanction countries that block Internet for protesters -- Anonymous unveils data-sharing websites amid privacy concerns -- Half of recent grads can’t get full-time work, study shows -- The journalist: Homeland Security's top terrorist? -- Welcome to the Jungle: States demand secrecy over meat filth and cruelty practices -- Does Asteroid Mining Violate Space Law? -- Doug Casey on Taxes and Freedom -- Romney Nomination in Doubt – Brokered Convention Likely
AZ: Free CCW Legal Seminar - Marc J. Victor - today,
4-25, 6-8 pm, Chester's Harley-Davidson (Mesa)
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News Link • Homeland Security
Weeping four-year-old girl accused of carrying a GUN by TSA officers
04-24-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, HUGO GYE
Of all the many complaints about airport security and the TSA, one of the most common is that they make little distinction between plausible security threats and passengers unlikely to be doing anything wrong.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
"If I wanted America to fail"
04-24-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
The environmental agenda has been infected by extremism"it's become an economic suicide pact. And we're here to challenge it. On Earth Day, visit www.freemarketamerica.org.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Should we return to the gold standard?
04-24-2012
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USA Today
The growing U.S. debt " $15.6 trillion, if you throw in Social Security and Medicare " is one reason people fear inflation and think that the monetary system is out of control. "Never in history have we run debts and deficits to this magnitude," says
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Abusive Prosecutor Wilenchik Appointed to Real Estate Board by AZ Governor Brewer
04-24-2012
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Phoenix New Times
Dennis Wilenchik, the prosecutor whose investigation of New Times resulted in the wrongful arrests of Village Voice Media Editor and its CEO, has been appointed by Governor Brewer to sit on Arizona's Real Estate Advisory Board.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Blogging About the Paleo Diet Can Get You Shut Down in North Carolina
04-24-2012
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Reason magazine
The state of North Carolina has its own "Board of Dietetics and Nutrition"--of course it does--and decided that one bloggers right to free speech ends where its Board of Dietetics and Nutrition's officious overbearingness begins
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Why Are Prisoners Committing Suicide in Pennsylvania?
04-24-2012
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The Nation
By the time John McClellan Jr. was found dead inside Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Cresson last May, he had long been categorized as “special needs” for his history of addiction and mental instability. Yet prisoners and staff
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Former CIA spy boss made an unhesitating call to destroy interrogation tapes
04-24-2012
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Washington Post
The first and only time I met Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., he was still undercover and in charge of the Central Intelligence Agency’s all-powerful operations directorate. The agency had summoned me to its Langley headquarters and his mission was to talk me
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Bradley Manning Wikileaks: Court to Weigh Dismissal
04-24-2012
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ABC News
Alleged Wikileaker Army PFC Bradley Manning is back in a Ft. Meade, Md., courtroom today for the third time this year, where a judge is expected to decide whether to dismiss charges against him.
Manning is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
New case of mad cow disease discovered in Calif., officials say food, dairy supplies safe
04-24-2012
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AP
The first new case of mad cow disease in the U.S. since 2006 has been discovered in a dairy cow in California, but health authorities said Tuesday the animal never was a threat to the nation’s food supply.
The infected cow, the fourth ever discove
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Rockefeller Foundation says 13000 die at 2012 Olympics
04/24/2012
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godlikeproductions.com
Page 34 of 54:
Devastating shocks like September 11, the Southeast Asian tsunami of 2004, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake had certainly primed the world for sudden disasters. But no one was prepared for a world in which large-scale
catastrophes wou
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • History
Four Millenia of Surnames
04-24-2012
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arclein
"When it comes to surnames the Chinese people are unique. 1.28 billion people share 7,327surnames. In fact the 100 most common names account for 85% of the population," said Dr Chen. "This means Chinese surnames include more cultural and genetic
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Japan Nuclear Future Uncertain
04-24-2012
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arclein
But the momentum to restart Japan's reactors is losing ground as time passes, particularly if Japan and its economy emerge relatively unscathed from a nuclear power-free summer.
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robert klein
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News Link • World News
Ecuador's 2011 FDI Rises To $568 Million - Central Bank
04-24-2012
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http://www.foxbusiness.com, Dow Jones Newswires
Foreign direct investment in Ecuador totaled $568 million in 2011, a sharp increase from the $158 million in 2010, the Central Bank said Tuesday.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
Ron Paul to hold town halls at Texas colleges
04-24-2012
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http://content.usatoday.com, By Catalina Camia
Ron Paul begins a three-day campaign swing in his home state of Texas tomorrow, as he continues to make his case for the presidency on large college campuses.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Mad cow reemergence may hamper California's beef, dairy industries
04-24-2012
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http://www.latimes.com, By Tiffany Hsu
The reemergence of mad cow disease, discovered in a California dairy cow, could have major implications for the state’s meat industry, even though officials have said that the human food supply is unaffected.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Leaves Note Telling Passenger To “Go To Hell”
04-24-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
Scrawled comment on complaint form after agents tampered with luggage
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul gets the last laugh in Iowa, Minnesota
04-24-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, MSNBC
Rachel Maddow shows how Ron Paul’s tactic of paying close attention to the delegate math in the Republican primary is likely to earn him first place spots in Iowa and Minnesota.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Spain Temporarily Seals Border To Keep Out Anti-EU Protesters
04-24-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
EU gave green light to bar anti-ECB protesters from entering country during summit
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Secret Societies
Secretive Bilderberg Group Set To Meet In Virginia May 31st-June 3rd
04-24-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Globalist clique set to play role in U.S. presidential election
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
See ya later, Santorum! Mitt Romney has his own war on porn
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
Rick Santorum's withdrawal from the race for the Republican Party's nomination for president spawned a sigh of relief that echoed from the Hollywood Hills and into every wood-paneled parents' basement in America.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hypocrisy, USA: Obama will sanction countries that block Internet for protesters
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
United States President Barack Obama announced plans on Monday to impose sanctions on foreign governments that use modern technology to tackle anti-government protesters.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
Anonymous unveils data-sharing websites amid privacy concerns
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
Just days before the US Congress starts discussing new cybersecurity legislation, those fighting for online freedoms unleashed their own ammunition by way of some new websites that strike to keep the Internet open.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Half of recent grads can’t get full-time work, study shows
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
Congratulations to the graduating class of 2012. We’ll be expecting you at the welfare office!
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
The journalist: Homeland Security's top terrorist?
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
If you want to know what the US Department of Homeland Security has been working hard at lately, leave it to a multimedia journalist from Miami, Florida to lay it out for you: they’ve been busy on Facebook.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Welcome to the Jungle: States demand secrecy over meat filth and cruelty practices
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
If you're concerned with how some factory farms might be handling their livestock, two US states have made it illegal to conduct undercover investigations " and now animal rights activists and whistleblowers alike have a bone to pick with lawmakers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Does Asteroid Mining Violate Space Law?
04-24-2012
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Life's Little Mysteries
But to whom do those trillions belong " the company, or everyone? Does a private company have a right to stake claim to an asteroid, or are celestial bodies the communal property of all Earthlings? [meaning none]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney Nomination in Doubt " Brokered Convention Likely
04-24-2012
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whiteoutpress.com via Daily Paul
Two networks yesterday, CNBC and MSNBC, broadcast a little known fact " Ron Paul appears to be winning the Republican nomination for President.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Entire 3rd Floor of the 4th Avenue Jail on Lockdown Due To 'Mexican Mafia' Edicts
04-24-2012
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Tweet from Sheriff Joe
"Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio ordered parts of the maximum
security 4th Avenue Jail be placed on indefinite lockdown as racial tensions rise..."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Energy
Report Finds that Fracking Causes Earthquakes, but doesn’t Recommend a Ban
04-24-2012
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Oilprice.com
Westminster has repeatedly proven that its interests more closely align with those investment bankers in the City of London than those forced to live with the consequences
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Staffoilpricedotcom Erik
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gingrich Hints He May Drop From Race This Week : )
04-24-2012
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MSNBC via Daily Paul
“It is very dangerous for frontrunners to start behaving like they are inevitable because the voters might decide that’s not so true."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"What's 'Really' Wrong with Entitlements"
04-24-2012
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Phoenix Objectivists
Phoenix Objectivists will be joined this Friday, April 27th at 7 p.m. by Ayn Rand Institute fellow Don Watkins who will give a talk entitled: "What's 'Really' Wrong with Entitlements."
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Mike Renzulli
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