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Date Sent: 2012-04-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, April 2, 2012 AM edition |
Police Using Phone Tracking as Routine Tool -- Arab states to provide millions to pay Syrian mercs
Senior citizens continue to bear burden of student loans -- Screams on 911 call not Zimmerman’s, forensic expert says -- Self-immolations reflect rising Tibetan anger -- Massive Bond Purchases By The ECB Are The Worst Kind Of Bailout -- FDA admits in court case that vaccines still contain mercury -- Horrors of State-Run Schools and Schooling -- Defense Department seeks new authorities for counterterrorism fight -- Militants Attack Checkpoint in Yemen, Up to 41 Dead -- Clinton: Time Running Out for Diplomacy With Iran -- War porn: The new safe sex -- A New Patent-Infringement Lawsuit Could Totally Demolish Google's Stock -- This Reporter Waded Into The Wreckage Of The Foreclosure Crisis And Found Out It Was Far From Over -- Dr. Ron Paul on Face the Nation 04/01/12 -- The Biggest Thing That Matters Right Now Is Spain -- Cash for Freedom - by Charles Goyette -- Britain to monitor citizens’ text messages and emails -- Ireland Faces Popular Revolt Over New Property Tax -- NBC to do ‘internal investigation’ on Zimmerman segment -- Everyone Is Wondering When Spain Will Become The New Greece -- GOLDMAN: The Next 24 Hours Will Be Critical For The Global Economy -- Houston Cop Threatens To Tase Teens For Video Recording -- POLICE find ways into homes at night to 'warn' of burglary risks -- The Fed Targets Eight More Firms in Foreclosure Probe -- Arizona netizens outraged over internet censorship bill -- Rumors of Ron Paul campaign demise greatly exaggerated -- Ecuador economy grew 7.8 pct in 2011 -- Warren Buffett Scorns Gold. Bad Move! -- Support for Afghan War Hits New
Low, Majority Say Pull Out Before 2014 -- Man whose WMD
lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all -- JAPANESE FISH CONTAMINATED -- UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE US AND CANADA: New
Round of Mass Layoffs in North America -- US-NATO Sea-based Missile System Threatens Russia -- Court: Parts
of Scott Walker's Anti-Union Law are Unconstitutional --
Ron Paul and The 2012 TIME 100 Poll
AZ: Hancock's have their 3rd grandkid!!!!; Daily Paul Dime Card
Production Party - this Wednesday, @ the Hancock's, 2PM until ....
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool
04-01-2012
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New York Times
Law enforcement tracking of cellphones has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, documents show.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Arab states agree to provide millions to pay Syrian opposition fighters
04-01-2012
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Washington Post
Arab states in the Persian Gulf have agreed to provide a monthly stipend of several million dollars to pay a “salary” to opposition fighters in Syria and encourage more defections from President al-Assad’s army, participants at an international confe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Senior citizens continue to bear burden of student loans
04-01-2012
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Washington Post
The burden of paying for college is wreaking havoc on the finances of an unexpected demographic: senior citizens.
New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that Americans 60 and older still owe about $36 billion in student loans
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Screams on 911 call not Zimmerman’s, forensic expert says
04-01-2012
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Washington Post
As the Trayvon Martin controversy splinters into a debate about self-defense, a central question remains: Who was heard crying for help on a 911 call in the moments before the teenager was shot?
An expert in the field of forensic voice identificat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Self-immolations reflect rising Tibetan anger
04-01-2012
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Washington Post
He walked 3 times around the rural monastery he had attended as a small child, cycled into town and had a simple vegetarian meal with a friend. Then 22-year-old Lobsang Jamyang excused himself to go to the bathroom. He doused himself with gasoline. W
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Citi's Guide To The ENTIRE Global Financial Markets In One Tiny Chart
04-01-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Sam Ro
Citigroup employs around 266,000 people, many of whom are analysts. The financial behemoth also serves around 200,000,000 customer accounts worldwide.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Massive Bond Purchases By The ECB Are The Worst Kind Of Bailout
04-01-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Economy Watch
Bailouts appear to be the medicine du jour prescribed across Europe for debt-stricken nations.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
FDA admits in court case that vaccines still contain mercury
04-01-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, mercury
It is a common myth today that the vaccines administered to children no longer contain the toxic additive thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative linked to causing permanent neurological damage.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Constitution
If They Can Force Us To Buy 'Health Care' …
04-01-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Eric Peters
This is written as the Supreme Court is weighing the constitutionality of ObamaCare.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
The Big Brother Conspiracy
04-01-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com
Tracking our every move is big business too, says Jesse Ventura
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul: I’m trying to save the GOP from itself
04-01-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Eric W. Dolan
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Sunday that he was intent on bringing the Republican Party back to its founding principles of limited government.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Defense Department seeks new authorities for counterterrorism fight
04-01-2012
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http://thehill.com, By Carlo Munoz
As the Pentagon begins to wind down the war in Afghanistan, the smaller conflicts elite U.S. forces are fighting around the world are heating up.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Militants Attack Checkpoint in Yemen, Up to 41 Dead
04-01-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
The US-supported Yemeni military called in airstrikes to bomb the area
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Clinton: Time Running Out for Diplomacy With Iran
04-01-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
Rhetoric about Iranian intentions to build nuclear weapons still sputter despite intelligence consensus to the contrary
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A New Patent-Infringement Lawsuit Could Totally Demolish Google's Stock
04-01-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Henry Blodget
Investor and writer James Altucher has an interesting post up at TechCrunch about a patent-infringement lawsuit that might soon be lobbed at Google.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
This Reporter Waded Into The Wreckage Of The Foreclosure Crisis And Found Out It Was Far From Over
04-01-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, AP
When Frank Verna pulls up to a battered, four-unit apartment building at lunch hour, he's just over a mile as the seagull flies from the gated oceanfront palaces of South Florida's wealthiest.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Cash for Freedom
04-01-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Charles Goyette
The one thing about cash is that it is anonymous. And that's the one thing that intrusive governments don't like about it.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Britain to monitor citizens’ text messages and emails
04-01-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Agence France-Presse
The British government wants to expand its powers to monitor email exchanges and website visits, The Sunday Times newspaper reported.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Ireland Faces Popular Revolt Over New Property Tax
04-01-2012
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http://abcnews.go.com, By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
Debt-mired Ireland is facing a revolt over its new property tax.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Come Home America at Nullify Now! Philadelphia
03-31-2012
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Come Home America
Darren Wolfe with Come Home America speaks at Nullify Now! Philadelphia on march 31, 2012. He spoke about peace activism, the tenth Amendment Center's Defend the Guard legislation, and the upcoming End the Fed rally.
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Reported by:
Darren Wolfe
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
NBC to do ‘internal investigation’ on Zimmerman segment
04-01-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Erik Wemple
NBC told this blog today that it would investigate its handling of a piece on the “Today” show that ham-handedly abridged the conversation between George Zimmerman and a dispatcher in the moments before the death of Trayvon Martin.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Everyone Is Wondering When Spain Will Become The New Greece
04-01-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Another week, another bout of social unrest in a Euro peripheral nation, if the fourth largest economy in the area (Spain) can even be called that. Yesterday's action saw more than a million people take to the streets...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
GOLDMAN: The Next 24 Hours Will Be Critical For The Global Economy
04-01-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Given more mixed news in March, and the likelihood that weather-related boosts will fade in the month or two ahead, the stakes have been raised for the releases over the next 24 hours.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Houston Cop Threatens To Tase Teens For Video Recording
04-01-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Houston cop nearly tased and detained 2 teens for using a video camera outside a Walmart.
The cop was off-duty working as a contracted security guard and told the teens he didn't want to be recorded. The teens said they would not record him. The co
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
POLICE find ways into homes at night to 'warn' of burglary risks
04-01-2012
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Daily Mail
Police in Shoebury, Essex, have been going round testing doors and windows of houses to check if they have been left unlocked - and if they find an easy way in they will wake up the household to warn them their house is insecure. The new police campa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Targets Eight More Firms in Foreclosure Probe
04-01-2012
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New York Times
Federal regulators are poised to crack down on 8 financial firms that are not part of the recent government settlement over home foreclosure practices involving sloppy, inaccurate or forged documents. A senior Federal Reserve official recommended fi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Funeral March For Privacy In Austria
04-01-2012
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Rense.com
About three thousand Austrian protesters held a funeral March with prayers against the implementation of the “Data Retention Law” (Spying law) from the first of April 2012 in Austria.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Internet
Arizona netizens outraged over internet censorship bill
04-01-2012
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RT.com
The state's legislature has passed a bill which would update an existing telephone harassment law to apply to the Internet and other forms of electronic communication. The problem, though, is that it dramatically broadens the scope, making it poten
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Media: Internet
Ron Paul -- The 2012 TIME 100 Poll
03-29-2012
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http://www.time.com
Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes that you think are the most influential people in the world. Official voting ends on Friday, April 6, and the poll winner will be included in the TIME 100 issue. The complete TIME
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops Taking Care of Their Own
03-31-2012
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h/t Lew Rockwell blog
LEO ProCards are “Professional Courtesy Cards” intended for the sole use of the officer’s immediate family member or relative. The purpose is to provide just that, “Professional Courtesy” during a Minor Traffic Infraction. LEO ProCards can be used
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Documents show debate over handling of 9/11 remains
03-31-2012
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Reuters
Cremated remains that may have included those of victims of the September 11 attacks were incinerated and sent to a landfill despite an internal debate in which some officials at the main U.S. military mortuary recommended the ashes be dispersed at s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Lawyer says U.S. blocks investigation of Afghan massacre
03-31-2012
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Reuters
The lawyer defending the U.S. soldier accused of murdering 17 Afghan civilians claims U.S. authorities are blocking his ability to investigate the incident.
John Henry Browne, the lawyer for Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, said U.S. forces in Afghani
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
John Williams: Consumers Crushed And Economy Collapsed
03-31-2012
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King World News
“Broad U.S. business activity remains far from being recovered, despite the ongoing GDP-reporting nonsense that shows inflation-adjusted economic activity above the peak levels that preceded the 2007 recession.”
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. drones attack militants in Pakistan, Yemen
03-31-2012
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Reuters
U.S.-operated drones carried out deadly missile strikes against suspected al Qaeda targets in Pakistan and Yemen on Friday. There was no connection between the targets in the two locations, other than the fact that both sets of militants who were att
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Alabama nightclub raises eyebrows with ‘Food Stamp Friday’ party
03-31-2012
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The Daily Caller
A nightclub in Montgomery, Ala. is raising eyebrows by hosting a “Food Stamp Friday” party on April 6 that the Friday night cover charge will be just $5 if a “food stamp card” is shown upon arrival.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Sen. Levin tries to legislate a parking place
03-31-2012
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The Daily Caller
The same month that Michigan Democratic Sen. Carl Levin bought his first electric car, he sponsored legislation to establish battery recharge stations in the Capitol complex’s parking areas.
The bill would give the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) t
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