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Date Sent: 2012-01-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, January 18, 2012 PM edition |
NYPD, Feds Testing Gun-Scanning Technology, But Civil Liberties Groups Up In Arms
Jan 18th, 2012 - Peter Eyre - Mikey Weinstein - Mark Nestmann - Thomas Woods (VIDEO LOADED) -- Ron Paul Presidential Campaign Sues Anti-Huntsman Video’s Makers --
Ron Paul wins support urging end to the Fed, pushing the gold standard.
But is that possible? -- Emergency NY Tech MeetUp TODAY RE: SOPA/PIPA
-- BASF pulls out of Europe over GM hostility Headed to US -- Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet -- Smoke Bomb Thrown Over White House Fence During Occupy Protest -- "Resistance Manifesto' Author Mark Dice Sounds Off on NDAA and Willard 'Mitt' Romney -- Why We’ve Censored Wired.com -- DEA agent wounds self, video goes viral, agent sues DEA, world laughs -- Iran Criticizes Saudi Comments on Boosting Oil Exports -- Hypocrite
Newt Gingrich urges rivals to drop out, declares a vote for Santorum or
Perry is a vote for Romney -- Ron Paul Addresses Boos From South
Carolina GOP Debate -- TSA apologizes to elderly women for strip search at Kennedy Airport -- Protest on Web Uses Shutdown to Take On Two Piracy Bills -- Russia says strike on Iran would be 'catastrophe' -- Ron Paul 2012: Nevada is Key Focus of GOP Candidate's Presidential Campaign -- What is Ron Paul's end game? -- Iran Mocks US With Toy Drone -- Post Office Banking -- A Taste of Islam With Bill Warner -- Israel Plans Major Gaza War - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN 2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6
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News Link • Homeland Security
NYPD, Feds Testing Gun-Scanning Technology, But Civil Liberties Groups Up In Arms
01-18-2012
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www.newyork.cbslocal.com
Terahertz Imaging Detection Out To Detect Illegal Concealed Weapons
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
New gun scanner that scans you as you walk down street
01-17-2012
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CBS NYC
The NYPD is stepping up their war against illegal guns, with a new tool that could detect weapons on someone as they walk down the street. But is it violating your right to privacy?
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Baptist Pastor Explains “Why Ron Paul?”
01-18-2012
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www.ronpaul2012.com
Since posting a passing comment on my Facebook fan page about Ron Paul, I have been inundated with questions and concerns about my support of the Texas Congressman in the current Republican Primary race…
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Presidential Campaign Sues Anti-Huntsman Video’s Makers
01-18-2012
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www.businessweek.com
Presidential candidate Ron Paul’s campaign committee sued the unidentified makers of a video attacking ex-Republican rival Jon Huntsman claiming it falsely implies it was made or endorsed by the Texas congressman.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul wins support urging end to the Fed, pushing the gold standard. But is that possible?
01-18-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
Facing double-digit inflation in 1981, Congress created a commission to consider a role for gold in U.S. monetary policy. The 17-member panel rejected the idea of returning America to the gold standard " except for two dissenting members.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul yawns at South Carolina, looks beyond
01-18-2012
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www.politico.com
In the run-up to Saturday’s South Carolina primary, the remaining candidates are vigorously working the Upstate, the Lowcountry, the Midlands and the Pee Dee.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Emergency NY Tech MeetUp TODAY
RE: SOPA/PIPA
01-18-2012
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MeetUp.com
"...so that we can publicly demonstrate our collective dismay at the unprecedented attack currently being made on the Internet and our industry."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Food
BASF pulls out of Europe over GM hostility Headed to US
1-18-12
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http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2012/Januar
German chemical giant BASF has announced that it will halt the development or commercialization of genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe, and move its biotech R&D operations to the US. The firm cited consumer and political resistance to transgeni
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Agorist Alma
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News Link • Internet
Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet
01-18-2012
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www.google.com
Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs alr
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Smoke Bomb Thrown Over White House Fence During Occupy Protest
01-18-2012
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www.myfoxdc.com
The White House was put into partial lockdown as a result, after the devices were found on the North Lawn.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bill of Rights
"Resistance Manifesto' Author Mark Dice Sounds Off on NDAA & Willard 'Mitt' Romney
01-18-2012
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YouTube via OathKepers Forum
The sentiment pervading American Patriots today caught on film. I 'feel' you, Mark, I really do. - Ed
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Free Speech
Why We’ve Censored Wired.com
01-18-2012
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www.wired.com
We’ve blacked out the headlines on our website homepage today as part of a global internet protest against two radical anti-piracy bills pending in Congress " legislation that threatens to usher in a chilling internet censorship regime here in the U.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
DEA agent wounds self, video goes viral, agent sues DEA, world laughs
01-18-2012
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Wall Street Journal
A federal agent who accidentally shot himself while lecturing children on gun safety lost his appeal Tuesday in a lawsuit over release of the video that subjected him to ridicule on the Internet and late-night talk shows.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Iran
Iran Criticizes Saudi Comments on Boosting Oil Exports
01-18-2012
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www.voanews.com
Iran has criticized Saudi Arabia for saying it could increase its oil output if Western sanctions cut oil exports from Iran.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Newt Gingrich urges rivals to drop out, declares a vote for Santorum or Perry is a vote for Romney
01-18-2012
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dailymail.co.uk
Making the case to a crowd of almost 200 in an art gallery in the old railroad junction town of Florence, South Carolina he said: "If you look at the polling, I’m the only conservative who realistically has a chance to be the nominee.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Mark Levin on ‘Ameritopia:’ ‘We Now Live in a Post-Constitutional Country’
01-18-2012
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www.cnsnews.com
The book, released Monday, compares the Utopian and unworkable schemes laid out by political philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes with the vision of natural law, God-given rights, and individual liberty that inspired the Founding Fathers when the
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Addresses Boos From South Carolina GOP Debate
01-18-2012
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ABC News
“This is why I bring up the “the golden rule” if we don’t want people to ban oil imports to our country, why should we do that to another country,” said Paul adding “I don’t know why that is such a negative term for people to boo that. ”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Privacy Rights
TSA apologizes to elderly women for strip search at Kennedy Airport
01-18-2012
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www.nydailynews.com
Lenore Zimmerman and Ruth Sherman still fuming after humiliating December incident
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Darkness, Darkness...
01-18-2012
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SOPA & PIPA
Barely dented by the Censorship Protest, brave websites 'go dark' in protest of the 'Stop Online Piracy Act' and the 'Protect Internet Providers Act' - will this make a difference in your day?
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Free Speech
Protest on Web Uses Shutdown to Take On Two Piracy Bills
01-18-2012
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www.nytimes.com
With a Web-wide protest on Wednesday that includes a 24-hour shutdown of the English-language Wikipedia, the legislative battle over two Internet piracy bills has reached an extraordinary moment
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Russia says strike on Iran would be 'catastrophe'
01-18-2012
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The Time of India
Russia on Wednesday warned that a military strike on Iran would be a "catastrophe" with the severest consequences which risked inflaming existing tensions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul 2012: Nevada is Key Focus of GOP Candidate's Presidential Campaign
01-18-2012
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www.ibtimes.com
Is Ron Paul betting his presidential candidacy on a Nevada strategy? Coming off his strong second-place finish in the New Hampshire Republican primary, Paul's campaign has shifted its focus to the Silver State's Feb. 4 primary.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
What is Ron Paul's end game?
01-18-2012
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christiansciencemonitor.com
Ron Paul may not win the Republican 2012 nomination. But Ron Paul may have enough delegates to get libertarian issues on the GOP platform.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Iran Mocks US With Toy Drone
01-18-2012
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ABC News (video)
The Iranian government, which captured a U.S. stealth drone in December, has agreed to give the top-secret spy craft back, but with a catch. Instead of the original RQ-170 Sentinel drone, the Islamic Republic said it will send President Obama a tiny
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Post Office Banking
01-18-2012
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arclein
The USPS is a profitable, self-funded venture that is not supported by the taxpayers. It is funded with postage stamps"one of the last vestiges of government-issued money. Stamps are fungible and can be traded at par; and they are backed, not by mere
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Albatross Follows Faster Winds
01-18-2012
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arclein
to miniaturised tracking devices, researchers were able to track the foraging movement of albatrosses at a distance of 3500 kilometers from the colony. They found that albatross have altered their search patterns following changes in wind conditions
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
A Taste of Islam With Bill Warner
01-18-2012
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arclein
Twenty years later as a professor I had Muslims in my classes and they sparked my interest in the Koran. It was a tough read, but I read it cover to cover. The text was literally a puzzle, but I set it aside until 9/11.
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
VIDEO: Fox News Caught Completely Excluding Ron Paul From Post Debate Coverage
01-17-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
After huge volume of complaints, Fox reporter was forced to do-over post debate breakdown revealing that Ron Paul blitzed the debate in every category
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Agents Steal $40,000 From A Passenger . . . And Receive Just Six Months In Jail
01-17-2012
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www.jonathanturley.org
Recently, two former TSA screeners, 44-year-old Coumar Persad and 31-year-old Davon Webb were convicted of stealing $40,000 from a passenger’s luggage at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Florida Police Officer Turns Off Dash Camera and Audiotape, Beats Man With Dementia
01-17-2012
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www.jonathanturley.org
In Florida, Melbourne police Officer Derek Middendorf is accused of beating a 66-year-old man suffering from dementia. A dash camera shows Middendorf delivering a kick to the stomach of Albert Flowers, then punching him after Flowers falls to the gr
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