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Date Sent: 2012-12-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, Christmas Eve Ed. |
Review of FBI forensics does not extend to federally trained state, local examiners
Horseshoe Crimes: Close Enough -- NC Governor Bev Perdue: Pardon
the Wilmington Ten -- The Scourge of Concealed Weapons -- The Hoody Syndrome -- Take Your Kids Out of Government Schools
-- Freedom of Information, Courtesy of the Chandler Brothers --
She Will Not Pledge Her Allegiance -- The Battlefront in the
Front Yard -- Cop vs. Cop -- Judge: Louisiana Woman Can
Flip Finger In Holiday Lights -- US Senate demands Village
Voice takes down its 'adult entertainment' section -- Chrome LOVE
REVOLUTION Car Badge -- Can an Anti-interventionist be
Secretary of Defense? -- If your
employee did these 10 things, would you fire them? -- Libor
Hearings, School Shootings and Disinfo, Oh My! -- It's Becoming
Abundantly Clear That Google Doesn't Want To Share Android Anymore -- American Vehicle Miles Driven Haven't Been This Low Since The
1990s -- And now the clock chimes, and all the impostors drop their
masks …
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Review of FBI forensics does not extend to federally trained state, local examiners
12-23-2012
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Washington Post
Thousands of criminal cases at the state and local level relied on exaggerated testimony or false forensic evidence to convict defendants of murder, rape and other felonies.
The forensic experts in these cases were trained by the same liars
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Horseshoe Crimes: Close Enough
12-23-2012
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Simple Justice
The cop told the truth as to the reason for the stop, and the facts gave rise to no violation of the traffic code, and therefore no legal justification to stop the defendant. The ensuing search which produced drugs, would never have happened
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
NC Governor Bev Perdue: Pardon the Wilmington Ten
12-23-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
When I was 19, a prosecutor framed me and nine other civil rights activists for firebombing a building in Wilmington, NC. We were dubbed the Wilmington Ten, convicted by a jury that included multiple KKK members, and sentenced to 29 years in prison.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Scourge of Concealed Weapons
12-23-2012
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New York Times
Over the years, states have made it increasingly possible for almost any adult to carry a concealed handgun in public, including on college campuses, in churches and in state parks " places where people tend to congregate in large numbers and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Hoody Syndrome
12-23-2012
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Simple Justice
Some may wonder why Martinez didn't stop when told to do so. To the overly compliant, such defiance offers more than sufficient justification for anything that follows. It might have been that he chose to exercise his constitutional right to be lef
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News Link • Government
Freedom of Information, Courtesy of the Chandler Brothers
12-23-2012
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Simple Justice
I also wouldn’t have been able to do it without the Chandler brothers, specifically Robert, who was able to pry public records from the Miami-Dade Police Department when Major Nancy Perez was refusing to provide requested public records to [Carlos' l
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News Link • Police State
She Will Not Pledge Her Allegiance
12-23-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
I was given a command, and I disobeyed. A moment of freedom in a small town.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
The Battlefront in the Front Yard
12-23-2012
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New York Times
JASON HELVENSTON was at work on his second crop, spreading compost to fertilize the carrots, bok choy, kale and dozens of other vegetables he grows organically on his property in Orlando, Fla., when the trouble began.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop vs. Cop
12-23-2012
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Simple Justice
Most dreams of cops, executing a warrant at the home of a family of innocents, fail to produce the outcome we would hope for. A big compensatory award coupled with punitive damages against the cops involved personally. The good news is that it happ
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News Link • Free Speech
Judge: Louisiana Woman Can Flip Finger In Holiday Lights
12-23-2012
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CBS News (video)
A Louisiana woman ran afoul of police when she gave her neighbors an unusual holiday greeting, hanging Christmas lights in the shape of a middle finger. Neighbors complained and police threatened to arrest her, so she sued the city. A judge ruled in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
US Senate demands Village Voice takes down its 'adult entertainment' section
12-23-2012
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The Hill
The Senate passed a resolution calling on the newspaper Village Voice “to act as a responsible global citizen” by taking down its “adult entertainment” section of its classified advertising website that promotes child sex trafficking in the United St
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
A Brief History of Christmas Lights
12-22-2012
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http://www.popularmechanics.com, By Heidi Davis
Today's marvelous, over-the-top holiday light displays prove that we've come a long way since the days of hanging candles on a tree.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Chrome LOVE REVOLUTION Car Badge
12-22-2012
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http://revolutioncarbadges.com/
Wow! Thanks to Tom Woods for mentioning RCB! I’ve sold out of the first batch of badges in less than a week! The second shipment is scheduled to arrive around Feb 2013.
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Libertarian Enterprise
12-23-2012
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http://www.ncc-1776.org/
I'll just say Merry Christmas! and leave it at that. Ken Holder - Editor-in-Chief - editor@ncc-1776.org
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - December 22nd 2012
12-23-2012
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LewRockwell.com
The Anti-Gun Movement Is Doomed / Live Long and Prosper / Ron Paul's Parthian Shot at the Criminal Congress / Bill of Rights, RIP?, Karen Kwiatkowski's translation of what it all means / Media, Psychiatry, and the School Shooting
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Can an Anti-interventionist be Secretary of Defense?
12-23-2012
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Free Press Publications
President Obama has already tapped John Kerry as his next Secretary of State, a pick that should pass the Senate without issue. However, the “leading candidate” for Secretary of Defense is facing an uphill battle. John Glaser of Antiwar.com writes, “
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News Link • Politics
If your employee did these 10 things, would you fire them?
12-23-2012
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The Political Commentator
Imagine that you are the manager of a company and you were evaluating an employee who exhibited these 10 traits!
Only instead of a manager you are a voter and instead of a company it is the United States. Hire or fire?
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Misinformation
Libor Hearings, School Shootings and Disinfo, Oh My!
12-22-2012
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Farm Wars
Propaganda does not require evidence to prove itself. It simply utilizes the ignorant masses that believe what they see and tend to repeat the lie as fact to their friends, family, [and] repost to message boards, comment threads, social media sites,
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
It's Becoming Abundantly Clear That Google Doesn't Want To Share Android Anymore
12-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Steve Kovach
When Google bought Motorola for $12.5 billion last year, tech pundits had a ton of theories for what the move was really about.
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News Link • Transportation
American Vehicle Miles Driven Haven't Been This Low Since The 1990s
12-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Doug Short
The Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Commission has released the latest report on Traffic Volume Trends, data through October.
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News Link • How To
100 Skills Every Man Should Know: The Instructions
12-22-2012
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http://www.popularmechanics.com, By The Editors
Brains and charm are fine, but a real guy needs to know how to do real stuff.
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News Link • Government
And now the clock chimes, and all the impostors drop their masks …
12-22-2012
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com
“U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada said Wednesday he would not rule out allowing tax rates to increase for higher-income Americans if it is coupled with substantial spending cuts … in a bid to avoid the ‘fiscal cliff,’” the Las Vegas Review-Journal re
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News Link • Police State
The coming drone attack on America
12-22-2012
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Naomi Wolf - www.guardian.co.uk
Drones on domestic surveillance duties are already deployed by police and corporations. In time, they will likely be weaponized.
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Ernest Hancock
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Reference Link • Healthcare Industry
Ban the Pills, Not the Guns
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The correlation between psychiatric drugs and random acts of violence and homicide is well documented as the Food and Drug Administration requires black box warnings on the inserts of psychotropic drugs with regard to their relationship to violent be
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ben Swann Reality Check 12/20/2012: Reduce violent crime by issuing more concealed carry permits
12-21-2012
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Daily Paul.com
Ben Swann Reality Check 12/20/2012: Reduce violent crime by issuing more concealed carry permits
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Evidence Compiled - In One Place. What do we KNOW for Sure that ISN'T Hearsay?
12-21-2012
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Daily Paul.com
So far I've seen dozens of conflicting stories. I've seen some very convincing theories of actors playing roles. I've seen some fairly conclusive evidence of look-alikes...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Chuck Hagel Pushback: Israel Group Airs Attack Ad
12-21-2012
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www.770kob.com
As pro-Israel groups continue to wrangle over Chuck Hagel, reportedly President Obama’s likely nominee for secretary of defense, the conservative Emergency Committee for Israel plans to air a new ad on cable TV.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Quotations from our new NDAA brief
12-21-2012
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DownsizeDC.Org
We filed another brief in the Chris Hedges case challenging the legalized kidnapping provisions of the 2012 NDAA.
Our attorneys, Bill Olson and Herb Titus, did another great job.
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News Link • Kids
Sales of bulletproof backpacks, kids' body armor by Utah company soar 500 percent
12-21-2012
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foxnews.com
Sales for bulletproof backpacks and child-sized body armor manufactured by a Utah company have increased 500 percent since last week’s shooting massacre at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary, company officials said.
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News Link • General Opinion
Should Teachers Be Armed?
12-21-2012
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usnews.com
After the shooting in Sandy Hook Elementary School, states are considering legislation that would allow teachers to carry guns in schools
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Libya
Blackwater Wins the Battle of Benghazi
12-21-2012
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Wired.com
U.S. embassy security in the post-Benghazi era is shaping up to be a financial bonanza for security contractors
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Firearm Found Inside Mpls. School Staff Member’s Locker
12-21-2012
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minnesota.cbslocal.com
staff member who was worried about safety after the tragedy in Connecticut brought her own loaded gun to an elementary school on Wednesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama calls on public to lobby Congress on gun restrictions
12-21-2012
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Planet Washington
Obama earlier this week called on Congress to ban the sale of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips as he announced that Vice President Joe Biden would lead an effort to develop "concrete proposals" to stem gun violence. H
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News Link • China
China’s state-run TV broadcast of ‘V for Vendetta’ shocks viewers
12-21-2012
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AFP
China’s state-run television network shocked viewers by broadcasting “V for Vendetta”, an anarchist-themed film showing an uprising against an authoritarian government. The film was screened in prime time
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News Link • Death Penalty
Thirteen Years on Death Row
12-21-2012
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arclein
Like most death rows in the United States, the prisoners in Angola are treated as living dead things: they are going to be executed so why bother rehabilitating them? He watched as two of his fellow inmates were taken away to the death chamber, tryin
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News Link • Self-Defense
3D-Printable Guns Targeted after Sandy Hook
12-21-2012
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, Jeremy Hsu
Gun parts made by futuristic 3D printers have come under fire after the deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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News Link • History
Remembering Joe Woodland, the Man Who Invented the Bar Code
12-21-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Cade Metz
The way Joe Woodland told it, he was the only one in the jury room who thought the guy was innocent.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Defeat the Neocon Smear Campaign " Sign the White House Petition in Support of Chuck Hagel
12-21-2012
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www.antiwar.com
No, this ISN’T a fundraising letter; it’s a call to arms If you’ve been reading my column recently, you know I’ve been writing about Chuck Hagel, who is apparently the frontrunner to replace the evil Leon Panetta as Secretary of Defense.
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