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Date Sent: 2011-05-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, May 24, 2011 AM edition |
State and local governments may cut 450,000 jobs in FY2012 -- FBI: Violent crime fell 5.5% in 2010
Saudi Arabia, UAE funded jihadi networks in Pakistan: Wikileaks cable -- A tale of two rape charges - by Naomi Wolfe -- Sperm on maid’s dress confirmed to be from IMF chief Strauss-Kahn -- Tim Pawlenty wiped a serial child molester’s record clean in 2008 -- Cisco sued for helping China build Golden Shield -- Rand Paul pushes Libya resolution, decries ‘do-nothing’ Senate -- States to ask banks for larger mortgage settlement -- U.S., U.K. plan trans-governmental national security group
-- Is Georgia on the brink of a 'day of rage'? -- Terror Trial Witness
Ties Pakistan to 2008 Attacks -- "An Inconvenient Truth": A Fifth
Anniversary Tribute -- Are Oil Futures Markets Being Manipulated?
-- Do libertarians hurt or help the cause of freedom when trying to
reform statist programs? -- 'Minority Report' Long Range 3D Facial
Recognition Systems Are Coming -- Obama proposes DHS go worldwide as top cybersecurity agency -- Dad accused of sex abuse behind bars 2 years without trial -- David Stockman: Both US Parties Are Now Advocating Default -- Joe Lieberman: The Internet Will Devolve Into A "Digital Dodge City"
CA: Jordan Page Concert, Thursday May
26th 8pm in Los Angeles
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News Link • Government
State and local governments may cut 450,000 jobs in FY2012
05-23-2011
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Reuters
Around 450,000 people who work for U.S. states, counties, cities, towns and villages could get pink slips in fiscal 2012, sharply up from the 300,000 positions shed this year. The number of job cuts will rise mainly because the federal stimulus progr
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
FBI: Violent crime fell 5.5 percent in 2010
05-23-2011
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AP
Figures released by the FBI Monday also showed that there were declines in all four categories of violent crime in 2010 and all categories for property crime went down as well.
"In a word, remarkable," said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at North
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Saudi Arabia, UAE funded jihadi networks in Pakistan: Wikileaks cable
05-23-2011
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Rawstory
Islamic charities from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates financed a network in U.S. ally Pakistan that recruited children as young as eight to wage holy war, a local newspaper reported on Sunday, citing Wikileaks.
A U.S. diplomatic cable
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
A tale of two rape charges - by Naomi Wolfe
05-23-2011
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Reuters
The ongoing trial of two police officers, Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata, charged in the rape of a 27-year-old Manhattan woman. She was drunk, and, after helping her to enter her apartment, Moreno and Mata allegedly made a false emergency call
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Sperm on maid’s dress confirmed to be from IMF chief Strauss-Kahn
05-23-2011
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Daily Telegraph
The New York Police sent the test results to French authorities on Sunday where they allegedly confirmed the trace. The results are expected to be made public shortly.
Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, who is accused of trying to rape a maid last week in his s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Tim Pawlenty wiped a serial child molester’s record clean in 2008
05-23-2011
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Rawstory
Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty formally announced his campaign seeking the GOP nomination for the presidency, but by midday, his political past had already caught up to him. A pardon then-Gov. Pawlenty granted to a sex offender in October 200
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Cisco sued for helping China build Golden Shield
05-23-2011
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AP
Members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement have filed a lawsuit against Cisco Systems Inc. accusing it of supplying the Chinese government with computer-networking equipment used to spy on and persecute dissidents.
In a lawsuit filed last week,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Rand Paul pushes Libya resolution, decries ‘do-nothing’ Senate
05-23-2011
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Rawstory
Paul's frustration stems from the lack of support by Democratic and Republican colleagues for his resolution claiming that U.S. intervention in Libya is "unconstitutional". The Senator has struggled to even bring the resolution to the floor, where it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
States to ask banks for larger mortgage settlement
05-23-2011
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Reuters
Federal regulators and state attorneys general have been investigating bank mortgage and foreclosure practices that came to light last year, including the use of "robo-signers" to sign hundreds of unread foreclosure documents a day.
The authoritie
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
U.S., U.K. plan trans-governmental national security group
05-23-2011
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Reuters (video)
Britain and the United States are to create a new joint forum to assess long-term threats to their national security, a British government source said Monday.
The launch of the new national security strategy board is expected to be announced durin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Is Georgia on the brink of a 'day of rage'?
05-23-2011
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Christian Science Monitor
A lack of economic progress may help account for mounting protests against Georgian President Mikhael Saakashvili. On Sunday, police used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a mostly peaceful rally. A 'day of rage' is slated for May 25.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Terror Trial Witness Ties Pakistan to 2008 Attacks
05-23-2011
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NY Post
The government’s leading witness in a high-profile terrorism trial told jurors here Monday that the group behind the 2008 attack on Mumbai, India, had ties to Pakistan’s intelligence service.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
"An Inconvenient Truth": A Fifth Anniversary Tribute
05-23-2011
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The American Spectator
There is no denying that Gore and his film deserve the lion's share of the credit (or blame) for launching the wild hysteria to combat "manmade global warming" that swept the nation in 2006.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Are Oil Futures Markets Being Manipulated?
05-23-2011
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Forbes
Not only is Obama's newly formed Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force an exercise in futility but this article shows that the claim that markets (in this case oil) are being manipulated is a myth.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Open Mouth, Insert Two State Solution
05-22-2011
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Free Patriot Press
Last week President Obama said:
The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states. The Palestinian people must have t
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Do libertarians hurt or help the cause of freedom when trying to reform statist programs?
05-23-2011
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Christine Smith - 13 min. video YouTube
Statist or libertarian causes: Fair/flat tax, medical marijuana, immigration control, federal budget? In the long run, do they increase or decrease liberty? Focus on reforming or on abolishing tyranny? Incremental steps lead to liberty or backfire?
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News Link • Surveillance
'Minority Report' Long Range 3D Facial Recognition Systems Are Coming
05-23-2011
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BlackListedNews.com
Will facial recognition devices be used to keep track of everyone that goes to a baseball game, the supermarket, or a political rally? The DSC website doesn’t offer any information about what their cameras can do.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Obama proposes DHS go worldwide as top cybersecurity agency
05-23-2011
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CSPAN
"The International Strategy for Cyberspace calls for the U.S. government to work with its global counterparts in securing cyberspace," stated White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Dad accused of sex abuse behind bars 2 years without trial
05-23-2011
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AZFamily.com
A Brazilian citizen and Sedona father of three has been in jail for 881 days accused of molesting his two sons.
We are not identifying him so as to protect his children’s privacy.
“Most important to me is my children need to know that didn't h
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
David Stockman: Both US Parties Are Now Advocating Default
05-23-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
David Stocksman, the former Reagan advisor-turned-deficit hawk sees "no hope" of the two parties coming to an agreement on the US debt, because neither party is willing to compromise on either spending or taxes...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Joe Lieberman: The Internet Will Devolve Into A "Digital Dodge City"
05-23-2011
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nationaljournal.com
Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., said he was pleased with much of the White House Cyberspace Policy Review released last week. Unless Congress acts, he said, the Internet will devolve into a “digital Dodge City.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
STAND UP For Your Fourth Amendment Rights
05-23-2011
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rtr.org
this is a PEACEFUL protest. It is VITAL that everyone is respectful and nonviolent. Anything to the contrary will only hurt our cause...
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
U.S. v. Whistleblower Tom Drake
05-23-2011
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www.cbsnews.com
Tom Drake, a former NSA senior executive indicted last year for espionage after leaking to the media allegations that the nation's largest intelligence organization had committed fraud, waste and abuse will appear in his first television interview. S
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
NSA whistleblower Tom Drake talks Espionage Act, 9/11, intelligence....
05-23-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Thomas Drake worked for the National Security Agency before he was indicted by it. Drake felt that taxpayer money was being misused on unnecessary intelligence, not the information that would lead to the successful capture of terrorists.
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News Link • Free Speech
Bradley Manning caught on video with hacker friends around first WikiLeaks release
05-23-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
A soon to be released PBS Frontline documentary depicts Army intelligence officer Bradley Manning palling around in Boston in January 2010.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Whatever happened to John Kurtz?
05-23-2011
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http://www.examiner.com/
"The trial was postponed due to officer not showing up or something like that." "The trial was continued as there are depositions the defense needs to take before proceeding."
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