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Date Sent: 2009-08-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 25, 2009 AM edition |
Obama is reappointing Helicopter Ben! -- New Meth Formula Avoids Anti-Drug Laws
Michelle Bachmann to host town hall with Rep. Ron Paul -- Iran Puts More Post - Vote Detainees on Trial -- Customs K9 Team Deployed At Internal Immigration Checkpoint -- AZ Property Taxes Going Up Despite Lower Valuations and Legislatures Tax "Cut" -- Plans to Take Children from Schools for Mass Vaccinations and Quarantines -- Police drop charges against ROTC student arrested in Preserve -- Alan Korwin Defends Right to Bear Arms on WGN Chicago Socialist Radio -- UK Police may be issued with new high-power Tasers
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday: Guns in Healthcare
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Appendix: Useful and in Fact Promising
08-24-2009
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LiveScience
The body's appendix has long been thought of as nothing more than a
worthless evolutionary artifact, good for nothing save a potentially
lethal case of inflammation.
Now researchers suggest the appendix
is a lot more than a useless remnant. Not only was it recently proposed
to actually possess a critical function, but scientists now find it
appears in nature a lot more often than before thought. And it's
possible some of this organ's ancient uses could be recruited by
physicians to help the human body fight disease more effectively.
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News Link • Energy
Spray-On Solar Cells
08-24-2009
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LiveScience
Solar cells soon could be painted onto the sides of buildings or
rooftops with nanoparticle inks, according to one chemical engineer.
The new nano-ink process could replace the standard method of manufacturing solar cells, which requires high temperatures and is relatively expensive, said Brian Korgel of the University of Texas at Austin.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Michelle Bachmann to host town hall with Rep. Ron Paul
08-24-2009
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Andy Birkey
In an interview with AM 1280 on Saturday, Rep. Michele Bachmann announced that she will have Rep. Ron Paul as her guest for a September town hall forum in St. Cloud.
“I’ll be doing another town hall up in the St. Cloud area in
September and we’ll do that on monetary policy. Ron Paul is going to
come in and we are going to host something on monetary policy,”
Bachmann said.
Bachmann is a convert to the Ron Paul movement, sometimes attending the congressman’s weekly lunches.
“I especially want to speak to the 19- to 20-year olds so they can
know what there future will be under this level of debt accumulation
and spending,” she added about the forum. “They need to know their
future. And so I’m bringing him in so we can have a discussion on
monetary policy.”
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Government
While We’re At It, Your Fridge Is Also a Piece of Junk
08-24-2009
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ProPublica
Not content to put you in a new car, the government wants you to think about a new washing machine and fridge, too. BusinessWeek reports that the Department of Energy will use stimulus cash to offer rebates of up to $200 for the purchase of high-efficiency household appliances. (You don’t need to turn in your old one.) The department has up to $300 million to spend on the program, which only covers appliances with an Energy Star seal. According to BusinessWeek, the industry could use the help: Shipments of washers, dryers, refrigerators and ovens fell by 10 percent in 2008.
Stock analysts warn that two stimulus programs are distorting market signals for cars and homes, creating artificial boosts in demand that aren’t sustainable, reports CNN Money. Only when the “cash for clunkers” program ends later today will the true state of the auto industry be apparent again, said one analyst. Similarly, the government’s program providing tax credits for home purchases obscures the fact that “
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News Link • Iran
Iran Puts More Post - Vote Detainees on Trial
08-24-2009
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Reuters
Iran began its fourth mass trial of people accused of
fomenting unrest after the disputed June presidential election, state
broadcaster IRIB reported.
The official IRNA news agency said
earlier those to be put on trial in a Tehran Revolutionary Court
included former Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh, former
Deputy Foreign Minister Mohsen Aminzadeh, former government spokesman
Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, and Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh. The
June 12 vote plunged the Islamic state into its most serious internal
crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution and exposed deep divisions in
its ruling elite.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
BO is reappointing helicopter Ben!
08-24-2009
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BlueLoriBlogSpot
Have you heard? Washington Post is reporting...
President Obama plans to nominate Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke to another term Tuesday morning, White House officials confirmed Monday night, ending speculation about the fate of the nation's top banker.
Bernanke was chosen by former president George W. Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan and has headed the central bank since early 2006. As the Fed chairman, he has helped guide the nation through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
As president, Obama has largely followed Bernanke's response to the crisis, fashioning a bank bailout and stimulus plan that extended the efforts of Bernanke and the Bush administration.
Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve must make public reports about recipients of emergency loans from U.S. taxpayers under programs created to address the financial crisis, a federal judge ruled.
This is in relation to a lawsuit filed by Bloomberg LP against the Federal
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News Link • Food
World Running Out Of Food Before Our Eyes
08-24-2009
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Market Skeptic
The world is running out of food before our very eyes. People are declaring the financial crisis over, although it has yet to even start. Believe me, everything that has happened so far is nothing compared to what is to come.
Now that I have finished analyzing open interest on US futures markets, my next step is to finish the major article which lays out exactly what I see happening. Below is a quick preview/outline to hold you over until I am done.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?
8/19/09
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Alternet
If you're living on the streets, engaging in the biological necessities of life -- like sitting, sleeping, lying down or loitering -- will get you in jail.
It's too bad so many people are falling into poverty at a time when it’s almost illegal to be poor. You won’t be arrested for shopping in a Dollar Store, but if you are truly, deeply, in-the-streets poor, you’re well advised not to engage in any of the biological necessities of life " like sitting, sleeping, lying down or loitering. City officials boast that there is nothing discriminatory about the ordinances that afflict the destitute, most of which go back to the dawn of gentrification in the ’80s and ’90s. “If you’re lying on a sidewalk, whether you’re homeless or a millionaire, you’re in violation of the ordinance,” a city attorney in St. Petersburg, Fla., said in June, echoing Anatole France’s immortal observation that “the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges.”
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News Link • TAXES: Local
AZ Property Taxes Going Up Despite Lower Valuations and Legislatures Tax "Cut"
08-24-2009
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http://www.prop13arizona.com
Property taxes affect homeowners, renters, small business owners, commercial concerns, farmers, factories - everyone.
Despite lower market values, property tax rates are going up and the county valuations used to calculate tax are going up.
You will hear that the legislature is cutting property taxes or making previous tax cuts "permanent", yet no one will actually experience a cut and all but a small few will experience property tax increases!
Here's the story....
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John Green
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News Link • Gun Rights
Travel Icon Says He'll Avoid Arizona Because of Gun Laws
08-24-2009
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Fox News
Frommer said he won't be
spending his tourism dollars at the Grand Canyon, or anywhere else in
Arizona, because he doesn't want to travel in a state where civilians
carry loaded weapons as a means of political protest.
"I
will cancel any plans to vacation or otherwise visit in Arizona until I
learn more," Frommer wrote. "And I will begin thinking about whether
tourists should safeguard themselves by avoiding stays in Arizona."
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News Link • Constitution
The 10th Amendment: Our Modern Line in the Sand
08-24-09
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Tenth Amendment Center
The 10th Amendment was ratified as an exclamation point on the Constitution " and it lays out in plain English that our federal government is to be one of limited, enumerated powers " not the nearly unlimited, unchecked one that it has become today.
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News Link • Corruption
The Politics of Disease: The Deadly Threat
08-24-2009
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http://simplyyourhealth.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/g
We can’t afford to put everything
on hold, they move forward with everyday that passes. The politics
behind the plan for vaccines is convoluted, and has been in the works
for so many years it would take a book to expose all the people,
companies, and governments involved
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News Link • Gun Rights
Police drop charges against ROTC student arrested in Preserve
08-24-2009
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www.azcentral.com
After a man legally carried to Obama's Phoenix visit a REAL version of the TOY rifle at issue in this case, it became quite clear that there was an obvious discrepancy of recognition of rights between these 2 incidents.
"All parties have agreed that criminal charges in this matter are not in the best interest of justice," a police spokesman said.
Gee,...can we say "lawsuit"?
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News Link • Gun Rights
Alan Korwin Defends Right to Bear Arms on WGN Chicago Socialist Radio
08-24-09
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WGN Radio
After our man Chris took his AR-15 to the Obama rally, local gun law expert Alan Korwin was interviewed regarding the right to keep and bear arms in Arizona. The WGN radio host engaged in a fair amount of panty-wetting over the idea that Arizonans have the basic human right of self-defense, in sharp contrast to Chicago, where crime victims (aka "citizens") are almost completely disarmed.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Financial Crisis Called Off
08-24-2009
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Cluster F Nation
All this goes to show is how completely the people in charge of things in the USA have lost their minds. They seem to think this mass exercise in pretend will resurrect the great march to the WalMarts, to the new car showrooms, and the cul-de-sac model houses, reignite another round of furious sprawl-building, salad-shooter importing, and no-doc liar-lending, not to mention the pawning off of innovative, securitized stinking-carp debt paper onto credulous pension funds in foreign lands where due diligence has never been heard of, renew the leveraged buying-out of zippy-looking businesses by smoothies who have no idea how to run them (and no real intention of doing it, anyway), resuscitate the construction of additional strip malls, new office park "capacity" and Big Box "power centers," restart the trade in granite countertops and home theaters, and pack the turnstiles of Walt Disney world - all this while turning Afghanistan into a neighborhood that Beaver Cleaver
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