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Date Sent: 2008-11-03
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, November 3, 2008 |
DOJ Ordered to Turn Over Warrantless Surveillance Docs -- Pension Time Bomb Explodes In US
Bolivia's Morales bars "spying" U.S. DEA agents -- Untied States: If at first you don’t secede… -- Wanna Break the Law? -- Homeless sex offenders tracked by satellite -- Charges Dropped Against Protester For Failing To Show ID -- 7.5 million homeowners 'underwater' -- Bogus Robocall Tells Floridians They Can Vote By Phone -- How to encrypt your e-mail in Gmail -- Support Your Local Small Town Bully - by Will Grigg -- Corruption at Guantánamo: Military Commissions Under Investigation -- DC Metro to start performing random bag searches -- MIT develops 'tractor beam' for cells -- The Secret to TRUE Anti-Gravity REVEALED! - by Ernest Hancock -- Israel spy chief fears Jewish extremist plot -- City Council pushing knife ban -- Biometric fingerprint 'Passport' tied to your computer -- Legalized Theft and Fraud -- World's Most Efficient Solar Cells Created
AZ: Strategic Edge Business Alliance Breakfast Presents Jack Gregson Thursday
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News Link • Drug War
Bolivia's Morales bars "spying" U.S. DEA agents
11-2-2008
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Reuters
Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales accused U.S. anti-drug agents of spying on Saturday, and barred them from fighting cocaine traffickers in the Andean country until further notice.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Untied States: If at first you don’t secede… by John Schwenkler
11-2-2008
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American Conservative
Whoever wins on Nov. 4, few Americans will harbor any illusions about their national unity. No matter which pairing one chooses there is no getting around our status as a country divided, a people set apart from one another as much by regional cultur
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Wanna Break the Law?
11-2-2008
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OpEdNews (video)
The Founding Fathers dressed up as Indians to dump tea into the harbor for what is known as the Boston Tea Party. They boarded commercial vessels and destroyed the cargo on board to protest the tax. They disguised themselves because they could'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Voyage of the Bacteria Bots
11-2-2008
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Technology Review
A microscopic device that could swim through the bloodstream and directly target the site of disease, such as a tumor, could offer radical new treatments. To get to a tumor, however, such a device would have to be small and agile enough to navigate t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Homeless sex offenders tracked by satellite
11-2-2008
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KomoNews
A spy in the sky is keeping track of the riskiest sex offenders. Satellite tracking is monitoring their every step.
"Looking at the terrain, I'm guessing he's sleeping on that hillside," says Jeff Haberman, a community correction
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
DOJ Ordered to Turn Over Warrantless Surveillance Documents
11-2-2008
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Public Record
In an opinion issued Friday in a lawsuit filed by the National Security Archive, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the U.S. District Court for the District of the Columbia ordered the Department of Just
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Top ATS, Redflex Employees Ignore Tickets
11/03/08
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CameraFRAUD.com
“Do as we say, not as we do.” That seems to be the modus operandi for some top employees of the two primary scam-cam vendors, American Traffic Solutions and “rival” Redflex Group.
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Charges Dropped Against Protester For Failing To Show ID
11-02-2008
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Papers Please
Ferrell also said the case was important in the context of citizens’ freedom of speech. “Police were stopping people for real or imaginary criminal activities and asking for identification,” he said. “It was a tactic to gather intelligence.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Housing
7.5 million homeowners 'underwater'
11-2-2008
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CNN
At least 7.5 million Americans owe more on their mortgages than their homes are currently worth, according to a real estate research firm's report released Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Bogus Robocall Tells Floridians They Can Vote By Phone
11-2-2008
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Wired
The residents of Broward County, Florida have recently received misleading robocalls telling them that they can vote by phone on Election Day, according to a report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Support Your Local Small Town Bully by Will Grigg
11-2-2008
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Pro Liberate
Emphatically making his point: Tony Lopez of Homedale, Idaho, lets the public know his sentiments regarding Daryl Crandall, who is running for Owyhee County County Sheriff. The first sign he displayed may land him in jail.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
How to encrypt your e-mail in Gmail
11-2-2008
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RadGeek
Let’s suppose that you want to send somebody an message that contains sensitive information which you want only the person getting the message to see " say an important password or an account number or a transaction that you’d rather keep on the down
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Timely election joke
11-2-2008
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by Wendy McElroy
While out walking a US senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. "Welcome to heaven, but before you settle in, there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around here
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
MISH: Pension Time Bomb Explodes In US and Canada
11-2-2008
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Global Economic Analysis
The ticking time bomb of over-promised, underfunded public pension plans has finally exploded. 40% of pension plans are underfunded and that assumes future returns of 8% annually. Good luck with that. Now think how bad things will be if the S&P drops
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Corruption at Guantánamo: Military Commissions Under Investigation
11-2-2008
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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington. Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann was removed from his post after 3 government-appointed military judges had disqualified him from playing any further part in 2 trials because of his transparent pro-prosecution bias.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
DC Metro to start performing random bag searches
11-2-2008
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Blog of Bile
Alas, the looming specter of subway searches has finally descended on our nation’s capital. We’ve long assumed it was just a matter of time, but as time came and went, it seemed the tragic fad of frivolous subway searches would elude us.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
MIT develops 'tractor beam' for cells, more
11-02-2008
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www.bio-medicine.org
As a demonstration of the system's versatility, Appleyard says, they set it up to collect and hold 16 tiny living E. coli cells at once on a microchip, forming them into the letters MIT.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Obama and Coal: Obama Admits His Policies Will “Bankrupt” Coal Industry
11-02-2008
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Mondo
NewsBusters uncovers an audio interview the SF Chronicle conducted with Barack Obama earlier this year. Though the SF Chronicle omitted it,in the audio of the interview, Obama says his policies will “bankrupt” the coal industry. Good perhaps for SF;
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • World News
Their "Fed Did It," Too
11/02/08
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Boncherry.com
"After the collapse of the agriculture sector in Zimbabwe in 2000, the inflation in that country skyrocketed to 231 million percent a year! Let`s now have a look at the photos that you may not be able to see anywhere else in the world."
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Israel
Israel spy chief fears Jewish extremist plot
11-2-2008
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AP
The head of Israel's internal security service said Sunday he is "very concerned" that Jewish extremists could assassinate an Israeli leader in an attempt to foil peace moves with the Palestinians.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
City Council pushing knife ban
11-2-2008
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Daily Telegraph
Several city councilors last night hailed a proposed ordinance regulating knife possession in the city. Some councilors said the ordinance is an important first step in addressing the recent spate of knife attacks in the city, saying something is nee
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Byways and Tribal Capitalism
11-02-08
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LondonBanker.blogspot.com
Whether a Neolithic tribe, a Celtic settlement, the mighty Roman Empire or the Soviet Union, history proves that a tendency to excess expropriation by the state undermines any incentive to investment and surplus production.
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News Link • Police State
Big Brother: Biometric fingerprint 'Passport' tied to your computer
11-02-08
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News.BBC.co.uk
Tech giant Siemens has developed what it calls an "Internet Passport" that presents users with a flashing barcode when they visit a bank or shopping site.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Legalized Theft and Fraud
11-02-08
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Market-Ticker.denninger.net
The entirety of the banking regulatory system is now focused on one thing: guaranteeing that the pernicious and pervasive fraud embodied in the intentional gaming of valuations over the last 20 years continues, even if the only "sucker" lef
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News Link • Energy
Sun + Water = Fuel
11-2-2008
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Technology Review
When a current was applied to an electrode immersed in the solution, cobalt and phosphate accumulated on it in a thin film, and a dense layer of oxygen bubbles started forming in just a few minutes released by splitting the water. "Here's th
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News Link • Energy
World's Most Efficient Solar Cells Created
11-02-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
University of New South Wales’ ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence has reported the first silicon solar cell to achieve the milestone of 25 per cent efficiency.
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