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Date Sent: 2009-11-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, November 6, 2009 PM edition |
Gold futures top $1,100/oz for first time -- U.S. unemployment rate hits 10.2 percent
Fort Hood Tragedy - by Christine Smith -- Mistrust Hinders ID of
Cleveland Slaying Victims -- Voices of Gitmo -- China Blasts U.S.
Duties Ahead Of Obama Visit -- Why The Innocent Flee From The Police -
by Will Grigg -- Another State Introduces Firearms Freedom Act - by
Chuck Baldwin -- G20 to stay the course on economic bailouts for their
friends -- Central banks lead subtle shift away from dollar -- Sen.
Grassley Seeks to Censor Drug War Solutions -- 10 Years Ago, Congress
Allowed For "Too Big To Fail" -- MARTIAL LAW IN THE UKRAINE FOR FLU
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club tomorrow on Guns!!!! -- Charles Goyette at Changing Hands Bookstore - Tuesday, Nov. 24th, 7:00pm
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold futures top $1,100/oz for first time
11-06-2009
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Reuters
Gold futures in New York rose to a record above $1,100 per ounce on Friday as the dollar eased in the wake of disappointing U.S. employment data.
At 9:48 a.m. EST December gold was up $10.20 at $1,099.50 an ounce at the COMEX division of the New Y
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
U.S. unemployment rate hits 10.2 percent
11-06-2009
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Reuters
[The true U6 unemployment rate is 20%.] The U.S. jobless rate [U3] unexpectedly jumped to a 26-1/2-year high of 10.2 percent last month, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment even as signs of recovery mount.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Mistrust Hinders ID of Cleveland Slaying Victims
11-06-2009
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AP
Police say there's only one way for the families of missing women to know for sure if their loved ones are among the victims found in suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell's house: Give DNA samples. But relatives are reluctant to donate.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Did Joe Sullivan, sentenced to life at 13, have a fair trial?
11-06-2009
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Slate
Next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments, in Sullivan v. Florida, about whether sentencing a 13-year-old boy to prison without the possibility of parole violates the cruel-andâ€"unusual-punishment clause of the Constitution. Joe Harris Sullivan
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Twilight 'Zona: Tennis Seniors Arrested
11-06-2009
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Fanhouse
Ray Moore and George Morell know. Moore was wrestled to the ground by a cop, a knee in his back while he was cuffed, apparently bleeding. Both were arrested, and spent the bulk of the day in jail. "They're in their 80s, you know,'' she said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China Blasts U.S. Duties Ahead Of Obama Visit
11-06-2009
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Reuters
A U.S. trade panel on Friday approved two new investigations into charges of unfair trade practices by China, but rejected another one week ahead of President Barack Obama's trip to Asia.
The U.S. International Trade Commission voted 6-0 to back t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Voices of Gitmo
11-06-2009
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The Agitator
This ACLU video profiles the Gitmo prisoners detained, tortured, and then released without charge.
You might keep the recent 2nd Circuit ruling my colleague Jacob Sullum wrote about yesterday in mind while watching.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Why The Innocent Flee From The Police - by Will Grigg
11-06-2009
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Pro Liberate
Why did he run?" This question thrusts itself upon us every time an unarmed or otherwise harmless person is gunned down while fleeing from police.
Often that inquiry takes the form that assumes the guilt of the victim: "If he did nothing wrong,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Political Parties
If voting could change things it would be illegal
11-06-2009
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Classically Liberal
The recent off-year elections seemed to favor the Republicans. Of course, the Republicans immediately chimed in that this was approval by the American public for their policies.
Nope. Once again that is wishful thinking.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Fort Hood Tragedy
11-06-2009
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Christine Smith's Blog
An incident as this sure exposes the degree of the sad pathetic state of lack of critical thought among the American people.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
This is not your mother's America...nor your father's
11-06-2009
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Wendy McElroy
In The Examiner, Gary Reed reports on the "kidnapping" by law enforcement and forced medication of libertarian activist Julian Heicklen. The synopsis: Heicklen arrived at the US District Courthouse in New York City in order to pass out pamphlets to p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The police are a privileged and damnable elite
11-06-2009
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Wendy McElroyThe police are a privileged and damna
If I make the conscious and consistent choice over time to brutalize the innocent in order to draw a nice salary and safe pension....then I am piece of ethical filth that decent society should revile. I don't even have the patina of an excuse to avoi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Stick a fork in the U.S. It's done.
11-06-2009
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Wendy McElroy
Federal authorities can resume combing through the notebooks, memory cards and computers of a twittering anarchist being investigated for violating an anti-rioting law, a federal judge ruled finding no reason to throw out the government’s search of t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
G20 to stay the course on economic bailouts for their friends
11-06-2009
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Reuters
The Group of 20 leading nations will agree this weekend it is too early to pull the plug on emergency support for the global economy and launch a new system of checks to help rebalance world growth and prevent future crises.
British finance minist
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Central banks lead subtle shift away from dollar
11-06-2009
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Reuters
Central banks with trillions of dollars in reserves that are already stepping up euro and yen purchases will likely continue doing so in coming years, driven by worries over the stability of the greenback. A record U.S. budget gap and the rise of dyn
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Words made officer who took papers suspicious
11-06-2009
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Simple Justice
"Going to," "steal" and "money."
Those 4 words, grouped in the same sentence, prompted a Maricopa County sheriff's detention officer to rifle through a defense attorney's file last month, according to court testimony.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Sen. Grassley Seeks to Censor Drug War Solutions
11-06-2009
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Science Blogs
Sen. Charles Grassley is trying to make sure that commission can't even consider the possibility of decriminalizing or legalizing any currently illegal substances.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • General Opinion
Weekend Watching - Juan Enriquez: The Untied States of America
11-06-2009
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TED via Daily Paul
Previously, Juan Enriquez from TED did a great talk called 'The Utimate Reboot.' Here is a breathtaking talk based on his book by the same title, The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Corruption
10 Years Ago, Congress Allowed For "Too Big To Fail"
11-06-2009
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HuffPo
On the 10th anniversary of Congress voting to repeal the Glass-Steagal Act, current members of the body are talking about ways to potentially bring it back.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Conspiracies
Goldman Sachs' Governmental Connections
11-06-2009
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McClatchy Newspapers
Greg Gordon talks to the Real News Network about former Goldman Sachs execs in powerful government positions making decisions about which companies live and die on Wall Street.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Charles Goyette Show Archive
Charles Goyette at Changing Hands Bookstore - Tuesday, Nov. 24th, 7:00pm
11-06-2009
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ChangingHands.com
Changing Hands Bookstore - 6428 S McClintock Dr., Tempe, Arizona 85283
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Martial Law
MARTIAL LAW IN THE UKRAINE * PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES ARRESTS OF OPPONENTS OF FORCED VACCINATION AND QUAR
11-05-2009
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http://www.theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_con
The Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko has issued a statement strongly suggesting that the government is preparing to carry out mass forced vaccinations with the untested swine flu jab.
In a statement posted on the government website, Yushchenk
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