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Date Sent: 2010-01-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
No right to bear unlicensed machine guns, federal court says -- New scanners break child porn laws
Asian Stocks Down on China Policy Fears -- All rise for Liu, the
prima donna! -- The Criminalization of Protest -- President Obama, It's
Time To Fire the TSA -- Verified Complaint filed against Judge Paul
McMurdie, and others by John Stuart -- Why the Fed Likes Independence -
by Ron Paul -- McCain puts second "hit" out on AZGOP in 2 weeks. --
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Peyton Thomas: Blame the Libertarians!
-- TSA Logo Contest -- Off-Grid Man Jailed For Confronting Utility
Company -- RFID, CHIPS FOR TOTAL CONTROL! PT. 1 -- Israel Giving Gas
Masks to Babies -- The Recession is Over, the Depression Just Beginning
-- When was the Bible Really Written?
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News Link • Gun Rights
No right to bear unlicensed machine guns, federal court says
01-11-2010
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Motor Home Diaries
Tennessee State Guard commander Richard Hamblen said it's his Second Amendment right as part of a militia to convert assault rifles into fully automatic weapons. The Sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed.Tennessee State Guard commander Richard
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
New scanners break child porn laws
01-11-2010
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www.guardian.co.uk
The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian Stocks Down on China Policy Fears
01-11-2010
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Reuters
Asian stocks fell on Tuesday, a day after hitting a 17-month high, on investor jitters about tighter monetary policy in China, while the dollar rose after a Chinese sovereign fund official said the currency has bottomed.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Google's Eric Schmidt on why bankers deserve little sympathy and Obama does
01-11-2010
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Daily Telegraph
"I want to be clear here that the blame, to the degree that there was, is largely in the United States, not in Europe, not in Britain," Schmidt said. "And it was fundamentally because a low-interest policy created too much money. It was an easy-money
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
All rise for Liu, the prima donna!
01-11-2010
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NY Post
NYC's new comptroller, John Liu, has ordered his staff to rise whenever he enters the room and to address him as "Mr. Comptroller." The new presidential-like formalities had veteran denizens of the Municipal Building snickering behind his back.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant
01-11-2010
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Wired
Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia chlorotica has a reputation for kidnapping the photosynthesizing organelles and some genes from algae. The slug has acquired enough stolen goods to make an entire plant chemical-making pathway work inside an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Conservatives Attack Obama for Upholding Constitution
01-11-2010
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Progressive Nation
The Wall Street Journal, Pat Buchanan and others are already condemning the Obama administration for treating Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a civilian criminal rather than an illegal warrior to whom we can presumably do whatever we please.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Criminalization of Protest
01-11-2010
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Reason
When cops clashed with anti-globalization demonstrators at the Pittsburgh G-20 summit in September, it was easy to assume that most of the altercations represented justified police responses to overzealous protesters.
But a number of disturbing ph
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
President Obama, It's Time To Fire the TSA
01-11-2010
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Gizmodo
DHS's Napolitano's response to the crotchbomber: "We're looking to make sure that this sort of incident cannot recur." The TSA's response to Abdulmutalib's attempt makes one thing clear: We must stop pretending the TSA is making us safer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s
01-11-2010
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NY Times
People two, three or four years apart are having completely different experiences with technology. College students scratch their heads at what their high school siblings are doing, and they scratch their heads at their younger siblings.
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Reported by:
Trouser Chili
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Peyton Thomas: Blame the Libertarians!
01-11-2010
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Reason / Radley Balko
The root cause of everything from street muggings and gang delinquency to rudeness at traffic lights to excessive lawsuit filing has finally been found, and it's...libertarianism. At least that's the view of Andrew Peyton Thomas.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Transportation
TSA Logo Contest
01-11-2010
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Bruce Schneier
Announcing the TSA Logo Contest. Rules are simple: create a TSA logo. People are welcome to give ideas in the comments, but only actual created logos are eligible to compete.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • New World Order
UK, Phony Tony and his Cronies
01-11-2010
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Buffalohair Gazette International
It should be apparent to the folks in the UK that Tony Blair and his merry band of thugs have crippled England’s economy. His lackey Gordon Brown has prostituted the UK and her industries to foreign investors. In the meantime Tony went on to sell Eng
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Reported by:
Carlos Guevara
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News Link • Activism
Off-Grid Man Jailed For Confronting Utility Company
01-11-2010
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Washington County News
In the Pittsburgh area, a man went to jail rather than let the local power company run an electric line through his property. He’s also in some hot water for refusing to connect to the local sewer system. Although he’s repeatedly lost in criminal cou
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Police State
RFID, CHIPS FOR TOTAL CONTROL! PT. 1
01-11-2010
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YouTube
HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL; SEE SPECIFICALLY PAGES 1,500 THRU 1,509 (MEDICAL DEVICE REGISTRY):
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Israel Giving Gas Masks to Babies
01/11/2010
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commondreams.or
There’s good news for the children of Israel. Every one of them will soon be getting candy, for free, from their government. Are the Israelis returning to the socialist spirit of their founding fathers? Not quite.
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Reported by:
Lola Flores
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News Link • Climate Change
Winter Gets Ugly
01-11-2010
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arclein
He and his colleagues predicted the new cooling trend in a paper published in 2008 and warned of it again at an IPCC conference in Geneva last September.
Last night he told The Mail on Sunday: ‘A significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 t
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robert klein
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News Link • China
China's Negatives
01-11-2010
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arclein
Fogel should also have mentioned something about the ingrained corruption, pervasive plagiarism and creativity-stifling curricula that are the hallmarks of Chinese schooling. There’s no question the county’s educational system has made some progress
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robert klein
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News Link • History
When was the Bible Really Written?
01-11-2010
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arclein
By decoding the inscription on a 3,000-year-old piece of pottery, an Israeli professor has concluded that parts of the bible were written hundreds of years earlier than suspected.
The pottery shard was discovered at excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa ne
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robert klein
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