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Date Sent: 2010-03-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 4, 2010 |
Adult Male Employment Record 62 Year Low -- Jan. Job Losses Actually Triple What Was Claimed
Ex-Cop Chides Mayor for Questioning the Cops Who Nearly Killed Him -- Never Argue with a Fool - by L. Neil Smith -- Man sues to protect his right to flip off cops -- Government Spending Induces Counterfeit “Expansion” - by Bill Bonner -- Facing ethics probes, Rangel temporarily drops tax leadership -- Fuel Taxes Must Rise, Harvard Researchers Say -- Arizona mortgage delinquencies ranked 3rd at 18.6 percent -- 'Mossad agents fled to US' after killing in Dubai of Hamas leader -- To reduce the deficit we need to raise taxes -- Kid Directs Planes at NY Airport -- AZ may criminalize presence of illegal immigrants -- Carlyle Group Company Behind Cyber Attack Fear Mongering -- Jordan Page Publishes New Song, "Liberty" -- $400 per gallon gas to drive debate over cost of war in Afghanistan
AZ: The Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday with Jack Gregson on the Economic End Game
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ADP: January Job Losses Were Actually Triple What We Thought
03-03-2010
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businessinsider.com/
ADP's employment report showed 20,000 jobs lost in February, which was in-line with analyst expectations. Thing is, they revised down their January number by a huge margin -- to -60,000 from -22,000.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
4.5 SWAT Raids Per Day
03-03-2010
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Reason
Maryland became the first state in the country to make every one of its police departments issue a report on how often and for what purpose they use their SWAT teams. The first reports from the legislation are in, and the results are disturbing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ex-Cop Chides Calvo for Questioning the Cops Who Nearly Killed Him
03-03-2010
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The Agitator
Someone named Lawrence Schweinsburg wrote a letter to the Baltimore Sun to criticize Mayor Cheye Calvo and to offer a general defense of the widespread use of SWAT teams. His letter is worth breaking down and addressing piece by piece.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Is Defensive voting possible?
03-03-2010
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Wendy McElroy
Now I am going to try to persuade you of your folly at wasting your precious time on any libertarians who are foolish and misguided enough to rally behind Ron Paul. As with Murray, your time could be much more valuably spent doing outreach to the man
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Never Argue with a Fool - by L. Neil Smith
03-03-2010
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The Libertarian Enterprise
"Of course, when I ran for President in Arizona, in order to deprive the leadership of fifty-state ballot status, I got a higher percentage of the vote after campaigning for 8 hours than Harry managed to get nationwide after campaigning for 8 years.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Man sues to protect his right to flip off cops
03-03-2010
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Twice in 2007, Robert Ekas flipped off police in Oregon for no apparent reason than to express his First Amendment right to do so. And twice he was pulled over. Now he is suing for violating his First and Fourth Amendment rights. He is representing h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Grand Distractions - by Will Grigg
03-03-2010
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Pro Liberate
Color me cynical, but I can't resist the suspicion that Mullet was put up to this stunt by somebody. If it weren't for the material support it receives from the federal government, the white supremacist movement wouldn't exist. It wouldn't surprise m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Seriously?
Weaponized Parks in Chandler?!
03-03-2010
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Youtube
Two homeboys discuss the very real possibility of the City adding sonic weapons to a park in Chandler to "control barking dogs."
[AZ Republic article: http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/2010/03/03/20100303chandler-dog-park-silen
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David Alpha
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Battle over free speech and first amendment rights in Mohave County Pt. II
03-03-2010
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AZ Family Ch. 3 TV (BELO)
Supervisor Tom Sockwell wrote there is a good reason people are not allowed to politic on county property, writing "We the people" should be able to carry out the public's business without running a gauntlet of soapbox activists like Zanna, Langston
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Facing ethics probes, Rangel temporarily drops tax leadership
03-03-2010
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AP
"In order to avoid my colleagues having to defend me during their elections, I have this morning sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi asking her to grant me a leave of absence until such time [after the elections] as the Ethics Committee completes its wor
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Cheese Thief Jailed for 7 Years in California
03-03-2010
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NY Times
More than a year after a man was arrested outside a market in California with a $3.99 bag of Tillamook shredded cheese in his pants he had not paid for, a judge decided to go relatively easy on him, sentencing him to 7 years and 8 months in jail.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Fuel Taxes Must Rise, Harvard Researchers Say
03-03-2010
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NY Times
To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon. To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14% from 2005 levels by 2020, the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
We're #3, We're #3: Arizona mortgage delinquencies ranked 3rd at 18.6 percent
03-03-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
There definitely is a relationship between delinquency rates and the unemployment rate, although some states stand out (like Florida), because of state specific foreclosure laws. Arizona and Nevada also have higher than expected foreclosure rates...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Politics Unplugged: Sal DiCiccio explain why he opposes food tax
03-03-2010
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Catherine Holland
PHOENIX -- City Councilman Sal DiCiccio (District 6) explains why he opposed the food tax approved by the Cit Council earlier this month. The 2-percent tax is slated to go into effect in April.
"The basis of the opposition is that it goes a lot de
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • TAXES: Local
New charge on dinner tab is in bad taste
03-03-2010
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Chicago Tribune
[brilliant] Nothing succeeds in the travel industry like a bad idea. The latest hidden mandatory add-on is a "health" charge added to restaurant bills. As far as I know, this scam cropped up first in San Francisco, but you can count on it to spread.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
'Mossad agents fled to US' after killing in Dubai of Hamas leader
03-03-2010
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London Times
At least 2 Israeli agents behind the murder of a senior Hamas official escape to the US. Police have now cast their net wider in their investigation of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh’s killing, which officials are certain was carried out by Israel’s intelligence
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
White House land grab
03-03-2010
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Washington Times
A secret administration memo has surfaced revealing plans for the federal government to seize more than 10 million acres from Montana to New Mexico, halting job- creating activities like ranching, forestry, mining and energy development. Worse, this
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Coffee Party Organizer Exposed as Obama Campaign Operative
03-03-2010
Billed as an alternative grassroots movement to the Tea Party. However, the so called founder of the Coffee Party has been quickly exposed as an Obama campaign operative, whose caffeine concept was purely designed to undermine and co-opt the Tea Part
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Sharlene Holt
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
To reduce the deficit we need to raise taxes
03-03-2010
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Time magazine
Never mind about mortgaging the future. By running up a monster deficit as it struggles to keep the economy growing, the Obama Administration is setting the stage for sharply higher taxes down the road.
Of course, it's not an absolute certainty. T
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Kid Directs Planes at NY Airport
03-03-2010
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AP
An air traffic controller at New York's Kennedy Airport was suspended for allowing his young son to radio instructions to several pilots. The few quick exchanges between the elementary-school-aged child and jets waiting to take off from JFK, one of t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Property Rights
AZ may criminalize presence of illegal immigrants
03-03-2010
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AP
The proposal passed the Senate two weeks ago, and a similar bill could come to a vote of the full House as early as this week.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fiat Money and the Fort of Gold
03/03/2010
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Uncommon Sense
According to the government, Fort Knox contains about 147 million troy ounces of gold. The government has a total of 248 million troy ounces of gold, mostly in bars that are 400 troy ounces each. Most of the gold in Fort Knox came from melting of the
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Dave Johannes
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News Link • Gun Rights
Midwifing the Militias
03-03-2010
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Heidi Beirich - Southern Poverty Law Center
One of the most remarkable things about the little-noticed Jekyll Island gathering, which in some ways resembled another meeting that helped launch the militia movement of the 1990s, is how it brought together disparate elements of the radical right.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Gore Vidal: Marshal Law in The United States of Alzheimer's?
03-03-2010
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afterdowningstreet.org/
"our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Swaps and Robbers: Will CDS's force entire countries to their knees?
03-03-2010
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theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/
It’s the fact, instead, that it’s become one giant casino that is responsible for foreclosures, lay-offs, bankruptcies and the even graver consequences we have yet to witness. Our society has gambled itself away, literally
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Commercial Mortgage Backed Security Delinquencies Hit New Record
03-03-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Notably, over 10% of total CMBS exposure in the states of Florida, Arizona, Nevada and Michigan are delinquent, with the Phoenix, AZ and Las Vegas, NV MSAs accounting for the top 2 by delinquency exposure at (14% and 14.5% of the MSAs).
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
German's Upset: Internet Copyright Treaty Would Ruin Internet
03-03-2010
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spiegel.de/international/europe/
Recent leaks suggest the 39 countries negotiating an international copyright protection treaty could require Internet service providers to ban repeat piracy offenders from using the Web.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Carlyle Group Company Behind Cyber Attack Fear Mongering
03-03-2010
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boingboing.net/ & EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Wired's Ryan Singel makes a good case in this article that cyberwar hype -- like terrorism hype -- has been fuelled by government contractors who have a product to sell, and who don't give a damn about the consequences to the net or to freedom.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Jordan Page Publishes New Song & Lyrics, "Liberty"
03-03-2010
Jordan Page has published a video to his channel and you can also find it on my channel at You Tube. It's a music video for the acoustic version of the song "Liberty" by Jordan Page. Ukulele cameo by Michael Maresco. The song is yet unreleased.
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Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
7 Ways to Keep Doing Agorism
03-03-2010
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Arm Your Mind for Liberty
This is no small matter to be overlooked or pooh-poohed. It’s easy to start a new project, but not always so simple to keep it going.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Activism
Limited-time offer
03-03-2010
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Rad Geek People's Daily
f you hope to be officially recognized as an enemy of the state of South Carolina, you’d best move quick and make sure you send in your notice. You may be running out of time.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Government Waste
$400 per gallon gas to drive debate over cost of war in Afghanistan
10-15-2009
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Roxana Tiron, The Hill
The Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan.
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The Marines in Afghanistan, for example, reportedly run through some 800,000 gallons of fuel a day.
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Leon Felkins
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