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Date Sent: 2010-08-31
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 31, 2010 AM edition |
Israel planning to attack Syria -- Asian stocks retreat as Nikkei slides 2.6%
Cisco seeking to acquire Skype -- Gay Republicans Rising -- Drug gangs,
smugglers in Mexico and U.S. are increasingly disguising couriers in
phony uniforms -- Obama widens U.S. sanctions on North Korea -- 3M to
pay $943 million for biometric systems maker -- Study Finds Heavy
Drinkers Outlive Non Drinkers -- Are “Guaranteed Requirement Accounts”
in Your Best Interest? -- Spreading Hayek, Spurning Keynes -- Gimme
Back my Bullets (a new attempt at gun control) -- Obama, Muslims &
the Mosque -- THE Very First Ron Paul Video -- Why No Economic
‘Full-Scale Attack’ Until Now? -- Cop caught stealing money gets paid
vacation
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club Saturday: Marc Victor on Basekine Killer and Pastor Steven Anderson's third victory and suit
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News Link • Israel
Israel planning to attack Syria
08-30-2010
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Haaretz
The Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reports that Israel is preparing to strike Hezbollah targets in Syria; Al-Arabi Al-Quds reports that western diplomats have asked Bashar Assad to refrain from interfering with Israel-PA direct peace talks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian stocks retreat as Nikkei slides 2.6 percent
08-30-2010
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AP
Asian markets lost ground Tuesday as a strong yen pummeled Japanese shares and after Wall Street fell amid pessimism about the U.S. economy.
Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average led regional declines, down 236.93 points, or 2.6 percent to 8,912.33. Dr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Cisco seeking to acquire Skype
08-30-2010
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AFP
TechCrunch, citing what it described as "one of our more reliable sources," said the San Jose, California-based Cisco is seeking to acquire Skype before the internet telephony company makes an initial public offering or IPO.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gay Republicans Rising
08-30-2010
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The Daily Beast
Every queer knows that some of the biggest homophobes are closet cases. Simply recall the names of Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, Larry Craig, or George “rent-boy” Rekers. The latest Republican to move from the closet to the Log Cabin is Ken Mehlman, the a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Drug gangs, smugglers in Mexico and U.S. are increasingly disguising couriers in phony uniforms
08-30-2010
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Washington Post
The driver was wearing a deputy's uniform and swore he was a real law officer. But to the Border Patrol agents manning a checkpoint here, something just looked funny about the pickup truck with Webb County sheriff decals.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama widens U.S. sanctions on North Korea
08-30-2010
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Reuters
The day after N.Korea frees an American illegal immigrant, President Obama broadened financial sanctions on North Korea and froze the U.S. assets of 4 North Korean citizens and 8 firms in part to punish it for the sinking of a South Korean warship.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Remains of Ancient Feast to Honor Dead Shaman Discovered
08-30-2010
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LiveScience
Prehistoric leftovers of a feast 12,000 years ago at an apparent shaman's gravesite have been unearthed in what is now Israel. Archaeologists say the ritual might be the first clear evidence of feasting in early humans, a sign of the kinds of increas
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
NC farm produces emerald shaped into massive gem
08-30-2010
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Reuters
An emerald so large it's being compared with the crown jewels of Russian empress Catherine the Great was pulled from a pit near corn rows at a North Carolina farm.
The nearly 65-carat emerald its finders are marketing by the name Carolina Emperor
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
3M to pay $943 million for biometric systems maker
08-30-2010
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Reuters
Diversified U.S. manufacturer 3M Co said it would buy Cogent Inc for $943 million, paying a nearly 18 percent premium for the maker of identification systems used to screen travelers at border crossings.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Velociraptor Had a Kickboxing Cousin
08-30-2010
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LiveScience
A deadly, heavier relative of Velociraptor, which had twice as many giant sickle-like claws on its feet and was more of a kickboxer than its famous sprinter-like cousin, has been discovered in Romania.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Study Finds Heavy Drinkers Outlive Non Drinkers
08-30-2010
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Yahoo! News
A new study suggests that - for reasons that aren't entirely clear - abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Church and State - God, Atheism and Liberty
08-30-2010
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Fox Business Channel
Skeptic Magazine’s Michael Shermer and Action Institute’s Michael Shermer debate on Judge Andrew Napolitano's Freedom Watch where natural rights come from, God or from individual human beings.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Drones
Are “Guaranteed Requirement Accounts” in Your Best Interest?
08-3-10
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http://www.ppjg.wordpress.com
Lynn Swearingen (c) copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
For the purposes of this satirical piece, one will need the following definitions to assist in decoding the secret methods of stripping away the populations nest egg.
SSA : Sorry Suckers Al
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Economics: Austrian
Spreading Hayek, Spurning Keynes
08-30-2010
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The Wall Street Journal
Peter J. Boettke a professor of economics at George Mason University is emerging as the intellectual standard-bearer for the Austrian school of economics that opposes government intervention in markets and decries federal spending.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gimme Back my Bullets (a new attempt at gun control)
08/30/2010
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Uncommon Sense
Working through the backdoor, radical leftist groups, the administration, the EPA and Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein are carefully designing regulations to control the use of lead in products. While we all recognize the dangers associated with the use
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Dave Johannes
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
Obama, Muslims & the Mosque
08/30/2010
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Uncommon Sense
A recent poll conducted by Pew Research Center and its affiliate Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that 18% of Americans now believe that the president is a Muslim, up 7% from last year. The flack has gotten so bad that The White House Bill
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Dave Johannes
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News Link • United Nations
THE KINGFISH: A UNLIKELY NON-INTERVENTIONIST HERO!
08-30-2010
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www.varight.com
On this, the 117th anniversary of the birth of Huey P. Long, the Kingfish, we honor him for his consistent non-interventionist and pro-American sovereignty stand against those who sought global entanglements in the 30s.
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Government
The Plan
08-30-2010
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L. Neil Smith
The United States of America are in trouble. To some, it is a horrible surprise. Many others have helplessly watched it coming for years.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economic Stimulus
Why No Economic ‘Full-Scale Attack’ Until Now?
08302010
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www.drscoundrels.com
Mr. President - the question begs to be asked. After 17 months and 8 vacations, you're just now figuring we need to go into "full scale attack" mode?
What is wrong with this picture?
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Corruption
Cop caught red-handed stealing money gets a paid vacation
08-30-2010
I know if I was at work and was caught red-handed stealing money by a undercover investigator my employer wouldn’t pay me to sit at home while my fellow workers decide if I am allowed to keep my job.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
"JohnGaltFLA", visits GodLikeproductions.com to discuss the country's current state o
08/30/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
"JohnGaltFLA", of johngaltfla.com *radio show host http://thewatchmen.biz joins GodLikeproductions to discuss the country's current state of affairs, the impending economic collapse, tent cities, foreclosures, unemployment & more. Video.
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Phennommennonn GLP
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