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Date Sent: 2010-10-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, October 6, 2010 AM edition |
US Plans Law Enforcement 'Surge' On Trains -- Wall Street: Insider Selling To Buying: 2,341 To 1
NY personal income falls for 1st time in 70 years -- Bailout Loss Estimated at $29 Billion -- Cities in Debt Turn to States, Adding Strain -- Amid backlash and budget deficits, government workers' pensions are targets -- Shooting board visits site where cop fatally shot carver -- Probe widens into alleged cheating by Pr. George's officers-in-training --
Wonder carbon pioneers win Nobel Physics Prize -- Environmentalists
stay mostly quiet about violent climate change advertisement -- iPhone Game Slaughters Humans To Defend “Mother Earth” -- Rahm Emanuel's rough opening day -- Obama-Clinton ticket 'on the table,' Woodward says -- UN official denies she has role representing Earth -- Book review: Michael Savage's 'Trickle Up Poverty' -- Ahmadinejad calls for US leaders to be 'buried' -- Eric Schmidt: Google gets close to 'the creepy line' -- Hacker infiltration ends D.C. online voting trial -- "No-Pressure" Environmental Campaign Glorifies Eco-Fascism -- America’s Enemies: The Department of Justice? -- Jury Nullification May Be The Only Salvation For The Antiwar Activists -- Russia poised to teach US leaders another economic lesson -- Food Stamps Went to Record 41.8 Million Americans in July
-- Water: Another battle with our own government over our freedom --
Doctor admits that most MDs know nothing about nutrition, health -- Porter: Petraeus Openly Defying Obama, too Popular to get Fired -- Government collusion in human medical experiments no longer just a conspiracy theory -- Karl Denninger: Just Trash The Dollar And It's All Good....
AZ: Memorial today: Passing of
local activist and friend, Kent Knudson; Sign-Making Party at the Freedom's Phoenix
Workshop all day Saturday; Beer
& Revolution, Sunday Featuring Lawrence Jarach
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. Plans Law Enforcement 'Surge' On Trains
10-05-2010
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Richard Esposito, Rhonda Schwartz and Schpoliansky
U.S. authorities plan a law enforcement surge this week along Amtrak routes, an exercise called RailSafe, and the heads of the country's biggest mass transit systems were briefed today on the possible terror threat,
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wall Street: Insider Selling To Buying: 2,341 To 1
10-05-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Sorry kids, we just report the news... as ugly as they may be. After last week saw an insider selling to buying ratio of 1,411 to 1, this week the ratio has nearly doubled, hitting a ridiculous 2,341 to 1.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • TAXES: State
NY personal income falls for 1st time in 70 years
10-05-2010
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Reuters
The recession put a 3.1% dent in the personal incomes of NY residents, who endured their first full-year decline in more than 70 years. Paychecks or net earnings tumbled 5.4%, while dividends, interest and rent slid 8.4%, to a grand total of $908 bil
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bailout Loss Estimated at $29 Billion
10-05-2010
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NY Times
The Treasury Department expects to lose $29 billion on the federal bailouts stemming from the financial crisis, with most of the losses in its housing finance program and the auto rescue.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Cities in Debt Turn to States, Adding Strain
10-05-2010
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NY Times
Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, dodged financial disaster last month by getting money from the state to make a payment to its bondholders. It did so even though the state warned that the money had to be used for city workers’ pensions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Amid backlash and budget deficits, government workers' pensions are targets
10-05-2010
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Washington Post
Faced with deep budget deficits and overextended pension plans, state and local leaders are increasingly looking to trim the lucrative retirement benefits that have long been associated with government employment.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Shooting board visits site where cop fatally shot carver
10-05-2010
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Washington Post
Williams, a public inebriate who was a member of Nuu-Chah-Nulth First Nations in British Columbia, ignored 3 commands to drop the knife, police officials said. The department originally said Williams advanced on Birk, but later retreated on that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Probe widens into alleged cheating by Pr. George's officers-in-training
10-05-2010
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Washington Post
Prince George's County police might be forced to pull more than 30 officers off the street because of a cheating scandal at the department's training academy in which all the cadets received perfect scores on several comprehensive and mandatory tests
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Wonder carbon pioneers win Nobel Physics Prize
10-05-2010
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Agence France-Presse via The Raw Story
Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for their pioneering work on graphene -- touted as the wonder material of the 21st century
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News Link • Climate Change
Environmentalists stay mostly quiet about violent climate change advertisement
10-05-2010
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Jonathan Strong via Prison Planet.com
Although the British organization which created an advertisement depicting the gruesome murder of its conservative opponents has since apologized and removed the ad from its website, American environmentalists have stayed largely quiet about the affa
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
iPhone Game Slaughters Humans To Defend “Mother Earth”
10-05-2010
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Paul Joseph Watson via Prison Plantet.com
Latest shocking example of eco-fascism emphasizes global warming cult’s obsession with mass genocide and blood splattering death
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Rahm Emanuel's rough opening day
10-05-2010
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AndyBarr via Politico.com
Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s first day on the campaign trail in the Chicago mayoral race didn’t exactly go as planned.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
TRENDING: Obama-Clinton ticket 'on the table,' Woodward says
10-05-2010
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Alexander Mooney via CNN Politics
Some called a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton pairing the "Dream Ticket" in 2008. It didn't happen.
But what about 2012?
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News Link • Books
Book review: Michael Savage's 'Trickle Up Poverty'
10-05-2010
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Terrence Aym
Popular talk show philosopher-king, Dr. Michael Savage, has done it again. The author of almost two dozen books has penned the penultimate exposé of an America spiraling into ruin because of political crimes, corruption and con jobs.
With this boo
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Iran
Ahmadinejad calls for US leaders to be 'buried'
10-05-2010
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Yahoo! News
On Sunday Iran's president called for U.S. leaders to be "buried" in response to what he says are American threats of military attack against Tehran's nuclear program.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Internet
Eric Schmidt: Google gets close to 'the creepy line'
10-05-2010
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Shane Richmond via Telegraph.co.uk
Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, has described his company’s policy: “Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”
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News Link • Internet
Hacker infiltration ends D.C. online voting trial
10-05-2010
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Mike DeBonis via The Washington Post
Last week, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics opened a new Internet-based voting system for a weeklong test period, inviting computer experts from all corners to prod its vulnerabilities in the spirit of "give it your best shot."
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News Link • Environment
"No-Pressure" Environmental Campaign Glorifies Eco-Fascism
10-05-2010
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The Blaze
The U.K. government released a gruesome 4-minute TV ad depicting global warming skeptics being literally blown to pieces after their tree-hugging friends insist they’re under “no pressure” to modify their carbon consumption.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Corruption
America’s Enemies: The Department of Justice?
10-05-10
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The PPJ Gazette
America’s Enemies: The Department of Justice?
October 6, 2010 by ppjg | Edit
Live Link: America’s Enemies
Some of the people and organizations working to destroy our liberty and national sovereignty.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Department of
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Police State
Jury Nullification May Be The Only Salvation For The Antiwar Activists
10-05-2010
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The International Libertarian
The only thing that may eventually save the antiwar activists subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury may be jury nullification.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Free Trade
A Solipsist's Guide to Comparative Advantage
10-05-2010
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EconLib / Bryan Caplan
"We already know that trade increases productivity via shared knowledge, increasing returns, etc." are all empirical claims. My point is stronger: Trade tautologically increase productivity. And if a solipsist can see this, so should everyone.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Russia poised to teach US leaders another economic lesson
10-05-10
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Terrence Aym
Putin is rebuilding the house of Russia while the US administration and Congress is building a house of cards. And a flimsy house it is too.
In an amazingly Reaganesque move, Putin is steering Russia towards an economic climate that echoes the US
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Food Stamps Went to Record 41.8 Million Americans in July
10-05-2010
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Bloomberg.com
Recipients of Food Stamps jumped 18 percent from a year earlier and increased 1.4 percent from June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today in a statement on its website. Participation has set records for 20 straight months.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Self-Help: Rational Living
Rainwater Harvesting and Storage
10-05-2010
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www.green-trust.org
Water, the essence of life. We can't live without it. Our bodies are made of it. To drink, to cook, to keep ourselves clean, it's a building block of life. Here you will learn how to obtain it, and keep it clean.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Water: Another battle with our own government over our freedom
10-05-10
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The PPJ Gazette
Oberstars bill targeted the term “navigable waterways” and replaced each and every instance of that term with the term “waters of the United States” contained in the “Federal Water Pollution Control Act” of 1972. “Waters of the United States” woul
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Gas Lines in Phoenix (wayback machine - get ready for shortages)
10-05-2010
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www.mcdonaldlawaz.com
a 48-year old pipeline carrying gasoline from El Paso to Phoenix ruptured on the south side of Tucson. The break in the high pressure underground line spilled 10,000 gallons of gasoline, dousing 5 homes under construction on West Grant and North Silv
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Doctor admits that most MDs know nothing about nutrition, health
10-05-2010
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naturalnews.com
Most people probably assume that their doctors know everything there is to know about health because, after all, they went through many years of medical school.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Porter: Petraeus Openly Defying Obama, too Popular to get Fired
10-05-2010
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AntiWar.com / Gareth Porter
Instead of firing Petraeus for his perfidy on the November 2009 agreement, Obama has thus far passively accepted Petraeus’s bait-and-switch maneuver, just as he truckled to Petraeus and Odierno on withdrawal from Iraq last year.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Government
Government collusion in human medical experiments no longer just a conspiracy theory
10-05-2010
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naturalnews.com
It used to be that when you talked about Big Government conspiring with Big Pharma to use human beings as guinea pigs in bizarre medical experiments, people would look at you as if you were some kind of loon. "Oh, the American government would never
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Karl Denninger: Just Trash The Dollar And It's All Good....
10-05-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.org/
Chart is the SPX, white line is the dollar by comparison. That's where the ramp the last month has come from. That's an overt currency devaluation - 7%.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Welfare: Social
$69M in Calif. welfare money spent out of state
10-05-2010
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abclocal.go
Thousands of documents show tens of millions of welfare dollars have been spent out of state, some at vacation resorts. The discovery is leading to new legislation to prevent welfare abuse.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Super-rich investors buy gold by ton
10-05-2010
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www.reuters.com
The world's wealthiest people have responded to economic worries by buying gold by the bar -- and sometimes by the ton -- and by moving assets out of the financial system, bankers catering to the very rich said on Monday.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Erik Scott Killing Sparks West Point Alums to Target Las Vegas Police
10-05-2010
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Pajamas Media
Erik Scott’s family is expected to file a civil case against Costco, the Metro police, and the individual officers over his death, but that isn’t the only action being called for because of this incident. Metro has raised the ire of the the Long Gray
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Government
Anti-tax fervor undermines the common good - by Neal Peirce
10-05-2010
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Seattle Times
Where will anti-government sentiment " call it "libertarian," "tax revolt" or "tea party" " take America's cities and towns? For a top example, Governing magazine's current edition features the draconian measures under way in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Sign-Making Party at the Freedom's Phoenix Workshop
10-05-2010
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Meetup.com/Donna Hancock
Sat, Oct. 9, 2010. Come down and make your favorite sign! There are already so many great stencils that you can use to make signs with, so pick your favorite and paint away. OR, make a new stencil with whatever message you want to send to the public
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Beer & Revolution, Sunday, Oct 10, Featuring Lawrence Jarach
10-05-2010
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Fires Never Extinguished
Hear what Lawrence will has to say about the possibility of an anarchist movement sans the Left, those anarchists who continue to defend, and justify the actions of left-wing groups whose ideas and actions run counter an anarchist or anti-authoritari
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Brock Lorber
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