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Date Sent: 2010-10-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, October 7, 2010 PM edition |
FBI corruption probe nets 133 cops -- Lawless Spying in America Obstructs 1st Amend. Freedoms
The Praxeology and Ethics of Traffic Lights -- Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize -- Phoenix police officer in fatal shooting arrested -- Foreclosure-Gate: The Short Text of The Senates Big Banking Fix -- Three Horrifying Facts About the US Debt “Situation” -- Food Stamps: A Staggering Year Over Year Comparison -- Russians Predict Coldest Winter in 1000 Years --
Foreclosure-Gate & The Mother Of All Bank Bailouts: Obama Shafts
Serfs -- Hungary red toxic sludge spill reaches formerly blue Danube --
Texas delays hearing into whether executed man was innocent -- The Fed Mulls Inflation as a Fix
-- Miss. judge jails attorney for not reciting Pledge of Allegiance --
President Eisenhower's Farewell Address To The Nation (full) -- Pastor
Andersons' Life Threatened for Broken License Plate Light -- Video: Nevada Nuclear Site Hires Autonomous Robotic Sentries To Provide Security -- Video: A Gasoline-Powered Robotic Exoskeleton Designed Just for Kids -- Secret-Spilling Sources at Risk Following Cryptome Breach -- Sun's Surprise: Even As It Relaxes, It May Heat Earth's Climate
AZ: Sign-Making
Party at the Freedom's Phoenix
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Featuring Lawrence Jarach; Thomas Woods at Grand Canyon University
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
‘Largest ever’ FBI corruption probe nets 133 cops, officials
10-07-2010
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Rawstory
US officials unveiled the FBI's largest ever police corruption sweep saying 133 police, prison guards and army officers have been charged in a huge anti-graft crackdown in Puerto Rico. The suspects face charges relating to possessing and distributing
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Hollywood film asks the right questions about what’s wrong with public education
10-07-2010
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goldwaterinstitute.org
Hell has officially frozen over: someone from the Goldwater Institute is urging you to go see a film by the director of Al Gore’s global warming movie, An Inconvenient Truth.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Transportation
The Praxeology and Ethics of Traffic Lights
10-07-2010
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mises.org / Justin T.P. Quinn
Traffic lights, erected by the state for the sake of "public safety," encourage dangerous and aggressive behavior, contradict other laws at the expense of justice, and are responsible for the loss of vast amounts of wealth and countless lives.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • World News
Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize
10-07-2010
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AP
Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday as the academy honored one of the Spanish-speaking world's most acclaimed authors and an outspoken political activist who once ran for president in his tumultuous homeland
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Phoenix police officer in fatal shooting arrested
10-07-2010
She asked them to reason with her son. She expected they would issue a warning and cool things down. Instead, about 15 minutes later, Danny Frank Rodriquez was shot dead inside the trailer.
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: The Short Text of The Senates Big Banking Fix
10-07-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
John Carney at CNBC points to the actual text and what stands out is that it's shockingly short. (Check out the date this bill was submitted.)
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Three Horrifying Facts About the US Debt “Situation”
10-07-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
If you look closely at the chart you can see there is an enormous ramp in the required roll-over of 2 year notes starting in February 2011, and running thru September 2011.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Thomas Woods at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix
10-06-2010
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TomWoods.com
Bestselling author of ten books and a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Mr. Woods will be speaking Wednesday, October 20 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm, Grand Canyon University; 3300 West Camelback Road, Phoenix, AZ
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Food Stamps: A Staggering Year Over Year Comparison
10-07-2010
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Ritholtz.com
The chart gives you a state by state breakdown of the increase in households enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP))
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Agriculture
Cowpeas in New Spotlight
10-07-2010
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arclein
One of the world's oldest crops could combat hunger for millions, sustain livestock in developing countries an even feed astronauts in space, researchers say.
Scientists from around the world gathered in Dakar, Senegal, last week to talk about th
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robert klein
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Six Brain Strengthening Protocols
10-07-2010
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arclein
Our brains are constantly adapting to information from the world around us. However, some activities make a bigger impression than others. In recent years, researchers have been probing how outside influences, from music to meditation, might change
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Antiquity of Crop Production in Peru
10-07-2010
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arclein
the number of cultivated plants present at a site is used to estimate the importance of food production, a pattern of increasing use of cultivated plants over time is exhibited by the coastal Peruvian data. This is not a gradual increase, but a doub
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Russians Predict Coldest Winter in 1000 Years
10-07-2010
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arclein
The change is reportedly connected with the speed of the Gulf Stream, which has shrunk in half in just the last couple of years. Polish scientists say that it means the stream will not be able to compensate for the cold from the Arctic winds. Accordi
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate & The Mother Of All Bank Bailouts: Obama
Shafts Serfs - Part 2
10-07-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Obama has the capacity to prevent tens of billions in damages to banks from legal fees, MBS deficiency claims, unwound sales, and to formally make what started this whole mess: Court Fraud perpetrated by banks, a legal act, and to trample...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate & The Mother Of All Bank Bailouts: Obama
Shafts Serfs
10-07-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner told Reuters in an interview that the law would weaken protection of homeowners by requiring many states to accept lower standards for notarizations.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Hungary red toxic sludge spill reaches formerly blue Danube
10-07-2010
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AFP
Hungary's toxic sludge spill, which has killed 4 people, reached the Danube river Thursday, threatening to contaminate the waterway's ecosystem. Water alkalinity, a measure of river contamination, was already above normal in the major waterway
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Texas delays hearing into whether executed man was innocent
10-07-2010
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AFP
A court hearing to determine whether a man executed in 2004 was innocent of burning to death his 3 young daughters was postponed when prosecutors asked the judge to take himself off the case. Willingham's family is seeking to have his name cleared
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Officials Mull Inflation as a Fix
10-07-2010
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Wall Steet Journal
The Federal Reserve spent the past 3 decades getting inflation low and keeping it there. But as the US economy struggles and flirts with the prospect of deflation, some central bank officials are publicly broaching lifting inflation above the Fed's i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Miss. judge jails attorney for not reciting pledge
10-07-2010
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Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
A Mississippi judge ordered an attorney to spend several hours in jail after the attorney chose not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in court. Chancery Judge Talmadge Littlejohn told a court audience to rise and say the pledge.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
President Eisenhower's Farewell Address To The Nation (full)
10-07-2010
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http://vodpod.com
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in hi
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Pastor's Life Threatened for Broken License Plate Light
10-05-2010
Pastor Steven Anderson was almost tased again for trying to assert his God-given and constitutional rights.
Watch the video of the incident here: http://www.hardpreaching.com/img_0001.mov
(YouTube video coming later)
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Scott Brooke
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Video: Nevada Nuclear Site Hires Autonomous Robotic Sentries To Provide Security
10-07-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci
Anyone trying to get onto the grounds of the Nevada National Security Site " the installation housing tens of millions of cubic feet of low-level radioactive waste and site of many nuclear weapons tests back when they were militarily fashionable
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Video: A Gasoline-Powered Robotic Exoskeleton Designed Just for Kids
10-06-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
The company that created the Landwalker bi-pedal exoskeleton has created a five-and-a-quarter-foot exoskeleton just for the kiddies that is sure to captivate even the most technophobic youngster, assuming such a thing exists.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Internet
Secret-Spilling Sources at Risk Following Cryptome Breach
10-06-2010
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
Secret-spilling site Cryptome was hacked over the weekend, possibly exposing the identities of whistleblowers and other confidential sources, according to a hacker who contacted Wired.com and claimed responsibility for the breach.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Building a Better Superman: How Zack Snyder Can Forge a New Man of Steel
10-06-2010
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Hugh Hart via WIRED.com
Now that producer Christopher Nolan has entrusted Zack Snyder with stewardship of the Superman movie franchise, things should get really interesting.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nobel Worthy: Best Graphene Close-Ups
10-06-2010
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Dave Mosher via WIRED.com
Sorry diamond lovers, but graphene is the most awesome form of carbon out there. Evidence: Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, the two scientists who isolated one-atom-thick sheets of the stuff in 2004, won the Nobel Prize this morning
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News Link • Climate Change
Sun's Surprise: Even As It Relaxes, It May Heat Earth's Climate
10-06-2010
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Denise Chow via Space.com
As the ultimate source of all the energy on Earth, the sun has an inextricable hand in driving our planet's climate and atmosphere. But a new look at the sun's connection to Earth's climate has returned some surprising results.
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