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Date Sent: 2010-10-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, October 29, 2010 |
Pentagon’s threat-prediction system would scan emails, texts -- US intelligence tops $80 billion
Inquiry Finds U.S. Official Set Up Spy Ring in Asia -- Adnan
Mirza: Another US War on Terror Victim - by Stephen Lendman -- Pentagon
shooting linked to third military target -- Officials: Muslim source turned in terror suspect -- 4-Year-Old Can Be Sued, Judge Rules in Bike Case -- Democrats Back Nick Coons? -- Tests showed unstable cement in gulf oil well before explosion -- Pennsylvania Homeland Security called coal documentary a security threat
-- 'Vertical Farm' envisions tall future for farming -- Humans mastered
tool making earlier than thought -- Snakes On Our Plane: The US
Intelligence Services -- Foreclosure-Gate Explained: Big Banks on the
Brink -- Philip Giraldi: The Tea Party Disconnect -- Backstop Benny and his Lollipop Gang: Hyperinflation Is Arriving -- Actual U.S. Government Debt is $200-Trillion – 840 Percent of Current GDP --
Bank of America foreclosure-sale freeze may hamper Phoenix area housing
market -- John McCain to campaign with Sharron Angle in Nevada -- Dependency - by Howard Blitz -- Top NASA astronaut Dr. Story Musgrave, discloses Columbia space shuttle encounter with disc UFO over -- Judge fines McDonald's $17,500 for obese employee -- Companies fight to keep global warming data secret -- Indonesia tsunami kills 370; toll expected to rise
AZ: Maricopa County Master Gardeners Fall Plant Sale!
this Saturday; Karl
Rove, "War Criminal," In Phoenix 11/09/2010; AZC4L
Freedom Rally and Annual Convention Featuring Dr. Ron Paul November 19-20.
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News Link • Surveillance
Pentagon’s threat-prediction system would scan emails, texts
10-28-2010
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Rawstory
In an effort to prevent the next Fort Hood-style shooting before it happens, the Pentagon has launched a program to scan massive amounts of communications and detect anomalies in behavior that could predict "insider threats" to the military.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Inquiry Finds U.S. Official Set Up Spy Ring in Asia
10-29-2010
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NY Times
A senior Pentagon official broke Defense Department rules and “deliberately misled” senior generals when he set up a network of private contractors to spy in Afghanistan and Pakistan beginning last year, according to the results of an internal govern
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Pentagon shooting linked to third military target
10-29-2010
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Washington Post
An overnight shooting at a vacant Marine Corps recruiting station in Chantilly this week has been definitively linked to two recent attacks on U.S. military buildings in Northern Virginia.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Officials: Muslim source turned in terror suspect
10-29-2010
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AP
Farooque Ahmed, a naturalized citizen arrested Wednesday, was a married father who had a good job with a telecommunications company. Authorities say he also was eager to kill Americans in Afghanistan and committed to becoming a martyr.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
4-Year-Old Can Be Sued, Judge Rules in Bike Case
10-29-2010
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NY Times
Citing cases dating back as far as 1928, a judge has ruled that a young girl accused of running down an elderly woman while racing a bicycle with training wheels on a Manhattan sidewalk two years ago can be sued for negligence.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Snapshot of Flower Evolution
10-29-2010
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arclein
The researchers have discovered that the different behaviour of the gene in each plant is linked to one amino acid. Although the genes look very similar, the proteins they encode don't always have this amino acid.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Bounty of New Oceanic Species
10-29-2010
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arclein
More than 2,700 scientists from around the world helped carry out the census in more than 540 expeditions over 10 years. They identified more than 6,000 new species.
The discoveries include a blind lobster with a long, spiny, pincer, which lives 3
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Anti Bacterial Polymers
10-29-2010
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arclein
new polymer, “conjugated polyelectrolyte (CPE) with an arylene-ethynylene repeat-unit structure,” to kill antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria " S. aureus is responsible for about 19,000 deaths every year in the U.S. alone.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bio-degradable Packing Foam
10-29-2010
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arclein
Casein is already used in some adhesives and paper coatings, but it lacks strength and is water-soluble. The small amount of clay in the foam gives the casein the needed water resistance, while the addition of a biocompatible agent called glyceraldeh
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robert klein
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News Link • Environment
Tests showed unstable cement in gulf oil well before explosion
10-28-2010
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Washington Post
A cement mixture intended to temporarily seal BP's Macondo exploration well repeatedly failed lab tests before the April 20 blowout, a presidential commission investigating the oil spill said Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Pennsylvania Homeland Security called coal documentary a security threat
10-28-2010
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Rawstory
A 2009 documentary on modern day coal mining is almost as threatening as anarchists and "international jihadists," according to a document uncovered by Discovery Channel's Treehugger website.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
'Vertical Farm' envisions tall future for farming
10-28-2010
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AP
A new book by an urban agriculture visionary aims to change the way people think about farming, offering a look into a future where city skyscrapers _ not rural fields _ produce the world's food. "The Vertical Farm," challenges the notion that plants
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Humans mastered tool making earlier than thought
10-28-2010
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Reuters
A group of prehistoric people mastered a difficult and delicate process to sharpen stones into spears and knives at least 75,000 years ago, more than 50,000 years earlier than previously thought. This technique, known as pressure flaking, allowed for
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Total US intelligence bill tops $80 billion
10-28-2010
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AP
The annual cost of US intelligence is public for the first time: just over $80 billion for 2010. Figures released by the government yesterday show $27 billion goes to military intelligence and $53.1 billion covers the CIA and some of the country’s ot
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Facebook fake-out: Curvy Czech model dumps boyfriend by staging own 'death'
10-28-2010
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Terrence Aym
A popular sexy Czech model went to extremes to rid herself of an abusive boyfriend by faking her own death on the mega-social networking site, Facebook. The 24-year old photogenic blonde"Lenka Kopalová"was quoted as saying she saw no other way to dea
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Surveillance
Snakes On Our Plane: The US Intelligence Services
10-28-10
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The PPJ Gazette
Here is a haunting tale of intrigue and horror, a tale of monstrous snakes with fangs that would sear my words from your brain and burn theirs into your mind, their venom meant to poison your soul.
These are stimulus/response creatures without sou
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate Explained: Big Banks on the Brink
10-28-2010
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truth-out.org/
One foreclosure expert estimates that just 6 to 7 percent of the loans made in the last three years can produce properly recorded title transfers from borrower to final lender. Legally assigning, or recording title transfers was much too slow...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Tea Party
Philip Giraldi: The Tea Party Disconnect
10-28-2010
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america-hijacked.com
Palin is something quite different, and a good deal more dangerous than the lumpish and frequently strident Gingrich. She knows nothing of foreign policy and even less of security and defense related issues and is basically a neocon creation...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Backstop Benny and his Lollipop Gang: Hyperinflation Is Arriving
10-28-2010
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gonzalolira.blogspot.com/
A beggar-thy-neighbor monetary policy works for small countries getting out of a hole of their own making: It doesn’t work for the world’s largest single economy with the world’s reserve currency, in the middle of a Global Depression.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Actual U.S. Government Debt is $200-Trillion " 840 Percent of Current GDP
10-28-2010
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TheGlobeAndMail.com/
Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff says U.S. government debt is not $13.5-trillion (U.S.), which is 60 per cent of current gross domestic product, as global investors and American taxpayers think, but rather 14-fold higher: $200-trillion.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank of America foreclosure-sale freeze may hamper Phoenix area housing market
10-28-2010
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www.azcentral.com
A temporary foreclosure-sale freeze announced by Bank of America 12 days ago gives most distressed homeowners little hope of avoiding a foreclosure but raises a host of new concerns among housing analysts.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Politics
John McCain to campaign with Sharron Angle in Nevada
10-28-2010
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Holly Bailey, The Upshot/Yahoo
With the polls virtually tied in Nevada, GOP Senate hopeful Sharron Angle is set to pick up a major GOP endorsement on Friday. As the National Review's Elizabeth Crum first reported, Arizona Sen. John McCain will campaign with Angle at a rally in La
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Hugo Tellez
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Opinion • Government
Dependency
10-28-2010
Howard Blitz
Being dependent is being a slave to that on which one is addicted. Being independent means having the freedom to do what one wants without having to resort to an addiction. For example, when one is dependent on drugs for his existence, the individu
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Top NASA astronaut Dr. Story Musgrave, discloses Columbia space shuttle encounter with disc UFO over
10-28-2010
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Terrence Aym
In a bombshell story, a former SCO of NASA's space shuttle fleet announced that he and NASA know that ETs are real. According to internal NASA reports"confirmed by Dr. Story Musgrave, a Payload Specialist crew member aboard the STS-80 Mission"a disc
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Ballmer: 'No question we're early' on mobile
10-28-2010
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money.cnn.com
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told software developers on Thursday that his company will prove doubters wrong and succeed in the mobile field, because the smartphone market is still in its infancy.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Food
Judge fines McDonald's $17,500 for obese employee
10-28-2010
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news.yahoo.com
A Brazilian court has ordered McDonald's to pay a former franchise manager $17,500 because he gained 65 pounds while working there a dozen years.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Government
Companies fight to keep global warming data secret
10-28-2010
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news.yahoo.com
Some of the country's largest emitters of heat-trapping gases, including businesses that publicly support efforts to curb global warming, don't want the public knowing exactly how much they pollute.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • World News
Indonesia tsunami kills 370; toll expected to rise
10-28-2010
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news.yahoo.com
Indonesia Rescuers searching islands ravaged by a tsunami off western Indonesia raised the death toll to 370 Thursday as more corpses were wrapped in body bags or buried by neighbors. Officials said hundreds of missing people may have been swept out
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stores Push Black Friday Into October: Can You Say Depression?
10-28-2010
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CNBC.com
The year’s most popular discount shopping event, referring to the Friday after Thanksgiving, is arriving ahead of Halloween this year, with some promotions beginning this week and others throughout November.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Agriculture
Maricopa County Master Gardeners Fall Plant Sale!
10-28-2010
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e-mail from Easton Kelsey (THANKS!)
The University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Maricopa County Master Gardeners are pleased to announce their Fall Plant Sale on Saturday, October 30, 2010, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Ed Vallejo
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