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Date Sent: 2011-07-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, July 10, 2011 |
U.S. Treasury Secretly Weighs Options to Avert Default
Rush for Arctic's resources provokes territorial tussles -- "For The Good of the Party" - by Will Grigg
-- Two NYPD Cops Caught On Video Pushing And Shoving Over Disagreement
-- Female Magistrate Accused Of Photographing Men At Public Urinals -- Stimulus funds for handicapped and poor instead goes for lobbying, consulting -- Debt Ceiling & Repudiation -- “Officer Of The Year” Suspected Of Drug Dealing -- Illegal Immigration From Mexico At Lowest Level In Nearly 60 Years -- Nashville Nixes Home Offices -- Cashless Society Hooks: Google & Punchd?
-- 40 Facts That Prove The Working Class Is Being Systematically Wiped
Out -- Consumer Credit - Will You Please Stop Raping Young Adults? -- Dueling UN Flotilla I Commissions --Motorola’s Latest Phone Comes as No Friend to Hackers -- Army Laser Cannon Won’t Be Ready Until 2017 -- Donor's to Decide Direction of El Paso county GOP
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Treasury Secretly Weighs Options to Avert Default
07-10-2011
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Reuters
A small team of U.S. Treasury officials is discussing options to stave off default if Congress fails to raise the country's borrowing limit by an August 2 deadline, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Rush for Arctic's resources provokes territorial tussles
07-10-2011
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The Guardian
US, Canada, Russia, Denmark and Norway are becoming embroiled in disputes over boundaries on land and at sea.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
"For The Good of the Party" - by Will Grigg
07-10-2011
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Pro Liberate
"My least-favorite phrase in the English language," former Republican congressional candidate Brian Miller sighed with weary disgust, "is `for the good of the party.'"
Miller, chairman (at least for now) of Arizona's Pima County Republican Party, m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Two NYPD Cops Caught On Video Pushing And Shoving Over Disagreement
07-10-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Video of two police officers pushing and shoving each other apparently at odds at how to handle a handcuffed suspect in New York City. It is not clear what the suspect was being detained for, but he keeps yelling that he “didn’t do nothing.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Female Magistrate Accused Of Photographing Men At Public Urinals
07-10-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Rhonda Hollander, a female traffic magistrate in South Florida, apparently believes she has the right to walk into men’s public bathrooms and photograph them while urinating because the bathrooms are, well, public.
The attorney obviously missed th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Stimulus funds for handicapped and poor instead goes for lobbying, consulting
07-10-2011
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In West Virginia, which received $38 million in weatherization funds, some of the money went for lobbying, to consultants who did little work and to recipients with connections to state officials who are doling out the funds, the Energy Dept’s inspec
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Debt Ceiling & Repudiation
07-10-2011
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Free Patriot Press
The debate in Washington, D.C. over the federal debt continues as the Aug. 2 deadline for raising the “debt ceiling” approaches. Standard & Poor's has already reported that it would cut the U.S. credit rating from AAA to D, the last rung on its scal
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
“Officer Of The Year” Suspected Of Drug Dealing
07-10-2011
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CBS News
Considered a role model by his peers and named “Officer of the Year” in 2010, Boynton Beach police officer David Britto has been charged with conspiring to sell more than 500 grams of methamphetamines between June 2009 and March 2011.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Illegal Immigration From Mexico At Lowest Level In Nearly 60 Years
07-10-2011
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Interest in heading to the US has fallen to its lowest level since the 1950s. “No one wants to hear it, but the flow has already stopped,” Mr. Massey said, “For the first time in 60 years, the net traffic has gone to zero and is probably a little bit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Nashville Nixes Home Offices
07-10-2011
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The Agitator
If you’d like to give some piano or guitar lessons on the side here in Music City, and you’d like to do so without fear of getting fined, you’ll have to shell out for space in an area zoned for commercial use. (That comes with a piano!) Which really
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Cashless Society Hooks: Google & Punchd?
07-10-2011
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digitaltrends.com
It’s rumored that Google plans on acquiring the San Francisco based loyalty card service called Punchd Labs Inc., or Punchd. The move by the search engine giant is most likely an attempt to bolster their NFC payment system Google Wallet.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
40 Facts That Prove The Working Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out
07-10-2011
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TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com/
#9 Only 66.8% of American men had a job last year. That was the lowest level that has ever been recorded in all of U.S. history.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Recognizing Faces, Any Which Way You Can
07-10-2011
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fastcompany.com
Chongqing city, China, is about to get a giant Orwellian surveillance network of half a million cameras that will spy on areas like street intersections, parks, and neighborhoods. Cisco is rumored to be one of the key pieces in the network...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
So How’s That Stimulus Thing Working Out?
07-10-2011
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johnmauldin.com
The household survey was even worse. Total employment fell by 445,000. Full-time employment is down by 0.5% in the last year, while part-time is up 3%. David Rosenberg calls this the just-in-time labor market.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumer Credit - Will You Please Stop Raping Young Adults?
07-10-2011
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Market-ticker.org
When looked at in terms of levels - that is, dollars outstanding - it becomes even more stark what's going on and how badly we're screwing our young adults who simply do not know better and are taking horrifically-bad "advice" doled out...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
David Rosenberg: NFP ‘Mega Reality Check’
07-10-2011
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Ritholtz.com
“Now the policy cupboard is bare, and “we can see what the emperor looks like disrobed. It’s not a pretty picture.”The economy, Dave goes on, is in a very fragile state. Which isn’t all that surprising since it still bears the scars of the credit...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Extra Sleep Boosts Basketball Players' Prowess
07-09-2011
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Emily Singer via TechnologyReview.com
Varsity basketball players who tried to get 10 hours of sleep per night for five to seven weeks could sprint faster, react faster, and sink more free throws and three-pointers.
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News Link • Transportation
Cadillac Station Wagon Out-Muscles Your Muscle Car
07-09-2011
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Chuck Squatriglia via
Each one of Cadillac’s lineup of CTS-V flagships are the automotive equivalent of a 9-pound hammer, vehicles of such brutal power and felonious fuel economy they make gearheads cheer, environmentalists scream and small children cry.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Poor 3-D TV Sales? Panasonic Blames Hollywood
07-09-2011
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Christina Bonnington via WIRED.com
Despite Hollywood’s continued onslaught of 3-D films hitting the big screen, not many people are buying 3-D TVs.
Whose fault is that? Panasonic’s marketing director Andrew Denham blames Hollywood for making such bad 3-D movies.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Motorola’s Latest Phone Comes as No Friend to Hackers
07-09-2011
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Mike Isaac via WIRED.com
For phone modification junkies, the Android software platform comes with a host of mod-friendly features. It’s too bad, then, that Motorola’s latest Android phone lacks all of them.
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News Link • Military
Army Laser Cannon Won’t Be Ready Until 2017
07-09-2011
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
Parked in front of an American flag was an eight-wheel, 19-ton heavy truck. Affixed to the top of that truck was a laser-beam controller, used to aim and fire lethal rays of coherent light.
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News Link • Transportation
Automatic Streetlamps Switch On When Cars Pass, Switch Off When Traffic Ceases
07-09-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
In huge city, lighting the streets is a necessary but pricey precaution. Pedestrians and motorists are no doubt safer when streetlamps, not just car headlights, illuminate roadways and sidewalks " but streetlamps are expensive and inefficient to run.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Donor's are to Decide the Direction of the El Paso county GOP in Colorado
07-07-2011
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https://greendragontavern.com/CMS/Plone/
Last night the El Paso county GOP came up with a new plan to hand control and direction of the county's party over to the donors.
Kudos to Eli. I’m actually serious. That man has an innately strategic mind. The battlefield commander, seein
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