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Date Sent: 2011-07-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 22, 2011 |
US Aid May be Fueling Afghan Insurgency -- Audit: Fed gave $16 trillion in emergency loans
The FBI Wants It Both Ways on Amerithrax -- Grieving Mother Faces 36
Months In Jail For Jaywalking After Son Is Killed By Hit-And-Run
Driver -- Pedicab driver tased, twice by Park Police -- CIA vaccine
program used in bin Laden hunt in Pakistan sparks criticism -- Ga.
inmate dies in videotaped lethal injection -- Tattoo Tracks Sodium and Glucose via an iPhone
-- If you haven’t bought any gold yet… -- The Allure of Respectable
Welfare -- Space Shuttle Atlantis Touches Down, Ending an Era of
American Manned Spaceflight -- The Federal Reserve: Our Policy Is To Steal From You -- Quartzsite, Arizona Update July 21: Chief Suspends 80% of Police Force -- 'Bodies on the streets' in Syrian crackdown -- Egypt's protests persist despite new cabinet -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Let's take back the Internet! -- Inside DARPA’s Secret Afghan Spy Machine -- The 'Cut, Cap, and Balance' Fraud -- A Tale of Americana, Part I: Jennifer Jones
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News Link • Drones
US Aid May be Fueling Afghan Insurgency
07-21-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
The billions of dollars of American aid flowing into Afghanistan every year may be inadvertently fueling the insurgency and the corruption rampant within the government and financial sectors
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Audit: Fed gave $16 trillion in emergency loans
07-21-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
The U.S. Federal Reserve gave out $16.1 trillion in emergency loans to U.S. and foreign financial institutions between Dec. 1, 2007 and July 21, 2010, according to figures produced by the government's first-ever audit of the central bank.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Costumed Assailants Are Never to Blame
07-21-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Marco Sauceda did nothing wrong to any living soul. Yet the mentally handicapped 30-year-old was pepper-sprayed, shot with a pepper-ball gun, and severely beaten by 9 police officers in his own home after they mistook him for a robber. Now he’s going
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
The FBI Wants It Both Ways on Amerithrax
07-21-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Glenn Greenwald writes about new evidence in the Amerithrax case. In response to a lawsuit brought against the feds arguing that Ft Detrick was negligent, the DOJ is saying that the facilities needed to make weaponized anthrax were not actually avail
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Grieving Mother Faces 36 Months In Jail For Jaywalking After Son Is Killed By Hit-And-Run Driver
07-21-2011
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Huffington Post
On April 10, 2010, Raquel Nelson lost her 4-year-old son. Nelson was crossing a busy Marietta, Georgia, street with her son and his two siblings when they were struck by a hit-and-run driver. Police were able to track down the driver, Jerry Guy, who
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Pedicab driver tased, twice by Park Police
07-21-2011
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The on-going battle between pedicab drivers and the United States Park Police continues with a pedicabber being tased twice by a USPP officer.
Police say the pedicab driver assaulted the officer. But witnesses say tensions between pedicab drivers
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA vaccine program used in bin Laden hunt in Pakistan sparks criticism
07-21-2011
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Washington Post
Revelations that the CIA sponsored a vaccination program to try to collect DNA from Osama bin Laden’s family members before U.S. commandos killed the al-Qaeda leader in northern Pakistan in May complicated a 3-day Pakistani anti-polio campaign.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Ga. inmate dies in videotaped lethal injection
07-21-2011
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AP
A Georgia man convicted of killing his parents and sister was executed Thursday after the courts allowed what experts say is the nation's first video-recorded execution in almost two decades.
Andrew DeYoung, 37, received a lethal injection Thursda
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Tattoo Tracks Sodium and Glucose via an iPhone
07-21-2011
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Kenrick Vezina via TechnologyReviews.com
Using a nanosensor "tattoo" and a modified iPhone, cyclists could closely monitor sodium levels to prevent dehydration, and anemic patients could track their blood oxygen levels.
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News Link • Energy
Cleaner Coal Faces an Uncertain Future
07-21-2011
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Peter Fairley via TechnologyReview.com
American Electric Power's recent decision to scrap plans to capture and sequester carbon dioxide at a West Virginia power station is just the latest in a string of cancellations of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
NIST Posts Adjusted Values of the Physical Constants, Tweaking Gravity to Make Science More Precise
07-21-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
The results: Gravity is a bit weaker, the electromagnetic force a smidgeon stronger, and the whole of physics a little less uncertain.
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News Link • Environment
Barnacles Destroy Boats, But Getting Rid Of Them Destroys The Sea"Until Now
07-21-2011
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Joshua Saul via PopSci.com
"Barnacle" has become a term for something tenacious and problematic for a reason--they are determined little buggers that cause lots of damage to marine craft. But dealing with barnacles can create even more problems than it solves.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Tame Pikes Peak With Rhys and the Monster
07-21-2011
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Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.com
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is among the most insanely awesome events in all of motorsports. Each summer, some of the best drivers in the world assault 156 curves and brave precipitous drops in a flat-out sprint to the summit at 14,115 fe
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News Link • Motivation
Garden Goose
07-21-2011
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Farm Wars
We have a goose that lives in our garden. Not just any goose, but a very special goose. His name is Dee Dee Dee, and this is his story.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday July 21st, 2011
07-21-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Democracy = Freedom? - Tom DiLorenzo on an American myth. / The Great Default - Gary North on the feds, their mega-debts, and a tiny piece of good news (until 2014). / Another Republican Spending Fraud - Ron Paul on the evil "cut, cap, balance."
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
If you haven’t bought any gold yet…
07-21-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
Print. Lie. Borrow. Deceive. Deny. These are a the principal tenants of the Greek restructuring plan that were released today from Brussels… it’s as if EU policymakers put it together after shaking a Magic 8-ball.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Space Shuttle Atlantis Touches Down, Ending an Era of American Manned Spaceflight
07-21-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Well kids, it’s finally over. This morning, just shy of 6 a.m. EDT, the space shuttle Atlantis came to a wheels stop at Kennedy Space Center, ending NASA’s Space Shuttle era and effectively capping America’s Human Spaceflight program...
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Federal Reserve: Our Policy Is To Steal From You
07-21-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
We know two things: 1) the official policy of the Federal Reserve is to engineer and maintain inflation and 2) inflation is theft.
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News Link • Surveillance
Quartzsite, Arizona Update July 21: Chief Suspends 80% of Police Force
07-21-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
About 5 pm PST, The Desert Freedom Press learned that under the current “emergency”, Police Chief Jeff Gilbert has suspended ALL officers who filed criminal and ethical complaints against him.
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News Link • Death Penalty
Delay in videotaped US execution
07-21-2011
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http://english.aljazeera.net/
Georgia execution by lethal injection to be filmed amid legal challenges, as Texas man put to death for Dallas murder.
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News Link • World News
'Bodies on the streets' in Syrian crackdown
07-21-2011
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http://english.aljazeera.net/
Gunmen on the streets of Homs 'shooting randomly' and reports of more deaths and arrests as Syrian forces move in
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News Link • World News
Egypt's protests persist despite new cabinet
07-21-2011
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http://english.aljazeera.net/
More than half of the ministers changed in reshuffle as military council faces pressure for faster and deeper reforms.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Exclusive: Inside Darpa’s Secret Afghan Spy Machine
07-21-2011
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wired.com
The Pentagon’s top researchers have rushed a classified and controversial intelligence program into Afghanistan.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The 'Cut, Cap, and Balance' Fraud
07-21-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak against HR 2560, the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act. This bill only serves to sanction the status quo by putting forth a $1 trillion budget deficit and authorizing a $2.4 trillion increase in the debt limit.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Arizona Laws and Arizona Founding Documents
A Tale of Americana, Part I: Jennifer Jones
07-21-2011
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sincerelykellyjames.wordpress.com
The first thing that struck me about Jennifer Jones was her sharp understanding of both law and philosophical concepts of liberty; she is very well spoken and obviously well read.
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Jury Finds Man Guilty of Evading Arrest After Being Mistaken for Burglar in his Own Home
07-21-2011
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lufkindailynews.com via The Agitator
A Lufkin man convicted of resisting arrest in his own home after police mistook him for a burglar was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail and a $500 fine.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Police State
"Police Chief Suspends Officers, More Reason to Fear"
07-21-2011
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http://powerandpolitic.wordpress.com
Below is a small portion of the original article. What needs to be pointed out is that the suspended officers are the Quartzsite “10″ which is 9 police officers and one police employee. The police employee is in charge of the front desk as well
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Shondean Coochise
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