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Date Sent: 2011-08-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, August 3, 2011 AM edition |
Police Shutdown Several Children's Lemonade Stands -- NSA is looking for a few good hackers
Stocks plunge; S&P turns negative for 2011 -- Donations to Loudoun sheriff’s campaigns spur questions among critics, officials --
Second Video Emerges From Fullerton Beating; One-Eyed Cop ID'd As Main
Culprit -- Ex-Directors of Failed Firms Have Little to Fear -- 'Economic Martial Law Will Be Declared' -- Nissan Rolls Out a System that Lets Your Electric Car Serve as a Backup Battery for Your House -- The Average Life Expectancy For A Fiat Currency Is 27 Years -- Food Stamp Use Surges To 45.8 Million -- FDA Threatens to Seize Adulterated, “Sleepy” Brownies -- FAA shutdown to continue as Congress leaves -- Putin says U.S. is "parasite" on global economy -- U.S. Spy Agencies Want Software That Can Figure Out Where Any Photo Was Taken -- The Myth of "Closed System" Objectivism -- Five Things You Need to Know About the Economy -- Super Congress: The Final Nail In The Coffin Of Representative Democracy And Freedom As We Know It -- The Obama market: A 265 point collapse -- Judge Judy - Here's Who You Support With Taxes
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this
Sat.; Another POOL PARTY AT THE HANCOCK'S Saturday, 8/6/11
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Shutdown Several Children's Lemonade Stands
08-02-2011
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Police shut down at least 3 lemonade stands run by children. According to Dustin Krutsinger, police shut down his 4-year-old daughters stand after just 30 minutes. The officer told his wife, “this isn’t the 'first time I’ve had to do this.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
NSA is looking for a few good hackers
08-02-2011
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Washington Post
The National Security Agency has a challenge for hackers who think they’re hot stuff: Prove it by working on the “hardest problems on Earth.”
Computer hacker skills are in great demand in the U.S. government to fight the cyberwars that pose a grow
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stocks plunge; S&P turns negative for 2011
08-02-2011
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Washington Post
Stocks posted their worst daily decline in nearly a year Tuesday, wiping out the year’s gains and raising fresh questions about the strength of the economic recovery.
Despite the seemingly positive news that President Obama signed the long-awaited
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Donations to Loudoun sheriff’s campaigns spur questions among critics, officials
08-02-2011
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Washington Post
Osama El-Atari, a restaurateur known for his flashy style and expensive sports cars, was sentenced to two days in the Loudoun County jail for driving on a suspended license. But El-Atari never served the two days. He was booked into the Adult Detenti
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Second Video Emerges From Fullerton Beating; One-Eyed Cop ID'd As Main Culprit
08-02-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Nearly a month after six Fullerton police officers viciously beat a homeless schizophrenic man named Kelly Thomas to death, information is still only trickling out.
But there is at least one video from a city-owned surveillance camera as well as a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Ex-Directors of Failed Firms Have Little to Fear
08-02-2011
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NY Times
Do the former directors of the institutions that collapsed during the financial crisis have anything to worry about? If the experience of Enron is any example, the answer is a resounding no.
A look back at the career paths of onetime Enron directo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Saudis Set to Build Kingdom Tower, Soon to be The World's Tallest Building
08-02-2011
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Clay Dilow via PopSci.com
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai has officially been the world’s tallest building since its opening early last year, but by 2016-ish Saudi Arabia plans to let the UAE know exactly who the big brother is on the Arabian Peninsula.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Judas, Judas, Judas
08-02-2011
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Lew Rockwell
At every constituent meeting of every Democrat or Republican legiscritter who voted for this monstrosity, throngs of enraged Tea Partiers should amass and loudly chant, “Judas, Judas, Judas,” while shaking little bags of 30 quarters.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Martial Law
'Economic Martial Law Will Be Declared'
08-02-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
There need be only a single event that occurs at an opportune time and is pushed by the mainstream media and all hell will break loose.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Nissan Rolls Out a System that Lets Your Electric Car Serve as a Backup Battery for Your House
08-02-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
The Nissan Leaf can run 70-plus miles on a single charge. Now, it can also power a family home for two days if it needs to.
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News Link • Currencies
The Average Life Expectancy For A Fiat Currency Is 27 Years
08-02-2011
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washingtonsblog.com
Monetary scholar Edwin Vieira ... pointed out that every 30 to 40 years the reigning monetary system fails and has to be retooled. The last time around for the U.S. was in 1971, when Nixon cancelled the convertibility of dollars into gold.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Food Stamp Use Surges To 45.8 Million
08-02-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
It appears that GDP data revisions are not the only thing that the administration enjoys fudging with in order to make the Chinese ministry of Truth seem like a real ministry of truth.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
FDA Threatens to Seize Adulterated, “Sleepy” Brownies
08-02-2011
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Lew Rockwell
They used to be called Lazy Cakes and now they are called Lazy Larry, but the government still considers them to be "unsafe" because the brownie product contains melatonin. An "edible relaxation product," but the FDA is fear mongering over potential
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
FAA shutdown to continue as Congress leaves
08-02-2011
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AP
The government is likely to lose more than $1 billion in airline ticket taxes because lawmakers left town for a month without resolving a partisan standoff over a bill to end the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Putin says U.S. is "parasite" on global economy
08-02-2011
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Reuters
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets.
"They are living beyond their means and shif
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
U.S. Spy Agencies Want Software That Can Figure Out Where Any Photo Was Taken
08-02-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
American intelligence agencies are hoping to turn propaganda videos, images captured from enemy data caches, and other pics snapped with or without the subjects’ knowledge into readymade geolocation tags
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Future Predictions
The Man Who Would Stop Time
08-02-2011
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Joseph Hooper via PopSci.com
Bill Andrews has spent two decades unlocking the molecular mechanisms of aging. His mission: to extend the human life span to 150 years--or die trying
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Electronic Watchdog Nabs Parking Lot Door-Dingers
08-02-2011
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Alexander George via WIRED.com
We’ve all had that feeling of coming to discover someone’s bashed your bumper or dinged your door. Worse, the perp didn’t have the courtesy to leave a note confessing his crime. If only you’d had a video camera to catch the guy in the act.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Super Congress: The Final Nail In The Coffin Of Representative Democracy And Freedom As We Know It
08/02/2011
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The Intel Hub
Cloaked in the fear surrounding the debt ceiling and a possible default is the most dangerous legislation that America has ever faced. If this passes, the Super Congress will make the PATRIOT Act look like a just and fair law.
When six Republicans
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Alex Thomas
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Obama market: A 265 point collapse
08-02-2011
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The Political Commentator
Deja vu all over again as Obama and Reid talk taxes, shared sacrifice and QE3!
Back in December 2009 I had written the article below that is relevant, unfortunately, again today.
It speaks to how the financial markets are the greatest arbiter o
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Judge Judy - Here's Who You Support With Taxes
08-02-2011
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youtube.com
Judge Judy speaks out on where our tax dollars go in this case of Duane Brooks, Jr. who is scamming the government with all of his stipends, subsidies and assistance - and using none of it for what it was intended for.
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