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Date Sent: 2011-10-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, October 18, 2011 AM edition |
US Army to fly assassination drones -- Moody's warns France on possible negative outlook
The Austerity Myth: Federal Spending Up 5% This Year -- Former LA Fire
Chief’s Son Accused Of Bribing TSA Agent, Smuggling Pot Onto Flight -- IRS: Budget cuts would hurt service, raise deficit --
Budget cuts claim hundreds of thousands of county, city jobs -- Judge
Steve Teske seeks to keep kids with minor problems out of court -- Anwar
al-Awlaki’s family speaks out against his, son’s death in airstrike -- Cutting the Federal Budget to "Restore America" --
Berlin tempers summit hopes, banks under pressure -- The 9-9-9 Plan: Is
The Herman Cain Tax Plan A Good Idea? -- SpaceX’s Musk lobbies against
Lockheed and Boeing in bid for satellite launches -- Study Confirms Establishment is Terrified of Ron Paul -- Arpaio: Electric fence joke proves Cain is serious -- Federal Reserve Is Mercantilist – Not Private -- Seizure, Detention, Torture, and Assassination -- War breeds war. Peace breeds prosperity.
AZ: Debate Party at
Hancock's for today's GOP Debate on CNN -- Rich Woods, activist in Phoenix, AZ, in the hospital... -- “Is
Voter Fraud Real?” - The League of Women Voters - Oct. 19 - 11:45
a.m. -- Gary Johnson
comes to Arizona end of Oct. 29!; Phoenix - Rock the Revolution Tour is now set
CA: Libertopia in San Diego this weekend October
21-23!!!!
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News Link • Military
US Army to fly assassination drones
10-17-2011
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AFP
A miniature "kamikaze" drone designed to quietly hover in the sky before dive-bombing and slamming into a human target will soon be part of the US Army's arsenal, officials say.
Dubbed the "Switchblade," the robotic aircraft represents the latest
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Moody's warns France on possible negative outlook
10-17-2011
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Reuters
Moody's warned on Monday it may slap a negative outlook on France's Aaa credit rating in the next three months if the costs for helping to bail out banks and other euro zone members stretch its budget too much.
The warning comes as European Union
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
The Austerity Myth: Federal Spending Up 5% This Year
10-17-2011
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When Republicans took control of the House in January, they pledged to make deep cuts in federal spending, and in April they succeeded in passing a bill advertised as cutting $38 billion from fiscal 2011's budget. Then in August, they pushed for a de
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Former LA Fire Chief’s Son Accused Of Bribing TSA Agent, Smuggling Pot Onto Flight
10-17-2011
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CBS News
The son of Los Angeles’ former fire chief, Millage Peaks, has been arrested for allegedly bribing a TSA agent to help him smuggle marijuana on board a flight.
Authorities arrested Millage Peaks Jr., 23, Sunday morning on charges of smuggling 10-15
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS: Budget cuts would hurt service, raise deficit
10-17-2011
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AP
Legislation that would trim hundreds of millions of dollars from the Internal Revenue Service budget would force significant cuts in the services it provides taxpayers and cost the government $4 billion annually in lost revenue, the agency warned
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Budget cuts claim hundreds of thousands of county, city jobs
10-17-2011
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USA Today
Local governments, once a steady source of employment in tough economic times, are shedding jobs in unprecedented numbers, and heavy payroll losses are expected to persist into next year.
The job cuts by city and county governments are helping off
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Judge Steve Teske seeks to keep kids with minor problems out of court
10-17-2011
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Washington Post
He’s a Southern judge, with the boom and flair of a preacher, who has risen to national prominence arguing that too many students get arrested or kicked out of school for minor trouble. “Zero tolerance is zero intelligence,” he likes to say.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Anwar al-Awlaki’s family speaks out against his, son’s death in airstrike
10-17-2011
In the days before a CIA drone strike killed al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki last month, his 16-year-old son ran away from the family home in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa to try to find him, relatives say. When he, too, was killed in a U.S. airstrike
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Presidential candidate Gary Johnson in Fountain Hills today 5:00 p.m.
09-29-2011
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www.garyjohnson2012.com
(Publisher: Another liberty supporting candidate in the Republican Primary visits Arizona?... Well, I think we might take advantage of this :)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Nguyen Thi Phuong, Vietnamese Woman, 'Ages' 50 Years In Days
10-18-2011
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worldsbiggests.com
Doctors have been left baffled by a strange condition which appears to have caused a 23-year-old woman to age 50 years in a matter of days.
Nguyen Thi Phuong, from Vietnam, now looks like a septugenarian after the affliction took hold in 2008 leav
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Veljko Rauski
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News Link • Food
Disaster planning: Grow 50 delectable edibles in your home
10-17-2011
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Terrence Aym
Worried about the integrity of the food you buy at the supermarket?...Inflation pushing up prices...where some of your fruits and vegetables are coming from? A food shortage in case of a local or national disaster? Then this article's for you...A ve
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Books
Free Patriot Press is Giving Away Seven Free Copies of Duopoly
10/17/2011
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Free Patriot Press
Free Patriot Press has two opportunities for readers to win a free copy of Duopoly.
The first promotion, in conjunction with GoodReads.com, ends on October 31. GoodReads will randomly select the 5 winners from those who enter.
http://www.goodread
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Cutting the Federal Budget to "Restore America"
10-17-2011
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Free Patriot Press
Republican Presidential hopeful Ron Paul recently unveiled his “Plan To Restore America.” The 11 page plan includes his proposed budget that among other things; cuts $1 trillion in spending during the first year, eliminates five cabinet departments (
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • European Union
Berlin tempers summit hopes, banks under pressure
10-17-2011
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Reuters
Germany said on Monday that a summit of EU leaders next Sunday would not produce a miracle cure for the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis, a warning that pushed down markets after a rise in the past week on expectations of a breakthrough.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The 9-9-9 Plan: Is The Herman Cain Tax Plan A Good Idea?
10-17-2011
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EconomicCollapseBlog.com
As you will see below, Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan will actually raise federal taxes on some middle income Americans to as high as 37 percent. If the other Republican candidates understood this, they would be jumping all over Cain.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX’s Musk lobbies against Lockheed and Boeing in bid for satellite launches
10-17-2011
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Washington Post
At issue is an Air Force proposal to award a bulk buy of 40 launches over five years to United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing that is now the government’s sole provider of medium- and heavy-lift rockets for civilian an
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Study Confirms Establishment is Terrified of Ron Paul
10-17-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Pew Research Center confirms that the establishment is terrified of Ron Paul’s presidential campaign gaining momentum " figures show that despite his top tier showing in national polls, the Texan Congressman has received the least media coverage out
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Immigration
Arpaio: Electric fence joke proves Cain is serious
10-17-2011
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RawStory
When Herman Cain meets with Maricopa Country Sheriff Joe Arpaio Monday, it will make him the fourth Republican presidential candidate to personally seek the endorsement of “America’s toughest sheriff.”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Is Mercantilist " Not Private
10-17-2011
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The Daily Bell
Alex Jones and others have done much good work to ensure people know the Fed is "private" not "public" " and the latest action by the Fed in attacking Alex Jones is another indication of the essentially private nature of the US central bank
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Seizure, Detention, Torture, and Assassination
10-17-2011
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Future of Freedom Foundation/Jacob Hornberger
How did the president, the Pentagon, and the CIA acquire these extraordinary powers, powers that enable them to avoid the due process guarantees in the Bill of Rights? No, not by constitutional amendment or even by congressional enactment.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Vin Suprynowicz's Columns Archive
Remember the lesson of steamship subsidies
10-17-2011
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Las Vegas Review Journal/Vin Surpynowicz
...the first years of the 19th century, Robert Fulton developed the first commercially successful steamship -- not because government dictated it should happen, but because of clever men trying to invent things that could make them money by solving e
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
War breeds war. Peace breeds prosperity.
10-17-2011
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Wrights 2012
On the other hand, peace breeds prosperity. If War is indeed the “health of the State,” then Peace can be nothing less than the “health of the People.”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Mexican United States Relations
Break Up the US: It's Far too Big To Be Anything but a Global and Domesic Menace
10-17-2011
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Lew Rockwell
"....it makes for easier economic integration with Mexico, the article glowingly points out. But even if secession is for the elite-serving purpose of more efficiently-managed economic units rather than restoring self-government and liberty
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Police raid on home shocks Brock prof and wife; launch $2 million suit against NRP
10-17-2011
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A Brock University professor says he and his wife have suffered "physical, mental and psychological" damage since police raided their home for electricity theft based on faulty information from [hydroponics supplier] Hydro One.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
Alternative Currency: Coming to Stores Near You?
10-17-2011
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Center for a Stateless Society
People sign up online and get access to a database that is kind of like a members-only Craigslist. One unit of TEM [Local Alternative Unit] is equal in value to one euro, and it can be used to exchange good and services.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Wrong Door Raid and Flash-Bang Grenade Heart Attack Provoke Lawsuits
10-17-2011
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Reason magazine
A few victims of the drug war's "standard procedure" are fighting back in court. First, a Colorado Springs woman who suffered a heart attack during a raid has brought a lawsuit...and a New Jersey family who received the nightmarish black-clad gunmen
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Is Goldman About To Report Only The Second Loss Since Its 1999 IPO?
10-17-2011
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www.zerohedge.com
For all its criticisms, if there is one thing one can say about Goldman, is that unlike their pathetic TBTF cousins in the US financial industry (JPMorgan, Citi, and shortly Morgan Stanley and Bank of Countrywide Lynch), it can report a loss like a m
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul to propose $1T in specific budget cuts
10-17-2011
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www.politico.com
(also included is Ron Paul video: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 10/17/2011: Government is NOT a business.)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Future Predictions
Prison-Yard America
10-17-2011
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Future of Freedom Foundation/Wendy McElroy
Since September, a public-school district in Florida has been taking fingerprint scans at the entrance to schools as a way to monitor attendance. The scans are compared against a database of students to detect truants.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Buys Flights on Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship
10-17-2011
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FoxNews.Com
Under the deal, NASA will charter up to three flights on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, an air-launched spacecraft designed to carry eight people on trips to suborbital space.
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Donna Hancock
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