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Date Sent: 2012-08-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, August 15, 2012 AM edition |
The Pentagon Kiddie Porn Kings -- FBI Muslim spying lawsuit against U.S. is tossed by judge
Julian Assange 'will be given asylum in Ecuador' -- Israel hasn't decided on Iran strike: Pentagon -- Judge fines Ft. Hood suspect for beard, denies trial delay -- The Right to Self-Defense Applied to Mass Shootings - by Paul Koning --
WikiLeaks’ Paul Ryan exposure -- More Free Stuff for Attending
Government Schools -- The FEMA Faceoff: Truth as an Urban Legend -- For oil driller Harold Hamm, Bakken boom brings more billions and a chance to dabble in politics -- Were The Olympic Games An Economic Disaster? -- How The Most-Efficient Solar Module Gets Made -- Paul Ryan's Bank Transactions Were Not Insider Trading -- Reddit Users Share 25 Ways To Make Your Life Easier -- Paul Ryan,
Medicare, And The New Shape Of The White House Race... -- Here's A Peek
Inside Vatican City's One-Of-A-Kind Criminal Justice System -- MAP: Here
Are All Of The Big Chinese Investments In Africa Since 2010 -- There Is Serious Doubt That Israel Can Handle A Full-Fledged War With Iran -- Here's What's Going To Happen To London's Olympic Venues Now That The Games Are Over -- Paul Ryan Receives The Worst Initial Reaction To A VP Nomination Since Dan Quayle -- Mainstream Doctors Say Supporting the 2nd Amendment is a Mental Disorder -- What Did Rand Paul Gain? -- Attorney Richard Gilbert Takes on Mitt Romney's $8.5 Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme -- Source of Mysterious Pumice 'Raft' in Pacific Found, NASA Says
POOL PARTY AT HANCOCK'S SUNDAY, AUG 19, 2012 from 1 P.M. TIL ??
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Pentagon Kiddie Porn Kings
08-14-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The federal government has a problem: It seems that one of the favorite pastimes of federal employees, and especially the bureaucrats and officers in the Pentagon, is viewing child porn.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
FBI Muslim spying lawsuit against U.S. is tossed by judge
08-14-2012
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Los Angeles Times
A federal judge Tuesday threw out a lawsuit filed against the U.S. government and the FBI over the agency’s spying on Orange County Muslims, ruling that allowing the suit to go forward would risk divulging sensitive state secrets.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Julian Assange 'will be given asylum in Ecuador'
08-14-2012
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Daily Telegraph
The WikiLeaks founder took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London on June 19 after losing his appeal against extradition to Sweden where he is wanted over allegations of sexual offenses. After formally applying for political asylum, a decision wa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Israel hasn't decided on Iran strike: Pentagon
08-14-2012
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Reuters
The US does not believe Israel has made a decision on whether to attack Iran over its nuclear program, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, following sharp rhetoric from Israeli officials that has put financial markets on edge.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge fines Ft. Hood suspect for beard, denies trial delay
08-14-2012
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Los Angeles Times
A military judge refused to delay the trial of an Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Ft. Hood shooting, fining him for refusing to shave and allowing a controversial terrorism expert to testify at the court martial-expected to start Monday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Right to Self-Defense Applied to Mass Shootings - by Paul Koning
08-14-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Houston officials released a video on how to respond if they are caught in a mass shooting situation. Among the suggestions is "run, hide, or fight" and the idea to "...fight back as a last resort by using makeshift weapons such as a fire extinguishe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
WikiLeaks’ Paul Ryan exposure
08-14-2012
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Salon
Ryan, in a meeting with Argentine legislators, “cited monetary policy and protecting jobs as critical issues that consume the attention of the Congress.” It doesn’t exactly sound like the sort of thing a true believer in austerity might say.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
More Free Stuff for Attending Government Schools
08-14-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
A local shop in Detroit's Midtown must have received a big check from the government in order to fund this hustle. All Detroit Public School high schoolers who attend school on count day will receive a voucher for a free pair of Nike shoes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
The FEMA Faceoff: Truth as an Urban Legend
08-14-2012
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http://www.strategic-living.net, The Two Gs
We both harbor a great deal of concern over what we see happening in our country but in fairness to the PTB, wanted to come to terms with real facts. Our goal was to uncover the truth and debunk what we thought were internet myth’s about FEMA and FE
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Energy
This Concentrated Solar Cell Could Be Powering Cities 'Within Years'
08-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
In 2011 new solar cell technologies from Solar Junction, a company based in San Jose, California, stored a record 43.5 percent of the energy it captured from the sun.
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News Link • Events: America
For oil driller Harold Hamm, Bakken boom brings more billions and a chance to dabble in politics
08-14-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Steven Mufson
Harold Hamm sat in a corner of the Railhead Diner, having polished off a plate of meatloaf and savored a bite of the fried pie with chocolate filling.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • OLYMPICS London Summer 2012
Were The Olympic Games An Economic Disaster?
08-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
So, two weeks of Olympic Games are over. There was a huge amount of expectation on London (we were one of many nay-sayers) but did the British deliver?
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Energy
How The Most-Efficient Solar Module Gets Made
08-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
Solar Junction solar cell technology, which recently set the record for most efficient solar cell, can't work alone. (FreedomsPhoenix 'Battery Project' will primarily rely on Solar for Battery charging... improvements keep coming)
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
UPDATE: Paul Ryan's Bank Transactions Were Not Insider Trading
08-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Eric Platt
Republican Vice Presidential Pick Paul Ryan sold shares in a number of financial companies including Citigroup, General Electric, Wachovia, and JP Morgan Chase on the same day as then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke hel
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News Link • How To
Reddit Users Share 25 Ways To Make Your Life Easier
08-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jill Krasny
Life Pro Tips is a section on Reddit where users share ideas for making life more efficient.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul Ryan, Medicare, And The New Shape Of The White House Race...
08-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Grace Wyler
In case you were stranded on a desert island/under a rock this weekend, Mitt Romney named House Budget Chair Paul Ryan as his running mate, injecting a shot of life to what has so far been a relatively grim campaign.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Here's A Peek Inside Vatican City's One-Of-A-Kind Criminal Justice System
08-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Erin Fuchs
Now that a Vatican judge has ordered the Pope's butler to stand trial for theft, Business Insider decided to take a look at criminal justice in the Vatican.
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News Link • China
MAP: Here Are All Of The Big Chinese Investments In Africa Since 2010
08-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
Chinese investments in Africa have raised many eyebrows, as competitors like the U.S. argue that it's motivated by Beijing's desire to exploit the continent's resources.
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News Link • Israel
There Is Serious Doubt That Israel Can Handle A Full-Fledged War With Iran
08-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Dan Williams
For Israel to carry out a long-threatened strike on Iranian nuclear sites, it would have to overcome dissent within its governing coalition reflecting public fear of igniting an unprecedented missile war.
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News Link • OLYMPICS London Summer 2012
Here's What's Going To Happen To London's Olympic Venues Now That The Games Are Over
08-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Tony Manfred
Olympic host cities have long struggled with putting stadiums to use after the games have come and gone.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul Ryan Receives The Worst Initial Reaction To A VP Nomination Since Dan Quayle
08-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brett LoGiurato
It's only a one-day poll, but Paul Ryan received the lowest reviews of any vice presidential candidate since Dan Quayle in 1988 in a new USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mainstream Doctors Say Supporting the 2nd Amendment is a Mental Disorder
08-14-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The medical industry in conjunction with Big Pharma want to classify the right to keep and bear arms as a mental disorder in another power grab to circumvent and eventually destroy our Constitutional 2nd Amendment.
More and more doctors are forcin
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
What Did Rand Paul Gain?
08-14-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com
Mitt Romney has picked the youthful warmonger Paul Ryan to be his running mate.
From my point of view, this leaves the junior senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, standing near the altar like a jilted bridesmaid. Not a very pretty picture.
And now
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Jack Spratt
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News Link • Geography
Source of Mysterious Pumice 'Raft' in Pacific Found, NASA Says
08-14-2012
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LiveScience
The source of an enormous floating mass of pumice spotted this week in the South Pacific Ocean off of New Zealand has been discovered: NASA satellite images pinpointed an erupting undersea volcano called the Havre Seamount as the culprit.
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News Link • Geology
Naple's Super Volcano
08-14-2012
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arclein
"But some of these areas, in particular the Campi Flegrei, are densely populated and therefore even small eruptions, which are the most probable, fortunately, can pose risks for the population," said De Natale, from the Vesuvius observatory at Ital
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News Link • Food
Garlic Becoming Good Science
08-14-2012
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arclein
Traditional, anecdotal, and even clinical research supports the fact that the allicin contained in garlic has both anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. The medical journal Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology published a clinical study in 2001
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mars Gale Crater Views
08-14-2012
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arclein
l, layered buttes and a layer of cobbles and pebbles embedded in a finer matrix of material. The images show a landscape closely resembling portions of the southwester
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News Link • Events: Arizona
POOL PARTY AT HANCOCK'S SUNDAY, AUG 19, 2012 from 1 P.M. TIL ??
08-11-2012
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Ron Paul Revolution Phoenix
Ernest and I have not had much time to visit with anyone this summer since we have been on the road so much, so we would like to extend an invitation for you to beat the heat and come cool off with us before the summer's over!
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Donna Hancock
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Opinion • Activism
McElroy's Musings
Repent and Live Free or Die Trying!
08-13-2012
David McElroy
We need no more research or discussion to know the gangster with a gun to our head is a threat to life and liberty! Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Act now... Tom Nielsen did.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Charles Goyette says, "End the Fed yesterday!"
08-13-2012
On July 31, 2012, WesternFreePress.com’s Brad Zinn interviewed Charles Goyette author, speaker, and media personality. The occasion was a special Americans for Prosperity celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nobel Laureate Economist M
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