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Date Sent: 2012-09-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, September 1, 2012 |
Exclusive - Michael Steele Extended Interview On Ron Paul Pt. 2
What Would Ron Do?’ -- Feds shut down criminal investigation of Arpaio; no charges to be filed -- Convention Surrealism, Soviet Realism -- Pinal Sheriff Paul Babeu exonerated -- It’s Official: Coke and Pepsi are OK for Mormons -- The Privileges of Having a Gun -- HOT: Ron Paul Left Tampa Yesterday -- Ron Paul: I Don't See Significant Change in Policy -- Facebook
Crashes Even Lower -- Pat Tillman's Wife Details The Enduring
Message He Left For Her -- 'Here
Comes Honey Boo Boo' Ratings Top Republican National Convention -- Japan Manufacturing PMI
Hits 16 Month Low, New Orders Plunge -- ECB Becoming Twin of Fed -- Clint Eastwood Pretended Obama Was A Chair... Incredible Speech Of
The Convention -- Epic Fail: The GOP’s
Pitiful Attempt At A ‘Tribute’ To Ron Paul -- Putin Is Demonized While Democracy Fails in Amerika --
Your
Window to Buy Gold Below $1,700 Is Closing
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club meets today!; Tesla
Motors at the Scottsdale mall
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Exclusive - Michael Steele Extended Interview Pt. 2
08-31-2012
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The Daily Beast (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
In this exclusive, unedited interview, MSNBC's Michael Steele explains why the Republican National Committee's treatment of Ron Paul is the height of rudeness and stupidity. [at around 3:30]
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Feature Article • Events: Arizona
Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday
Powell Gammill
Ernie has taken an active passion in building his own modern battery storage technology on the cheap to store electricity using carbon nanotubes that he is making himself :) / Marc Victor Libertarian for Az U.S. Senate shares 'the plan'
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
What Would Ron Do?’
08-31-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Folks, if you really want to emulate this great gentleman, leave the RNC snake pit, as he did on Tuesday. Go quietly and without fuss. Go back to your lives. Just skedaddle. Go. Get out of there. Believe me, it will be good for your spirits.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Feds shut down criminal investigation of Arpaio; no charges to be filed
08-31-2012
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Arizona Republic
The U.S. Attorney's Office has closed its long-running abuse-of-power investigation into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- without any charges to be filed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Convention Surrealism, Soviet Realism
08-31-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
A restaurant owner in front of his empty restaurant 2 blocks from the Tampa Convention Center, just after 1 pm, spoke angrily to no one in particular "Where are my customers?" I stopped, and told him "This is what a police state looks like."
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Pinal Sheriff Paul Babeu exonerated
08-31-2012
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Arizona Republic
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu was cleared and will not face any charges related to allegations that he abused his authority, the Arizona Attorney General's Office announced Friday.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
It’s Official: Coke and Pepsi are OK for Mormons
08-31-2012
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Washington Post
Maybe now, reporters, bloggers, outsiders and even many Mormons will accept that the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not forbid drinking cola.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Privileges of Having a Gun
08-31-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Can someone explain to me why this Nazi"er,"peace" officer"kicked this person (at 1:15) while the person is having a COUGHING FIT??!!
Because he can. Because he has a GUN.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
HOT: Ron Paul Left Tampa Yesterday
08-31-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Ron, Carol, and one of their granddaughters left the GOP snake pit, but the State was not yet through with them. At the little airport in Clearwater, 8 TSA agents descended on them and ordered them not to board their private plane.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: I Don't See Significant Change in Policy
08-31-2012
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Bloomberg
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, speaks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu about Mitt Romney's convention speech last night. They speak on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop." (Source: Bloomberg)
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Watch As Dozens Of Dolphins Swarm A Fishing Boat In The Cayman Islands
08-31-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Julie Zeveloff
What started out as a regular family fishing trip in the Cayman Islands turned into a once-in-a-lifetime experience for photographer Carl Silverstein.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Pat Tillman's Wife Details The Enduring Message He Left For Her
08-31-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mark Emmons,
Late on that terrible April day in 2004, hours after she learned that her husband had died in the mountains of Afghanistan, Marie Tillman finally reached for the sealed envelope hidden beneath the clutter on their bedroom dresser.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' Ratings Top Republican National Convention
08-31-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Ashley Lutz
TLC's new reality show "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" got better ratings than the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Revisiting the Future
08-31-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Jeff Thomas
Back in the early 2000's, the world was on a roll. Spending was at an all-time high, and people were drunk with the belief that the party would never end; that there was no limit to the amount that either they or their governments could borrow and sp
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Epic Fail: The GOP’s Pitiful Attempt At A ‘Tribute’ To Ron Paul
08-31-2012
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http://www.mediaite.com, by Andrew Kirell
Last night, we reported on the Republican National Convention’s tribute video for Rep. Ron Paul, full of praise for the outspoken sorta-libertarian who has done an exceptional amount to change the conversation in Washington.
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News Link • Food
Be Prepared: 4 Foods for Your Survival Food Storage
08-31-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com,
In both the ‘30s and recent history, economic collapses and food shortages troubled average people across the nation and globe. While a global food and energy crisis may seem outlandish to some, there’s no harm in being prepared by knowing what foods
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News Link • Government
Putin Is Demonized While Democracy Fails in Amerika
08-31-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Paul Craig Roberts
The latest “rights group” to jump on Russia’s President Putin about Pussy Riot is RootsAction.
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News Link • Battery Project
Edison Battery Construction Nickel Iron
08-31-2012
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YouTube.com
These remarkable batteries were developed by Edison in 1901, and many of his batteries more than 70 years old were still producing full capacity.
I'm working on a web page to back up this video with more details.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Stop the Revolution and Start the Evolution
08-31-2012
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http://dont-tread-on.me
When you are involved in a long term abusive relationship, at some point the the focus goes from the abuser, to the victims for staying in the relationship so long.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Priorities: Arizona election chief in Florida on our primary election day
08-30-2012
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Arizona Republic
Arizona's Secretary of State Ken Bennett was hobnobbing with other politicians and delegates at the Republican National Convention in Tampa instead of overseeing AZ's primary election, in which Arizona voters will pick partisan contenders
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
LAPD commander removed in probe of rough arrest
08-30-2012
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Yahoo News
A Los Angeles Police Department commanding officer has been removed amid an internal investigation into a videotaped beating in which officers tackled a handcuffed registered nurse to the ground, police Chief Charlie Beck said Wednesday.
Beck sai
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News Link • Death
France opens enquiry into claims of Arafat poisoning
08-30-2012
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com, By Pauline Talagrand
French prosecutors have opened a murder enquiry into Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's 2004 death near Paris following claims he may have died of polonium poisoning, sources told AFP Tuesday.
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News Link • China
Chinese banks step up lending in the US
08-30-2012
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http://www.ft.com, By Kandy Wong
China’s top banks are stepping up their lending activities in the US as large US companies diversify their funding sources and seek to penetrate more deeply into the world’s second-largest economy.
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News Link • NATO
NATO Mulls Another Afghan Surge for ‘Drawdown’
08-30-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Needs More Troops Just to Deal with Shipping Containers
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News Link • Egypt
Reports: Egypt wouldn't fire on Iran ship
08-30-2012
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http://www.upi.com
Egypt's Navy refused a U.S. request to fire on an Iranian weapons ship heading for violence-torn Syria through the Suez Canal, al-Arabiya reported.
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News Link • Activism
Two Tibetan teenagers die in self-immolations
08-30-2012
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http://www.bbc.co.uk
Two Tibetan teenagers have died after setting themselves on fire in Sichuan province, activists and US media said.
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News Link • History
Nazi Economics
08-30-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Bill Bonner
Adam Tooze, a British historian, has written a marvelous book on the Nazi economy, The Wages of Destruction. He shows that, far from illustrating the success of intelligent central planning, the German economy of the Third Reich was a disaster.
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News Link • Homeland Security
VIDEO: TSA Takes Over Bus Station In Tampa, DHS Agents Threaten Journalists
08-30-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
Reporters forced to show papers or be “detained for 72 hours” by Homeland Security
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News Link • Activism
Rutherford Institute Attorneys to File Civil Lawsuit Over Wrongful Arrest
08-30-2012
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The Rutherford Institute
In challenging the government’s actions as unlawful and an egregious abuse of power, Institute attorneys hope to shed light on and put a stop to what appears to be a growing problem in terms of a governmental system seemingly targeting Americans"espe
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News Link • Intellectual Property
Can Android Revolutionize Spacecraft Design?
08-30-2012
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Tom Nardi
NASA is planning a fleet of small satellites to demonstrate the ability for Android Nexus smartphones to control spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Could open source software and consumer hardware change the way future spacecraft are designed, and help l
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News Link • Intellectual Property
F-Droid: The Android Market That Respects Your Rights
08-30-2012
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Tom Nardi
"Android’s meteoric rise in popularity is due, in no small part, to the fact it is an open source project."
"F-Droid is an Android repository designed to respect the privacy and rights of its users."
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Opinion • Military
Deciphering Propaganda
08-29-2012
Larken Rose
Have you heard about the "anarchists" attempting to assassinate Obama and overthrow the government? Well, here's how to find the truth beneath the propaganda.
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
There’s no comeback for Russell Pearce " he’s done.
08-29-2012
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Nick R. Martin
Immigration hardliner Russell Pearce’s burning desire to return to office in Arizona got doused with cold water on Tuesday night when he lost the Republican primary for state Senate to a moderate businessman who took a softer tone on immigration.
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News Link • Food
New York Probes Energy-Drink Makers
08-29-2012
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Wall Street Journal
New York's attorney general is investigating whether the multibillion-dollar energy-drink industry is deceiving consumers with misstatements about the ingredients and health value of its products.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Syrian Émigrés Seek Aid in U.S. to Arm Rebels
08-29-2012
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New York Times
From a one-room office in an unfinished glass tower three blocks from the White House, an amorphous network of activists is doing what the Obama administration will not: attempting to arm the rebels trying to overthrow Syria’s government.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Triumph of the Reich-Publican Party
08-29-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
The tactics employed by the GOP establishment to isolate, intimidate, and ultimately to expel Ron Paul delegates were the natural product of the party’s totalitarian genetics. Using criminal means to impose a monolithic, top-down process
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Mexico: 2 CIA agents wounded in shooting go to US
08-29-2012
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AP
Mexican officials said Wednesday that two Americans wounded in a shooting attack by federal police on a U.S. Embassy vehicle are employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, and acknowledged they have returned to the United States.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Court: Zimmerman judge should disqualify himself
08-29-2012
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AP
A three-judge panel in Florida has ruled that a former neighborhood watch leader charged in the fatal shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin should be granted a new judge in his case.
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