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Date Sent: 2011-09-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, September 2, 2011 |
World powers, new Libyan leaders meet to map out reconstruction -- CIA shifts to killing people
NASSAU POLICE SHOOT Long Island MAN -- U.S. aims to track 'untraceable' prepaid cash cards -- U.S. Is Set to Sue a Dozen Big Banks Over Mortgages -- Muslims, police scuffle at Rye Playland over amusement park’s head scarf ban; 15 arrests made --
Goldman Sachs and two other firms agree to end robo-signing --
WikiLeaks blames Guardian journalist for release of 251,000 unredacted
U.S. cables -- ACLU sues Baltimore police for deleting videos off cell phone -- President of ECFA says that churches to be controlled financially --
Judge allows ‘vindictive prosecution’ defense in Dan Choi trial -- Contract With Atrocity: Flying With the Torture Profiteers -- Paul Craig Roberts: In America The Rule Of Law Is Vacated -- Massive Wave of Lawsuits to be Filed by US Against America's Biggest Banks -- Memo to Exxon: Business With Russia Might Involve Guns and Balaclavas -- White House working to avoid clash with NFL's opening game -- Hurricane Fannie Mae destroyed more homes than Katrina and Irene -- Tracking Gold -- Michael Kielsky - Recall Election, Russell Pearce / James Mooney - Utah and Native American Church -- Nevada Lawsuit Shows Bank of America’s Criminal Incompetence
AZ: Arizona
Breakfast Club tomorrow OathKeepers at Quartzsite wrap up and
Sen. Russell Pierce Dist. 18 Recall Election; Arizona State
University Law School Debate - "Should Marijuana Be Legalized?"
Sept. 12@ noon
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News Link • Libya
World powers, new Libyan leaders meet to map out reconstruction
09-01-2011
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Reuters
Leaders of the Libyan uprising that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi sit down with world powers on Thursday to map out the country's rebuilding, 42 years to the day after the former strongman seized power in a coup.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and B
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA shifts focus to killing people
09-01-2011
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NY Times
Behind a nondescript door at CIA headquarters, the agency has assembled a new counterterrorism unit whose job is to find al-Qaeda targets in Yemen. A corresponding commotion has been underway in the Arabian Peninsula, where construction workers have
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NASSAU POLICE SHOOT Long Island MAN
09-01-2011
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A twenty-three-year-old man was shot and killed Tuesday morning while attempting to evade officers at his Point Lookout home. The shooting occurred about fifteen minutes to three that morning after Nassau County Police officers surrounded his home. H
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
U.S. aims to track 'untraceable' prepaid cash cards
09-01-2011
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MSNBC
By making it harder to get prepaid cards without subjecting buyers to government scrutiny, regulators and lawmakers hope to make it easier to detect patterns of money movement that could signal something nefarious. But card issuers and some business
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
U.S. Is Set to Sue a Dozen Big Banks Over Mortgages
09-01-2011
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NY Times
The federal agency that oversees the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is set to file suits against more than a dozen big banks, accusing them of misrepresenting the quality of mortgage securities they assembled and sold at the height of the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Muslims, police scuffle at Rye Playland over amusement park’s head scarf ban; 15 arrests made
09-01-2011
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NY Daily News
Rye Playland was shut down Tuesday after cops scuffled with Muslims upset that women wearing head scarves were barred from the rides, witnesses said.
Fifteen people, including three women, were charged with disorderly conduct and assault in the ch
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Goldman Sachs and two other firms agree to end robo-signing
09-01-2011
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Reuters
Goldman Sachs and two other firms have agreed with the New York banking regulator to end the practice known as robo-signing, in which bank employees signed foreclosure documents without reviewing case files as required by law, the Wall Street Journal
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
WikiLeaks blames Guardian journalist for release of 251,000 unredacted U.S. cables
09-01-2011
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Rawstory
WikiLeaks on Thursday blamed a journalist from the British newspaper The Guardian for the release of hundreds of thousands of unredacted U.S. State Department documents.
WikiLeaks has been redacting portions of the diplomatic cables to protect hum
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
ACLU sues Baltimore police for deleting videos off cell phone
09-01-2011
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Rawstory
The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland (ACLU) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Baltimore City Police Department on behalf a man whose personal videos were deleted after he filmed officers subduing and arresting a woman.
“Police off
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Judge allows ‘vindictive prosecution’ defense in Dan Choi trial
09-01-2011
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Rawstory
After three days of testimony Wednesday, a magistrate judge stopped the U.S. government's trial of former Lt. Dan Choi to allow defense lawyers to argue that the gay activist had been targeted for "vindictive prosecution."
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Contract With Atrocity: Flying With the Torture Profiteers
09-01-2011
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Chris-Floyd.com
Not only did they willingly transport men who had been tormented, tied up, drugged and humiliated, they referred to the victims by the truly Orwellian term, "invitees." The Guardian reports:
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Paul Craig Roberts: In America The Rule Of Law Is Vacated
09-01-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
Jose Guerena, a US Marine who served two tours in Bush’s Iraq War was murdered in his own home in front of his wife and two small children by a crazed SWAT team, again in the wrong place, who shot him 60 times.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Massive Wave of Lawsuits to be Filed by US Against America's Biggest Banks
09-01-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
In a move that could either send BAC stock limit down overnight or send it soaring (we are still trying to figure out just what is going on here), the NYT has broken major news that the US is preparing to go nuclear on more than a dozen big...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Memo to Exxon: Business With Russia Might Involve Guns and Balaclavas
09-01-2011
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NYTimes
Commandos armed with assault rifles raided the offices of the British oil company BP on Wednesday, in one of the ritual armed searches of white-collar premises that are common enough here to have a nickname: masky shows
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House working to avoid clash with NFL's opening game
09-01-2011
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www.nfl.com
Obama agreed to move his speech to Thursday, Sept. 8, which happens to coincide with the opening game of the NFL regular season, a prime time contest between the New Orleans Saints and the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers from Lambeau
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Ernest Hancock
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Tracking Gold
Doug Hornig
Recently, we’ve received a number of emails from readers asking why the primary gold ETF, SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE:GLD), doesn’t more closely track the price of gold, and other related questions.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
25 Signs That the Financial World Is About To Hit the Big Red Panic Button
09-01-2011
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Economic Collapse Blog via www.lewrockwell.com
Most of the worst financial panics in history have happened in the fall. Just recall what happened in 1929, 1987 and 2008. Well, September 2011 is about to begin and there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to hit the big red pa
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Nevada Lawsuit Shows Bank of America’s Criminal Incompetence
09-01-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
Countrywide did not disclose to investors that it failed to properly transfer the mortgages to the securitization trust from which they were sold…..This means that investors would not have an enforceable or secured interest in the mortgages.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
American Anarchism
09-01-2011
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mises.org by Wendy McElroy
[Talk delivered at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, November 20, 2000.] I want to take a very basic look at one of the traditions that underlies modern libertarianism â€" namely, 19th-century individualist anarchism in America.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Guard choppers from Illinois to assist Vermont recovery effort
09-01-2011
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www.burlingtonfreepress.com
Outside assistance from other state's National Guard units is needed because the Vermont National Guard's helicopter fleet is deployed on a mission in Iraq.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Gary North: World Trade Center Building 7 and Conspiracy Theories
09-01-2011
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LewRockwell.com
It is vital to the continued rule of the State apparatus that it have legitimacy and even sanctity in the eyes of the public, and it is vital to that sanctity that our politicians and bureaucrats be deemed to be disembodied spirits solely devoted...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Don't Drug my Child or I'll Shoot! (2011 - What Difference a decade makes)
08-31-2011
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FoxBusiness.com
Detroit mother Maryanne Godbaldo is cleared of criminal charges related to her effort to prevent Child Services from physically taking her child from her
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
N.Y. billing dispute reveals details of secret CIA rendition flights
08-31-2011
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Washington Post
On Aug. 12, 2003, a Gulfstream IV aircraft carrying six passengers took off from Dulles International Airport and flew to Bangkok with fueling stops in Cold Bay, Alaska, and Osaka, Japan.
Before it returned four days later, the plane also touched
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Video Shows Police Pathologist Creating Bite Mark in the Leigh Stubbs Case
08-31-2011
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The Agitator
West is examining Kim Williams, the woman Stubbs was convicted of assaulting. Watch closely at around the 50-second mark, as a bite mark mysteriously appears out of nowhere on Williams’ hip.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Arrested for Letting Your 10 year old Ride a Bike to School
08-31-2011
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Could you be arrested for allowing your 5'th grade child to ride her bike one mile to school? That certainly seems crazy as we try to encourage active life styles for our kids. That certainly seems crazy as we try to promote safe routes to school p
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Feds May Confiscate Privately Held Gold and Silver Coins
08-31-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Coin World reports that the feds are looking to seize liberty dollars from collectors and those using the coins instead of inflation-ridden Federal Reserve notes.
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Police State
Man Faces Life In Jail For Recording Police
08-31-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Every other case involving people arrested for filming cops has been thrown out of court
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Sex offenders paid by state to baby-sit
08-30-2011
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Chicago Tribune
Cornelius Osborne may not seem like baby-sitting material.
He was convicted of raping two women. A succession of felonies, from robbery to failing to register as a sex offender, repeatedly sent him to prison, state records show.
But over more t
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