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Date Sent: 2012-08-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, August 6, 2012 PM edition |
Sikh Temple Shooter Named as Army Vet Wade Michael Page -- NASA's Curiosity Rover Lands on Mars
Arizona budget contains surplus of more than $800 mil -- Tax court burns entire U.S. medical marijuana industry -- Second person sought in connection to Wisconsin temple shooting -- Wall Street lenders want bankrupt city to pay them before own retirees -- Arizona medical marijuana shops awaiting lottery -- Mafia cashes in
as hard-up Italians flog their gold -- Social Security not deal it once
was for workers -- Apple co-founder Wozniak sees trouble in the cloud -- Rights of Demonstrators in Palestine -- WI Eyewitness: "FOUR Men Opened Fire" -- The End Does Not Justify The Means -- Texas to execute mentally disabled prisoner on Tuesday -- FOREX-Euro slips on doubts over effective ECB response -- Should Obama And Congress Be Arrested Under The NDAA? -- Chemical Warfare: Agent Orange in Vietnam -- UN General Assembly Vote On Syria: World Gone Unipolar – And Mad --
Crazy Weather: 'Virtually No Other Explanation Than Climate Change' --
Radioactive cesium found in Japan’s fish, seawater -- South China Sea
feud: Beijing rebukes Washington's 'biased' stance -- US, Israel arranging roles in Iran war theater? -- Death Squad Atrocities in Syria
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine - READY FOR DOWNLOAD - August
2012 Edition
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News Link • TERRORISM
Sikh Temple Shooter Named as Army Vet Wade Michael Page
08-06-2012
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The gunman who opened fire in a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., and killed six people has been identified as Army veteran Wade Michael Page, a PsyOp specialist. Page, 40, opened fire outside the temple before entering and killed 6 people.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA's Curiosity Rover Lands on Mars
08-06-2012
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http://www.pcworld.com, By Martyn Williams
One of the most complicated missions ever attempted by NASA, the landing of the one-ton rover Curiosity inside a crater on Mars after a 500 million kilometer journey, has apparently gone without a hitch.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona budget contains surplus of more than $800 mil
08-06-2012
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Arizona Republic
The state went into its new budget cycle with more than $800 million in cash on hand -- more than planners predicted and a stark contrast with years of battling billion-dollar budget deficits.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Tax court burns entire U.S. medical marijuana industry
08-06-2012
In Olive v. Commissioner, judges unanimously found the owner of the Vapor Room Herbal Center, one of San Francisco’s largest dispensaries, was not allowed to take business deductions because it was trafficking in controlled substances
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Second person sought in connection to Wisconsin temple shooting
08-06-2012
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Rawstory
Police said Monday they are seeking a second person in connection to the shooting assault on a Sikh temple that left six people dead and an officer in critical condition, but did not comment on civil rights groups’ allegations about the primary suspe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wall Street lenders want bankrupt city to pay them before own retirees
08-06-2012
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Rawstory
In 2007, Stockton borrowed $125 million in the bond market to pay for enhanced pension benefits and invested the money in its California Public Employees’ Retirement System account, where it lost a third of its value
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona medical marijuana shops awaiting lottery
08-06-2012
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Arizona Republic
State officials have decided to move forward with licensing the dispensaries, even as 13 county attorneys have urged Gov. Jan Brewer to halt the process and federal prosecutors have moved to shut down the nation's largest medical-marijuana
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Mafia cashes in as hard-up Italians flog their gold
08-06-2012
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AFP
Italy’s traditional goldsmiths are up in arms over a boom in the poorly regulated cash-for-gold sector that is making billions for the mafia as hard-up Italians rush to sell off their bling.
Cash-for-gold shops have filled Italy’s streets in recen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Social Security
Social Security not deal it once was for workers
08-06-2012
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AP
People retiring today are part of the first generation of workers who have paid more in Social Security taxes during their careers than they will receive in benefits after they retire. It's a historic shift that will only get worse for future retiree
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Apple co-founder Wozniak sees trouble in the cloud
08-06-2012
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AFP
"With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away" through the legalistic terms of service with a cloud provider that computer users must agree to. "I want to feel that I own things," Wozniak said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • False Flag Operations
WI Eyewitness: "FOUR Men Opened Fire"
08-06-2012
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YouTube via Daily Paul
"...four white males, who were dressed darkly... uh... dressed in all black clothing, fired on the, uh, our congregation."
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News Link • Activism
Ed Vallejo Tampa Chip-In
07-09-2012
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Ed Vallejo/Daily Paul
As the 2012 RNC looms large on the horizon, preparations are being made...
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Reference Link • General Opinion
The End Does Not Justify The Means
C. Smith blog
The unnecessary bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are more glaring examples...The truth is no evil action is justified by having a good end in mind. This is true for a nation, as it is for you as an individual.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Texas to execute mentally disabled prisoner on Tuesday
08-06-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Ed Pilkington
A death row prisoner who has been medically diagnosed as “mentally retarded” and therefore exempt from execution is set to die on Tuesday in Texas
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
FOREX-Euro slips on doubts over effective ECB response
08-06-2012
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http://in.reuters.com, By Jessica Mortimer
The euro eased on Monday after making significant gains, with many investors wary of buying the currency on caution about how effective action pledged by European policymakers to resolve the euro zone crisis would be.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Recipe: Homemade Eco-Friendly All Natural Deodorant
08-06-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Lissa Butler
With summer well upon us, deodorant is essential.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Natural Remedies for High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
08-06-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Jordan & Kyla Miller
About 74 million (1 in 3) American adults (20 and over) have high blood pressure (hypertension).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Should Obama And Congress Be Arrested Under The NDAA?
08-06-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, John Aziz
Should President Obama (alongside Lindsay Graham and John McCain) be wearing an orange jumpsuit?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
7 Climate Change Diseases to Ruin Your Monday
08-06-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By James West
Climate change is creating favorable conditions for several (unpronounceable, gross) diseases.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Chemical Warfare: Agent Orange in Vietnam
08-06-2012
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Globalresearch, by Jeanne Mirer and Marjorie Cohn
AUGUST 10, 2012, AT NOON: 51 YEARS AFTER THE CHEMICAL WAR BEGAN IN VIETNAM, WE SHOULD BE SILENT IN MEMORY, THEN TAKE ACTION TO REMEDY
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
UN General Assembly Vote On Syria: World Gone Unipolar " And Mad
08-06-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Rick Rozoff
On August 3 the United Nations General Assembly voted on a resolution written by Saudi Arabia condemning both the government of Syria for the preponderance if not all the violence in the country
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
Crazy Weather: 'Virtually No Other Explanation Than Climate Change'
08-06-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
New study, led by NASA's James Hansen, refutes notion that weather events cannot be attributed to systemic climate change
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
South China Sea feud: Beijing rebukes Washington's 'biased' stance
08-06-2012
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http://www.rt.com
China’s Foreign Ministry has called on an American diplomat to protest State Department accusations that Beijing is hindering diplomatic efforts in the South China Sea.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
US, Israel arranging roles in Iran war theater?
08-06-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Reports are surfacing of a US-Israeli plan to attack Iran’s ballistic missile batteries, giving Israel extra space to tackle Syria and Hezbollah.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Ecuador court orders Chevron to pay $19 billion
08-05-2012
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The RawStory.com
An Ecuadoran court has ordered US oil firm Chevron to pay some $19 billion " a billion dollars more than an original order " by Monday for environmental damage.
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News Link • Climate Change
Climate change to blame for extreme heat: NASA scientist
08-05-2012
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The RawStory.com
Human-driven climate change is to blame for a series of increasingly hot summers and the situation is already worse than was expected just two decades ago, a top NASA scientist said on Saturday.
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News Link • Healthcare
Microchip-Laden Drugs Given FDA Approval
08-05-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Rumors regarding the development of a ‘digital pill’ with a microchip inside have been circulating for some time, but today, the FDA actually green lighted the product.
The company, Proteus Digital Health, gained FDA approval for its 1 square mill
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Death Penalty
Reprieved Oregon death row prisoner granted right to be executed
08-05-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Paul Harris
Convicted murderer Gary Haugen has rejected clemency of Oregon governor John Kitzhaber, and says he wants to die.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Experts Fear Whooping Cough Vaccine's Shield Is 'Waning'
08-05-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Michaeleen Doucleff
Whooping cough is getting a foothold once again in the U.S., and it seems to be getting stronger.
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