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Date Sent: 2011-11-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global PM Edition for Friday, November 4, 2011 |
Freedom's Phoenix eZine - November 2011 / Federal Workforce Rises 12% as Rest of US Jobless
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine - November 2011 -- The Problem with Seeing Government as God -- The new Canon EOS C300 camera -- 'Bloated' Federal Workforce Rises 12% as Rest of US Goes Jobless -- Santa Job Slayed By Cash-Strapped County on Long Island -- Unable to pay bill, Mich. city turns off lights -- Scott Horton Interviews Becky Akers -- Jesse Ventura loses bid to halt airport searches -- SWAT Team Kills Marine Veteran at Home -- Sheriffs Stand TALL for the Constitution – Vow to Stand with the People -- The Formula for Making Insulin -- European Central Bank Also Plots the End of the EU -- Darpa's Plan to Trap the Next WikiLeaker: Decoy Documents -- Apple Charts a Course for 3-D Maps -- Romney Says Only Essential Spending Should Be Exempt From Debt Trimming -- Ron Paul on MSNBC Morning Joe - 11/3/11: Fed is finally ‘on the defensive’ -- Sony Falls Most in Eight Months on Full-Year Loss Forecast -- Clearwire Shares Soar After Sprint Says It May Provide Financial Backing -- Lippmann Calls for Mortgage Forgiveness After Subprime Wagers -- U.S. Stocks, Euro, Italian Bonds Retreat Amid IMF Questions -- What happens if deficit super committee fails? Maybe nothing. -- Target Iran -- Washington's Man in Libya -- Lacerta Files - Pt II -- Syria's Nuclear Role -- Berkeley Builds Large Induction Accelerator -- Worm Hole Produced -- UPDATE in Skinner Case: Trial Judge Again Denies DNA Testing -- Olympic HQ built in secret for SAS -- Our Rulers Totally and Completely Fail — Again and Again --
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The new Canon EOS C300 camera
11-04-2011
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www.gizmag.com
The fact that Canon chose to release its new camera on the Paramount lot in Hollywood should be a big clue as to how it is positioning it's new baby. Scorsese was there! Ron Howard was there!
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News Link • Government Waste
'Bloated' Federal Workforce Rises 12% as Rest of US Goes Jobless
11-04-2011
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newsmax.com
Civilian unemployment has mushroomed, sticking above 9 percent for months, although many experts put the real figure in the 18-20 percent range. Meanwhile, the number of federal employees has grown 12 percent since the official start of the recession
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Unable to pay bill, Mich. city turns off lights
11-04-2011
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finance.yahoo.com
It wasn't always this way. But when the debt-ridden community could no longer afford its monthly electric bill, elected officials not only turned off 1,000 streetlights. They had them ripped out -- bulbs, poles and all
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Scott Horton Interviews Becky Akers
11-04-2011
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antiwar.com
Becky Akers, columnist at Lewrockwell.com, discusses her blog post “Déjà Vu for the Tenth Time This Year” about the repeated arrests of TSA screeners who can’t keep their hands off kids
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Jesse Ventura loses bid to halt airport searches
11-04-2011
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StarTribune.com
But a judge ruled on Thursday that the former Minnesota governor's concerns about modesty, personal freedom and constitutional rights were misplaced when he filed a federal lawsuit in St. Paul last January.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
SWAT Team Kills Marine Veteran at Home
11-04-2011
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courthousenews.com
She sued Pima County and five members of the Pima Regional SWAT Team, the towns of Marana, Oro Valley and Sahuraita, and Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik.
Guerena seeks unspecified damages for negligence.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Sheriffs Stand TALL for the Constitution " Vow to Stand with the People
11-04-2011
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farmwars.info
Must see! Sheriffs from 8 counties in Oregon and California talk about Federal and State intrusion, and taking back our country.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Formula for Making Insulin
11-04-2011
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drbonesandamyshow.blogspot.com
One of the questions I am asked most often is how to deal with Type 1 (Insulin-Dependent) diabetics in a collapse situation. I have been informed that Insulin was prepared in Singapore during WWII, in an effort to produce medicine for those in the J
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
European Central Bank Also Plots the End of the EU
11-04-2011
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www.thedailybell.com
This is a big dominant social theme of the power elite " that central banks fight inflation. Central banks CREATE inflation by printing money from nothing. But the elite promotion is orchestrated to avoid that reality.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Darpa's Plan to Trap the Next WikiLeaker: Decoy Documents
11-04-2011
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www.wired.com
WikiLeakers may have to think twice before clicking on that “classified” document. It could be the digital smoking gun that points back at them.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Software
Apple Charts a Course for 3-D Maps
11-04-2011
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www.technologyreview.com
It seems abundantly clear that Apple, which recently snapped up its third mapping company, is planning a rival to Google Maps for its iOS devices.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney Says Only Essential Spending Should Be Exempt From Debt Trimming
11-04-2011
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www.bloomberg.com
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney proposed limiting government spending to only “essential” programs in a debt-reduction plan that would slash $500 billion from the federal budget by 2016, the end of his first term if he is elected next y
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sony Falls Most in Eight Months on Full-Year Loss Forecast
11-04-2011
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www.bloomberg.com
The company, based in Tokyo, said Nov. 2 it will lose 90 billion yen ($1.2 billion) in the year ending March, compared with a previous projection for a 60 billion yen profit, as it contends with competition from Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Clearwire Shares Soar After Sprint Says It May Provide Financial Backing
11-04-2011
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www.bloomberg.com
Money from Sprint would allow Kirkland, Washington-based Clearwire to fund its operations and help pay for a planned network upgrade. Clearwire said this week that it has capital for 12 months and that its future may depend on Sprint
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Lippmann Calls for Mortgage Forgiveness After Subprime Wagers
11-04-2011
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www.bloomberg.com
Greg Lippmann, the former Deutsche Bank AG (DB) trader who gained fame for his bets against subprime mortgages before the housing market collapsed, is calling for debt forgiveness for U.S. homeowners
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
U.S. Stocks, Euro, Italian Bonds Retreat Amid IMF Questions
11-04-2011
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www.bloomberg.com
Stocks, the euro and Italian bonds fell as a disagreement on boosting the International Monetary Fund’s resources to fight Europe’s debt crisis overshadowed a drop in the U.S. jobless rate. Treasuries fluctuated.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What happens if deficit super committee fails? Maybe nothing.
11-04-2011
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ChristianScienceMonitor.Com
The latest rumor in Congress is that the massive $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts " designed to take effect if the deficit super committee fails to come up with its own plan " might never happen.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Lacerta Files - Pt II
11-04-2011
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arclein
Answer: This is a good question (much better then the previous) and I have not explained it properly to you. Our knowledge about the first war comes completely from an ancient artefact, which was found around 16,000 years ago from our archeologists o
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News Link • World News
Syria's Nuclear Role
11-04-2011
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arclein
The Syrian government did not respond to a request for comment. It has repeatedly denied pursuing nuclear weapons but also has stymied an investigation into the site bombed by Israel. It has not responded to an IAEA request to visit the Al-Hasakah
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Berkeley Builds Large Induction Accelerator
11-04-2011
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arclein
In this way the pulse is shaped to deposit about three million electron volts of kinetic energy per ion, within one nanosecond duration, onto a spot just one millimeter in diameter on a thin foil target.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Worm Hole Produced
11-04-2011
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arclein
In fact he reappeared eight hundred miles away and two years later (2000) was suffering from what must be described as a mind wipe. This took place over a decade ago and he has since had substantial mental recovery although much detail in terms of sp
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robert klein
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
UPDATE in Skinner Case: Trial Judge Again Denies DNA Testing
11-03-2011
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The Agitator
Death row inmate Hank Skinner’s trial judge once again denied Skinner DNA testing this afternoon, in spite of the new law in Texas I mentioned in the post below. Here’s the statement from Skinner’s attorney:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Olympic HQ built in secret for SAS
11-03-2011
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The Sun
A TOP secret new SAS base is under construction " at the Olympics.
It means the elite troops can combat any terrorists at next year's London Games in an instant, The Sun can reveal.
A source said last night: "It reflects the gravity of the thre
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Our Rulers Totally and Completely Fail " Again and Again
11-03-2011
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Lew Rockwell
OK, first is the “top-ranking TSA official in Jackson,” Mississippi, who murdered his adulterous lover and fellow-TSA goon. And admitted " bragged about? " it. Twice.
Second are the cops sent to rescue the damsel who failed to find her apartment u
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Déjà Vu for the Tenth Time This Year
11-03-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Yet another of the TSA’s pedophiles arrested for plying his trade away from the checkpoint, at home on his own time. When will you thugs learn? Yes, it’s your patriotic duty to molest Grammy and Gramps, Mom-to-Be, nuns, priests, honeymooners, buxom l
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
BBC Documentary on Obama's Secret War Against Pakistan
11-03-2011
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Lew Rockwell
The BBC has quite recently produced and aired a two-part documentary about Pakistan's support of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Obama's secret war against Pakistan. It is called Secret Pakistan.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Charge Inmates To Stay In Jail? Riverside County Eyes $5M Revenue Boost
11-03-2011
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CBS News
Supervisor Jeff Stone introduced an ordinance this week seeking reimbursements for the cost of jailing inmates that an estimated $143 dollars per day.
Stone told the Riverside Press Enterprise the county could reap as much as a $5 million windfall
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Judge tosses Jesse Ventura's airport scans lawsuit
11-03-2011
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AP
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura in which he sought to challenge the use of full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints due to lack of jurisdiction on 4th Amendment issues.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Detroit in "extremely serious" fiscal shape: mayor
11-03-2011
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Reuters
Detroit is in "extremely serious financial condition," as it is projected to run out of cash next year and must take action to avoid a state takeover, Mayor Dave Bing said on Thursday.
Michigan's largest city is facing a projected cash shortage of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
‘Occupy Wall Street’ protestors flood into court
11-03-2011
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AFP
The first batch of 78 protesters from among hundreds arrested for disorder over the last six weeks filed into New York State court, nearly all of them telling a judge that they were innocent and demanding a jury trial to clear their names.
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel medics complicit with abuse of prisoners: study
11-03-2011
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Rawstory
The report focuses on medical professionals who have witnessed, participated in or been in contact with prisoners who have been interrogated by the Shin Bet internal security service which it says often inflicts physical or psychological violence.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
The Self Restraint of Principle or the Iron Fist of Regulation?
11/3/11
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http://bluecollarmuse.com/
The biggest problem with government is the nature of government itself. It is impossible for Government to do anything except by regulation or legislation. This is both a description of the beast and a condemnation of its behavior.
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Daniel Lewis
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News Link • Food
Memo to Congress: No Secret Farm Bill
11-03-2011
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www.thenation.com
Providing yet another reason for its 9 percent approval rating, Congress is attempting to write the nation’s next farm bill in secrecy"sneaking it into law as part of the deficit reduction package to be produced by the “supercommittee.”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Israel prepares for possible attack on Iran
11-03-2011
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Terrence Aym
The latest development is Britain's assurance that it will stand by the US if hostilities break out and America joins Israel in an attack.The Guardian writes: "The Ministry of Defense believes the US may decide to fast-forward plans for targeted
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Israel
Disgruntled Israeli Intelligence Chiefs Try To Stop Attack On Iran
11-03-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
The barrage of news concerning preparations for an attack on Iran came as a result of leaks made by disgruntled former Israeli intelligence chiefs who are trying to prevent the attack and remove Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office,
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