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Date Sent: 2012-10-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, October 18, 2012 PM edition |
Iran Launches Submarine and Destroyer into Gulf During US Naval Exercises
Sham Israeli Elections -- 10-18-12 -- Phil Donahue - Ademo Freeman - Peymon Mottahedeh (MP3 & Video Loaded) -- Convening of The International Common Law Court of Justice -- Forget Libya, The Syrian Conflict Is What's Going To Make The Middle East Explode -- The New Face Of CoverGirl Is A 13-Year-Old Cancer Patient -- Finally, We Can See What Google's Brain Looks Like -- Mystery Over Shiny Particles On Mars Gets More Exciting -- Why The Fed's Plan To Save The Housing Market Isn't Working That Well -- The Makers Of Axe Now Say It Can Cure Homosexuality -- The Military Dogs Coming Home From War Have Terrible PTSD -- See How The University Of Maryland Almost Won $250K With This Human Powered Helicopter -- What speech would absolutely win the presidency? This one! -- Ademo is out of Jail!! - October 11th, 2012 -- America’s Schools: Breeding Grounds for Compliant Citizens -- Fusion centers: Invading your privacy at your expense -- The Sanctions Game -- Israel Gaza blockade study calculated Palestinians' calories -- Boy Scouts' 'perversion' files set to be released -- China's economic growth slows to 7.4 percent -- The Pirate Bay moves entire operation to the cloud, thwarts copyright cops -- Ron Paul ~ The Answers Are Out There And More Available Than Ever Before (VIDEO) -- American-Style Fascism -- Long-Suffering Haitians Want Change -- "Occupy Unmasked" Screening
AZ: Powell Gammill is on PBS - Horizon - Arizona Congressional District 9 Debate - Tonight - 5:30 p.m. (PST); Then
FUNDRAISER DINNER for Marc Victor tonight, Oct 18th, 2012; 6:30 – 9:00
pm Byblos Restaurant (Tempe); Fruit Trees 4 Community offered by Garden
Pool - Deadline for
orders is November the 10th
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iran Launches Submarine and Destroyer into Gulf During US Naval Exercises
10-18-2012
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Oilprice.com
This week the US, UK, France, and a few Middle Eastern countries are conducting naval exercises in the Gulf of Persia to practice clearing mines that Iran, or other groups may place around the Straits of Hormuz in an attempt to disrupt the movement o
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
PBS - Horizon - Arizona Congressional District 9 Debate - Thurs Oct 18th, 2012 - 5:30 p.m. (PST)
10-18-2012
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Arizona PBS
A live half-hour debate for the candidates seeking to represent Arizona's new Ninth Congressional District. The candidates are Vernon Parker (Republican), Kyrsten Sinema (Democrat) and Powell Gammill (Libertarian).
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
FUNDRAISER DINNER for Marc Victor tonight, Oct 18th, 2012; 6:30 " 9:00 pm Byblos Restaurant (Tempe)
10-18-2012
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www.victorforsenate.com
Criminal Defense Attorney, Marc Victor, is running for Arizona U.S. Senate. Please come and enjoy good food, good company, and a presentation by Marc.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday October 18th 2012
10-18-2012
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LewRockwell.com
The Most Radical Social Movement in America / We're Only Beginning To Pay the Bitter Price For rejecting Ron Paul / The Taboo Against the Truth
Charles Goyette on politics and the bankster elite / Why I Left Goldman Sachs
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Convening of The International Common Law Court of Justice
10-18-2012
Today is Monday, October 15, 2012, and marks the formal online convening of the five sworn judges of our Court, from Canada, the United States and Belgium. They are joined by fifty eight sworn citizen jurors from Canada, the USA, Ireland, England...
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Gun Rights
3D printing: A copy machine that makes actual things (including guns...)
10-18-2012
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CBS News
CBS News' Jeff Glor reports on a groundbreaking new technology that lets people build almost anything they can think of -- and its limits are already being tested.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Forget Libya, The Syrian Conflict Is What's Going To Make The Middle East Explode
10-18-2012
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Agence France Presse
Syria's 19-month conflict could set the entire region ablaze, international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told reporters in Lebanon on Wednesday.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists Discover Two Ways To Actively Forget An Unwanted Memory
10-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Randy Astaiza
Many of us probably have memories we would like to forget. If that includes you, I have some good news " researchers have discovered two ways we can make our own brains erase memories.
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News Link • Media: Print
The New Face Of CoverGirl Is A 13-Year-Old Cancer Patient
10-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Christina Austin
13-year-old Talia Joy Castellano of Orlando has had a tough past six years.
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News Link • Housing
Why The Fed's Plan To Save The Housing Market Isn't Working That Well
10-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
When the Fed announced QE-infinity in September, it said it would purchase $40 billion of mortgage backed securities per month. The aim was to lower the mortgage rates offered to consumers.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
The Makers Of Axe Now Say It Can Cure Homosexuality
10-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Laura Stampler
Unilever's Lynx, better known in the U.S. as Axe, posted a photo on its "Lynx Effect Hong Kong" Facebook wall that claims one spray can turn lesbians straight.
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News Link • Military
The Military Dogs Coming Home From War Have Terrible PTSD
10-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
Gunner was a Marine bomb-sniffing dog, until he suddenly became so skittish, he couldn't perform his duty.
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News Link • Inventions
See How The University Of Maryland Almost Won $250K With This Human Powered Helicopter
10-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
In 1980, the American Helicopter Association established the Sikorsky Prize, a challenge for human powered helicopters with a grant reward of $250,000.
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News Link • Activism
Ademo is out of Jail!! - October 11th, 2012
10-18-2012
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www.libertyontour.com
Ademo Freeman, Founder of CopBlock.org, who was found guilty of “wiretapping” public employees at work. In the interview, he reveals some insights from his experiences on the inside of Manchester’s Valley Street Jail.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
America’s Schools: Breeding Grounds for Compliant Citizens
10-18-2012
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https://www.rutherford.org, By John W. Whitehead
For those hoping to better understand how and why we arrived at this dismal point in our nation’s history, where individual freedoms, privacy and human dignity have been sacrificed to the gods of security, expediency and corpocracy, look no farther t
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News Link • Homeland Security
Fusion centers: Invading your privacy at your expense
10-18-2012
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http://www.examiner.com, By: Gregory Patin
The U.S. government has spent up to $1.4 billion of taxpayer money since 2003 to create “threat fusion centers” under the guise of fighting terrorism.
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News Link • Iran
The Sanctions Game
10-18-2012
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http://www.activistpost.com, Stephen Lendman
A previous article said that Washington bears full responsibility for imposing illegitimate sanctions on Iran. Other countries are pressured to go along. Doing so harms their own interests.
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel Gaza blockade study calculated Palestinians' calories
10-18-2012
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Reuters
Israel calculated the number of calories Palestinians would need to avoid malnutrition under its blockade of the Gaza Strip, according to a study which the Supreme Court forced the government to release.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Boy Scouts' 'perversion' files set to be released
10-18-2012
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AP
Confidential files kept by the Boy Scouts of America on men they suspected of child sex abuse are set to be released after a two-year-long court battle.
The anticipated release of the files on Thursday by Portland attorney Kelly Clark will reveal
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News Link • China
China's economic growth slows to 7.4 percent
10-18-2012
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AP
China's worst slump since the global financial crisis leveled out in the latest quarter and retail sales picked up in a sign an economic rebound is taking shape, adding to hopes for a global recovery.
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News Link • Internet
The Pirate Bay moves entire operation to the cloud, thwarts copyright cops
10-18-2012
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Yahoo! News blog
The Pirate Bay has grown tired of government agents raiding its data treasure trove and is smuggling away all its booty to the cloud. Pirate Bay is moving its entire operation to multiple cloud hosting providers to spread out its resources and thus
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul ~ The Answers Are Out There And More Available Than Ever Before (VIDEO)
10-18-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
New Ron Paul video speaking on all that is Constitutionally correct and missing from D.C.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
"Occupy Unmasked" Screening
10-17-2012
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their last October meeting to be held the next Thursday the 25th, Phoenix Objectivists will host a screening of the documentary: "Occupy Unmasked".
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Government Waste
Republican Senator releases Waste Book 2012; Congress tops list of waste (Video)
10-16-2012
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Andrew Moran, Examiner.com
Senator Tom Coburn (R) released his annual Waste Book, a report that highlights government waste at the federal and state level. This year, congress is this year's biggest waste of taxpayers' money.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Food
New York Times Admits Stanford Organic Food Study Flaws, Apologizes
10-17-2012
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Prison Planet
We broke the story of Stanford’s ridiculous organic food study the very night of its publication.
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News Link • Internet
Threats to Assassinate Romney Explode After Debate
10-17-2012
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Prison Planet
Despite numerous media outlets attempting to downplay the issue, Twitter exploded last night following the debate with new threats from Obama supporters to assassinate Mitt Romney if he defeats Obama in the presidential race.
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News Link • Economy - International
Moody's Refuses To Junk Spain Ahead Of US Election, Raffirms Baa3 Rating
10-17-2012
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zerohedge.com
For those who are curious why Tim Geithner has been invisible in the past 2 months, the answer is he has been manning the phones
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News Link • Syria
Iraqi Shi'ite militants fight for Syria's Assad
10-17-2012
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Reuters
Scores of Iraqi Shi'ite militants are fighting in Syria, often alongside President Bashar al-Assad's troops, and pledging loyalty to Iran's supreme Shi'ite religious leader, according to militia fighters and politicians in Iraq.
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News Link • Cuba
Cubans May Now Travel Outside The Country For The First Time In More Than 50 Years
10-17-2012
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Business Insider
Fidel Castro's little brother Raul is continuing to loosen restrictions in Cuba, now letting his people take a vacation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Green Party candidate arrested outside debate site
10-17-2012
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Washington Post
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and running mate Cheri Honkala were arrested outside Long Island’s Hofstra University ahead of tonight’s debate. [And where was Gary Johnson?]
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama suggests he would seek to revive ban on assault weapons
10-17-2012
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Reuters
Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney engaged in a rare tussle over gun control, and Obama opened the door to pushing for a ban on assault weapons if he wins a second term.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Bin Laden driver's conviction reversed by U.S. court
10-17-2012
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Reuters
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that providing support for terrorism was not a war crime at the time of Hamdan's alleged conduct from 1996 to 2001 and therefore could not support a conviction.
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News Link • Iran
EU sanctions target Iran oil, gas, tanker companies
10-16-2012
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Reuters
European Union governments imposed sanctions against major Iranian state companies in the oil and gas industry, and strengthened restrictions on the central bank, cranking up financial pressure over Tehran's nuclear program.
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News Link • Syria
Armenian plane en route to Syria searched in Turkey
10-16-2012
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Reuters
Turkey ordered an Armenian plane flying to the Syrian city of Aleppo to land and searched its cargo on Monday, in the latest move to prevent its airspace being used to supply the Syrian military.
The plane was allowed to continue on its way after
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News Link • Religion: Believers
How Many Muslims in the World? How Many Muslim Terrorists?
10-16-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
I read 23% of the world's population is Muslim, or 1.6 billion. Whatever the number, it's large. How many are terrorists out to terrorize westerners and push them out of areas they consider Muslim areas? How many are terrorists who attack Muslims?
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News Link • Imperialism (open)
Are They Doing Their Job Well?
10-16-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Are the imperialists in Washington doing their job well of advancing their dominance over the world? If the overall aim of Washington is to rule the world, are they doing their job well? Are they achieving that objective efficiently and effectively?
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News Link • China
Punishing China or Punishing Americans?
10-16-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Romney is pledging on his first day in office to designate China a currency manipulator. This is something even Bush and Obama were not dumb enough to do. This could lead to tariffs to punish China. But who would really be punished?
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer
10-16-2012
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The Daily Beast (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Bain Capital is a product of the Great Deformation. It has garnered fabulous winnings through leveraged speculation in financial markets that are perverted and deformed by decades of money printing and Wall Street coddling by the Fed.
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News Link • Internet
Uber Pulls Taxi-Hailing App Out Of New York After 'Roadblocks' From City Officials
10-16-2012
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huffingtonpost.com
A tech startup that connects taxi drivers and passengers said Tuesday it was pulling its app out of New York City after a prolonged fight with city officials.
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News Link • Libya
Behind the Benghazi Cover-Up
10-16-2012
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antiwar.com
On Sept. 11, scores of men with automatic weapons and RPGs launched a night assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, and set the building ablaze.
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News Link • Iran
US exports to Iran soar despite sanctions
10-16-2012
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Aljazeera
Exports to Iran rose to $199.5m in the first eight months of 2012, from $150.8m during the same period last year.
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Obama Orders Drones, Special Ops on Standby to Kill Benghazi Attack Suspects
10-16-2012
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antiwar.com
Bombing other countries and killing mere suspects in order to look strong and avoid criticism from Republicans is patently illegal
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Opinion • Libya
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Real Blame for Deaths in Libya
10-16-2012
Ray McGovern
If you prefer charade to reality, inquisition to investigation, trees over forest " the House Government Oversight Committee hearing last Tuesday on “Security Failures of Benghazi” was the thing for you.
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News Link • Afghanistan
State Department official: Negotiations to extend U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan starting soon
10-16-2012
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Foreign Policy
Despite statements by Vice President Joe Biden, the State Department is about to begin formal negotiations over the extension of U.S. troops past 2014, a top State Department official said Tuesday.
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