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Date Sent: 2011-10-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, October 14, 2011 PM edition |
Mayor requires journalists to register as lobbyists -- Student Suspended for Criticizing College
Panetta warns of retreat in Africa due to budget cuts -- Gov't cameras in your car? E-toll patent hints at Big Brotherish future -- UBS, RBS Ratings Lowered as Fitch Says More Than a Dozen Banks May Follow -- ‘Hats Off’ Or Get Out: Valley Stores, LAPD To Ban Headgear In Anti-Crime Effort -- Texting while driving laws -- House Bill Would Criminalize Satire of TSA -- Why Ron Paul Is Dominating -- Government-Generated Plots -- Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near
-- Strike the Root -- iOS 5: Exploring 7 Hidden New Features -- Study: FDA allowed oil-tainted seafood onto market -- ‘Rapture’ preacher makes fourth end-of-the-world forecast -- Insiders voice doubts about CIA’s 9/11 story -- McCain vows to nullify defense cuts if they’re triggered -- Will the
Washington Bomb Plot Force Obama into War with Iran? -- Suicide of a Superpower - by Patrick J. Buchanan -- New Obama metric: “Jobs supported” -- "Unusual" meeting between US, Iran over plot -- OWS leader in Los Angeles: Violence and bloodshed will ultimately be required, and the Zuccoti Park --
Beating Up on Iran -- Abbas, UN Membership and Peace Talks -- Scalia:
Federal Drug Laws Were a Mistake -- Solar Leaf Produces Hydrogen Cheaply
-- Siberia Claims Evidence of Yeti
AZ: Rich Woods, activist in Phoenix, AZ, in the hospital... -- Debate Party
(again) for next Tuesday's GOP Debate on CNN -- “Is Voter Fraud Real?” - The League of
Women Voters - Oct. 19 - 11:45 a.m. -- Gary Johnson comes to Arizona end of
Oct.!; Phoenix - Rock
the Revolution Tour is now set
CA: Libertopia in San Diego October 21-23
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Fla. mayor requires journalists to register as lobbyists
10-14-2011
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Rawstory
Mayor Richard Kaplan, who governs the small south Florida town of Lauderhill, has decided that all journalists in his town should register as lobbyists, according to his reading of the city’s ethics code.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported th
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
North Carolina Student Suspended for Facebook Comment Criticizing College
10-14-2011
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CBS News
Marketing student Marc Bechtol learned from Catawba Valley Community College that what you say can come back to haunt you.
The school suspended Bechtol on Oct. 4 for two semesters and banned him from campus in response to a comment he made about t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Print
New York Times Plans Staff Reductions
10-14-2011
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NY Times
In the midst of a deteriorating advertising climate, The New York Times plans to eliminate up to 20 newsroom positions and seek additional savings in the business units, the company said Thursday.
The reductions, described by the New York Times Co
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Panetta warns of retreat in Africa due to budget cuts
10-14-2011
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Washington Times
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Thursday warned Congress that automatic cuts in defense spending would force the Pentagon to reduce its presence in some trouble spots, including Africa, a hotbed of al Qaeda franchise groups.
Mr. Panetta previ
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News Link • Surveillance
Gov't cameras in your car? E-toll patent hints at Big Brotherish future
10-14-2011
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MSNBC
Imagine that you couldn't drive on major highways without agreeing to put a camera in your car -- one that could film either the occupants or the vehicle’s surroundings and transmit the images back to a central office for inspection.
You don't hav
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
UBS, RBS Ratings Lowered as Fitch Says More Than a Dozen Banks May Follow
10-14-2011
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Bloomberg
UBS AG (UBSN), Lloyds Banking Group Plc (LLOY) and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS) had long-term issuer default grades cut by Fitch Ratings, which put more than a dozen other lenders on watch negative as part of a global review.
UBS’s long-
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
‘Hats Off’ Or Get Out: Valley Stores, LAPD To Ban Headgear In Anti-Crime Effort
10-14-2011
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CBS News
The next time you visit a store in the San Fernando Valley, you may have to check your hat at the door or take your business elsewhere.
KNX 1070′s Vytas Safronikas reports it’s part of a new anti-crime effort announced by the Los Angeles Pol
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Texting while driving laws
10-14-2011
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USA Today
Thirty-four states plus the District of Columbia have text-messaging bans. In 31 states and D.C., it is a primary offense, meaning drivers can be pulled over specifically for texting.
States where texting while driving is a primary offense for all
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
House Bill Would Criminalize Satire of TSA
10-14-2011
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InfoWars
The language states that it would be illegal to “convey the impression” that you are representing the TSA, but this interpretation would likely be left to federal prosecutors.
In the past, satire was protected under the First Amendment, but it may
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Herman Cain’s 999 plan: a misleading pitch
10-14-2011
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Washington Post
It almost sounds like something out of the movie “Dave,” in which the accidental president enlists his accountant friend, Murray Blum, to help him figure out the federal budget.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Cain’s ‘9-9-9’ tax plan hits poor, helps wealthy, experts say
10-14-2011
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Washington Post
The “9-9-9” plan that has helped propel businessman Herman Cain to the front of the GOP presidential field would stick many poor and middle-class people with a hefty tax increase while cutting taxes for those at the top, tax analysts say.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Why Ron Paul Is Dominating
10-14-2011
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LewRockwell.com/James Miller
If they want to really change things, the first person to fire is Bernanke, who is a disastrous chairman of the Federal Reserve. The second person to fire is Geithner.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Misinformation
Government-Generated Plots
10-14-2011
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LewRockwell.com/Andrew Napolitano
Does the government work for us or do we work for the government? Can the federal government take credit for saving us from a plot of its own creation?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Software
Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near
10-14-2011
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Technology Review
Futurists like Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil have argued that the world is rapidly approaching a tipping point, where the accelerating pace of smarter and smarter machines will soon outrun all human capabilities.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
iOS 5: Exploring 7 Hidden New Features
10-14-2011
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Wired
iPhone 4S owners are poised to become members of an elite class. Their new phones boast an improved camera, dual antennae and an unpaid personal intern named Siri " all relevant talking points in “Who’s got the real iPhone?” one-upsmanship battles.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Food
Study: FDA allowed oil-tainted seafood onto market
10-14-2011
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RawStory
Ultimately, the FDA was responsible for allowing food with “10,000 times too much contamination” than should be permitted, the study’s authors said, failing to highlight the elevated risk to children and pregnant women.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Seriously?
‘Rapture’ preacher makes fourth end-of-the-world forecast
10-14-2011
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RawStory
In an recent audio message, Family Radio’s Harold Camping told his followers that the end of the world will “probably” happen on Oct. 21.
Camping has wrongly predicted the Rapture on at least three occasions, in 1992, 1994 and on May 21 of this ye
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
McCain vows to nullify defense cuts if they’re triggered
10-14-2011
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Washington Post
“If there’s a failure on the part of the supercommittee, we will be among the first on the floor to nullify that provision. Congress is not bound by this. If something is passed, we can reverse it,” McCain responded.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Will the Washington Bomb Plot Force Obama into War with Iran?
10-14-2011
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TIME
"If something happens, it's virtually assured that we won't get it right " that there will be miscalculation, which could be extremely dangerous in that part of the world."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Books
Suicide of a Superpower, by Patrick J. Buchanan
10-14-2011
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Drudge
Book warns of end. Will America survive to 2025? The last decade provided corroborating if not conclusive proof that we are in the Indian Summer of our civilization."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economic Stimulus
New Obama metric: “Jobs supported”
10-14-2011
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HotAir.com
Old and busted: Jobs “saved or created.” New hotness: Jobs “supported.” In attempting to advance the argument for Barack Obama’s new jobs stimulus plan, the White House has decided to create a new term that has, er, even less meaning than their pre
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
"Unusual" meeting between US, Iran over plot
10-14-2011
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CBS News
President Barack Obama said Thursday that officials at the "highest levels" of the Iranian government must be held accountable for a brazen and bizarre plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States on American soil, insisting leaders
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
OWS leader in Los Angeles: Violence and bloodshed will ultimately be required, and the Zuccoti Park
10-14-2011
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The Political Commentator
While the lemmings listen on, one of the "leaders" of the Occupy Wall Street protest in Los Angeles tells the crowd that French Revolution-type violence will have to be the endgame to get what they want!
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Agriculture
Eight Fold in Shrimp Farm Productivity
10-14-2011
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arclein
“We’re able to produce jumbo size shrimp, each weighing 1.1 ounces, known as U15 shrimp, which gives us world record production of up to 25 kilograms of shrimp per cubic meter of water using either zero water exchange and/or recirculating water,” he
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robert klein
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News Link • Drug War
Scalia: Federal Drug Laws Were a Mistake
10-14-2011
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arclein
This isn't a new problem. Chief Justice William Rehnquist complained as far back as 1989 that the war on drugs was overwhelming the federal judiciary. In 1995, Kathleen F. Brickley, an academic, found that "the Federal system is strained to capacit
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Solar Leaf Produces Hydrogen Cheaply
10-14-2011
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arclein
We describe the development of solar water-splitting cells comprising earth-abundant elements that operate in near-neutral pH conditions, both with and without connecting wires. The cells consist of a triple junction, amorphous silicon photovoltaic i
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News Link • Science
Siberia Claims Evidence of Yeti
10-14-2011
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arclein
Local government officials in Kemerovo said footprints and possibly even hair samples belonging to the yeti - or abominable snowman - had been found on a research trip.
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robert klein
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Debate Party (again) for Today's GOP Debate on CNN
10-13-2011
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Meetup.com/Hancock
Wow - another GOP debate. We should know the candidates pretty well by now given the fact that there is a debate just about every other week. DEBATE PARTY AT HANCOCK'S, TUESDAY OCTOBER 18TH, 2011, 6 P.M.
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