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Date Sent: 2011-08-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 5, 2011 PM edition |
Your Smart Phone Will Be Your Biometric Ankle Monitor Device
The Global Biometrics Reservation Proves You Can't Hide In A Crowd -- A Sensor-Packed Shipping Container That Folds Flat in 30 Seconds -- Dow Drops 150 Amid Global Jitters; Vix Soars -- How to Throw a Tomahawk Like a Mountain Man -- Labor
Force Participation Rate Drops To 63.9%, Lowest Since January 1984 --
Average Length of Unemployment Surges to New All Time Record 40.4 Weeks
-- Actual number of Employed (by Household Survey) declines by 156,000 -- Yves Smith: Bank of America Death Watch -- Duct Tape, Bailing Wire and Cheerleaders: Washington's Answer To The Economy
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club
tomorrow with activist Jennifer Jones and Quartzsite's mayor Ed
Foster speaking; Another POOL PARTY AT THE HANCOCK'S tomorrow,
starting 2PM, 8/6/11; "Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical Thriller" Phoenix
Objectivist's discussion Aug. 11th; Oath Keepers To Muster in
Quartzsite,
AZ on August 27th.
Nationwide: Support your local lemonade stand, Aug. 20
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News Link • Surveillance
Your Smart Phone Will Be Your Biometric Ankle Monitor Device
08-05-2011
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nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com
In the test, the demonstrator swiped a finger over the smartphone's fingerprint sensor to authenticate himself as the pre-enrolled account owner and to launch a credit card app.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
The Global Biometrics Reservation Proves You Can't Hide In A Crowd
08-05-2011
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gigapixel.com/
Keep clicking on a face to enlarge the image. Spooky!
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Humor
Friday release: Hilarious courtroom exchanges!
08-05-2011
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The Political Commentator
Actual courtroom exchanges: You can't make this stuff up
Got this in an email today and it had me on the floor. The laughs were definitely needed as this has been a tough week all around! Enjoy!
IT CAN BE HARD KEEPING A STRAIGHT FACE AS A COUR
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical Thriller"
08-05-2011
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their first August meeting to be held on 11th, Phoenix Objectivists will start a new pre-recorded lecture series to study Ayn Rand's magnum opus, "Atlas Shrugged".
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Five Scriptures You Won't Hear About at Rick Perry's Prayer Fest
08-05-2011
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counterpunch.org
When the Bible says that God is not a "respecter of persons" it means that God doesn't have a favorite country or religion. The idea that God wants Christians to be in charge of other people violates Jesus' teaching that we are to take the lowest...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Technology: Software
A Sensor-Packed Shipping Container That Folds Flat in 30 Seconds
08-05-2011
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www.popsci.com
In the half-century since Malcom McLean, an entrepreneurial former trucker from North Carolina, first began packing freight onto ships in uniform steel boxes, shipping containers have transformed the way we move most of the goods on Earth.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dow Drops 150 Amid Global Jitters; Vix Soars
08-05-2011
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cnbc.com
Stocks tumbled in another choppy session Friday, erasing their earlier rally as investors were quick to take profits following a stronger-than-expected government jobs report and amid ongoing jitters in the euro zone.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • European Union
Karl Denninger: This Had Better Not Be True
08-04-2011
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Market-ticker.org
I do not normally reprint rumors at all, as they tend to be very destructive, but this is a special case because the risks, if the rumor is correct, are exceedingly high. I'm sure you thought the 500 point loss on the DOW today was horrifying...
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News Link • How To
How to Throw a Tomahawk Like a Mountain Man
08-05-2011
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artofmanliness.com
It was the ambition of the boys to be able to throw a tomahawk with the skill and accuracy of our pioneer forebears, and the ability soon acquired by the boys in throwing hatchets at targets was really remarkable.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Labor Force Participation Rate Drops To 63.9%, Lowest Since January 1984
08-05-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The labor force participation rate, and the reason why the general unemployment rate declined to 9.1%, just dropped to 63.9%, the lowest in 16 years, or matches the participation rate from January 1984.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Average Length of Unemployment Surges to New All Time Record 40.4 Weeks
08-05-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Someone should tell the average American who is rapidly approaching one year in average unemployment that the stock market soared on good payroll news. They will be delighted.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Colbert exposes Koch brothers’ voter suppression in Wisconsin
08-05-2011
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RawStory.com
Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert joked Thursday that if Wisconsin voters were going to follow the instructions from Koch brother-funded Americans for Prosperity then they might as well send their absentee ballots to Santa.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Actual number of Employed (by Household Survey) declines by 156,000
08-05-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Given the total distortions of reality with respect to not counting people who allegedly dropped out of the work force, it is hard to discuss the numbers.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Pentagon's New Power Elite: A Secret War in 120 Countries
08-04-2011
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BlackListedNews.com
In 120 countries across the globe, troops from Special Operations Command carry out their secret war of high-profile assassinations, low-level targeted killings, capture/kidnap operations, kick-down-the-door night raids, joint operations...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Duct Tape, Bailing Wire and Cheerleaders: Washington's Answer To The Economy
08-04-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
All the authorities did was patch up a predatory banking system with duct tape and bailing wire and hoped enough cheerleading would restore confidence. And after the banks got their bailout money, the mood seemed to be “we spent so much on them...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation
RedShift Motorcycles Promise Big, Green Fun
08-04-2011
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WIRED.com
Another electric motorcycle startup is jumping into the e-moto arena with a pair of machines it promises will deliver the performance of a 250cc dirt bike.
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News Link • Corruption
Mysterious company dissolves after giving $1 million to pro-Romney PAC
08-04-2011
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The Upshot
Did someone [named Mitt] create a company for the sole purpose of giving to a political action committee trying to boost Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign? That's what it looks like. 3 firms gave $1 million apiece to Restore Our Future, a cons
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
France investigating head of IMF in multimillion-dollar payout case
08-04-2011
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Washington Post
A French court launched a criminal investigation into allegations that Lagarde abused her power when she served as France’s finance minister and oversaw a dispute involving multimillion-dollar payouts to a business tycoon.
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News Link • Economy - International
Global stocks tumble amid recession fears
08-05-2011
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AP
Stocks around the world tumbled Friday ahead of crucial U.S. jobs figures, continuing a losing streak reminiscent of the aftermath of the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Growing panic about the debts of big eurozone count
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Libyan rebels: NATO airstrike kills Moammar Gadhafi’s youngest son
08-05-2011
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AP (video)
Libya’s rebels said Friday they have reports that Moammar Gadhafi’s youngest son, who commands one of the regime’s strongest military brigades, was killed in a NATO airstrike in the western town of Zlitan.
NATO said in a statement that it was awar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Egyptian elections are coming! Egyptian elections are coming!
08-05-2011
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The Political Commentator
Egyptian elections are called for November with the Muslim Brotherhood not as unpopular as some might have you believe!
Remember Egypt? Remember Hosni Mubarak and Obama administration insistence that he step down? Remember the Muslim Brotherhood?
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
When Voters Get Whacked Again
08/05/2011
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The Intel Hub
Promises to Save Us from Ourselves
Yesterday, at opening bell, stocks paused for a moment and then barfed all over themselves. After that, they did it again…and again. When it was over the DOW had plunged 512 points and Wall Street had fully fre
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Alex Thomas
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News Link • Police State
There Is A North America-Wide Strategy To Take Away The Right To Mass Protest, Using Terrorism
08/05/0211
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The Intel Hub
North Americans no longer have the right to mass protest. Courts rule those arrested and beaten during mass protests have no right to legal recourse against the establishment.
This video explains how the police state infiltrates peaceful groups an
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Alex Thomas
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Canadian Government Covered Up “Massive Amounts Of Radiation In Air”
08/04/2011
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The Intel Hub
A Major Canadian Paper Reports That The Government Covered Up Massive Amounts Of Radioactive Material From Fukushima In Canadian Air” And Are Continuing To Manipulate Radiation Monitoring Data.
While the alternative media has reported on a cover u
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Alex Thomas
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News Link • Environment
Underwater Logging Update
08-05-2011
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arclein
According to a report from Forbes, the latest innovation in underwater tree-clearing equipment is a specially designed boom-saw designed by Canada's Triton Logging, called SHARC, and it might offer new hope to living forests slated for clearing.
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robert klein
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News Link • Food
How to Eat Well and Save the Planet Too
08-05-2011
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arclein
For those who enjoy the luxury of choice, help has come in the form of what may be the most wide-ranging overview so far on how different foodstuffs -- from lentils to lamb chops -- impact the environment, the fight against global warming, and the hu
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nanostructured Metals Locked
08-05-2011
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arclein
The fine structure consists of many small metal grains. The boundaries between these metal grains can move, also at room temperature.
At the same time a coarsening of the structure takes place and the strength of the
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Half of European Men Share King Tut's DNA
08-05-2011
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arclein
The results showed that King Tut belonged to a genetic profile group, known as haplogroup R1b1a2, to which more than 50 percent of all men in Western Europe belong, indicating that they share a common ancestor.
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robert klein
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News Link • Military
Pentagon’s Lightning Gun Sold for Scraps on eBay
08-04-2011
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
There was a time, not all that long ago, when the Pentagon sank tens of millions of dollars into remote-controlled lightning guns that it hoped would fry insurgent bombs before they killed any more troops.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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Feature Article • Gun Rights
Gun Dealers Sue BATFE
Ernest Hancock
to secure the privacy rights of lawful purchasers of firearms, by preventing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (“BATFE”) from unlawfully
requiring licensed firearm dealers to submit a report of sale
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Reference Link • Activism
Event: Selling Lemonade Is Not a Crime!
Lemonade Freedom
Please join us on August 20, 2011 and set up your own lemonade stand. We need to send a message to everyone who is listening. They can not shut down the kids lemonade stands. Please support a local kid's lemonade stand.
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