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Date Sent: 2011-09-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, September 8, 2011 PM edition |
Obama's jobs plan may top $400 billion -- US Army orders its first batch of suicide drones
Staying in Iraq--For What? -- Pentagon narrowing options for Iraq troops -- The Pentagon Refuses to be Audited -- Military officials ignored Cheney's 9/11 shoot-down order -- Politicians take paid speaking engagements in support of Iranian terror group -- Rumsfeld admitted to $2.3 trillion missing on September 10, 2001 -- Mexicans charged with terrorism in Twitter messages -- FBI Raid Obama's Embarrassing Solyndra Headquarters -- RHex Robot - From the makers of BigDog (waaay cooler than I'd imagined) -- Maryland man fights ban on filming cops -- Growth Has Ground to A Halt, and Central Banks Need to Flood the World With Money -- Bill Bonner: Long-Term Trends in the Housing Market -- Foreclosure-Gate: Florida Appellate Decision May Be a Major Obstacle to Foreclosure -- BofA Legal Woes Go Global: Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund Sues For Fraud --
Phoenix-area home prices to hit a decade low of $100,000 in November --
9/11 Mythology: The Big Lie of Our Time -- Rootworms Defy Monsanto --
Hybrid Airships Ordered -- Ron Paul: A Gallon of Gas Cost a Silver Dime... Inflation is the Problem (Debates 9/7/2011) -- US Presidential Candidate Romney Pledges Sanctions on China
AZ: Phoenix Objectivists meeting tonight,
"Atlas Shrugged: Producers vs. Looters and Parasites" -- TRUTHERS wanted this Sunday, 9-11-11,
for a 10th Ann. of 9-11 "Truth" street action -- Arizona State University Law School
Debate - "Should Marijuana Be Legalized?" Sept. 12@ noon
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Obama's jobs plan may top $400 billion
09-08-2011
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CBS News (video)
On Wednesday, CBS News learned that the president's jobs and growth package now could top $400 billion. That's a big number, and CBS News correspondent Norah O'Donnell reports that the size of this plan has grown over recent days.
Advisors claim t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
U.S. Army orders its first batch of suicide drones
09-08-2011
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www.msnbc.msn.com
Small size, quiet motors let aircraft find target, sneak in and deliver knockout blow
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Iraq
Staying in Iraq--For What?
09-08-2011
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www.campaignforliberty.org
The Obama administration wants to keep troops in Iraq. Never mind that pre-President Barack Obama criticized the war. Never mind that Uncle Sam's annual budget deficits exceed $1 trillion. Never mind that Washington faces more than $100 trillion i
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Military
Pentagon narrowing options for Iraq troops
09-08-2011
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www.usatoday.com
The Obama administration is reviewing a number of options that could leave several thousand U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of the year, but only if Iraqi officials make a decision about what they want American forces to do.
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Pentagon Refuses to be Audited
09-08-2011
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www.downsizedc.org
"No organization crucial to national security spending really has much of an idea of how well or badly it is spending vast sums of taxpayer money -- and worse yet, Congress knows even less" - Chris Hellman
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Military officials ignored Cheney’s 9/11 shoot-down order
09-08-2011
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Rawstory
Newly published audio this week reveals that Vice President Dick Cheney's infamous Sept. 11, 2001 order to shoot down rogue civilian aircraft was ignored by military officials, who instead ordered pilots to only identify suspect aircraft.
That rev
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Politicians take paid speaking engagements in support of Iranian terror group
09-08-2011
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Rawstory
An Iranian political group designated by the State Dept. as a terrorist organization is offering large payments to orators willing to speak at events on their behalf. Among those with connections to the organization are Mitt Romney's chief foreign po
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Rumsfeld admitted to $2.3 trillion missing on September 10, 2001
09-08-2011
One day before the 9/11 attacks, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made the above astonishing admission. Besides being reported months later in the CBS report given below, the quote is still posted at http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2001/s2
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
Busting barflies in bars only the beginning?
09-08-2011
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www.libertyforall.net
Compiled from three NBC 5 news reports, Dallas: Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission undercover agents entered 36 nightclubs where they shared tables with suspected drunks and covertly monitored bartenders for over-serving patrons.
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Obama Administration
FBI Raid Obama's Embarrassing Solyndra Headquarters
09-08-2011
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NBC News (video)
Solyndra filed for bankruptcy last week, shocking both workers and the Obama administration, which had given the startup $535 million in low interest loans. Congress has demanded a hearing into the matter.
There are no reports of any arrests at t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
RHex Robot - From the makers of BigDog (waaay cooler than I'd imagined)
09-08-2011
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YouTube
The Rugged Robot that Devours Rough Terrain
RHex is a man-portable robot with extraordinary rough terrain mobility. RHex climbs over rock fields, mud, sand, vegetation, railroad tracks, telephone poles and up steep slopes and stairways. RHex has a s
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Seventeen things that critics are saying about Rick Perry
09-08-2011
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Pesky Truth
Despite the paranoid untruths said about Texas Governor Rick Perry, a conservative blogger gives the facts about many of the points Perry's critics make against him in a 2 part essay.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sucktember
09-08-2011
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Ritholtz.com
I’d love to be wrong about this and see another buoyant September in the tradition of 2010 or 2009 but something tells me we will not be quite so fortunate this year.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Initial Jobless Jump to 414,000, Last Week Revised Higher
09-08-2011
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Businessinsider.com
Initial jobless claims missed expectations, jumping 414K.
That's worse than the 405K that analysts had expected, and the upwardly revised 412K from last week.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Growth Has Ground to A Halt, and Central Banks Need to Flood the World With Money
09-08-2011
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Businessinsider.com
In a new assessment of G7 economies, the OECD declares that growth has come to a halt and that it's time for bankers to flood the world with cheap money again.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Bill Bonner: Long-Term Trends in the Housing Market
09-08-2011
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LewRockwell.com
“But there’s no law that says that real estate has to stick to its trend-line. Or more specifically, that it just goes back to the trend-line and stops there. If it can go way over trend, it can also go way under trend. And that’s what I think we’re
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Florida Appellate Decision May Be a Major Obstacle to Foreclosure
09-08-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
At a minimum, this ruling makes foreclosures in Florida more costly. It may create insurmountable hurdles in many cases.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
BofA Legal Woes Go Global: Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund Sues For Fraud
09-08-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Norway's Government Pension Fund, which is another name for its Sovereign Wealth Fund, has just announced it is suing Bank of America for mortgage fraud. Not only that but it is also going after Countrywide, obviously...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Phoenix-area home prices to hit a decade low of $100,000 in November
09-08-2011
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AZcentral.com
The Phoenix area's median home price is likely to fall to a decade low of $100,000 in November, according to a predictive indicator of future home prices based on current pending home sales.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Agriculture
Rootworms Defy Monsanto
09-08-2011
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arclein
Farmer's options, unfortunately, are becoming more limited than in recent years. One major contention for farmers is that they face lawsuits if they try to save and replant genetically modified seed because they don't "own" the technology, yet mo
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Melatonin as Cancer Treatment
09-08-2011
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arclein
It inhibits cancer cell growth and proliferation; it destroys cancer cells, stops angiogenesis (new tumor blood vessel growth), and prevents harmful forms of estrogen from stimulating cancer
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Harmless Soil Bacteria Kills Cancer
09-08-2011
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arclein
they only grow in solid tumors. Inside the cancerous growth, the bacteria produce a specific enzyme that activates a cancer drug. The results? Unlike current chemotherapy, the natural bacteria treatment causes only the cancer cells to be destroyed wh
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hybrid Airships Ordered
09-08-2011
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arclein
This versatility plus an ability to stay airborne for 21 days and a potential lifting capacity of up to 200 tonnes finally enabled HAV to win a US$517million contract (€370million) in conjunction with Northrop Grumman to supply a Long-Endurance Multi
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robert klein
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
US Presidential Candidate Romney Pledges Sanctions on China
09-07-2011
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http://blogs.voanews.com
A leading U.S. presidential candidate says that, if elected, he will immediately order trade sanctions against China for currency manipulation.
Republican Mitt Romney, who was until recently the front-runner in the race for the right to challenge
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Christopher Broughton
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Atlas Shrugged: Producers vs. Looters and Parasites
09-07-2011
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their first September meeting to be held this Thursday, Phoenix Objectivists will listen to a pre-recorded lecture on Ayn Rand's magnum opus: "Atlas Shrugged"
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Mike Renzulli
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