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Date Sent: 2009-04-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, April 7, 2009 PM edition |
Communities print their own currency -- World Economy Falling Faster Than in 1929-1930
Badges, fake guns, interrogations and arrests in IRS simulation for students -- What if the world all used the same currency? -- 'In 3 weeks I will be put to my death' -- New Exoskeleton Gives Soldiers Super Strength -- Vermont Anti-Gay Veto Overridden In BOTH Houses! -- George Soros Predicting Lower Standard of Living in US? -- A New Hybrid Engine -- Meredith Whitney: No V-Shaped or L-Shaped Recovery -- Ron Paul on CNN: Make Drugs Legal -- Obama Administration Claims "Sovereign Immunity" to Spy on America -- Court reduces sentence for Iraqi shoe thrower -- Arizona Public School Economic Extortion -- Focus on the Family Bible narrator tried to lure teen for sex -- House Preparing To Legalize Payday Loans With 391% APRs -- Wisconsin Pilots Track Stolen Plane After State Capitol Evacuated
AZ: Thursday Breakfast John Stuart Murder Trial, Speaker Change
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News Link • World News
Wisconsin Pilots Track Stolen Plane After State Capitol Evacuated
04-07-2009
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Channel 3000
The state Capitol building was evacuated on Monday afternoon after a plane that was apparently stolen from Canada had flown into Wisconsin airspace.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Corruption
House Preparing To Legalize Payday Loans With 391% APRs
04-07-2009
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The Consumerist
A House subcommittee wants to legalize payday loans with interest rates of up to 391%. Lobbyists from the payday industry bought Congress' support by showering influential members, including Chairman Luiz Gutierrez, with campaign cash.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Military
Navy Carrier Role
04-07-2009
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arclein
This article on the utility of the Carrier fleet challenges navel doctrine by playing up the apparent vulnerability of carriers. To the degree that the concerns have any merit whatsoever, it is totally true that any carrier is easily destroyed if it
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Reported by:
robert klein
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Feature Article • Philosophy: Libertarianism
ETHICS, LAW & GOVERNMENT
Bob Podolsky
This article describes the essential relationships between Ethics, Law, and Government. An understanding of these relationships is an absolute requirement if one is to really grasp how the world works " and how the worlds institutions, as they exist
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News Link • Corruption
Focus on the Family Bible narrator tried to lure teen for sex
04-07-2009
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Raw Story
A Colorado man who works for Evangelical group Focus on the Family has been arrested after he solicited sex online from an investigator posing as a teenage girl, police have said. “Juan Alberto Ovalle, 42,
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Public School Economic Extortion
04-07-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
Arizona Public School Districts are threatening massive teacher layoffs, which are unnecessary, in a despicable plan to extort more money from the public trough.
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Reported by:
Becky Chandler
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News Link • Bush Administration
Court reduces sentence for Iraqi shoe thrower
04-07-2009
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AP
An Iraqi court has reduced the prison sentence for an Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at former President George W. Bush from three years to one. Muntadhar al-Zeidi was sentenced to three years in March after a quick trial.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
More on the stolen plane from Canada escorted by US fighters
04-07-2009
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AP
FBI spokesman Richard Kolko told CNN that Leon was a native of Turkey who changed his name from Yavuz Berke and became a Canadian citizen last year.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Obama Administration Claims "Sovereign Immunity" to Spy on America
04-07-2009
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Salon.com
The Obama DOJ has now invented a brand new claim of government immunity, one which literally asserts that the U.S. Government is free to intercept all of your communications (calls, emails and the like) and -- even if what they're doing is blatan
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
World Economy Falling Faster Than in 1929-1930
04-07-2009
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NakedCapitalism.com
To sum up, globally we are tracking or doing even worse than the Great Depression, whether the metric is industrial production, exports or equity valuations. Focusing on the US causes one to minimize this alarming fact.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Mortgage Delinquency on the Rise - Homeowners Walking Away
04-07-2009
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CNBC.com
Equifax found that 7% of homeowners with mortgages that were at least 30 days late on their payments in February, that’s up 50% from a year ago. And close to 40% of subprime borrowers are late, up from 23.7% a year ago.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Art
OED Hyphens
04-07-2009
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arclein
About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Algae Biodiesel Status
04-07-2009
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arclein
A better method of making fuel from algal oil has got a lot of biofuel analysts excited: "This is the first economical way to produce biodiesel from algae oil," according to lead researcher Ben Wen, Ph.D., vice president of United Environme
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Conspiracies
Max Keiser on "The Looting of America"
04-07-2009
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youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserChannel
Alex Jones interviewed Max Keiser on April 6th, 2009.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
Ron Paul on CNN Make Drugs Legal March 26 2009
04-07-2009
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YouTube CNN
Another great interview. Big thanks to CNN for having Ron Paul on often. Now it's a contest between FOX and CNN in the ratings game.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Meredith Whitney: No V-Shaped or L-Shaped Recovery
04-07-2009
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Forbes.com/
Whitney ultimately believes that the entire U.S. economy needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Inventions
A New Hybrid Engine (combining fuel and compressed air technology)
04-07-2009
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www.scuderigroup.com
THE SCUDERI SPLIT-CYCLE Technology " Making every engine burn cleaner, with more power and higher efficiency.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Humor
If You Want to Sell the House, Mow the Lawn
04-07-2009
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commercial
[funny ad] Every gardener loves the satisfaction of creating a well-crafted design on his front lawn with just a few pushes of the old John Deere. Wilkinson is apparently banking on this love-of-gardening frenzy to transfer to other lawns....
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing
04-07-2009
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USA Today
Businesses and individuals form a network to print currency. Shoppers buy it at a discount " say, 95 cents for $1 value " and spend the full value at stores that accept the currency.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
George Soros Predicting Lower Standard of Living in US?
04-07-2009
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guardian.co.uk/
"The recovery will look like an inverted square root sign," he said. "You hit bottom and you automatically rebound some, but then you don't come out of it in a V-shaped recovery or anything like that. You settle down, step down.'
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Device controls electron spin at room temperature
04-07-2009
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NCU PR
In a breakthrough for applied physics, North Carolina State University researchers have developed a magnetic semiconductor memory device, using GaMnN thin films, which utilizes both the charge and spin of electrons at room temperature.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Vermont Anti-Gay Veto Overridden In BOTH Houses!
04-07-2009
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DownWithTyranny!
Vermont's homophobic Republican Governor Jim Douglas vetoed the same sex marriage bill that passed in both houses of the state legislature. This morning both houses of the state legislature voted to override his veto!
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists 'discover' source of wisdom in the human brain
04-07-2009
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Daily Mail
Experts have pinpointed the part of the brain that guides people when they are battling with difficult moral dilemmas. Sophisticated brain scans show the response is linked to areas associated with primitive emotions of sex, fear and anger.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
New Exoskeleton Gives Soldiers Super Strength
04-07-2009
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Discovery
The HULC is easy to put on. It arrives folded into a small package. The soldier stretches a leg out and steps into foot beds underneath the boot. Straps wrap around the thighs, waist and shoulders. The foot pads ensure the weight from the soldier'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
'In 3 weeks I will be put to my death'
04-07-2009
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Toronto Sun
A Mississauga woman says she'll be the victim of an honor killing by her estranged husband, a Muslim extremist, when she's deported to Pakistan at the end of the month.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
How many Burglaries are there in the World?
04-07-2009
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Home Security Consultant
Did you know that America has more burglaries than any other country in the world?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
What if the world all used the same currency?
04-07-2009
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MSNBC
As the holder of some $2 trillion in dollar-denominated savings the Chinese government has reason to be concerned about the long-term strength of the dollar. One time-honored method of reducing large government debt is to inflate the currency
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Badges, fake guns, interrogations and arrests in IRS simulation for students
04-07-2009
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KOAM TV
An IRS training program called the Adrian Project was held at Pittsburg State Univ., giving students a real world simulation including badge and fake gun. The goal is to help accounting and criminal justice students who are interested in the career.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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