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Date Sent: 2010-07-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, July 6, 2010 PM edition |
Justice Dept. expected to sue Arizona on immigration, citing 'preemption' grounds
Weapons Budget Grows Amid Obama Cuts -- Why We Must Reduce Military Spending - by Rep. Barney Frank and Rep. Ron Paul -- Post office announces 2-cent rate increase -- Tar balls hit Texas as BP oil spill cost soars -- Ron Paul Slams Federal Interference In Oil Spill Relief Efforts -- BP Collapse Potentially More Devastating than Lehman! -- U.S. Says It Filed Charges in 'Wikileaks' Video Case: Military charging Army private in leak -- Marine biologist claims US Coast Guard involved in Corexit spraying -- Glenn Greenwald: The BP/Government police state -- Oakland Police Search Without Warrants -- Department of Homeland Security to take control of spill response website -- Investigators probing US money flow to insurgents -- Hearings Reveal Lapses in Private Security in War Zone
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News Link • Military
Weapons Budget Grows Amid Obama Cuts
07-06-2010
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Tony Capaccio via Bloomberg
U.S. spending on weapons through 2016 likely will grow faster than the overall defense budget, which will have annual increases of only about 1 percent above inflation, according to Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale.
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News Link • Military
Why We Must Reduce Military Spending
07-06-2010
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Rep. Barney Frank and Rep. Ron Paul
By far the single most important of these is our current initiative to include substantial reductions in the projected level of American military spending as part of future deficit reduction efforts
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News Link • Immigration
Arizona GOP candidate calls for cutting off illegal immigrants’ utilities
07-06-2010
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Stephen C. Webster via the raw story
Arizona's campaign against Mexican immigrants seems to intensify with every passing week. This latest round of escalation, however, has even some proponents of getting tough on illegal immigrants wondering if it's just gone a bit too far.
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News Link • Immigration
Justice Dept. expected to sue Ariz. on immigration, citing 'preemption' grounds
07-06-2010
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Jerry Markon via The Washington Post
The Justice Department has decided to file suit against Arizona on the grounds that the state's new immigration law illegally intrudes on federal prerogatives, law enforcement sources said Monday.
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Harvard Professor: ‘Exploit Gulf Disaster For Carbon Tax’
07-08-2010
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Prison Planet
Bilderberger Rogoff openly embraces nightmare scenario of hurricanes pushing oil onshore as a way of “exploiting tragedy” to create political momentum behind Obama’s dreaded green economy
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Future Predictions
Retired Geography Professor Advocates Global One-Child Policy
07-06-2010
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Jurriaan Maessen via Infowars.com
Business Insider featured a post yesterday by geography professor Gary L. Peters under the header “Population Growth Is Still The Biggest Problem Facing Humanity”.
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News Link • Science
First-Hand Look: One Family's Unforgettable Zero Gravity Holiday
07-06-2010
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Sarah Stern via SPACE.com
Like many American families across the country, the Stern family of Colorado celebrated the Fourth of July holiday together on Sunday. But instead of a traditional barbecue or picnic, the family took to the skies for a novel weightless daytrip on a Z
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Agriculture
Rosa Delauro cranks up her broom: The wicked witch of the North rides again!
07-06-2010
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Farm Wars
Rosa Delauro's insistence on a mandatory system for the National Animal Identification System, one clearly rejected by the majority of the independent and family agricultural and livestock community across the nation, is not lawful.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Terrafugia Flying Car Approved by FAA, Will Be Available Next Year
07-06-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci
Late next year, you'll be able to buy your own flying car -- er, "roadable aircraft" -- thanks to a thumbs-up from the Federal Aviation Administration. As long as you have $194,000 and a sport pilot license.
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News Link • Energy
Military-Designed "Bat Hook" Lets You Charge Your Phone from Overhead Power Lines
07-06-2010
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Paul Adams via PopSci
When you think about it, it's ridiculous to spend the effort lugging around spare batteries, hand-cranked chargers, piezoelectric gadgets, and all the other half-baked solutions we depend on to resuscitate a dead phone. There's a potent supply of fre
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
David Rosenberg: Here Are 15 Signs The Economy Is Rolling Over
07-06-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
#10 Wages declined at a 1.1% annual rate in June " this never happened during the recession and is a 1-in-50 event. Rare indeed.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
BP Collapse Potentially More Devastating than Lehman!
07-06-2010
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marketoracle.co.uk/
What is yet unknowable is what the reality is of BP’s off-balance sheet obligations and leverage positions. How many Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) is it operating? Remember, during the Enron debacle...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
U.S. Says It Filed Charges in 'Wikileaks' Video Case: Military charging Army private in leak
07-06-2010
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Bloomberg News
The U.S. government filed charges, including the transfer of classified information, against a soldier accused of giving a video of an airstrike to a website, according to a press release today. In April, Wikileaks.org posted a video showing a U.S. h
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Homeland Security
Marine biologist claims US Coast Guard involved in Corexit spraying
07-06-2010
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RawStory.com
"[Corexit] basically disrupts the natural ability of oil to bond with itself," he said. "Oil bilipid layers next to each other are the very basis of life. Each of us is made out of cells. Those cells are nothing more than an oil layer surrounding...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
Glenn Greenwald: The BP/Government police state
07-06-2010
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Salon.com/news
She detailed how local police and federal officials work with BP to harass, impede, interrogate and even detain journalists who are covering the impact of the spill and the clean-up efforts.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Oakland Police Search Without Warrants
07-06-2010
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EastBayExpress.com via MeetUp.com
Crudele said he noticed the smell of marijuana emanating from one particular unit... and decided then to schedule the SMART inspection for one week later.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - International
Baltic Dry Index Dropping 4%, Posting Longest Consecutive Loss In 6 Years
07-06-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
One glance at the far more neutral indicator of the Baltic Dry index paints a far more dire picture: the BDIY plunged 4% overnight to 2,127, posting the longest consecutive decline in 6 years at 28 days. Despite the optimism from the conflicted...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security to take control of spill response website
07-06-2010
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Blacklistednews.com/ & Bloomberg.com
The Department of Homeland Security wants a one-stop shop for information that is completely overseen by the government as it settles into the long-haul of dealing with the response to the disaster. The U.S. Coast Guard falls under Homeland...
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday July 6th 2010
07-06-2010
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LewRockwell.com
Liberty or Power - Overthrowing the State - Public School Lies - Hedging the Coming Apocalypse - The Fraud of War - More Debt! - When the Media Are Mainly Liars - Thinking About Becoming an Expat? - Real Food, or Edible Foodlike Substances?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Free Talk Live video validation of Rita Quinn Lola Calendar Girl
07-07-2010
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www.LCLReport.com
Professional photographer Rita Quinn talks about her Calendar shoot, the 2nd amendment and the over drugging of America.
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
In a soft economy, military recruiters abandon the hard sell
07-05-2010
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MARK BRUNSWICK, Minneapolis Star Tribune
More than 8 years into fighting two wars, the U.S. military finds itself in an odd but enviable position: All four military components reached their recruiting targets . . kids out there who are coming out of high school with no job prospects or are
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Agriculture
Increasing Potato Production
07-06-2010
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arclein
research team from Michigan State University conducted a study to determine how the chemical and physical properties of soil, along with the light waves the plant absorbs and reflects, affect potato yield and variability.
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Catastrophism Collapses With Laurence Solomon
07-06-2010
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arclein
The public resents repeated attempts to pass cap and trade legislation over their objections, contributing to the fall in popularity of President Barack Obama and Congress. Public opinion surveys now predict that this November’s elections will see sw
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Transformation Optics
07-06-2010
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arclein
. This novel approach was shown to make it possible for SPPs to travel across uneven and curved surfaces over a broad range of wavelengths without suffering significant scattering losses. Using this model, Zhang and his team then designed a plasmonic
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Scientific Evidence of Poltergeist Knocking?
07-06-2010
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arclein
Whereas raps and knocking sounds produced by ordinary means exhibit a normal acoustic pattern, those recorded in alleged poltergeist cases show quite a different sound signature.
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robert klein
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News Link • Afghanistan
Investigators probing US money flow to insurgents
06-21-2010
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RICHARD LARDNER (AP)
Criminal investigators are examining allegations that Afghan security firms have been extorting as much as $4 million a week from contractors paid with U.S. tax dollars and then funneling the spoils to warlords and the Taliban.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Hearings Reveal Lapses in Private Security in War Zone
06-21-2010
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Pratap Chatterjee
. . . the use of some 18,800 armed "private security contractors" in Iraq and another 23,700 in Afghanistan to protect convoys, diplomatic and other personnel, and military bases and other facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq was not working.
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