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Date Sent: 2010-07-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, July 25, 2010 |
2 US sailors captured in Afghanistan, one now dead -- Indymac Boys Get Sweetheart Deal
Zeta drug gang seizes two Texas ranches? -- Safe Internet Phone! PGP encrypted VOIP Phone! -- Are We Living Inside a Black Hole? -- V.A. Says Veterans Can Now Use Medical Marijuana -- The Predatory Feds -- Why Not Another World War? -- The 1961 Speech That Got JFK Killed? -- Obama coup nears completion -- Buy Gold, Peter Schiff Says: U.S. Dollar a 'Bottomless Pit'
-- Secession, Nullification, and Passive Non-Cooperation -- Mainstream
Media's Dirty Little Secret About Racist Charges -- The Middle Class in
America Is Radically Shrinking -- Illinois town council wants to make eye rolling illegal -- Libertarian Judge John Buttrick Speaks to Phoenix NORML (Video) --
Israel's New Land Grab Master Plan - by Stephen Lendman -- Climate
Change Bill Dies With a Whimper -- Raytheon Creates Patriot Missile
Launch System iPhone App -- N. Korea warns of 'sacred war' -- China may dump dollar and switch to currency basket -- Are the FEDS still upset about AOL's sale of ICQ to Russia?
Open Mike Night with Marti and Barb
Tonight on "The Truth Squad Radio Show!"; Axiom Conference, Salt Lake
City, July 30 - Aug. 1; LP Presidential nominee Michael Badnarik's
Constitutional class, Phoenix, July 31; Freedom Summit ’09
Registration, Phoenix in December
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Indymac Boys Get Sweetheart Deal (Part of the Largest Bank Robbery in History)
06-28-2010
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YouTube
Those Indymac boys were given deal by the FDIC, and borrowers were strong-armed.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Safe Internet Phone! PGP encrypted VOIP Phone!
07-24-2010
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zfoneproject.com/
Voice chat with zFone for VOIP communication with encryption. Zfone is open source code software which means no back doors. Together you will have unbeatable military grade encryption. This is the best secure encrypted communications method out there
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Inventions
Custom Proteins Drawn from Genetically Engineered Trees Expand Silicon Chips Memory Capacity
07-24-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
In the future, we won't need rare-earth elements to make powerful computers. We can use poplar trees. Engineers in Israel have figured out how to use protein molecules from poplars to improve computer memory. The technique uses silica nanoparticles c
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News Link • Transportation
Largest-Ever Solar-Powered Boat Prepares for a World Tour
07-24-2010
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Alessandra Calderin via PopSci.com
In February, the Swiss company PlanetSolar SA unveiled PlanetSolar, a floating test bed for renewable energy, during a ceremony held in Kiel, Germany. The $15-million catamaran measures 49 feet wide, 25 feet high and 102 feet long and weighs 94 tons.
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News Link • Inventions
Toilet Tech: A Power Generator Turns Falling Wastewater Into Electricity
07-24-2010
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Clay dillow via PopSci.com
Here’s a novel way to get a little more out of time spent in the bathroom. An industrial design student at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, has created a clever power generator that turns falling wastewater into electricity.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Hubble Spots Hypervelocity Star Speeding From the Milky Way's Center at 1.6 Million MPH
07-24-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Yesterday saw the discovery of an extremely massive, extremely bright star in a neighboring galaxy. Today NASA says Hubble has discovered a fast-moving star that’s much closer " but getting further away at a very rapid rate.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Air Force Wants Drones That Can Sense Other Airplanes' Intent
07-24-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Future airplane flocks would require a trained corps of pilots who intimately know their aircraft and their partners’ flying habits. Drone flocks would be a different task, however. Drones are not as smart as pilots, and cannot tell what other aircra
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News Link • Environment
Are We Living Inside a Black Hole?
07-24-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Scientists trying to explain the universe’s accelerating expansion usually point to dark energy, which seems to be pushing everything apart.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
More Rich Americans Renounce U.S. Citizenship for Lower Taxes
07-24-2010
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Jonathan Berr via LewRockwell.com
While such a move is drastic, it's also becoming increasingly common. In fact, so many people are eager to renounce their U.S. citizenship for tax reasons, that in some U.S. embassies there's a waiting list to escape from the clutches of Uncle Sam.
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News Link • Drug War
V.A. Says Veterans Can Now Use Medical Marijuana
07-24-2010
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tokeofthetown.com via PHX NORML MySpace page
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will now formally allow patients treated at its hospitals and clinics to use medical marijuana in states where it is legal.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Sit Down and Shut Up
07-24-2010
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Simon Black via LewRockwell.com
Apparently, all of us little people just need to sit down and keep quiet… so sayeth Kartik Athreya, senior economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
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News Link • Government
Celente Says Populists Will Break the False Left-Right Political Paradigm
07-24-2010
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Reic Blair via LewRockwell.com
Trends Research Institute CEO, Gerald Celente, originally predicted the rise of a third party when he spoke with Libertarian radio talk show host, Alex Jones, in late 2009 and repeated this forecast last week on the same show.
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News Link • History
The 1961 Speech That Got JFK Killed?
07-24-2010
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Katherine Smith via LewRockwell.com
On the anniversary of JFK’s birthday, an edited video of the April 27, 1961 speech “that got John F. Kennedy Killed” was making its way around the Internet [1]:
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Why Not Another World War?
07-24-2010
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Peter Schiff via LewRockwell.com
There is overwhelming agreement among economists that the Second World War was responsible for decisively ending the Great Depression. When asked why the wars in Iran and Afghanistan are failing to make the same impact today, they often claim that th
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Buy Gold, Peter Schiff Says: U.S. Dollar a 'Bottomless Pit,' Treasuries a 'Sucker's
07-24-2010
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Peter Gorenstein via LewRockwell.com
At the heart of Schiff’s critique is a strong belief the U.S. dollar “is a bottomless pit” that will continue the long-term trend of losing value vs. gold and other major currencies.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama coup nears completion--only one brick left before free society crumbles
7/24/10
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Examiner
These are highly dangerous times. And the thing that multiplies the danger is that the regime knows it has lost favor with the public. As Obama's approval ratings plummet, the desperation skyrockets. And desperate people, particularly the power-h
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Racism
Mainstream Media's Dirty Little Secret About Racist Charges
07-24-2010
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Robert Wenzel via LewRockwell.com
At different times, mainstream media has raised the absurd charge that two of the most respectful men on the planet, Ron Paul and Rand Paul, are racists.
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News Link • Government
Secession, Nullification, and Passive Non-Cooperation
07-24-2010
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Scott Lazorowitz via LewRockwell.com
We will gain our freedom through principle, not politics, says Scott Lazarowitz.
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News Link • Housing
Hidden Secret Passages by Creative Home Engineering
07-24-2010
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HiddenPassageways via YouTube.com
Creative Home Engineering builds Hollywood-style secret passages for homes
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News Link • B.O.R.G.
City Manager Robert Rizzo makes $800,000 per year
07-24-2010
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bloomberg.com Christopher Palmeri
Hundreds of residents of one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County shouted in protest last night as tensions rose over a report that the city’s manager earns an annual salary of almost $800,000.
An overflow crowd packed a City Counci
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • B.O.R.G.
Boston Globe: Pentagon workers tied to child porn
07-24-2010
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voices.washingtonpost.com
The Boston Globe's Bryan Bender reported Friday that federal investigators "have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an u
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Thomas Costanzo
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Feature Article • Immigration
Gov. Brewer vs Robert Sarver
Dave Hodges
The owner of the Phoenix Suns basketball team, Robert Sarver, opposes AZ's new immigration laws. Arizona's Governor, Jan Brewer, released the following statement in response to Sarver's criticism of the new law:
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Darth Vader robs bank in New York
07-24-2010
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Christian Science Monitor
Surrendering to The Dark Side, and packing a pistol instead of a light saber, someone dressed in a Darth Vader outifit, complete with helmet, robbed a Chase Bank branch in Setauket, NY.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Seriously?
Illinois town council wants to make eye rolling illegal. (Are they really that stupid?)
07-24-2010
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The Inquisiter
The idea to ban eye rolling came about after a local resident in Elmhurst was thrown out of a council meeting after rolling her eyes after hearing a local councilor talk. Well string that motherfucker up!
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it
07-24-2010
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Michael Snyder -The Business Insider
The 22 statistics detailed here prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in America.
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer at a staggering rate.
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
Search Top Secret America’s Database of Private Spooks
07-19-2010
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Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman
U.S. spy agencies, the State Department and the White House had a collective panic attack Friday over a new Washington Post exposé on the intelligence-industrial complex. Reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin let it drop Monday morning.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
For Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone, a Terror Topping
07-23-2010
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Ray McGovern
A recent exposé in the Washington Post shows that if you have a security clearance and are comfortable being part of a lucrative “self-licking ice cream cone” then the “war on terror” is definitely for you!
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Drug War
Libertarian Judge John Buttrick Speaks to Phoenix NORML (Video)
07-23-2010
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Ed Vallejo Productions LOL
From Wednesday nights' Monthly Meeting at The Armadillo Grill on Camelback. The Judge flat tells it like it is in no uncertain terms.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Transportation
Archive Gallery: The Electric Car, 1916-Present
07-23-2010
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PopSci.com
Electric cars are nothing new: From lever-powered hybrids to generator-towing luxury cars, we've tracked their progress for nearly a century
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News Link • Obama Administration
Ex-congressman: President a 'threat,' must be impeached
7/23/10
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Worldnet Daily
'We have man in White House who brazenly disregards his oath of office'
A former congressman and GOP presidential candidate says for current members of the House and Senate to uphold their oath of office that includes the defense of the United Sta
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Military
Raytheon Creates Patriot Missile System iPhone App to Keep Launch Crews' Skills Sharp
07-23-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
There’s an app for everything, Apple says, and apparently that rule does not exclude "the operation ofadvanced missile defenses." Raytheon has developed an app for the Patriot anti-missile system that helps troops stay sharp on the weapons platform e
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News Link • Economy - International
China may switch to currency basket. What does it mean? An answer to the question by an Austrian.
07-24-2010
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Jeff Wright: Green Dragon Tavern
The answer to the question you pose below is a bit lengthy but what it essentially means is simple: This is the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end.
The first phase began with the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944 and the expansion
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Tres Melton
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Debris From China's 2007 Anti-Sattelite Missile Test Makes Close ISS Flyby
07-23-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci
ISS astronauts took standard safety precautions for a run-in with orbital space junk, but NASA says debris is at a safe distance, however
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
Are the FEDS still upset about AOL's sale of ICQ to Russia?
07-23-2010
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The Real News
In the spring of 2010, one of the largest instant messaging services in the world, ICQ, was purchased by "Digital Sky Technologies," the largest Internet investment company in Russia. AOL reportedly sold the instant messaging service to Digital Sk
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Bring Out Your Dead
David Galland
Last week, the price of gold again broke below its new base at $1,200, and the U.S. stock market was again under strong pressure, due to a confluence of fears, most of which point to a deflationary double-dip.
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
The CLEAR Act of Another Federal Land Grab
07-23-2010
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Farm Wars
Congressman Gohmert said that the bill was to “deal with the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico” but it contains plans for the federal government to acquire land and was introduced in 2009.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Family
Scottish Police and Social Worker ‘Broke Almost All the Rules’ in Attempt to Frame Dad for Sexual Ab
07/23/10
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www.fathersandfamilies.org
The country’s leading expert on the forensic interviewing of children said the case exposed a problem at the heart of child protection that was harming youngsters’ welfare…
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