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Date Sent: 2010-10-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 11, 2010 PM edition |
US Rescuers May Have Killed Briton in Afghanistan -- Tucson Tea Party bans firearms
Glendale $addled with $500 million in $ports-di$trict debt -- Chilean miners arguing about who comes up last -- Tracking devices used in school badges -- IMF told to toughen scrutiny of rich powers -- Ears provide new way of identifying people in airports
-- From Tea Party Advocates, Anger at the Federal Reserve -- Lawsuit
Alleges Kids Were Abused At Fla. Lockup -- Kucinich probes whether FBI
informant triggered Kent State massacre -- Cop hauled off to psych ward after alleging fake crime stats
-- Senate Office to Host Health Fair for Well-Covered Staffers --
Florida Foreclosure-Gate: No One Knows Who Owns Any Of These Houses -- Redflex, AZ Politicians Slapped with CameraFraud RICO Suit --
Bank Disinformation III: Obama Throws Weight Behind Banks -- CONFIRMED:
Court Did Rely on Oath Keeper Association to Take Baby -- Is ForeclosureGate About To Become The Banking Industry's Stalingrad? -- Cost of War Since 2001; Federal outlays and revenues, 1940-2015 -- Axelrod suggests White House won’t support foreclosure moratorium -- Listen: Microscopic Instrument Produces Tones Humans Can Hear -- Update: John Irish & Stephanie Taylor Speak Out: Concord Hospital Baby Abduction Protest Video
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News Link • Afghanistan
US Rescuers May Have Killed Briton in Afghanistan
10-11-2010
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AP
NATO will investigate whether a grenade thrown by American military forces killed a British aid worker during a rescue attempt in Afghanistan last week, an alliance spokesman said Monday.
Linda Norgrove, 36, was killed Friday in the raid by U.S. f
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News Link • Constitution
Tucson Tea Party bans firearms
10-11-2010
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YouTube
At Saturday's Tucson Tea Party event at Hi-Corbett field, the Tucson Tea Party elected to ban self defense and make the GOP rally a defenseless victim zone. The kicker is they refused to check and store as required by ARS 13-3102(A)(10) and ARS 13-3
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Kenneth Rineer
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Iranian, Chinese Computers Also Discovered to Have Been Hacking D.C. Internet Voting System
10-11-2010
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www.bradblog.com
Startling testimony offered by the U. of Michigan computer science professor whose team penetrated D.C.'s 'pilot program' server for what was to have been a live election beginning in just days...
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Glendale saddled with $500 million in sports-district debt
10-11-2010
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azcentral.com
Glendale had been on track to stunningly remake itself into a sports mecca with four major sports: hockey, baseball, basketball and football.
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News Link • Media: Television
Chilean miners arguing about who comes up last
10-11-2010
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telegraph.co.uk
The 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for more than two months are arguing about who comes up to the surface last.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Tracking devices used in school badges
10-11-2010
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AP
Radio frequency identification " the same technology used to monitor cattle " is tracking students in the Spring and Santa Fe school districts. Identification badges for some students in both school districts now include tracking devices that allow c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
IMF told to toughen scrutiny of rich powers
10-11-2010
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uk.news.yahoo.com
Emerging powers won a battle on Saturday for heightened IMF scrutiny of rich countries' economic policies as world financial leaders sought to defuse mounting tensions over currencies.
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News Link • Police State
Ears provide new way of identifying people in airports
10-11-2010
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Daily Telegraph
Forget fingerprints or the color of your eyes, airport security could soon be looking at the shape of your ears when deciding whether to allow you into the country. Each person's ears have a unique shape and have created a system to scan them.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
From Tea Party Advocates, Anger at the Federal Reserve
10-11-2010
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NY Times
None of them has gone as far, though, as Mr. Paul’s father, Representative Ron Paul, a Texas Republican and libertarian activist who is seeking to abolish the central bank. (His 2009 book, “End the Fed,” is popular in Tea Party circles.) The senior M
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Lawsuit Alleges Kids Were Abused At Fla. Lockup
10-11-2010
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AP
A federal class-action lawsuit claims a teenage inmate was sexually abused at a youth offender facility where other juveniles were forced to go hungry, endure hot and moldy conditions, and sleep on the floor. A 15-year-old boy who had been held there
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Kucinich probes whether FBI informant triggered Kent State massacre
10-11-2010
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Rawstory
Following the revelation that an FBI informant may have opened fire just before the 1970 massacre of four anti-war students by members of the US National Guard, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has opened a probe into the events, requesting key doc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Cop hauled off to psych ward after alleging fake crime stats
10-11-2010
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AP
NYPD officer Schoolcraft's description of being taken in handcuffs to a psychiatric ward suggests the nation's largest police force could have a vindictive underbelly. He blew the whistle on supervisors' faking of crime statistics to make the stats l
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News Link • Government
Senate Office to Host Health Fair for Well-Covered Staffers
10-11-2010
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FOX News
As millions of hardworking Americans struggle to make ends meet, Senate staffers will participate in a 2-day orgy of back massages, organic food tastings and milk mustache photos. All part of a health fair for staffers, who enjoy some of the best hea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Florida Foreclosure-Gate: No One Knows Who Owns Any Of These Houses
10-11-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Jim and others suggest that the problem is far deeper and more profound. Specifically, they suggest that the ownership records on millions of houses are now gone for good. Which means that no one knows (or can prove) who really owns them.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Redflex, AZ Politicians Slapped with RICO Suit
10-11-2010
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CameraFRAUD
[Is an injunction next?] The plaintiff, Mr. Daniel Gutenkauf has filed the suit under the grounds that all named parties are acting as a criminal syndicate, committing extortion and fraud in order to profit from scamera tickets.
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News Link • Corruption
Bank Disinformation III: Obama Throws Weight Behind Banks
10-11-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/
I should have expected this, Team Obama is so predictably bank friendly that it was inconceivable that the Administration would ever decide against them on anything other than the occasional sop to maintain plausible deniability.
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News Link • Corruption
Foreclosure Error Flow Charts
10-11-2010
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Ritholtz.com
Mike Konczal of RortyBomb puts together a spectacular series of flow charts that explain in the simplest of terms how the bank foreclosure process went off of the rails, in Foreclosure Fraud For Dummies.
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News Link • Corruption
James Howard Kunstler: Bank Shot
10-11-2010
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Kunstler.com
Is it indelicate to say that the USA as an enterprise has its head so deeply and firmly up its ass that the all the proctologists alive on planet Earth could not extract the collective cranium from the collective cloacal chamber even with the aid...
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News Link • Police State
CONFIRMED: Court Did Rely on Oath Keeper Association to Take Baby
10-11-2010
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OathKeepers.org
Oathkeeper Founder Stewart Rhodes: "There has been some confusion about this case... To clear that up, below you will find an embedded PDF ..."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Environment
Cheap in Wolf's Clothing
10-11-2010
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arclein
In my last post, I noted that industry and government economists alike have consistently overestimated the cost of air-quality regulations. Despite that well-established record of inaccuracy, every new round of apocalyptic projections is taken as gos
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nuclear's New Generation
10-11-2010
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arclein
In the past two years alone, China has begun constructing 15 new nuclear power stations, while Russia, South Korea and India are also initiating major expansions in atomic power. Some Western countries look set to join them: at the end of 2009, licen
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Hal Lewis Resigns APS over Climate Gate
10-11-2010
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arclein
The rift between real science (the pursuit of truth) and PR-science (the pursuit of of money and power) is growing. Associations like The Royal Society, the APS, and the American Chemical Society are beginning to fracture internally as eminent member
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News Link • Agriculture
Kerosene to Rice Husks
10-11-2010
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arclein
he machines clamour and whir from dusk to midnight, transforming heaps of rice husks into electricity and offering respite from darkness in Tamkuha, a humble village in the eastern state of Bihar.
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Is ForeclosureGate About To Become The Banking Industry's Stalingrad?
10-11-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
In the meantime, here is a soon to be viral, and all too real, parody of foreclosure gate. At this point the guilty parties are irrelevant. All that matters is that America's terminal collapse into a banana republic is now obvious for all to see.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Cost of War Since 2001; Federal outlays and revenues, 1940-2015
10-11-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Those costs do not include the future medical costs of injured soldiers, the countless wrecked lives of US soldiers and the lives of millions of innocent civilians killed in the needless war in Iraq.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Axelrod suggests White House won’t support foreclosure moratorium
10-11-2010
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RawStory.com
"I'm not sure about a national moratorium because there are, in fact, valid foreclosures that probably should go forward and where the documentation and paperwork is proper," Axelrod said on CBS' Face the Nation.
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Chris Hedges: How Democracy Dies - Lessons from a Master
10-11-2010
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TruthDig.com
“The truth is, they want you, you see, to be poor,” Aristophanes wrote in his play “The Wasps.” “If you don’t know the reason, I’ll tell you. It’s to train you to know who your tamer is.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Karl Denninger: Foreclosure-Gate And What Must Be Done - Today
10-11-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.org/
There is every reason to believe that the people of this nation will come to the conclusion that the bedrock of society - private property ownership - has been intentionally destroyed by a band of brigands with the explicit cooperation and permission
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Eurocopter Launches X3 Propeller-Powered High-Speed Helicopter, Hopes to Outrace Sikorsky's X2
10-10-2010
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Lizzie Schiffman via PopSci.com
Less than two weeks after Sikorsky's X2 dual-rotor helicopter smashed the rotorcraft speed record, going 250 knots, European group Eurocopter announced a revolutionary high-speed winged helicopter.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Video: I Float in Zero Gravity
10-10-2010
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Paul Adams via PopSci.com
For an hour and a half or so earlier this month, 30 teachers from Ohio middle schools weighed nothing at all. The same went for me; for TV personality "Science Bob" Pflugfelder; and for 2,016 optic-orange ping-pong balls.
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News Link • Inventions
Listen: Microscopic Instrument Produces Tones Humans Can Hear
10-10-2010
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Julie Beck via PopSci.com
Had you happened to be in the eastern Netherlands on Sunday, you could have had the opportunity to hear a new composition: “Impromptu No. 1 for Micronium.” However, you probably wouldn’t have seen much.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Painless Laser Tissue Analysis Could Replace X-Rays Within Five Years
10-10-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
It’s a typical scenario: you ask the doctor to make you feel better; he or she proceeds to stick you with needles and bombard you with radiation. But a new breed of portable devices painless laser beams could use Raman spectrometry
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Real-Life Iron Man Exoskeleton Gets a Slimmer, More Powerful Sequel
10-10-2010
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
The XOS Exoskeleton, which was first shown off about two and a half years ago, was the first full-body suit that really evoked the sci-fi and comic fan's dream of donning a suit that grants superhuman strength.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Remote controlled warfare: The “Creech 14″ make their case in court
10-11-10
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The PPJ Gazette
Fourteen anti-war activists may have made history today in a Las Vegas courtroom when they turned a misdemeanor trespassing trial into a possible referendum on America’s newfound taste for remote-controlled warfare.” That’s how one Las Vegas newspape
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News Link • Agriculture
ORGANIC VALUES BETRAYED IN VIDEO: Scrambled Eggs " Where Are Your Organic Eggs Really Coming From?
10-11-10
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The PPJ Gazette
The CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE: Organic Egg Business Being Hijacked by Corporate
Agribusinesses"Help Reverse this Scandal!
Meeting October 25-28, 2010 in Madison, Wisconsin
Attend or mail in your proxy letter ASAP!
Imagine 80,000 laying hens in a
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Technology: Software
New Software Can Digitally Improve Actors' Physiques in Post-Production
10-10-2010
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Lizzie Schiffman via PopSci.com
A new type of image-manipulation software could help salvage all the home video footage shot during your awkward phase. It can automatically modify the shapes of human bodies on video, dropping unsightly pounds without burning a single calorie.
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News Link • Activism
Update: John Irish & Stephanie Taylor Speak Out: Concord Hospital Baby Abduction Protest Video
10/09/10
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Youtube
To Donate to the Johnathon Irish Family, mail a check or money order to:
41 Campground Road
Northwood NH 03261
If you can't donate, consider a letter of support. Our prayers are with you.
John has authorized me to accept donations though my
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
For Second Time, Ice Found Aboard Asteroid, Suggesting Water in Orbit Could Be Common
10-10-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Back in April, two teams of researchers caused a stir when they discovered the first-ever evidence of water ice and organic molecules riding around the solar system aboard an asteroid.
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News Link • Environment
The Case of the Mass Honeybee Killer Has a New Prime Suspect
10-10-2010
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
Thanks to a joint investigation from academics and the Department of Homeland Security, the culprit in the Case of the Honeybee Killer has been found.
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News Link • Defending Archimedes
Student-made device helped wounded in Haiti
10-10-2010
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Reuters
When surgeons from Harvard Medical School went to Haiti soon after last January's earthquake, they took along some experimental $3-dollar devices they hoped would help victims' wounds heal faster. Designed by engineering students at the MIT,
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Cities move to ban consumer fireworks before new state law takes effect
10-10-2010
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East Valley Tribune
Arizona's Legislature opened up the sale and use of consumer fireworks this year, but the East Valley's cities are moving to prohibit them before the new law takes effect.
Mesa and Tempe are the farthest along, with their city councils reviewing b
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