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Date Sent: 2011-08-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, August 1, 2011 AM edition |
It's a deal: Obama, Congress avert default -- Former Bush NSA director wants "digital Blackwater"
Cancer-stricken WTC worker gets $0 settlement check -- Biden charging Secret Service rent -- Libyan TV still on air despite NATO bombing -- Second Video Emerges Of Hot-Tempered Canton Police Officer -- Five Tasers, Two Seconds: That’s Gonna Hurt, Bro -- Darrin Ring: FBI Investigates Taped Beating By Tennessee Police -- Under cover of debt crisis, Senate looks to extend telco spying immunity -- House panel approves bill forcing ISPs to log users’ web history
--Big Brother is watching you: The town where EVERY car is tracked by
police cameras -- Judge: NYT reporter need not identify sources -- Police inquiry reveals violations in arrest, beating of videographer -- SWAT Raids Wrong House in Sterling Heights -- Apple holding more cash than USA -- Philadelphia English teacher explains why she helped students cheat -- Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on 9/11 -- Ron Paul’s Nevada camp in a more collaborative mood --
America's Media: Dancing Around the Debt Debate Charade -- Heading for
Economic Ruin -- Slouching Toward Guatemala: Reflections on the
Impossibility of Government -- Agenda 21 Coming To A Farm Near You As Federal Government Moves To Ban Family Farms -- Border Patrol whistleblower pays price for refusing unearned overtime pay -- Credit Suisse Predicts Happier Consumers if US Government Defaults -- Moody's: Neither debt plan protects the nation's AAA rating -- Washington Is Annoyed at Wall Street's Failure to Panic -- Lockheed
Martin’s HALE-D Airship Flys -- Rule: ‘Martial Law’ – Obama To Use
Dictatorial Powers To Raise Debt Ceiling If Need Be -- Abdul Fatah Younis Killing: War Death or Assassination? -- Political Washington Fiddles While Rome Burns
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
It's a deal: Obama, Congress will avert default
07-31-2011
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AP
Ending a perilous stalemate, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders announced historic agreement Sunday night on emergency legislation to avert the nation's first-ever financial default. The dramatic resolution lifted a cloud that had threa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Former Bush NSA director calls for ‘digital Blackwater’
07-31-2011
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Rawstory
The man who headed the NSA and CIA under President George W. Bush suggested Friday that mercenaries were needed to deal with growing cyber threats.
Gen. Michael Hayden told the Aspen Security Forum that in the near future, the Department of Defens
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Cancer-stricken WTC worker gets $0 settlement check
07-31-2011
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NY Post
Cancer-stricken Ground Zero worker Edgar Galvis has finally received a compensation check -- for zero dollars.
The 51-year-old Queens man, who suffered sinus problems and then throat cancer after months of removing toxic debris from the World Fina
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Biden charging Secret Service rent
07-31-2011
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Washington Times
The U.S. Secret Service does more than protect Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. " the agency also pays him rent.
Since April, Mr. Biden has collected more than $13,000 from the agency charged with protecting him and his family for use of a rent
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Libya
Libyan TV still on air despite NATO bombing
07-31-2011
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Reuters
NATO said on Saturday it had bombed three satellite dishes in Tripoli to stop "terror broadcasts" by Muammar Gaddafi, but Libyan state TV remained on air and condemned what it said was the targeting of journalists.
NATO has been bombing Libyan tar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Second Video Emerges Of Hot-Tempered Canton Police Officer
07-31-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A second dash cam video has emerged showing Canton police officer Daniel Harless overreacting to finding a gun in a man's car.
The video is from July 29, 2010, exactly one year ago today.
Like the video that emerged earlier this month (second h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Five Tasers, Two Seconds: That’s Gonna Hurt, Bro
07-31-2011
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Wired
If you’re in a position to be tased, you’ve typically got one (not very impressive) advantage: the police officer or rent-a-cop trying to send 20,000 volts through your body has to be pretty close to you. But your advantage is about to disappear in a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Darrin Ring: FBI Investigates Taped Beating By Tennessee Police
07-31-2011
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Huffington Post
The FBI has launched a criminal probe into a January incident where Tennessee police stripped a man naked, then kicked and beat him while he lay handcuffed in the snow.
The incident, recorded by a patrol car's dashboard camera, also reveals police
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Under cover of debt crisis, Senate looks to extend telco spying immunity
07-31-2011
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Rawstory
Legislation which changed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to give U.S. telecoms immunity from prosecution for participating in legally-ambiguous spying programs, isn't set to expire until 2012 -- but one group of U.S. Senators appear
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
House panel approves bill forcing ISPs to log users’ web history
07-31-2011
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Rawstory
The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation on Thursday that would require Internet service providers (ISPs) to collect and retain records about Internet users' activity.
CNET reported the bill would require ISPs to retain customers' names,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Big Brother is watching you: The town where EVERY car is tracked by police cameras
07-31-2011
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Daily Mail
A sleepy Home Counties market town has become the first in Britain to have every car passing through it tracked by police cameras.
Royston, in Hertfordshire, has had a set of police cameras installed on every road leading in and out of it, recordi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Judge: NYT reporter need not identify sources
07-31-2011
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Politico
A New York Times reporter need not testify in court about who gave him details on a top-secret CIA program targeting Iran, a federal judge has ruled.
In May, federal prosecutors subpoenaed Times reporter James Risen to testify against former CIA o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police inquiry reveals violations in arrest, beating of videographer
07-31-2011
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Las Vegas Review Journal
A Las Vegas police officer under investigation for the videotaped beating of a man in March violated several Metropolitan Police Department policies, an internal investigation found. Mitchell Crooks' complaint about officer Derek Colling's excessive
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
SWAT Raids Wrong House in Sterling Heights
07-31-2011
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FOX News
The DEA says the person they were looking for is actually the landlord's son. He uses that house as his address. The DEA deny anyone was thrown to the ground. They also indicate there was likely cause to search the house.
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Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Inventions
Cop Block Door Hangers make it clear.
Drew
Get people thinking! Use the new Cop Block door hanger to let the government bullies know that their services are NOT needed in your residence! Now the police can’t say that you consented to any searches, the presence of the door hanger makes it cle
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News Link • Free Speech
Silver Calculator goes to Vegas and Wins big!
07-31-2011
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http://Whatisthiscoinworth.info
At this years Freedom Fest the coin Silver smart phone app was well received and drummed up quite a buzz.
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Drew
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Apple holding more cash than USA
07-31-2011
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BBC News
Apple now has more cash to spend than the US government. Latest figures from the US Treasury Dept. show the country has an operating cash balance of $73.7bn. Apple's most recent financial results put its reserves at $76.4bn.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Philadelphia English teacher explains why she helped students cheat
07-31-2011
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The Lookout
The teacher helped her students cheat because she worried their self-esteem would be crushed by taking tests they were in no way academically prepared for. If a student asked a question she would help him find the answer, or point to the answer
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on 9/11
07-31-2011
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AP
The Cantor Fitzgerald brokerage owned a trove of drawings and sculptures that included a cast of Rodin’s “The Thinker” " which resurfaced briefly after the attacks before mysteriously disappearing again.
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Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Entertainment: Music
Green Grass and High Tides
Thomas Costanzo
In a place you only dream of
Where your soul is always free
Silver stages, golden curtains
Filled my head, plain as can be
As a rainbow grew round the sun
All the stars I've love who died
Came from somewhere beyond the scene you see
These love
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News Link • Marriage
Privatization: A Third Position on Marriage
7/31/2011
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Free Patriot Press
Texas Governor Rick Perry, who many believe may be preparing to enter the GOP Presidential race, has recently come out on two sides of the same issue. ABCNews reports, “Last week in Aspen, Colo., Rick Perry said he supported New York’s decision to al
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Imminent Revolution
07-31-2011
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YouTube
Neither Ron Paul nor his campaign had anything to do with this video. I'm just a random guy sitting in my underwear finding interesting clips on the internet and making videos out of them.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul’s Nevada camp in a more collaborative mood
07-31-2011
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lasvegassun.com
Since then, Paul’s Nevada supporters have been working a new strategy. As Paul readies his 2012 presidential campaign, the outsiders have now become the insiders
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Slouching Toward Guatamala:
Reflections on the Impossibility of Government
07-31-2011
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Fred Reed
Congress, a collection of whores, con-men, and penny-ante sharpers from East Jesus, Nebraska, ponders the Great Question: Default now, and admit manfully to being the economic lepers everyone else already knows we are? Or raise the debt ceiling, keep
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Food
Agenda 21 Coming To A Farm Near You As Federal Government Moves To Ban Family Farms
07/30/2011
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The Intel Hub
The U.S. Department of Transportation in an Agenda 21 style order, has moved to essentially ban a large part of family farms.
For hundreds of years family farms have been passed from generation to generation and it has been a way of life for young
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Alex Thomas
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Empathy in Washington is a four letter word!
07-30-2011
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The Political Commentator
Empathy, for want of a better word, does not exist either in Congress or in the White House!
An interesting word empathy. For those unfamiliar empathy is the identification with and understanding of another's situation.
Empathy is a word not a
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
Let’s use video to reinvent education: Salman Khan on TED.com
07-30-2011
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http://blog.ted.com
Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises " and calls for
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Movable Ceiling Failed to Curtail Debt
07-30-2011
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Mike Maloney
Up until 1917, the thing that is creating so much political turmoil right now"the U.S. debt ceiling"didn’t even exist. This New York Times video takes a look at the history of the debt ceiling and why it causing so much political infighting today.
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Homeland Security
Border Patrol whistleblower pays price for refusing unearned overtime pay
07-28-2011
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The Washington Post
"Sanchez is speaking up, and he has paid a price.
There is little work to do at the Port Angeles, Wash., station, where he is assigned, he said. He calls it a “black hole” where agents have “no purpose, no mission.”
“The worst fraud on taxpaye
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Alex Hepler
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Moody's: Neither debt plan protects the nation's AAA rating
07-30-2011
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thehill.com
The "limited magnitude" of both debt plans put forward by congressional leaders would not put the nation's AAA credit rating back on solid footing, Moody's Investors Service announced Friday.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Washington Is Annoyed at Wall Street's Failure to Panic
07-30-2011
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cnbc.com
As he explained it, lots of people in Washington, D.C. expected that this would be a week marked by panic in the markets. Stocks would tank. Bonds would get clobbered. The dollar would do something dramatic. And all of this would help convince reluct
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science
New Force Driving Tectonic Plates
07-30-2011
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arclein
Scripps scientists Steve Cande and Dave Stegman have now discovered a new force that drives plate tectonics: Plumes of hot magma pushing up from Earth's deep interior. Their research is published in the July 7 issue of the journal Nature.
Using a
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Field Prosthetics Developed
07-30-2011
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arclein
The result was a prototype consisting of a simple cast attached to a metal rod with a flat hooked foot. The cast can be fitted in as little as a day and can be recast to accommodate the growth of the wearer. The metal rod and flat hook can be easily
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Dinosaur Fossil at KT Boundary
07-30-2011
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arclein
They found the fossil buried just five inches below the K-T boundary, the geological layer that marks the transition from the Cretaceous period to the Tertiary period at the time of the mass extinction that took place 65 million years ago.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Lockheed Martin’s HALE-D Airship Flys
07-30-2011
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arclein
The geostationary positioning coupled with modern communications technologies give the airship capabilities on par with satellites at a fraction of the cost. In position, the airship would survey a 600-mile (965 km) diameter area and millions of mile
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economic Prism: Admit Defeat of the Social Utopia
07/29/2011
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The Intel Hub
Production is the End
“The economic goal of any nation, as of any individual, is to get the greatest results with the least effort. The whole economic progress of mankind has consisted in getting more production with the same labor,” began econom
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Alex Thomas
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rule: ‘Martial Law’ " Obama To Use Dictatorial Powers To Raise Debt Ceiling If Need Be
07292011
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The Intel Hub
The U.S. debt is totally out of control " now sitting at $14.3 Trillion, raising the debt ceiling will only buy a little more time until a massive crash takes place and total chaos ensues (economic and physical), a total fall of the republic.
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