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Date Sent: 2011-09-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, September 19, 2011 AM edition |
US Taxpayers Could Pay For European Bailout -- Stocks, euro slip as crisis drags on
Libyans in retreat from Qaddafi stronghold (complete story rewrite) -- Strauss-Kahn admits to ‘moral failings,’ maintains his accusers in 2 rape cases ‘lied’ -- They Disrobe Judges, Don't They? - by L. Neil Smith -- Abolish the Police, Arm the Citizens: The "Sagra Model" of Privatized Security -- Massive U.S. Embassy In Iraq Will Double As Soldiers Leave -- Terror Drills for New Jersey's Child Prisoners -- Hacking: Met use Official Secrets Act to demand Guardian reveals sources -- Libya: Tony Blair and Col Gaddafi's secret meetings -- Illinois Judge Dismisses Charges Against Michael Allison -- America’s culpability in 9/11--our military industrial complex -- Even Goldman Sachs Secretly Believes That An Economic Collapse Is Coming -- Major discovery: a purpose of the war in Afghanistan -- Starve the Beasts of War -- Seeds of Discontent - Code enforcement targets urban garden -- Scott Horton Interviews Kevin Zeese -- Scott Horton Interviews Dean
Ahmad -- Military Donations: A visual aid -- The Cost-Savings Fantasy:
Comparing federal and private sector employee compensation -- Paul wins
California straw poll -- Congress Sees Middle East Through AIPAC-Colored Glasses -- Ron Paul gaining Hollywood celebrity followers -- Libertarian Suprynowicz: Chop off copyright infringer's hands! -- Planned Peacekeeper Occupation of Libya -- Dinosaur Feathers Preserved in Amber
AZ: GOP Debate Thursday, Sept 22nd, 2011. Debate Party at Hancock's, 6 p.m. until ??
CA: Libertopia in San Diego October
21-23 (Video)
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News Link • Economy - International
US Taxpayers Could Pay For European Bailout
09-18-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
If the crisis continues to grow and the U.S. takes on a wider role, U.S. taxpayers could feel a bigger impact. The biggest exposure could come from America’s status as the single largest source of money for the International Monetary Fund.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Stocks, euro slip as crisis drags on
09-18-2011
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Reuters
Stocks fell and the euro dropped 1 percent on Monday as investors worried about Europe's fumbling attempts to solve the euro zone debt crisis and awaited a meeting of the Federal Reserve for clues on whether it will offer fresh stimulus for the sputt
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Libya
Libyans in retreat from Qaddafi stronghold
09-18-2011
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Reuters
As in many episodes during Libya's conflict, the front lines at Sirte and Bani Walid have moved back and forth, with shows of bravado crumbling in the reality of battle.
An incoming shell landed within 200 meters of NTC-held lines, only to be met
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Strauss-Kahn admits to ‘moral failings,’ maintains his accusers in 2 rape cases ‘lied’
09-18-2011
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Washington Post
Dominique Strauss-Kahn broke his silence four months after a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault, calling his encounter with the woman a “moral failing” he deeply regrets, but insisting in an interview on French television Sunday that n
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
They Disrobe Judges, Don't They? - by L. Neil Smith
09-18-2011
To all appearances, that's why he cited two fellows named Mark Schmidter and Julian Heiklen for contempt of court when they refused to bow to his illegal decree not to exercise their First Amendment rights on the public plaza outside the petty dictat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Abolish the Police, Arm the Citizens: The "Sagra Model" of Privatized Security
09-18-2011
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by William Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Exasperated citizens complained to the police only to be treated with a mixture of amusement and impatient annoyance. Mounting hostility against Lebedev and his underlings prompted the gangster to withdraw " but only to gather reinforcements.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
Massive U.S. Embassy In Iraq Will Double As Soldiers Leave
09-18-2011
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Huffington Post
The embassy compound is by far the largest the world has ever seen, at one and a half square miles, big enough for 94 football fields. It cost three quarters of a billion dollars to build (coming in about $150 million over budget). Inside its high wa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Terror Drills for New Jersey's Child Prisoners
09-18-2011
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Lew Rockwell
I recently received my 1st grade students back-to-school paperwork. Going through the packet I found a letter serving notification that my son is now required by law to participate in monthly anti-terrorism drills.
In fact, after doing mor
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Hacking: Met use Official Secrets Act to demand Guardian reveals sources
09-18-2011
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The Guardian
The paper's revelation in July that police had never properly pursued the News of the World for hacking the phone of the missing murdered girl caused a wave of public revulsion worldwide. The ensuing uproar over police inadequacy and alleged collusio
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Libya
Libya: Tony Blair and Col Gaddafi's secret meetings
09-18-2011
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The Guardian
New questions over Tony Blair's ties to Col Muammar Gaddafi and his role in the release of the Lockerbie bomber have emerged from documents discovered in Tripoli.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Illinois Judge Dismisses Charges Against Michael Allison
09-18-2011
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The Agitator
Allison, who I first wrote about here, was facing up to 75 years in prison for recording public officials with a digital recorder. Those charges have been dismissed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
GOP Debate Thursday, Sept 22nd, 2011. Debate Party at Hancock's, 6 p.m. til ??
09-18-2011
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Meetup.com
Google and Fox News are hosting another GOP debate, sponsored by the Florida Republican Party, beginning at 9 p.m. EST (6 p.m. AZ/Pacific). We will start recording at 6 p.m. and start to replay around 6:30-6:46 p.m. Click thru for details...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Even Goldman Sachs Secretly Believes That An Economic Collapse Is Coming
09-18-2011
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Goldman is telling the public that everything is going to be just fine, but meanwhile they are advising their top clients to bet on a huge financial collapse. On August 16th, a 54 page report authored by Goldman strategist Alan Brazil was distribute
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Major discovery: a purpose of the war in Afghanistan
09-18-2011
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www.salon.com
The Washington Post: "any Afghan who fights against the presence of foreign military forces in their country" and "reintegrate" means "persuading or compelling them to passively acquiesce to those forces"):
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Starve the Beasts of War
09-18-2011
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AntiWar.com
The big-money rent-seekers in the military industrial complex have been lobbying hard against cuts to the defense budgets. The so-called “super-committee” " the group of representatives tasked with deciding where to cut " have been the target for tha
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
Seeds of Discontent - Code enforcement targets urban garden.
09-18-2011
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www.memphisflyer.com
But the city's code enforcement department has deemed their urban garden a nuisance, and a judge has ordered them to remove the small ecosystem they've been working on for the last two years.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Scott Horton Interviews Kevin Zeese
09-18-2011
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AntiWar Radio
Kevin Zeese, Executive Director of VotersForPeace and Co-Chair of Come Home America, discusses Come Home America’s tripartite approach to building a successful, broad-based antiwar movement
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Scott Horton Interviews Dean Ahmad
09-18-2011
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AntiWar.com
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, founder of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, discusses the differences and commonalities of the three major Abrahamic religions; why Islam’s theological distinctions don’t make all Muslims into budding terrorists
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
U.S. Can’t Track Tons of Weapons-Grade Uranium, Plutonium
09-18-2011
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Wired.com
the U.S. can’t track or fully account for 5,900 pounds of “weapons usable” nuclear material that it once shipped overseas.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
LewRockwell.com Weekend Edition, September 17-18, 2011
09-18-2011
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LewRockwell
Back to the 1930s?, Will the banks and their politicians recreate a fascist Europe? Article by Gary North - The FDA Escalates Its War on Health Freedom - Can Ron Paul Win? - Dead Men Don't Save - Neocon Evil - Don't Let the Doctor Inject Your Daughte
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Cost-Savings Fantasy: Comparing federal and private sector employee compensation.
09-15-2011
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David Isenberg, Huff Post
The government actually pays service contractors at rates far exceeding the cost of employing federal employees to perform comparable functions.
POGO's study analyzed the total compensation paid to federal and private sector employees, and annual bi
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul wins California straw poll
09-17-2011
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www.politico.com
In what's becoming an increasingly familiar pattern, Ron Paul won the California Republican Party's straw poll tonight, party officials said. Rick Perry came in second, and Mitt Romney was the distant third.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Why They Hate Us
09-17-2011
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LewRockwell.com
06 National Intelligence Estimate concluded that the war in Iraq increased the threat of terrorism. "Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States" points out the "centrality" of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in fomenting terrorist cells
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Focus on Peace's Darren Wolfe to Talk at Agora I/O "Live from Valley Forge"
09-17-2011
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Focus On Peace
On September 24 Darren Wolfe will give a speech titled "The New Peace Movement: Ending the Wars by Uniting all Ideologies Around the Issue that Matters Most" at the second Agora I/O unconference. He will be on from 12:30 to 1pm EDT. The entire even
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Israel
Congress Sees Middle East Through AIPAC-Colored Glasses
09-17-2011
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/original.antiwar.com
During August recess this year, 81 members of Congress went on a junket to Israel funded by the Israel lobby group AIPAC (well, funded by the American Israel Education Fund, but they are really one and the same) to " learn first-hand about one of our
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul gaining Hollywood celebrity followers
09-17-2011
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www.mediaite.com
Vince Vaughn introduces Paul to crowds at LPAC in Reno last night, and Barry Manilow professed his like for the Doctor in D.C. this week.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Reno crash killed 9; probe focuses on wayward part
09-17-2011
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http://hosted.ap.org
The deaths include seven who were killed on the tarmac, including the 74-year-old pilot, and two others who died at hospitals, Reno Deputy Police Chief Dave Evans said.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Liberty Fest NYC 2011 - John Bush on Being Radical in the Pursuit of Truth and Freedom
09-17-2011
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YouTube
John Bush holds a degree in political science from Texas State University and is the Executive Director of Texans for Accountable Government, the Education Director of Foundation for a Free Society and Co-Founder of Operation Defuse. A native of Aust
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science
New Coral Dating can Indicate Sea Levels
09-17-2011
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arclein
"The geological record offers a longer perspective on rates of change," Thompson said, "and sea-level changes during previous warm intervals are especially relevant to today's situation." Sea levels during the Last Interglacial are known to ha
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Circadian Dominance
09-17-2011
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arclein
One would expect, then, that the tidal cycle would be the clock that drives their gene expression. But in fact, as Gracey's tests discovered, while a "tidal clock" probably does exist for mussels, the lion's share of their gene expression is inst
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robert klein
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News Link • World News
Islam Transitioning to the Future
09-17-2011
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arclein
"We learn every day, in our homes and our schools and our mosques, that we stand at the apex of history, that almost all of modern science and mathematics is based on discoveries by Muslim thinkers a thousand years ago," a Saudi official told me in
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Dinosaur Feathers Preserved in Amber Located in Alberta
09-17-2011
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arclein
Researchers led by University of Alberta paleontologist Ryan McKellar say these specimens represent distinct stages of feather evolution, from early-stage, single filament protofeathers to much more complex structures associated with modern diving bi
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robert klein
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