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Date Sent: 2012-07-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, July 18, 2012 AM edition |
TSA Fails to Comply With Year-Old ‘Nude’ Body-Scanner Court Order
CPS: 12 principals and assistants abused free-lunch program -- No good option for voters -- Geithner did not show evidence of rigged Libor, British bank official says -- Pastor serving time in jail for backyard church -- 'Fraud: Why the Great Recession' (video) -- Prosecutors Offer Plea Deal Where I Would Shoot Promotional Video for County -- Obamacare and the Revenge of the "Secret Constitution" -- Florida Court Makes it Easier to Unknowingly Commit Crimes -- In Which You Discover Only What The State Thinks You Should -- Mission Highlights: SpaceX's Dragon Makes History -- Ben Swann – Facts: Clarification from the RNC rules committee, Ron
Paul has 6 states -- RNC confirms Ron Paul will be up for nomination --
ReadySet: How a Portable Power Pack Drives Dollars to the Developing
World -- They Will Take Everything If You Don’t Stop Them: Ten Things
You Must Do To Defend Yourself -- NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate -- Alternative Digital Currencies Based on Barter -- Outrage After News Channel Helps Public Identify Gun Owners -- Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do Not Turn In Guns -- After U.S. Uproar, Another Syrian 'Civilian Massacre' Story Falls Apart -- Bernanke gloomy on economic outlook -- Shocking new video shows Gaddafi’s body ‘being used by rebels as ghoulish ventriloquist’s doll’ -- ‘The Dollar Is Going to Go to Hell’: Trump -- Arizona Election Fraud: Judge Kyle Bryson's Ruling Prompt's Motion for a New Trial -- Iran Accuses U.S. of Using Weather Weapons -- Security Consultant Cracks Handcuffs Open With 3-D Printed Plastic
Keys -- Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots -- Record Heat and Drought Signs of Solar Catastrophe? --
From the Fascist Welfare State of America -- Iceland – Mighty Mite or
Green Lapdog? -- The Noose Continues to Tighten But No Government Lasts
Forever -- The Bipartisan War on Individual Liberty -- Remaking Marital Law -- Drones Overseas Lead to Drones at Home -- US Empire of Bases Grows
Ed Vallejo Tampa Chip-In
Jackalope Freedom Festival - Detailed Directions & Descriptions
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
CPS: 12 principals and assistants abused free-lunch program
07-17-2012
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Chicago Sun Times
26 Chicago Public School employees are accused of lying on federal school lunch forms, allowing their 45 kids to receive free or reduced-price lunches at 40 schools across the district. 12 principals were removed from their schools
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News Link • TAXES: State
No good option for voters
07-17-2012
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Georgia residents are finding themselves between the devil and the deep blue sea. They must choose whether to accept a pricey sales tax hike to fund transportation projects or face higher local taxes if they vote “no.”
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Geithner did not show evidence of rigged Libor, British bank official says
07-17-2012
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Washington Post
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told lawmakers Tuesday that the central bank did all it was required to do after learning in 2008 of the manipulation of the Libor interest rate, including notifying counterparts in Britain.
But Bank of
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Pastor serving time in jail for backyard church
07-17-2012
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AZ Family TV-3 (BELO)
For the past six years, Michael Salman and his family and friends have diligently documented every chapter of their fight against the City of Phoenix over a building in the Salman's backyard.
In a YouTube video shot July 9th, 2012, Salman is surro
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News Link • Federal Reserve
'Fraud: Why the Great Recession' (video)
07-17-2012
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vimeo (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Free markets are not to be blamed for the Great Recession. On the contrary, its origins rest upon the deep government and central bank intervention in the economy. Through fraudulent mechanisms, this causes recurrent boom and bust cycles: bad policie
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Prosecutors Offer Plea Deal Where I Would Shoot Promotional Video for County
07-17-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Still insisting I am guilty of resisting police on the night of my last arrest, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office is offering me a deal to shoot and edit a promotional video for the county in exchange for them not prosecuting me.
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News Link • Healthcare
Obamacare and the Revenge of the "Secret Constitution"
07-17-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
The function of the judiciary transmutes the restrictive language of the constitution into a mandate for government action. Called “state-building” " and the purpose of the judiciary, is to “ratify significant revisions to the American social contrac
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Florida Court Makes it Easier to Unknowingly Commit Crimes
07-17-2012
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Florida will remain one of the only two states in the country that sends people to prison on drug possession charges without first proving the person knew what they were carrying was illegal.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
In Which You Discover Only What The State Thinks You Should
07-17-2012
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The Agitator
Under the United States Constitution, prosecutors have an obligation to turn over potentially exculpatory evidence " whether it is evidence that is directly favorable to the accused and unfavorable to the government’s case, or evidence that undermine
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mission Highlights: SpaceX's Dragon Makes History
07-17-2012
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youtube
On May 25, 2012, SpaceX made history when the Dragon spacecraft became the first privately developed vehicle in history to successfully attach to the International Space Station. Previously only 4 governments achieved this
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ben Swann " Facts: Clarification from the RNC rules committee, Ron Paul has 6 states
07-17-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Ben Swann of Reality Check with Ben Swann and an award winning nightime news anchor at WXIX FOX 19 in Cincinnati joins Daily Paul Radio with Kurt Wallace for ‘Facts: Clarification from the RNC rules committee, Ron Paul has 6 states‘ to discuss the d
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
RNC confirms Ron Paul will be up for nomination
07-17-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Republican National Convention is quickly approaching (August 26th). For over the past year, avid Ron Paul supporters have won delegate spots in various state conventions across the country. Through this hard-work, Ron Paul will officially be all
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Energy
ReadySet: How a Portable Power Pack Drives Dollars to the Developing World
07-17-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Mat Honan
Last week, a peculiar little box called ReadySet blew up on Kickstarter.
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News Link • How To
They Will Take Everything If You Don’t Stop Them: Ten Things You Must Do To Defend Yourself
07-17-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com
They will take everything if you don't stop them.
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News Link • Technology: Software
NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate
07-17-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Cade Metz
In 2008, a team of software coders inside the National Security Agency started reverse-engineering the database that ran Google.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Outrage After News Channel Helps Public Identify Gun Owners
07-17-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
News station WRAL has caused outrage amongst gun rights activists by listing address details of firearms owners in Raleigh, North Carolina " prompting critics to complain they are being treated like sex offenders and left open to criminal predation.
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News Link • Environment
Gates-Funded Experiment To Spray Atmosphere With Sulphur Particles
07-17-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Geoengineering threatens to worsen droughts, starve millions
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
After U.S. Uproar, Another Syrian 'Civilian Massacre' Story Falls Apart
07-17-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Alex Newman
Yet another alleged "massacre" of "civilians" by the Syrian regime was in the establishment-press headlines this week, supposedly a brutal killing spree by dictator Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the village of Tremseh that left up to 250 people dead.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
...Games legend Michael Johnson believes Oscar Pistorius has an 'unfair advantage'
07-17-2012
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http://www.telegraph.co, By Oliver Pickup
The 400-metre world record holder, Michael Johnson, believes disabled athletes who use prosthetic limbs should not be allowed to compete in able-bodied races, as it has not been disproved whether or not it provides them with an "unfair advantage".
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke gloomy on economic outlook
07-17-2012
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http://www.ft.com, By Robin Harding
Ben Bernanke offered a gloomy outlook for the US economy but the Federal Reserve chairman offered no hint of further monetary easing in testimony to Congress.
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News Link • Libya
Shocking new video shows Gaddafi’s body ‘being used by rebels as ghoulish ventriloquist’s doll’
07-17-2012
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http://www.dailymail.co, By Daily Mail Reporter
A gruesome new video which appears to show Muammar Gaddafi’s dead body being abused by rebels has surfaced online.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
‘The Dollar Is Going to Go to Hell’: Trump
07-17-2012
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http://www.cnbc.com, By: Justin Menza
The U.S. needs to pay down its debt, and that won’t happen if Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke "goes wild" with more stimulus, Donald Trump told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday.
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Arizona Election Fraud: Judge Kyle Bryson's Ruling Prompt's Motion for a New Trial
07-17-2012
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The Intercept
"The ease of cheating when matched with the impossibility of challenging any specific election requires court intervention in order to protect the purity of elections and ensure that we will have free elections.” - Attorney Bill Risner
Judge Kyle
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News Link • Whistleblowers
...shocking details of bribery, marketing fraud and other pharma crimes
07-17-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mike Adams
GlaxoSmithKline employee and whistleblower Blair Hamrick has helped make medical history.
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News Link • Events: New Mexico
Geoengineers to release planet-cooling gas into New Mexico atmosphere
07-17-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Martin Lukacs
Two Harvard engineers are planning to spray thousands of tonnes of sun-reflecting chemical particles into the atmosphere to artificially cool the planet, using a balloon flying 80,000 feet over Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Security Consultant Cracks Handcuffs Open With 3-D Printed Plastic Keys
07-17-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
At a hacker conference in New York on Friday, a German security consultant demonstrated just how "disruptive" 3-D printing can really be.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Record Heat and Drought Signs of Solar Catastrophe?
07-17-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, WorldOrderNews.com
NASA and the National Academy of Sciences has warned us of a coming 2012-2013 solar event that could possibly be the solar catastrophe that could spell disaster across the globe.
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News Link • How To
From the Fascist Welfare State of America
07-17-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Lawrence A. Hunter
...I Lawrence A. Hunter, a sovereign human individual, a citizen of the United States and a resident of Warrenton, Virginia hereby declare my independence from the Fascist Welfare State that has illegitimately seized control of the United States of A
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Fails to Comply With Year-Old ‘Nude’ Body-Scanner Court Order
07-17-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
It’s been a year following a federal appeals court decision setting aside a constitutional challenge trying to stop the government from using intrusive body scanners across U.S. airports.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
The First Powered Airship
07-17-2012
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http://www.space.com
This is part of a SPACE.com series of articles on the Greatest Moments in Flight, the breakthrough events that paved the way for human spaceflight and its next steps: asteroid mining and bases on the moon and Mars.
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News Link • Media: Television
Sci-Fi Experiment Dominion: Dinosaurs vs. Aliens Is Far Smarter Than You Think
07-17-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Scott Thill
Tackling stimulating subjects like mass extinction and resource wars with nary a human character in sight, Grant Morrison and Barry Sonnenfeld’s Dominion: Dinosaurs vs. Aliens is a cerebral sci-fi experiment that’s far more ambitious than it sounds.
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News Link • Government
Iceland " Mighty Mite or Green Lapdog?
07-17-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Though we've written a number of positive articles about Iceland, we're rapidly getting over the idea of Iceland as a courageous "mighty mite" standing up against Europe's "banksters."
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News Link • General Opinion
Letter Re: Effective Small Team Tactics for the Coming Collapse
07-17-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, Major K
I have a few comments after reading the guest article by Max Velocity on small team tactics. I realize the author's perspective is colored by his time in Afghanistan and Iraq, but there are some issues I have with his article.
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News Link • How To
Letter Re: Retreat Ideas for the Disabled and Elderly
07-17-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, Tricia
As a formerly disabled person I would like to share some ideas to help make survival more likely or at least less treacherous
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News Link • How To
Some Experiences with Handling Trash
07-17-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by Belle
My husband and I, along with our three children, moved from a moderate sized Texas town of 200,000 to a small spread out community of about 1.500. That population of 1,500 lives in an area of about 40 square miles.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
The Two Little Cities Who Can't
07-17-2012
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http://www.fff.org, by Wendy McElroy
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is stomping its jackboot down on two little towns that straddle the Arizona-Utah border. The Civil Rights Division has brought an unprecedented and vague federal religious discrimination lawsuit against the cities and
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News Link • How To
Dying and Death in a Collapse Situation
07-17-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by Irish Eyes
Many Americans have never experienced the death of someone close to them, and our current system of dealing with death makes sure that family and loved ones have as little contact as possible with the dead, and often very little with the dying.
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News Link • Books
The Underclass
07-17-2012
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http://econfaculty.gmu, BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
Anthony Daniels, who writes under the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist who tells of his experiences with his patients in "Life at the Bottom." It’s an insightful book of essays about the self-destructive behavi
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News Link • General Opinion
The Noose Continues to Tighten But No Government Lasts Forever
07-17-2012
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http://www.voluntaryist.com, By Carl Watner
Voluntaryists have a unique outlook on government. They view the State as an invasive institution. It imposes a coercive monopoly over defense services and collects its revenues via compulsory taxation.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Inflation is a Monetary Phenomenon
07-17-2012
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http://paul.house.gov
Later this month Congress will have an unprecedented opportunity to force the Federal Reserve to provide meaningful transparency to lawmakers and taxpayers. HR 459, my bill known as “Audit the Fed,” is scheduled for a vote before the full Congress in
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News Link • Surveillance
Drones Overseas Lead to Drones at Home
07-17-2012
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antiwar.com/Philip Giraldi
The principal function of government since 9/11, even if unintentional, has been to develop strategies to reduce individual liberties and transfer power to the government while not appearing to do so.
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News Link • Government
Why NOT Make Olympic Uniforms in China?
07-17-2012
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http://www.cato.org, by Daniel J. Ikenson
Patriotism, it has been said, is the last refuge of scoundrels. Indeed, with 86% of the American public disapproving of Congress' performance, refuge-seeking politicians have wrapped themselves in the flag to denounce the fact that the U.S. Olympic t
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US Empire of Bases Grows
07-17-2012
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www.antiwar.com
It was Jan. 15, 2004, and TomDispatch had only been in existence for a year when Chalmers Johnson, author of the prophetic book Blowback (published in 2000 and a bestseller after the 9/11 attacks), did a piece for this site titled “America’s Empire o
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