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Date Sent: 2012-07-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 20, 2012 |
Justice Department Sues Telecom for Challenging National Security Letter
UK man extradited to Arizona in meth-related chemicals sales case -- Israeli officials says Iran will face retaliation for bombing that killed 5 in Bulgaria -- Banks in Libor probe consider group settlement-sources -- U.S. banks haunted by mortgage demons that won't go away -- US Advertising That "The Fix Is In" -- Ariz. sheriff faces profiling allegations at trial -- Legislators, Union Bosses Seek Funding for Digging Holes and Filling Them Back In -- Study Suggests Alzheimer's Disease Can Be Stabilized -- 07-20-12 -- Crosby Peck - (MP3 & Video Loaded) - THIS IS A REPEAT OF 7-9-12 SHOW -- July 19, 1963: Cracking the 100-Kilometer-High Barrier (i.e, Space) … in a Plane -- New UFO Files From UK Government -- War On All Fronts -- Brave Warriors, Bernanke and Ron Paul? -- Long Term Public Employee Pension Obligations -- Fight or Flight Decision Points -- Food Storage on a Budget -- Hillary Clinton survives assassination attempt in Israel -- "Why Your Health Care Is so Darn Expensive"…
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News Link • Communications
Justice Department Sues Telecom for Challenging National Security Letter
07-19-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Kim Zetter
Last year, when a telecommunications company received an ultra-secret demand letter from the FBI seeking information about a customer or customers, the telecom took an extraordinary step...
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News Link • Drug War
UK man extradited to Arizona in meth-related chemicals sales case
07-19-2012
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Reuters
A British man has been extradited to Arizona from Scotland to face trial for illegally exporting and distributing chemicals used to make methamphetamine in the state, authorities said on Thursday.
Brian Howes, 48, was ordered to remain in custody
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israeli officials says Iran will face retaliation for bombing that killed 5 in Bulgaria
07-19-2012
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Washington Post
Israeli officials maintained Thursday that Iran was behind a suicide bombing that killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria and vowed to settle the score, but indicated that retaliation was unlikely to take the form of a military strike on Iran.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Banks in Libor probe consider group settlement-sources
07-19-2012
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Reuters
A group of banks being investigated in an interest-rate rigging scandal are looking to pursue a group settlement with regulators rather than face a Barclays-style backlash by going it alone, people familiar with the banks' thinking said.
Such disc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
U.S. banks haunted by mortgage demons that won't go away
07-19-2012
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Reuters
Lenders like Bank of America Corp and Wells Fargo & Co say they are facing mounting pressure to buy back bad mortgages they sold to investors, signaling that banks' home-loan headaches could continue for years.
Investors like Fannie Mae and Freddi
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Advertising That The Fix Is In
07-19-2012
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Simple Justice
Government is engaged in a promotional campaign that courts have forsaken their constitutional role as neutral arbiters and when it comes to drunk driving, are part of the inquisitorial system, locking arms with cops to imprison people.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Ariz. sheriff faces profiling allegations at trial
07-19-2012
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AP
The plaintiffs say Arpaio's officers based some traffic stops on the race of Hispanics who were in vehicles, had no probable cause to pull them over and made the stops so they could inquire about their immigration status.
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News Link • Government
Legislators, Union Bosses Seek Funding for Digging Holes and Filling Them Back In
07-19-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Undercover reporters posing as "Earth Supply and Renewal" -- dedicated to digging holes and filling them back in, meet with Labor Bosses, NY Legislator, and former NY Assemblyman, who tell them how to secure funding
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News Link • History
July 19, 1963: Cracking the 100-Kilometer-High Barrier … in a Plane
07-19-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Tony Long
1963: Test pilot Joe Walker takes an X-15 aircraft to an altitude of 67 miles (106 kilometers), becoming the only pilot to surpass the 100-kilometer barrier in a rocket plane until Mike Melvill, piloting SpaceShipOne, duplicates the feat in 2004.
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News Link • General Opinion
10 Things The Monitor Loved at Comic-Con
07-19-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Peter Rubin
We’re back from Comic-Con International, and we’ve got a story to tell. After four days of crowds, cosplay and coming attractions " and comics, of course " we have a loooong list of favorite things. But that’s way more than Maria von Trapp sang about
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News Link • Economy - International
War On All Fronts
07-19-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Russian government has finally caught on that its political opposition is being financed by the US taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy and other CIA/State Department fronts in an attempt to subvert the Russian government and install
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Brave Warriors, Bernanke and Ron Paul?
07-19-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
The Christian Science Monitor seldom if ever deviates from the larger promotional trajectory of the power elite that creates certain dominant social themes " fear-based promotions that shove Western middle classes toward globalist solutions.
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News Link • General Opinion
Long Term Public Employee Pension Obligations
07-19-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, Bob G.
Much of the problem is the super generous retirement plans available to many state, federal and local government workers. As always, a bit of common sense would help cushion the impact of this largess.
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News Link • General Opinion
Fight or Flight Decision Points
07-19-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by R.P.
This most basic decision should be reviewed daily "in a crisis" and weekly in preparation for a TSHTF scenario. In order to make the correct call you must understand the situation that you are in.
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News Link • How To
Food Storage on a Budget
07-19-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by N.T.M. in Nevada
When it comes to food storage, people that I have talked with have almost always made the comment that they can barely afford to feed their family now much less afford to have food storage.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hillary Clinton survives assassination attempt in Israel
07-19-2012
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http://www.veteranstoday.com
Israeli radio and Reuters broke the story then went mysteriously silent, an assassination attempt inside Israel, on Secretary of State Clinton. Soon afterward, Iran’s national network, al Alam went public with a translated version which is being boyc
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News Link • Corruption
Goldman Sachs developing in-house private bank
07-18-2012
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AFP
Goldman Sachs said it is developing its private bank for wealthy clients, particularly in fast-growing countries and in Europe, where it hopes to pick up the slack from struggling local banks. “We’ve been in the wealth business for a long time,”
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News Link • Military
Families of U.S. citizens killed in drone strike file wrongful death lawsuit
07-18-2012
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Karen McVeigh, The Guardian
The killing of three US citizens, one a 16-year-old boy, in targeted drone strikes last year were unlawful and violated their constitutional rights by not affording them due process, according to a lawsuit filed by their relatives on Wednesday.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Central bankers eyeing whether Libor needs scrapping
07-18-2012
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Reuters
Central bankers and regulators will hold talks in September on whether the troubled global Libor interest rate can be reformed or whether it is so damaged that the benchmark of borrowing costs should be scrapped.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Sen. Franken questions FBI and Facebook over online privacy protections
07-18-2012
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The Raw Story.com
A US Senate hearing Wednesday highlighted concern over the growing use of facial recognition technologies, both for law enforcement use and in big social networks like Facebook.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Families of Americans killed by drones file suit
07-18-2012
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Washington Post
The families of 3 US citizens killed in drone strikes in Yemen last year, including militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, filed a lawsuit that accuses top CIA and US military officials of violating the constitutional rights of those killed.
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News Link • Syria
Damascus bomb shows "real momentum" against Assad - U.S.
07-18-2012
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Reuters
A suicide bombing that killed members of Bashar al-Assad's inner circle as fighting raged in the Syrian capital showed the uprising was gaining "real momentum", Washington said, urging other countries to press the president to quit.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Growth Rates in Government Spending by President
07-18-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
These notions are rough and far from being fine-tuned. But war is a key factor. The president that goes to war creates more spending (and inflation) and grows the government at a higher rate.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
100 Ways Mitt Romney Is Just Like Barack Obama
07-18-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Wes Wessamore, author of “Bush 2.0: 100 Ways Barack Obama Is Just Like George W. Bush,” has a new very perceptive analysis, “100 Ways Mitt Romney Is Just Like Barack Obama.” Just the thing to send to those uber-partisan friends
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News Link • Economy - International
For the First Time, Canadians Now Richer Than Americans
07-18-2012
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www.usnews.com
The average Canadian household is worth about $40,000 more than their American counterparts
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News Link • Corruption
Consumer agency fines Capital One for card marketing
07-18-2012
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www.reuters.com
Capital One Financial agreed to pay $210 million to resolve charges by banking regulators that its call-center representatives misled consumers into paying for extra credit card products.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Chocolate Bar teams up with PaulFest for special ticket promotion!
07-18-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
When you make a purchase of Ron Paul Bars you automatically go into a drawing for a complimentary 3-day pass. We will be holding a drawing every half hour so if you don’t win the first time, try again!
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Congressman Ron Paul Urges Afghanistan Withdrawal July 18 2012
07-18-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Congressman Ron Paul urges withdrawal from Afghanistan during Defense Appropriations debate on July 18, 2012.
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News Link • Energy
Amonix closes North Las Vegas solar plant after 14 months, heavy federal subsidies
07-18-2012
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www.lvrj.com
The Amonix solar manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas, heavily financed under an Obama administration energy initiative, has closed its 214,000-square-foot facility 14 months after it opened.
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News Link • Activism
Blowback 2012 - Online Telethon for PaulFest Tickets (On Sale at a Discount TODAY!)
07-18-2012
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Ron Paul Tribune.com
Big names off and on all day until 10:00 p.m. tonight - Peter Schiff spoke earlier and Scott Horton on currently.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
David Stockman: Austerity Is Not Discretionary
07-18-2012
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www.caseyresearch.com/
Today's video is a conversation between our own Alex Daley and David Stockman " David gives a startlingly blunt assessment of the US's economic outlook and how it came to this precipice.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul "We Talk About Solving A Worldwide Problem Of Insolvency By Just Printing Money"
07-18-2012
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YouTube.com
The last Ron Paul vs Bernanke in committee.
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News Link • Activism
Ed Vallejo Tampa Chip-In
07-09-2012
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Ed Vallejo/Daily Paul
As the 2012 RNC looms large on the horizon, preparations are being made...
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News Link • Corruption
Trenton, NJ mayor denies wrongdoing after FBI raid
07-18-2012
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Rawstory
The FBI raided the homes of Trenton, N.J. mayor Tony Mack, his brother and a convicted child molester who donated thousands of dollars to Mack’s campaign.
“We have not violated the public trust in any way,” Mack told reporters
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News Link • Climate Change
UN Climate Agenda in Shambles
07-18-2012
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arclein
publicly exposed many of the world’s most prestigious scientific organizations, institutions, and publications as being captives of rigid ideologues who employ rigged computer models, fraudulent “evidence,” censorship, and intimidation to advance a
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Ariz. sheriff says Obama birth certificate is fake
07-18-2012
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AP
Maricopa Co. Sheriff Joe Arpaio's posse said in March there was probable cause that Obama's long-form birth certificate released by the White House in was a computer-generated forgery. Now they are positive it's fraudulent.
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News Link • European Union
Stalemate in Siena
07-18-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com, By William Pfaff
The European Union is at risk of being destroyed by the euro.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
US "Intelligence Assets" leading the Syrian "Opposition", the Role of the Bilder
07-18-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Chris Marsden
In a July 12 article for the Guardian’s “Comment is Free” section, Charlie Skelton poses the fundamental question the world’s media does not want asked.
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News Link • Imperialism
"Cruise Missile Socialists": When Justifying Imperialist Intervention goes Wrong
07-18-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Mazda Majidi
On July 1, an article titled "Libya and Syria: When Anti-Imperialism Goes Wrong" was published on the North Star website, signed by "Pham Binh of Occupy Wall Street, Class War Camp.
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News Link • Corruption
Inside the Investigation of Leading Republican Money Man Sheldon Adelson
07-18-2012
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propublica, Matt Isaacs, Lowell Bergman and Steph
A decade ago gambling magnate and leading Republican donor Sheldon Adelson looked at a desolate spit of land in Macau and imagined a glittering strip of casinos, hotels and malls.
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News Link • United Nations
Agenda 21 Eco-Cities Built for Permanent Population Control
07-18-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
At the 2012 UN Earth Summit for Sustainable Development Rio+20 there was an initiative to offer “many great opportunities for people from all over the world to come together, build bridges, and draft a common path upon which all residents of this bre
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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 • 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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