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Date Sent: 2011-08-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, August 7, 2011 |
States can't opt out of Secure Communities program
Coming Monday: Domino Ratings Downgrades -- Gov. Rick Perry leads Christians in prayer at Texas rally -- Vilifying Muslims in America -- America's Cratering Economy -- Quartzsite Mayor Ed Foster, Jennifer Jones Speak at Arizona Breakfast Club -- When It Comes to Cars, Korea Is the New Japan -- Facial Recognition Software Takes One Glance at You and Brings Up Your Facebook Profile -- Hiroshima Day Protest 2011 King of Prussia, PA (video) -- One Box of
Girl Scout Cookies Worth $15 Billion: Any Carbon Source Can Become
Valuable Graphene -- IF YOU LIKE REP. BACHMANN BECAUSE OF AGENDA 21,
YOU'LL LOVE REP. RON PAUL! -- China Asks For New Global Reserve Currency -- Housing's Double Dip Part II: Rising Foreclosures -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Hiroshima: August 6th, 1945 -- Biometric Hell: No Cash, No Credit Card, No Debit Card, No Smart Phone, Just Your Palm Veins -- Bruce Krasting: On the S&P ratings move -- U.S. immigration officials call off deportation agreement with states -- Military-industrial-congressional complex gears up to fight budget cuts -- Gold Production Stalled
AZ: "Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical Thriller,"
a Phoenix Objectivist's discussion Aug. 11th; Oath Keepers To Muster
in Quartzsite, AZ on August 27th, bring your cameras.
Nationwide: Support your local lemonade stand, Aug. 20
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News Link • Homeland Security
States can't opt out of Secure Communities program
08-07-2011
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LAtimes.com
The Obama administration has told governors the fingerprint-sharing program that targets criminals in the country illegally does not need their approval to operate in their states.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Coming Monday: Domino Ratings Downgrades
08-07-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
"The downgrade of U.S. federal debt could result in de facto credit downgrades of some state-level…debt, which has been priced and rated as if the federal government were the backer of last resort,"
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gov. Rick Perry leads Christians in prayer at Texas rally
08-07-2011
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LAtimes.com
With Rick Perry likely to enter the Republican presidential race within days or weeks, thousands of fundamentalist Christians cheered the Texas governor Saturday at a stadium prayer rally that appeared to boost his standing with religious...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Quartzsite Mayor Ed Foster, Jennifer Jones Speak at Arizona Breakfast Club
08-06-2011
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My videocamera and my YouTube channel
Ernie sets it up, Jennifer lays it out, and Ed brings it on home in another edition of: The Arizona Breakfast Club - Freein' Minds Since '69
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Transportation
When It Comes to Cars, Korea Is the New Japan
08-06-2011
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Jalopnik via WIRED.com
Hyundai and Kia have sold more vehicles to Americans than all European automakers combined through the first seven months of 2011. Here’s how South Korea’s automakers have the rest of the world on the run.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Facial Recognition Software Takes One Glance at You and Brings Up Your Facebook Profile
08-06-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Worried about privacy on the Internet? It may be worse than you thought â€" with rapidly improving face recognition technology, your automatically tagged Facebook pictures could help a stranger, or the authorities, quickly identify you on the street.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Hiroshima Day Protest 2011 King of Prussia, PA (video)
08-06-2011
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The International Libertarian
The Brandywine Peace Community strikes again, this time protesting against Lockheed Martin building parts for nuclear missiles on the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. The protest went well with speeches, musi
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Precious Metals
One Box of Girl Scout Cookies Worth $15 Billion: Any Carbon Source Can Become Valuable Graphene
08-06-2011
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ScienceDaily.com
Graduate students in the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour proved it when they invited a troop of Houston Girl Scouts to their lab to show them how it's done.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Transportation
Human-Caused Driverless Car Crash Is More Evidence That Cars Should Just Take Over
08-06-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Google's self-driving cars have apparently had their first fender-bender â€" and it was a person's fault, the company says.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
IF YOU LIKE REP. BACHMANN BECAUSE OF AGENDA 21, YOU'LL LOVE REP. RON PAUL!
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www.varight.com
If you are tempted to support Rep. Michele Bachmann because of Agenda 21, remember Cong. Ron Paul was there FIRST! Take Mother Jones' word for it! Go to Ames and vote PAUL!
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
China Asks For New Global Reserve Currency
08-06-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The days when the debt-ridden Uncle Sam could leisurely squander unlimited overseas borrowing appeared to be numbered as its triple A-credit rating was slashed by Standard & Poor's (S&P) for the first time on Friday.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Housing's Double Dip Part II: Rising Foreclosures
08-06-2011
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CNBC.com
Banks and servicers stopped foreclosures entirely for a time after the malpractice was discovered, and courts delayed the process, picking through papers as foreclosures were resubmitted; that is now turning around.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
08-06-2011
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LewRockwell.com
The view of Admiral William D. Leahy, Truman's own chief of staff, was typical: My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Hiroshima: August 6th, 1945
08-06-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000â€"166,000 people in Hiroshima...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Biometric Hell: No Cash, No Credit Card, No Debit Card, No Smart Phone, Just Your Palm Veins
08-06-2011
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technologyreview.com/
Manufactured by Fujitsu under the trade name PalmSecure, it's a system that requires no hardware on the user side. If you've got hands and you can wave them in front of a detector, you can use it to make purchases.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
China tells U.S. "good old days" of borrowing are over
08-06-2011
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finance.yahoo.com
"The U.S. government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own making are finally gone," China's official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Bruce Krasting: On the S&P ratings move
08-06-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
We have just a few months before the next explosion. S&P has put the US on a negative alert. Meaning further downgrades are going to happen if the US fiscal house is not put in better order.
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News Link • States' Rights
U.S. immigration officials call off deportation agreement with states
08-06-2011
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Arizona Republic
US immigration officials, who insisted states sign up to participate in a controversial program to identify and deport immigrants who commit crimes, abruptly changed their approach and terminated agreements with 40 states.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China flays U.S. over credit rating downgrade
08-06-2011
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Reuters
China called for a new stable global reserve currency."The U.S. government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own making are finally gone," China's official
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Military-industrial-congressional complex gears up to fight budget cuts
08-04-2011
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Meteor Blades, Daily Kos
In case you were wondering if the debt-ceiling pact has ushered in a new age of thinking about military spending, the answer is no, hell no and no way. The hawks are determined to keep cuts in the Pentagon budget to a minimum over the next decade, an
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • History
Goblin Tunnels
08-06-2011
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arclein
The Greithanners, from the town of Glonn near Munich, are the owners of a strange subterranean landmark. A labyrinth of vaults known as an "Erdstall" runs underneath their property. It is at least 25 meters (82 feet) long and likely stems from th
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Corn Yields with Delayed Perennial Cover Crop Similar
08-06-2011
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arclein
Using standard agronomic practices and managing a perennial cover crop between rows of corn can keep soil, nutrients and carbon in the fields, a three-year study says. Plus, farmers will still be able to yield 200 bushels per acre, the study showed.
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News Link • Economy - International
Gold Production Stalled
08-06-2011
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arclein
Gold mine production â€" subdued growth in next five years This report focuses on the gold mine production trend in the next five years and addresses the key issues that drive demand. We studied 345 gold mines as well as 30 copper and base-metal mines
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