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Date Sent: 2012-07-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, July 2, 2012 PM edition |
Mexico returns former ruling party to power -- Roberts switched views to uphold health care law
Parkinson's Disease Gene Discovery -- Muslim Brotherhood - Al Qaeda
Coalition -- Palestinian Authority Police Brutalize Peaceful Protesters
-- 07-02-12 -- Declare Your
Independence with Ernest Hancock - (MP3 Loaded) -- 384 Days of Primal:
Focusing on the Process to See Results -- What I Learned in My Political Campaign by Karen Kwiatkowski -- The First Liberty Library -- The Art of Decentralization -- Google Shopping Censors All Gun, Ammo & Accessories Results -- Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 7/2/12: Big Opportunity to Audit the Fed: Support H.R.459 -- New Hampshire Adopts Jury Nullification Law
AZ: "SICK and SICKER" Screening today; Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday; Party at Hancock's - Come meet Glenn Jacobs, aka Citizen X - Friday, July 13th - 5 p.m. til ?
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News Link • Mexico
Mexico returns former ruling party to power
07-02-2012
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AP
Mexico's old guard sailed back into power after a 12-year hiatus Sunday as the official preliminary vote count handed a victory to Enrique Pena Nieto, whose party was long accused of ruling the country through corruption and patronage.
The second
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Roberts switched views to uphold health care law
07-02-2012
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CBS News
Justice Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court's 4 conservative justices to strike down the heart of Obama's health care reform law, but later changed his position and formed an alliance with liberals to uphold the bulk of the law.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Parkinson's Disease Gene Discovery
07-02-2012
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arclein
Farrer explains that confirmation of the gene’s linkage with Parkinson’s disease required DNA samples from thousands of patients with the disease and healthy individuals. He adds that the contributions of the Saskatchewan Mennonite family, who have a
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News Link • Food
Saving Food
07-02-2012
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arclein
FreshPaper doesn’t blink or beep, but I’m not complaining. Its power is in its simplicity " and its price. Each 5-by-5-inch sheet, manufactured in Massachusetts, costs 50 cents. Sheets can be used and reused over the course of two or three weeks and
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Swine Flu's Real Death Toll
07-02-2012
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arclein
The original toll, a simple tabulation of laboratory-confirmed cases that was thought to be a gross underestimation, counted around 18,500 deaths. By extrapolating figures for poorer countries, scientists claim that the global outbreak of the H1N1 in
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Muslim Brotherhood - Al Qaeda Coallition
07-02-2012
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arclein
The MI5 chief also confirmed that al-Qaeda is now active in Syria, and “warned against suggestions that al-Qaeda’s threat has ‘evaporated’ following the death of Osama bin Laden and significant victories in Pakistan.” He noted that Britain, for its p
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robert klein
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Party at Hancock's - Come meet Glenn Jacobs, aka Citizen X - Friday, July 13th - 5 p.m. til ?
07-02-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Glenn Jacobs is a well-versed libertarian, knows what's going on in the world, and is looking to survive this thing that is coming. Hope you can come and relax while meeing with others of like-mind.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
384 Days of Primal: Focusing on the Process to See Results
07-02-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Mark Sisson
I’ve been Primal now for over a year. I came upon The Primal Blueprint when searching for resources on paleo dieting. Little did I know that I would find a whole lifestyle that would gel so well with my understanding of the human body.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics
What I Learned in My Political Campaign
07-02-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Karen Kwiatkowski
By launching and running a insurgent liberty-oriented campaign against an entrenched, big spending and big borrowing establishment hack, I believed we were doing something useful. Many agreed with me. Many helped and I thank everyone who gave us time
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
The First Liberty Library
07-02-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/MurrayRothbard
The lone individual is seldom given credit as a shaper and mover of great historical events; and this is particularly true when that individual is no famous statesman or military hero, nor leader of a mass movement, but simply a little-known person p
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
The Art of Decentralization
07-02-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/ButlerShaffer
Artistic expression has long been valued for its appeal to aesthetics, intuition, and the emotional and spiritual dimensions of what it means to be human. But, like schools that help students develop an intellectually grounded capacity for self-direc
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Week Ahead: Heat, 4th Forecast and Southwest Storms
07-02-2012
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www.weather.com
The new week is here and unfortunately for some areas, we can't leave the heat behind. We've got that story plus a look at your Fourth of July forecast and the increasing monsoonal moisture in the Southwest.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Google Shopping Censors All Gun, Ammo & Accessories Results
07-02-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Google sent out an email to Google Adwords customers saying that they are going to pull all Google Shopping results for guns, ammunition, gun optics and gun accessories (Shopping results, not general search results).
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Justice and Judges
New Hampshire Adopts Jury Nullification Law
07-02-2012
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www.reason.com
Jury nullification, in which jurors refuse to convict defendants under laws they find objectionable or inappropriately applied, is a favored tactic of many libertarians who, rightly or wrongly perceive individual liberty as, at best, a minority taste
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Kids
Arpaio's PD arrests 6 year old without legal ID
06-30-2012
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BeatTheChip
A 6 year old girl was arrested and now sits in an Arizona ICE detention facility in accordance with SB 1070 rulings.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Economy - International
Saturday, June 30, 2012 - Art Cashin (Publisher Recommended)
06-30-2012
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www.kingworldnews.com
Art Cashin: Director of Floor Operations for UBS Financial Services. Art has over 50 years of Wall Street experience, which gives him the ability to offer valuable insights to investors and traders. (Understanding the EU and the Future of USA)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Declaration of Independence
Moyers to Americans: Read the Declaration of Independence this July 4
06-30-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
This week on “Moyers and Company,” host Bill Moyers reminded us that July 4 is approaching and asked Americans to take the time this year to read one of our nation’s founding documents.
The moment Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence,
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Holder? Prosecuted? White House says forget it
06-30-2012
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The Ticket
The Department of Justice will not prosecute Attorney General Eric Holder after the Republican-led House of Representatives voted to hold him in contempt of Congress, the White House said .
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
House could arrest Holder with inherent contempt power
06-30-2012
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Washington Times
Despite voting to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress, there’s little House Republicans can do in the short term to compel him to turn over documents " unless it wanted to revisit a long-dormant power and arrest him.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Judge gives a win to Wall Street in Alabama county bankruptcy
06-30-2012
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Reuters
The judge in the landmark bankruptcy of Alabama's Jefferson County sided with Wall Street creditors on Friday and sharply limited how the cash-strapped local government can use funds generated by its sewer system.
The ruling, in a months-long cour
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
See ‘Intimacy 2.0,’ a dress that becomes transparent as you flirt
06-30-2012
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Washington Post
If a gentleman at the bar gets a woman’s heart racing, the dress will show more skin. A dull conversation from an unwanted suitor will keep the dress opaque.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Pedestrian thrown in jail for 12 hours for holding up sign warning drivers about police speed trap
06-30-2012
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Daily Mail Reporter
woman in Houston, Texas, was arrested and jailed for 12 hours after she held up a make-shift sign to warn drivers about a speed trap.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Darrell Issa Puts Details of Secret Wiretap Applications in Congressional Record
06-30-2012
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http://www.rollcall.com, By Jonathan Strong
In the midst of a fiery floor debate over contempt proceedings for Attorney General Eric Holder, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) quietly dropped a bombshell letter into the Congressional Record.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News--
July 1, 2012 Edition
06-29-2012
John Semmens
President Says Obamacare Decision a Victory for Freedom
President Barack Obama hailed the US Supreme Court's narrow 5-4 decision to uphold his signature Affordable Care Act as “a victory for freedom.”
“By affirming the legality of our health ca
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News Link • Internet
Megaupload warrants ruled illegal by New Zealand court
06-29-2012
A court in New Zealand has ruled that the search warrants used by New Zealand police when they raided the home of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom were invalid.
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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
How Iran Might See the Threats
06-29-2012
Ray McGovern
With half of 2012 behind us and the U.S. presidential election looming in just four months, I will try to be candid and blunt about what I see as the dangers facing the Islamic Republic in the coming months.
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