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Date Sent: 2011-09-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, September 5, 2011 |
CIA lawyer: Obama ‘endorsed’ nearly all Bush-era programs
Feds warn of small airplane terror threats -- Researchers Harvest
Beetle’s Wing Energy to Power the Mind Control Chip in Its Brain -- Europe and U.S. should consider stimulating growth: IMF's Lagard -- CIA rendition might rely on ‘non-existent’ State Dept. official -- Police (without warrant) assisted Apple in search of man's home -- Leaked cable: Ex-Blackwater guards kept working in Iraq -- U.S. sets ultimatum in Swiss bank tax dispute: reports -- Obama pushes transport bills, says jobs at stake -- 35,000 worldwide convicted for terror -- Marco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies (and iPods) -- Some Animals Are More Equal than Others - by Jim Davidson -- Flash Mobs and Hi-Caps - by L. Neil Smith -- Case Dismissed Against Journalism Student Arrested For Taking Photos -- Arizona now charges visitors $25 to visit prisoners -- Anonymous hacks Texas police and dumps shocking emails online -- Saudi Arabia Discovers 9000 Year Old Civilization -- US Official refused to believe woman was professional racer; refuses woman entry
AZ: Arizona State
University Law School Debate - "Should Marijuana Be Legalized?"
Sept. 12@ noon
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News Link • Obama Administration
CIA lawyer: Obama ‘endorsed’ nearly all Bush-era programs
09-04-2011
John Rizzo, one of the top attorneys for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), claims that President Barack Obama has “endorsed” nearly all of the controversial Bush administration secret warfare programs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Feds warn of small airplane terror threats
09-04-2011
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AP
The FBI and Homeland Security have issued a nationwide warning about al-Qaida threats to small airplanes, just days before the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Authorities say there is no specific or credible terrorist threat for the 10-
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Researchers Harvest Beetle’s Wing Energy to Power the Mind Control Chip in Its Brain
09-04-2011
Of course, the next logical step researchers in Michigan took was to fit the beetles with piezoelectronics on their wings so that they power their own mind control implants through flight. Yes. This is a thing that is happening.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Europe and U.S. should consider stimulating growth: IMF's Lagard
09-04-2011
IMF chief Christine Lagarde said in an interview released on Sunday that Europe and the United States should consider stimulating economic growth, if the situation permits, to offset a crisis of confidence hitting the global economy.
"Looking at E
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA rendition might rely on ‘non-existent’ State Dept. official
09-04-2011
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Rawstory
As the Washington Post and others have reported today, an obscure court case in New York state has led to the disclosure of new details on CIA's extraordinary rendition program, in which the U.S. captured dozens of alleged terrorists and sent them to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police (without warrant) assisted Apple in search of man's home
09-04-2011
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CNN
Police officials said they helped Apple investigators, who searched a man's home here recently.
They were reportedly looking for a prototype of the next iPhone that an Apple employee left in a bar in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood, according
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
Leaked cable: Ex-Blackwater guards kept working in Iraq
09-04-2011
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Rawstory
ex-Blackwater employees kept working in Iraq with other security firms.
"There are many former Blackwater employees at other private security companies in Iraq, most notably Triple Canopy and DynCorp, providing security services to us," said a Jan
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
U.S. sets ultimatum in Swiss bank tax dispute: reports
09-04-2011
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Reuters
The United States has written to Switzerland to demand it hands over detailed information this week on its citizens using Swiss accounts to dodge tax or see Credit Suisse and nine other banks face charges, newspapers reported on Sunday.
The letter
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Obama pushes transport bills, says jobs at stake
09-04-2011
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Reuters
President Barack Obama urged Congress Wednesday to quickly pass multibillion-dollar temporary funding bills for aviation and highway projects, saying inaction would needlessly cost jobs.
Obama said it would be "inexcusable" for lawmakers to not ac
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
35,000 worldwide convicted for terror
09-04-2011
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AP
In the first tally ever done of global anti-terror arrests and convictions, The Associated Press documented a surge in prosecutions under new or toughened anti-terror laws, often passed at the urging and with the funding of the West.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Marco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)
09-04-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
http://www.ted.com Using three iPods like magical props, Marco Tempest spins a clever, surprisingly heartfelt meditation on truth and lies, art and emotion.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Some Animals Are More Equal than Others - by Jim Davidson
09-04-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
The question, to me, is not whether the governments at various levels ought to do their business in the light of day. The question is whether you are going to continue to let them get away with treating you like a plantation slave after their behavio
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Flash Mobs and Hi-Caps - by L. Neil Smith
09-04-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
Politicians, well accustomed to eighty centuries of strictly vertical communications, issuing haughty decrees to the masses, and acting arrogantly against the clearly expressed will of their constituents, can be confronted now, practically on a momen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Case Dismissed Against Journalism Student Arrested For Taking Photos
09-04-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Loeb said he was trailing at least 20 feet behind the pair when the cop ordered him to walk in another direction. Loeb told the Daily News that he refused the order.
"As this was interfering with the police actions, police stated to defendant that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona now charges visitors $25 to visit prisoners
09-04-2011
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NY Times
For the Arizona Department of Corrections, crime has finally started to pay.
New legislation allows the department to impose a $25 fee on adults who wish to visit inmates at any of the 15 prison complexes that house state prisoners.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Anonymous hacks Texas police and dumps shocking emails online
09-04-2011
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Daily Mail
Hackers have accessed the email accounts of more than 24 law enforcement agencies in Texas and dumped the contents online. The data came from the work and personal emails of officers, including department chiefs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
The Great Oyster Crash
09-04-2011
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arclein
, it provided the first example of how a worldwide crisis in ocean chemistry could devastate coastal economies and change restaurant menus across the country.
Whiskey Creek is owned by the husband-and-wife team of Sue Cudd and Mark Wiegardt. Wiega
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
New Icelandic Deep Current
09-04-2011
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arclein
The "conveyor belt" current, introduced to movie-goers in the Al Gore environmental film "An Inconvenient Truth," carries warm surface water from the tropical Atlantic toward the Arctic. In the process, the water warms the air in high latitudes,
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Potatoes and Glycemic Load
09-04-2011
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arclein
Nutritionist thought they were doing the right thing by telling everyone to remove all fat from your diet. But it’s not fat that makes you fat. It’s excess carbohydrates.
As far as a potato goes, Howard might as well have said, “I’m eating a snick
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Canadian Wheat Board War
09-04-2011
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arclein
The federal government was hoping the farmers would not care about the board and the meetings would be poorly attended. It’s the exact opposite. At every one of the first six [of seven] meetings, we’ve had to put out more chairs than expected " even
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Saudi Arabia Discovers 9000 Year Old Civilization
09-04-2011
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arclein
"The Maqar Civilization is a very advanced civilization of the Neolithic period. This site shows us clearly, the roots of the domestication of horses 9,000 years ago."
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Chocolate Provides Huge Protection Against Cardiovascular Disease.
09-04-2011
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arclein
For each of seven studies that were analyzed, the research team compared the group with the highest chocolate consumption against the group with the lowest consumption (to minimize bias, they factored in differences in the way each study had been des
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robert klein
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
US Official refused to believe that the woman was a professional racer refuses woman driver entry.
009-03-2011
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rt.com
De Silvestro tried to come into the United States last week to participate at the IndyCar race in Sonoma, California. An agent working for US Customs became concerned over frequent trips from country to country that the 23-year-old racer had been tak
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Libya
Files Note Close C.I.A. Ties to Qaddafi Spy Unit
09-02-2011
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NY Times
Documents found at the abandoned office of Libya’s former spymaster appear to provide new details of the close relations the Central Intelligence Agency shared with the Libyan intelligence service " most notably suggesting that the Americans sent ter
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
First Graders Handcuffed At Chicago School, Told They Were Going To Prison: Lawsuit
09-02-2011
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Huffington Post
The family of a first grade Chicago Public Schools student who was reportedly handcuffed and told he was going to prison for talking during class filed a lawsuit against the school district this week, and an attorney for the family says he wasn't the
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Opinion • Arizona's Top News
Pearce Fundraiser Info
09-02-2011
Becky Fenger
If you support conservative patriots isn’t Senate President Russell Pearce number one on your list? We have joined Larry Wendt, owner of the Buffalo Chip Saloon and Steakhouse (BCS&SH) in sponsoring a fund raiser for Russell Pearce.
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Tracking Gold
Doug Hornig
Recently, we’ve received a number of emails from readers asking why the primary gold ETF, SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE:GLD), doesn’t more closely track the price of gold, and other related questions.
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News Link • Housing
Cui Bono: Obama readies another mortgage bailout
09-01-2011
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CapitolHillBlue.com
“It’s a political hail Mary. It’s unclear why they want to throw a monkey wrench into a $5 trillion market,” said John Kerschner, head of securitized products at Janus Capital Group in Denver. He said the net benefits for the economy are negligible..
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Jack Gregson
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