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Date Sent: 2011-09-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, September 21, 2011 PM ed. |
Obama making final push against Palestinian state -- Fed looks set to ease policy as outlook dims
Probably innocent Troy Davis issues parting cry before execution -- Ron Paul says he'd consider putting Dennis Kucinich in his Cabinet -- Ex-Maricopa County Attorney Skips Ethics Trial as Defense Lawyers Imply Case Is Political Payback -- Mexico Hints at Drug Legalization Again -- Mortgage Twist Presents Fed With a Puzzle -- American Hikers Freed From Iranian Jail -- U.S. to build new massive prison in Bagram -- Santorum claims his ‘filthy’ Google results ‘have an impact on the country’ -- Gary Johnson Earns Debate Spot (libertarian philosophy everywhere) -- THE NEXT TRILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY: 3D Printing -- Banking for California's Future --IAEA meeting: Iran blames Israel for killing nuke scientists -- Private spaceship factory in California completed -- Bank of England, (Britain's version of the Fed) getting ready to print billions of pounds -- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - Ron Suskind "Confidence Men" -- Full Court Press to Deny Palestinians Statehood -- Georgia Board of Pardons Affirms State-Sponsored Murder -- Immigration Declines in USA
AZ: GOP Debate Thursday, Sept
22nd, 2011. Debate Party at Hancock's, 6 p.m. until ??
CA: Libertopia in San Diego October 21-23
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Obama making final push to blunt Palestinian bid
09-21-2011
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AP
Scrambling to head off a diplomatic clash, President Barack Obama will publicly push for the Palestinians to drop a statehood bid when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly today.
Obama will follow up his speech with separate meetings with Israel
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed looks set to ease policy as outlook dims
09-21-2011
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Reuters
The central bank appears likely to try to push long-term borrowing costs lower by rebalancing its $2.8 trillion portfolio of bond holdings to weight it more heavily to longer-term securities.
Such a move that would fly in the face of Republican ob
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Probably innocent Troy Davis issues parting cry before execution
09-21-2011
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AFP
Troy Davis, an American convicted two decades ago of killing an off-duty policeman, has urged opponents of the death penalty to fight on after he is executed Wednesday following a failed bid for clemency.
The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Par
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul says he'd consider putting Dennis Kucinich in his Cabinet
09-21-2011
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thehill.com
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) says he would consider putting the liberal congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) in his Cabinet if he were to win the presidency in 2012.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Ex-Maricopa County Attorney Skips Ethics Trial as Defense Lawyers Imply Case Is Political Payback
09-21-2011
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Their onetime boss was absent, but a former deputy Maricopa County attorney and another ex-lawyer from the office were present as a legal ethics trial began at the AZ Supreme Court over alleged misconduct perceived as a threat to the rule of law.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Mexico Hints at Drug Legalization Again
09-21-2011
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CATO Institute
Mexican President Felipe Calderón seems to be experiencing a dramatic change of mind regarding his war against drug cartels. Soon after a drug gang set fire to a casino in Monterrey a few weeks ago killing 52 people, Calderón told the media that “”If
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Mortgage Twist Presents Fed With a Puzzle
09-21-2011
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finance.yahoo.com
Lower interest rates don't automatically mean cheaper mortgages.
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
iPhone 5 Rumored to be Set for October Release
09-21-2011
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slatest.slate.com
The next generation cell phone will likely share the spotlight with the company’s new CEO.
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Iran
American Hikers Freed From Iranian Jail
09-21-2011
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slatest.slate.com
The two men were turned over to Omani diplomats who helped negotiate their release.
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. to build new massive prison in Bagram
09-21-2011
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www.salon.com
As the Obama administration announced plans for hundreds of billions of dollars more in domestic budget cuts, it late last week solicited bids for the construction of a massive new prison in Bagram, Afghanistan.
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Santorum claims his ‘filthy’ Google results ‘have an impact on the country’
09-21-2011
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RawStory.com
"R" presidential candidate Rick Santorum no doubt dislikes that he isn't topping any recent polls of the 2012 field, but he may dislike the thing that tops search results of his name even more. And now, he's asking search giant Google to do something
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gary Johnson Earns Debate Spot (libertarian philosophy everywhere)
09-21-2011
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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com
And so Mr. Johnson, a libertarian who favors the legalization of marijuana and is against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will stand on the stage with the other eight Republican candidates. A spokeswoman for Fox News confirmed the decision Tuesday
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
THE NEXT TRILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY: 3D Printing
09-21-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
To hear enthusiasts tell it, the technique of additive manufacturing, better known as 3D printing, has the potential to change not just manufacturing, but the world. Tomorrow, everyone will have a 3D printer on their desk and make their own sneakers
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Banking for California's Future
09-21-2011
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www.commondreams.org
Wall Street's not cutting it: California's legislature voted to do a feasibility study on establishing a state-owned bank.
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Iran
IAEA meeting: Iran blames Israel for killing nuke scientists
09-21-2011
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www.ynetnews.com
Tehran accuses Israel of killing nuclear experts, says will push for greater international condemnation of such practices;
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
Bank of England, (Britain's version of the Fed) getting ready to print billions of pounds
09-21-2011
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Reuters
Britain's economic prospects are deteriorating so swiftly that the Bank of England on Wednesday signaled it was on the verge of pumping in more money to support growth, potentially as soon as October.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Surveillance
FBI is on your cell phone. Do you care
09-20-2011
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WND
John Adams lost the 1800 presidential election to Thomas Jefferson in large part because Adams, in 1798, pushed through Congress the Alien and Sedition Acts that punished any of the new Americans who stirred up "sedition within the United States" by
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
09-20-2011
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www.ted.com
Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half a dozen big ideas from Western culture -- call them t
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - Ron Suskind "Confidence Men"
09-21-2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind discusses Barack Obama's evolution as a leader during the course of his presidency. (Inside the White House)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Immigration
Immigration Declines in USA
09-21-2011
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arclein
The number of Mexicans annually leaving Mexico for the U.S. declined from more than 1 million in 2006 to 404,000 in 2010 " a 60% reduction. Since 2008 naturalizations have dropped by 65% from North America, 24% from Asia and 28% for Europe. In fact t
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Tanzanian Mangrove Protection Pays off
09-21-2011
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arclein
Using advanced econometric techniques, Uchida combined data obtained from a survey of 150 residents living near the park with changes in mangrove cover near their communities. The analyses demonstrated that the number of people who reported shrimping
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Foldit Cracks AID Enzyme Problem
09-21-2011
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arclein
Developed in 2008 by the University of Washington, it is a fun-for-purpose video game in which gamers, divided into competing groups, compete to unfold chains of amino acids -- the building blocks of proteins -- using a set of online tools.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fukushima Reflections
09-21-2011
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arclein
In the article Deconstructing the zero-risk mindset: The lessons and future responsibilities for a post-Fukushima nuclear Japan, Tatsujiro Suzuki revisits the tragedy at the nuclear power station, and highlights a few of the most pressing -- and mo
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robert klein
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News Link • Media: Television
After Disclosures by WikiLeaks, Al Jazeera Replaces Its Top News Director
09-20-2011
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NY Times
Al Jazeera named a member of the Qatari royal family to replace its top news director after disclosures from WikiLeaks that the news director had modified the network’s coverage of the Iraq war in response to pressure from the United States.
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