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Date Sent: 2010-07-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 9, 2010 |
Spy swap unfolds with guilty pleas by 10 and deportation -- China rules out dumping T-bills
Four spies Russia freed have little in common with swap counterparts -- Officer convicted in Calif. train station killing -- Detroit teachers to principals: We don’t need you -- 'Tan tax' discussions include racism -- Is Barbara Boxer in serious trouble in California? -- Companies Brace for End of Cheap Made-in-China Era -- Obama’s New Health Care Czar: “We Must Redistribute Wealth” -- Supreme Federal Tyranny for Arizona! -- Harvard Professor: ‘Exploit Gulf Disaster For Carbon Tax’
Freedom Summit 2010
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Spy swap unfolds with guilty pleas by 10 in NYC and deportation
07-08-2010
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AP
A judge in New York has ordered 10 defendants who admitted acting as Russian spies deported from the United States in a swap that results in four spies being released by Russia.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Russia-US spy swap appears to be in motion
07-08-2010
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Yahoo News
The largest Russia-U.S. spy swap since the Cold War appeared to be in motion Thursday, with a Russian convicted of spying for the United States reportedly plucked from a Moscow prison and flown to Vienna.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
China rules out ‘nuclear option’ on T-bills
07-08-2010
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Financian Times
China has delivered a qualified vote of confidence in the dollar and US financial markets, ruling out the “nuclear option” of dumping its huge holdings of US government debt accumulated over the last decade.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Four spies Russia freed have little in common with swap counterparts
07-08-2010
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Washington Post
Three of the four whom Russia traded for them were professionals -- once successful career officers in the Russian intelligence service.
One had been convicted of being a double agent for the United States, and another pleaded guilty to giving KGB
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Another round of Prohibition, anyone? - by George F. Will
07-08-2010
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Washington Post
Daniel Okrent's darkly hilarious "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" recounts how Americans abolished a widely exercised private right -- and condemned the nation's fifth-largest industry -- in order to make the nation more heavenly. Then a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Officer convicted in Calif. train station killing
07-08-2010
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AP
A white former transit officer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in the videotaped shooting death of an unarmed black man on an Oakland train platform in an encounter that set off days of rioting in the city.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Racism
'Tan tax' discussions include allegations of reverse racism
07-08-2010
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Washington Post
The case can seem deceptively simple: Since patrons of tanning salons are almost exclusively white, the tax will be almost entirely paid by white people and, therefore, violates their constitutional right to equal protection under the law.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
RUN RON RUN! PAUL/JOHNSON in 2012!
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www.varight.com
CNN's report of Cong. Ron Paul's speech in Iowa was favorable and exciting. Cong. Paul needs to ask Gov. Gary Johnson to be his running mate at the beginning of the campaign and run together: A liberty ticket. Run Ron Run! Paul/Johnson 2012!
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Detroit teachers to principals: We don’t need you
07-08-2010
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The Upshot
What if teachers starting running the schools where they taught?
That's what a group of educators at Barbara Jordan Elementary are going to find out next year, when they open their Detroit charter school without a principal in charge. The school w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Is Barbara Boxer in serious trouble in California?
07-08-2010
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The Upshot
California Sen. Barbara Boxer is quickly becoming one of the Democrats’ most vulnerable incumbents ahead of the November midterms. A new Field Poll finds Boxer narrowly leading former Hewlett-Packard chief Carly Fiorina in her bid for re-election, 47
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Companies Brace for End of Cheap Made-in-China Era
07-08-2010
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AP
Factory workers demanding better wages and working conditions are hastening the eventual end of an era of cheap costs that helped make southern coastal China the world's factory floor.
A series of strikes over the past two months have been a rude
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Georgia claims it has world's oldest person, 130
07-08-2010
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Yahoo News
Authorities in the former Soviet republic of Georgia claim a woman from a remote mountain village turned 130 on Thursday, making her the oldest person on Earth.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF presses US to cut debt
07-08-2010
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Yahoo News
The balance between spending to stimulate the economy and putting budgets in order has vexed countries around the world as the recovery has looked more and more precarious.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Infographic: Earth's Atmosphere Top to Bottom
07-08-2010
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Our Amazing Planet
The air you breathe is precious, and the farther from Earth's surface you go, the less there is. But Earth's atmosphere extends farther into space than you might realize, affecting the orbits of spacecraft more than 200 miles high.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Effects of a Brazilian oil spill 10 years on
07-08-2010
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Al Jazeera
It was here 10 years ago that 1.3 million litres of oil leaked from an underwater pipeline smothering in oil birds, sandy beaches, and much of the mangrove swaps that surround Guanabara Bay.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
Deadly attacks target Iraq pilgrims
07-08-2010
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Al Jazeera
At least 70 people have been killed in Baghdad in a wave of bombings targeting Shia Muslim pilgrims over the past three days, security sources say.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
Wish You Weren't Here
07-08-2010
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Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Obama uses NASA to reach out to the Muslim world, while plans to build more mosques in America spark outrage.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
An Energy Bill Wrapped in an Enigma
07-08-2010
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Mother Jones
The new package is supposed to be finalized next week. So why doesn’t anyone know anything about it?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How to Profit on the Road to National Serfdom
07-08-2010
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Dan Amoss/Whiskey and Gunpowder
Austrian theory acknowledges both the “seen” and the “unseen” effects of government policy, while Keynesian theory ignores the unseen in the pursuit of managing this thing we call “GDP” at all costs.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Daniel Okrent on the Daily Show
07-08-2010
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Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Daniel Okrent believes the lesson to be learned from Prohibition is that the government can't legislate against people's appetites.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumer Credit Plunges In May, April Revised Much Lower
07-08-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The biggest hit was, as usual, experienced by revolving credit accounts, which fell by a 10.5 annualized rate to $830.8 billion, from $838.2 billion in April, and just north of $910 billion a year earlier. The bottom line is that consumers retrench..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
All They Want To Do Is Take Your Money… and Car!
07-08-2010
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CameraFRAUD - The Cameras are Coming Down
Our favorite Redflex/Arizona Republic corp-media hybrid drone (“reporter”) Michael Ferraresi covers the City of Phoenix’s new scheme to use intrusive license plate recognition in combination with watch lists of those suspected of not paying parking t
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David Alpha
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News Link • Politics
Who is Brian Miller?
07-08-2010
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Brian Miller for Congress
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InztaA5QVjg&feature=channel
This is a video on You Tube showing you exactly who Brian Miller is and what he will stand for in Congress! Brian Miller is the Freedom Candidate running for congress in Arizona's District
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Chris Haskell
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News Link • Propaganda
Liars: Labor Department Makes Up Unemployment Numbers for Five States
07-08-2010
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economicedge.blogspot.com/
Hmmm… “Five states had to be estimated… including California?” That’s interesting how a real number increase of 22,560 turns into a seasonally adjusted decrease. The week ending July 3 was a full week. It will be interesting to see how they manipulat
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
The Crumpets Take Manhattan
07-08-2010
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Daily Show with Jon Stewart
America should buy the Queen of England so she can do odd jobs like mow lawns, sell hot dogs or be the Shake Weight spokesperson.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
Obama’s New Health Care Czar: “We Must Redistribute Wealth”
07-08-2010
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Prison Planet
“Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Positive News
Supreme Federal Tyranny for Arizona!
07-08-2010
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RealityReport.TV
In this edition, Gary takes a look at the recent lawsuit the federal government has brought against Arizona regarding their immigration law and special guest Tom Woods, author of the new book "Nullification" breaks down the Supremacy Clause. Michae
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Environment
Harvard Professor: ‘Exploit Gulf Disaster For Carbon Tax’
07-08-2010
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Prison Planet
Bilderberger Rogoff openly embraces nightmare scenario of hurricanes pushing oil onshore as a way of “exploiting tragedy” to create political momentum behind Obama’s dreaded green economy
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Donna Hancock
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