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Date Sent: 2010-07-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, July 14, 2010 AM edition |
Six more policemen charged in Katrina killings -- US Appeals Court Strikes Down FCC Fines
Gulf gusher to keep flowing as cap test delayed -- Opponents pack hearing on mosque near Ground Zero -- WE THE PEOPLE: It’s time to trim our military budget -- NAACP Accuses Tea Party of Tolerating Bigotry -- Billboard Linking Obama, Hitler Draws Complaints --
Israeli military prepares to block Gaza-bound aid ship -- Empty Store
Shelves Coming to America -- ANOTHER GOP REPRESENTATIVE JOINS THE
ANTIWAR CAUSE! -- Papers Please: Only Main Stream Media Allowed To Cover Oil Disaster?
-- Shadowy $142 Billion More Borrowed in June Than Needed to Cover
Deficit -- China Green Dam web filter teams 'face funding crisis' -- Tom Woods: How to Resist Federal Tyranny -- Has the Gulf Spill Opened Pandora’s Box for Obama? - by Marin Katusa -- Repudiate Government Debt: A Modest Solution -- Suffer These Crimes in Oakland? Don't Call the Cops -- UN Treaty which Bans Guns reaches U.S. (Video Included)
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Six more policemen charged in Katrina killings
07-13-2010
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Reuters
Six more New Orleans police officers have been indicted in connection with the shooting deaths of two people and the wounding of four others who were walking on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005, the Justice Department said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Speech
Another Good Day for the 1st Amendment: US Appeals Court Strikes Down FCC Fines
07-13-2010
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Paul Levinson
For the second time in three years, the US Court of Appeals in NY has struck down FCC fines of broadcasters for fleeting expletives. The winds of freedom are starting to blow...
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Paul Levinson
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Gulf gusher to keep flowing as cap test delayed
07-13-2010
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McClatchy News
A pivotal moment in the Gulf oil crisis hit an unexpected snag Tuesday evening when officials announced they needed more time before they could begin choking off the geyser of crude at the bottom of the sea.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
How did Iranian nuclear scientist end up in Washington?
07-13-2010
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McClatchy News
An Iranian nuclear scientist who'd been missing for more than a year amid Iranian claims that the CIA had abducted him turned up at the Pakistani embassy in Washington after providing what a U.S. official said was "useful information"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Opponents pack hearing on mosque near Ground Zero
07-13-2010
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AP
Dozens of opponents and some supporters of a mosque planned near ground zero attended a raucous hearing Tuesday about whether the building where the Muslim place of worship would be created warrants designation as a city landmark and should be protec
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
WE THE PEOPLE: It’s time to trim our military budget
07-13-2010
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Joe Parko
The total federal budget for the 2011 fiscal year, which has to be voted by Congress by this Oct. 1, looks to be about $3 trillion. Total military spending of $1.26 trillion includes the Pentagon budget request of $721 billion, plus an estimated $220
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Obama Administration
NAACP Accuses Tea Party of Tolerating Bigotry
07-13-2010
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AP
Leaders of the country's largest civil rights organization accused tea party activists on Tuesday of tolerating bigotry and approved a resolution condemning racism within the political movement.
The resolution was adopted during the annual convent
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Billboard Linking Obama, Hitler Draws Complaints
07-13-2010
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AP
A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group that compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is drawing sharp criticism - even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Chupacabra speculation swirling in Hood County
07-13-2010
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Star-Telegram
Encounters with two hairless canines last week in northeast Hood County are stirring speculation that goat-sucking "chupacabras" have expanded into North Texas.
Or, according to a more scientific explanation, mange is infecting coyotes, robbing t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israeli military prepares to block Gaza-bound aid ship
07-13-2010
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McClatchy News
Israel's military on Tuesday prepared to stop a Libyan aid ship that's en route to try to breach Israel's sea blockade of the Gaza Strip.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said the navy had contacted the ship in the early morning hours, asking it to id
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Tanzanian newspaper reports that Obama has “origins from East Africa”
7/13/10
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The Post & Email
(Jul. 13, 2010) " An online newspaper based in Tanzania is reporting that “Barack Abdallah Husein Obama,” the “first black US president,” was born outside of the United States.
Written in broken English, the article notes that the President of the
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Governor of Arizona Message to Obama (Video) Did he get it?
07-13-2010
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The Real News
Earlier this month, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer met with President Obama to discuss the critical issue of border security. The Governor of Arizona personally relayed to the President the concerns of millions of Arizona citizens over the lack of secu
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The Real News
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News Link • Food
Empty Store Shelves Coming to America
07/13/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
video:
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
ANOTHER GOP REPRESENTATIVE JOINS THE ANTIWAR CAUSE!
071410
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www.varight.com
In a surprise, freshman Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah has voted to join Ron Paul and seven others to cut funding for the Afghan war! It's a sign of things to come! Encourage Rep. Chaffetz!
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Papers Please: Only Main Stream Media Allowed To Cover Oil Disaster?
07-13-2010
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RawStory.com
Thad Allen, said in a media advisory that due to equipment which had been "damaged", officials will attempt to "discriminate" between media and "somebody who's hanging around". The advisory did not specify what criteria would be used...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Shadowy $142 Billion More Borrowed in June Than Needed to Cover Deficit
07-13-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Once again, as has been the case over the past four years, the US borrowed far more in any deficit month, then it needed simply to close the deficit. Case in point, the June differential was $142.5 billion more borrowed than "needed"...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
China Green Dam web filter teams 'face funding crisis'
07-13-2010
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BBC News
Reports from China say a controversial government-backed software project to filter internet content could be on the brink of collapse.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • New World Order
Seven Congressman Deliver Seeds To Arctic Doomsday Vault over July 4th Weekend
07/13/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Why are our congressman spending their fourth of July weekends in the frozen arctic tundra putting seeds in a Doomsday Vault? Does this further the assumption of a new world order/global conspiracy? This vault rarely gets any attention by the mainstr
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Positive News
Tom Woods: How to Resist Federal Tyranny
07-16-2010
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RealityReport.TV
http://RealityReport.TV | http://RestoreTheRepublic.com | In this Special Interview, Gary sits down with New York Times Best Selling Author, Tom Woods to discuss his new book "Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century". Tom W
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Energy
Body as battery
07-13-2010
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Boing Boing
Obviously, our bodies generate heat"thermal energy. They also produce vibrations when we move"kinetic energy. Both forms of energy can be converted into electricity.
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Nick Barnett
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Feature Article • Energy
Has the Gulf Spill Opened Pandora’s Box for Obama?
Marin Katusa
The White House might be gaping in shock that the U.S. federal court overturned the six-month drilling moratorium, but it really isn’t all that surprising. Amid the finger pointing and political posturing, the Obama administration seems to have misse
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News Link • Housing
15 States Where Home Prices Fell In May: #1 Idaho - Prices down 6.6%
07-13-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Core Logic have released a report on May prices for single family homes. Overalll, home prices were up modestly year-over-year for the month. Buthe data is not pretty for many states along the Gulf of Mexico coast and in the Mid-Atlantic.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rail Traffic softens further in June: Can You Say Double Dip?
07-13-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
That said, an economy several months into a recovery from the worst recession in decades should be yielding rail traffic levels heading north, not south.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
6 Completely "Legal" Ways The Cops Can Screw You
07-13-2010
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Cracked.com
...Because civil forfeitures are so simple, over 40 percent of police executives admitted their budgets depend on cash from them. That means each year, those stations have a quota of forfeitures to fill and technically there is really no stopping the
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David Alpha
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News Link • Gun Rights
When Good People Carry Guns
07-13-2010
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Massas Ayoob
The permit (or license if you will; I steer clear of that particular semantic trap) to carry a concealed weapon has been the subject of much debate over the last few decades.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Carl Safina: The oil spill's unseen culprits, victims
07-13-2010
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TED.com
The Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much: it's bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood-boiling cross-examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf -- and many so-called solutions are ma
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Skydiver Plans Record-Breaking Supersonic Space Jump
07-13-2010
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Space
Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner is a step closer to attempting the feat after a series of recent high-altitude test jumps. He plans to make his ambitious jump attempt later this year. Starting in the stratosphere at 120,000 feet above the ground
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Just For Fun!
10 Things Every Woman Should Know About a Man's Brain
07-13-2010
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LiveScience.com
Most popular notions about the male brain are based on studies of men ages 18 to 22 -- undergrads subjecting themselves to experiments for beer money or course credit. But a man's brain varies tremendously over his life span, quickly contradicting th
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Afghanistan
Obama: Tell Americans the Truth About Afghanistan
07-13-2010
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Eric Margolis via The Huffington Post
Goodbye, fire-breathing Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and your Special Forces "mafia," who were supposed to crush Afghan resistance to western occupation.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Food
Cheeseburger in Paradise!
07-13-2010
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Farm Wars
Texas cattle drinking water from drilling waste sludge pits. This is an under-regulated problem that we simply ignore, but to actually force drilling companies to be accountable for their actions? FAT CHANCE!
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sagging global growth requires us to act
07-13-2010
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Ian Bremmer and Nouriel Roubini via FT.com
It looks as if the global economy is heading for a serious slowdown this year. Emergency austerity programmes in some countries will put a drag on growth. Inventory adjustments will run their course.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Gun Rights
UN Treaty which Bans Guns reaches U.S. (Video Included)
07/13/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
On October 30 2009, the United States joined 152 countries in support of an "Arms Trade Treaty Resolution" (1), which establishes dates for a 2012 United Nations conference intended to strip American/global sovereignty by stripping citizens of thei
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Transportation
Porsche 918 Spyder: The $630K Hybrid
07-13-2010
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Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED
Porsche’s 918 hybrid is an impressive machine that promises superlative performance and a price to match " $630,000.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Woman Jailed for Texting Threats to Herself
07-13-2010
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David Kravets via WIRED
Consider the 25-year-old Southern California woman sentenced to a year in jail Friday after being convicted of sending hundreds of threatening text messages to herself " in a bid to get her former boyfriend and his sister-in-law arrested by blaming
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