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Date Sent: 2010-08-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, August 4, 2010 PM edition |
Iran's Ahmadinejad blast near motorcade -- Photojournalist entrusted with last roll of Kodachrome
Capitol cops: OK to hang senators in effigy, just don’t beat them -- Remains of John the Baptist found in Bulgaria? -- World oil prices approach $82 -- "After 22 Years in Congress, Ron Paul Still Sticking to his Guns" -- Ron Paul: Repeal the War on Drugs, Just like We Repealed Prohibition -- Lawsuit challenges airport full-body scanners -- Sibel Edmonds Documentary - Kill The Messenger -- Rangel's Slavery Bill Exposed -- Pentagon: Rolling Stone writer whose article ended General's career denied embed request -- 14-year-old Dutch sailor girl heads out to sea -- Should Videotaping the Police Really Be a Crime? -- That Vast Intelligence Buildup is to Oil Pentagon War Machine -- Personal Bankruptcy Filings up 9% in July
-- Justin Raimondo: The War Party Who are they? What are they? --
Voters boot ex-Detroit mayor's mom from Congress -- Israeli soldiers
were in Israel during Lebanon clash: U.N. -- BP plugs well with mud; feds say much of oil gone
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Iran's Ahmadinejad unhurt after blast near motorcade
08-04-2010
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Reuters
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was unharmed by an attack with a homemade explosive device on his motorcade during a visit to the western city of Hamadan. Ahmadinejad's convoy was targeted as he was traveling from Hamadan's airport
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Inventions
The end of an era - Photojournalist is entrusted with the last roll of Kodachrome film.
08-04-2010
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Associated Press
Betting its future on digital photography, Kodak discontinued the slide and motion-picture film with a production run last August in which a master sheet nearly a mile long was cut up into more than 20,000 rolls.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Activism
Digital Paint Roller
08-04-20
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PitchforksAtTheGate.com
The txtBOMBER is a one-hand-guerillia-tool " a machine not much bigger than a pressing iron " that generates political statements on the fly and immediately prints them on any flat surface.
If you feel you are part of our modern viewless generation,
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Andre Campos
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News Link • Archaeology
Remains of John the Baptist found in Bulgaria?
08-04-2010
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cnn.com
Archaeologists in Bulgaria claim they have found remains of John the Baptist while excavating the site of a 5th century monastery on the Black Sea island of Sveti Ivan.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Capitol cops: OK to hang senators in effigy, just don’t beat them
08-04-2010
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Ron Brynaert via the raw story
"The Capitol Police are fairly jaded about protests, but they get a bit more careful when it comes to pretending to hang a member of Congress," Ambreen Ali noted at Congress.org on Friday.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
They First Make Mad: Summertime Tales of National Bankruptcy
08-04-2010
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Charles Goyette via LewRockwell.com
Perhaps it’s because the daylight lingers, but the season seems especially revealing of the madness of those who have the nation staring into the abyss of bankruptcy. Among the summer’s disclosures is news that the monetary authorities have topped th
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
World oil prices approach $82
08-04-2010
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Breitbart.com
Oil prices stretched towards 82 dollars per barrel on Tuesday, on the back of buoyant market sentiment, the weak dollar and hurricane concerns in the US Gulf of Mexico, analysts said.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Houston TV on Ron & Rand: "After 22 Years in Congress, Ron Paul Still Sticking to his Guns"
08-04-2010
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ryanj0772 via DailyPaul.com
Ron Paul, a mild-mannered grandfather from Lake Jackson, has been in Congress for 22 years"but he doesn’t have any kind words for politicians
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Lawsuit challenges airport full-body scanners
08-04-2010
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Katie Johnston Chase via boston.com
A privacy advocacy group is suing the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of the controversial full-body scanners employed at airports across the country, including at every major checkpoint at Logan International Airport.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Drug War
Ron Paul: Repeal the War on Drugs -- Just like We Repealed Prohibition
08-04-2010
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YouTube
During a speech in support of the "Fair Sentencing Act" Ron Paul called for a repeal of the entire War on Drugs. (My Man! - Ed)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • TERRORISM
Sibel Edmonds Documentary - Kill The Messenger
08-04-2010
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Google Video
Sibel Edmonds, a 32-year-old Turkish-American, was hired as a translator by the FBI shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 because of her knowledge of Middle Eastern languages. She was fired less than a year later in March 2002 for
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Popular Dutch military can't afford new recruits
08-04-2010
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Reuters
The Dutch military is one of the country's more respected institutions, and the all-volunteer force regularly advertises for new soldiers in all branches. It is also unionized, which is why ads often promote taking a "job" with the military.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Why the Intelligence Community Needs GAO Oversight
07-29-2010
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Julian Sanchez
Under the threat of a veto by President Obama, the committee stripped from the 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act a provision that would have clarified the authority of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review U.S. intelligence agencies.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Media: Internet
Rangel's Slavery Bill Exposed
08-04-2010
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RealityReport.TV
In this edition Gary Franchi zooms in on Charlie Rangel's Slavery Bill, HR 5741 and Nina Police presents video of Congressman Stark's admission of Federal Power. She also brings you the memo that exposes the US Immigration Service's backdoor amnes
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pentagon: Rolling Stone writer whose article ended McChrystal's career denied embed request
08-04-2010
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AP
The author of the Rolling Stone article that ended the military career of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former top commander in Afghanistan, has been denied permission to join U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Defending Archimedes
14-year-old Dutch sailor girl heads out to sea
08-04-2010
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AP
Fourteen-year-old Laura Dekker hopped onto her boat and sailed off from the Netherlands hoping to become the youngest person to make a solo voyage around the world. Laura won a legal battle when a court released her from the guardianship of CPS
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Should Videotaping the Police Really Be a Crime?
08-04-2010
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Time magazine
Anthony Graber, a Maryland Air National Guard staff sergeant, faces up to 16 years in prison. His crime? He videotaped his March encounter with a state trooper who pulled him over for speeding on a motorcycle. Then Graber posted the video
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
That Vast Intelligence Buildup is to Oil Pentagon War Machine
08-01-2010
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Sherwood Ross
We now have 1,271 agencies employing more than 854,000 payrollers -- makes no sense, until one recognizes that this vast development must be for offensive, not defensive, purposes.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - International
21 killed in cattle raid in Southern Sudan
08-04-2010
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AP
A cattle raid in Southern Sudan possibly sparked by the region's high bride price " 100 cows or more " left 21 people dead, an official said. Cattle raiders attempted to steal hundreds of cattle from a camp in Southern Sudan's Yirol East region, but
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A Very Graphic Guide To The Horrendous State Of The US Jobs Market
08-04-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
So to help you prepare for this Friday, we've assembled some key charts showing the current state of the US labor market, which, yes, remains horrendous.
Let's take a look.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Personal Bankruptcy Filings up 9% in July
08-04-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The 137,698 consumer bankruptcies filed in July represented a 9 percent increase nationwide over the 126,434 filings recorded in July 2009, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), relying on data...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Justin Raimondo: The War Party
Who are they? What are they?
08-04-2010
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AntiWar.com
They are immune to argument, unable and unwilling to understand how militarism and imperialism are killing us and dragging us down into financial and moral bankruptcy. Sprung from the nexus of economics and foreign interventionism...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Oaficials weighs options to replace popped balloon dam
08-04-2010
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Arizona Republic
Whatever the price, Tempe officials say they have no choice but to honor their long-term contractual commitments to the lake after making deals for a hotel, offices and condominiums with the assurance they would have lakefront views.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Voters boot ex-Detroit mayor's mom from Congress
08-04-2010
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AP
Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, the mother of the imprisoned ex-mayor of Detroit, lost her bid for an eighth term with a Democratic primary defeat Tuesday.
The 65-year-old Detroit congresswoman conceded the race to State Sen. Hansen Clarke of Detr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israeli soldiers in Israel during Lebanon clash: U.N.
08-04-2010
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Reuters
UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon determined Israeli soldiers were operating inside Israel at the onset of deadly border clashes with Lebanese troops that have raised fears of wider conflict. A day after a senior Israeli officer, 2 Lebanese soldiers
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
BP plugs well with mud; feds say much of oil gone
08-04-2010
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AP
BP claimed a key victory in the effort to plug its blown-out well and the government said much of the spilled oil is gone"though what's left is still at least quadruple the amount that poured from the Exxon Valdez.
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News Link • Archaeology
Ancient Structures
08-04-2010
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arclein
Yet any evidence will be concentrated in the last decades of that society’s presence. There are exceptions, most notably in Mesopotamia where it was as easy to make bricks as it was to work with failed bricks. Again it is an exception.
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robert klein
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News Link • TERRORISM
Palin Criticizes Planned Mosque on WTC Site
08-04-2010
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arclein
An hour later the former Alaska governor added: “Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing.”
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Quantum Mechanics Flummoxes Physicists Again
08-04-2010
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arclein
It suggests that the present theory is a good description of our physical world and that we have to work harder to understand its fundamental message."
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robert klein
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