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Date Sent: 2011-07-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, July 4, 2011 Holiday issue |
Qaddafi Warns of Carrying Out Attacks in Europe -- Greece needs Herculean reforms to secure bailout
Leader of Pima County's GOP faces removal effort for criticizing
murderous SWAT raid -- Thai election brings hope of stability -- GOP Senators propose alternatives to U.S. dollar -- Greek coastguard intercepts Gaza ship: activist -- Cantor could rake in windfall if debt ceiling isn't raised -- IMF Raped Maid's Lawyer Fires Back -- Colonizing Libya by Military, Financial, Political and Propaganda Terrorism -- Independence Day Hypocrisy -- Toolkit: Gearing Up for a Fireworks Extravaganza -- U.S., state fireworks injuries down -- Happy Fourth! A guide to parades and fireworks -- Federal memo grim for Arizona's voter-approved medical marijuana system -- Anonymous, Food Not Bombs to test Orlando police Monday by feeding homeless -- Huge rare earth deposits found in Pacific: report -- How to Make Homemade Firecrackers -- Officer investigated for speaking his mind on St. Pete crime -- Florida state workers get pink slips, more cuts ahead -- How to Make Fireworks -- ‘Some Will Call Me a Torturer’: CIA Man Reveals Secret Jail --
DIY Fireworks Blow Away Factory-Made Displays -- A July Fourth Shame on
the Founders -- When Government Replaces God and Family - by Christine Smith
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Qaddafi Warns of Carrying Out Attacks in Europe
07-03-2011
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AP
The Libyans "are able to one day take this battle ... to Europe, to target your homes, offices, families, which would become legitimate military targets, like you have targeted our homes," Qaddafi said. "We can decide to treat you in a similar way,"
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News Link • New World Order
Greece needs Herculean reforms to secure bailout
07-04-2011
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Reuters
A warning from Eurogroup chairman that Greece will lose sovereignty and jobs to meet those criteria has enraged unions. Any suggestion of foreign intervention in running Greece is an incendiary issue that will make implementing reforms tougher.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Leader of Pima County's GOP faces removal effort for criticizing murderous SWAT raid
07-04-2011
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Arizona Daily Star
Pima County Republican Party leaders voted to take the party chairman’s keys to the headquarters away and call a special meeting to try to remove him from his post after he criticized a SWAT raid that resulted in the shooting death of a veteran
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Thai election brings hope of stability
07-04-2011
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Reuters
"I can assure that the military has no desire to stray out of its assigned roles," said General Prawit Wongsuwan, a former army chief close to military leaders involved in the 2006 coup that removed Thaksin. "The army accepts the election results,"
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News Link • Gold and Silver
GOP Senators propose alternatives to U.S. dollar
07-04-2011
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Rawstory
Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced legislation this week that would eliminate all taxes on gold and silver coins, elevating them from the status of "collectables" to "legal tender" of the same status as Federa
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Greek coastguard intercepts Gaza ship: activist
07-04-2011
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Reuters
The Greek coastguard intercepted a boat carrying U.S. activists soon after they set sail from Greece on Friday to join a pro-Palestinian flotilla to Gaza, one of the activists said.
The boat, dubbed "The Audacity of Hope," had just left Perama por
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Cantor could rake in windfall if debt ceiling isn’t raised
07-04-2011
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Rawstory
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-VA) latest financial disclosure statement indicates that he owns up to $15,000 of ProShares Trust Ultrashort 20+ Year Treasury EFT, a fund that will likely skyrocket as U.S. debt becomes less desirable.
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News Link • New World Order
IMF Raped Maid's Lawyer Fires Back
07-04-2011
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Rawstory
“Dominique Strauss-Kahn came out running out of one of those rooms naked, towards her and he grabbed her breasts first and started to attack her,” Thompson explained. “He then grabbed her vagina with so much force that he hurt her. He grabbed her vag
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Toolkit: Gearing Up for a Fireworks Extravaganza
07-03-2011
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Mike Olson via WIRED.com
When the sun goes down on July 4, Americans in more than a hundred cities will see the latest combustible pageantry from Fireworks by Grucci. The 160-year-old pyrotechnics firm has produced eye-popping explosions for everything
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News Link • Just For Fun!
U.S., state fireworks injuries down
07-03-2011
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MARIA ELENA BACA via StarTribune.com
Fireworks-related injuries in Minnesota seem to parallel a gradual national downward trend, according to a recent report from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. The trend is a reflection of greater caution in general
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Happy Fourth!
A guide to parades and fireworks
07-03-2011
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HometownAnnapolis.com
If you're looking for something fun to do today, we've got you covered with parades and fireworks.
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News Link • Drug War
Federal memo grim for Arizona's voter-approved medical marijuana system
07-03-2011
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Capitol Media Services
His agency has noticed that several states have enacted laws to allow “multiple large-scale, privately-operated industrial marijuana cultivation centers.’’ And Cole said some of these could have revenues of millions of dollars a year “based on the pl
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News Link • Activism
Anonymous, Food Not Bombs to test Orlando police Monday by feeding homeless
07-03-2011
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Rawstory
Keith McHenry, who helped found the group 30 years ago, was arrested last week and is still imprisoned. McHenry's view is that food is a right, not a privilege, so he and the group refused to abide by the law. In response to the arrests, Anonymous to
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News Link • Economy - International
Huge rare earth deposits found in Pacific: report
07-03-2011
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Reuters
Vast deposits of rare earth minerals have been discovered on the seabed of the Pacific Ocean amounting to 1,000 times those on land, media reported on Monday citing a study by Japanese researchers.
The deposits are estimated to amount to 100 billi
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News Link • How To
How to Make Homemade Firecrackers
07-03-2011
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Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D. via About.com
Firecrackers are extremely easy and inexpensive to make yourself. You may want to make your own firecrackers because you are interested in learning how to make simple fireworks or it may be you are unable to obtain fireworks where you live.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Officer investigated for speaking his mind on St. Pete crime
07-03-2011
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"I wouldn't come down here at night," Esposito said. That comment, made by Crisco the night of the robbery, was inadvertently relayed to his superior. The department then launched an investigation into "disparaging comments against the city."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Florida state workers get pink slips, more cuts ahead
07-03-2011
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Reuters
To patch a $4 billion budget hole, 1,600 Florida state government employees were laid off, and another 562,000 began paying into their pension plans for the first time in 37 years. The 1,600 are a very small fraction of the state's overall government
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
How to Make Fireworks
07-03-2011
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pudi.dk via Instructables.com
There are many types of fireworks, where one of the most common in firework displays is the aerial shell. The aerial shell is used in fireworks displays, and can be either a round or a cylindrical shape.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
‘Some Will Call Me a Torturer’: CIA Man Reveals Secret Jail
07-03-2011
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
Admitting that “some will call me a torturer” is a surefire way to cut yourself off from anyone’s sympathy. But Glenn Carle, a former CIA operative, isn’t sure whether he’s the hero or the villain of his own story.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
DIY Fireworks Blow Away Factory-Made Displays
07-03-2011
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Danielle Venton via WIRED.com
Some of the biggest, best and most innovative fireworks won’t be on display during the holiday. Instead, they’ll be tucked away in the garages and home workshops of hobbyists like Tom Niesen.
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Opinion • Israel
Ray McGovern: My Take
A July Fourth Shame on the Founders
07-03-2011
Ray McGovern
A group of American humanitarians and activists are still trying to make their way to Gaza in protest of the harsh Israeli embargo on the 1.6 million Palestinians confined there.
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News Link • Government
When Government Replaces God and Family
07-03-2011
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C.Smith/FFF.org
To Christians/believers in God -are you participating in idolatry of the state -waving the flag, displaying red/white/blue, pledging allegiance? For July 4, sharing a 2008 piece I wrote since many proclaiming "God" are vocal government worshipers.
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