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Date Sent: 2012-10-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 1, 2012 AM edition |
Army secretly sprayed St Louis with 'radioactive' particles for YEARS to test chemical warfare
What is a Bitcoin Bank Note? -- Bitcoin: The First Five Questions -- Spain's debt to rise to 90.5% of GDP in 2013 -- The Untold Story Behind The "Fast and Furious" Scandal -- 10-01-12 -- Gabriel Mueller - Edward Forchion - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Defense, DNA and the Death Penalty -- Witnesses contradict Border Patrol’s account of fatal shooting -- US military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000 after 11 years of war --
TSA Confiscates Camera from man Recording Checkpoint -- 5 Are Dead After Clash Between U.S. and Afghan Troops --
What Americans Used to Think of Invaders -- Gaddafi was killed by
French secret serviceman on orders of Nicolas Sarkozy, sources claim --
Invisibility, No Brake Lights, Ads Everywhere: The Future Of
Self-Driving Cars -- UNBELIEVABLE: Broker in Drunken Stupor Moves Oil
Markets to 8 Month High -- 4409; Chaos erupts at GOP LD25 meeting in Mesa.....kicked out for filming...WTF -- Dental Composites for Kids: Even Worse Than Mercury Amalgam?
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News Link • Government
Army secretly sprayed St Louis with 'radioactive' particles for YEARS to test chemical warfa
09-30-2012
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Daily Mail
The United States Military conducted top secret experiments on the citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, for years, exposing them to radioactive compounds, a researcher has claimed.
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News Link • Wallet Voting
What is a Bitcoin Bank Note?
09-30-2012
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http://donttreadonmeme.com
Is short its a flashy way of trading small amounts of bitcoins in a physical way. These "Bit-Notes" are NOT the safest way of storring your bitcoins but it dose make a great way of giving someone their first bitcoins attached to some great looking gr
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Drew
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News Link • Wallet Voting
Bitcoin " The First Five Questions
09-30-2012
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http://blog.bitinstant.com
I recently received five questions from a radio host, and I thought his five questions were very apt " these are emblematic of the questions most people ask. It seemed appropriate and useful to make these answers public. Every journalist and curious
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Spain's debt to rise to 90.5% of GDP in 2013
09-30-2012
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AP
Spain's public debt will reach 90.5% of its gross domestic product in 2013 with its new austerity budget, according to government documents. Spain also revised its debt ratio forecast for this year to 85.5% of GDP, up from 79.8%.
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Untold Story Behind The "Fast and Furious" Scandal
09-30-2012
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ABC News (video)
Univision's Investigative Unit has identified massacres committed using guns from the ATF operation, including the killing of 16 young people attending a party in a residential area of Ciudad Juárez in January of 2010.
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News Link • Death Penalty
Defense, DNA and the Death Penalty
9-30-2012
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Free Press Publications
Terrance Williams has spent the last 26 years on Pennsylvania's death row for the June 1984 beating death of Amos Norwood. Philadelphia Daily News reports, “Williams' defense team argued in an emergency evidentiary hearing that Norwood molested Wil
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Witnesses contradict Border Patrol’s account of fatal shooting
09-30-2012
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Rawstory
The US Border Patrol’s account of a fatal shooting in San Diego has been called into question by witnesses. Authorities said a plainclothes agent shot Valeria Alvarado after she rammed him with her car while he was serving a warrant.
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News Link • Afghanistan
US military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000 after 11 years of war
09-30-2012
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AP
The killing of an American serviceman in an exchange of fire with allied Afghan soldiers pushed U.S. military deaths in the war to 2,000, a cold reminder of the perils that remain after an 11-year conflict that now garners little public interest at h
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Confiscates Camera from man Recording Checkpoint
09-30-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
On one hand, there are no photo or video restrictions at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints, as much as many screeners act otherwise. Puerto Rico has its own constitution and laws that might not always reflect those of the United Stat
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News Link • Chemtrails
Why in the world are there so many signs?
09-30-2012
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Chris Haskell - Real News Tucson
It looks like someone's got a lot of work ahead of them to get these damn signs down! And hurry.... before the damn truth gets out there! He He He! Yes my friend, it looks like the truth is getting out there and I'll bet it only would take ONE Per
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News Link • Afghanistan
5 Are Dead After Clash Between U.S. and Afghan Troops
09-30-2012
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New York Times
Only 2 days after joint operations between American and Afghan forces were said to be returning to normal, 5 people " 2 Americans and 3 Afghans " were killed when a pitched battle broke out between soldiers of the 2 sides, American and Afghan officia
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News Link • Foreign Policy
What Americans Used to Think of Invaders
09-30-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Astonishing, isn’t it, that so many Americans expect other nations to sit back and take it when Our Rulers invade. Those benighted foreigners should thank “our boys” for “liberating” them rather than obsess over the slaughtered
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News Link • Libya
Gaddafi was killed by French secret serviceman on orders of Nicolas Sarkozy, sources claim
09-30-2012
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Daily Mail
The motive, according to well-placed sources in the North African country, was to stop Gaddafi being interrogated about his highly suspicious links with Sarkozy, who was President of France at the time.
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News Link • Transportation
Invisibility, No Brake Lights, Ads Everywhere: The Future Of Self-Driving Cars
09-30-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
Following news that California has legalized autonomous cars, the legendary ex-BMW design chief Chris Bangle shares his thoughts on what's next for auto design.
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News Link • Energy
UNBELIEVABLE: Broker in Drunken Stupor Moves Oil Markets to 8 Month High
09-30-2012
On June the 30th 2009 oil mysteriously jumped by more than $1.50 a barrel during the night, to reach its highest price in eight months. The amazing, true cause of this price spike has now been released by a Financial Services Authority investigation
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News Link • Food
Seven Tips For Creating a Successful Organic Vegetable Garden
09-30-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Aurora Geib
There is nothing like enjoying the fruits of your labor, literally!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Cholesterol Behind The Numbers: Facts Your Doctors Don’t Tell You
09-30-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Raluca Schachter
You got your blood test results back and you found out your cholesterol level is 300!
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
Netanyahu Backs Off on Iran
09-29-2012
Ray McGovern
Netanyahu’s stunt with the poster also brought to mind Secretary of State Colin Powell’s infamous war speech in 2003 when he displayed crude graphics depicting imaginary mobile chemical weapons labs in Iraq.
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News Link • NATO
Military Report Shows Afghan Surge Complete Failure
09-29-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
The Taliban insurgency is as strong as ever, Kabul is weak, and overall violence has not subsided.
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News Link • Surveillance
Dotcom May Reap Bitter Fruits From Being a Pioneer
09-29-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has apologized to Kim Dotcom after a report from the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security found that the government illegally monitored the Megaupload founder.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TERRORISM
How I Convicted A Man For Helping Terrorists Who Now Aren't Terrorists
09-28-2012
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retrospect, I should add "sort of."
The man " let's call him "Bob" " ran an immigration services business, and was helping people secure legal residence in the United States through various forms of fraud, including fraudulent asylum applications
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Calls for crime lab to shut down amid more evidence doubts
09-28-2012
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As questions about the St. Paul police crime lab spread to fingerprint evidence, top defense attorneys say the lab needs to shut down entirely until it can prove that its work is reliable.
The lab already suspended drug testing in July after empl
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News Link • TERRORISM
Iraqi-American is imprisoned by US for saving his family from US sanctions
09-28-2012
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The Guardian
Dr. Shakir Hamoodi, an Iraqi-American nuclear engineer who just began a 3-year prison sentence at the Fort Leavenworth, Kansas penitentiary for the "crime" of sending sustenance money to his impoverished, sick, and suffering relatives in Iraq
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News Link • Food
The war on free advice - by George Will
09-28-2012
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North Carolina is giving Steve Cooksey some choices. He can stop speaking. Or he can get a PhD in nutrition, or a medical degree, or a bachelor’s degree in nutrition and then pass an examination after completing a 900-hour clinical internship. Or he
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News Link • Death Penalty
Louisiana death-row inmate Damon Thibodeaux exonerated with DNA evidence
09-28-2012
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Washington Post
A little after 4 a.m. on July 21, 1996, Damon Thibodeaux, a deckhand on a Mississippi River workboat, cracked at the end of a nine-hour interrogation and confessed to the brutal rape and murder of his 14-year-old step-cousin, Crystal Champagne.
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News Link • Syria
Syria: The Strange US/Israel/Al-Qaeda Ménage à Trois
09-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
A little more than a week after the extremists linked to Al-Qaeda by our own US government set up and murdered Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that the United States would send an additional $45 mil
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Convicted TSA Officer Reveals Secrets of Thefts at Airports
09-28-2012
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ABC News (video)
A convicted TSA security officer says he was part of a "culture" of indifference that allowed corrupt employees to prey on passengers' luggage and personal belongings with impunity, thanks to lax oversight and tip-offs from TSA colleagues.
"It wa
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GDP Growth Under 2 Percent
09-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
You need 2.5% to get anything even resembling enough growth to actually add real employment. GDP number includes growth in government spending too, so private-sector growth is even more anemic than 1.3% implies.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
A Top Law School's Email Gaffe Reveals Just How Bad Things Look For Its Grads
09-28-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Erin Fuchs
George Washington University's law school got some bad press this summer when its dean made noises about reducing a stipend for unemployed graduates.
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News Link • World News
World Health Organizaton Mulls First “World Tax”
09-28-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by McWilly
Read that headline. Now read it again. The World Health Organization is mulling the first “World Tax” on cigarettes.
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News Link • Surveillance
All Your Private Data Are Belong To Obama
09-28-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
When it comes to spying, eavesdropping on its citizens as well as the complete invasion of American privacy, the first thing that comes to mind is the Patriot ACT and Dubya.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
"Gospel of Jesus' wife" fragment is a fake, Vatican says
09-28-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Naomi O'Leary
An ancient papyrus fragment which a Harvard scholar says contains the first recorded mention that Jesus may have had a wife is a fake, the Vatican said on Friday.
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News Link • Surveillance
Smart meter data shared far and wide
09-28-2012
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Vince Chadwick, Craig Butt, Henrietta Cook
DETAILED information about electricity customers' power usage, which gives insights into when a house is occupied, is being shared with third parties including mail houses, debt collectors, data processing analysts and government agencies.
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News Link • Iraq
The Arab Spring Becomes a Western Winter by Andrew P. Napolitano
09-28-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Andrew P. Napolitano
The revised stated purpose behind President George W. Bush’s invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq was to build a new world order by forcing democracy on populations to whom it was truly alien.
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Opinion • Politics: Republican Campaigns
This Is Insanity!
09-28-2012
Chuck Baldwin
If Mitt Romney has proven anything, it is that his word means absolutely nothing. Nothing! Romney is an opportunistic chameleon who will say anything or do anything to get elected. Yet, this is the man whom conservatives trumpet as the savior of Amer
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News Link • Military
A decade ago a boy, Omar Khadr, was sent to Guantánamo. Send him home
09-28-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Jo Griffin
Canada's foot-dragging over repatriating Khadr is the latest episode in the abandonment of a child caught up in combat
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Declassified Documents Reveal US Military Designated Assange ‘Enemy of State’
09-28-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
This is the same designation held by al-Qaeda, and it means that Assange could be killed or detained without trial
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News Link • Political Theory
They Have Rigged The System to Ensure Fraud: Tom Woods Speaks with Infowars
09-28-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is the New York Times bestselling author of 11 books.
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News Link • Economy - International
Paul Craig Roberts: America, The Next Banana Republic
09-28-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Alex welcomes American economist and Infowars contributing writer Paul Craig Roberts to discuss the impact of Eurpoean austerity measures on world markets amidst ongoing riots.
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News Link • Food
Whole Foods knowingly engages in massive GMO deception, says undercover video by ‘Organic Spies’
09-28-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mike Adams
Whole Foods deceives consumers into unknowingly buying GMOs while financially supporting a GMO supply chain that ultimately enriches Monsanto, charges an explosive new undercover sting video released by Organic Spies. (Link below.)
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News Link • Activism
National Opt Out Week: The New Anti-TSA Campaign
09-28-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
This Thanksgiving, Infowars.com is giving thanks for the First Amendment, by getting back in the faces of those who are attempting to abuse their authority to silence free speech and in turn conceal flagrant abuses of our rights and our basic dignity
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