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Date Sent: 2012-10-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 29, 2012 |
Watch Hurricane Sandy Live From Every Corner Of New York!
---- Micro-Drones Combined With DNA Hacking Could Create A Very Scary Future --- U.S. stock, option markets to be closed Monday -- Grand Central Terminal Is Completely Empty -- LATEST MAP AND NEWS ON HURRICANE SANDY -- We Cannot Overstate How Epic The Coming Week Is Going To Be -- Obama offered to reestablish full ties with Iran, Israeli paper reports -- Protests Over Chemical Plant Force Chinese Officials to Back Down -- I.B.M. Reports Nanotube Chip Breakthrough -- Teen Roughed up and Handcuffed for Photographing Mall Security Guards -- FISA needs to balance security and liberty -- Accusations against generals cast dark shadow over Army -- Vote for Nobody's Jim Babb at Democracy Unplugged (Publisher Recommended Video) -- FUTURE PLANS OF THE GLOBAL ELITE REVEALED -- Washington Times: Libertarian Johnson's first national ad slams warmongering over Iran -- Thanks Giving -- Chapter On Failed U.S. Education System Added To Textbook -- This Robot’s Offspring Will Clean Your Future Home -- A Global Bond Bubble Is Emerging That Professionals Never Could Have Imagined -- Jury Nullification Keeps NJ Weedman Out of Jail; DEA Comes Calling
RT to host final US presidential third-party debate Oct.
30th
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday;
Election Night Party - Hancock's - Libertarian Candidates & Activists
Invited - 6:30-11 p.m.
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Watch Hurricane Sandy Live From Every Corner Of New York!
10-28-2012
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www.businessinsider.com/watch-hurricane-sandy-live
Climate Adaptation's Michael Cote has pulled together a list of webcams from around New York City, New Jersey, Long Island and Virginia Beach so we can watch Hurricane Sandy unleash her fury on roads, buildings and trees from the safety of our own ho
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. stock, option markets to be closed Monday
10-28-2012
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http://www.marketwatch.com
All U.S. stock and option trading will be closed on Monday because of Hurricane Sandy, with the move adding to earlier plans to close floor trading only.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Micro-Drones Combined With DNA Hacking Could Create A Very Scary Future
10-28-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Sightings of insect-sized micro drones have been occurring for years, but combined with the direction of genome sequencing outlined in this Atlantic piece " the pair make for a futuristic and potentially deadly mix.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Grand Central Terminal Is Completely Empty
10-28-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Grand Central is empty. There are no trains on the departure board. The front door was locked after the last train left around 7 p.m. on Sunday
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
We Cannot Overstate How Epic The Coming Week Is Going To Be
10-28-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
The Frankenstorm that has consumed the media (in part because it's historic and in part because it's barreling straight for the center of the media) is going to be a story that dominates the first half of the week, at least.
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News Link • Iran
Obama offered to reestablish full ties with Iran, Israeli paper reports
10-28-2012
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Soon after he took office, President Obama began a process ultimately designed to reestablish full US diplomatic relations with Iran, including a reopening of embassies. The initiative, part of a wider shift in America’s diplomatic orientation, aimed
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Junk Bonds Grow More Popular and Turn Even Riskier
10-28-2012
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New York Times
Companies with junk credit ratings have been increasingly issuing bonds for riskier purposes that could hinder their ability to pay back bondholders. Demand for junk bonds has touched record levels this year as investors reach for their rich yields,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Protests Over Chemical Plant Force Chinese Officials to Back Down
10-28-2012
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New York Times
Officials in the city of Ningbo, China, promised to halt the expansion of a petrochemical plant after thousands of demonstrators clashed with the police during 3 days of protests that spotlighted the public’s mounting discontent with industrial pollu
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Sharp Warnings as Hurricane Churns In
10-28-2012
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New York Times
Hurricane Sandy, a menacing monster of a storm that forecasters said would bring “life-threatening” flooding, churned toward some of the nation’s most densely populated areas, prompting widespread evacuations and the shutdown of the New York City tra
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
I.B.M. Reports Nanotube Chip Breakthrough
10-28-2012
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New York Times
I.B.M. scientists are reporting progress in a chip making technology that is likely to ensure the shrinking of the size of the basic digital switch at the heart of modern microchips for more than another decade.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Teen Roughed up and Handcuffed for Photographing Mall Security Guards
10-28-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A 16-year-old aspiring journalist was handcuffed, arrested and banned from a Canadian shopping mall for six months because he snapped photos of security guards making an arrest.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
FISA needs to balance security and liberty
10-28-2012
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Washington Post
The Supreme Court will hear part of a suit from the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In addition to modernizing FISA, originally drafted in 1978, the ACLU and others
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Accusations against generals cast dark shadow over Army
10-28-2012
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Washington Post
A one-star general was flown home from Afghanistan this spring to face criminal charges, including sexual assault. A four-star general formerly in charge of the increasingly vital Africa command was accused of financial mismanagement, accepting inapp
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Election Night Party - Hancock's - Libertarian Candidates & Activists Invited - 6:30-11 p.m.
10-26-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Nov 6, 2012 - Libertarian Candidates Attending: Marc J Victor - U.S. Senate; Powell Gammill - Congress, District 9; Michael Kielsky - Maricopa County Attorney; We will have the returns playing on several T.V.'s/Computers inside and out (not that we r
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Food
Joel Salatin on Autocratic Institutions
10-28-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Farmer, author, and activist Joel Salatin discusses his new book, "Folks, This Ain't Normal," as well as sustainable farming, food policy, and solutions to America's food woes.
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News Link • Obama Administration
'Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?' Biden's bizarre question
10-28-2012
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Daily Mail
The father of one of the Navy SEALs who was killed in the Libya consulate attack has criticized the White House reaction to his son's death - especially a bizarre and obscene comment Joe Biden made to him.
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News Link • Politics
Presidential Election: What If Nobody Wins?
10-28-2012
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Free Press Publications
The Presidential election is just days away and the pundits are speculating about who will win and by what margin. Some talking heads are even saying that one candidate or another will act as a “spoiler” for one of the major party candidates in one o
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Vote for Nobody's Jim Babb at Democracy Unplugged (Publisher Recommended Video)
10-25-2012
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The International Libertarian
At this Democracy Unplugged (http://www.democracyunplugged.net/) forum for alternative parties the Vote for Nobody Campaign (http://www.anti-politics.ws/) participated for the first time. While the other presidential candidate's representatives talk
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Darren Wolfe
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Reference Link • Conspiracies
FUTURE PLANS OF THE GLOBAL ELITE REVEALED
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Pastor Williams was the religious confidant for some of the most powerful people on the planet. On tonight’s show, Lindsey reveals what the global elite have in store for humanity with regard to the collapsing of the American dollar, World War III..
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Washington Times: Libertarian Johnson's first national ad slams warmongering over Iran
10-27-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, legalizeliberty
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary E. Johnson, the Libertarian Party's candidate for president, has purchased air time on cable in the Washington, D.C., area and markets across the country to launch his first national television ad Friday night.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Wolf, Naomi
10-27-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com,
According to her website, Naomi Wolf is an "author, social critic, and political activist [who] raises awareness of the pervasive inequities that exist in society and politics.
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News Link • History
Thanks Giving
10-27-2012
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http://www.russellmeansfreedom.com, admin1
In my heart my thanksgiving is everyday. From the morning star to the moon and the stars…It is our duty to thank the great mystery for all that is.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Chapter On Failed U.S. Education System Added To Textbook
10-27-2012
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http://www.theonion.com
A birthday card is discreetly passed around the office like some sort of covert CIA operation
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
This Robot’s Offspring Will Clean Your Future Home
10-27-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Christina Bonnington
Bossa Nova Robotics has developed a robot that the company says is “the first step towards the creation of a 21st century personal robotics platform for everyday consumers.”
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News Link • Economy - International
A Global Bond Bubble Is Emerging That Professionals Never Could Have Imagined
10-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
Europe is on the ropes as investors shun peripheral euro-area government debt. In the United States, interest rates are fixed at zero, and government bonds are arguably already quite far along in an epic 30-years-and-running bull market.
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News Link • Self-Defense
Defending Against the Smallest Enemies
10-27-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by J.R.M.
It is human nature to approach preparedness according to gaps that we see in our plans.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Jury Nullification Keeps NJ Weedman Out of Jail; DEA Comes Calling
10-27-2012
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www.reason.com
"Two hours," Forchion gripes. "Two hours after I won, I got a call from the DEA in L.A. They had a 'Google Alert' on me. Sore losers."
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News Link • How To
New Film Exposes Engineered Collapse
10-27-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Joel Skousen sits down with Alex Jones and discusses strategies on how to prepare for and survive major disasters.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
The World Never Came Closer To Nuclear War Than On January 25, 1995
10-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
In the 67 years since the detonation of the world's first nuclear weapon there is only one time the so-called nuclear briefcases were broken out and opened up. On January 25, 1995 they not only opened, they nearly launched Russia's nuclear arsenal at
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News Link • TAXES: State
Amazon to tax sales in Arizona
10-27-2012
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Arizona Republic
Online retail giant Amazon.com has agreed to collect sales tax on its Arizona transactions as part of a legal settlement that could pump millions of dollars each year into state coffers.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
The 15 Most Bizarrely Unnecessary Sexy Halloween Costumes Of 2012
10-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Laura Stampler
One of the scariest parts of Halloween is the ability for the costume industry to turn even the most chaste and unobjectionable character or inanimate object into a "sexy" one.
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News Link • Homeland Security
For DHS, Cybersecurity Education Begins in Kindergarten
10-27-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Melanie Hunter
In a blog on the Department of Homeland Security website, Secretary Janet Napolitano said her department is working to develop the next generation of leaders in cybersecurity beginning in kindergarten.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
Documents Reveal Hitler's Epic Rant To Senior Nazis 8 Days Before He Died
10-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Steven Swinford
Hitler told senior Nazis that "everyone has lied to me, everyone has deceived me" just eight days before he killed himself in his bunker, according to newly disclosed documents.
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News Link • Precious Metals
Vietnamese Banks Got Caught Selling Clients' Gold To Finance Themselves
10-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Tyler Durden
Several months ago, we reported about a troubling development in Vietnam, happy inflationary host of one of the world's most rapidly devaluing and best named currencies, that in direct refutation of Ben "Gold is not money, it is tradition"
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News Link • Iran
REPORT: Shell Is Looking Into Using Grains Instead Of Cash To Pay Off A Debt To Iran
10-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Richard Mably
Oil major Royal Dutch/Shell is seeking to work around international sanctions by repaying a $1.4 billion oil debt to Iran with a grain barter deal via U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill, industry sources said.
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News Link • Misinformation
GMO Companies Lying to Public to Fight Prop 37
10-27-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
An effort may be underway to steal the election against Proposition 37.
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Consolation Prize: The Game Console Is Dead. What Will Replace It?
10-27-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Chris Kohler
In November, Nintendo will release Wii U, the first update to the groundbreaking motion-controlled gaming console that took the industry by storm in 2006.
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News Link • Books
Novel Approaches: 10 Books That Became Great Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films
10-27-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Scott Thill
Transforming transfixing genre fiction into memorable cinema is no simple task.
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News Link • Government
America: The Food Stamp Nation
10-27-2012
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http://demonocracy.info
America has over 44 million people on Food Stamps. The food stamps program's real name is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
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News Link • Internet
Google Maps The Grand Canyon And Other Amazing Photos From This Week
10-27-2012
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http://www.popsci.com,
Including a pepper-spraying iPhone, an illustrated guide to eating a Triceratops, and more
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News Link • Military
Watch a Robotic Navy Boat Shoot Missiles for the First Time Ever
10-27-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Spencer Ackerman
Killer robots have officially gone out to sea.
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Opinion • Religion: Believers
How Did Christians Become Warmongers?
10-27-2012
Chuck Baldwin
Historically, Christians have always attempted to be"and have always publicly taught the importance of being"peacemakers. Have not Christians preached"and tried to practice"love and brotherhood? The early church was born in a baptism of love and unit
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Opinion • Economy - International
Will the USA continue to overcome its handicaps of racial diversity and size?
10-27-2012
Menckens Ghost
The 12 wealthiest nations and city states according to most sources are Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Norway, Switzerland, Australia, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, the USA, Canada, and Singapore. (Excluded are the tiny monarchies of Monaco and
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News Link • Activism
FK Blogger Arrested for Recording Video
10-26-2012
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www.freekeene.com
After a brief back and forth in which Ian asked if the Officer was familiar with the Glick decision, Ian was escorted to the Police Department in another part of the building. He was then taken into the booking area on the other side of a Police door
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