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Date Sent: 2011-01-31
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, January 31, 2011 AM edition |
New York City Investigates Arizona Gun Show -- Losses at Afghan Bank Could Be $900 Million
PA Auditor: Release Non-Violent Prison Offenders And Save $350 Million -- WikiLeaks ISP anonymizes all traffic to neutralize data retention laws -- Egypt protest leaflets distributed in Cairo give blueprint for mass action -- Update: Mass FBI raids target pro-WikiLeaks ‘Operation Payback’ -- New estimates put Pakistan's nuclear arsenal at more than 100 -- NY Waterfront Commission probing theft of $2 dollar bottle of iced tea, sausage -- Website invites Russians to say 'Goodbye Putin!' --
Leaked cables: Police brutality a ‘daily occurrence’ in Egyptian
prisons -- Egyptian Police Using U.S.-Made Tear Gas Against
Demonstrators -- How to Foil a Nationwide Internet Shutdown -- New gold rush breaks out in the Amazon jungle -- US Taxpayer-Funded Infrastructure To Be Sold To Foreigners?
-- Nullify Now! National Tour Big Success in Phoenix (video and photos)
-- Obama's Valentine To The Nation: Multitrillion-Dollar Budget -- Foreclosure-Gate: Florida Republican Wants Lightning Fast Foreclosures -- CBO Jobs Propaganda: "Disingenuous, Misleading Poppycock" -- Controversial Muslim Cleric Caught Being Smuggled Into U.S. Over Mexico border -- Shame on Chris Matthews: Smearing the Egyptian Revolution -- Consequences of default by the United States - by Timothy F. Geithner
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News Link • Gun Rights
New York City Investigates Arizona Gun Show
01-30-2011
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NY Times
Weeks after a shooting left six dead and 13 injured in Tucson, New York City sent undercover investigators to an Arizona gun show and found instances in which private sellers sold semiautomatic pistols even after buyers said they probably could not p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Losses at Afghan Bank Could Be $900 Million
01-30-2011
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NY Times
Fraud and mismanagement at Afghanistan’s largest bank have resulted in potential losses of as much as $900 million " three times previous estimates " heightening concerns that the bank could collapse and trigger a broad financial panic in Afghanistan
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
PA Auditor: Release Non-Violent Prison Offenders And Save $350 Million
01-30-2011
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Crooks & Liars
Across the country, politicians and their cronies have invested heavily in the for-profit prison systems. The more people go to jail, the more money they make:
Pennsyvlania Auditor General Jack Wagner has found a way for the state to save as m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
WikiLeaks ISP anonymizes all traffic to neutralize data retention laws
01-30-2011
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Rawstory
The Internet service provider (ISP) hosting WikiLeaks' servers is fighting back against the European Data Retention Directive by running all customer traffic through an encrypted virtual private network (VPN) service before logging it.
The Europea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Egypt protest leaflets distributed in Cairo give blueprint for mass action
01-30-2011
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The Guardian
Anonymous leaflets circulating in Cairo also provide practical and tactical advice for mass demonstrations, confronting riot police, and besieging and taking control of government offices.
Signed "long live Egypt", the slickly produced 26-page doc
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Update: Mass FBI raids target pro-WikiLeaks ‘Operation Payback’
01-30-2011
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Rawstory
Following the arrest of five people in Britain in connection with the "Operation Payback" cyber-attacks in support of WikiLeaks, the FBI announced mass raids across the United States in connection with the case.
"FBI agents today executed more tha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
New estimates put Pakistan's nuclear arsenal at more than 100
01-30-2011
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Washington Post
Pakistan's nuclear arsenal now totals more than 100 deployed weapons, a doubling of its stockpile over the past several years in one of the world's most unstable regions, according to estimates by nongovernment analysts.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Waterfront Commission probing theft of $2 dollar bottle of iced tea, sausage
01-30-2011
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NY Daily News
The six-month probe was known as Operation Missing Link. Its target: A suspect who swiped a $2 bottle of iced tea and used it to wash down a stolen 50-cent piece of sausage - the lost link that left a bad taste in everybody's mouth. An investigation
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Website invites Russians to say 'Goodbye Putin!'
01-30-2011
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AP
A new Russian Internet site goodbyeputin.ru was polling the country Friday on whether Vladimir Putin's "corpse" should be carried out of the Kremlin, in an apparent spoof of a similar poll on Lenin last week.
A new Russian Internet site goodbyeput
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Leaked cables: Police brutality a ‘daily occurrence’ in Egyptian prisons
01-30-2011
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Rawstory
Leaked diplomatic cables released by secrets outlet WikiLeaks show that Egyptian police regularly torture suspects due to "unrelenting pressure" from their superiors to solve criminal investigations.
The revealing documents were published amid mas
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Egyptian Police Using U.S.-Made Tear Gas Against Demonstrators
01-30-2011
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ABC News
Egyptian riot police are firing tear gas canisters bearing the label "Made in U.S.A" against street demonstrations in Cairo, according to protesters who provided ABC News with pictures of the canisters.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
How to Foil a Nationwide Internet Shutdown
01-30-2011
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LifeHacker
The Egyptian government cut internet connections to silence protests, leaving nearly all of its citizens without online access. But they weren't entirely successful. When governments shut down broadband and mobile connections, here's what to do.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
New gold rush breaks out in the Amazon jungle
01-30-2011
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Terrence Aym
Ever want to try your hand at being Indiana Jones and get rich doing it? Well, if you don't mind deadly bugs, reptiles, hostile native tribes, Piranha and assorted other nuisances and death traps you might consider packing up and heading to the Amaz
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Obama Administration
US Taxpayer-Funded Infrastructure To Be Sold To Foreigners?
01-30-2011
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Rawstory.com
Daley, a former Wall Street executive who opposed two of President Obama's major initiatives, said that investment for US infrastructure could instead come from private sources both foreign and domestic.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • States' Rights
Nullify Now! National Tour Big Success in Phoenix (video and photos)
01-30-2011
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Ed Vallejo Productions LOL
Produced by The Tenth Amendment Center and The Foundation For a Free Society, the Nullify Now Tour centered on nullification of unconstitutional Federal edicts at the state level.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Valentine To The Nation: Multitrillion-Dollar Budget
01-30-2011
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Bloomberg.com
“We want to cut with a scalpel as opposed to a chain saw,” Obama said in an interview broadcast online by Google Inc.’s YouTube on Jan. 27. “Frankly, we’re just going to have to trim some of these programs.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Florida Republican Wants Lightning Fast Foreclosures
01-30-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
I have not seen one case that DID NOT have "legitimate issues", ie lack of standing, no causes of action, induced default, false placed insurance, bogus loan mod offers, escrow manipulations, robo-signing, false affidavits, defective assignments...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
CBO Jobs Propaganda: "Disingenuous, Misleading Poppycock"
01-30-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
Moody’s economists actually estimate 270,000 jobs will be created per month on average in 2011. Yet peak annual job growth ranged from 154,000 to 178,000 during the housing boom era circa 2004-2006.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Giordano Bruno: America Needs Community, Not Collectivism
01-30-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Fear and survival are powerful motivators. Without ample self awareness and strength of character, these base instincts can overwhelm rationality and conscience. Every collectivist feudalist system ever devised has used a “common enemy”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Communications
Pirate Radio USA
01-29-2011
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Hulu.com VIDEO
Pirate Radio USA is a feature length documentary about the underground world of unlicensed radio in the USA, where people play what they want and say what they want"unless the FCC catches them…
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolving Door
Controversial Muslim Cleric Caught Being Smuggled Into U.S. Over Mexico border
01-30-2011
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Telegraph.co.uk via DrudgeReport.com
Said Jaziri, who called for the death of a Danish cartoonist that drew pictures of the prophet Mohammed, was being smuggled into California...
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Science
Live baby dinosaur discovered in New Zealand
01-30-2011
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Terrence Aym
Most people grew up being taught that the mighty race of dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago. But it's not true; dinosaurs still walk the Earth. No, it isn't a T-Rex. but it is one of the oldest living creatures on Earth. A dinosaur t
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Activism
Shame on Chris Matthews: Smearing the Egyptian Revolution
01-30-2011
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AntiWar.com / Justin Raimondo
I suppose the Israel Lobby had to get its two cents in, but the brazenness of this kind of nonsense is astonishing. Matthews just sat there and failed to challenge the “expert.”
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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