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Date Sent: 2012-10-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 29, 2012 AM edition |
Accusations against generals cast dark shadow over Army -- Sharp Warnings as Hurricane Churns In
Obama offered to reestablish full ties with Iran, Israeli paper reports -- Junk Bonds Grow More Popular and Turn Even Riskier -- 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 -- Joel Salatin on Autocratic Institutions -- 'Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?' Biden's bizarre question -- Presidential Election: What If Nobody Wins? -- FUTURE PLANS OF THE GLOBAL ELITE REVEALED
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
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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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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 • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
RT to host final US presidential third-party debate
10-26-2012
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http://rt.com
Libertarian Party candidate Gov. Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein will sound off once more before Election Day, with both presidential hopefuls now slated to debate live from RT’s Washington, DC studio on October 30.
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Robert Lee
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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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Powell Gammill
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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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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 • 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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Powell Gammill
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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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Powell Gammill
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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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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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Reference Link • Corruption
The Relentless Evil of Goldman Sachs
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The GMO poison food producer, Monsanto, and the great profiteer from all tragedies, Goldman Sachs, are engaged in their own special version of who is the most evil corporation on the face of the earth.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, October 28, 2012 Edition
10-26-2012
John Semmens
Defense Secretary Justifies Inaction in Benghazi Attack
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta explained that the US military commander for Africa, General Carter Ham, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, and himself
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News Link • Military
The USS Gerald Ford Is The Single Most Expensive Piece Of Military Hardware Ever Built
10-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
The USS Gerald R. Ford is the most expensive weapon ever created and will run about $11.5 billion, with three ships costing about $40.2 billion.
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News Link • World News
British ExxonMobil Oil Chief 'Assassinated' Outside This Restaurant In Brussels
10-26-2012
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Duncan Gardhan, Bruno Waterfield, Emily Godsen
Nicholas Mockford, a British executive for the oil company ExxonMobil has been shot dead in front of his wife in an assassination-style killing in Brussels.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Mississippi School Charged With Arresting Kids For Flatulence, Wrong Color Socks, Breaking Pencils
10-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Abby Rogers
The Justice Department is taking a stand against an educational policy in Mississippi that incarcerates kids for just being kids.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent
10-26-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Glenn Greenwald
Complete with a newly coined, creepy Orwellian euphemism " 'disposition matrix' " the administration institutionalizes the most extremist powers a government can claim
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News Link • Currencies
Fed and ECB Smokescreens to Print Money
10-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com,
Fresh on the heels of ECB president Mario Draghi's Lies In Defense Bond Purchases, Including a Warning of Deflation [below] comes news of an unexpected rise in Eurozone price inflation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Britain Rejects US Request to Use Bases in Attacking Iran
10-26-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
British Lawyers Warn Attack Would Violate International Law
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News Link • Justice and Judges
British Court Considers Inquiry into UK Involvement in CIA Drone War
10-26-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
Noor Khan's father was killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan along with 40 other people last year
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Remote U.S. base at core of secret operations
10-26-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Craig Whitlock
Around the clock, about 16 times a day, drones take off or land at a U.S. military base here, the combat hub for the Obama administration’s counterterrorism wars in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.
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News Link • Food
Monsanto-funded ‘No on 37′ campaign fabricates FDA quote, engages in criminal misconduct
10-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Ethan A. Huff
The No on 37 campaign trying to prevent Californians from knowing whether or not the foods they eat contain genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) has sunk to a new moral and ethical low
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Feds Reject Legalizing DVD Cracking, Game Console Modding
10-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
Copyright regulators rejected on Thursday proposals to make it lawful for people to copy DVDs for personal use or to jailbreak videogame consoles to run custom software.
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News Link • Military
U.S. Expands Secretive Drone Base for African Shadow War
10-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Axe
The Pentagon’s secretive drone and commando base in the Horn of Africa is getting a lot bigger and a lot busier as the U.S. doubles down on its shadowy campaign of air strikes, robot surveillance and Special Operation Forces raids in the terror haven
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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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News Link • Employment & Jobs
8,803,335: Another New Record for Disability"Up 975 Per Day Under Obama
10-26-2012
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www.cnsnews.com
The number of American workers collecting federal disability insurance benefits hit yet another record high in October, according to the Social Security Administration.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
It's 10 P.M. In Frankfurt. Do You Know Where Your Gold Is ?
10-26-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
This isn't as random as it seems; more than half of Germany's gold reserves are held at the New York Fed, and hasn't been inspected by the Germans for decades. This dates back to the '50s and '60s, when foreign governments could still exchange dollar
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Greg Palast: Get Ready for Massive Voter Fraud
10-26-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Journalist and author Greg Palast joins Rob Dew to talk about the upcoming election and potential voter fraud. Greg is the author of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Secret Service officer charged with sexually assaulting teenager
10-26-2012
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http://rt.com
An US Secret Service agent assigned to protect the residence of Vice President Joe Biden was arrested by authorities this week and charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old female family member.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
United Nations to begin investigating US drone strike targeted kills
10-26-2012
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http://rt.com
The White House defends the deaths of civilians they’ve caused with drone strikes overseas, but as the number of casualties created by the remote-control murder machines perpetually soar, the United Nations says they will soon start an investigation.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Texas threatens to arrest international monitors sent to watch US election
10-26-2012
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http://rt.com
A handful of international election monitors have touched down in the US to swing by polling places next month when voters cast ballots for the president, but officials in the state of Texas have issued them a warning: you’re not welcome.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
I Try To Redeem My Silver Certificate For Silver At B Of A
10-26-2012
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dailypaul.com
Fun video of a man that tries to "cash in" a silver certificate at B of A.
"The ignorance of the American populace is overwhelming. While not to belittle the Bank of America employees for there lack of knowledge, I hope they research this and s
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Jack Spratt
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima owner says plant may be leaking radiation into sea
10-26-2012
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http://rt.com/news
TEPCO, operator of the Fukushima nuclear facility, failed to confirm that radiation leaks at the plant had fully stopped.
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Robert Lee
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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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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CEOs make the case for a grand bargain
10-25-2012
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Washington Post
A group of high-profile business leaders sounded the alarm about the deficit. Top executives from Honeywell, JPMorgan and Express Scripts as part of a campaign to enact major deficit reduction through the negotiations over the “fiscal cliff.”
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