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Date Sent: 2011-09-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, September 30, 2011 |
Crony Capitalism: $737 Million Green Jobs Loan Given to Nancy Pelosi's Brother-In-Law
Couple in shock after drug raid -- Cash-Short, U.S. Weighs Asset Sales -- Russian Central Bank to Offer Gold-Backed Loans -- NYPD Supervisor Caught On Video Punching Citizen At Protest -- Number of troubled homeowners rises, federal regulator says -- Bank of America to add $5 monthly debit card fee as era of low-cost banking ebbs -- Capitol Police react to Onion satire -- Ron Paul Message to Occupy Wall Street: LETS END THE FED! -- Get ready for the car that reads your mind -- Feds to Gibson: Hand over more wood -- A TRIUMPH FOR THE CONSTITUTION AT THE U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY --
Ralph Nader Hearts Ron Paul, Hails Potential Left-Libertarian Alliance
-- Campaigning in the Nude!... for Ron Paul -- Matt Taibbi on the evolution of the Occupy Wall Street protest -- Europe again steps back from brink in debt crisis -- SEC concedes challenges in credit-rating probes -- Dow Theory Dead? Greece Trumps Reliable Stock Signal -- Mike Krieger: "Rebellion Has Arrived In America" -- Weak Emerging Market Currencies Are Symptoms Of Bigger Problems --
Military to Collaborate with Wyoming Cops in Drunk Driving Crackdown -- Christie seriously considering presidential bid after GOP prodding -- Judge rules part of Patriot Act unconstitutional
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this
Saturday; John Stuart Trial Continues; Gary Johnson comes to Arizona!
CA: Libertopia in San Diego October 21-23
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News Link • Corruption
Crony Capitalism: $737 Million Green Jobs Loan Given to Nancy Pelosi's Brother-In-Law
09-29-2011
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www.weeklystandard.com
SolarReserve LLC, a closely held renewable energy developer, received a $737 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee... Argonaut Private Equity might have a chance to recoup some of their losses in the Solyndra debacle now that...
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Ernest Hancock
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Feature Article • Events: Arizona
Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday
Powell Gammill
Ernie reveals his latest plan to wrest world domination from the hands of psychopaths with nukes...also known as elected and appointed officials beginning with the City of Tempe and their mindless Gannett Co. based minions. (Chalk the Police Protest
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News Link • Drug War
Couple in shock after drug raid
09-29-2011
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She said her husband opened the door to multiple officers in raid gear with guns drawn. "We were completely shocked, upset," she continued. She said the officers demanded to come inside her home. "And my husband asked, 'Do you have a warrant?
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Cash-Short, U.S. Weighs Asset Sales
09-29-2011
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NY Times
Like Americans trying to raise quick cash by unloading their unwanted goods, the federal government is considering a novel way to reduce the deficit: holding the equivalent of a garage sale.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Russian Central Bank to Offer Gold-Backed Loans
09-29-2011
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Bob Murphy emails to point out some news that was not widely disseminated by MSM (I wonder why?)
Russia's central bank announced in late-August that they will start to offer gold-backed loans for up to 90 days at an interest rate of 7 percent.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYPD Supervisor Caught On Video Punching Citizen At Protest
09-29-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Another video has emerged showing a white-shirted New York City police supervisor punching a citizen during the Occupy Wall Street protests.
The video doesn't capture much before the incident but if you slow it down and watch it frame by frame, it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Number of troubled homeowners rises, federal regulator says
09-29-2011
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Washington Post
The number of homeowners behind on their mortgages increased during the second quarter of the year, even as the number of struggling borrowers who received help with their loans decreased by nearly 20 percent, according to a government report release
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank of America to add $5 monthly debit card fee as era of low-cost banking ebbs
09-29-2011
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Washington Post
Bank of America will become the first major bank to charge customers across the country a monthly fee to shop with their debit cards, part of a wave of changes that are eroding the low-cost model of banking that consumers have long enjoyed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Capitol Police react to Onion satire
09-29-2011
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AP
Capitol Police were not amused by tweets and an article written by the satirical newspaper The Onion falsely reporting that members of Congress had taken a group of schoolchildren hostage.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bioterrorism
The Wal-Marts of Quasi-Organic Food
09-29-2011
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Farm Wars
Why would anyone knowingly buy “organic” or “healthy” food from companies associated either directly or indirectly with Monsanto?
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Transportation
Get ready for the car that reads your mind
09-29-2011
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Terrence Aym
Cars exist that tell you where to go, how to get there, and even a few will drive for you. Now Nissan is boldly going where no man (or woman, for that matter) has gone before: Nissan intends to build automobiles that can read your mind. Working with
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Police State
Feds to Gibson: Hand over more wood
09-29-2011
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www.bizjournals.com
Federal authorities are pressuring Nashville-based Gibson Guitar to hand over an additional 25 bundles of Indian wood that the company allegedly planned to use in its famous guitars.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ralph Nader Hearts Ron Paul, Hails Potential Left-Libertarian Alliance
09-29-2011
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reason.com
Looking ahead to the 2012 presidential race, one might assume that Nader has little to be cheerful about. Yet he says there is one candidate who sticks out"who even gives him hope: Rep. Ron Paul of Texas.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Campaigning in the Nude!... for Ron Paul
09-29-2011
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www.dailypaul.com
I'm a model and occasionally I pose nude for various art classes. I recently posed for an oil painting class of about 15 students and yet, this time things were a little bit different.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Matt Taibbi on the evolution of the Occupy Wall Street protest
09-29-2011
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current.com
Keith and “Countdown” contributor and Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi discuss how the current Occupy Wall Street protest could sprout a much larger movement for reform. Comparing the media coverage of this protest to the coverage of the
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Still UnWarrented
09-29-2011
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cafehayek.com
Jeff Jacoby exposes the flawed presumptions and conclusions in Elizabeth Warren’s insistence that wealthy Americans are morally obliged to pay more taxes because each individual’s success in the market requires the efforts and cooperation of millions
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Europe again steps back from brink in debt crisis
09-29-2011
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Reuters.com
(Reuters) - Following a now-familiar script, Europe again averted disaster in its debt crisis when German lawmakers rallied behind Chancellor Angela Merkel to approve a stronger euro zone bailout fund on Thursday.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
SEC concedes challenges in credit-rating probes
09-29-2011
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www.reuters.com
(Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission faces hurdles proving wrongdoing at credit-rating agencies, the agency's enforcement chief said, pointing to the complexity of the cases and the industry's strong legal defenses.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Mike Krieger: "Rebellion Has Arrived In America"
09-29-2011
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www.zerohedge.com
What has shielded the U.S. from a lot of the social strife sweeping the rest of the globe at the moment has been the U.S. dollar’s reserve status since this allows us to print seemingly infinite amounts of paper dollars and shove them down the throat
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Weak Emerging Market Currencies Are Symptoms Of Bigger Problems
09-29-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
Emerging market currencies have sold off heavily in the past two weeks as investors opted for safe haven currencies like the dollar and yen. That in turn sparked a frenzy of central bank intervention in the currency markets.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Presidential candidate Gary Johnson in Fountain Hills today 5:00 p.m.
09-29-2011
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www.garyjohnson2012.com
(Publisher: Another liberty supporting candidate in the Republican Primary visits Arizona?... Well, I think we might take advantage of this :)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Military to Collaborate with Wyoming Cops in Drunk Driving Crackdown
09-29-2011
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www.infowars.com
“In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, F.E. Warren Air Force Base will collaborate with state and local governments and law enforcement. “State, local and military police will also work together under the program to crack down on drunk people who dis
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Candid Camera Experiment
09-29-2011
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www.foxbusiness.com
Candid Camera’s Peter Funt discusses how Americans may be to trustworthy towards figures of authority.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Christie seriously considering presidential bid after GOP prodding
09-29-2011
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www.nypost.com
The renewed consideration about a White House run came after prodding this week from some Republicans he idolizes, including former First Lady Nancy Reagan, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and former President George W. Bush, sources said.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
NYC Mayor Bloomberg: 'Government’s Highest Duty' Is to Push 'Healthy' Foods
09-29-2011
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www.cnsnews.com
Speaking on the government's role in diet and health last week, Bloomberg told the UN General Assembly, “There are powers only governments can exercise, policies only governments can mandate and enforce and results only governments can achieve.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
My driver was one of Nelson Mandela’s prison guards
09-29-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
...my driver is a terrifically fascinating person that I’ll call Henrik. In the late 1980s, Henrik was part of an elite military unit that saw action in South Africa’s Border War, an outgrowth of the Angolan Civil War that had been raging for more th
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Judge rules part of Patriot Act unconstitutional
09-29-2011
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Break The Matrix
Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surv
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Ronald Bogner
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