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Date Sent: 2011-10-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, October 15, 2011 |
Obama sends 100 troops to fight in Africa -- Obama: ‘All Options on the Table’ Over Iran Plot
Skydivers have sex in flight and free-fall, FAA investigating -- Corrupt Quartzite Council Has Reformist Mayor Foster Arrested -- Obama Starts A Civil War On Drugs -- Governor Brown Vetoes Warrant Protection for Cell Phones -- Police Who Illegally Broke Into Gizmodo Journalist's House Deride Seized E-mails -- Stealth Weapons From Around the World -- U.S. Copyright Czar Cozied Up to Content Industry, E-Mails Show -- Is the New World Order Unraveling? - by Pat Buchanan -- Jim Rogers: Bernanke Is Lying to Us -- Saudi Arabia refrains from fingering Iran in alleged assassination plot -- Obama Says Facts Support Accusation of Iranian Plot -- Pat Buchanan’s SUICIDE OF A SUPERPOWER: The Suicide of Liberty -- Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar -- Ayn Rand Fans See Freest Economy Turn Chinese -- FBI Account of "Terror Plot" Suggests Sting Operation - by Gareth Porter -- Matt Taibbi Weighs in on 5 Demands to Fix Wall Street -- Rothschild Banker Calls for End of Euro -- The Atomic Bomb that is About to Explode at the Federal Reserve -- Solyndra Came Close to Landing Navy Deal
AZ: Rich Woods, activist in Phoenix, AZ, in the hospital... -- Debate Party
(again) for next Tuesday's GOP Debate on CNN -- “Is Voter Fraud Real?” - The League of
Women Voters - Oct. 19 - 11:45 a.m. -- Gary Johnson comes to Arizona end of
Oct.!; Phoenix - Rock
the Revolution Tour is now set
CA: Libertopia in San Diego October 21-23
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama sends 100 troops to fight rebels in central Africa
10-14-2011
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AFP
US President Barack Obama said Friday he is sending 100 combat troops to central Africa to help and advise forces battling Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels accused of rape, murder and kidnapping.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Obama: ‘All Options on the Table’ Over Alleged Iran Plot
10-14-2011
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AntiWar.com
The hawkish rhetoric from the Obama administration, Congress, and the news media ominously echo previous marches to war
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Corrupt Quartzite Council Has Reformist Mayor Foster Arrested
10-14-2011
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www.kpho.com
Alleging that by resisting the corrupt council and trying to change things his activities while mayor amount to "nonfeasance of office", the Quartzite mafia has thrown Foster in the klink.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Drug War
Obama Starts A Civil War On Drugs
10-14-2011
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Alt-Market.com
California legalized medical marijuana for seriously ill patients in 1996 and it is now legal in 16 states and DC. However, the Obama Administration wants to shut down pot dispensaries in California.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Wall Street Sit-In Goes Global Saturday
10-14-2011
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Common Dreams
Few other police forces expect more than a few thousand to turn out on the day for what is billed as an exercise in social media-spread, Arab Spring-inspired, grassroots democracy with an emphasis on peaceful, homespun debate, as seen among Madrid's
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Inside Occupy Wall Street's All-Nighter
10-14-2011
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Mother Jones
Now approaching its fourth week in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street, or #OWS as it's known on Twitter, has become the nexus of a global protest movement with satellites in more than 120 cities. It has galvanized activists on the left and won over a
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Governor Brown Vetoes Warrant Protection for Cell Phones
10-14-2011
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
SB 914, written in response to the California Supreme Court decision in People v. Diaz, upheld basic constitutional principles. It just maintained Fourth Amendment protection to the contents of cell phones, requiring officers to show a judge there is
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Police Who Illegally Broke Into Gizmodo Journalist's House Deride Seized E-mails as "Juveni
10-14-2011
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Illegally breaking into the home of a journalist and seizing his property is profoundly troubling, especially as law enforcement shows no apparent sign of remorse or of learning from their mistake.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Now You See ‘Em, Now You Don’t: Stealth Weapons From Around the World
10-14-2011
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Wired
Today, militaries from around the world " including Russia and China " are developing their own stealth arsenals. The American monopoly on near-invisible flight is being eroded.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
U.S. Copyright Czar Cozied Up to Content Industry, E-Mails Show
10-14-2011
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Wired
Top-ranking Obama administration officials, including the U.S. copyright czar, played an active role in secret negotiations between Hollywood, the recording industry and ISPs to disrupt internet access for users suspected of violating copyright law,
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
Is the New World Order Unraveling?
10-14-2011
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LewRockwell.com/Patrick J Buchanan
With Greece on the precipice of default, and Portugal and Italy approaching the ledge, the European monetary union appears in peril.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Jim Rogers: Bernanke Is Lying to Us
10-14-2011
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LewRockwell.com/Robert Wenzel
Prepare yourself for climbing prices like you have never seen before, to differing degrees both Rogers and Kudlow know what is coming.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Repaired Stem Cells Treat Liver Disease in Mice
10-14-2011
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Technology Review
Scientists corrected a genetic error in stem cells from patients with liver disease, and implanted those cells in the livers of mice.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A New Twist on Artificial Muscles
10-14-2011
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Technology Review
Researchers have created artificial muscles that can twist 1,000 times more than any suitable material made in the past"a development that could prove useful in robots and prosthetic limbs.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Scientific Study Confirms Ron Paul Being Given LEAST Face Time In Debates
10-14-2011
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Prison Planet
Despite being consistently ranked in the top three in GOP presidential candidate preference polls, Ron Paul has been given the least time to speak OUT OF ALL THE CANDIDATES at the debates that have taken place thus far.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
House Bill Would Criminalize Satire of TSA
10-14-2011
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Prison Planet
On September 22, 2011, H.R. 3011 was introduced in the House. It is entitled the “Transportation Security Administration Authorization Act of 2011” and it contains some curious language.
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News Link • World News
Where is Yemen headed as Saleh tries to reassert power?
10-14-2011
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Christian Science Monitor
President Ali Abdullah Saleh's recent return to Yemen has emboldened Saleh loyalists and angered protesters further. A civil war in Yemen could have repercussions for global trade.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Saudi Arabia refrains from fingering Iran in alleged assassination plot
10-14-2011
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Christian Science Monitor
The US continues to ratchet up pressure on Iran over an alleged assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador to the US. But Saudi Arabia Wednesday said it was working to determine who was responsible.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
It's another Soros link to Occupy Wall Street
10-14-2011
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World Net Daily
Envisions 'New Economic World Order' no longer dominated by 1 superpower
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Libya
Gaddafi supporters clash with NTC in Tripoli
10-14-2011
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Aljazeera
Gun battle breaks out in Libyan capital between armed supporters of Gaddafi and forces from the NTC.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Obama Says Facts Support Accusation of Iranian Plot
10-14-2011
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New York TImes
President Obama vowed on Thursday to push for what he called the “toughest sanctions” against Iran, saying that the United States had strong evidence that Iranian officials were complicit in an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United
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News Link • Activism
Conservatives smear ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests as anti-Semitic
10-14-2011
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RawStory
The Emergency Committee for Israel, a Republican group, has become the latest to claim the “Occupy Wall Street” protest in lower Manhattan is anti-Semitic.
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News Link • Books
Pat Buchanan’s SUICIDE OF A SUPERPOWER: The Suicide of Liberty
10-14-2011
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VDare.com/Paul Craig Roberts
It is unclear whether the US, as we have known it, will survive its next presidential election.
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News Link • Humor
Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
10-14-2011
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TED Talks/Pamela Meyer
On any given day we're lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lie can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting, shows the manners and "hotspots" used by those trained to recognize deception -- and she
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News Link • World News
Ayn Rand Fans See Freest Economy Turn Chinese: The Ticker
10-14-2011
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Bloomberg.Com
Libertarians who see Hong Kong as their Utopia can't be happy about Tsang's evolving views about how a widening wealth gap "has given rise to the demand for income redistribution."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Solar Sinter Project Turns the Desert's Free Abundance of Sand and Sun into 3-D-Printed Glass
10-14-2011
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PopSci.com
Kayser loads the sand into a solar-powered 3-D printer where it serves as the raw material for glass. In a process that’s fascinating to watch, concentrated sunlight replaces the laser typically found in 3D printers, melting sand (instead of resin) i
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
The Science of Anarchism
10-14-2011
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Center for a Stateless Society
Gitlin describes contemporary anarchism accurately (if generally) as “a theory of self-organization,” one opposed to a plutocracy of elites who have “artfully arranged a mutual back-scratching society to enrich themselves.
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News Link • Government
Prohibition Did Work . . . Sort Of
10-14-2011
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Strike the Root
Alcohol consumption dropped by 50%, cirrhosis of the liver by 63%, admissions for alcohol psychosis by 60%, and arrests for drunk and disorderly, by 50%. That’s the good news. The bad news is that we got organized crime.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Blame Government, Not Greed " and, Please, Ignore Central Banking
10-14-2011
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The Daily Bell
It is central banking's money creation and low interest rates that created the fuel for this last catastrophic bust that has " evidently and obviously " virtually ended the dollar reserve system.
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News Link • Iran
FBI Account of "Terror Plot" Suggests Sting Operation - by Gareth Porter*
10-14-2011
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IPS News
While the administration of Barack Obama vows to hold the Iranian government "accountable" for the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, the legal document describing evidence in the case provides multiple indications that i
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News Link • Activism
Encouraging Signs at Occupy Wall Street?
10-14-2011
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The Daily Bell
We, a working group of people currently occupying Liberty Park and many other locations throughout the US, are growing increasingly concerned about divide and conquer attempts being made to co-opt the movement.
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News Link • Israel
Israeli Historian Shlomo Sand: 'What Is a Jew?'
10-14-2011
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The Daily Bell
This is an interesting book because it apparently proposes serious revisions to the history of the Jewish people. It is also an important book because as the new world order grows in magnitude and begins to become more real, people inevitably blame J
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Top Journo Matt Taibbi Weighs in on 5 Demands to Fix Wall Street
10-14-2011
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The Daily Bell
... The man who called Goldman Sachs a "great vampire squid" has some advice for Occupy Wall Street.
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News Link • Economy - International
Rothschild Banker Calls for End of Euro
10-14-2011
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The Daily Bell
The greatest threat to our economic future is what is happening in the eurozone. The scale of the euro crisis has made one thing abundantly plain: Europe, Britain and the rest of the world would be better off if the euro had never happened. It would
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Active duty Navy SEALS star in new hero-worship movie next Feb.
10-14-2011
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YouTube
Purely as a testerone-fueled action flick, it looks promising, with all the genuine attention to detail us guys look for. But the whole thing is actually rather sinister.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul Schism in Occupy Wall Street?
10-14-2011
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The Daily Bell
Among the not-so-private problems afflicting the generally hopeful movement of Occupy Wall Street is the schism between the libertarian wing and what might be called the "statist" element of the movement.
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News Link • Activism
Victory for Occupy Wall Street
10-14-2011
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CNBC
Cheers went up as the news that the cleaning of Zuccotti Park had been called off spread through the massive crowd at the Occupy Wall Street camp.
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News Link • Activism
Wall Street sit-in goes global Saturday
10-14-2011
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Reuters
How many will show up, let alone stay to camp out to disrupt city centers for days, or months, to come, is anyone's guess. The hundreds at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park were calling for back-up on Friday, fearing imminent eviction. Rome expects tens of t
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News Link • Activism
Occupy Wall Street protests reveal liberal tensions
10-14-2011
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Washington Post
That tension has been evident in recent days in debates raging online and in person at demonstration sites across the country.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Help, I'm getting arrested!
10-14-2011
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c/Net
I'm Getting Arrested, a creative Android app that, according to developer Quadrant 2, was inspired by a similar incident. It lets you quickly notify your family, friends, and crack legal team (if you have one) of your situation with a single tap of y
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Atomic Bomb that is About to Explode at the Federal Reserve
10-14-2011
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Economic Policy Journal
It turns out that Bernanke's decision to pay interest on reserves held at the Fed by member banks has some twists to it that make what he is doing likely illegal.
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News Link • Military
Solyndra Came Close to Landing Navy Deal
10-14-2011
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Wall Street Journal
A major investor in Solyndra LLC was instrumental in helping the troubled solar-power firm compete for a potentially lucrative U.S. Navy deal, a previously unreported connection that will likely fuel controversy surrounding the company.
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
CONNECTING THE DOTS
WHY CONTINUE TWO USELESS WARS?
10-13-2011
Frosty Wooldridge
Does anyone know or understand why we sent 6,200 kids to their deaths and another 40,000 brought back home without legs and arms or their minds? We can expect a minimum of 100,000 post-war suicides from combat troops with scrambled brains.
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