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Date Sent: 2011-07-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, July 18, 2011 |
ATF Florida Gun Probe Earns Congressional Scrutiny in Wake of 'Fast and Furious'
US Misery Index At 28 Year High -- Trillions In Commercial And Industrial Loans To Europe's Insolvent Countries --
James Howard Kunstler: The Amazing Dissolving Nation -- Chris Hedges:
America’s Disappeared -- Angela Keaton - ComeHomeAmerica.us and The
Letter / John V. Walsh, MD - Libertarian Philosophy -- The Cowardly Congress and the Tyrannical President -- Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal -- Why the US won't leave Afghanistan -- Presidential Power vs. Spin: Is the Great Betrayal Coming? -- Nouriel Roubini: Israel-Iran War in September? -- Washington's Ongoing Libya Terror Bombing --
Head of Scotland Yard resigns amid hacking scandal; Rebekah Brooks is
arrested -- 3 members of Kansas City Police Department's SWAT Team
indicted -- Supreme Court ruling, rising police presence in schools spur Miranda questions -- DUI Checkpoint Activist Still Waiting To Get Sued By Blowhard Cop -- SF jury acquits man who forgot mushrooms were in his backpack -- Police Arrest Jogger After He Warns Drivers of Speed Trap -- Karzai Adviser (another one) Is Killed at Kabul Home -- TSA Gone Wild
national: Trial today: The “State of MA” aka Todd M Dodge vs. Ademo & Pete Eyre
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
ATF Florida Gun Probe Earns Congressional Scrutiny in Wake of 'Fast and Furious'
07-17-2011
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FOX News
Lawmakers are questioning the Obama administration about whether the controversial "Fast and Furious" gunrunning probe may have had a cousin in Florida that resulted in guns being trafficked to Central America, known as "Operation Castaway."
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • European Union
Trillions In Commercial And Industrial Loans To Europe's Insolvent Countries
07-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Once again, just like in the case of Spain's LaMancha region lying outright about its deficit, "out of left field" discoveries such as this will keep reappearing until the full kit and caboodle of tens of trillions in impaired exposure finally...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
James Howard Kunstler: The Amazing Dissolving Nation
07-18-2011
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Kunstler.com
Going broke fast is a very compelling problem. For ordinary people it tends to induce chicken-with-no-head syndrome - a mad burst of pointless locomotion ending in sudden collapse.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Chris Hedges: America’s Disappeared
07-18-2011
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TruthDig.com
The military planes with their inert human cargo would fly over the Atlantic at night and the chained bodies would be pushed out the door into the ocean. Quintela, who had worked as a doctor in the city’s slums, was 28 when she was murdered.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Cowardly Congress and the Tyrannical President
07-18-2011
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batr.org
One way to look at the artificial conflict over the debt ceiling theater is in terms of Gypsy Rose Lee doing the striptease fan dance. The beltway burlesque script is designed never to solve real problems.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal
07-18-2011
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blogs.forbes.com
Drug warriors often contend that drug use would skyrocket if we were to legalize or decriminalize drugs in the United States.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Afghanistan
Why the US won't leave Afghanistan
07-18-2011
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english.aljazeera.net
Surge, bribe and run? Or surge, bribe and stay? How US military bases and the energy war play out in Afghanistan.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Presidential Power vs. Spin: Is the Great Betrayal Coming?
07-18-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Where the Republicans will be able to pose as debt fighters, but where the President will be able to increase the debt.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iran
Economist Nouriel Roubini "Tweets": Israel-Iran War in September?
07-18-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
I have never seen Roubini tweeting on foreign affairs before, he is unlikely to be tweeting because he finds the story interesting. The story likely falls in line with what he is hearing from his very in the know network.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ideal Power Converters
07-18-2011
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arclein
deal Power Converters (IPC) is a ten-employee firm located just outside Austin, Texas that's developing a current-modulation power converter topology that looks to shrink the size and weight of a solar photovoltaic inverter by 90 percent and reduce
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Eight Grand Challenges for Humanity
07-18-2011
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arclein
But as with many crowds, there was a formidable issue in the minds of attendees, a hurdle of acceptance before these challenges would be deemed cause-worthy.
At issue was our obsession with solving all of today’s problems before we dare think abou
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
HIV Protection Achieved
07-18-2011
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arclein
he results were similar to those from another trial, conducted jointly by the US Centers for Disease Control and the Botswana Ministry of Health. In this study, 1200 HIV-negative, sexually active people from Botswana received either Truvada or a plac
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robert klein
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Roswell Tests Confirm Extraterrestrial Origin
07-18-2011
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arclein
His next step was to get out there with a metal detector to see what he could find. He began making trips to the site in May 2010. Using a metal detector that could find a piece the size of a BB, three inches below the surface, he would be able to fi
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robert klein
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
NOT GUILTY!!! : The “State of MA” aka Todd M Dodge vs. Ademo & Pete Eyre
07-17-2011
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CopBlock
On July 1st, 2010 Todd M. Dodge of the Greenfield, MA Police Department and his colleagues violated the rights of Ademo Freeman (aka Adam Mueller) & Pete Eyre when they illegally arrested them. (Up to the moment VIDEOS)
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Head of Scotland Yard resigns amid hacking scandal; Rebekah Brooks is arrested
07-17-2011
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Washington Post
Britain’s roiling phone-hacking scandal reverberated deep inside this nation’s power structure, with the head of Scotland Yard resigning hours after Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s British operations, was arrested.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Whose Image Is on the Coin?
07-17-2011
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Lew Rockwell
In the ancient world a conqueror would make the conquered use money with their new ruler’s face (a living ruler was preferred to a dead one.) This was a symbol and constant reminder of the ruler’s domination of his subjects.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Three members of KCK Police Department's SWAT Team indicted
07-17-2011
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A federal grand jury indicted 3 members of the Kansas City SWAT team. Part of an investigation into whether money and property were taken from a family during a raid. A sting operation was set up by the FBI: Surveillance cameras were planted througho
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Supreme Court ruling, rising police presence in schools spur Miranda questions
07-17-2011
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Washington Post
A few weeks before summer break, an eighth-grader in Fairfax County was pulled from his civics class and led into an office. An assistant principal told him that classmates had reported hearing him say he’d smoked marijuana with five other boys "
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix transit figures incorrect for 6 years
07-17-2011
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Arizona Republic
The Phoenix Public Transit Department misreported to the federal government the administrative costs of managing transit service for six consecutive years, a review of records by The Arizona Republic found.
In fiscal year 2009-10, for example, Pho
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
DUI Checkpoint Activist Still Waiting To Get Sued By Blowhard Cop
07-17-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
It’s been more than a month since a Missouri Highway Patrol officer threatened to sue Michael Mikkelsen if he dared to upload a video he had taken of the officer in public.
Mikkelsen is still waiting for that lawsuit.
Mikkelsen is an activist i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
SF jury acquits man who forgot mushrooms were in his backpack
07-17-2011
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Rawstory
On Friday, a jury in San Francisco found a man not guilty of possession of psilocybin mushrooms on the grounds that he had forgotten they were in his backpack, and therefore could not knowingly be in possession.
The argument was made by Deputy Pub
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Arrest Jogger After He Warns Drivers of Speed Trap
07-17-2011
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NBC News
A man in West El Paso is claiming he was thrown in jail last week in retaliation for warning drivers about a nearby police checkpoint for speeding.
Jose Escobar stands at the same intersection where police arrested him last Friday. He hopes passin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai Adviser (another one) Is Killed at Kabul Home
07-17-2011
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NY Times
A close adviser to President Hamid Karzai was killed Sunday night after two gunmen stormed his walled home here. It was the second killing in less than a week of one of the president’s trusted but controversial political allies.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
TSA Gone Wild
7/17/11
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Free Patriot Press
"Uncontrolled search and seizure is one of the first and most effective weapons in the arsenal of every arbitrary government...Among deprivations of rights, none is so effective in cowing a population, crushing the spirit of the individual and p
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Darryl W. Perry
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