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Date Sent: 2011-08-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 30, 2011 AM edition |
HSS: The Decade's Biggest Scam -- Cop tasers and kicks compliant mentally handicap man
Steven Hayne, Michael West 'Expert' Witness Scandal Could Affect Mississippi Attorney General Race -- Ind. vouchers prompt thousands to change schools -- A Cardiac Surgeon on the Glory of Saturated Fat -- Big oil companies may have to give up Iraq gas -- U.S. researchers broke rules in Guatemala syphilis study -- rEVOLutionary Times - by Jim Davidson -- US Overthrowing
Non-Fundamentalist Arab Regimes -- Rebels settle scores in Libyan
capital -- War for Africa: 'Libya key to new US bases, cheap labor & resources' -- FDIC Objects to $8.5 Billion BofA Settlement --
Foreclosure-Gate and the Economy: Doing Something Stupid Isn't Smart --
NASA: Space station may be evacuated by late November -- Weird, Birdlike Mystery Drone Crashes in Pakistan -- This Week: Appeals Court to Weigh NSA Dragnet Surveillance -- WikiLeaks Springs a Leak: Full Database of Diplomatic Cables Appears Online --
Have a few extra million to spend: Take a vacation on the space hotel
-- Do It Yourself Oil Extraction -- Gnostic Scriptures and Fragments
AZ: Arizona
Breakfast Club this Saturday OathKeepers at Quartzsite wrap up and
Sen. Russell Pierce Dist. 18 Recall Election; Arizona State
University Law School Debate - "Should Marijuana Be Legalized?"
Sept. 12@ noon
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security: The Decade's Biggest Scam
08-29-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
"The number of people worldwide who are killed by Muslim-type terrorists, Al Qaeda wannabes, is maybe a few hundred outside of war zones. It's basically the same number of people who die drowning in the bathtub each year,"
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop tasers and kicks compliant mentally handicap man.
08-29-2011
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YouTube
Compliant mentally handicapped man tasered and kicked by cop . Updates to follow. Copblock.org and Facebook.com/copblock KPHO TV5 just called me to let me know that they are running this footage tonight. Nick from CopBlock is being interviewed
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Steven Hayne, Michael West 'Expert' Witness Scandal Could Affect Mississippi Attorney Genera
08-29-2011
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Huffington Post
A widening scandal involving two longtime expert witnesses may become an issue in Mississippi's race for attorney general this fall. Incumbent Attorney General Jim Hood has long defended two prolific but controversial forensic specialists who have co
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Ind. vouchers prompt thousands to change schools
08-29-2011
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AP
Weeks after Indiana began the nation’s broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to private schools, causing a spike in enrollment at some Catholic institutions that were only recently on the brink of closing
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
A Cardiac Surgeon on the Glory of Saturated Fat
08-29-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Dr. Donald Miller is a cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He writes for LewRockwell.com, including his recent piece, "Enjoy Saturated Fats, They're Good For You!"
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
Big oil companies may have to give up Iraq gas
08-29-2011
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Reuters
Many of the world's biggest energy companies may have to surrender most of the gas from Iraq's vast southern oilfields to a processing and export project led by Shell, a final draft contract between Baghdad and Europe's biggest company, obtained by R
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
U.S. researchers broke rules in Guatemala syphilis study
08-29-2011
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Reuters
US government must have known they were violating ethical standards by deliberately infecting Guatemalan prison inmates and mental patients with syphilis for an experiment, as was the case for a similar study in the US
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
rEVOLutionary Times - by Jim Davidson
08-29-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
The insidious systems by which the big government benefits the big fascist corporations and those big corpses feed back benefits to the politicians and bureau-rats are based on hierarchical structures that are as full of fail as client-server, Napste
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Overthrowing Non-Fundamentalist Arab Regimes
08-29-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Why? To make trouble, to make money, and to divide and rule. First Iraq, then Libya, next Syria. Christians have had religious freedom in such regimes (and yes, they are ruled by bad guys, though surely no worse than Bush or Obama). But when the US-a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Libya
Rebels settle scores in Libyan capital
08-29-2011
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The Independent
The killings were pitiless.
They had taken place at a makeshift hospital, in a tent marked clearly with the symbols of the Islamic Crescent. Some of the dead were on stretchers, attached to intravenous drips. Some were on the back of an ambulance
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Libya
War for Africa: 'Libya key to new US bases, cheap labor & resources'
08-29-2011
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Russia Today
The rebels in Libya have rejected the possibility of staging talks with Muammar Gaddafi. The National Transitional Council says they want to see him in jail. Middle East expert says NATO is using the rebels to make Libya a failed state.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
FDIC Objects to $8.5 Billion BofA Settlement
08-29-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
Ooh, this is getting to be fun. Now the FDIC has weighed in too.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate and the Economy: Doing Something Stupid Isn’t Smart
08-29-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
Obama appears to be gearing up to try to Do Something on the housing and general economy front. Readers have no doubt wised up to the fact that Doing Something, Obama Administration version, generally consists of largely cosmetic...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA: Space station may be evacuated by late November
08-29-2011
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news.yahoo.com
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) " Astronauts may need to take the unprecedented step of temporarily abandoning the International Space Station if last week's Russian launch accident prevents new crews from flying there this fall.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Should Apple Make a TV?
08-29-2011
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technologyreview.com
Rumor has it that Apple's working on a TV set, one that might run a variant of the iOS operating system. But does it make sense?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
The Era of Carriers Is Ending
08-29-2011
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LewRockwell.com - Eric Margolis
The mighty US Navy won’t say so publicly, but it’s increasingly worried by China’s development of new anti-ship missiles. The chief worry is China’s new DF-21D whose primary target is America’s huge aircraft carriers.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Weird, Birdlike Mystery Drone Crashes in Pakistan
08-29-2011
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Wired.com
It looks a bit like silver bird. It probably was used to spy on insurgents. And now it’s in the hands of the Pakistanis.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
This Week: Appeals Court to Weigh NSA Dragnet Surveillance
08-29-2011
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Wired.com
Whether the federal government and the nation’s telecommunication companies can be held accountable for allegedly funneling every American’s electronic communication to the National Security Agency without warrants is the subject of oral arguments sc
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
WikiLeaks Springs a Leak: Full Database of Diplomatic Cables Appears Online
08-29-2011
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Wired.com
For the second time in a year, WikiLeaks has lost control of its full, unredacted cache of a quarter-million U.S. State Department cables " and this time the leaked files are apparently online.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Have a few extra million to spend: Take a vacation on the space hotel
08-29-2011
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the-gadgeteer.com
If you can’t wait until 2020 to take a vacation on Virgin’s Spaceship to an orbital tour of outer space, then make a reservation in 2016 for the Russian Space Hotel.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Do It Yourself Oil Extraction
08-29-2011
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survivalblog.com
While researching briquette presses for fuel production, I stumbled on an article about using similar presses for extracting oils from seeds and nuts. In this case, the focus was on bio-diesel production, but I felt it was helpful for other uses as w
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Where we’re going, there aren’t any roads...
08-29-2011
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Arizona Daily Star
Rancher does own road work, sends Pima County the bill -- All of the taxes, none of the benefit in Pima County.
"But, what about the roads?"
Anarchists answered this question long ago... Henceforth, this question should be posed in arguments
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Reported by:
Ryan Gauger
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Feature Article • Libya
Mission Accomplished in Libya? - by Ron Paul
Powell Gammill
Even as a major hurricane hit America's eastern seaboard, the administration is determined to expand the war in Libya while threatening the regime in Syria. Is there any limit to government's appetite to create more problems for our nation
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Has the Fed Started QE3?
Bud Conrad
The Fed surprised the market by extending its policy of 0 to 0.25% Fed funds rate to mid-2013. The way the Fed manages to drive rates lower is to buy Treasuries with newly created money " driving the price up and the rates down.
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