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Date Sent: 2011-09-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, September 26, 2011 AM editor |
U.S. sold bunker-busting bombs to Israel: report -- Why Stocks AND Gold Crashed
Wall Street protesters cuffed, pepper-sprayed during 'inequality' march -- San Francisco tests its limits on public nudism -- Human skin
embedded with spider silk can stop a bullet -- Divers Set Sights on
Silver-Laden WWII Ship -- In Syria, defectors form dissident army in sign uprising may be entering new phase -- China prepares for its own space station -- Massachusetts: Supreme Court Approves Charging Innocent Ticket Recipients -- How state lawmakers pump up pensions in ways you can't -- Mississippi Appeals Court Backs Castle Doctrine in Automobiles -- Internet Hits All-Time High as News Source, TV at All-Time Low, Says Pew -- Rolling off the 3D printing press... the world's first 'printed' car
- and it actually works -- The Beatles Would Support Ron Paul -- 9-11 Cop Breaks Silence -- New Crisis, New Currency? -- Scientists discover virus that kills all types of breast cancer ‘within seven days’ -- AIPAC's Ugly Agenda -- James Bovard on His Famous Libertarian Books,... -- The Growing Hysteria About the Fake Pentagon Cuts -- Professor Sues Pittsburgh for Zapping Her With Weapon Developed to Fight Terrorists -- Western diplomats walk out of Ahmadinejad speech -- Netanyahu Loudly Condemns Palestinian Statehood Bid -- As White House Keeps Up Condemnations, Pakistan Warns They ‘Will Lose an Ally’ -- Russia to build sea-based 'missile shield'
AZ: John Stuart Trial Under Way
CA: Libertopia in San Diego October 21-23
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News Link • Israel
U.S. sold bunker-busting bombs to Israel: report
09-25-2011
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Rawstory
President Barack Obama secretly authorized the sale of 55 powerful bunker-busting bombs to Israel. Israel first asked to buy deep-penetrating GBU-28 bombs in 2005, but were rebuffed by then-president George W. Bush.
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News Link • Precious Metals
Why Stocks and Gold Crashed
09-25-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Some hedge funds were selling to raise cash to meet margin calls from lenders. Other investors were using proceeds of silver and gold sales to replenish other parts of their portfolios, which had fallen in value in recent sessions, said George Gero,
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Wall Street protesters cuffed, pepper-sprayed during 'inequality' march
09-25-2011
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NY Daily News
Scores of protesters were arrested in Manhattan Saturday as a march against social inequality turned violent.
Hundreds of people carrying banners and chanting "shame, shame" walked between Zuccotti Park, near Wall St., and Union Square calling for
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
San Francisco tests its limits on public nudism
09-25-2011
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AFP
On a sunny September day, Woody Miller strolls through the district, known as Castro. He's tall and fit, with a long grey beard and heavy silver nose ring -- and wearing nothing more than sneakers, a baseball cap and a watch.
"I go naked on a nice
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Human skin embedded with spider silk can stop a bullet
09-25-2011
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Reuters (video)
Dutch artist Jalila Essaïdi and cell biologist Abdoelwaheb El Ghalbzouri have blended spider silk with human skin to produce material that is three times stronger than kevlar.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Divers Set Sights on Silver-Laden WWII Ship
09-25-2011
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NY Times
In 1941, a Nazi torpedo tore a hole in a British merchant ship carrying a fortune in silver to England from India. The ship was part of a convoy headed for Liverpool, but it went down about 300 miles southwest of Ireland, disappearing in icy waters n
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Without the euro, would Europe have turned to war?
09-25-2011
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Washington Post
For the fathers of the euro, the end of the Cold War in 1990 was a time for worry as well as celebration. As they looked to the future, they were also obsessed with the continent’s bloody past. Would a new Europe, and especially a reunified Germany,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
In Syria, defectors form dissident army in sign uprising may be entering new phase
09-25-2011
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Washington Post
A group of defectors calling themselves the Free Syrian Army is attempting the first effort to organize an armed challenge to President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, signaling what some hope and others fear may be a new phase in what has been an overwhelmi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
China prepares for its own space station
09-25-2011
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Terrence Aym
China is serious about its intentions to get to the Moon and its next step is to build a space station.
Not content with the International Space Station (ISS) that's currently orbiting the Earth funded and used by the US, Russia and Europe, China
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Massachusetts: Supreme Court Approves Charging Innocent Ticket Recipients
09-25-2011
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The Newspaper
Motorists issued a traffic ticket will have to pay money to the state whether or not they committed the alleged crime. According to a state supreme court ruling handed down, fees are to be imposed even on those found innocent.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
How state lawmakers pump up pensions in ways you can't
09-25-2011
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USA Today (video)
At age 55, South Carolina state Sen. David Thomas began collecting a pension for his legislative service without leaving office. Most workers must retire from their jobs before getting retirement benefits. But Thomas used a one-sentence law that he a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mississippi Appeals Court Backs Castle Doctrine in Automobiles
09-25-2011
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The Newspaper
Thomas, then a 20-year-old student at Northwest Mississippi Community College, saw Justin "Tac Head" Buckner knocked to the ground, being beaten by a gang known as "TNT." Thomas fired three shots into the air, breaking up the fight. That gave securit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Rare case of 'spontaneous human combustion' kills man in Ireland
09-25-2011
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Terrence Aym
An Irish coroner, Dr. Ciaran McLoughlin, has returned a verdict on the cause of death of Michael Faherty, a 76-year old man from Ballybane, Galway: spontaneous human combustion (SHC). The doctor stated he had not reached such a conclusion in more tha
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Internet
Internet Hits All-Time High as News Source, TV at All-Time Low, Says Pew
09-25-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
The Internet has risen to its all-time high as a primary source of news for Americans with 43 percent now saying they get most of their news on national and international issues from the web, according to a survey published Thursday by the Pew Resear
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Rolling off the 3D printing press... the world's first 'printed' car - and it actually w
09-25-2011
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www.dailymail.co.uk
The world’s first 'printed' car has finally rolled off the printing press.
The 'Urbee' was made using a special printer which built up layer upon layer of bodywork - almost as if the car was 'painted' into existence, except using layers of ultra-t
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Beatles Would Support Ron Paul
09-25-2011
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LewRockwell.com
So would an incredibly influential band such as the Beatles jump on the anti-war and pro-market Ron Paul bandwagon? The first overtly political song by the Beatles was "Revolution" written by John Lennon in direct response to the Vietnam War.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
9-11 Cop Breaks Silence
09-25-2011
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americanfreepress.net
The New Jersey police officer responsible for capturing five Israelis who filmed and celebrated while the World Trade Center towers burned has broken his silence, agreeing to a Sept. 16 exclusive interview with AMERICAN FREE PRESS.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
New Crisis, New Currency?
09-25-2011
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www.thedailybell.com
When the world's leaders begin to warn of something in concert, we try to peer beneath the surface to see what they are really driving at. Austerity " ... " is one aspect of it, perhaps. But the installation of a global currency is perhaps another. P
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mind-Reading Experiment Reconstructs Movies in Our Mind
09-25-2011
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www.foxnews.com
It sounds like science fiction: While volunteers watched movie clips, a scanner watched their brains. And from their brain activity, a computer made rough reconstructions of what they viewed.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Give Collapse a Chance
09-25-2011
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LewRockwell.com
All of which is making our “solution” to the financial pile up of ’08-’09 look better and better all the time. You’ll recall that we promised to tell you how you could fix the problem in our last exciting installment. This must have left you on the e
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Maher, Moore defend Tony Bennett’s 9/11 comments
09-25-2011
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www.rawstory.com
Two people who aren’t afraid to agree with Tony Bennett’s controversial comments about 9/11 are Bill Maher and Michael Moore.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Scientists discover virus that kills all types of breast cancer ‘within seven days’
09-25-2011
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www.rawstory.com
Scientists at the Penn State College of Medicine said this week they have discovered a virus that is capable of killing all types of breast cancer "within seven days" of first introduction in a laboratory setting.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
The Growing Hysteria About the Fake Pentagon Cuts
09-25-2011
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nationalinterest.org
Back when he took office, the conventional wisdom was that Leon Panetta was there to manage defense budget cuts. It turns out that he will say just about anything to prevent them, as Jacob Heilbrunn pointed out the other day.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Environmental Emergencies, by K.G. EMT-P
09-25-2011
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www.survivalblog.com
One of the most often overlooked and underestimated issues regarding first aid are environmental related injuries. In the event that ambulance services and advanced medical personnel are unavailable, there are measures that a person can take to alle
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Professor Sues Pittsburgh for Zapping Her With Weapon Developed to Fight Terrorists
09-25-2011
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courthousenews.com
PITTSBURGH (CN) - An English professor says she suffered "permanent hearing loss, nausea, pain and disorientation" when Pittsburgh police used a Long Range Acoustic Device, developed to fight terrorists, on a peaceful demonstration against the IMF, i
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News Link • Iran
Western diplomats walk out of Ahmadinejad speech
09-25-2011
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www.france24.com
Diplomats from dozens of Western nations walked out of the UN General Assembly hall Thursday as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered scathing attacks on the US and Western Europe.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
LewRockwell/Radio - 224. Hayek, Rothbard, Blumert, and Raico
09-25-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Ron Hamowy, himself a great libertarian, talks about some of the other great libertarians he’s known.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Netanyahu Loudly Condemns Palestinian Statehood Bid
09-25-2011
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news.antiwar.com/
Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loudly condemned the notion of an independent Palestinian state being recognized by the international body
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Darren Wolfe of Focus on Peace Speaks at Agora I/O "Live from Valley Forge" (video)
09-24-2011
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Focus On Peace
On September 24 Darren Wolfe gave a speech titled "The New Peace Movement: Ending the Wars by Uniting all Ideologies Around the Issue that Matters Most" at the second Agora I/O unconference.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • WAR: About that War
As White House Keeps Up Condemnations, Pakistan Warns They ‘Will Lose an Ally’
09-25-2011
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news.antiwar.com
US Claims Cell Phone Evidence that Pakistani Military Was Behind Embassy Attack
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Revenge, Racism Cloud Libya’s Future
09-25-2011
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news.antiwar.com
If you have a home in Libya’s port city of Misrata and aren’t there right now, you might not have a home to go back to, as rebel in the area say they don’t want the “traitors and collaborators” to come back, and are demanding anyone who wants back in
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Russia to build sea-based 'missile shield'
09-25-2011
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en.rian.ru/mlitary
Kozin did not give any further details on the future missile defense system. He was speaking at a video conference between Moscow and Kiev on European security.
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