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Date Sent: 2011-08-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, August 22, 2011 AM edition |
Tripoli falls to Libyan rebels -- Social Security disability on verge of insolvency
In Texas schools, a criminal response to misbehavior -- A founding father of American Islam struggles to put raids behind him -- Corporations pushing for job-creation tax breaks shield U.S.-vs.-abroad hiring data -- Housekeeper’s Lawyer Says He Will Seek a Special Prosecutor -- N.Y.
Still Pursues Case Against Whistle-Blower -- Attorney General of N.Y. Is
Said to Face Pressure on Bank Foreclosure Deal -- The Organization Of The Resistance Part Two: The Auxiliary -- Capitol Cop Assaults Videographer During Lemonade Stand Protest -- The Atlantic on Food Freedom and Food Safety -- Lemonade Freedom Day Interview With Protest Organizer Robert Fernandes -- We now have ADOT goons ticketing people....WTF -- Will The Fed Bailout Highly Leveraged European Banks in the Next 7 Days? -- Despite fuzzy legality, US law enforcement will soon be able to perform mobile iris scans and finger -- AES crypto broken by 'groundbreaking' attack -- FinCEN Brings KYC Requirements To Bitcoin? -- At What Population Size Does Taxation Become Legitimate? -- Stefan Molyneux Is My Preacher -- The price of a Big Mac meal is now $17.19 in Zurich -- Larken Rose Breaks Down Coercive Authority -- The Bitcoin Police -- Zombies Born of Government Spending -- Rick Perry's Gardasil Problem -- Getting ready for a wave of coal-plant shutdowns
AZ: Jordan Page to perform in
Quartzsite August 27th (donate) Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite, AZ on August 27th,
bring your cameras.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Tripoli falls to Libyan rebels
08-21-2011
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AP
Libyan rebels raced into Tripoli Sunday and met little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi's defenders melted away and his 42-year rule rapidly crumbled. The euphoric fighters celebrated with residents of the capital in Green Square, the symbolic heart of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Social Security
Social Security disability on verge of insolvency
08-21-2011
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AP
Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.
Applications are up nearly 50 percent over a decade ago as peopl
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
In Texas schools, a criminal response to misbehavior
08-21-2011
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Washington Post
In a small courtroom north of Houston, a fourth-grader walked up to the bench with his mother. Too short to see the judge, he stood on a stool. He was dressed in a polo shirt and dark slacks. “Guilty,” the boy’s mother heard him say.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
A founding father of American Islam struggles to put raids behind him
08-21-2011
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Washington Post
More than nine years ago, federal agents looking for evidence of terrorism financing hustled Unus, the institute’s director of administration, and his colleagues into this very library. They were kept there for hours while computers and boxes of docu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Corporations pushing for job-creation tax breaks shield U.S.-vs.-abroad hiring data
08-21-2011
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Washington Post
Some of the country’s best-known multinational corporations closely guard a number they don’t want anyone to know: the breakdown between their jobs here and abroad.
So secretive are these companies that they hand the figure over to government sta
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Housekeeper’s Lawyer Says He Will Seek a Special Prosecutor
08-21-2011
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NY Times
The lawyer for the woman who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault said on Sunday that he would formally ask the judge overseeing the criminal case to disqualify the Manhattan district attorney’s office from the prosecution and appoint a s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
N.Y. Still Pursues Case Against Whistle-Blower
08-21-2011
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NY Times
The Cuomo administration is continuing to pursue a old disciplinary case against Jeffrey Monsour, a state employee at the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities who has been an outspoken critic of the agency’s management.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Attorney General of N.Y. Is Said to Face Pressure on Bank Foreclosure Deal
08-21-2011
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NY Times
Eric T. Schneiderman, the attorney general of New York, has come under increasing pressure from the Obama administration to drop his opposition to a wide-ranging state settlement with banks over dubious foreclosure practices, according to people brie
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Oldest ‘microfossils’ raise hopes for life on Mars
08-21-2011
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Washington Post
The hunt for the most ancient example of life on Earth has a pungent new contender: Sulfur-belching microbes fossilized in 3.4-billion-year-old western Australian sandstone.
The find bodes well for the search for life on Mars, researchers say.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
The Organization Of The Resistance Part Two: The Auxiliary
08-21-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
The auxiliary is the element of the resistance movement established to provide civilian support for the guerrilla force. The auxiliary serves many of the same functions that combat service and support units do inside the US Army. The auxiliary's prim
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Capitol Cop Assaults Videographer During Lemonade Stand Protest
08-21-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
At first glance, you would think she would be the less aggressive cop.
After all, she looks to weigh only about 110 pounds.
But she was the only U.S. Capitol police officer who assaulted a videographer during Saturday’s lemonade stand protest i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
The Atlantic on Food Freedom and Food Safety
08-21-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Rawesome was a private, voluntary cooperative of consenting members who take responsibility for any potential risks. ("Private" and "voluntary" being key words.)
Rawesome members even signed waivers before becoming a food club member.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bioterrorism
We Have Not Seen the Last of the Genetically Modified Salmon
08-21-2011
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Farm Wars
AquaBounty claims that the transgenic salmon are sterile, exclusively female and unable to breed even if they do escape into the wild. Subsequently though, an insider source has admitted that up to 5% are NOT sterile…….
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Activism
Lemonade Freedom Day Interview With Protest Organizer Robert Fernandes
08-20-2011
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The International Libertarian
Protesting the shameful closings of children's lemonade stands around the USA, Robert Fernandes organized Lemonade Freedom Day. Protests took place in several cities. In Philadelphia Mr. Fernandes and his family were part of setting up a lemonade st
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rick Perry and The Old Testament Christian Theocracy Movement
08-21-2011
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counterPunch.org
Today's theocrats seek to transform America from an "ostensible" Judeo-Christian/European secular democracy to an "explicit" Old Testament Christian theocracy, in word and deed.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Will The Fed Bailout Highly Leveraged European Banks in the Next 7 Days?
08-21-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
I maintain the next move by the Fed is to massively open up the dollar swap lines with European central banks. I don’t think Bernanke wants to announce this significant step at Jackson Hole. It is an EU issue and the Fed can’t take the lead...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Martial Law
Despite fuzzy legality, US law enforcement will soon be able to perform mobile iris scans and finger
08-02-2011
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Al-Jazeera
We're fast approaching a time when law enforcement will no longer need to ask you for your identification - your physical self, and the biometric data therein, are all that will be required to identify you.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
R2-D2 Home Planetarium Is the Droid You’re Looking For
08-21-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
You won’t find Princess Leia begging for help when you turn on Sega Toys’ new Star Wars-themed projector. You’ll have to settle instead for a brilliant rendition of our galaxy instead.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Ron Paul The Anarchist
08-21-2011
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http://www.libertariannews.org/
Voluntarism, Anarcho-capitalism, and Agorism, all mean roughly the same thing. I like to use the term Anarchism because it is such a volatile reaction provoking word. No rulers. It’s much more powerful than voluntarism.
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News Link • Internet
AES crypto broken by 'groundbreaking' attack
08-21-2011
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/
Cryptographers have discovered a way to break the Advanced Encryption Standard used to protect everything from top-secret government documents to online banking transactions.
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News Link • Internet
Making Money from YouTube
08-21-2011
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https://www.mentalfloss.com/
Yesterday’s post about YouTube elicited some interesting comments and e-mails in my inbox… people wondering how one can make money by uploading videos to YouTube.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Guess what? Victoria's Secret's Candice Swanepoel looks amazing in a bikini
08-21-2011
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http://www.asylum.co.uk/
Back in March, we put together a gallery of our 25 favourite Victoria's Secret girls. It was a long and tiresome task, but someone had to do it, and fortunately for us, you guys seemed to like it. Really quite a lot.
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News Link • Internet
“Everything You Say Can And Will Be Used Against You, By Anybody, Now Or Decades Into The Future.”
08-21-2011
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http://falkvinge.net/
Every day, we say things that we wouldn’t say in other contexts. We react to news with WTF-type blurts, we react to stupid politicians and greedy bankers with emotional statements.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
FinCEN Brings KYC Requirements To Bitcoin?
08-21-2011
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http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/
The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a Final Rule making non-bank providers of pre-paid financial instruments subject to comprehensive Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) regulations similar to depository institutions.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
At What Population Size Does Taxation Become Legitimate?
08-21-2011
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http://www.libertariannews.org/
A group of 10 people were stranded on a very large island due to a shipwreck. The ten people set about helping each other produce things that were necessary for each others survival.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Stefan Molyneux Is My Preacher
08-21-2011
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http://dailyanarchist.com/
For me, For a New Liberty was my holy book. It was the work that converted me to anarcho-capitalism. And there have been many prophets along the way, namely Ron Paul, Walter Block, Lew Rockwell and gang.
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News Link • Economy - International
The price of a Big Mac meal is now $17.19 in Zurich
08-21-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
One of the things that people pick up on very quickly as they travel are how different price levels are around the world. I’ve been to roughly 100 countries, and I still find it amazing how much variance there is among things like food, property, and
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News Link • Government
Larken Rose Breaks Down Coercive Authority
08-21-2011
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http://dailyanarchist.com/
I’ve always been a lover of books. And in trying to teach people the morality of freedom I usually try to push books on people. Unfortunately, this has almost universally been a failing tactic.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
When the Chickens Come Home to Roost
08-21-2011
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http://hawaiianlibertarian.blogspot.com/
When I first changed my diet thanks to reading up at the Weston Price Foundation website, the first piece of advice I followed from them was to find free range eggs in my local grocery stores.
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News Link • Free Speech
A step in the right direction " the path towards self-government
08-21-2011
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http://economicsandliberty.wordpress.com/
Us Now takes a look at how this type of participation could transform the way that countries are governed. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organising structures threaten to change the fabric of government forever.
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News Link • Internet
The Bitcoin Effect (aka Reality Distortion)
08-21-2011
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http://www.bitcoinbulletin.com/
Geeks get excited by the same things.Bitcoin encapsulates most of those things… programming, the internet’s “anything goes” mentality, open source, computer hardware, and a community filled with other geeks…
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Bitcoin Police
08-21-2011
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http://bitcoin.crimeunit.net/
Welcome to the online collaboration site of the Bitcoin Police. We're the Internet's very own investigators focused on exposing fraudsters and scammers in the Bitcoin community.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
If You Cannot Evacuate
08-21-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
Most of us do not have the funds to purchase and maintain a survival retreat, however there are effective things the ordinary citizen can do to help themselves and their families get through the troubled times ahead.
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News Link • Government Waste
Zombies Born of Government Spending
08-21-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
Zombie, zombie in the night. Making cities burn so bright. What immortal hand could frame. Thy fearful symmetry?Yes, dear reader, the mobs are getting angry. Here’s the story from Germany:
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News Link • Energy
Getting ready for a wave of coal-plant shutdowns
08-21-2011
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Over the next 18 months, the Environmental Protection Agency will finalize a flurry of new rules to curb pollution from coal-fired power plants.
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Monsanto Targets Consumers
08-21-2011
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Farm Wars
Monsanto leaps from commercial agriculture to take on the retail market with genetically engineered sweet corn designed with the consumer in mind.
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Barbara Peterson
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
Lemmingly, We Roll Along
08-21-2011
Ray McGovern
“Two lemmings are chatting while standing in the line to the cliff. One says to the other, ‘Of course we have to go over the edge. Anything else would dishonor all the lemmings that have gone before us.’”
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