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Date Sent: 2011-10-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Weekend, October 1-2, 2011 |
Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
Seeking Taxes, Romney Went After Business -- TSA Pats Down Breast Cancer Survivor Even After Getting Scanned -- Occupy Wall Street - Occupy Los Angeles - Occupy Phoenix (We say we want a LOVEolution) -- Occupy the PLANET! October 15th --
Gold Is Backed By Nothing, Unlike the US Dollar Which Is Backed by the
American Government -- Thousands attend funeral of executed convict Troy
Davis -- Arizona Nurse Says She Was Fired Over Medical Marijuana -- Feeding military/industrial cannibals -- Congressional Anti-Internet Freedom Bills --
Abbas Feeling Heavy-Handed Pressure -- FORMER REDSKIN STAR JOINS
ANTI-AGENDA 21/ICLEI FIGHT IN CLALLAM COUNTY, WA! -- National Chalk the
Police Day (Phoenix edition video) -- Bombshell: DOJ Considering Elimination of ATF -- What To Do? What can we as Individuals do to Free Ourselves and our Country? -- Prison Hell in America -- Palestinian UN Membership Roulette -- Greenwald on Awlaki’s killing: The ‘Constitution burned and stepped on’ -- The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot -- Dennis G. Jacobs: Case study in judicial pathology -- Ron Paul "American Citizens Can Now Be Targeted With Assassination!" -- Obama: A disaster for civil liberties
AZ: John Stuart Trial
Continues Tues.; Gary Johnson
comes to Arizona!
CA: Libertopia in San Diego October 21-23
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News Link • Activism
Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
10-02-2011
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NY Times
In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested more than 700 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon.
The police said it was the mar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Seeking Taxes, Romney Went After Business
10-02-2011
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NY Times
Much of the business community in Massachusetts was puzzled. Mitt Romney, a Republican with high-caliber corporate credentials, had run for governor pledging to sweep aside barriers to business and act as the state’s “top salesman.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Pats Down Breast Cancer Survivor Even After Getting Scanned
10-02-2011
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Gizmodo
Lori Dorn submitted to a backscatter scan at JFK airport. The TSA pulled her aside for a breast patdown, even though she stated she had breast implants in place after her bilateral mastectomy. Of course, that didn't stop them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Occupy Wall Street - Occupy Los Angeles - Occupy Phoenix (We say we want a LOVEolution)
10-02-2011
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Agora I/O - YouTube
Bringing the R3VOLUTION back home - Agora I/O - Occupy Wall Street - Occupy Phoenix - Occupy Los Angeles - / - There is a revolution already under way, and the people will define it... or someone else will for them. 700 arrested in NYC
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Occupy the PLANET! October 15th
10-02-2011
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it's everywhere!
Phoenix is IN - 11:30 a.m. at Ceasar Chavez Plaza. Tucson is in, and Flagstaff is working on getting in. Are YOU in?
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Is Backed By Nothing, Unlike the US Dollar Which Is Backed by the American Government
10-02-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
There's something else happening here. Some investors are not confident with what gold is backed by, or if it's backed by anything at all, as compared to something like the US dollar. Investors are comfortable that the U.S. dollar is backed by the Am
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Thousands attend funeral of executed convict Troy Davis
10-02-2011
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Reuters
Thousands of people packed a church in Georgia on Saturday for the funeral of Troy Davis, who was executed for the murder of a police officer in a case that drew world attention because of claims by his advocates that he was innocent.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Sunday feel good video: 29 years old and hearing myself for the 1st time!
10-02-2011
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youtube (h/t The Agitator)
I was born deaf and 8 weeks ago I received a hearing implant. This is the video of them turning it on and me hearing myself for the first time :) Edit: For those of you who have asked the implant I received was Esteem offered by Envoy Medical.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Arizona Nurse Says She Was Fired Over Medical Marijuana
09-30-2011
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Village Voice's Toke of the Town
A registered nurse, formerly employed by a private hospice, has filed a letter of demand over her alleged firing after she revealed she is a card-carrying medical marijuana patient. Her attorney said the matter could be the first-ever Arizona
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Thane Eichenauer
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Feeding military/industrial cannibals
10-02-2011
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Randy Alcorn/Right on Target
In a sort of a macabre Ponzi scheme, American troops must keep dying to support the delusion that those already killed in the prolonged wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq were necessary sacrifices to meet mercurial but ostensibly critical U.S. objectiv
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Center of American power in the Middle East shifts from "New Dawn": Kuwait builds for more
10-01-2011
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Jacob Bielanski and Chris Federici
Though a new dawn may rise in terms of Iraqi sovereignty, the growing preponderance of evidence suggests no end in sight for a war-weary American public as the US continues its sweeping militarization of the Middle East.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • United Nations
FORMER REDSKIN STAR JOINS ANTI-AGENDA 21/ICLEI FIGHT IN CLALLAM COUNTY, WA!
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www.varight.com
People are continuing to struggle to get ICLEI/Agenda 21 out of their community in Clallam County, Washington. But help is on the way in the form of liberty activist, former US Senate candidate and NFL star Clint Didier. Didier tells how Agenda 21
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bombshell: DOJ Considering Elimination of ATF
10-01-2011
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townhall.com
Multiple sources, including sources from ATF, DOJ and Congressional offices have said there is a white paper circulating within the Department of Justice, outlining the essential elimination of ATF.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
New Battery Could Be Just What the Grid Ordered
10-01-2011
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Prachi Patel via TechnologyReview.com
Utilities need cheap, long-lasting ways to store the excess energy produced by power plants, especially as intermittent power from solar and wind farms is added to the mix.
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
What To Do? What can we as Individuals do to Free Ourselves and our Country?
09-30-2011
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Vic Pittman Salem-News.com
The one-agenda-two-party Republican-Democrat charade is nothing more than that..a charade. Take turns being the "bad guys" while the looting of the country and the world goes on unhindered. Those who would say that the ballot box is the way to effect
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Agriculture
Western Canada's Canola Boom
10-01-2011
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arclein
A plant that didn’t even exist a few decades ago is now King Canola, a supercrop that generates a high-protein cattle meal and a vegetable oil that’s highly coveted for its health benefits. In 2010, the plant was the most valuable cash crop in Canada
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robert klein
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Deepwater Horizon Says Hello
10-01-2011
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arclein
Wings of Care and Gulf Restoration Network conducted a joint flyover of the spill site, bringing back photographic evidence of fresh oil near the site of the Macondo well. This in turn prompted reporters from the Mobile Press-Register to hire a boat
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Clock Turned Back on Adult Stem Cell Aging
10-01-2011
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arclein
But if scientists can find a way to keep these adult stem cells young, they could possibly use these cells to repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack; heal wounds; correct metabolic syndromes; produce insulin for patients with type 1 diabete
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Microbe Based Biofuel to Replace D2
10-01-2011
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arclein
“This is the first report of bisabolane as a biosynthetic alternative to D2 diesel, and the first microbial overproduction of bisabolene in Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae,” says Taek Soon Lee, who directs JBEI’s metabolic engineering p
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
A Simple Way to Boost Battery Storage
09-30-2011
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Katherine Bourzac via TechnologyReview.com
A stretchy binder material that's compatible with existing factories could help electric cars and portable electronics go 30 percent longer.
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News Link • Economy - International
Prophets Of Doom: 12 Shocking Quotes From Insiders...
09-30-2011
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
About The Horrific Economic Crisis That Is Almost Here - Europe has had a tremendously difficult time just trying to keep Greece afloat, and several much larger European countries are now on the verge of a major financial crisis
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • United Nations
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday September 30th 2011
09-30-2011
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LewRockwell.com
The Mess the UN Made - 12 Reasons Not To Fear a September Smackdown, On gold and silver prices - The Myth of American Freedom - If just 20% of us refuse to fly, we could be rid of the TSA by Christmas
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Greenwald on Awlaki’s killing: The ‘Constitution burned and stepped on’
09-30-2011
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www.rawstory.com
“Remember that there was great controversial when George Bush asserted the power to simply detain American citizens without due process or simply to eavesdrop on their conversation without warrant,” he said. “Here you have something much more severe.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot
09-30-2011
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www.salon.com
FBI concocts a Terrorist attack, infiltrates Muslim communities in order to find recruits, persuades them to perpetrate the attack, supplies them with the money, weapons and know-how they need to carry it out -- only to heroically jump in at the last
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Couple in shock after drug raid
09-29-2011
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She said her husband opened the door to multiple officers in raid gear with guns drawn. "We were completely shocked, upset," she continued. She said the officers demanded to come inside her home. "And my husband asked, 'Do you have a warrant?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Occupy Wall Street: Strike The Root! Video Contest
09-30-2011
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www.copblock.org
Striking the root is a concept advocated by abolitionist, individualist anarchist and trancendetalist Henry David Thoreau. He believed that striking the cause (the “root”) was preferable to hacking at the effects (the “branches”).
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economics: Austrian
The Evils of Money
09-28-2011
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www.bretigne.com
What I'd like to say to the rightly outraged folk who are occupying Wall Street, and to everyone who is fed up with being stolen from but, I think, doesn't quite understand how it is they're being stolen from or who is doing the stealing
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Bretigne Shaffer
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Dennis G. Jacobs: Case study in judicial pathology
09-30-2011
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www.salon.com
The last decade has spawned a massive expansion of the domestic Surveillance State. Worse, the U.S. Government has vested itself with the virtually unchallenged ability to operate this surveillance regime in full secrecy and even beyond the reach of
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Ernest Hancock
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Video
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Robert Mazur - author of "The Infiltrator"
Robert Mazur, author of "The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel," talks with Ernest about banks and money fraud
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
So… why Chile?
09-30-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
As I’ve often written, there are few things in this world more important than freedom. An important component of this is financial freedom" the idea that having an independent income or large pool of savings opens up more options and opportunities in
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama: A disaster for civil liberties
09-30-2011
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By Jonathan Turley - LATimes
With the 2012 presidential election before us, the country is again caught up in debating national security issues, our ongoing wars and the threat of terrorism. There is one related subject, however, that is rarely mentioned: civil liberties.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
NY taxpayers may be paying for sex change surgery and treatments
09-30-2011
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Examiner
NY advisory panel is considering adding coverage of sex change surgery, hormonal treatments and psychological counseling under state Medicaid.
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James Hyde
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News Link • Iran
FOLLOWER OF CHRIST SENTENCED TO DEATH in IRAN! HIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY GETS NINE YEARS IN PRISON! PRO
09302011
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www.varight.com
It's time to stand for liberty; we who do not believe in government intervention, can speak out for this Iranian pastor and his defense attorney. The pastor is sentenced to death and the attorney nine years in prison. Here's how to protest!
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