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Date Sent: 2011-10-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, October 5, 2011 AM edition |
Majority of IEDs are traced to Pakistan -- U.S. confirms attacks by Pakistani military units
Bernanke tells Congress to cut out the brinkmanship over budget --
Investors, federal officials: Energy Department was careless with
taxpayer money -- Italy government bond rating downgraded by Moody’s on concerns over debt, weak economy -- Fraud in Corps of Engineers contracting charged -- Turkey and Russia Spar Over Natural Gas Prices -- ATF shifts blame: It’s Congress fault marijuana users can’t own guns -- Lower court’s ruling stands: Downloading music is not a crime -- Putin Calls For "Eurasian Union" to Compete With U.S. -- ATF Fast and Furious: New documents show Attorney General Eric Holder was briefed in July 2010 -- Perry Plummets in Latest GOP Poll -- Hank Williams Jr. Yanked By ESPN After Comparing Obama to Hitler -- Anti-Wall Street Protesters Prep For "Massive" March -- Hong Kong: still the cheapest place to buy gold coins -- Members of GOP House ask for special counsel to investigate Holder for Fast and Furious -- Zak Carter, Rock the Revolution Tour - Adam Kokesh, Occupy Wall Street Protest -- Do 7 billion earthlings represent an overpopulation problem? (Video explanation)
AZ: John Stuart Trial Continues; Lets show the
Phoenix FED Bank some LOV3 this Saturday; Gary Johnson comes to
Arizona end of Oct.!
CA: Libertopia in San Diego October 21-23
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Majority of IEDs are traced to Pakistan
10-04-2011
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USA Today
Pakistan is the source of explosives in the vast majority of makeshift bombs insurgents in Afghanistan planted this summer to attack U.S. troops, according to U.S. military commanders.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. confirms attacks by Pakistani military units
10-04-2011
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Washington Examiner
Pakistani military units fired shots at American and Afghan government troops along the Afghanistan border several times over the past year, in encounters the United States has downplayed but that illustrate the fraying relations between the countrie
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke tells Congress to cut out the brinkmanship over budget
10-04-2011
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Washington Post
Amid a gloomy outlook for economic growth, Bernanke warned that the recovery is “close to faltering,” and he said the central bank has marked down its forecasts since they were last released publicly in June.
The Fed decided two weeks ago to shift
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Investors, federal officials: Energy Department was careless with taxpayer money
10-04-2011
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Washington Post
Both career White House officials and savvy private investors worried last year that the Energy Department’s strategy for investing in clean energy companies was dangerously flawed " and likely to backfire, according to partial e-mails released Monda
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Italy government bond rating downgraded by Moody’s on concerns over debt, weak economy
10-04-2011
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Washington Post
Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded Italy’s government bond ratings to “A2” with a negative outlook from “Aa2,” the result of high debt, a weak global economy and political uncertainties that delay corrective action.
While the change moves th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Fraud in Corps of Engineers contracting charged
10-04-2011
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Washington Post
Strip away the shell companies and complex wire transfers, and what federal prosecutors on Tuesday called “one of the most brazen corruption schemes in the history of federal contracting” was really quite simple.
First, officials at the Army Corps
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New Space Venture Could Bring Every City On Earth Within Two Hours Travel
10-04-2011
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FOX News
A Formula One tycoon is linking up with KLM, the Dutch airline, to develop spacecraft that could bring every city on Earth within 2 hours' travel time. A British passenger was the first to buy a $93,000 ticket for a ride on an early version of the cr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
ATF shifts blame: It’s Congress fault marijuana users can’t own guns
10-04-2011
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Rawstory
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) director Mike Sullivan appeared Monday on Fox News to defend a memo sent gun dealers in the United States. He claimed the agency was only following laws passed by Congress.
The memo stated that those w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Lower court’s ruling stands: Downloading music is not a crime
10-04-2011
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Reuters
The Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that a traditional Internet download of sound recording does not constitute a public performance of the recorded musical work under federal copyright law.
The justices refused to review a ruling by an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Putin Calls For "Eurasion Union" to Compete With U.S.
10-04-2011
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slatest.slate.com
The Russian prime minister on Tuesday floated the idea of forming a "Eurasion Union" of former Soviet states that he says would be similar to the European Union. Putin said the goal would be to "create real conditions to change the geopolitical and g
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
ATF Fast and Furious: New documents show Attorney General Eric Holder was briefed in July 2010
10-04-2011
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www.cbsnews.com
WASHINGTON - New documents obtained by CBS News show Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial Fast and Furious operation as far back as July 2010. That directly contradicts his statement to Congress.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Apple Unveils New iPhone
10-04-2011
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slatest.slate.com/
The company announced that the new phone will run from $199 to $399 when it goes on sale in the U.S. on October 14. The original iPhone 4 (8GB), meanwhile, will be knocked down to $99, and the the 3GS will be free with a two-year contract.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Perry Plummets in Latest GOP Poll
10-04-2011
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slatest.slate.com
His slide in popularity comes after recent blunders in GOP debates, at times stuttering and even getting publicly mocked by other presidential nominees, and conservative criticism of his policy positions, like his support for statewide HPV vaccinatio
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Hank Williams Jr. Yanked By ESPN After Comparing Obama to Hitler
10-04-2011
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slatest.slate.com
ESPN has dropped Hank Williams Jr. from its upcoming Monday Nigh Football telecast after the country music star compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler during an appearance on Fox News.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Events: America
Anti-Wall Street Protesters Prep For "Massive" March
10-04-2011
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slatest.slate.com
As the Occupy Wall Street protests continue to spread to other cities, New York’s protesters are doubling down as unions, community groups, college students and the unemployed stream to the Financial District to protest against corporate greed and fi
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Precious Metals
Hong Kong: still the cheapest place to buy gold coins
10-04-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
If you’ve never been, the streets are lined with banks (and shopping malls), meaning there’s no shortage of places to buy gold. It’s commonplace in Hong Kong for banks to sell gold (same in Singapore, Austria, and many other countries), but what I co
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics
Members of GOP House ask for special counsel to investigate Holder for Fast and Furious
10-4-2011
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Conservative Nexus
House committees ask President Obama to assign a special counsel to determine if Attorney General Eric Holder is involved in Fast and Furious scandal
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James Hyde
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Faster Than Light Neutrinos are 'Cosmic' Neutrinos -- Predict Reciprocal Theorists
10-04-2011
"my conclusion is that they are measuring C-neutrinos, appear to move slightly faster than light because of the spatial rotation they are composed of (the particle is covering "more space" in the SAME amount of clock time than a photon would
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Census
Do 7 billion earthlings represent an overpopulation problem? (Video explanation)
10-04-2011
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The Political Commentator
With the global population hitting 7,000,000,000, is the theory that lays out the argument for global overpopulation real and valid?
This video explains how through simple math the earth is actually not facing the problem of overpopulation and tha
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