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Date Sent: 2010-10-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, October 28, 2010 AM edition |
America Now Secret Police State - Federal Court Rules Can Hide Bagram Prisoners
"Officer Bubbles" Cop Suing Over Mocking Videos -- Judge Bars Release of Video That Shows Police Beating -- New Federal Regulations Target For-Profit Colleges
-- Treasury Sees Escalating Risk to Home Prices -- Piercing the mystery
of the gold market -- Alleged Killer Cop's termination blocked by judge
-- O’Keefe: Top Union Official Caught on Tape Discussing Voter Fraud -- Employers in U.S. Start Bracing for Higher Tax Withholding -- Baltimore Hands Out First Trans Fat Citation -- Philly Transit Cops Add Photog to Terrorist Database -- Va Man Charged in Fake Bomb Plot Against DC Subway -- Does Obama support legal pot or not? -- LimeWire shut down by federal court --
New Nanospheres are the Stiffest Biological Materials Ever Created,
Surpassing Kevlar -- Fermilab is Building A 'Holometer' to Determine
Whether Reality Is Just an Illusion -- The
New Land Rush: The selling out of America’s farmers -- Africa,
Chocolate, Bill Gates, Monsanto, and the Genetically Modified Land Grab
-- Entire Police Force Of Mexican Town Resigns After Attack
-- Foreclosure-Gate: “We found servicer defaults in 100% of the trusts”
-- Why Did Banks Give Home Loans to People Who They Knew Couldn't Pay?
-- Your Next: US Army Amasses Biometric Data in Afghanistan Proving Ground -- Conway Cover-Up: Media Ignores Admitted Obstruction Of Justice -- RTR Gary Franchi interviews libertarian candidate for Arizona governor Barry Hess -- Michael Roberts: One Man Against the Surveillance State -- Uncovered 9/11 Footage Shows FBI Director Asking Firefighters About Secondary Hits On WTC -- “9/11 Cover-up” #1 Search Term on Google -- How Goldman Sachs Took Over The American Economy -- Enhanced pat-downs to begin at Buffalo airport
AZ: Objectivity in the Media with
libertarian talk show host Jim Sharpe
speaking tonight; Karl
Rove, "War Criminal," In Phoenix 11/09/2010; AZC4L
Freedom Rally and Annual Convention Featuring Dr. Ron Paul November 19-20.
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News Link • Police State
America Now Secret Police State - Federal Court Rules Can Hide Bagram Prisoners
10-27-2010
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leosigh.blogspot.com/
Everything I read about America lately shows me what a corrupt and dangerous country it is. A secret police state, run by corrupt politicians, an even more corrupt judicial system,and a nation that thinks attacking other nations and illegally tortur
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"Officer Bubbles" Cop Suing Over Mocking Videos
10-27-2010
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pixiq
First, Constable Adam Josephs threatened to arrest a young woman for blowing bubbles in his direction during the G20 protest in Toronto earlier this year. Now he is threatening to sue Youtube for "ridicule" over a series of cartoon videos that have b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge Bars Release of Video That Shows Police Beating
10-27-2010
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pixiq
A surveillance video that allegedly shows a group of Houston police officers severely beating a 15-year-old suspect will not be released to the public. The judge barred release of the video because "in all likelihood it will repeatedly be streamed on
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • Israel
Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy
IRmep
The Institute for Research Middle Eastern Policy(IRmep) is a Washington-based nonprofit organization that studies US-Middle East policy formulation. Founded in 2002, the Institute became an independent private non-profit tax-exempt organization in 2
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
New Federal Regulations Target For-Profit Colleges
10-27-2010
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AP
The Department of Education will release finalized regulations targeting for-profit colleges that give the government a stronger hand overseeing the fast-growing sector " including reining in how recruiters are paid and an attempt to define credit ho
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Treasury Sees Escalating Risk to Home Prices
10-27-2010
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NY Times
The uncertainty over the legal status of foreclosed homes in the nation could further depress home prices and delay the recovery of the housing market, the Obama administration said on Wednesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
Piercing the mystery of the gold market
10-27-2010
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GATA
The precious metals markets have tremendous potential for investors. But they are also wrapped up in great mystery -- deliberately so. Gold is the worst understood financial market. Most official data about gold is actually disinformation.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Alleged Killer Cop's termination blocked by judge
10-27-2010
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East Valley Tribune
Phoenix police will have to wait to fire Richard Chrisman, the patrol officer charged with murder and aggravated assault in the death of an unarmed domestic violence suspect. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge issued a temporary restraining order
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
O’Keefe: Top Union Official Caught on Tape Discussing Voter Fraud
10-27-2010
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Breitbart TV
Top Official at NJEA (New Jersey Education Association) discussing what he describes as a rigged election in Hudson County, NJ.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Employers in U.S. Start Bracing for Higher Tax Withholding
10-27-2010
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Bloomberg
Employers in the U.S. are starting to warn their workers to prepare for slimmer paychecks if Congress fails to vote on an extension of Bush-era tax cuts.
“I’ve been doing payroll for probably close to 30 years now, and never have we seen something
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Baltimore Hands Out First Trans Fat Citation
10-27-2010
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WBAL TV11
The Baltimore City Health Department issued its first environmental citation for repeat violations of the city's trans fat ban. The Health Department issued Healthy Choice, a food facility in the 400 block of Lexington Street, a $100 fine on Thursday
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Philly Transit Cops Add Photog to Terrorist Database
10-27-2010
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pixiq
While some of us celebrated the fact the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged last week that photographing public buildings is legal, most of us are unaware that the DHS is creating a national database of people committing “suspicious activit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Va Man Charged in Fake Bomb Plot Against DC Subway
10-27-2010
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AP
A Pakistani-born Virginia man was arrested Wednesday and accused of casing Washington-area subway stations in what he thought was an al-Qaida plot to bomb and kill commuters. The bombing plot was a ruse conducted over the past six months, the FBI sai
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Does Obama support legal pot or not?
10-27-2010
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Salon
The White House is opposed to California's Proposition 19 -- but really doesn't want to talk about it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
LimeWire shut down by federal court
10-27-2010
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The Guardian
LimeWire, one of the world's most popular peer-to-peer filesharing websites, has been shut down after a four-year legal battle with the US music industry. A federal court in New York issued a "permanent injunction" against LimeWire, ruling the platfo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Video: Incredibly Precise Robot Bowler Gets Beaten by Professional Human Bowler
10-27-2010
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
This robot bowler, cheekily named EARL, is capable of laying down the exact same, utterly perfect shot every time. Yet it still lost to professional human bowler Chris Barnes. How did this happen?
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"Objectivity in Media" Lecture
10-27-2010
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their last meeting in October to be held tonight, Phoenix Objectivists will be joined by 550AM KFYI radio talk show host Jim Sharpe for a lecture on "Objectivity in Media".
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fermilab is Building A 'Holometer' to Determine Whether Reality Is Just an Illusion
10-27-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Researchers at Fermilab are building a “holometer” so they can disprove everything you thought you knew about the universe. More specifically, they are trying to either prove or disprove the somewhat mind-bending notion that the third dimension
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • History
Very early photographic images of humans discovered
10-27-2010
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The Upshot
So the recent discovery of what appears to be 2 men near the river's edge in a photo of Cincinnati taken in 1848 is kind of a big deal among photography historians. The photo was taken by Charles Fontayne and William Porter -- who were standing on th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
The New Land Rush: The selling out of America’s farmers
10-26-10
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The PPJ Gazette
If the Chinese acquire large tracts of land here in the United States, food grown will be for import. This will threaten not only our own independence, but will cause distortions in our food supply and put an end to the local food movement as well.
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Africa, Chocolate, Bill Gates, Monsanto, and the Genetically Modified Land Grab
10-27-2010
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Farm Wars
In return for the surrender of national sovereignty over intellectual property, biomass, and national food security the Gene Giants are offering to “donate” proprietary genes to resource poor farmers.
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Barbara Peterson
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
The Silver Sleuth
Jeff Clark
We once had an ongoing series in BIG GOLD called, "1001 Reasons to Own Gold." The idea was that there were so many valid reasons to own the metal that I wanted to track and report on them. If you've been invested in the precious metals arena, you kno
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News Link • Drug War
Entire Police Force Of Mexican Town Resigns After Attack
10-27-2010
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www.ino.com
Rather understandably, the cops said "Chingao esto cago!!" (F**k this s**t)
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: “We found servicer defaults in 100% of the trusts”
10-27-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The reason for the ire? It is the noteholders who ended up having to pay legal fees associated with discoveries of rampant fraud: "The investors, who Franklin has said own more than $500 billion of the securities, are “pretty disturbed”...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Why Did Banks Give Home Loans to People Who They Knew Couldn't Pay?
10-27-2010
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washingtonsblog.com/
No honest, rational lender would make large numbers of liar’s loans. The epidemic of mortgage fraud was so large that it hyper-inflated the housing bubble, which allowed refinancing to further extend the life of the bubble... William Black
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
You're Next: US Army Amasses Biometric Data in Afghanistan
Proving Ground
10-27-2010
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guardian.co.uk/world/
The biometric survey is seen as an essential tool for implementing one of the key principles of counterinsurgency theory: that the population needs to be separated from insurgents.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Stunning Chart: The Real State of Inflation
10-27-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
On its face, viewing the government’s official numbers, the uninformed observer would assume that inflation really is under control, and that the immediate threat, as touted by mainstream economist is deflation.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Conway Cover-Up: Media Ignores Admitted Obstruction Of Justice
10-27-2010
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Paul Joseph Watson & Kurt Nimmo, PrisonPlanet.com
While hyperventilating over the Lauren Valle stomping incident, the corporate media has ignored a far bigger scandal swirling around the Kentucky Senate race " the fact that financial contributors to Jack Conway’s campaign and Conway himself tipped o
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Government
Michael Roberts: One Man Against the Surveillance State
10-27-2010
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lewrockwell.com
"I don’t know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747. That’s why we haven’t put them in our airport."
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Leaked Photo: Is This the Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone?
10-27-2010
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wired.com
Engadget has photos of what it says is a prototype Sony Ericsson slide-out phone with PlayStation-PSP"style gaming controls. The phone has a multitouch trackpad and purportedly will appear sometime next year running Android 3.0, aka Gingerbread.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Space Telescope Listens In on Stellar Symphony
10-27-2010
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wired.com
The Kepler Space Telescope doesn’t just look for planets. By listening to subtle vibrations of the stars in its field of view, the telescope is recording a stellar symphony that gives an unprecedentedly accurate view of the inner lives of stars.
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News Link • Conspiracies
How Goldman Sachs Took Over The American Economy
6/20/09
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prosebeforehos.com
The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Mercedes Dreams of Rickshaws and Cars Knit by Robots
10-27-2010
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wired.com
This year’s Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge tackles a heavy question: How do you build a lightweight car that doesn’t compromise safety, styling or performance?
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Police State
Enhanced pat-downs to begin at Buffalo airport
10-27-2010
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BodyScannerTruth.com
When asked if the government anticipates complaints, the law enforcement official said, “We won’t know until it is deployed in Buffalo, and we see how people react.”
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