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Date Sent: 2011-10-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, October 7, 2011 PM edition |
IMF adviser: The global economy could collapse ‘in two to three weeks’
Hunger crisis grips North Korea as food runs short -- Ala.: Inmates can replace Hispanic farmhands -- FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service -- Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet -- Topeka, unable to afford to prosecute all crimes, letting domestic abuse be ignored -- Ron Paul: Economy is biased against the poor -- Citizen for Life: Israel bars nuclear whistle-blower from emigrating -- Apparently attempting to open the cockpit door on a commercial jetliner is not a crime! -- Federal judge won't restore 2nd Amendment rights -- The Moral Imperative of ‘Activism’ -- With latest ruling, IRS threatens to crush the whole medical marijuana industry -- Bahrain Frees Doctors Imprisoned for Treating Protesters -- If you want more jobs, look to Steve Jobs -- New Bank Fees Make Being Broke Even More Expensive -- Gain in U.S. Payrolls May Not Cut Jobless Rate -- US Census: Housing bust worst since Great Depression -- World facing worst financial crisis in history, Bank of England Governor says -- Moody's cuts credit ratings on UK banks RBS and Lloyds -- Vindicated: Ridiculed Israeli scientist wins Nobel -- "New York
Times" Bashes Outspoken World Leaders -- 'Flying Carpet' Takes Flight
AZ: END THE WARS - 1ST FRIDAY
PROTEST - 10 years!!!!; Help prep Freedom's Phoenix RV for
painting and logo application Fri/Sat Oct 7/8, 2011; John Stuart Trial Continues; Lets show the Phoenix FED
Bank some LOV3 this Saturday; GOP Debate party Tuesday Oct 11th 6
p.m. Hancock's; Gary Johnson comes to Arizona end of Oct.!
CA: Libertopia in San Diego October 21-23
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF adviser: The global economy could collapse ‘in two to three weeks’
10-07-2011
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Rawstory
In an interview on BBC yesterday, International Monetary Fund (IMF) adviser Robert Shapiro said something quite alarming: without a plan to save the Euro, the global economy will collapse “in two to three weeks.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Hunger crisis grips North Korea as food runs short
10-07-2011
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www.msnbc.msn.com
HAEJU, North Korea " In a pediatric hospital in North Korea's most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Ala.: Inmates can replace Hispanic farmhands
10-07-2011
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www.politico.com
Alabama farmers frantically looking for workers to replace those that have fled the state in the wake of its tough new immigration law should just stop by their local prison, according to the head of Alabama’s agriculture department.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service
10-07-2011
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www.nextgov.com
The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet
10-07-2011
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www.wired.com/dangerroom
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Topeka, unable to afford to prosecute all crimes, letting domestic abuse be ignored
10-07-2011
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Yahoo News
Domestic abuse can involve real violence, with real victims. But drug cases, with no real victims, allows for property to be forfeited and money seized.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Death
100 Reactions to the Death of Steve Jobs
10-07-2011
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Chris Crum
The death of Steve Jobs has inspired many, many people to share their thoughts on the life of a man they truly admired, and that includes a lot of big names. Following is a list of 100 such reactions from names many will recognize, spanning throughou
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul: Economy is biased against the poor
10-07-2011
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Rawstory (video)
Paul was asked about a comment made by his fellow presidential candidate, Hermain Cain, who said that people should only blame themselves for not having a job and not being rich.
“I imagine that applies to a few people in this country,” he said. “
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Citizen for Life: Israel bars nuclear whistle-blower from emigrating
10-07-2011
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AFP
Israel’s supreme court barred nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu from emigrating on the grounds he still poses a threat to state security, Israeli media reported. Vanunu, under orders to stay in Tel Aviv and not to speak to journalists, “has pro
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Apparently attempting to open the cockpit door on a commercial jetliner is not a crime!
10-07-2011
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The Political Commentator
From the what does it take to get arrested on suspicion of terrorism file!
Apparently more than what these facts describe about an attempt to open the cockpit door on an American Airlines flight from JFK to Indianapolis:
1) Abdulaziz Al-Shammari,
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Gun Rights
Michael's Law
10-07-2011
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suingforjustice.blogspot.com
In honor of Michael Roth of Quartzsite, Arizona, who had his gun rights revoked simply because he called someone a "turd."
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Help prep Freedom's Phoenix RV for painting and logo application Fri/Sat Oct 7/8, 2011
10-06-2011
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Meetup.com/Hancock
We are almost ready to paint and logo a donated RV with the Freedom's Phoenix website and various QR codes. Need help with finishing the sanding, washing, and taping...
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Federal judge won't restore 2nd Amendment rights
10-07-2011
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www.wnd.com
Says state court that ordered blogger to be unarmed must decide case
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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Opinion • Activism
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Moral Imperative of ‘Activism’
10-07-2011
Ray McGovern
On Sept. 18, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern gave a talk about “activism”. He focused on the need to confront the military industrial complex. Now, as the occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington gets under way, his words take on a special resonance
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News Link • States' Rights
With latest ruling, IRS threatens to crush the whole medical marijuana industry
10-07-2011
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www.rawstory.com
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is on the verge of shutting down California’s largest medical marijuana dispensary, and with it potentially the entire semi-legal pot industry.
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Reported by:
Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
If you want more jobs, look to Steve Jobs
10-07-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
You’ve undoubtedly heard by now that Steve Jobs passed away yesterday after a long battle with cancer; it’s been all over the news with wall-to-wall coverage, and iCandle vigils have sprung up all over the world.
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Gun Rights
High-Capacity Magazines
10-07-2011
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www.surefire.com
SureFire High-Capacity Magazines, available in either 60-round or 100-round versions, are compatible with M4/M16/AR-15 variants and other firearms that accept STANAG 4179 magazines.
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Reported by:
Gwendolyn Strmic
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Opinion • Government
Freedom Lost
10-07-2011
Chuck Baldwin
Many times I hear the ostriches among us exclaim, "What freedoms
have we lost? America is the freest country on earth." We have all
heard that, right?
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
New Bank Fees Make Being Broke Even More Expensive
10-07-2011
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LiveScience
Banks are charging you more for using your debit card and for not keeping enough money in your account.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Gain in U.S. Payrolls May Not Cut Jobless Rate
10-07-2011
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Bloomberg
A projected gain in U.S. payrolls in September was probably too small to bring down the unemployment rate as concern mounted that the global recovery was losing momentum, economists said before a report today.
Employment climbed by 55,000 workers
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
US Census: Housing bust worst since Great Depression
10-07-2011
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AP
The American dream of homeownership has felt its biggest drop since the Great Depression, according to new 2010 census figures released Thursday.
The analysis by the Census Bureau found the homeownership rate fell to 65.1 percent last year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
World facing worst financial crisis in history, Bank of England Governor says
10-07-2011
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Daily Telegraph
The world is facing the worst financial crisis since at least the 1930s “if not ever”, the Governor of the Bank of England said last night.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Moody's cuts credit ratings on UK banks RBS and Lloyds
10-07-2011
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Reuters
Credit rating agency Moody's downgraded Britain's part-nationalized banks Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland on Friday, although Britain's finance minister said UK banks were well-placed to cope with a European debt crisis.
The cuts to RBS and Lloy
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Vindicated: Ridiculed Israeli scientist wins Nobel
10-07-2011
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AP
When scientist Dan Shechtman claimed to have stumbled upon a new crystalline chemical structure that seemed to violate the laws of nature, colleagues mocked him, insulted him and exiled him from his U.S. research group.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Tree of Life for Mammals Enhanced
10-07-2011
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arclein
sequences from many different genes, to examine how the different families of mammals are related to each other. This dataset, with all the sequences we generated, provides a large and reliable foundation - a springboard - for biologists to take the
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
US Offshore Oil Imports Plummeting
10-07-2011
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arclein
The actual levels seem to be more of a shift from 61-63% imports to 47% imports. 3.8 million barrels per day of lower oil imports but 1.8 million barrels per day is from lower oil usage. A lot of the lower oil usage is because of the higher prices fo
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
'Flying Carpet' Takes Flight
10-07-2011
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arclein
He abandoned what would have been a fashionable project printing electronic circuits with nano-inks for one that seemed to have more in common with 1001 Nights than 21st-Century engineering.
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robert klein
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News Link • Death
Steve Jobs Dead From Cancer
10-07-2011
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arclein
Steve Jobs reportedly underwent both. His chemotherapy treatments at the Standard Cancer Center are now well known (http://www.marksmarketanalysis.com/...), and his secret radiotherapy treatments in Switzerland have now been made public by former A
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
2012 GOP Primary Debate Schedule
10-06-2011
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2012 Election Central
Here is the most up-to-date and complete schedule we have for the 2011 / 2012 Republican Primary debates. These debates are between all the Republican candidates.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
GOP Debate party Tuesday, Oct 11th, 2011 - Hancock's, 6 p.m.
10-06-2011
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2012 Election Central
This time, the debate is sponsored by Bloomberg TV, The Washington Post and WBIN-TV, a local station which will broadcast the debate in New Hampshire at Dartmouth College.
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Donna Hancock
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