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Date Sent: 2010-10-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, October 20, 2010 AM edition |
'Systemic failures' led to attack, CIA says -- NY Fed: Banks Should Buy Mortgages
In Defense of Anonymous Speech -- If Not 11 to 1, Why 5 to 4? -- 11 Freedoms that Drunks, Slackers, Prostitutes and Pirates Pioneered -- Motion may force Arizona to reveal source of execution drugs -- State lawmakers preparing citizenship legislation -- Ex-agent: I almost shot LBJ hours after JFK murder -- Geek Chic: Hyper-Engineered ‘DARPA Hoodie’ Makes Defense Tech Fashionable -- Dutch McDonald's Tracks Burglars by Spraying Them With Synthetic DNA Mist -- 15 American Cities With Huge Populations Living On Food Stamps -- Health Reform Hits Main Street -- Gates vs. Ballmer on Washington State Income Tax -- Advisers spooked by fund’s sudden nose dive -- 3rd UPDATE:Bank of America Takes Big Charge, Posts Mixed Revenue -- The IMF and the World Bank: How Do They Differ? -- Geithner Stands Firm on Yuan -- A Really Intrusive Search. Really, Really Intrusive -- PART 6: BICYCLING COAST TO COAST ACROSS AMERICA--TEXAS -- Pilot’s refusal to undergo full body scan ignites debate -- Ad Urges Rational Behavior – Politicos in a Snit
AZ: MEET UP - Tarrin Lupo - today; Thomas Woods Speaking in Phoenix, tonight 7PM; 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 • Central Intelligence Agency
'Systemic failures' led to attack, CIA says
10-19-2010
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Washington Post
The CIA was cautioned last year that a self-proclaimed al-Qaeda turncoat might be luring the agency into an ambush, a warning that came weeks before the man killed seven agency operatives in a suicide attack in Afghanistan, an internal investigation
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
N.Y. Fed: Banks Should Buy Mortgages
10-19-2010
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NY Times
Two years after the Fed bought billions of dollars in mortgage securities as part of the financial bailout, its New York arm is questioning the paperwork " and pressing banks to buy some of the investments back.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Speech
In Defense of Anonymous Speech
10-19-2010
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The Agitator
VIDEO [Also, see the post from IJ’s Steve Simpson, “Who is this Publius character?”]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
If Not 11 to 1, Why 5 to 4?
10-19-2010
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Simple Justice
Recently, the issue of non-unanimous verdicts was under discussion, with the question asked but not answered as to why Oregon and the military have chosen to accept a less than unanimous verdict as sufficient to convict in a criminal case. In Apodac
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
11 Freedoms that Drunks, Slackers, Prostitutes and Pirates Pioneered
10-19-2010
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Alternet
During the War of Independence a culture of pleasure and freedom blossomed in American cities. Non-marital sex, including adultery and relations between whites and blacks, was ubiquitous and rarely punished. Because divorce was unregulated, it was ea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Motion may force Arizona to reveal source of execution drugs
10-19-2010
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AP
A state prosecutor and defense attorneys for a murderer scheduled for execution next week will argue before the Arizona Supreme Court as to whether the state has to reveal its source of the drugs needed for execution.The drugs may have been imported,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
State lawmakers preparing citizenship legislation
10-19-2010
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AP
The state senator in Arizona who wrote the nation's toughest law against illegal immigrants said Tuesday he's collecting support across the country from legislators to challenge automatic U.S. citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Ex-agent: I almost shot LBJ hours after JFK murder
10-19-2010
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AP
A former Secret Service agent says he nearly shot President Johnson hours after Kennedy's assassination. Gerald Blaine recalls standing guard outside the Washington home of newly sworn-in President Johnson in the early hours of Nov. 23, 1963.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Inventions
Geek Chic: Hyper-Engineered ‘DARPA Hoodie’ Makes Defense Tech Fashionable
10-19-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
The ‘DARPA hoodie,’ a strangely-designed patchwork garment accented with the occasional red zipper, is made of 12 interlocking pieces of rip-resistant nylon that sew perfectly together into a hoodie with zero waste.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Inventions
Dutch McDonald's Tracks Burglars by Spraying Them With Synthetic DNA Mist
10-19-2010
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
You know those lizards that spray blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism? This Dutch McDonald's is pretty much like that, only replace "blood" with "synthetic DNA visible under ultraviolet light."
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Environment
Racing to Save Bats From Catastrophic Extinction, Biologists Turn to New Tools
10-19-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
What would the United States look like without bats? As winter approaches, biologists seek new methods and technologies to help control a potentially devastating ecological disaster
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Raising Eyebrows at a Peace Rally
10-16-2010
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The International Libertarian
"Why are you wearing that flag here?", a confused young man asked about my choice of capes last Saturday at the peace rally in Philadelphia. Since the crowd was basically left, lefter, and far left they seemed only to associate the Gadsden flag wit
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
15 American Cities With Huge Populations Living On Food Stamps
10-19-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
By 2010, over a quarter of the total population in 239 counties was receiving food stamps. Most of these are small rural counties, but they also include major urban areas like Philadelphia and New York.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Death
Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 - 14 October 2010)
10-19-2010
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RadGeek
Mathematics is a thing of beauty, and Mandelbrot " best known for his development of fractal geometry; also one of the most important innovators in applied mathematics " should also be remembered as one of our most remarkable writers, and artists.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
New World Order Expert Joan Veon Passes Away At Age 61
10-19-2010
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Rense.com
Joan personally traveled to over 100 of the top meetings of the elite controllers to capture the most crucial information and present the big picture to all who have ears to hear and who are not afraid of the truth. Attached is her last interview.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Health Reform Hits Main Street
09/17/2010
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kff.org
Confused about how the new health reform law really works? This short, animated movie -- featuring the "YouToons" -- explains the problems with the current health care system, the changes that are happening now, and the big changes coming in 2014 i
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Michele Power
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Thomas Woods at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix
10-06-2010
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TomWoods.com
Bestselling author of ten books and a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Mr. Woods will be speaking Wednesday, October 20 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm, Grand Canyon University; 3300 West Camelback Road, Phoenix, AZ
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Freedom's Phoenix
MEET UP - Tarrin Lupo - Wednesday October 20th 2010
10-15-2010
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lclreport.podomatic.com
Tarrin Lupo will be in Phoenix, AZ at the Freedoms Phoenix Workshop. He will be hanging out there and doing some interviews. Come on down!!!!
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News Link • TAXES: State
Gates vs. Ballmer on Washington State Income Tax
10-19-2010
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www.webcpa.com
The two heads of Microsoft are finding themselves on opposite sides of a battle in Washington State over the imposition of a state income tax that would apply to only upper-income earners.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
3rd UPDATE:Bank of America Takes Big Charge,Posts Mixed Revenue
10-19-2010
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online.wsj.com
Bank of America Corp.'s (BAC) third-quarter earnings showed the withering effects of new financial regulations, even as the giant Charlotte bank took advantage of its size to generate higher revenue from mortgage banking and fixed-income trading.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The IMF and the World Bank: How Do They Differ?
10-19-2010
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www.imf.org
If you have difficulty distinguishing the World Bank from the International Monetary Fund, you are not alone. Most people have only the vaguest idea of what these institutions do, and very few people indeed could, if pressed on the point, say why and
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Karl Rove, "War Criminal," In Phoenix 11/09/2010
10-19-2010
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Phoenix New Times
The first thing that sprang to mind when I got the above flier in my e-mail in-box announcing that "Bush's Brain" Karl Rove will be speaking at the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce's "Phoenix Forum" series, was, um, what, you mean David Duke was una
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Nick Barnett
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Geithner Stands Firm on Yuan
10-19-2010
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Wall Street Journal
"It's not going to happen in this country," Mr. Geithner said in remarks here. "The United States of America and no country in the world can devalue its way to competitiveness. It's not viable and we will not engage in it."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
A Really Intrusive Search. Really, Really Intrusive
10-19-2010
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Simple Justice
Frisks are for kids. Two cops in Minneapolis saw no point in awaiting the legal niceties, or perhaps enjoy their job a bit too much. They decided to snap on the latex gloves and go for it. What they didn't know was they were actually starring in a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Pilot’s refusal to undergo full body scan ignites debate
10-19-2010
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bodyscannertruth.com
A pilot for ExpressJet Airlines is in danger of losing his job for refusing to go through a body scan at Memphis International Airport on his way to work.
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Trouser Chili
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