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Date Sent: 2011-09-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, September 22, 2011 AM edition |
Stocks plunge after Fed announces stimulus steps -- Court dismisses Iraqi contractor torture case
Stopgap spending bill fails in the House; shutdown looms -- Poll shows
Romney lead in N.H., Perry in fourth place (and who's in 2nd... hmmmmm?)
-- 10 Twisted Reasons Not To Vote For Ron Paul -- Pakistan ISI urged attacks on U.S. targets: officials -- Weinstein is wrong about defense spending and Ron Paul -- Ga.
executes Davis; supporters claim injustice -- Gary Johnson Earns Debate
Spot (libertarian philosophy everywhere)
AZ: GOP Debate tonight, Sept
22nd, 2011. Debate Party at Hancock's, 6 p.m. until ??
CA: Libertopia in San Diego October 21-23
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Stocks plunge after Fed announces stimulus steps
09-21-2011
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AP
The Federal Reserve did what investors expected Wednesday - it said it would buy Treasury bonds to help the economy. But stocks fell anyway. The reason? The Fed made it clear that it thinks a full economic recovery is years away.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
Court dismisses Iraqi contractor torture case
09-21-2011
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Reuters
the appellate panel found the two companies had government contractor immunity and the claims were preempted, based on a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling and other precedents in the national security and foreign policy areas.
"During wartime, where
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
GOP Debate Thursday, Sept 22nd, 2011. Debate Party at Hancock's, 6 p.m. til ??
09-18-2011
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Meetup.com
Google and Fox News are hosting another GOP debate, sponsored by the Florida Republican Party, beginning at 9 p.m. EST (6 p.m. AZ/Pacific). We will start recording at 6 p.m. and start to replay around 6:30-6:46 p.m. Click thru for details...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stopgap spending bill fails in the House; shutdown looms
09-21-2011
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Washington Post
The surprise defeat in the House Wednesday of a special funding measure to keep the federal government functioning past Sept. 30 was a sharp rebuke of the GOP leadership that controls the chamber and a testament to the fragility of the majority itsel
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Poll shows Romney lead in N.H., Perry in fourth place (and who's in 2nd... hmmmmm?)
09-21-2011
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www.boston.com
The poll indicated that, despite Perry’s sudden burst onto the national scene, Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman stand a better chance of emerging as Romney’s chief rival in the Granite State.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
10 Twisted Reasons Not To Vote For Ron Paul
09-21-2011
This is what the masses are being told to think. If we wanted your opinion we would be giving it to you. I went through these quickly with rebuttals. The arguments presented are paper thin.
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pakistan ISI urged attacks on U.S. targets: officials
09-21-2011
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Reuters
U.S. officials say there is mounting evidence that Pakistan's chief intelligence agency has been encouraging a Pakistan-based militant network to attack U.S. targets. The allegations, if fully confirmed, heighten a painful dilemma for President Barac
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Weinstein is wrong about defense spending and Ron Paul
09-21-2011
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dailycaller.com
With the same confidence President Bush had in Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, Jamie Weinstein has asserted that the nation’s bloated defense budget is not fueling the deficit crisis.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Help prepare 'Freedom's Phoenix RV' to be painted and logo'd
09-19-2011
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Meetup.com/Hancock
Need help getting a donated RV (1977 Tioga) ready to be painted with the Freedom's Phoenix Logo and QR Codes.Work to be done is on the exterior (washed, cleared of all the old weatherstripping, sanded, taped, etc...) Thursday Sept 22nd, 8 a.m. til ?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Death Penalty
Ga. executes Davis; supporters claim injustice
09-21-2011
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AP
Georgia inmate Troy Davis has been executed for the killing of an off-duty police officer in a case that has drawn worldwide support over his claims of innocence.
Courts consistently ruled against him, however, and the officer’s family says they fin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Architecture
Project Utopia breaks the naval architectural mould
09-21-2011
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www.gizmag.com/project-utopia-floating-island
The concept of a floating island is not new, having first surfaced in Homer's Odyssey and making countless appearances in literature from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, C. S. Lewis' science fiction trilogy Perelandra, Hugh Lofting's The Voyages
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul says he'd consider putting Dennis Kucinich in his Cabinet
09-21-2011
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thehill.com
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) says he would consider putting the liberal congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) in his Cabinet if he were to win the presidency in 2012.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gary Johnson Earns Debate Spot (libertarian philosophy everywhere)
09-21-2011
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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com
And so Mr. Johnson, a libertarian who favors the legalization of marijuana and is against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will stand on the stage with the other eight Republican candidates. A spokeswoman for Fox News confirmed the decision Tuesday
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News Link • Science
New study seeks two-way conversations with dolphin
09-21-2011
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Terrence Aym
Dr. Denise L. Herzing intends to do something no person has ever done in the long history of the human race: establish a real dialogue with another species. Her goal is simple achieve a two-way conversation with dolphins, perhaps the smartest mammals
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Terrence Aym
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