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Date Sent: 2011-01-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, January 7, 2011 |
White House tightening of Mexico border gun rules delayed -- Drone may be coming to Miami-Dade
Study: U.S. Torture Techniques Unethical, Ineffective -- Vaccine Could Help Humans Kick Cocaine Habit -- White House’s ‘insider threat’ program targets federal employees for surveillance -- San Francisco police shoot wheelchair-bound man twice in the groin -- UFC Fighter Calls Out President, Gets Visit From the Secret Service -- Florida Professor Arrested for Having a "Suspicious" Bagel on a Plane -- Obama names JPMorgan's Daley as top aide -- Ex-C.I.A. Officer Named in Disclosure Indictment -- Raise debt limit to avoid national catastrophe, Geithner warns Congress -- Michigan Mom in E-mail Snooping Case Fights Back -- 'Perpetual motion' battery operates continuously in Romanian museum since 1950 -- The uncomfortable truth about mind control: Is free will simply a myth? -- Blue Shield of California Plans Rate Increases of 30 to 59 Percent -- Gallup Finds Unemployment Increased In December -- Consumer Metrics Institute: Economic Contraction Is 357 Days Long -- H1N1 vaccine breakthrough in Sweden -- Construction Begins on $1.5 Billion Cyber-security Center in Utah --
Mitt Rommel vs. Ron Paul on Medical Marijuana -- New health warning
against drinking distilled water -- Incendiary device was addressed to
governor of Maryland -- ‘Birther’ arrested during Constitution reading -- Action Alert—Now the FDA Is Going After Vitamin C! -- Eco-Fascists Call For Prison Cities -- “The Birds”: Mapping The Global Mass Animal Deaths Graveyard -- Bunches of Bats found dead in Tucson!
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club
meets
this Saturday with Ed Vallejo speaking on RTR.ORG Presentation, 1/8/2011; PHX Objectivists: Lecture on
"Postmodernism"
1/13/2011
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News Link • Gun Rights
White House tightening of Mexico border gun rules delayed
01-06-2011
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Reuters
A planned Obama administration clampdown on Mexico border gun dealers which would require them to report multiple assault rifle sales has been delayed by the White House amid stiff opposition from the powerful gun lobby.
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Drone may be coming to Miami-Dade
01-06-2011
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A new piece of technology may soon be coming to South Florida, but is already raising concerns from residents.
The Miami-Dade Police Department recently finalized a deal to buy a drone, which is an unmanned plane equipped with cameras. Drones have
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Study: U.S. Torture Techniques Unethical, Ineffective
01-06-2011
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LiveScience
Prolonged sleep deprivation, forced nudity and painful body positions are some of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" that the U.S. government approved after Sept. 11, 2001. Three doctors who advocate human rights argue that not only are these me
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Vaccine Could Help Humans Kick Cocaine Habit
01-06-2011
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LiveScience
The vaccine combines a segment of the common cold virus with a molecule similar to cocaine. After receiving the shot, mice dosed with the drug didn't respond with the hyperactive symptoms of a cocaine high, the researchers reported online in the jour
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House’s ‘insider threat’ program targets federal employees for surveillance
01-06-2011
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Rawstory
Jacob J. Lew, the director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget, directed government agencies that deal with classified information to ensure that they are in compliance with secrecy rules brought in after WikiLeaks' release of classi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
San Francisco police shoot wheelchair-bound man twice in the groin
01-06-2011
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Rawstory
n the video, the man can be seen throwing the knife aside and then being shot twice by the cops.
“What the fuck?" a witness can be heard asking. "That was unnecessary."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
UFC Fighter Calls Out President, Gets Visit From the Secret Service
01-06-2011
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Yahoo! Sports
UFC lightweight Jacob Volkmann, following his UFC 125 win over Antonio McKee, declared that he wanted to fight President Barack Obama for his next fight.
His words got him a visit from the Secret Service on Tuesday.
Volkmann, who is based out o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Florida Professor Arrested for Having a "Suspicious" Bagel on a Plane
01-06-2011
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NBC News
A Florida professor was arrested and removed from a plane Monday after his fellow passengers alerted crew members they thought he had a suspicious package in the overhead compartment.
That "suspicious package" turned out to be keys, a bagel with c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama names JPMorgan's Daley as top aide
01-06-2011
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Reuters
President Barack Obama on Thursday named JPMorgan Chase executive William Daley as his chief of staff, bringing a politically seasoned businessman into the White House to help trigger job growth as he grapples with resurgent Republicans.
Obama sai
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Ex-C.I.A. Officer Named in Disclosure Indictment
01-06-2011
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NY Times
While the indictment does not identify the journalist or the intelligence operation, its details make clear that prosecutors believe Mr. Sterling was talking to James Risen, a reporter for The New York Times. Mr. Risen wrote about a C.I.A. attempt to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Raise debt limit to avoid national catastrophe, Geithner warns Congress
01-06-2011
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Washington Post
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner warned lawmakers Thursday that the national debt could hit the legal limit on borrowing as soon as March 31, and he urged quick action to avoid a government default that would spark "catastrophic economic conseq
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Michigan Mom in E-mail Snooping Case Fights Back
01-06-2011
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ABC News
"He violated my privacy. I was violated," Clara Walker said in an exclusive interview with "Nightline's" Bill Weir. "It's all about him right now... because he's making it all about him. He forgot what he did.
Walker's ex, Leon Walker, faces a cha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
'Perpetual motion' battery operates continuously in Romanian museum since 1950
01-06-2010
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Terrence Aym
For more than three centuries inventors"usually crackpots"have sought the elusive fantasy of a perpetual motion machine. Now investigators of an amazing object stuck in the dusty corners of an obscure Romanian museum may have found the next best thin
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The uncomfortable truth about mind control: Is free will simply a myth?
01-06-2011
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independent.co.uk/
Milgram once wrote that we are "puppets controlled by the strings of society". Yet what is also true is that not all puppets jump when their strings are pulled.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Blue Shield of California Plans Rate Increases of 30 to 59 Percent
01-06-2011
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RawStory.com
Health insurance costs for hundreds of thousands of individual policy holders with Blue Shield of California could go up as much 59 percent this year, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gallup Finds Unemployment Increased In December
01-06-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Gallup has found that not only did the unemployment rate increase in December from 9.4% to 9.6%, that disgruntled part-time workers who want full-time work increased from 8.6% to 9.4%...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumer Metrics Institute: Economic Contraction Is 357 Days Long
01-06-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
This chart illustrates the more subtle and pernicious nature of the current decline in consumption. The 2010 decline has exceeded both the length and depth of the complete 2008 contraction cycle...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Pandemic
H1N1 vaccine breakthrough in Sweden
01-06-2011
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Terrence Aym
Data from the Swedish medical authorities confirms a vaccine breakthrough for pandemic H1N1 also known as "Swine Flu." A vaccine breakthrough does not mean that an improved vaccine has been created. On the contrary, in medical terms a breakthrough
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Police State
Construction Begins on $1.5 Billion Cyber-security Center in Utah
01-06-2011
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Desert News
Officially named the Utah Data Center, the facility's role in aggregating and verifying dizzying volumes of data for the intelligence community has already earned it the nickname "Spy Center." Its really long moniker is the Community Comprehensive Na
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
Mitt Rommel vs. Ron Paul on Medical Marijuana
01-06-2011
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David Kramer
Watch and Listen to the difference between Nazi Mitt Romney’s view on medical marijuana as opposed to humanitarian Ron Paul’s view. Then is a video to the great libertarian comedian Doug Stanhope on the sellout of “medical” marijuana: [NB: Some bad
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Transportation
GM Hy-Wire "Car of the Future"
01-06-2011
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James May
BBC's James May test drives the GM Hy-Wire concept car. The car uses hydrogen fuel cell propulsion and drive "by-wire" technology. Just think were the government not to exist, this wouldn't be HI-Tech it would be in a museum.
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
New health warning against drinking distilled water
01-06-2011
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Terrence Aym
Distilled water is pure and free of toxins, right? Wrong! Many health conscious consumers, however, are unaware of the long term potential of toxicity inherent in distilled water itself. Continuous use of the water will eventually lead to an imbalanc
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • TERRORISM
Incendiary device was addressed to governor of Maryland
01/6/2011
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the real news now
At a news conference in Annapolis Maryland, after two small packages released fire and smoke in different government owned buildings, representatives from the governors office and state police gave a brief press conference concerning the topic.
In
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News Link • Government
‘Birther’ arrested during Constitution reading
01-06-2011
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prisonplanet.com
A woman was arrested in the House gallery Thursday after interrupting a reading of the Constitution by yelling out her belief that President Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States.
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News Link • Seriously?
Action Alert"Now the FDA Is Going After Vitamin C!
01-06-2011
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prisonplanet.com
The FDA has just notified small pharmacies that they will no longer be allowed to manufacture or distribute injectable vitamin C"despite its remarkable power to heal conditions that conventional medicine can’t touch.
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News Link • Conspiracies
“The Birds”: Mapping The Global Mass Animal Deaths Graveyard
01-06-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Click on the image for a full interactive map of the now global mass animal deaths outbreak.
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News Link • Activism
Bunches of Bats found dead in Tucson!
01-06-2011
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Real News Tucson
Watch Haskellfilmz video:Over 70 Bats found dead under a bridge in Tucson Arizona! First reported by CFR MS Media "The Az Daily star"
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