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Date Sent: 2011-07-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, July 7, 2011 PM edition |
Former CIA Chief: Separate Internet To Curb Cyber Threats -- BATF director: FBI and DEA guilty too
BATF has ANOTHER gun-walker scandal erupting, in Florida, sending guns to Honduras -- China's Debt Monster -- Murdoch to Close Tabloid Amid Fury Over Hacking -- 'Nazi' police 'kidnap' woman at town hall -- EU wants U.N. action on Syria -- Morning Joe Censorship on Ron's Q2 Push -- "Austerity riots will come to the US"
-- BONUS SHOW!! LanguageofLiberty.org Freeing the European Union 1
Country at a time, Poland -- Bomb Implants Emerge as Airline Terror
Threat -- David Stockman: Ben Bernanke is finished! -- Mexican lawmakers want to extradite U.S. officials over ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ scandal -- Tricked on the Fourth of July - by Gary North -- Indiana Teen Faces Possible Jail Time For Sex Doll Prank Gone Wrong -- 12 And 13-Year-Old Kids Turn In Dad For Marijuana Possession Say Police -- Sailor refused to learn how to fire gun due to 'immoral' Afghan war jailed 7 months -- A Variety of Methods Can Be Used to Tap Into Phones -- Family Says Deputies Interrupted Party, Used Tasers
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News Link • Internet
Former CIA Chief: A Separate Internet Could Curb Cyber Threats
07-07-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
To combat cyber attacks, the U.S. may need more than new cyber defenses. It might need a whole new piece of Internet infrastructure. So says former CIA director Michael Hayden, who served under President G.W. Bush, and he’s not the only one.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Sinking fast, BATF director Melson says FBI and DEA are guilty too
07-07-2011
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San Francisco Chronicle
Some Mexican drug cartel figures targeted by BATF in a gun-trafficking investigation were paid informants for the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration. BATF was "kept in the dark" and might have ended the operation sooner, Melson claims.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Gun Rights
BATF has ANOTHER gun-walker scandal erupting, in Florida, sending guns to Honduras
07-07-2011
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Gun Rights Examiner
Operation Castaway: Virginia O’Brien was previously the Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division. "From a first person source she is sh*tting herself trying to cover it up," the report stated.
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News Link • Energy
Building Bigger, Better Wind Turbines
07-07-2011
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Tyler Hamilton via TechnologyReview.com
Wind power is one of the fastest-growing forms of power generation in the United States, with more capacity added onshore than coal and nuclear generation combined over the past four years.
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News Link • Wallet Voting
PorcFest 2011 - Robert P. Murphy - Mises Daily
07-07-2011
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http://mises.org
The most immediately practical "good idea" I came across was from guys who had laminated a business card containing a US pre-1964 dime. On the back of the card is a table showing how much silver such dimes and quarters contain, and what their market
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News Link • Wallet Voting
Peter Schiff: The rise of the barter economy
07-07-2011
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http://www.investmentnews.com
Another variation, from a group based in Phoenix, Arizona, encloses a pre-1965 US dime inside the laminated card. Before '65, every dime contained 90% silver, making them worth about $2.50 each in today's debased dollars. That's why you won't find an
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Drew
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
iPad Earns One Percent of Global Web Traffic
07-07-2011
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http://www.livescience.com/
iPad traffic is starting to get on the global Internet traffic map.
In fact, according to a report from NetMarketShare, Apple's iPad makes up one percent of Web traffic worldwide and 2.1 percent of online traffic in the United States.
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News Link • Economy - International
China's Debt Monster
07-07-2011
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http://www.nytimes.com/
China's booming economy has been showing signs of slowing down in recent months. Some economists say this is linked in part to rising levels of local government debt, which is the result of aggressive spending for projects like new airports, business
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News Link • Free Speech
Murdoch to Close Tabloid Amid Fury Over Hacking
07-07-2011
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http://www.nytimes.com/
The media titan Rupert Murdoch abandoned his defiance of popular and Parliamentary pressure on Thursday, sacrificing the mass-circulation British tabloid News of the World in a bid to protect his News Corporation empire from fallout...
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News Link • Free Speech
'Nazi' police 'kidnap' woman at town hall
07-07-2011
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http://www.wnd.com/
A small town in Arizona is suddenly a YouTube sensation after a town-hall meeting devolved into a physical clash as a woman was forcibly removed from speaking during the public portion of the event.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
EU wants U.N. action on Syria
07-07-2011
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http://www.upi.com/
The U.N. Security Council is called on to condemn the brutality of the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad, the European Parliament said Thursday.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Bomb Implants Emerge as Airline Terror Threat
07-07-2011
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Wall Street Journal
Militants from al Qaeda's Yemeni branch are considering surgically implanting explosive devices in would-be suicide bombers, possibly with the aim of blowing up airliners, U.S. officials said. Terrorists might attempt to board planes with explosives
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
David Stockman: Ben Bernanke is finished!
07-07-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Jun 23 2011 MSNBC The Dylan Ratigan Show -- Former CBO director David Stockman and panel talks about the Federals Reserve's acknowledgment of disappointing growth, higher inflation and a weakening labor market.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mexican lawmakers want to extradite U.S. officials over ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ scandal
07-07-2011
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Rawstory
Mexican lawmakers said they want the U.S. officials who authorized a botched campaign to dismantle illicit firearms trafficking routes to face trial in Mexico. The BATF sold thousands of assault rifles to the Mexican drug cartels.
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News Link • History
Tricked on the Fourth of July - by Gary North
07-07-2011
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Lew Rockwell
In 1775, Great Britain was the 2nd freest nation on earth. Switzerland was probably the most free, but I would be hard-pressed to identify any other nation that was ahead of Great Britain. And in America, the colonists were by far the freest.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Indiana Teen Faces Possible Jail Time For Sex Doll Prank Gone Wrong
07-07-2011
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Huffington Post
When 18-year-old Tyell Morton put a blow-up sex doll in a bathroom stall on the last day of school, he didn't expect school officials to call a bomb squad or that he'd be facing up to eight years in prison and a possible felony record.
The senior
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News Link • Drug War
12 And 13-Year-Old Kids Turn In Dad For Marijuana Possession Say Police
07-07-2011
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Huffington Post
A Utah man was arrested after his 2 children called police to report that he had marijuana in the house. The man was charged with 2 third-degree felony charges of child endangerment and a misdemeanor possession controlled substance.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Sailor refused to learn how to fire gun due to 'immoral' Afghan war jailed 7 months
07-07-2011
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Daily Mail
A Royal Navy medic was jailed for 7 months after he refused to draw a gun because he disagreed with the war in Afghanistan. Lyons became disillusioned with the service after reading about troops killing civilians on whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.
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News Link • Communications
A Variety of Methods Can Be Used to Tap Into Phones
07-07-2011
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NY Times
The term “phone hacking” dominating headlines around the world refers broadly to a variety of methods journalists at The News of the World and other newspapers could have used to listen to thousands of voice mail messages until the scandal came to li
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Family Says Madison Deputies Interrupted Party, Used Tasers
07-07-2011
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ABC News (video)
Sheriff's deputies arrested and used a Taser on several people while looking for an assailant at the wrong house. "Officers came up (to the house and) before they could even tell me what was going on, they had one of the guys in handcuffs," Hart said
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