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Date Sent: 2011-08-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 12, 2011 PM edition |
Family Fined $300 For Having Apple, Tomato, 3 Cucumbers In Kid's Backpack
Judge rules Little Rock bus line wrong to deny atheist ads -- 40th anniversary of Nixon speech that led to Libertarian Party -- Ron Paul wins Iowa straw poll...no not that one -- Salman Khan talk at TED 2011 (from ted.com) -- Judge: Anthony must
serve check fraud probation -- Appeals court rules against Obama
healthcare law -- Former judge sentenced to prison for "kids for cash" scheme -- Consumers Are Confident Of Recession -- Ron Paul Slides into Top Tier –
Wins Debate by Telling Iowans — and America — the Truth -- Ron Paul Highlights -
8.11.11 Debate (Video) -- Is anything
still "Made in America"? (Interactive map) -- 5 Reasons Why American
Riots Will Be the Worst in the World -- Another Real Estate Time
Bomb: Unsellable Vacant Homes? -- Robert Prechter: We're In a
Depression That Will Last for Years -- Paul Craig Roberts: America
“A Parasite On The World” -- Mitt Romney to Iowa Voters:
"Corporations Are People" -- The Right to travel is Guaranteed -- New York Times Support for US
Imperial Wars -- The Revitalized Eugenics Movement & the FDA’s
Role
AZ: Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite,
AZ on August 27th, bring your cameras.
Nationwide: Support your local lemonade stand, Aug. 20
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Family Fined $300 For Having Apple, Tomato, 3 Cucumbers In Backpack At Newark Liberty
08-12-2011
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CBS News
A family of four from Florida visiting relatives in New Jersey got an unwelcome surprise at the Customs gate " all because of some forgotten fruit and vegetables in their child's backpack. The oversight was an expensive one that has the family fuming
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Judge rules Little Rock bus line wrong to deny atheist ads
08-12-2011
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Rawstory
A federal judge ruled the free speech of a coalition of atheists had been violated when Little Rock's public bus line denied them the right to place $5,000 worth of ads on 18 publicly-funded city buses during Memorial Day weekend.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
40th anniversary of Nixon speech that led to Libertarian Party
08-12-2011
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www.lp.org
On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon gave a speech announcing what would be known as his "New Economic Policy." The speech led directly to the formation of the Libertarian Party.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Remembering Mr. Miyamoto
08-12-2011
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lewrockwell.com
In the summer of 1963, Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe was asked to go to Hiroshima to write about the Ninth World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul wins Iowa straw poll...no not that one
08-12-2011
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ABC News
Texas Congressman Ron Paul has won the first-ever online Iowa straw poll, capturing a commanding 44% of the over 6,000 votes cast in an online poll sponsored by Iowa Congressman Tom Latham's campaign. The results of the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
Salman Khan talk at TED 2011 (from ted.com)
08-12-2011
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www.khanacademy.org
With a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 125 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn whatever you want, whenever you want, at your own pace.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge: Anthony must serve check fraud probation
08-12-2011
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AP
Casey Anthony must return to Orlando within two weeks to serve a year's probation for check fraud, a Florida judge ruled. Anthony's attorneys had argued that she served her probation while in jail awaiting trial in her murder case and requiring her t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Appeals court rules against Obama healthcare law
08-12-2011
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Reuters
The Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, found that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring Americans to buy coverage, but also ruled that the rest of the wide-ranging law could remain in effect. The legality of the individual m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Former judge sentenced to prison for "kids for cash" scheme
08-12-2011
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Reuters
Former Luzerne County Juvenile Court Judge Mark Ciavarella, 61, accepted nearly $1 million.. Under the "kids for cash" scheme, thousands of juveniles were shipped to the private center on minor or questionable charges by Ciavarella and another former
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumers Are Confident Of Recession
08-12-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The chart shows the correlation with sentiment and the consumer component of GDP which is about 70% of the economy and why I say the "recovery" is over.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Speaking Soothing Words vs Truth Bombs
08-12-2011
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Ritholtz.com
One of the fascinating aspects of doing the media circuit is the feedback you get. This is especially the case when you drop a truth bomb on people that they are not ready to hear, certainly not accept.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The "Real" Consumer Remains in a Recession
08-12-2011
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Businessinsider.com
Adjust for population growth and the growth drops to 94%. And when we adjust for both population growth and inflation, retail sales are up only 18.9% over the past two decades.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumer Confidence: As If We Needed More Reasons To Stop Bogus Valuations
08-12-2011
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Market-ticker.org
And how did all this that happen? As I've been repeatedly pointed out, it happened because we failed to force banks and other financial institutions to stop lying about asset valuations, putting a stop to the hiding of both risks and losses.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Slides into Top Tier " Wins Debate by Telling Iowans " and America " the Truth
8-12-11
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Revolution Super PAC
AMES, IOWA " August 11, 2011 " Thomas Woods " Once again, Ron Paul distinguished himself in a Republican presidential debate by telling Americans the truth, answering the questions he was asked, and refusing to treat his countrymen like ten-year-olds
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumer Confidence Plummets To May 1980 Level
08-12-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
UMichigan consumer confidence just printed at 54.9, on expectations of 63.0. This is the lowest since May 1980. And what's worse, inflation expectations were unchanged. Looks like those high inflation expectations are starting to get anchored.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Highlights - 8.11.11 Debate (Video)
08-12-11
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StopTheLie.com
Highlights of Ron Paul in the 8.11.11 Republican Presidential debate
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Reported by:
Joe Plummer
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Is anything still "Made in America"? (Interactive map)
08-12-2011
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The Political Commentator
Economic growth, jobs and improving trade deficits? It would help if products were still "Made in America"!
The headlines from yesterday told you everything that you needed to know about this story saying that the US trade deficit jumped to the
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Reported by:
Michael Haltman
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
5 Reasons Why American Riots Will Be the Worst in the World
08-12-2011
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LewRockwell.com
1. Arrogance " All of our lives we have been fed the lie that somehow we are better than everyone else. We believe this so much that we feel it is morally acceptable to stick our noses in everyone's business. We have 777+ military bases all over...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Another Real Estate Time Bomb: Unsellable Vacant Homes?
08-12-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
To put it bluntly: vacant homes are crackhouse futures.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Robert Prechter: We're In a Depression That Will Last for Years
08-12-2011
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moneynews.com
The United States isn’t merely double-dipping back into recession, but worse " it's in the early stages of a depression that will strangle the economy possibly for years to come, says Robert Prechter, president of Elliott Wave International.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Paul Craig Roberts: America
“A Parasite On The World”
08-12-2011
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Prisonplanet.com
If Russian prime minister Putin’s recent description of America as “a parasite on the world” were reported by the US media, little doubt that most Americans would be infuriated. We are the virtuous people. Without us good guys to police...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation
The Right to travel is Guaranteed
08-12-2011
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libertys Sons
Sovereign individuals have a Constitutionally Guaranteed and Lawful RIGHT TO TRAVEL Freely throughout the United States without the need of permission or a license from any State, City or Political S
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Eugenics
The Revitalized Eugenics Movement & the FDA’s Role
08/14/2011
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http://theintelhub.com/2011/08/11/the-revitalized-
On July 29, 2011 the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health sounded the population alarm bell in the international science journal, Science, advocating for international contraception efforts to be funded by
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Alex Thomas
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