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Date Sent: 2011-08-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, August 29, 2011 |
Euro bail-out in doubt as Germans "hysteria" -- Syrian unrest raises fears about chemical arsenal
Plan to keep your health plan? Don't count on it -- DA charges TSA agent with child lewdness -- The New Rules of College Sex -- Liquidate Your Local Police: An Idea Whose Time Has Come -- Lockerbie bomber "at death's door" in Libya -- Tylenol and the War
on Drugs -- Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse (Unless You’re in Law
Enforcement) -- Herman Cain edges out Ron Paul in Georgia GOP straw poll by 3 votes --
Ron Paul Interview On Fox News Sunday: Talks Fema, Libya, Mises &
More -- Gibson Guitar Corp. Responds to Federal Raid -- ALERT: The Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Eviscerates Internet Freedom -- Trusted Identities in Cyberspace: Biometrics To Replace Passwords? -- John Mauldin: It's The End Of The World -- ECB Chief Trichet Open To Non-Standard Monetary Policy If Markets Crash -- Foreclosure-Gate: What the New York Attorney General Reveals About Obama -- US Military Awards Huge Contract to Recon Robotics for Micro-Robot Kits -- Can We Tape? - A Practical Guide to Taping Phone Calls and In-Person Conversations in the 50 States
AZ: Arizona State University Law
School Debate - "Should Marijuana Be Legalized?" Sept. 12@ noon
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Syrian unrest raises fears about chemical arsenal
08-28-2011
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Washington Post
In 2008, a secret State Department cable warned of a growing chemical weapons threat from a Middle Eastern country whose autocratic leader had a long history of stirring up trouble in the region. The leader, noted for his “support for terrorist organ
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Euro bail-out in doubt as "hysteria" sweeps Germany
08-28-2011
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Daily Telegraph
German Chancellor Angela Merkel no longer has enough coalition votes in the Bundestag to secure backing for Europe's revamped rescue machinery, threatening a consitutional crisis in Germany and a fresh eruption of the euro debt saga.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Plan to keep your health plan? Don't count on it
08-28-2011
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Washington Examiner
In June 2009, as he fought to pass the Democrats' national health care bill, President Obama made a clear, unequivocal pledge. "No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people," Obama said. "If you like your doct
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
DA charges TSA agent with child lewdness
08-28-2011
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The victim told investigators that on seven to 10 occasions between 2010 and this year, Anderson allegedly taught the victim about various sexual acts and had sexual contact in the form of touching each other’s genitals.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The New Rules of College Sex
08-28-2011
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How the federal government and a Malvern lawyer are rewriting the rules on campus hookups"and tagging young men as dangerous predators
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Liquidate Your Local Police: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Updated, August 26)
08-28-2011
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by William Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Mary Lee Cook, an 84-year-old resident of Oak Hill, Florida, didn't seem like the kind of person who would secretly cultivate marijuana behind her home. Yet on June 6, deputies assigned to the East Volusia County Narcotics Task Force materialized on
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Libya
Lockerbie bomber "at death's door" in Libya: report
08-28-2011
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Reuters
The Libyan convicted in the 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland has been found in Tripoli and appears "at death's door," CNN reported on Sunday.
CNN correspondent Nic Robertson said he found Abdel Baset al-Megrahi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Tylenol and the War on Drugs
08-28-2011
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Many years ago after a surgical procedure I was given a prescription for Vicodin, which is the brand name combination of hydrocodone and acetaminophen. Hydrocodone is an opioid analgesic - related to morphine and heroin - and acetaminophen is the gen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse (Unless You’re in Law Enforcement)
08-28-2011
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The Agitator
Mike Lawlor, undersecretary for criminal justice policy and planning for the state of Connecticut, joins the ranks of other public officials who are choosing to simply ignore those rights they don’t believe citizens should have.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Herman Cain edges out Ron Paul in Georgia GOP straw poll by 3 votes
08-28-2011
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Atlanta Journal & Constitution
Georgia native and tea party favorite Herman Cain edged out libertarian Ron Paul at the GOP annual fish fry down in Perry on Saturday.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney finished a surprisingly distant fifth, behind Texas Gov. Rick Perry and an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Interview On Fox News Sunday: Talks Fema, Libya, Mises & More
08-28-2011
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Fox News via YouTube
He simply hit every pitch out of the park he was thrown. He crystallized his message and hit moonshots. This interview is going to be a land mark in his campaign.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Deadly super ants invade Australia
08-28-2011
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Terrence Aym - Helium
Although some pretty terrifying creatures stalk the desolate plains of the Aussie Outback, few match the horror and potential ferocity of the Yellow Crazy Ant and Argentine ant. These ferocious, relentless bugs are every bit as deadly and fearful as
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Police State
Rawesome Foods & Gibson Guitars: Victims of the Police State
8/28/2011
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Free Patriot Press
What does the maker of Les Paul guitars have in common with a food club that sold raw milk & organic coconuts? Not much, except that both have recently been raided by overzealous agents of the state.
It seems that concept of “innocent until proven
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Constitution
“SHAME ON NEW YORK STATE”
08-28-2011
Battle over federal lawsuit to ban all vote-counting machines exposes the betrayal of the State and Judiciary. Read the full text of the LEGAL BRIEF. “...what is extraordinarily important is this -- who will count the votes, and how.” Joseph Stalin
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Bob Schulz
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Gibson Guitar Corp. Responds to Federal Raid
8/28/11
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Youtube
Henry Juszkiewicz, Chairman and CEO of Gibson Guitar Corp., has responded to the August 24 raid of Gibson facilities in Nashville and Memphis by the Federal Government. In a press release, Juszkiewicz said: "Gibson is innocent and will fight to prot
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Internet
ALERT: The Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Eviscerates Internet Freedom
08-28-2011
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ipsnews.net
"What we’re seeing with the TPP is a whole slate of new proposals designed to get in under the political radar where no one’s watching, and expand patentability in as many ways as possible without going through a domestic political fight...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Trusted Identities in Cyberspace: Biometrics To Replace Passwords?
08-28-2011
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infoq.com
To achieve this, the program is working with companies to identify internet-scale solutions that could rely on password alternatives like trusted identity providers and biometric solutions.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
John Mauldin: It's The End Of The World
08-28-2011
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Businessinsider.com
It’s not really the end of the world, but to read some of the analysis and data over the past week, it’s hard not to wonder if it’s not the beginning of the Endgame at the very least.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
IMF Chief Lagrade as Global Inflationist and Interventionist
08-28-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Lagarde as a supporter of a one world Europe:
Europe needs a common vision for its future. The current economic turmoil has exposed some serious flaws in the architecture of the eurozone, flaws that threaten...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Five Rules to Remember When Dealing with Real Estate Agents
08-28-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Prices are going up, better act fast.
Alternatively, prices are falling, homes won't last long at these prices.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • European Union
ECB Chief Trichet Open To Non-Standard Monetary Policy If Markets Crash
08-28-2011
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Businessinsider.com
Although the speech is focused on about long-term growth, Trichet briefly mentions "non-standard monetary policy" and his willingness to use it if markets deteriorate.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Wall Street & The Rise of Hitler
08-28-2011
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BlackListedNews.com
Must see interview with regarded economist, historian, and writer Professor Dr. Antony Sutton.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: What the New York Attorney General Reveals About Obama
08-28-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
The crazy thing is that robosigning is apparently still going on. Right now, the “settlement” talks are the equivalent of law enforcement negotiating with a serial killer over whether he’ll get a parking ticket, even as he continually sprays bullets
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
QE 3 Will Only Come With Catastrophe
08-28-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Put another way, the Fed’s tools (QE and otherwise) are now going to be implemented to “avert catastrophe,” NOT to “improve the economy.” The bulls don’t want to hear this but it’s true. The game has changed dramatically...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
US Military Awards Huge Contract to Recon Robotics for Micro-Robot Kits
08-25-2011
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Andy Choi
As many as 2,000 Recon Scout Throwbot systems have been deployed by the US army and other international friendly forces so far. At the global level many law enforcement agencies have deployed the robots. The Recon Scout XT weighs only 1.2 lbs and can
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan: The high cost of war
08-27-2011
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William Marsden, The Gazette
In the past two years they have spent $24 billion on AC. That means that coalition forces spend more to keep themselves cool each year than Afghanistan’s GNP!. Every drop of fuel, drinking water as well as every morsel of food consumed on NATO bases
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Free Speech
Can We Tape? - A Practical Guide to Taping Phone Calls and In-Person Conversations in the 50 States
08-27-2011
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The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
A state-by-state breakdown of the wiretapping laws compiled by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
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Andre Campos
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News Link • Science
Scientists: Dying oceans prelude to mass extinction
08-27-2011
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Terrence Aym
Mankind may be facing a devastating mass extinction in the near future warn a group of science experts. Five mass extinctions that occurred during the past half billion years followed biological and chemical disruptions to the oceans"the same kind of
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Constitution
First Circuit Affirms Right to Record the Police
8/27/11
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Cato Institute
Right to Record, a website devoted to the legal aspects of recording police officers, has the scoop. A panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the right of citizens to openly record police officers.
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Anonymous Watchman
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Has the Fed Started QE3?
Bud Conrad
The Fed surprised the market by extending its policy of 0 to 0.25% Fed funds rate to mid-2013. The way the Fed manages to drive rates lower is to buy Treasuries with newly created money " driving the price up and the rates down.
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