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Date Sent: 2010-01-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, January 14, 2010

Patriot Act Renewal Process Extended Until February -- 9 VT state candidates favor secession

Obama wants record $708B for military next year -- USA Gun Owners Buy 14 Million Plus Guns In 2009 -- Police arrest 10-year-old boy for sexual abuse at day care center -- Poll: Most Americans Would Trim Liberties to be Safer -- It Is A Madhouse Out There - by Chuck Baldwin -- The TSA lies: Airport Scanners Do Store & Transmit Images -- What the Deflationists Are Missing - by David Galland -- CA Assembly Plants Seed for Legal Pot -- Germans striping at airports: the ultimate middle finger? -- Landspeeder UAV Completes First Lift Off -- Obama seeks additional $33 billion for 2010 wars -- New Coding Could Make Internet 99% More Energy Efficient -- How 3-D TV Works -- IRS commissioner doesn't file his own taxes -- Copenhagen Summit Turned Congressional Junket? -- The Federal Reserve Paid the Federal Government $46 Billion in 2009 -- Israeli Robots Remake Battlefield -- Pity the Poor Private-Sector Workers -- Silver as a Barter Currency -- Ernest Hancock interviews anti-photo radar CameraFraud -- Day 52: Sean Kraft hunger strike -- Iran claims: Evidence of Israel and U.S. Involvement in Nuclear Scientist Assassination -- 4409: First RON PAUL 2012 billboard...The Revolution Continues -- Government pornography vans in the name of Security and Saving the Children

AZ: Charles Goyette speaking at breakfast today and signing books tonight; Sen. McCain town hall Saturday;-)

Feature Article  • Events: Arizona
Jan. 14th Breakfast: Radio Show Host Charles Goyette
Powell Gammill
   Join us for breakfast Jan. 14th to hear America's Most Independent Radio Talk Show host Charles Goyette discuss his current NY Times best seller, "The Dollar Meltdown," the state of our economy and how to protect yourself and prosper.
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Feature Article  • Books
Last Chance Book Signing! The Dollar Meltdown! And Your Personalized Likeness by Famous Artist!
Charles Goyette
   Thursday Evening at 7 pm in Phoenix at Borders Books at Biltmore Fashion Park, 24th Street and Camelback! Charles Goyette will sign copies of his Bestseller THE DOLLAR MELTDOWN! And Steve Benson, from the Arizona Republic will draw and sign a per
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama wants record $708B for military next year
01-13-2010 • AP
President Barack Obama will ask Congress for a record $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned - a request that could be an especially hard sell to some of the administration's Democratic allies. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • States' Rights
Virginia Republicans try to thwart federal gun, health-care bills
1-12-10 • Washington Post
As the General Assembly prepares to convene Wednesday, Republicans have introduced a series of bills designed to counter federal policy. The state's new Republican attorney general says he is assembling a legal team with an eye to challenging the fe Read Full Story
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Reported by: Steve Freedom

News Link • Gun Rights
Chelan sheriff says gun laws can't stop killers
1-12-10 • The Seattle Times
Maurice Clemmons, who gunned down four Lakewood police officers Nov. 29, was an evil man and no changes in gun laws are going to prevent murders like he committed. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Steve Freedom

Feature Article  • Media: Internet
United Airlines Asks Dave Carroll to Pull Damaging Video
Sharlene Holt
   A musician named Dave Carroll had difficulty recently with United Airlines. Apparently, United damaged his treasured Taylor guitar ($3,500) during a flight. Dave spent over nine months trying to get United to pay for damages caused by handlers.
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News Link • Gun Rights
USA Gun Owners Buy 14 Million Plus Guns In 2009 �" More Than 21 of the Worlds Standing Armies Combine
01-13-2010 • www.ammoland.com
That is 14,033,824,000 billion+ rounds of Ammo..you think that is why we have an Ammo shortage? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host: Ernest Hancock
Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock Morning January 14th 2010
Local activism as a template for your efforts
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News Link • Family
Police arrest 10-year-old boy for sexual abuse at day care center
1-13-10 • CBS NEWS
FONDA -- State Police have arrested a 10-year-old boy on sexual abuse charges for allegedly abusing other children while at a home-based day care in the town of Northampton two years ago. Police began investigating when a 12-year-old girl reported Read Full Story
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Reported by: Steve Freedom

News Link • Surveillance
Patriot Act Renewal Process Extended Until the End of February
1-12-10 • Library Journal
Despite some library-friendly changes last fall in one version of the USA PATRIOT Act renewal, Congress did not resolve its differences, and in December extended the sunset deadline for the sections of the act that were supposed to expire at the end Read Full Story
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Reported by: Steve Freedom

News Link • Seriously?
Seriously? Poll: Most Americans Would Trim Liberties to be Safer
01-13-2010 • McClatchy Papers
A new McClatchy poll finds that Americans lean more toward giving up some of their liberty in exchange for more safety. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jet Lacey

Opinion  • Economy - Economics USA
CONNECTING THE DOTS
CONGRESS CUTTING AMERICANS’ FINANCIAL THROATS: IMMIGRATION AND OUTSOURCING JOBS
01-13-2010
Frosty Wooldridge
   “HELLO, earth to Americans, all we have to do is export to ourselves.” As in, out of the American factory and on to the American shelves. It’s an ancient tradition that was used to build America. It’s called a full circle economy.
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Opinion  • Philosophy: Political
It Is A Madhouse Out There
01-13-2010
Chuck Baldwin
   I think we need to face it: 2010 is more than a new year; it is also part of a new era in which all vestiges of normalcy and common sense have been left behind.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
TIME: Sneering at Sarah Palin, Fox News To a Shrinking Audience
01-13-2010 • Mondo Frazier
TIME continues its grand tradition of sneering at conservatives and libertarians. The newsrag says Sarah Palin was hired at Fox News because she's a mascot. TIME tells this story to its increasingly-smaller audience of readers. Is there any connec Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Police State
Got Fascism? : Obama Advisor Promotes 'Cognitive Infiltration'
01-13-2010 • http://palestinethinktank.com
Cass Sunstein is President Obama's Harvard Law School friend, and recently appointed Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. In a recent scholarly article, he and coauthor Adrian Vermeule take up the question of Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sheila Dean

News Link • Surveillance
Airport Scanners Can Store, Transmit Images
01-13-2010 • WIRED.com
Contrary to public statements made by the Transportation Security Administration, full-body airport scanners do have the ability to store and transmit images, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sheila Dean

News Link • Justice and Judges
“Although unfairness and injustice to a litigant may result on occasion, ‘it is a general principle
01-13-2010 • Slaying Goliaths Since 2008
The quotation above is part of a judicial opinion filed on 1/13/2010 by a Federal Judge, John W. Sedwick, of the Federal District of Alaska, in dismissing Violation of Civil Rights Lawsuits filed by Tajudeen "Taj" Oladiran, and his spouse, against Read Full Story
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Reported by: Taj Oladiran

Feature Article  • Casey Research Articles
What the Deflationists Are Missing
David Galland
   While I very much share Mr. Evans-Pritchard’s view that the global economy is far from out of the woods, our views diverge in that he sees devastating deflation speeding our way down the tunnel. Casey Research readers of any duration know that we see
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Feature Article  • Activism
The Phoenix Crew puts up 28 x 8 foot Ron Paul Sign in Cottonwood, AZ
Thomas Costanzo
   The Phoenix Crew: 4409, Tesla, and Morpheus head up to Cottonwood, Arizona and put up a 28 x 8 foot Ron Paul President 2012. You can see how they did it in the video and pictures... Enjoy!
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News Link • Underwater Exploration and Living
TED - David Gallo on life in the deep oceans
01-13-2010 • Ted.com
With vibrant video clips captured by submarines, David Gallo takes us to some of Earth's darkest, most violent, toxic and beautiful habitats, the valleys and volcanic ridges of the oceans' depths, where life is bizarre, resilient and shockingly abund Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Drug War
CA Assembly Plants Seed for Legal Pot
01-13-2010 • NBC news via Natural News
Lawmakers on Tuesday approved Assembly Bill 390 -- legislation to tax and regulate marijuana. The Assembly's Public Safety Committee voted 4-3 on bill at a hearing in Sacramento. The bill will now be passed to the full Assembly on Friday for consider Read Full Story
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Reported by: Trouser Chili

News Link • Healthcare
With Swine Flu Scam Over, WHO Reviews What Went Wrong
01-13-2010 • Reuters via Natural News
"Criticism is part of an outbreak cycle. We expect and indeed welcome criticism and the chance to discuss it," she said, adding the WHO's review would involve independent outside experts and its results would be made public. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Trouser Chili

News Link • World News
Senior Blair aide defends UK case for Iraq war at Chilcot Inquiry
01-13-2010 • ChristianScienceMonitor.com
Tony Blair’s former spin doctor-in-chief delivered a typically defiant performance at a key session of Britain’s inquiry into the Iraq war on Tuesday, defending his role in preparing an infamous document that was used to justify the invasion. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Landspeeder UAV Completes First Lift Off
01-13-2010 • PopSci.com
The Israeli aerospace company Urban Aeronautics has posted pics of its curiously landspeeder-like UAV, as well as news of the craft's first successful lift off. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Surveillance
German Fleshmob Protest Airport Scanners
01-13-2010 • Youtube via Prison Planet
What happens when protestors of airport naked body scanners decide to go through the lines in the nude? Why hilarity ensues....This video needs to go viral. Wait til you see this protest. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Trouser Chili

News Link • Techno Gadgets
Pixel Qi: The LCD Screen That Could Finally Kill Paper For Good
01-13-2010 • PopSci.com
Mary Lou Jepsen has created massive holograms and cheap laptops for the developing world. Now she’s rethinking the LCD screen, leading the way to the next great gadget: an e-reader to replace your laptop Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Techno Gadgets
Best of CES 2010: PopSci's Products of the Future
01-13-2010 • PopSci.com
Everything worth paying attention to from Consumer Electronic Show in one gallery Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
New Coding Could Make Internet 99 Percent More Energy Efficient
01-13-2010 • PopSci.com
For most people, conserving energy means turning off lights in empty rooms. But for the researchers at Bell Labs, the massive energy savings lurk in the 1's and 0's of the code that regulates the Internet. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Obama Administration
Obama will seek additional $33 billion for wars
01-13-2010 • RawStory.com
The Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Techno Gadgets
How 3-D TV Works
01-13-2010 • PopSci.com
Enjoy eye-popping effects without leaving your couch. The 3-D thrill that swept movie theaters last year is now headed for your living room. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Science
Big Picture: 570-Megapixel, Intergalactic Camera
01-13-2010 • Wired.com
The 570-megapixel shooter is being built at Fermilab by an international team of particle physicists and astronomers, who think it will help solve one of the great mysteries of the cosmos: What is dark energy? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS commissioner doesn't file his own taxes
01-13-2010 • TheHill.com
IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman does not file his own taxes in part because he believes the tax code is complex. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Energy
Putin urges prompt elimination of energy failures
01-13-2010 • Itar-Tass.com
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has urged power engineering specialists to fix energy failures without delays, Itar-Tass quotes him saying during a meeting with the regional development minister, Viktor Basargin, on Monday. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve Paid the Federal Government $46 Billion in 2009. The FED Seeks Control, Not Prof
01-13-2010 • Gary North
The Federal Reserve System is not about making money at the expense of the government. It is about using a government-granted monopoly over money to regulate the economy to the benefit of a handful of large banks. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • New World Order
Copenhagen Summit Turned Junket?
01-13-2010 • CBSNews.com
At Least 20 Members of Congress Made the Trip to Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen Last Month Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Military
Israeli Robots Remake Battlefield
01-13-2010 • Wall Street Journal
Israel is developing an army of robotic fighting machines that offers a window onto the potential future of warfare. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
01-13-2010 • CNN Entertainment
James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandor Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Concert Promoter Accused in Ponzi Scheme
01-13-2010 • Mark Carlson & Bob Christie AP
PHOENIX -- A suburban Phoenix concert promoter has been accused of running a Ponzi scheme that bilked approximately 140 investors out of $25 million, federal authorities said Thursday. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sharlene Holt

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Pity the Poor Private-Sector Workers
01-13-2010 • LewRockwell.com
Has the recession ended? If not, do “green shoots” foretell a recovery’s advent in the near term? The answer, of course, depends on which indicators we check. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host: Ernest Hancock
Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock Morning January 13th 2010
CAMERAFraud.com - Shawn Dow represents the movement to eliminate Photo/Video surveillance on Arizona Highways... and on his way through the legislature he discovered the corruption of....
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Feature Article  • Currencies
Silver as a Barter Currency
Tom Westbrook
   There has been much talk about ending the Fed. There's been much talk about just being able to audit the Fed. Should we pin all of our hopes on a political solution? Or, should we take things to a little more personal level?
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News Link • Secession
9 Vt. state office candidates favor secession
01-13-2010 • AP
Peter Garritano thinks it's time for Vermont to call it quits with America. The way the 54-year-old automobile salesman sees it, the "empire" is about to implode and tiny Vermont can lead the way by becoming its own independent republic. So he's r Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Activism
Sean Kraft is on a hunger strike. This is day 52.
01-13-2010 • Sean Kraft
"I DEFY THE SOCIALIST GOVT. I WILL NOT COMPLY. I REFUSE TO PAY TAXES TO EMPOWER NEW MASTERS." Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Iran
Iran claims: Evidence of Isreal and U.S. Involvement in Nuclear Scientist Assassination
01-13-2010 Iran's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it had evidence that the bomb-rigged motorcycle which blew up outside Massoud Ali-Mohammadi's home was planted by Israeli and American "agents." Read Full Story
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Reported by: Tom Westbrook

News Link • Militia
Obama creates "Council of Governors" Executive Order to synchronize and integrate of State
01/13/2010 • Uncommon Sense
He’s at it again! The President has signed another executive order, this time creating a Council of Governors to provide input on “homeland defense and civil support challenges facing our Nation today and in the future.” The President will select 1 Read Full Story
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Reported by: Dave Johannes

Feature Article  • Israel - Palestine
Israeli Prohibitions Against Free Expression and "Enemy Alien" Contacts
Stephen Lendman
   Civil liberty erosions in Israel
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Alzheimer Advance
01-13-2010 • arclein
If this proves true, then the team has opened a promising potential path to an Alzheimer's treatment that could block the onset of the mild cognitive impairment associated with early Alzheimer's. I Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Climate Change
Carbon Dioxide Optimization
01-13-2009 • arclein
Caldeira’s study showed that doubling the amount of carbon dioxide while holding steady all other inputs�" water, nutrients and so forth�" yields a 70% increase in plant growth, an obvious boon to agricultural productivity. “That’s why most commercial Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Molecular Manufacturing
01-13-2009 • arclein
n the year the NRC report reached print, a Nature paper reported a breakthrough-level development, “DNA origami”. This technology opened the door to systematic, atomically precise engineering on a scale of hundreds of nanometers and millions of atoms Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

Feature Article  • Videos by 4409
4409 -- First RON PAUL 2012 billboard...The Revolution Continues
Forty Four O Nine
   The Ron Paul Revolution started in Arizona and 4409, Morpheus, Tesla and many others in the Phoenix Revolution and across the NATION are lighting that brush fire again. Viva Revolution...lets have some fun :)
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Feature Article  • New World Order
Government pornography vans in the name of Security and Saving the Children
John Green
   Using the same technology of the backscatter scanners in airports, these vans as they go by capture detailed body scans of women and children which are saved to a hard drive for future analysis
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Feature Article  • Politics: Republican Campaigns
McCain Townhall, Saturday, Jan 16th, 1pm in Surprise, AZ
John Green
   At the same time the Maricopa County Republican Party convention is going on, McCain is holding a townhall clear across town. If you are not a GOP Precinct Committeeman, perhaps you should go and share your views with Jonnie Mac! ;)
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