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Date Sent: 2011-08-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, August 20, 2011

Egypt To Withdraw Ambassador From Israel Over Ambush -- Gold up 6% for the week

Banks, entwined in government debt, contribute to Europe’s dimming outlook -- U.S. Rejects Mayor’s Plan to Ban Use of Food Stamps to Buy Soda -- Police payment emails growing worry for Murdoch executives -- Moody's managers pressured analysts: ex-staffer -- New Mexico hero who saved girl says he's illegal -- Arkansas judge accepts plea deal, frees Memphis 3 -- Strauss-Kahn accuser mulls dropping case for money: report -- NYPD officer accused of drunken street-grab rape -- Falsified New York Times Middle East Reports -- Monsanto's GMO Trap -- A Chip to Encrypt the Web -- China Reveals Solar Sail Plan To Prevent Apophis Hitting Earth in 2036 -- Will Canadian oil go to China instead of the US? Stefan Molyneux on RT America -- The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good -- The Zen of Resource Speculation -- Walter Block's Silly Article at LewRockwell.com (7 min. video response) -- Murtaza Hussain - British Austerity and Riots -- Bachmann claims she worked for the IRS to ‘know’ her ‘enemy’

AZ: Jordan Page to perform in Quartzsite August 27th (donate) Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite, AZ on August 27th, bring your cameras.

Nationwide civil disobedience: Support your local lemonade stand, today Aug. 20

News Link • Israel
Egypt To Withdraw Ambassador From Israel Over Ambush
08-20-2011 • AP
Egypt will recall its ambassador from Israel to protest the deaths of at least 3 Egyptian troops killed in a shootout between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants who had launched a deadly attack on Israel from Egyptian soil. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold up 1.3 percent, hits new record on market jitters
08-20-2011 • Reuters
Gold rose more than 1% on Friday, setting a record high ($1,877 an ounce ) for a second straight day and posting its biggest one-week gain (6%) in 2-1/2 years on worries about stalled U.S. growth and Europe's debt crisis. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - International
Banks, entwined in government debt, contribute to Europe’s dimming outlook
08-20-2011 • Washington Post
As investors dumped stocks Friday on both sides of the Atlantic, a growing suspicion that Europe’s banks are on shaky ground offered more evidence that the struggling global economic recovery is in trouble. The increasing mistrust of Europe’s banks i Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Welfare: Social
U.S. Rejects Mayor’s Plan to Ban Use of Food Stamps to Buy Soda
08-20-2011 • NY Times
Federal officials rejected Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal to bar NYC’s food stamp users from buying soda and other sugary drinks with them. The decision derailed one of the mayor’s big ideas to fight obesity and poor nutrition in the city. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Corruption
Police payment emails growing worry for Murdoch executives
08-20-2011 • Reuters
Executives at Rupert Murdoch's UK-based News International are concerned that emails discussing questionable payments made to police may prove more problematic than those that discuss phone hacking, Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Moody's managers pressured analysts: ex-staffer
08-20-2011 • Reuters
An ex-Moody's Corp derivatives analyst said the credit-rating agency intimidated and pressured analysts to issue glowing ratings of toxic complex, structured mortgage securities. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Immigration
New Mexico hero who saved girl says he's illegal
08-20-2011 • AP
The man who chased down a suspected child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl from what could have been a horrible fate was honored as a hero Friday. But he is also gaining a new kind of celebrity: as a poster child for immigration rights in state a Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Criminal Justice System
Arkansas judge accepts plea deal, frees Memphis 3
08-20-2011 • AP
Three men convicted of killing three 8-year-old Cub Scouts and dumping their bodies in an Arkansas ditch changed their pleas Friday, resolving a year's long effort to win their freedom. Under a plea bargain, they were being freed immediately. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Criminal Justice System
Strauss-Kahn accuser mulls dropping case for money: report
08-20-2011 • Reuters
Lawyers for the woman who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault have explored a deal in which they would scuttle the criminal case in exchange for a monetary settlement in the civil lawsuit. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYPD officer accused of drunken street-grab rape
08-20-2011 • AP
A drunken off-duty police officer grabbed a teacher off a residential street, showed her a gun and forced her to a deserted backyard where he raped her. 2 NYPD officers were acquitted of charges they raped a drunken woman they had been summoned to he Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Feature Article  • Economy - Economics USA
Bear Country
Stephen Lendman
   Economic Depression
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Feature Article  • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Falsified New York Times Middle East Reports
Stephen Lendman
   Media lies
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News Link • Science
How Vampire Bats Find Blood
08-20-2011 • arclein
"In vampire bats, however, the TRPV1 activation threshold is lowered to about 30 C," wrote Fenton in an accompanying commentary piece inNature. Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Science
Giant Fungus Discovered in China
08-20-2011 • arclein
The researchers were in the field studying wood-decaying fungi when they happened upon the specimen, which they describe in the journal Fungal Biology. "We were not specifically looking for this fungus; we did not know the fungus can grow so huge Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Science
Exploring the Wild Shores of B.C.'s Great Bear Rainforest
08-20-2011 • arclein
Unable to overtake its swifter dinner on the hoof, the exhausted wolf abandons the chase and retreats to the rocky shore. There, it paces back and forth, eyeing us in frustration as hungry members of its pack howl for updates from deep within B.C.'s Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Agriculture
Monsanto's GMO Trap
08-20-2011 • arclein
Besides failing to improve crop yields, GM crops require increasingly more pesticide and herbicide applications in order to remain viable. And out of control "superweeds;" escalating prices for seeds, pesticides, and herbicides; and the non-reality Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Internet
A Chip to Encrypt the Web
08-19-2011 • Tom Simonite via TechnologyReview.com
A new computer chip will help tackle one of the Web's weak spots�"the fact that most data is exchanged without any protection against hackers or eavesdroppers. Read Full Story
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
China Reveals Solar Sail Plan To Prevent Apophis Hitting Earth in 2036
08-19-2011 • TechnologyReview.com
A small shove could prevent a global catastrophe, according to Chinese plans Read Full Story
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News Link • Energy
GE Invests in Solar Thermal Company
08-19-2011 • Tyler Hamilton via TechnologyReview.com
The company thinks adding solar-thermal technology to its natural-gas plants will make them run more cheaply and efficiently Read Full Story
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News Link • Energy
Will Canadian oil go to China instead of the US? Stefan Molyneux on RT America
08-19-2011 • YouTube RT.com
The US imports approximately half of its oil from Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Venezuela. The US is Canada's biggest purchaser of crude oil, but now Canada has a potential client, China. Is Canada looking to the future on behalf of its economy? I Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Surveillance
The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good
08-19-2011 • The Atlantic
An overzealous bill that claims to be about stopping child pornography turns every Web user into a person to monitor Every right-thinking person abhors child pornography. To combat it, legislators have brought through committee a poorly conceived, Read Full Story
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Reported by: Justin Tyme

Feature Article  • Casey Research Articles
The Zen of Resource Speculation
Louis James
   Whenever gold and silver hit a correction, those are the times that try men’s souls. But they are also a classic case of making volatility our friend.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Walter Block's Silly Article at LewRockwell.com (7 min. video response)
08-19-2011 • Christine Smith YouTube Video
My video expressing my opinion of Walter Block's 8-19-2011 article "Ron Paul and the Self-Hating 'Libertarians' " published at http://lewrockwell.com/block/block180.html Read Full Story
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Reason-able?
08-19-2011 • www.lewrockwell.com
There have been so many little things at Reason that make me wonder, since the days where some of their writers advocated war and nation-building in Iraq. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Gwendolyn Strmic

Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host: Ernest Hancock
Murtaza Hussain - British Austerity and Riots
Murtaza Hussain - British Austerity and Riots - Refugee rights worker based in Toronto, MBA Student, author of the blog Revolution by the Book and the report Austerity and the Roots of Britain's Turmoil for Salon.com
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Felonious Munk Presents: Stop It B! OBAMA PAY YOUR &*%$#% BILLS
08-19-2011 It must be just makeup, er...somethin', cause to me this sounds just like Ernie.. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Bachmann claims she worked for the IRS to ‘know’ her ‘enemy’
08-19-2011 • Rawstory
How radical is Rep. Michele Bachmann? The Minnesota Republican claimed she went to work for the Internal Revenue Service, after graduating with a degree in tax law, because it was part of a secret plan to take them down. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Feature Article  • Politics: Republican Campaigns
How to make a Ron Paul Sign!!!
Sierra Hancock
   All the information you could ever want and more!!!
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Feature Article  • Events: Arizona
Jordan Page to perform in Quartzsite August 27th Event
Ernest Hancock
   Now it's a Party
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Feature Article  • WAR: About that War
RIP: America's Anti-War Movement
Stephen Lendman
   Anti-war
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