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Date Sent: 2011-03-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 3, 2011 PM edition |
Documents Reveal TSA Research Proposal To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers
The Most Compelling Argument for Owning Silver You've Ever Heard -- Announced U.S. Job Cuts Rose 20% From Year Ago -- Why the Dollar's Reign Is Near an End -- Hillary Clinton: “We Are Losing The Infowar” - We Need More Money For Propaganda -- Anticipation: China Gold Demand Voracious - Chinese Yuan Gold Standard? --
Sam Zell: US Standard of Living in Peril From Dollar's Weakness --
ShadowStats' John Williams Explains Why It's All Been Downhill Since
1973 -- $1.2 trillion for national security? That's the new budget nobody in power wants you to notice -- So why is the west so hot for an excuse to get boots on the ground in Libya? -- Huge Lunar Cave Located -- Global Food Prices Hit A Record High For The Third Straight Month -- Foreclosure-Gate: Bankers and Bureaucrats Argue Over Piddling Fine -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton On The Role Of The US Military In Libya -- Propaganda: Pentagon Plan To Use Social Media Tricks and Fictitious Personas -- US Naval Update: It's A Mediterranean Party - Libyan Endgame Expected Within 5-7 Days -- The War on Cold Medication
AZ: AGORA I/O Viewing Event! March
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News Link • Homeland Security
Documents Reveal TSA Research Proposal To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers
03-03-2011
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blogs.forbes.com
Newly uncovered documents show that as early as 2006, the Department of Homeland Security has been planning pilot programs to deploy mobile scanning units that can be set up at public events and in train stations, along with mobile x-ray vans...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
A Record 44.1 million Americans on Food Stamps
03-03-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
It is no surprise that on Charles Ponzi day, the update to food stamp usage indicates that in December those receiving an average of $134 per month has just hit 44.1 million people.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
They Call That Scam "Sharia"
03-03-2011
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freedominourtime.blogspot.com
Tennessee state senator Bill Ketron insists that his proposed anti-Sharia measure (formally known as the "Material Support to Designated Entities Act") is not intended to criminalize the peaceful practice of the Muslim religion.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Farrakhan: Jews are pushing the US into war
03-03-2011
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jpost.com
Nation of Islam leader says his comments on Jews are meant "to pull the cover off Satan" and "Zionists dominate the US government and banks."
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Most Compelling Argument for Owning Silver You've Ever Heard
03-03-2011
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The Market Oracle
One of world's top investors says there is no silver left.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Announced U.S. Job Cuts Rose 20% From Year Ago
03-03-2011
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Bloomberg.com
Employers in the U.S. announced more job cuts in February than in the same month last year, led by a surge at government agencies.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Why the Dollar's Reign Is Near an End
03-03-2011
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WSJ.com
There is the danger that the dollar's safe-haven status will be lost. Foreign investors"private and official alike"hold dollars not simply because they are liquid but because they are secure. The U.S. government has a history of honoring its...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Propaganda
Hillary Clinton: “We Are Losing The Infowar” - We Need More Money For Propaganda
03-03-2011
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InfoWars.com/
We are in an information war and we are losing that war,” warned Clinton, in a bid to rustle up more money to fund propaganda to compete with foreign news media...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
Anticipation: China Gold Demand Voracious - Chinese Yuan Gold Standard?
03-03-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
China is clearly trying to position the yuan or renminbi as the alternative global reserve currency. The Chinese likely realise that they will need to surpass the Federal Reserve’s official, but unaudited, gold holding of 8,133.5 tonnes.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
The Obama Administration Is Still Willfully Ignorant About Housing Prices
03-03-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The NYT implied that the Obama administration, which includes not a single economist who recognized the danger of the housing bubble, still does not understand the bubble.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sam Zell: US Standard of Living in Peril From Dollar's Weakness
03-03-2011
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CNBC.com
The US standard of living could drop 25 percent if the dollar loses its standing as the world's reserve currency, investor Sam Zell told CNBC.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ShadowStats' John Williams Explains Why It's All Been Downhill Since 1973
03-03-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Household income has not recovered above that, and if you use the CPI-U it shows that household income today is below where it was in 1973. Again, the average household has not been able to keep up here.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
$1.2 trillion for national security? That's the new budget nobody in power wants you to notice
03-01-2011
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Christopher Hellman, CBS News
If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national security budget, it would actually add up to more than $1.2 trillion a year. You won't find that figure in your daily newspaper or on your nightly newscast, but it's no
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Energy
So why is the west so hot for an excuse to get boots on the ground in Libya?
03-03-2011
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www.wikipedia.org
Yes, it's the oil. But not just any oil. A quick look at Wikipedia shows why Libya's oil is worth more than oil anywhere else, and how much they got.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Science
Largest Planet Suggested
03-03-2011
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arclein
Scientists believe they may have found a new planet in the far reaches of the solar system, up to four times the mass of Jupiter.
Its orbit would be thousands of times further from the Sun than the Earth's - which could explain why it has so far
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News Link • Science
Twilight of the Lions
03-03-2011
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arclein
There are moments when, soaked to the skin in the wild marshes of the Okavango Delta's Juba plain, Joubert hears lions on the prowl in the dark of night, just metres away, and he knows, deep in his heart, that the lion's last wild sunset hasn't di
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robert klein
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Boeing Boondoggle: Pork can Fly!
03-02-2011
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Robert Scheer
Defense of the nation (for the the Boeing Co. $35 billion defense contract), of course, had nothing to do with it, since the end of the Cold War also ended the need for midair refueling of the nuclear-armed bombers intended to retaliate after a Sovie
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science
Huge Lunar Cave Located
03-03-2011
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arclein
Lava tubes provide a natural environmental control with a nearly constant temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius, unlike that of the lunar surface showing extreme variation, maximum of 130 degrees Celsius to a minimum of minus 180 degrees Celsius in
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robert klein
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News Link • Gold and Silver
A conspiracy with a silver lining
03-03-2011
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NY Times
It’s getting harder and harder to continue to brush off Andrew Maguire’s claims as the rantings of a rogue trader with a nutty online following.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Food
Global Food Prices Hit A Record High For The Third Straight Month
03-03-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
At this point it's hard not to see food as a key factor in the Arab revolts.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Bankers and Bureaucrats Argue Over Piddling Fine
03-03-2011
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NYtimes.com
But other regulators, including the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which oversees national banks, and the Federal Reserve, do not favor such a large fine, contending a small number of people were the victims of flawed foreclosure...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton On The Role Of The US Military In Libya
03-03-2011
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cnn.com/
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a Senate panel Wednesday that "there may well be a role for military assets to get equipment and supplies into areas that have a need for them" and in areas where the United States is welcome.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Propaganda: Pentagon Plan To Use Social Media Tricks and Fictitious Personas
03-03-2011
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washingtonpost.com
The U.S. Central Command says its new “Persona” social media "infiltration" software is designed to cozy up to extremist bloggers overseas, not law-abiding Americans chatting on Facebook or similar sites.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
US Naval Update: It's A Mediterranean Party - Libyan Endgame Expected Within 5-7 Days
03-03-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
And with air coverage, the no fly zone will likely be instituted by Monday of next week, which, as Robert Gates telegraphed earlier, is the codeword for a "NATO" invasion. Which means this weekend will likely be do or die in terms of game theory...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
War on Cold Medication
03-02-2011
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Becky Chandler
This week the FDA issued another one of their Nanny Fatwas banning some cold and cough concoctions, not because they are dangerous, but are either ineffective or unproven. Under normal circumstances this would be about the FDA's unwarranted interfer
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