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Date Sent: 2011-03-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Weekend, March 5-6, 2011 |
Libya: British Army ready for mission at 24 hours’ notice -- Gas prices headed toward $4 a gallon
Walker notifies unions of layoffs, but gives Democrats 15 days to reverse move -- Crowd Identity MAP (Unbelievable Technology) -- Out-of Control Human Rights Abuses in Iraq -- America's War on Libya -- The Real ID Act 2005: The reality versus the myth and why you should care - by Mark Lerner -- Freedom: Loving Liberty or Licentious Anarchy? -- Did 'mummy's curse' kill Egyptian looters? -- Chris Floyd: The Creeping Militarization of the Libyan Crisis -- Immigration Status Smelling Dog or Illegal Drug Checkpoint? - by Terry Bressi-- Saudi Arabia Bans Demonstrations As It Hurtles Towards 3-11-11 Day Of Rage -- NASA Scientist Claims Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite -- Evidence Points To BATF Allowing Guns To Fall In The Hands Of Mexican Gangs -- Sexual Sadists In The Pentagon Strip Bradley Manning For Telling The Truth -- Dwindling Comex Silver Bullion, But Where Is the Gold Coming From? --
Cloned "Frankenfoods" To Be Sold Without Labels In Europe -- US
Invasion Of Libya Aims to Replace Chinese Oil Companies With Western
Ones? -- Jim Quinn: There Are No Good Outcomes
-- More Manipulation Of Jobs Numbers? You Better Learn The Truth. --
Arab Unrest in the Middle East -- Mimicry Presages Market Crashes --
Mexican Security Threat -- Pvt Manning: Is Army Aping Mafia? - by Ray McGovern -- TX St Rep Files Bill Outlawing TSA Scans/Gropes -- Wartime fraud costing American taxpayers 'tens of billions'
AZ: Publisher of Freedom's Phoenix, Ernest Hancock, to turn 50
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Libya: British Army ready for mission at 24 hours’ notice
03-06-2011
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www.telegraph.co.uk
Sources confirmed that The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland, had been placed on heightened readiness, prepared to deploy to North Africa at 24 hours’ notice.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Gas prices headed toward $4 a gallon
03-06-2011
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www.freep.com
Prices have already surged 38 cents a gallon in metro Detroit since President’s Day and likely will jump again by early next week as crude oil prices shot up nearly $3 Friday to $104.63 a barrel.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Libya: ‘Eight SAS Soldiers Held By Rebels’
03-06-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Eight SAS soldiers have been detained by rebels in Libya, according to Sky News sources. Rebel sources told Sky that the group are being held in Libya’s second city in Benghazi.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Saudis mobilise thousands of troops to quell growing revolt
03-06-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Saudi Arabia is drafting up to 10,000 security personnel into its north-eastern Shia Muslim provinces, clogging highways into Dammam and other cities with busloads of troops in fear of next week’s “day of rage” called the “Hunayn Revolution”.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US Department of Imperial Expansion
03-06-2011
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ww.prisonplanet.com
Believe it or not, the US State Department’s mission statement actually says the following:...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
Zbigniew Brzezinski Spouts Globalist Agenda on Al Jazeera
03-06-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Zbigniew Brzezinski: We shouldn’t be the policeman of the world… but we should send troops and warships to Libya.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Moore: Protesters have 'aroused a sleeping giant'
03-06-2011
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http://host.madison.com/wsj
"America is not broke ... Wisconsin is not broke," Moore said. "The only thing that's broke is the moral compass of the rulers."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Walker notifies unions of layoffs, but gives Democrats 15 days to reverse move
03-06-2011
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www.jsonline.com
GOP sources familiar with talks on the bill, the discussions with Democratic senators holed up in Illinois include removing or changing a provision from Walker's budget-repair bill that would limit unions' bargaining over wages to the rate of inflati
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA, DHS plan massive rollout of mobile surveillance vans with long-distance X-ray capability, eye m
03/06/2011
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www.naturalnews.com
Newly-released documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) reveal that the US Depart of Homeland Security has been working on plans to roll out a new wave of mobile surveillance technologies at train stations, stadiums and
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Lola Flores
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News Link • Environment
Mystery of two suns in Chinese sky leaves scientists puzzled
03-06-2011
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Terrence Aym
A rare meteorological event occurring over the Chinese skies has left scientists scratching their heads. Two brilliant suns suddenly appeared in the sky. One sun, the normal, bright cheerful one that warms the Earth and lights the countryside continu
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Surveillance
Crowd Identity MAP
(Unbelievable Technology)
03-06-2011
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GigaPan.org via Rense.com (Thanks Jeff!)
...and I thought I took High-Res pics with my 2000x zoom - CHECK THIS OUT! 1474 Megapixel!! Whoa.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • World News
Breaking news: Libyan planes launch airstrike on rebel forces
03-06-2011
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The Political Commentator
No-Fly Zone? How's that decision coming?
Dither (def.): to be uncertain or indecisive
The term dither has been used many times in the past to describe the approach the Obama administration takes in making critical decisions concerning US forei
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Focus on Peace: A Peace Movement for Everyone
03-06-2011
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The International Libertarian
The wars abroad are less popular than ever. Now is the time to give people that are not on the left in their thinking a place to go to engage in activism for peace. Hopefully, Focus on Peace will fulfill that vital role.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
The unemployed need not apply
03-06-2011
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The Political Commentator
If you are unemployed and young in this job market you may be s**t out of luck!
The saying goes that it's much easier to find a new job when you currently have a job. We have unfortunately reached the point where it seems the only way to find any
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
THE CARROLL COUNTY REVOLUTION - PART II
03052011
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www.varight.com
It looks like the Carroll County (MD) Revolution continues: Commissioner Richard Rothschild reports real savings for the taxpayers and exposing false savings by state government. Millions have been saved this year!
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • European Union
COULD THE UKIP BE THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE IN THE UK?
03052011
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www.varight.com
A recent poll suggests that nearly half of the British voters would consider a non-racist, non-violent "far right" party. There is only one party that fits the bill: The UKIP.
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Amazing animals that talk back to you
03-05-2011
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Terrence Aym
People talk to animals all the time, especially to their pets. Yet few animals really answer back. A few that do (or did, as they've sadly passed on) are featured here.
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Did 'mummy's curse' kill Egyptian looters?
03-05-2011
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Terrence Aym
Thugs smashed their way into Cairo's Royal Egyptian Museum, the sanctuary of Egypt's priceless past. They sought to smash and grab their way to millions by plundering the royal gold of ancient Pharaohs including the artifacts of the god-king Tut. I
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Military
Chris Floyd: The Creeping Militarization of the Libyan Crisis
03-05-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
Again, that would be -- will be? -- the very point of any type of Western military intervention in Libya: to kill a popular, democratic movement that is at present beyond the control of the imperial militarists along the Potomac.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Saudi Arabia Bans Demonstrations As It Hurtles Towards 3-11-11 Day Of Rage
03-05-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
How much this latest bout of totalitarian market control (so welcome by market overlords such as Larry Fink) and centrallized planning calms people ahead of next week's days of rage is unknown. After all Saudi Arabia is quite a few months behind...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Scientist Claims Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite
03-05-2011
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FoxNews
A photograph taken through a scanning electron microscope of a CI1 meteorite is similar in size and overall structure to the giant bacterium Titanospirillum velox, an organism found here on planet Earth, a NASA scientist said.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
Evidence Points To BATF Allowing Guns To Fall In The Hands Of Mexican Gangs
03-05-2011
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Market-ticker.org
The allegation is that the BATFE intentionally allowed these weapons to be purchased despite knowing they were fraudulent straw purchases and then allowed them to be unlawfully transported into Mexico where they were delivered to various...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
Sexual Sadists In The Pentagon Strip Bradley Manning For Telling The Truth
03-05-2011
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FireDogLake.com
Bradley Manning’s attorney, David Coombs, writes about the true reason Bradley Manning is being stripped each night and forced to report naked each morning in the same way Iraqi prisoners were tortured at Abu Graib:
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Dwindling Comex Silver Bullion, But Where Is the Gold Coming From?
03-05-2011
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JessesCrossRoadsCafe.blogspot.com/
Watch how they weave their arguments over the misappropriated social trust funds and pensions, bank bailouts, and subsidies to the corporations and monied interests to see what their methods will be.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Cloned "Frankenfoods" To Be Sold Without Labels In Europe
03-05-2011
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dailymail.co.uk/
Milk and meat from cloned animals’ offspring could soon be on sale without any warning labels, shoppers were warned last night.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
US Invasion Of Libya Aims to Replace Chinese Oil Companies With Western Ones?
03-05-2011
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LewRockwell.com
The US/European/Israeli nexus seeks to dislodge state-ownership " to whatever extent it actually exists " and dislodge any Chinese workers or companies involved in the oil exploitation, and replace these with western companies and western...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Jim Quinn: There Are No Good Outcomes
03-05-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Americans always need a bogeyman to blame for their mindless decisions and willingness to be led to slaughter by corrupt politicians. Big oil companies do benefit from higher oil prices. Big oil companies spend millions buying off Congressmen.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Madison Democrats in collusion with Unions to Push Contracts Through
03-05-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
Fox 6 Now in Madison uncovered a ‘plot’ by Madison city Democrats, including Wisconsin State fleebagging Senator Mark Miller, to rush through union contracts before the state legislature could pass Governor Walker’s budget bill. As has been stated o
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
More Manipulation Of Jobs Numbers? You Better Learn The Truth.
03052011
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www.drscoundrels.com
As we reported before there are a few things people need to understand about unemployment.
There are several different numbers that are not being reported to the general public " and frankly there is good reason.
One thing:
At the end of the
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Arab Unrest in the Middle East
03-05-2011
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arclein
The real cultural enemy of our nation's Western culture and our nation's world culture, is the Fundamentalist Islamic, who wants to exterminate us BECAUSE of our culture and replace it with theirs.
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mimicry Presages Market Crashes
03-05-2011
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arclein
s previous research has shown, investors can often benefit from using a trend-following strategy - that is, buying or selling a stock based on the recent performance of other stocks (which is not necessarily based on any fundamental value). Mimicry i
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robert klein
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News Link • Environment
Wood Fire Pollutants
03-05-2011
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arclein
The scientists analyzed and compared particulate matter in air from the center of a village in Denmark where most residents used wood stoves to a neighboring rural area with few wood stoves, as well as to pure WSPM collected from a wood stove. Airbor
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robert klein
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News Link • Mexico
Mexican Security Threat
03-05-2011
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arclein
Mexico is a problem that has been left to fester on our border for decades and the Left has exploited this war zone to pursue their corrupt anti-American agenda. Right now there is no battlefront more important to the continued existence of America t
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robert klein
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TX St Rep Files Bill Outlawing TSA Scans/Gropes
03-04-2011
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The Lone Star Report
Texas bill, HB 1938, makes it a civil penalty for anyone working in a locally owned airport to install or operate whole-body imaging equipment -- "including a device that uses backscatter x-rays or millimeter waves, that creates a visual image of a
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Wartime fraud costing American taxpayers 'tens of billions'
03-04-2011
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Lynn Herrmann
A new report shows the US government’s unprecedented use of contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan has allowed them to commit fraud and then get rehired, over and over, letting them continue profiting from a lack of government oversight.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Precious Metals
Blythe Masters and JP Morgan are desperate
03-04-2011
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Harvey Organ
Our group was determined to stand for delivery going into Monday because we were not going to take a 30% premium on a price of $33.50. It was reported that Blythe offered 50% premium. That wasn't even close in our case. WE GOT OVER 80% PREMIUM.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Everything is now correlated exclusively to the Fed's Balance Sheet
03-04-2011
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Zero Hedge
One wonders after seeing this chart, and with QE Deux set to end on June 30th. You know this can't be allowed. The Fed will continue to paper over the debts and continue to monitize the debt. Oh, silver is at $35.50/oz.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Return of Stagflation?
03-01-2011
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Bill Bonner, The Daily Reckoning
London, England " The Dow up 95 points yesterday. Gold flat.
“Investors start to fret over renewed threat of stagflation,” says a headline in today’s Financial Times.
You remember stagflation from the ’70s. Prices rose. The economy didn’t.
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Bill Bonner
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News Link • European Union
Sovereign Debt: a Threat to the Entire Financial System
03-04-2011
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Bill Bonner, The Daily Reckoning
Waterford, Ireland " “Ireland is broke,” said our taxi driver.
We like to ask cab drivers about the economy. Not that they understand anything any better than the average central bank economist. But they talk to people. Without cameras or tape rec
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Bill Bonner
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Doug Casey on Labor Unions
Doug Casey
Contrarian investor and free-market thinker Doug Casey doesn’t mince his words. That’s why he is a sought-after speaker at investment conferences " not only for his spot-on investment advice but for his no-holds-barred views of the markets, economy,
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News Link • Energy
Charting The Impact of Oil Crises - Past & Present: Oil at $350 A Barrel By July?
03-04-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The biggest crises of modern days has so far been the Yom Kippur War with a total loss of 5 million mmb/d resulting in a 350% increase in the price of oil 6 months following, should the Libyan crisis escalate and impact even half of Saudi production.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics
Graveside Cruelty: Westboro Attorney to Sue States and Feds to End Picketing Statutes at Funerals
03-04-2011
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http://drscoundrels.com
New lawsuits to come to allow Westboro stand at the grave site of fallen soldiers with their putrid messages of hate.
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James Hyde
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News Link • Homeland Security
Justification for 50 agent US Border Patrol station at Port Angeles?
FOIA denied!
03-04-2011
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http://tinyurl.com/69hewnf
March 4th, the PDN reports:
The Border Patrol has refused to release specific data on the number of arrests made by the Port Angeles station, Blaine Sector, in fiscal years 2009 and 2010.
The agency refused a Peninsula Daily News Freedom of In
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Alex Hepler
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News Link • Corruption
How to Buy Complicity: A Rising Stock Market Bails Out Everyone
03-04-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
Everybody benefits from a permanently rising stock market, and as a result they don't really care how it is engineered or at what eventual cost. The Fed has a free hand as long as it's enriching pension funds, insurance companies, politicos, corp...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
"Markets Like Totalitarian Governments" Say The Elite Of Wall Street
03-04-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Blackrock's Larry Fink who manages over $3 trillion, and is the world's biggest asset manager, appeared on Bloomberg TV in an interview with Erik Schatzker, and the first thing he said is that the "market likes totalitarian governments."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
OOOPSIE " Sebelius ADMITS To Funky Math! FINALLY!
03042011
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www.drscoundrels.com
For all the libs out there who would love to poke fun at us forever about our claims that the Obamacare math is double counting - that we don't know what we're talking about and that the people in charge are, yes indeed, yanking the public's chai
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Revolutionizing the Revolution Business
03-04-2011
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Max Keiser, Huffingtonpost.com
I want to report on something from the perspective of being here on the ground in Cairo. The revolution was definitely enabled by social networking sites. I find it difficult to understand the positions of those in the blogosphere who fail to see thi
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
BLS Created 112,000 Fictitious Jobs With The Birth Death Model in February
03-04-2011
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EconomicEdge.blogspot.com/
Meanwhile the completely phony “Birth/Death” model went from subtracting 339,000 jobs in their annual correction last month to adding 112,000 jobs this month. That is a 451,000 swing from one month to the next with just this model...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Wars, Rumors Of Wars, Skyrocketing Oil Prices And Global Economic Chaos
03-04-2011
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TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com/
Did anyone out there anticipate that 2011 would be such a wild year? The year is barely over two months old and we have already seen multiple civil wars erupt, rumors of more wars all over the mainstream media (potentially even including the US)...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • B.O.R.G.
Alex Jones is overthrowing the ‘global Stasi Borg state,’ one alternative theory at a time
03-04-2011
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Rolling Stone
Alex Jones is overthrowing the ‘global Stasi Borg state,’ one alternative theory at a time
It’s just past 9 a.m. when Alex Jones pulls his Dodge Charger into a desolate parking lot in Austin. From the outside, the squat, single-story office complex
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gallup: US unemployment hits 10.3 percent in February
03-04-2011
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Terrence Aym
The Gallup organization dug into the statistics of the latest federal jobs report and came up with very disturbing numbers. Despite the fact that the major media outlets are trumpeting that the February 2011 national unemployment number has dropped t
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
UPDATE : Illinois FOID Card Owners Still Struggle For Privacy
03-04-2011
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The PPj Gazette
Lynn Swearingen
PPJ earlier article
Illinois FOID Carriers - Whatcha' doing on March 10th?
Lynn Swearingen (c) copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Since yesterday, 13 Senators have added themselves as Co-Sponsors or Chief Co-Sponsors
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Corruption
The BLM’s Big “Fire Sale” of Our Public Lands
03-04-11
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The PPJ Gazette
A Six-Point Plan to Avert a Global Crisis” and the 2010 National Geographic’s special issue cover story was “WATER: Our Thirsty World.” Would it be too much to hope that Dept. of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar or BLM Director Bob Abbey might have
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
AZ Senate approves Tea Party license plate
03-03-2011
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AZ Capital Times
The irony here is rich. Let's bitch about the size and scope of government and then use a government bureaucracy to do fundraising. And to whom do they give the money? There are a lot of so called 'tea party' groups out there, which one gets th
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G Cone
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News Link • Internet
In restricted speech, former MI6 chief credits WikiLeaks with ‘tidal wave’ of revolutions
03-04-2011
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RawStory.com
Former British intelligence chief Sir Richard Dearlove gave a speech not long ago where all recordings were prohibited. During that talk, he credited secrets outlet WikiLeaks with helping spark revolutions across the Middle East, saying they provide
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