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Date Sent: 2011-04-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, April 1, 2011 PM edition |
G20 Considers Global Currency -- The Fed Bailed Out a Libya-Owned Bank
Queen Hillary of Libya -- There's no business like war business -- Welcome to the new NATO quagmire -- Exposed: The US-Saudi Libya deal --
The 'optics' of Odyssey Dawn -- Endgame: Divide, rule and get the oil
-- All Time Record 44.18 Million Americans Are Now On Food Stamps --
Portugal Advised to Beg -- Google making app that would identify people's faces
-- Microsoft files complaint against Google -- Pepe Escobar - Libya:
"Hidden Agendas" & Vital Interests" - Author: "Obama Does
Globalistan." -- The Guns and Weed Podcast -- THE PARTY LINE ON A PARTY
LINE - by Wendy McElroy -- Charles Peña Critiques Obama’s War in Libya
-- Ron Paul on the Fed Bailing Out Foreign Banks -- Sam Konkin and Libertarian Theory -- FBI spied on little kids for days at a time, documents reveal -- Foreign Banks Tapped Fed’s Secret Lifeline Most at Crisis Peak -- America's Permanent War Agenda: Military Keynesianism on Steroids - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club meets
tomorrow morning!!!!; Regular ABC'er Pat Schwind suffered a heart attack yesterday, bypass today; "Atlas Shrugged" in theaters in 2 weeks
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News Link • Currencies
G20 Considers Global Currency
04-01-2011
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dailybell.com
Things are bad all over. With so much going on in the world, it's time for everybody to pull together and come up with a global solution. The world is inter-dependent after all. It is because we say it is.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed Bailed Out a Libya-Owned Bank
03-31-2011
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Zero Hedge
Here's one for the WTF files. While it is neither a secret that back in 2009 America had a thriving relationship with the world's suddenly most hated man Moammar Gaddafi only to turn around and bomb him, nor is it surprising since after
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Queen Hillary of Libya
04-01-2011
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atimes.com
The current stalemate in Libya could last weeks, if not months. In that case, balkanization looms. Think of eastern Libya with Benghazi as capital, oil-rich and with a United States-installed puppet regime (a Libyan Hamid Karzai, like the Afghan pres
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News Link • Obama Administration
There's no business like war business
04-01-2011
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atimes.com
Lies, hypocrisy and hidden agendas. This is what United States President Barack Obama did not dwell on when explaining his Libya doctrine to America and the world.
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News Link • NATO
Welcome to the new NATO quagmire
04-01-2011
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atimes.com
The minute Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told the Anatolia news agency, "The coalition that was formed following the Paris meeting will abandon the mission and hand it over entirely to a single command system under NATO", the issue was se
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News Link • Government
Exposed: The US-Saudi Libya deal
04-01-2011
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atimes.com
You invade Bahrain. We take out Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. This, in short, is the essence of a deal struck between the Barack Obama administration and the House of Saud.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
The 'optics' of Odyssey Dawn
04-01-2011
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atimes.com
Odyssey Dawn, at least for now, is the first United States Africom war. The Pentagon, via Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, dispelled any doubts as he stressed that the "leading edge" is American.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Endgame: Divide, rule and get the oil
04-01-2011
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atimes.com
Without cutting through the fog of war it's impossible to understand what's really going on in Libya.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Donald Trump Gets Fox News Segment: 'Monday Mornings With Trump'
04-01-2011
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huffingtonpost.com
A spat with Bill O'Reilly isn't enough to keep The Donald off Fox News. In fact, Donald Trump is getting a branded segment on the network.
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News Link • Food
All Time Record 44.18 Million Americans Are Now On Food Stamps
04-01-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The total foodstamp participation in January hit an all time record 44,187,831 according to the USDA. But fear not, here's the bullish spin... sorry, there is no way to spin this.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Two essential ingredients to success overseas
04-01-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
It’s nice to be back in Chile. This is a country that I have come to love and appreciate over the last several years, not only for its incredible beauty and highly civilized culture, but also for the massive opportunities that await energetic, profes
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News Link • Government
The fools of April
04-01-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
It crossed my mind today, on April Fool’s Day, to post a subject line like “Bernanke resigns” or “OECD to dissolve itself”. Alas, the best jokes are sometimes just too cruel.
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News Link • Economy - International
Portugal Advised to Beg
04-01-2011
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dailybell.com
There is a solution to every economic crisis, even PIGish over-spending. Friends help friends, after all, and nations help nations.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Military
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday April 1st, 2011
04-01-2011
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www.lewrockwell.com
The Man Who Named the 'Kochtopous' / Our Men and Women in Uniform / The New Colonialism
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Google making app that would identify people's faces
04-01-2011
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cnn.com
Google is working on a mobile application that would allow users to snap pictures of people's faces in order to access their personal information, a director for the project said this week.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Microsoft files complaint against Google
04-01-2011
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www.politico.com
Microsoft asked European regulators Thursday to go after Google on antitrust grounds, accusing the search giant of trying to “entrench its dominance” on the Web.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Activism
The Guns and Weed Podcast
04-01-2011
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www.gunsandweed.com
PODCAST GOING LIVE FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2011. New episodes every Friday night.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Nursed Back to Health: Bernanke Provided Billions In Loans to Gaddafi
04-01-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today questioned why the Federal Reserve provided more than $26 billion in credit to an Arab intermediary for the Central Bank of Libya.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
THE PARTY LINE ON A PARTY LINE - by Wendy McElroy
04-01-2011
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Wendy McElroy
There is no such thing as a collective will. It is strange to have explain this to libertarians. It is disturbing to see how difficult it is for some of them to understand an organization which encourages individuals to think and act independently.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Charles Peña Critiques Obama’s War in Libya on Fox Business Channel
04-01-2011
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www.independent.org
Senior Fellow Charles V. Peña was interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano on Fox Business Channel’s “Freedom Watch” to critique President Barack Obama’s speech on and launching of U.S. military interventions in the war in Libya.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul on the Fed Bailing Out Foreign Banks
04-01-2011
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youtube
Congressman Paul discusses the documents the Fed released by court order on Bloomberg TV
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Sam Konkin and Libertarian Theory
04-01-2011
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www.lewrockwell.com
He called supporters of a minimal state "minarchists," condemned Libertarian Party "partyarchs," and warned against the undue influence of the "Kochtopus."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Nanjing Meeting: World Leaders Are Discussing How To Abandon The Dollar
03-31-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
So there is this meeting in Nanjing where all countries but one are trying to figure out how to get rid of the USD as the world's major reserve currency, one country is trying to keep it's currency as the world's major reserve currency but have it...
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Global Elitist Pushing for World Currency Wants $390 Billion SDRs Issued Every Year
03-31-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
But aside from the SDR eventually being forced upon us all, Stiglitz clearly wants to make the SDR the money of central bankers, now. Stiglitz, Geithner, Bernanke and the rest of crew know the days are limited for the dollar as the reserve currency
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News Link • Self-Help: Rational Living
What Keeps You from Meeting People?
04-01-2011
One problem we largely give ourselves is not feeling able to meet other people even though we could do so"if we acted on our motivations. It’s a problem that can lead to a same old, same old social life, even to loneliness and love life down the tube
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Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Senator Ron Gould shares his thoughts... :-D
04-01-2011
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youtube
...at the Capitol about his home county Mohave County Board of Supervisors, County Manager Ron Walker and Public "Spin" (Information Officer) Darrell Purcell.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
FBI spied on little kids for days at a time, documents reveal
04-01-2011
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Rawstory
The digital rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced Thursday it had discovered violations stemming from the FBI's use of expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.
Documents obtained by the group as the result of pend
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Website technology scans people’s emotions
04-01-2011
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AFP
Computers may soon understand people better than their spouses do, courtesy of innovations from startup Affectiva that expand on groundbreaking sensing research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Affectiva co-founder and MIT profe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Oakland gardener questions need for permit to sell produce
04-01-2011
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San Francisco Chronicle
Novella Carpenter took over a vacant lot on a hardscrabble corner of West Oakland eight years ago and turned it into a working farm of vegetables, goats, rabbits and, sometimes, pigs.
Carpenter milked goats, made cheese and ate much of the produce
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Foreign Banks Tapped Fed’s Secret Lifeline Most at Crisis Peak
04-01-2011
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Bloomberg
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s two-year fight to shield crisis-squeezed banks from the stigma of revealing their public loans protected a lender to local governments in Belgium, a Japanese fishing-cooperative financier and a company
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News Link • Science
New Evolutionary History Of Primates
04-01-2011
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arclein
The findings illustrate events in primate evolutionfrom ancient to recent and clarify numerous taxonomic controversies. Ongoing speciation, reticulate evolution, ancient relic lineages, unequal rates of evolution and disparate distributions of geneti
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News Link • Agriculture
Biochar Sequesters Nitrogen in Pastures
04-01-2011
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arclein
Addition of biochar to the soil allowed for a 70% reduction in nitrous oxide fluxes over the course of the study. Nitrogen contribution from livestock urine to the emitted nitrous oxide decreased as well.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nuclear In Context?
04-01-2011
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arclein
“What is the worst kind of power plant disaster? Hint: It's not nuclear” by Annalee Newitz):
1975: Shimantan/Banqiao Dam Failure
Type of power: Hydroelectric
Human lives lost: 17
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cooling Buildings with Heat
04-01-2011
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arclein
Adsorption chillers are too big and expensive for many applications, such as use in homes. Peter McGrail, who heads the research effort, predicts that the materials could allow adsorption chillers to be 75 percent smaller and half as expensive. This
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robert klein
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News Link • TERRORISM
Claim: Al Qaeda planted 160 nukes across US
04-01-2011
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Terrence Aym
The Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading the effort to determine who sent 25 letters to people across the nation warning about nuclear bombs in America. Contacted by CBS News in Chicago, Illinois, FBI Special Agent Andre Z
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Fields of Dreams: Ballparks Unveil Tech Upgrades
03-31-2011
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Kyle Stack via WIRED.com
Professional sports teams are attempting at a furious rate to lure fans away from the comfort of their couches to live games. And sweet technological upgrades to their home venues become a bigger selling point every year.
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