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Date Sent: 2011-04-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, April 26, 2011 AM edition |
Military patrols start Friday night in downtown Columbus -- IMF Austerity Is Headed to America
States face $1.26 trillion shortfall in funds to pay retiree benefits
-- Customers Sue Apple Over iPhone Location-Data Collection -- Baltimore sends parents to jail for truant kids -- Hyperinflation vs. Deflation: I Concede -- QE 3 is Coming… It’s Just a Matter of What Form It Will Take -- U.S. Home Prices May Fall 11% This Year, Morgan Stanley Says -- State Department wants passport applicants to reveal lifetime employment history
-- Prof. Christopher Busby On The Nuclear Explosion in the MOX Fuelrod
Pool -- Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 25 Years Later -- Florida Braces for
Huge Crowds for Friday's Space Shuttle Launch -- Ron Paul announcing tomorrow he is running for President? -- Did I pack my iPad full of cocaine? -- Council on Foreign Relations: 'Free-Markets Need Our Help' -- Eurocrats' Immovable Rigor Over Debt Restructuring -- Sega Bombs, Magnet Mines: Terror Tech from WikiLeaks’ Gitmo Files -- Precious Metals Storage Scam: 'Sorry, Delivery Is Not Possible'
AZ: Individual Liberty and the
Freedom Philosophy awards ceremony at the
Freedom Library, Yuma, today, April 26th.
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News Link • Military
Military patrols start Friday night in downtown Columbus
04-25-2011
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www2.wrbl.com
Starting at 10 o'clock Friday, two senior non-commissioned officers from Fort Benning will be on courtesy patrol. The soldiers will be wearing arm bands that read, "Courtesy Patrol."
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
IMF Austerity Is Headed to America " Watch Out!
04-25-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
The current arguments " much in the news " about cutting spending in the US are not exactly what they seem
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul announcing Tuesday he is running for President?
04-25-2011
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Liberty PAC
MEDIA ADVISORY: Congressman Ron Paul will be in Des Moines, Iowa tomorrow, April 26th, to make an important announcement about his political organization.
Dr. Paul will hold a press conference at 3:45 pm CT in the Library Room at the north end of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
States face $1.26 trillion shortfall in funds to pay retiree benefits
04-25-2011
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Washington Post
The state funds that pay pension and health-care benefits to retired teachers, corrections officers and millions of other public workers faced a cumulative shortfall of at least $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009, according to a new report.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
The Guantánamo Papers
04-25-2011
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NY Times Op Ed
The internal documents from the prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, published in The Times on Monday were a chilling reminder of the legal and moral disaster that President George W. Bush created there. They describe the chaos, lawlessness and incompeten
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Customers Sue Apple Over iPhone Location-Data Collection
04-25-2011
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Brian X. Chen via WIRED.com
Two Apple customers have filed a lawsuit accusing the Cupertino, California, company of committing violations of computer-fraud laws by recording location data of iPhone and iPad customers.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Baltimore sends parents to jail for truant kids
04-25-2011
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The Baltimore Sun
But Gaskins was recently jailed for 10 days " one of the dozen parents of Baltimore City students to receive a sentence this year " after failing to send her child to school 103 of 130 days.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Alien Bacteria Could Breed in Extreme 'Hypergravity'
04-25-2011
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Space
If alien life is out there, it may be able to exploit more-extreme environments than scientists think, because huge gravitational forces don't seem to pose much of a problem for microbes. Several different species of bacteria can survive and reproduc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Strange Science: Heaviest Bit of Antimatter Discovered
04-25-2011
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LiveScience
Physicists have detected the heaviest bit of weird antimatter ever found -- a nucleus that is the antimatter partner to helium. For every particle of matter, a matching antimatter particle is thought to exist with the same mass, but an opposite charg
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Explanation Proposed for Weird Space Anomaly Seen By Pioneer Probes
04-25-2011
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Space
A mysterious anomaly in space seen on two NASA probes that has caused scientists to question the laws of physics may just be a trick of the light. Anomalies were seen in the trajectories of the identical Pioneer 10 and 11 deep space probes as they h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Fire Ant Secret: How They Create Life-Saving Rafts in Floods
04-25-2011
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LiveScience
It's the ultimate vehicle for an emergency flood escape. It can assemble itself in about 100 seconds, and keep thousands to millions of passengers safe and afloat for days, even weeks. Floating clusters of fire ants are a feat of natural engineering,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Hyperinflation vs. Deflation: I Concede
04-25-2011
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rickackerman.com/
Where to begin? It’s difficult to give up a belief system that took root 30 years ago, but I find your arguments irresistible. I took notes as I read the essay, thinking to rebut you point-by-point; instead, halfway through it I found myself...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
QE 3 is Coming… It’s Just a Matter of What Form It Will Take
04-25-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
However, the fact remains that the Fed HAS to continue with QE of some kind. The reasons for this are: 1) The $180+ TRILLION interest rate based derivatives market (90+% all of which are owned by the TBTFs)
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
U.S. Home Prices May Fall 11% This Year, Morgan Stanley Says
04-25-2011
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Bloomberg.com
U.S. home prices will fall 6 percent to 11 percent this year, more than previously forecast, as mortgages become harder to obtain and distressed sales drive down values, according to Morgan Stanley.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
How the Space Tourism Business Could See Orbital Boom
04-25-2011
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http://www.space.com/
Orbital space tourism is a niche industry at the moment, but business could really boom if costs come down by a couple of orders of magnitude, a new study asserts.
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News Link • Surveillance
State Department wants passport applicants to reveal lifetime employment history
04/25/2011
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godlikeproductions.com
"The U.S. Department of State has proposed a new questionnaire that would make it almost impossible for some people to get a passport."
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
An App to Protect Your Information
04-25-2011
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The Wall Street Journal
TISSA " short for Taming Information-Stealing Smartphone Applications " essentially helps users control personal information accessible to the apps that run on their Android smartphones.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Why The Ron Paul Presidential Run Will Be A MUCH Bigger Deal This Time Around
04-25-2011
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Joe Weisenthal
It's just obvious that in the last four years, since the last time Ron Paul ran for President, the ideological center of gravity in the GOP -- and the whole country for that matter -- has shifted a lot closer to Ron Paul's position.
In 2008, Paul
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
How World of Warcraft shaped the leadership style of the new head of MIT's Media Lab
04-25-2011
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Christopher Mims via TechnologyReview.com
Joi Ito, the multi-talented investor and thinker who has just been announced as the new head of MIT's media lab, than his account of how he became so addicted to World of Warcraft that he became a Guild Master in the game.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
NFL Lockout Ordered Lifted By Judge
04-25-2011
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A federal judge has sided with NFL players and granted their request for a preliminary injunction to lift the lockout.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Before Manny Became Manny: The Story Behind One of the Most Controversial Men in Baseball.
04-25-2011
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http://www.nytimes.com/
Hero. Cheat. Prodigy. Ingrate. Free spirit. Knucklehead. Hall of Famer. Pariah. Enigma. Manny Ramirez, one of the great right-handed hitters of his generation, who retired from baseball this month.
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News Link • Bioterrorism
GM Alfalfa " Why No Sprouting?
04-25-2011
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Farm Wars
We know that Monsanto doesn’t allow farmers to save seeds, but no sprouting? What could the reason be for that little caveat?
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Florida Braces for Huge Crowds for Friday's Space Shuttle Launch
04-25-2011
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http://www.space.com/
The Florida space coast is expecting near-record crowds to flock to Cape Canaveral to watch the space shuttle Endeavour launch on its last voyage April 29.
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News Link • World News
Eurocrats' Immovable Rigor Over Debt Restructuring
04-25-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Those who lead Europe are determined not to let this crisis get the best of them. The Greeks must suffer so the banks shall not.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Sega Bombs, Magnet Mines: Terror Tech from WikiLeaks’ Gitmo Files
04-25-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
Remember this the next time you plug in your Sega Genesis for some throwback gameplay: al-Qaida once wanted to set off bombs concealed in your game cartridges.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Why You Should Care About the iPhone Location-Tracking Issue
04-25-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
You should care about Apple’s collection of geodata on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices, because the method is flawed.
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News Link • Healthcare
The Cures for Baldness Around the Corner
04-25-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
It is a moment men dread: the barber asks if they want a haircut to help disguise their bald spot. For many men the fact they are thinning on top at all will come as a shock.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Protecting Yourself Against Crime and Violence
04-25-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
My wife and I live in Philadelphia on the “green line” between mostly-prosperous Center City and mostly-wasteland North Philadelphia
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Precious Metals Storage Scam: 'Sorry, Delivery Is Not Possible'
04-25-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
If you’ve been investing in precious metals then you’ve likely made a pretty decent profit on your wealth preservation investment over the last several years.
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