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Date Sent: 2011-05-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, May 11, 2011 PM edition |
How the US Government Will Seize Your Retirement Account
Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says -- Emergency Messages On Your Cellphone: Scaring You Into Submission? -- Matt Taibbi: "The People Vs. Goldman Sachs" -- Gulf Blue Plague Realities: Deadly Radioactive Microorganisms -- High-End Real Estate = "Dead Money" -- iPhone GPS Helps Capture Colorado Car Theft Suspect
-- Daredevil Flies Over the Grand Canyon with a Winged Jet Pack -- Bill Buppert in studio for 2 hours - Blog: www.ZeroGov.com - Anti-Government - Pro-Liberty -- Today on LewRockwell.com - Wednesday May 11th, 2011 -- Inflation - real or hysteria? -- Gas Price Hypocrisy -- Afghan officials: Insurgent attack in east failed -- Mystery of Fading Childhood Memories Solved -- Officials: Ex-general to run for Senate in Texas -- DARPA's Automated Video Surveillance Will
End Public Anonymity -- AP-Gfk poll: Obama approval hits 60
percent!!!! -- Israeli RoboCop
Biometric Sunglasses: Hyped, But Deadly to Freedom -- Upscale
Housing: More Foreclosures and Prices Drops As Feds Exit That Market --
Foreclosure-Gate: Banks Offer Paltry $5 Billion In Exchange For
Expungement Of Charges -- Merkel Taps
Ex-Goldmanite To Head European Central Bank -- East Jerusalem
Palestinians: Lawlessly Revoking Their Status -- MS Vitamin D link
Accepted
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Sunday, May 15th 4pm
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
How the US Government Will Seize Your Retirement Account
05-11-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Citing its desire to 'protect' the American people from future market shocks, the politicians will mandate that a portion of all managed retirement funds be invested in the 'safety and security' of US Treasury bonds. And, just to be on the safe side.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Imperialism
Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says
05-11-2011
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The Galactic Empire Times
Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mastermind of some of the most devastating attacks on the Galactic Empire and the most hunted man in the galaxy, was killed in a firefight with Imperial forces near Alderaan, Darth Vader announced on Sunday.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Surveillance
Emergency Messages On Your Cellphone: Scaring You Into Submission?
05-11-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
As I explained Monday, the Neoconservatives used fear to scare people into submission. Obama used the emotions of "hope" and "change" to rally his base, but has now largely abandoned those themes in favor of fear.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Matt Taibbi: "The People Vs. Goldman Sachs"
05-11-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
They weren't murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most people can rationally conceive of, from their own customers, in a few blinks of an eye. But then they went one step further.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Gulf Blue Plague Realities: Deadly Radioactive Microorganisms
05-11-2011
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Farm Wars
Michael Edward discusses radioactive uranium coming from asphaltic oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Also, BP clean-up worker Paul Hebert's personal observations of the Gulf water boiling with microorganisms digesting the oil.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Housing
High-End Real Estate = "Dead Money"
05-11-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
There is a separate market for higher end (and Uber high-end) properties that have been trying to get sold for several years. Finding buyers is very hard. Prices have come down a bunch. As much as 50%; but there is still too many properties.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
iPhone GPS Helps Capture Colorado Car Theft Suspect
05-11-2011
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Officer.com
Police say an iPhone left in a stolen truck is how officers were able to capture a burglar suspected of multiple auto break-ins.
Police said 29-year-old Joshua Mitzelfelt allegedly stole a truck left unattended and running in a Colorado Springs dr
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Reported by:
Justin Tyme
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Best Illusion of 2011 Reveals Visual Quirk
05-11-2011
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LiveScience
A mysterious illusion that illustrates how motion can render color changes invisible won the "Best Illusion of the Year" for 2011, and it also taught researchers something they didn't know.
"It is a really beautiful effect, revealing something ab
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Daredevil Flies Over the Grand Canyon with a Winged Jet Pack
05-11-2011
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Life's Little Mysteries
This past weekend, Yves Rossy, a 51-year-old former Swiss fighter pilot and renowned daredevil, flew over the Grand Canyon powered by a winged jet pack.
A helicopter dropped Rossy, a.k.a. "JetMan," from an altitude of 8,000 ft (2,400 m) above the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Today on LewRockwell.com - Wednesday May 11th, 2011
05-11-2011
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lewrockwell.com
A Knight Without Armor in a Savage Land - James Herndon on Ron Paul as Paladin. / Why the 'West' Is Attacking Gaddafi - He refuses to take orders. Article by Mike Rozeff. / Time To Get Rich - Gary North on what to teach your children.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Inflation - real or hysteria?
05-11-2011
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atimes.com
Debate continues to rage between the inflationists who say the United States money supply is increasing, dangerously devaluing the currency, and the deflationists who say we need more money in the economy to stimulate productivity.
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Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Gas Price Hypocrisy
05-11-2011
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youtube.com
In 2006 the Democrats and the media screamed bloody murder over the high price of gas. When Barack Obama was inaugurated, the average gas price was $1.87 a gallon. Now that the price has more than doubled
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Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan officials: Insurgent attack in east failed
05-11-2011
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www.necn.com
Hundreds of insurgents attacked Afghan police checkpoints in a remote northeastern province Tuesday with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades but failed to overrun the government positions, officials said.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mystery of Fading Childhood Memories Solved
05-11-2011
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LiveScience
The memories of childhood experiences, whether a tear-jerking boo-boo or a funky dance that sent Mom and Dad into fits of laughter, have all but vanished by the time we reach adulthood. It turns out those memories are even more fleeting than previous
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Officials: Ex-general to run for Senate in Texas
05-11-2011
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AP
Former Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who oversaw coalition forces in Iraq before retiring in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, is running for Senate in Texas as a Democrat.
Sanchez has been critical of U.S. military strategy in Ir
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
DARPA's Automated Video Surveillance Will End Public Anonymity
05-11-2011
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extremetech.com
DARPA has created a technology that can index and analyze video in real-time, marking the end of anonymity in public places.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
AP-Gfk poll: Obama approval hits 60 percent
05-11-2011
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AP
President Obama’s approval rating hit its highest point in 2 years â€" 60% â€" and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an poll taken after U.S. forces killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Israeli RoboCop Biometric Sunglasses: Hyped, But Deadly to Freedom
05-11-2011
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singularityhub.com
But don’t let this journalistic over-hype curb your admiration for these hi-tech spectacles. The Ex-Eye is still pretty awesome. It bridges the gap between cutting edge surveillance and enforcement, allowing security personnel the opportunity...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Upscale Housing: More Foreclosures and Prices
Drops As Feds Exit That Market
05-11-2011
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CNBC.com
As regulators prepare to drop the level at which they will guarantee loans ?" here in Monterey County, the level will drop by a third to $483,000 ?" buyers and sellers are wondering why they should be punished simply for living in an expensive re
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Banks Offer Paltry $5 Billion In Exchange For Expungement Of Charges
05-11-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
And there were those who thought that the $20 billion demanded by state and federal officials of banks caught in various acts of robosigning fornication was a joke.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • European Union
Merkel Taps Ex-Goldmanite To Head European Central Bank
05-11-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
German chancellor Angela Merkel has publicly endorsed Mario Draghi, former vice chairman and managing director of Goldman Sachs International and current governor of the Italian central bank, to become the next president of the ECB.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • False Flag Operations
"Faux News" (the "Fog of War" song)
05-11-2011
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youtube (h/t Jet Lacey)
Faux News, the "Fog of War" song. An original song parody by Donny Aldridge. Faux News is good news for the American sheeple. Osama's dead again and the Globalist will soon debut the new patsy they've been grooming.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
MS Vitamin D link Accepted
05-11-2011
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arclein
While the phenomenon of vitamin D deficiency is seen all over the world, countries in the northern hemisphere have been linked to significantly higher rates of MS. Scotland, for example, has one of the largest populations of MS sufferers, while the d
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Transforming the Supergrid
05-11-2011
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arclein
The promise for this new class of grid assets is immense, though so is the number of challenges that must be addressed in bringing them to market. Skeptics will ask many relevant questions. Can these devices be designed and manufactured to be cost-co
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Surprise Deep Ocean Eddies
05-11-2011
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arclein
The previously unknown deep-sea phenomenon, reported in the journal Science, helps explain how some larvae travel huge distances from one vent area to another, said Diane K. Adams, lead author at WHOI and now at the National Institutes of Health.
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robert klein
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Day the Music Stopped
05-11-2011
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arclein
Though little is known at this early date, according to U.S. officials, documents and digital data captured by the U.S. forces that stormed bin Laden’s compound are already proving enormously invaluable. After the intelligence obtained from the opera
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robert klein
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News Link • Media: Radio
Truth Squad Radio â€" Dr. Don Huber on Glyphosate
05-11-2011
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Farm Wars
Join us Wednesday evening as we talk with Dr. Don Huber. Recently Dr. Huber discovered a new disease-causing organism directly related to the use of glyphosate (aka "Roundup").
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Barbara Peterson
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