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Date Sent: 2011-05-13
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, May 13, 2011 |
The Military-Industrial Complex for VAT -- Can Ron Paul Lead on Foreign Policy?
Obama seeks extension for Robert Mueller as FBI director -- Criminal charges dismissed in Arizona jaguar capture -- Special report: The bin Laden kill plan -- How Bin Laden Emailed Without Being Detected by US -- FBI & Biometrics: Next Generation Identification (NGI) Program For Border Security -- Biometrics: Is EyeLock Part Of Obama's "Trusted Identities" Internet ID Program? -- Eric Sprott Says Gold Is Now The World's Reserve Currency -- Police Buy Software to Map Suspects' Digital Movements -- Wow, Goldman Gets A Downgrade BECAUSE Of The Matt Taibbi Article -- How Convenient: EPA Halts Daily Reporting of Radiation Levels -- NHK Reports Fukushima Reactor 1 Is Melting Down -- FDIC’s Bair Says Millions of Mortgages May Be “Infected,” Criticizes Consent Orders
-- Scientists: Gigantic ocean of water may lie beneath Titan's surface
-- Portable Solar Power Solutions -- Newt Gingrich Was More Supportive
Of Individual Mandates Than Mitt Romney -- WikiLeaks gags staff, threatens leakers with $20 million penalty -- NATO Air Strikes hit Gaddafi Compound in Tripoli -- NATO and Afghan raid kills girl, cop -- Syrian Tanks Attack as 19 Protesters Killed --
Security forces target Bahrain medics -- Italy: Gaddafi arrest warrant
coming in weeks -- Foreclosure Filings Fall 34% Amid ‘Saturation’ --
Bernanke Cautions Against Using Debt Limit as ‘Bargaining Chip’
AZ: GardenPool.org Tour
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Military-Industrial Complex for VAT
05-12-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Bottom line, watch what is going on here, the debate over the deficit is slowly being moved from a debate about reducing spending to a debate over increasing government revenues.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Can Ron Paul Lead on Foreign Policy?
05-12-2011
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www.theatlantic.com
Four years ago, Ron Paul was the Chicken Little of the Republican Party.
In 2007, he warned of an impending financial crisis, an imperious Federal Reserve, and a tyrannical federal government. Few voters and virtually no leaders listened to him.
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G Cone
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama seeks extension for Robert Mueller as FBI director
05-12-2011
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Washington Post
President Obama announced Thursday that he is seeking a two-year extension of Robert S. Mueller III’s term as FBI director, saying he cannot afford to lose the longtime chief at a time of transition elsewhere in the government.
The request for
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Reversals challenge hope of Arab Spring
05-12-2011
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Washington Post
The swift toppling of the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt, in rapid succession, has been followed by months of deepening bloodshed and brutality across the Arab world, underscoring the power that autocrats still wield after decades of dictatorship.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Criminal charges dismissed in Arizona jaguar capture
05-12-2011
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AP
Criminal charges have been dismissed against a research technician who admitted there was no authorization to intentionally capture an endangered jaguar that later died in southern Arizona. It was the last known wild jaguar living in the United State
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Special report: The bin Laden kill plan
05-12-2011
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Reuters
The mission to destroy bin Laden sparked the creation of a chillingly bureaucratic process for deciding who would be on "kill lists," authorized for death at the hands of the CIA. It revolutionized the use of pilotless drones to find and attack milit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
How Bin Laden Emailed Without Being Detected by US
05-12-2011
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AP
Despite having no Internet access in his hideout, Osama bin Laden was a prolific email writer who built a painstaking system that kept him one step ahead of the U.S. government's best eavesdroppers.
His methods, described in new detail to The Asso
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
What President Barack Obama Is Hiding From Us
05-12-2011
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Rense.com
It's wrong to ridicule citizens who are asking legitimate questions about the man who is our President. In fact, as responsible citizens, it's our duty to protect our country, not to blindly support someone who quite frankly, we'd never...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
FBI & Biometrics: Next Generation Identification (NGI) Program For Border Security
05-12-2011
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businesswire.com/news
Kim Del Greco, Chief of Biometric Services Section (BSS), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division of Science & Technology Branch(S&T), (FBI) spoke with IDGA to discuss advancing technologies for border security.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Biometrics: Is EyeLock Part Of Obama's "Trusted Identities" Internet ID Program?
05-12-2011
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pcmag.com/
Your eyes may soon become the window to more than just your soul. A New York company has produced what it calls the "first commercially scalable, mobile iris- scanning solution," a product called EyeLock that lets consumers scan an eye...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Eric Sprott Says Gold Is Now The World's Reserve Currency
05-12-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Eric Sprott Says Gold Is Now The World's Reserve Currency, Says Silver Was Manipulated Lower
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Police Buy Software to Map Suspects' Digital Movements
05-12-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Britain's largest police force is using software that can map nearly every move suspects and their associates make in the digital world, prompting an outcry from civil liberties groups.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Propaganda
Paul Craig Roberts: The West Is Trapped In Its Own Propaganda
05-12-2011
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LewRockwell.com
What has happened to the West is that it can see itself and others only through the eyes of its own propaganda.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
The Fatal Timidity of the Corporate Media
05-12-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
Lost in all the hand-wringing over the corporate (mainstream) media's decline is a key cause of the decline: the MSM no longer publishes or airs anything that challenges the Status Quo. The timidity of the corporate media knows no bounds.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
How Convenient: EPA Halts Daily Reporting of Radiation Levels
05-12-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
In a convoluted announcement made on Monday, the EPA appears to be halting its daily reporting of radaiation levels in the United States and is resorting to quarterly reports.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Opening of "Burzynski"
05-12-2011
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http://www.rumormillnews.com/
Opening of 'Burzynski': Award-Winning Film About the Most Effective Gene-Targeted Cancer Treatment, Ever: Antineoplaston VERY IMPORTANT FILM!
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
For the World is Hollow ... and I Have Touched the Sky! Part II
05-12-2011
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http://www.enterprisemission.com
As noted in Part I -- as a direct result of the recent "ultra-close-approaches" of the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft to "Phobos"
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
NHK Reports Fukushima Reactor 1 Is Melting Down
05-12-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Following up on earlier reports that the fuel rods in reactor 1 were truly exposed, NHK now reports another speculation from long ago, finally confirmed by official sources, namely that the reactor is now melting down.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
FDIC’s Bair Says Millions of Mortgages May Be “Infected,” Criticizes Consent Orders
05-12-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is warning that flaws may have “infected millions of foreclosures” and questioned whether other regulators’ inquiries into problems at the nation’s mortgage-servicing companies...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The People vs. Goldman Sachs
05-12-2011
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www.rollingstone.com
This article appears in the May 26, 2011 issue of Rolling Stone. The issue is available now on newsstands and will appear in the online archive May 13.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Scientists: Gigantic ocean of water may lie beneath Titan's surface
05-12-2011
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Terrence Aym
An incredible new theory based on the mysterious geophysics of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, proposes that a gigantic ocean of water lies beneath the planetoid. The paper is scheduled to appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Astronomy and Astro
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Great American Bubble Machine
05-12-2011
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www.rollingstone.com
By Matt Taibbi - April 5, 2010 3:58 PM ET - From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression -- and they're about to do it again
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Newt Gingrich Was More Supportive Of Individual Mandates Than Mitt Romney
05-12-2011
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) is set to defend his state's health care law from conservative critics in a high-profile speech on Thursday.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • World News
WikiLeaks gags staff, threatens leakers with $20 million penalty
05-12-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requires WikiLeaks staff to sign a confidentiality agreement that claims the organization's collection of leaked documents is "solely the property of WikiLeaks," according to a report.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
NATO Air Strikes hit Gaddafi Compound in Tripoli
05-12-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
NATO air strikes hit Muammar Gaddafi’s compound Thursday, hours after the Libyan leader was shown on television for the first time since another aerial attack killed his son nearly two weeks ago.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
NATO and Afghan raid kills girl, cop
05-12-2011
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http://arabnews.com/
NATO says its troops and Afghan forces mistakenly killed a young girl and a man who turned out to be a police officer during an overnight raid in eastern Afghanistan.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Syrian Tanks Attack as 19 Protesters Killed
05-12-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
At least 19 people were killed today across Syria, as the nation’s military took the offensive in the city of Homs and unidenified snipers killed large numbers of people in villages near the key border city of Daraa.
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News Link • World News
Italy: Gaddafi arrest warrant coming in weeks
05-12-2011
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http://english.aljazeera.net/
International Criminal Court warrant expected by end of month, making exile impossible, Italian foreign minister says.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreclosure Filings Fall 34% Amid ‘Saturation’
05-12-2011
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http://www.bloomberg.com/
Foreclosure filings in the U.S. fell 34 percent last month from a year earlier as lenders already swamped with seized homes delayed action on thousands of additional delinquent mortgages, RealtyTrac Inc. said.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke Cautions Against Using Debt Limit as ‘Bargaining Chip’
05-12-2011
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http://www.bloomberg.com/
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke cautioned lawmakers against using the federal debt limit as a “bargaining chip” during budget talks, saying such moves could provoke market instability and harm the economy.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul to Announce Presidential Candidacy Friday Morning on ABC Good Morning America- 7 am ET
05-12-2011
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dailypaul.com
BREAKING: Ron Paul to Announce Presidential Candidacy Friday Morning on ABC Good Morning America- 7 am ET / Ron Paul is set to officially launch his presidential campaign Friday morning, a Paul source told POLITICO.
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Feature Article • Gun Rights
Loopy project gunrunner
Becky Fenger
If you asked the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to explain the purpose of their Project Gunrunner, they would tell you they wanted to stop the alleged flow of guns to drug cartels and other criminals in Mexico.
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