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Date Sent: 2011-05-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, May 25, 2011 PM edition |
Reid Preempts Paul, Slips Patriot Act in Small Business Bill
American Express can no longer be used to buy medical marijuana --
Hedge fund managers pour assets into farmland as doomsday food scenario
-- Protester who heckled Netanyahu in Congress allegedly beaten, arrested at hospital -- Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images -- Spanish EU Protests Spread to France? -- Not Enjoying TSA Grope-Down is a Suspicious Activity -- Feds Issue Threat: No Fly Zone for Texas? -- Will You Be Able To Hide From SEEK (Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit) -- DHS Merges with Pentagon and NSA Under Obama’s Cyber Threat Plan -- Sam Husseini - Obama, Netanyahu and AIPAC: Professional Wrestling or Real Fight? -- The War on Ron Paul - by Susan Westfall -- Paul Craig Roberts: Are Americans Authoritarians? -- MPAA Unhappy With Google's Opposition to Anti-American Copyright Legislation -- European Parliament Approves Use Of Gold As Collateral -- Voice Biometrics: Big Brother Knows Your Words Will Betray You
AZ: Phoenix Ron Paul R3VOLUTION MeetUp TONIGHT!
CA: Jordan Page in Concert, tomorrow, May
26th @ 8pm in Los Angeles
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News Link • Government
Reid Preempts Paul, Slips Patriot Act in Small Business Bill
05-25-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has circumvented a call by the newly elected senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, to debate the Patriot Act.
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
American Express can no longer be used to buy medical marijuana
05-25-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
American Express is no longer allowing transactions to be processed at medical marijuana dispensaries nationwide, according to published reports.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Alex Jones Endorses New Film Exposing Secret Banking System
05-25-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
The American Dream is a 30 minute animated film by Tad Lumpkin & Harold Uhl that shows you how you’ve been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Conspiracies
Hedge fund managers pour assets into farmland as doomsday food scenario
05-25-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Going back to the land has always been thought of as a thing for hippies, eco-nuts, and doomsday survivalist, but now hedge fund managers are jumping on the bandwagon too.
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News Link • World News
Protester who heckled Netanyahu in Congress allegedly beaten, arrested at hospital
05-25-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
CODEPINK activist Rae Abileah was arrested at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C. after heckling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to the anti-war group.
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News Link • Activism
Spanish EU Protests Spread to France?
05-25-2011
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dailybell.ch
French group calls for Spain-style street protests ... A French group has called for a large demonstration in Paris this weekend to show solidarity with tens of thousands of youth protesters demonstrating against austerity programs in Spain.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Having private parts is not probable cause for TSA to grope or body scan you
05-25-2011
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http://www.networkworld.com/
While Texas pushes to outlaw TSA groping, EPIC files a lawsuit against Homeland Security for withholding documents about expanding the use of mobile body scanners into crowds of moving people.
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News Link • Government
Feds Issue Threat: No Fly Zone for Texas?
05-25-2011
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www.tenthamendmentcenter.com
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice upped the ante in a high-stakes political game of chicken.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
The Sheriff Who Sold His County
05-25-2011
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realitybloger.wordpress.com
In the Great Salt Lake Valley, a once free land settled between the rugged Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountain ranges, the county’s last firewall of protection from outside influence has been extinguished.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Does ’Merika Have a Culture?
05-25-2011
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lewrockwell.com
The culture of the United States is said to be a youth culture, which is defined in terms of entertainment: sex, rock music or its current equivalent, violent video games, sports, and TV reality shows.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Will You Be Able To Hide From SEEK (Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit)
05-25-2011
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strategypage.com
Called SEEK (Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit), this is a portable electronic toolkit that collects biometrics from people. This includes fingerprints, eye (iris) scan and photos of suspects, which are stored electronically. All this is stored...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Merges with Pentagon and NSA Under Obama’s Cyber Threat Plan
05-25-2011
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InfoWars.com/
The Department Of Homeland Security will merge operations with the Pentagon.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Things Are Spinning Out Of Control
05-25-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The single greatest conceit of the Status Quo in the U.S., China and Euroland is that systems and trends can be tightly controlled. That conceit is slowly being revealed as hubris, as all sorts of things are spinning out of the control of the...
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Mish Goes Off The Rails Again
05-25-2011
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Market-ticker.org
These "record keeping" lapses are not an occasional error or problem; they're systemic and intentional. Now, having been caught, the excuses have become manifest and outrageous.The borrower does not deserve to be raped simply because...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Phoenix Ron Paul R3VOLUTION MeetUp TONIGHT!
05-25-2011
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ME - Organizer of the FIRST Ron Paul MeetUp Group
Tonight is our first regular Monthly MeetUp since Ron officially declared his Candidacy for 2012 - AND WE MEAN BUSINESS (as long as there's FUN involved - and making TPTB shake in their boots qualifies!)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The War on Ron Paul by Susan Westfall
05-25-2011
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LRC.com via email from unitedwestand316
"Whether the media establishments want to admit it or not, and believe me they don't, Ron Paul IS the 'front runner' for the republican primary."
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News Link • Corruption
AP source: Edwards could be indicted within days
05-25-2011
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The Associated Press
Federal prosecutors have completed a wide-ranging investigation into John Edwards' political dealings and could indict the two-time Democratic presidential candidate within days.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Seventy-One Shots: The Death of Jose Guereña
05-25-2011
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Pajamas Media
Jose Guereña survived two tours in Iraq, but he couldn't survive his own government.
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik infamously railed in January of this year that Arizona is a “Mecca for prejudice and bigotry.”
One must wonder if the “preju
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Star Dreck: It’s High Time For a New Space Policy
05-25-2011
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Pajamas Media
Several important events in human spaceflight occurred in 1961. The first man and first American were shot into space fifty years ago this spring " but the most important anniversary is May 25th. Half a century ago today, President John F. Kennedy ga
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Durable Goods Plummet: -3.6% On Expectations of -2.5%
05-25-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
At this point there is no need to even highlight the stagflationary crunch the US economy has entered, although the just released Durable Goods number seals the deal: -3.6% on expectations of -2.5%, an 8% revised swing M/M!
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Paul Craig Roberts: Are Americans Authoritarians?
05-25-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Independent thought is not a concept with which very many Americans are familiar or comfortable. Most want to have their emotions stroked, to be told what they want to hear. They already know what they think.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Killing The 4th Amendment and Death Squad Damage Control in Tucson
05-25-2011
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LewRockwell.com
The SWAT operators "had no choice but to shoot" after engineering a completely illegal raid, Thurm " er, Storie insisted
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
MPAA Unhappy With Google's Opposition to Anti-American Copyright Legislation
05-25-2011
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slyck.com
What PIPA would create is the Great Firewall of America. US authorities, on the behest of a copyright complaint or other legal action, or even their own behest, can file an action to force DNS providers to block certain websites deemed infringing.
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News Link • European Union
European Parliament Approves Use Of Gold As Collateral
05-25-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
This vote reinforces market demand for a greater choice of assets that can be used as collateral to meet margin liabilities.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Voice Biometrics: Big Brother Knows Your Words Will Betray You
05-25-2011
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ivr.tmcnet.com
In the IVR platform, voice biometrics provides the unique representations of the characteristics of the vocal tract for each individual. These physical components can combine to produce a unique sound that can be analyzed, measured and stored.
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