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Date Sent: 2011-06-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, June 18, 2011 |
Obama overruled lawyers on Libya air war -- U.S. Pressing Its Crackdown Against Leaks
A Watchdog Professor, Now Defending Himself -- County shuts down kids’ lemonade stand, fines parents $500 -- Saudi women defy driving ban -- Goldwater Institute - Groundbreaking US Supreme Court decision on the Tenth Amendment
-- Last Statement Sent to Sentinel From Self-immolation Victim -- Bob
Prechter - president of Elliott Wave International / Terry Nelson -
Customs & Border Protection -- How Miserable? Index Says the Worst
in 28 Years -- The Bastards Want to Track Our Gold! -- Obama Launching World War III -- Globalists Call For ‘Big War’
-- Stock Market Tapped Out? -- “Stay and fight”: Is this realistic? --
Wrights to participate in first Libertarian presidential debate -- Military Sources Reveal Ground Force Invasion of Libya -- Wildlife Refuges to be Planted with GMOs -- The US Deficit Problem Is At Civil War Levels
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama overruled lawyers on Libya air war
06-17-2011
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AP
President Barack Obama decided he could continue the air war in Libya without congressional approval despite rulings to the contrary from Justice Department and Pentagon lawyers, according to published reports.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. Pressing Its Crackdown Against Leaks
06-17-2011
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NY Times
Stephen J. Kim, an arms expert who immigrated from South Korea as a child, spent a decade briefing top government officials on the dangers posed by North Korea. Then he was charged with violating the Espionage Act by talking to Fox News.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
A Watchdog Professor, Now Defending Himself
06-17-2011
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NY Times
Mr. Protess was the founder and driving force behind the Medill Innocence Project, which was instrumental in exonerating at least 12 wrongly convicted defendants and freeing them from prison, including five who were on death row in Illinois, and in p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
County shuts down kids’ lemonade stand, fines parents $500
06-17-2011
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The Lookout
A more wholesome American scene could hardly be imagined: a bunch of kids selling lemonade on a summer's day.
But local authorities in Montgomery County, Md., saw things differently. They shut down the kids' venture and ended up fining their paren
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Saudi women defy driving ban
06-17-2011
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Washington Post
At least 29 women in Saudi Arabia drove their cars Friday, after Internet campaigns inspired by the uprisings across the Arab world urged them to flout the country’s de facto ban on female drivers.
At least one of the women is believed to have be
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
“Stay and fight”: Is this realistic?
06-17-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
No fewer than ten NYPD storm troopers were ‘patrolling’ the sidewalk outside in full combat gear: Kevlar helmet, flak vest, semi-automatic 9mm sidearm, and Colt model 933 with M900 foregrip and M68 aimpoint...
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • States' Rights
Goldwater Institute - Groundbreaking US Supreme Court decision on the Tenth Amendment
6/17/11
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Tenth Amendement
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court issued one of the best and most important decisions ever on federalism. The Court unanimously held that not just states but individuals have standing to challenge federal laws as violations of state sovereignty under
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Police State
Last Statement Sent to Sentinel From Self-immolation Victim
06-17-2011
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Sentinelsource.com /Ann Coulter article/Dailybell
"...I am done being bullied for being a man. I cannot believe these people in Washington are so stupid to think they can govern Americans with an iron fist."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Drug War
Call Off the Global Drug War
06-17-2011
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Jimmy Carter
N an extraordinary new initiative announced earlier this month, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has made some courageous and profoundly important recommendations in a report on how to bring more effective control over the illicit drug trade. The
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Here Are Some Bottom-Up Ideas to Increase Job Growth
06-17-2011
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online.wsj.com
According to Messrs. Immelt and Chenault, the President's Council analyzed actions that "are critical to accelerating job growth in high-potential sectors."
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How Miserable? Index Says the Worst in 28 Years
06-17-2011
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CNBC.com
In Fact, misery, as measured in the unofficial Misery Index that simply totals the unemployment and inflation rates, is at a 28-year high, reflective of how weak the economic recovery has been and how far there is to go.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
The Bastards Want to Track Our Gold!
06-17-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
They'll tell you it is a fight to protect against "blood gold", but what they won't tell you is the blood and gold they are really talking about is yours, if you try to resist once they figure out how they are going to try and grab your gold.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama Launching World War III
06-17-2011
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prisonplanet.com
In this critically important update, Alex warns that the international banking cartel is using Obama and the US military to start World War III.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Globalists Call For ‘Big War’
06-17-2011
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prisonplanet.com
The secret globalist group “Bilderberg” called for a big war by expanding the turmoil in Libya into a full-scale conflict involving the entire Middle East except for Israel.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stock Market Tapped Out?
06-17-2011
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dailybell.ch
Pandora shares make spectacular plunge below IPO ... It didn't take long before Pandora went from music to investors' ears to the stock market's version of fingernails on a blackboard.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Stunning mini-documentary goes inside Vancouver riot
06-17-2011
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RawStory.com
I was there for the aftermath of Vancouver's Stanley Cup loss on June 15th, 2011. This is all I managed to catch on my dinky point and shoot camera.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Libertarian Party: 40 years is enough - end the Drug War
06-17-2011
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LP.ORG via Press Release from Chairman Mark Hinkle
June 17, 2011 is the 40th anniversary of America's War on Drugs. Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle issued the following statement today.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Military Sources Reveal Ground Force Invasion of Libya
06-17-2011
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Infowars.com via RTR.ORG post
Report states Americans killed in Libya by Mortuary Specialist recieving and processing the bodies...
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • China
New Satellite Pictures of China's Ghost Cities
06-17-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
China plans to build 20 cities a year for the next 20 years. The unacknowledged problem is finding buyers for those hundreds of millions of new homes.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Wildlife Refuges to be Planted with GMOs
06-17-2011
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Farm Wars
Say goodbye to GMO-free wild game. GMOs are to be planted in wildlife refuges with no restrictions.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The US Deficit Problem Is At Civil War Levels
06-17-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
This visualization of the U.S. deficit to GDP (or GNP) ratio shows how, historically, we're very close to Civil War levels, in terms of our deficit as a percent of GDP.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
"Fear The Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap
06-17-2011
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Posted on RTR.ORG by LibertyPatriotsUSA
John Papola and Russ Roberts create an OUTSTANDING video that just might have an 'educational side effect'... (Keynes gets SERVED)
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Marriage
Ann Coulter shows her ignorance (again)
06-17-2011
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Ryan McMaken on LRC
There is a reason that governments regulate marriage: Governments couldn’t resist the urge to seize control of marriage which was a traditionally religious and non-governmental institution.
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Reported by:
Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • General Opinion
Ron Paul Should Be The Next President Of The United States - by Scott Rubin
06-17-2011
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sfgare.com via RTR.ORG post
The 2012 Presidential elections may present one of the last opportunities for the American people to rise up against the oligarchy that has run this country into the ground for their own personal benefit...
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
IMF cuts U.S. growth forecast, warns of crisis
06-17-2011
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ca.news.yahoo.com
The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for U.S. economic growth on Friday and warned Washington and debt-ridden European countries that they are "playing with fire" unless they take immediate steps to reduce their budget deficits.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Pearce Recall Petitions Indicate Massive Voter Registration Fraud
06-17-2011
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Sonoran News via e-mail from Dina (Thanks!)
Keep in mind this isn't about Mexicans, 'immigration', or even voting - it's an end-run to a National (then Worldwide) ID that contains your DIGITAL WALLET - with TPTB at the 'Control Board'...
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Agriculture
Healthy Beets
06-17-2011
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arclein
Baby beetroot is around the size of a golf-ball and is slightly sweeter than mature specimens. Beetroot leaves look a lot like baby spinach, with red stems and veins showing through the dark leaves. Often used in mixed salads, they have a peppery tas
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Life Expectancy to Jump by 2020
06-17-2011
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arclein
By 2030, over 6 billion of the total population of 8.5 billion will be considered middle class or wealthier ($10-100 per day or better) and those people will be urbanized as well. China, India, Brazil, Indonesia and many other countries could make
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Understanding of Platinum Catalyst
06-17-2011
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arclein
Dr. Jerkiewicz's research team has found that when platinum is used in reactions involving hydrogen it develops an embedded layer of hydrogen just one atom thick.
This gives the platinum hydrophobic or water-repelling qualities, meaning that stra
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robert klein
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Siamese twins sharing the same brain
06-16-2011
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William J Astore, Asia Times
The US is now involved in no less than six wars. Count 'em, if you don't believe me: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and what used to be called the "global war on terror".
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Leon Felkins
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