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Date Sent: 2011-06-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, June 29, 2011 PM edition |
Senate committee votes to authorize US in Libya -- Pakistan tells US to leave 'drone' attack base
21 Dead After Taliban Attack on Kabul Hotel -- Ahmadinejad on the Ropes
-- Fresh clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square -- North Korea shuts down
universities for 10 months -- Bank of America in $8.5B mortgage
settlement -- Inside the Afghan hotel attack -- How to Record the Cops, Ct’d . . . -- Feds buying up farmland they flooded; Soros in on it -- Fiesta Bowl to 31 AZ politicians: We want our bribes back -- Housing trouble ahead from the QRM provision in Dodd-Frank? -- Arizona DPS reports 2nd e-mail hacker attack -- Impeach Now or Forever Hold Up Peace! -- Iceland Declares Independence from International Banks -- Ron Paul On 2012: Establishment, Media Unable To Exclude Me This Time Around -- U.S. cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting -- The Business of America Is War
AZ: Arizona
Breakfast Club this
Saturday with Alan Korwin on "The Global Collapse"; POOL PARTY-Saturday, July 2nd, at Hancock's
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Outreach Table - DECLARE
PEACE FAIR this Saturday in Philadelphia
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Senate committee votes to authorize limited U.S. role in Libya
06-29-2011
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http://www.latimes.com/
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution Tuesday authorizing U.S. involvement in the NATO-led mission in Libya, a small step forward for those in Congress seeking a path out of a stubborn legal stalemate with the White House.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Pakistan tells US to leave 'drone' attack base
06-29-2011
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AFP
Pakistan told the United States to leave a remote desert air base reportedly used as a hub for covert CIA drone attacks, Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar said. Pakistan attempting to limit US activities since a clandestine American military raid killed
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News Link • Libya
Impeach Now or Forever Hold Up Peace!
06-29-2011
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Phillip Restino on LewRockwell.com
President Obama’s ordering of the March 19th, 2011 attack on Libya, without even consulting Congress, let alone getting a Declaration of War or other type of Congressional approval for the attack, has led to a good amount of discussion as to how the
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Charles Goyette
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News Link • WAR: About that War
21 Dead After Taliban Attack on Kabul Hotel
06-29-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
At least 21 people, including 10 civilians and 6 attackers, were killed today when a group of heavily armed Taliban fighters attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in the Afghan capital city of Kabul.
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News Link • World News
Ahmadinejad on the Ropes
06-29-2011
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http://the-diplomat.com/
Tensions between the president and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have been bubbling to the surface. Ahmadinejad is running out of options.
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News Link • World News
Greek parliament passes austerity bill
06-29-2011
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http://english.aljazeera.net/
Parliament passes austerity package to slash $40bn off national debt, with 155 MPs voting in favour and 138 against.
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News Link • Police State
Policing the Police: The Apps That Let You Spy on the Cops
06-29-2011
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www.theatlantic.com
Something like OpenWatch could help solve a major problem for investigative reporting in an age when newsrooms are shrinking
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
North Korea shuts down universities for 10 months
06-29-2011
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
North Korea has shut down its universities for the next 10 months and sent students to work in factories, agriculture and the construction sector as it struggles to rebuild its economy.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Raid by Afghan Forces and NATO Ends Attack on Hotel in Kabul
06-29-2011
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http://www.nytimes.com/
Nine suicide bombers penetrated several rings of security to lay siege to one of the capital’s premier hotels for six hours overnight Tuesday in a complex attack that jolted Afghans’ sense of security and highlighted the weakness of their police forc
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Austerity Riots - A Glimpse Of America's Future?
06-29-2011
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http://endoftheamericandream.com/
Are the austerity protests and riots happening in Greece right now a glimpse of America's future? The truth is that both nations are absolutely drowning in debt.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank of America in $8.5B mortgage settlement
06-29-2011
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http://news.yahoo.com/
Bank of America and its Countrywide unit will pay $8.5 billion to settle claims that the lenders sold poor-quality mortgage-backed securities that went sour when the housing market collapsed.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Inside the Afghan hotel attack
06-29-2011
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http://news.yahoo.com/
On the surface, the Taliban’s audacious attack on the was a failure. After some six hours of fighting overnight, all eight assailants who managed to penetrate the hotel’s heavy security...
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News Link • Bill of Rights
How to Record the Cops, Ct’d . . .
06-29-2011
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The Agitator
Last year, I made some suggestions about features smart phone aps would need to add to make them more useful in recording government officials.
At the Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal writes about a couple new aps that hit the mark:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Feds buying up farmland they flooded; Soros in on it
06-29-2011
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foodfreedom.wordpress.com
“Now It All Makes Sense.” A Missouri farming and ranching contact just got off a conference call wherein he was informed that the federal government is sending out letters to all of the flooded out farmers in the Missouri River flood plain and botto
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Fiesta Bowl to 31 AZ politicians: We want our bribes back
06-29-2011
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Arizona Republic
After years of attempting to curry favor with elected officials by lavishing them with expensive gifts including out-of-state trips and tickets to sporting events, the Fiesta Bowl indicates it wants the money back. The bowl, is negotiating with the I
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Housing trouble ahead from the QRM provision in Dodd-Frank?
06-29-2011
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The Hallmark Abstract Sentinel
The best intentions of Washington can often result in negative, albeit unintended, consequences.
A perfect case in point is the QRM provision in Dodd-Frank!
The proposed Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act includes a provi
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona DPS reports 2nd e-mail hacker attack
06-29-2011
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Arizona Republic
"This leak has names, addresses, phone numbers, passwords, social security numbers, online dating account info, voicemails, chat logs, and seductive girlfriend pictures belonging to a dozen Arizona police officers," the group claimed and more....
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Iceland Declares Independence from International Banks
06-29-2011
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Information Clearing House
“Taxpayers should not be responsible for paying the debts of a private institution,” (can you say END THE FED? - Ed)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Activism
The Tuesday Podcast: Libertarian Summer Camp
06-29-2011
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www.pbs.org
On today's Planet Money, we travel to a place where people are trying to live without government interference. A place where you can use bits of silver to buy uninspected bacon. A place where a 9-year-old will sell you alcohol.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Lending merry-go-round
05-20-2010
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Clarke and Dawe: YouTube
VIDEO: How can broke economies lend money to other broke economies who haven't got any money?
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting
06-29-2011
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Reuters
When President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a $1 trillion price tag for America's wars.
Staggering as it is, that figure grossly underestimates the total cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanista
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News Link • United Nations
RING THE BELL OF LIBERTY: ROANOKE COUNTY (VA) SAYS NO TO STATE-MANDATED DEVELOPMENT PLAN! WILL IC
062911
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www.varight.com
The Roanoke County (VA) Board of Supervisors voted not to adopt urban development districts in its comprehensive, deferring judgment until 2012. They may also get out of ICLEI, too! HUGE win for LIBERTY and SOVEREIGNTY!
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Peppermint Thoughts
06-29-2011
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arclein
You can go to this area that’s like the Napa Valley of Peru and you can sample the Pisco. But you can only drink about two Pisco drinks. There’s also a Pisco freeze that they make, and they tell you “only drink two.” The first time I was ever exposed
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robert klein
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News Link • Food
Milk and Grain Addiction
06-29-2011
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arclein
the same way, biologically, as narcotics are.
That’s because grains like wheat, barley, and rye " and milk from cows " have something in them that acts just like morphine. They’re called “exorphins.” They can
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Lithium Prevents Parkinson's Brain Damage
06-29-2011
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arclein
PD is a progressive, incurable neurodegenerative disorder that affects 1 million Americans and results in tremor, slowness of movement and rigidity. It is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s. Between 50,000 and 60,000 n
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News Link • WAR: About that War
War is In the Air
06-29-2011
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arclein
Qaeda and the Iranian Shi’ite regime are only acting in character; they are the carnivores of the current political world and cannot be expected to begin acting like herbivores. They have openly declared their intentions many times over and have give
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