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Date Sent: 2011-09-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, September 25, 2011 |
Middle Class Death Watch -- Putin to return as Russia's president
MAGNETIC INVISIBILITY CLOAK COULD HIDE WEAPONS -- Martial Law Drill Commences as Economy Begins Descent -- Fox News Pulls Poll Showing Ron Paul Debate Victory, Claims Mitt Romney Won -- It’s the Occupation, Stupid -- Obama Administration Set to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns -- National Review's Latest Smear: Ron Paul and The John Birch Society -- The Current Dire Straits – Jim Rogers -- RITTGERS: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security -- HELIOVOLT
IS THE TEXAS SIZED VERSION OF SOLYNDRA, BROUGHT TO YOU BY RICK PERRY -- Fox News Google Debate 9/22/2011 Ron Paul, Gary Johnson screwed on Talk time! --
Week Ahead: Traders Expect a Volatile Final Week of the Quarter -- The
Transformation of the American Economy -- Small Factories Take Root in
Africa -- UBS Chief Grübel Resigns -- Is The U.S. Government Stockpiling Food In Anticipation Of A Major Economic Crisis? -- Marc Faber: On Operation Twist, The Dollar, Gold, And The Greeks --
Five Banks Account For 96% Of The $250 Trillion In Outstanding US
Derivative Exposure -- DNA Evidence Reveals A New Breed Of Proto-Humans
-- We’re In A Global Recession: Why This Crash Should Have Come Sooner
-- COSTS OF WAR: 225,000 Killed, $3.2 - $4 Trillion -- Florida firm wins contract to upgrade security at Guantanamo war court as trials loom
AZ: John Stuart Trial Under Way
CA: Libertopia in San Diego October 21-23
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News Link • Depression
Middle Class Death Watch
09-24-2011
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blog.mises.org
A good round up of the catastrophic economic situation for the middle class can be found at Alternet, yes, the favorite site of the loony left. I’ve noticed a tendency on the right to deny any fundamental problems,...
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News Link • World News
Putin to return as Russia's president
09-24-2011
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www.reuters.com
(Reuters) - Vladimir Putin declared on Saturday he planned to reclaim the Russian presidency at March elections that could open the way for the former KGB spy to rule until 2024.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Herman Cain wins CPAC Florida straw poll; Rick Perry in second place
09-24-2011
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www.washingtontimes.com
“Tonight’s winner is Herman Cain,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced. “It shows you something, the road to the White House come through Florida, and it pays to spend time here.” He received 37 percent of the more than 2,600 votes cast.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • History
How the "Great War" Began
09-24-2011
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mises.org
Albert Jay Nock wrote one of the first American books of World War I Revisionism " revising the received story of why WWI began. As a lover of history, what I find particularly fascinating about his book The Myth of a Guilty Nation is not whether thi
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • History
Rockefeller, Morgan, and War
09-24-2011
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by Murray N. Rothbard via LewRockwell.com
During the 1930s, the Rockefellers pushed hard for war against Japan, which they saw as competing with them vigorously for oil and rubber resources in Southeast Asia and as endangering the Rockefellers' cherished dreams of a mass "China market" for p
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
MAGNETIC INVISIBILITY CLOAK COULD HIDE WEAPONS
09-24-2011
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Discovery News
A still theoretical device would mask the presence of metal in a magnetic field. Such a device would allow people to pass through metal detectors with concealed weapons.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Police State
Martial Law Drill Commences as Economy Begins Descent
09-24-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
A massive terror drill " remarkably ignored by all but local media " is now underway in Denver, Colorado.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Fox News Pulls Poll Showing Ron Paul Debate Victory, Claims Mitt Romney Won
09-24-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
When we took a screenshot of the poll at around 5am CST this morning, the result showed Paul easily beating his nearest rival Romney by 11,000 clear votes, with Paul at almost 40% and Romney trailing at just under 23%.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
It’s the Occupation, Stupid
09-24-2011
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original.antiwar.com
I’m reminded of how Chinese premier Zhou EnLai supposedly answered a question in 1972 about the significance of the French Revolution. “Too early to tell,” was his reputed reply; and though he may never have said it, how true it is that the major eve
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Administration Set to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns
09-24-2011
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www.weeklystandard.com
Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government's latest attempt to protect the Earth's atmosphere.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Keeping Honey Bees for Survival by The Bee Whisperer
09-24-2011
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www.survivalblog.com
Why Keep Honey Bees? - Wandering into the woods and staying lost for months is something I love to do. I have been an survivalist for 24 years, and have been keeping bees for more than 10 of those years. With these experiences under my belt, I have b
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Architecture
Why you should sell everything now and live in a tree
09-24-2011
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Terrence Aym
As what was once the proud nation of the United States of America slips into the status of a Third World nation, some economists are suggesting their wealthier clients consider moving themselves and their assets out of the country. What countries? Th
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
National Review's Latest Smear: Ron Paul and The John Birch Society
09-24-2011
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by Charles Scaliger The New American via LewRockwe
The September 19 cover story, “Ron Paul’s Last Crusade,” by Kevin D. Williamson, purports to be an investigative piece about Congressman Ron Paul and his latest run for the presidency, but is instead a snide character assassination of Paul and an all
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Current Dire Straits " Jim Rogers
09-24-2011
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LewRockwell.com
For those newer to trading I think his view on the dollar is important to understand from a lesson standpoint. Even if you the dollar is ‘cooked’ long term, time frame is important. VIDEO
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
RITTGERS: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
09-24-2011
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washingtontimes.com
George W. Bush was right before he was wrong. Mr. Bush initially opposed the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, but he bowed to political pressure and formed a new bureaucracy and increased domestic-security funds.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
HELIOVOLT IS THE TEXAS SIZED VERSION OF SOLYNDRA, BROUGHT TO YOU BY RICK PERRY
09-24-2011
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www.ronpaulforums.com
Taking a page out of the Obama playbook, Perry also made his own special deal with "green" companies.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Fox News Google Debate 9/22/2011 Ron Paul Gary Johnson screwed on Talk time!
09-24-2011
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Wes Hemings
Adding a new candidate to the mix, Gary Johnson, did not seem to alleviate the proportional speaking time experienced in past debates. However, the front-runner Rick Perry has come down from his average debate talking time of 14:27 (Perry=13:54 CNN,
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Week Ahead: Traders Expect a Volatile Final Week of the Quarter
09-24-2011
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www.cnbc.com
Traders expect more stomach-churning volatility in the week ahead, as investors fret about Europe and adjust their portfolios for quarter's end.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • History
The Transformation of the American Economy
09-24-2011
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blog.mises.org
The Gilded Age, lasting from 1865 to World War I, was an era of economic growth never before seen in the history of the world. The standard of living of the modern age was born during this time of phenomenal transition. Lives lengthen. Wealth explode
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Small Factories Take Root in Africa
09-24-2011
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online.wsj.com
Across Africa, scores of tiny manufacturers have been going where most multinationals fear to tread. They not only make chocolate in Madagascar, but also leather shoes in Nigeria and hot sauce in South Africa. They're testing whether a continent with
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
UBS Chief Grübel Resigns
09-24-2011
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online.wsj.com
Oswald Grübel resigned as chief executive of embattled Swiss bank UBS AG in the wake of a trading loss that cost the bank more than $2 billion and now has cut short the career of a giant of Switzerland's business community.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Depression
Is The U.S. Government Stockpiling Food In Anticipation Of A Major Economic Crisis?
09-24-2011
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Is the U.S. government stockpiling huge amounts of food and supplies in anticipation that something bad is about to happen? Is something about to cause a major economic crisis that will require large quantities of emergency food?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Help Pakistan rein in the ISI
09-24-2011
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blogs.reuters.com/
Admiral Mike Mullen’s blunt declaration on Thursday that a Taliban faction known as the Haqqani network acts as a “veritable arm” of Pakistan’s military intelligence agency is a welcome shift in U.S. policy.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Marc Faber: On Operation Twist, The Dollar, Gold, And The Greeks
09-24-2011
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www.zerohedge.com
In his inimitable manner, Marc Faber describes to ThomsonReuters why it is time for Greece to leave the common currency, claim bankruptcy, and allow its citizens to live decently even if European leaders (and bankers) have to suffer.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Anthropology
DNA Evidence Reveals A New Breed Of Proto-Humans
09-24-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
Recent DNA evidence reveals that Denisovans, a mysterious humanlike offshoot of Neandertals, interbred with early homo sapiens in what was likely the first of two Stone Age migrations into southern Asia, ScienceNews reports.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
15 Startups With $100 Million+ Valuations That Hardly Existed Last Year
09-24-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
Some companies with $100 million+ valuaitons were founded just this year. Others have been around, but didn't receive any traction until a few months ago.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
We’re In A Global Recession: Why This Crash Should Have Come Sooner
09-24-2011
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www.businessinsider.com/
As anyone with a financial pulse knows, yesterday specifically and this week generally marks, well, the beginning of the end. The end of geo-political economic optimism, hope, and confidence. And, at least for me, this moment could not have come soo
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA's dead satellite falls, starting over Pacific
09-24-2011
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AP
NASA's dead six-ton satellite fell to Earth early Saturday morning, starting its fiery death plunge somewhere over the vast Pacific Ocean.
Details were still sketchy, but the U.S. Air Force's Joint Space Operations Center and NASA say that the bus
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
RON PAUL VISIT TO BATON ROUGE EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS! 1,250 AT ONE RALLY AND 700 AT ANOTHER!
092411
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www.varight.com
Ron Paul, the hero of many youth who see liberty and sovereignty as the only alternative to the status quo, was greeted by thousands at two Louisiana campaign stops.
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • WAR: About that War
COSTS OF WAR: 225,000 Killed, $3.2 - $4 Trillion
09-24-2011
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Watson Institute, Brown University
The wars begun ten years ago have been tremendously painful for millions of people in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, and the United States, and economically costly as well. To date, there has been no comprehensive accounting of the costs of the Uni
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Florida firm wins contract to upgrade security at Guantanamo war court as trials loom
09-21-2011
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Associated Press
The Pentagon posted an announcement of the $422,000 contract Wednesday. The notice says the Defense Department skipped open bidding for the contract in part because the project needs to be finished quickly to avoid delaying the war crimes tribunals.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • History
Any similarities between the United States and the Roman Empire?
09-24-2011
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The Political Commentator
Given the fact that no society has ever lasted forever, are there any clues or warning signs that we in the United States can take from the fall of the Roman Empire?
Any clues that might be red flags telling us that we had better keep our eye on t
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Science
CO2 Flooding From Siberian Traps
09-24-2011
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arclein
An international team including geodynamic modelers from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences together with geochemists from the J. Fourier University of Grenoble, the Max Plank Institute in Mainz, and Vernadsky-, Schmidt- and Sobolev-Insti
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Solar Flare Echo
09-24-2011
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arclein
SDO was able to make the discovery because of its unique ability to monitor the sun’s extreme UV output in high resolution nearly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With that kind of scrutiny, it’s tough to keep a secret--even one as old as this.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Airbus Sees Aircraft Demand at 27,800 over Twenty Years
09-24-2011
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arclein
People need and want to fly more than ever before. Over the next 20 years the aviation sector is expected to remain resilient to cyclical economic conditions as in the past. Airbus forecasts that Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPKs) will grow by an av
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robert klein
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