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Date Sent: 2011-03-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 24, 2011 PM edition |
Obama curtails Miranda rights for American terrorism suspects -- Silver Approaches $38
Officials: Dangerous neutron beams shooting from crippled Fukushima reactor -- Holder announces safety initiative after rise in officer deaths -- Oil prices climb amid Libya fighting -- Obama takes ‘unprecedented’ aim at leakers -- How China and Others Are Altering Web Traffic -- Unreported Soros Event Aims to Remake Entire Global Economy -- Mayor unrolls toilet paper tax -- Gold Replacing Dollar as World’s Reserve Currency? -- Albert Edwards On Why U.S. Housing Market Optimists Are "Nuts" -- Scare in the air over Reagan National Airport (Audio of pilots) -- Phase Shift: The Next Leg Down in House Prices -- US Finances Rank Near Worst in the World
-- Impounds and Illegals -- La. Woman Files Lawsuit, Claims Taser
Caused Miscarriage -- United Nations Nuclear Bank -- Dowsing is Local
Gravity Sensing -- Scrapping Fukushima -- Another Voice: US Will Go Bankrupt -- Durable Goods Orders Come In Way Worse Than Expected -- China: New generation of online activists targeted -- Obama's Broken Campaign Promises -- Cheerleading for War -- Libyan troops target rebels after air force ‘destroyed’ -- NYT's $50 million 'paywall' crumbles with simple code exploit -- Medical marijuana now a $1.7 billion market -- Mind melds coming: The astounding nerve-electronic hybrid
AZ: Publisher of Freedom's Phoenix,
Ernest Hancock, turned 50....wake party this Saturday; "Atlas Shrugged" the Movie, pt. 1
Premiering in Phoenix, April 15
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News Link • Police State
Obama curtails Miranda rights for American terrorism suspects
03-24-2011
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Rawstory
The Obama administration created a new policy that allows investigators to waive Miranda warnings for domestic-terror suspects, even when there is not an "immediate threat." The rule was revealed by an FBI memorandum that says in "exceptional cases,
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
Silver Approaches $38
03-24-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
While the DXY continues to languish in the depths of Ben Bernanke's sado-maso dungeon, money allocated to new reserve currencies: gold and silver continues unabated.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Evacuations & Catastrophe
Officials: Dangerous neutron beams shooting from crippled Fukushima reactor
03-24-2011
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Terrence Aym
One of the most deadly forms of radiation has been detected shooting from the heart of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant: neutron beams. Nuclear experts believe the source of the deadly neutron beams, or rays, are melting plutonium fuel rods. The T
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Holder announces safety initiative after rise in officer deaths
03-24-2011
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CNN
Attorney General Eric Holder announced a Law Enforcement Safety Initiative. The initiative will involve all U.S. attorneys around the country meeting with their local police and others to discuss the number of cops being killed and to try to find sol
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Oil prices climb amid Libya fighting
03-24-2011
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AFP
World oil prices advanced on Tuesday as fighting raged on in Libya, a significant exporter of crude before the current crisis.
In New York, crude for April delivery closed at $104 dollars a barrel, up $1.67 at the end of Monday trade.
In London
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Obama takes ‘unprecedented’ aim at leakers
03-24-2011
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AFP
"We've seen the current president bringing five prosecutions so far... against people for whistleblowing, for leaks of classified information," said Daniel Ellsberg, "All previous presidents put together brought three prosecutions... We see a campaig
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
How China and Others Are Altering Web Traffic
03-24-2011
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Robert Lemos via TechnologyReview.com
"Invisible" servers let governments quietly intercept and modify their citizens' online communications.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • New World Order
Unreported Soros Event Aims to Remake Entire Global Economy
03-24-2011
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Media Research Center
Two years ago, George Soros said he wanted to reorganize the entire global economic system. In two short weeks, he is going to start - and no one seems to have noticed. On April 8, a group he's funded with $50 million is holding a major economic conf
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
President Barack Obama gets locked out of White House
03-24-2011
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ABC News (video)
President Obama had to try a couple of doors at the White House before finally gaining access to the Oval Office. Returning from a 5-day trip to Latin America, video shows the president strolling up to french doors at the White House and trying the h
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Powell Gammill
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
This weeks news in review
While the focus was on Japans meltdown and Libya getting bomb.... What did you miss that will effect your life?
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Mayor unrolls toilet paper tax
03-24-2011
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World-Herald
Omaha mayor Jim Suttle went to Washington flush with ideas for how federal officials could help pay for multibillion-dollar sewer projects. Among the items on his list: a proposal for a 10-cent federal tax on every roll of toilet paper you buy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday March 24th 2011
03-24-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Interest Rates on the Rise - CIA Hitman Escapes Pakistan - The Fed Is Attacking Your Family, What are you going to do about it? by Ron Paul - Libya's Pot of Gold - Man Knowledge, A pirate primer - Tempestuous But So Talented, Elizabeth Taylor
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold Replacing Dollar as World’s Reserve Currency?
03-24-2011
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CNBC.com
Central banks are shedding dollars [DXC1 75.78 -0.265 (-0.35%) ], reducing their holdings by about $9 billion in previous quarter, according to Nomura Securities’ Jens Nordvig, global head of G10 FX Strategy.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Albert Edwards On Why U.S. Housing Market Optimists Are "Nuts"
03-24-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The phrase that made me chuckle was “despite the surprise plunge in sales, economists do not believe a new downturn is underway” Are they nuts?! We are plunging to new all time lows for many housing indicators and we are not in a new downturn?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Comparing Housing Prices, Real vs Nominal (1890-2011)
03-24-2011
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Ritholtz.com
In both real and nominal terms, the 2000s saw home prices go ballistic.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Scare in the air over Reagan National Airport (Audio of pilots)
03-24-2011
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The Political Commentator
Two flights land at Reagan National with no control tower assistance as the air traffic controller apparently slept
Just after midnight on March 23rd two flights scheduled to land at Reagan National Airport (DCA) in Washington, DC had to do so wit
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Housing
Phase Shift: The Next Leg Down in House Prices
03-24-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
Once we get into the 2012-14 timeframe, then I expect a third phase shift will drop prices back to 1987 levels. As many observers have noted, bubbles don't retrace to historical averages--they over-correct to extremely low values.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
US Finances Rank Near Worst in the World
03-24-2011
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CNBC.com
The US ranks near the bottom of developed global economies in terms of financial stability and will stay there unless it addresses its burgeoning debt problems, a new study has found.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Seriously?
Impounds and Illegals
03-24-2011
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Pajamas Media
LAPD officers manning sobriety checkpoints will no longer impound cars discovered to be driven by unlicensed illegal immigrants. Yes, you read that correctly.
Los Angeles Police Department officers manning sobriety checkpoints will no longer, as a
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
La. Woman Files Lawsuit, Claims Taser Caused Miscarriage
03-24-2011
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Officer.com
A Houma woman is suing the Louisiana State Police and Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office, claiming a trooper's use of a Taser caused her to miscarry.
Attorney Matthew Ory told WDSU his client, Madeline Cunningham, was arrested at her home follo
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • United Nations
United Nations Nuclear Bank
03-24-11
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Morphcity.com
By Cassandra Anderson
March 24, 2011
The media hailed Warren Buffett last December for donating $50 million dollars toward a United Nations nuclear bank with control over uranium enrichment. The intent is control over nuclear weapons and nuclear
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Reported by:
Marti Oakley
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Damaged Hearts Could be Repaired
03-24-2011
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arclein
The hearts of newborn mice can repair themselves after an injury, a discovery that raises fresh hopes for healing damaged hearts in people. Scientists knew that some fish and amphibians could regrow parts of their hearts after major injuries, but the
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Dowsing is Local Gravity Sensing
03-24-2011
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arclein
Albert Einstein, however, was convinced of the authenticity of dowsing. He said, "I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, however, unjustifie
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robert klein
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Scrapping Fukushima
03-24-2011
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arclein
"Looking at the plant from an objective point of view, I think it's clear in a way if the Fukushima Daiichi (No. 1) plant is in a state of being able to function or not," he said.
"I hope you can get it from the way I said it."
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robert klein
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Another Voice: US Will Go Bankrupt
03-24-2011
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Market-ticker.org
$100 billion in spending reductions from pre-planned increase levels when you're spending $1,700 billion more than you are taking in via taxes is not "real action" and do nothing to take us away from that "tipping point." It is in fact mashing the...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Durable Goods Orders Come In Way Worse Than Expected
03-24-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Headline: Down 0.9% for February
Expectations: Up 1.1%
This number is much worse than expectations, and futures have pulled back a bit on the news.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
China: New generation of online activists targeted
03-24-2011
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amnesty.org.uk
More than 100 activists, many of them active on Twitter and blogging networks, have been detained, subjected to monitoring and intimidation by the security forces, or have gone missing since late February.
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • World News
Libyan troops target rebels after air force ‘destroyed’
03-23-2011
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TheRawStory.com
Libyan forces hammered rebel cities on Wednesday with tank fire forcing civilians to flee as a top British officer said Moamer Kadhafi's air force had been almost obliterated.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
NYT’s $50 million ‘paywall’ crumbles with simple code exploit
03-23-2011
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Stephen C. Webster via TheRawStory.com
Up-to-date with The New York Times? It used to be as simple as keying up nytimes.com. Today though, with a new "paywall" that denies access to new stories to non-subscribers, avid news junkies far and wide are facing an increasingly high price.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Medical marijuana now a $1.7 billion market: report
03-23-2011
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Eric W. Dolan via TheRawStory.com
The first ever investor-grade analysis report of the medical marijuana market in the United States found that it will soon rival the market for Viagra.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Mind melds coming: The astounding nerve-electronic hybrid
03-24-2011
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Terrence Aym
Someday you might be like Star Trek's Mr. Spock. No, you won't be a Vulcan, but you may have the ability to mind-meld like the popular science fiction character. A discovery about the biological structure of mouse nerve cells has led researchers to
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Terrence Aym
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