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Date Sent: 2011-05-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, May 18, 2011 PM edition |
Britain begins withdraw from Afghanistan -- Secret Service interrogates Tacoma 7th grader
Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse [Hardcover]
-- Gamers Target U.S. Troops in Chinese Military ‘Shooter’ -- Dean
Ahmad on Antiwar Radio -- Fukushima Reactors a Raging Nuclear Inferno
-- Ron Paul: Legalize Unpasturized Milk --
Timothy "Pavlov" Geithner and His Federal Jackbooted Games -- High Gas
and Energy Prices Have Shattered The US Housing Market -- US Economic Worries Hit 2 Year High -- What We’re Up Against: The elites, the blacklist, and the “mainstream” media -- Is The FBI Using Afghanistan As A Biometrics Proving Ground? -- Biometric Nirvana: India to Connect Biometric Database To Stock Market -- Gallup Pegs Underemployment at 19.1%, Same as 1 Year Ago -- Richard Koo: Unwind Of QE2, With Nothing To Replace It = Biggest Depression Yet -- Meredith Whitney: Here Comes The "Hidden State Financial Crisis" -- America's Appalling Human Rights Record
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News Link • Afghanistan
Britain begins withdraw from Afghanistan
05-18-2011
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The Sun
DAVID Cameron yesterday announced the start of Britain's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The PM revealed the first 450 troops will be brought home this year.
But the move is bitterly opposed by military chiefs, who claim it risks throwing away the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Go watch and support Jordan Page Thursday May 26th 8pm in Los Angeles, CA
05-18-2011
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www.jordanpagemusic.com
Go watch and support Jordan Page Thursday May 26th 8pm in Los Angeles, CA / Jordan Page Live in Concert at the historic nightclub "The Mint"
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Foreign Tourists Splurge on Dollar’s Drop
05-18-2011
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bloomberg.com
The price is right for foreign shoppers in the U.S. as the sagging dollar boosts their purchasing power on everything from jewelry to vitamins.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul: U.S. may try to occupy Pakistan
05-18-2011
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RawStory.com
GOP 2012 hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) thinks U.S. troops will soon be on the ground for an occupation of Pakistan " and he said so on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Wednesday morning.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Marriage
Mass. bill would require divorcing parents to obtain judge’s approval for sex
05-18-2011
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RawStory.com
The Massachusetts legislature is conducting hearings Wednesday on a bill that would bar divorcing couples with children from carrying on a sexual relationship while in their own home.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
New Al Qaeda Leader Claims He Has Nothing To Do With Al Qaeda, Calls 9/11 A “Fabrication”
05-18-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Evidence suggests al-Adel figure is another intelligence ghost
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
The fight against terror goes on
05-18-2011
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www.eastvalleytribune.com
Just because it’s been over two weeks since the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of U.S. forces doesn’t mean Americans should let down their guard against terrorism.
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News Link • Books
Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse [Hardcover]
05-18-2011
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http://www.amazon.com/
In the dozen years since the shootings at Columbine High School, hysteria has distorted the media’s coverage of school violence and American schools’ responses to it.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Positive News
The LLI Torch
05-18-2011
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http://archive.constantcontact.com/
Welcome to the first edition of the Language of Liberty Institute's bi-monthly newsletter. For us, this is an exciting step forward in keeping students, sponsors, and friends up to date on our Liberty English Camps
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Books
The Ballad of Alvaro Luna Hernandez
05-18-2011
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http://counterpunch.org/
Locked in solitary confinement in a tiny cage inside one of the most notorious control units in the Texas state prison system, Alvaro Luna Hernandez is immersed in a stack of old law texts...
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • China
Gamers Target U.S. Troops in Chinese Military ‘Shooter’
05-18-2011
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Wired
"Glorious Mission" begins deploying the player to an imaginary battleground to duke it out in close-quarters combat. Scores of Chinese troops dutifully gaming away in front of their computer screens. There’s one difference between the American and Ch
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Dean Ahmad on Antiwar Radio
05-18-2011
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http://rationalreview.news-digests.com/
"Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, founder of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, discusses the typically sycophantic White House response to Israel’s shooting of peaceful Nakba protesters ..."
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Mysterious Hole In Basking Ridge Yard Puzzles Officials, Experts
05-18-2011
A Basking Ridge homeowner would really like to know why there’s a crater in her front yard.
“To me it looked like something blew out of the ground because the grass was folded back, the rocks and dirt were all spewn out into the cul-de-sac and ac
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Melons now a Monsanto “invention”
05-18-2011
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Farm Wars
Melons have a natural resistance to certain plant viruses. It is especially evident in melons grown in India. Using conventional breeding methods, this resistance was introduced to other melons and has now been patented as a Monsanto “invention."
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Hidden State Financial Crisis
05-18-2011
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The Wall Street Journal
Meredith Whitney's latest research into opaque state financial statements suggests taxpayers will be surprised by how much pensions are underfunded.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima Reactors a Raging Nuclear Inferno
05-18-2011
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Kurt Nimmo
Professor Christopher Busby, who sits on the European Committee on Radiation Risks, told RT yesterday that the reactors at Fukushima are a raging nuclear inferno and he believes at least one of the reactors is now outside its containment structure an
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Andrew Strmic
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News Link • Police State
Today on LewRockwell.com - Wednesday May 18th, 2011
05-18-2011
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lewrockwell.com
The Federal Tornado Is Coming - Build your financial storm shelter now, says Gary North. / The Truth About Neocons - Chris Manion talks to Lew Rockwell about the movement for power and eternal war. / How Police States Are Built - Jack Douglas on auth
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Food
Ron Paul: Legalize Unpasturized Milk
05-18-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
The bill would allow the shipment and distribution of unpasteurized milk and milk products for human consumption across state lines, a practice currently forbidden by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Timothy "Pavlov" Geithner and His Federal Jackbooted Games
05-18-2011
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Market-ticker.org
Well Timmy, lots of people saw this coming. I did. The only people who "couldn't see it coming" are those who are so arrogant as to think they can play Global Thermonuclear Financial Armageddon whenever their social spending and military...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
High Gas and Energy Prices Have Shattered The US Housing Market
05-18-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
I believe the FED has a decision to make now about housing. Either they start to buy MBS again, attempting to force mortgage rates down to new all time low levels"or"they simply let housing “go.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Economic Worries Hit 2 Year High
05-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
According to Gallup, 74% of survey respondents have responded that the economy is the "most important problem" facing America today, which is the highest percentage in two years, and since the market lows in March 2009.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
What We’re Up Against: The elites, the blacklist, and the “mainstream” media
05-18-2011
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AntiWar.com
The media-government industrial complex " hey, I’ve coined a new catchphrase! " is a force to be reckoned with in today’s America, and make no mistake: it sets the agenda, it defines the issues, it smites its enemies and rewards its sycophants.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Is The FBI Using Afghanistan As A Biometrics Proving Ground?
05-18-2011
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thecypresstimes.com
Formally established in late 2009 to collect the fingerprints, iris scans, and facial images of Afghan national security forces, the program’s initial goal... But information sharing"with partners like the FBI"is also a key component of the program.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Biometric Nirvana: India to Connect Biometric Database To Stock Market
05-18-2011
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livemint.com
A second official said, “It will be not be wrong to say that the waters are being tested for all securities transactions to be linked to Aadhaar, which could create an unprecedented system of tracking such investments.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gallup Pegs Underemployment at 19.1%, Same as 1 Year Ago
05-18-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Underemployment, a measure that combines the percentage of unemployed with the percentage working part time but wanting full-time work, was at 19.1% in mid-May -- down from 19.3% at the end of April. Underemployment remains as high as...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Richard Koo: Unwind Of QE2, With Nothing To Replace It = Biggest Depression Yet
05-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
As such, and with fiscal stimulus a dead end, the Fed has two choices: watch as the economy collapses in flames to a state far worse than its pre-QE1 outset, or do more of the same. That's all there is. The rest is irrelevant.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Meredith Whitney: Here Comes The "Hidden State Financial Crisis"
05-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
"Defaults in a variety of forms by states and municipalities are already happening and more are inevitable. Taxpayers have borne the initial brunt of these defaults by paying higher taxes in exchange for lower social services.
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