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Date Sent: 2011-05-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, May 23, 2011 PM edition |
US, Pakistan Near Open War -- Obama Administration Plans to Seize 401(k) Retirement Accounts
Ron Paul: Don't Raise the Debt Ceiling; Just Cut Spending! -- Kathleen McLellan - Homeland Security Counsel - The New Yorker's "Damning" Investigation... -- China 'asks USA to respect Pak sovereignty' -- This Is a Revolution, Not a Protest -- NSA whistleblower Tom Drake talks Espionage Act, 9/11, intelligence.... -- Bradley Manning caught on video with hacker friends around first WikiLeaks release -- Whatever happened to John Kurtz? -- One on One with Jesse Ventura -- Biometrics: Google Files For Patents On Internet Facial Recognition Systems
-- Chris Hedges: Why Liberal Sellouts Attack Prophets Like Cornel West
-- James Howard Kunstler: Get Real -- Paul Craig Roberts: "The Whole
Thing Is a Fraud" -- Social Security - The interest issue -- A Closer Look At The Glut Of Distressed Homes In The Pipeline -- Gold, Silver Coins to be Legal Currency in Utah -- Time Magazine questions the validity of a college education -- State Banking Gathering Momentum -- Missouri officials say tornado killed at least 89
CA: Jordan Page Concert, Thursday May
26th 8pm in Los Angeles
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US, Pakistan Near Open War
05-23-2011
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http://tarpley.net/
China has officially put the United States on notice that Washington’s planned attack on Pakistan will be interpreted as an act of aggression against Beijing.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Administration Plans to Seize 401(k) Retirement Accounts
05-23-2011
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http://www.thenewamerican.com/
One aspect of a new and improved federal regulatory scheme is the seizure of 401(k) retirement plans and the subsequent government-administered disbursement of the funds.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Just For Fun!
The Onion exposes Mark Zuckerberg as a CIA agent
05-23-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Satire site The Onion has revealed that Facebook is a CIA program that saves the agency billions.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Whistleblowers
NSA whistleblower Tom Drake talks Espionage Act, 9/11, intelligence....
05-23-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Thomas Drake worked for the National Security Agency before he was indicted by it. Drake felt that taxpayer money was being misused on unnecessary intelligence, not the information that would lead to the successful capture of terrorists.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Utah legalizes use of gold, silver as currency
05-23-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Utah this week became the first state to legalize the use of gold and silver coins as legal currency, the according to the Associated Press.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Free Speech
Bradley Manning caught on video with hacker friends around first WikiLeaks release
05-23-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
A soon to be released PBS Frontline documentary depicts Army intelligence officer Bradley Manning palling around in Boston in January 2010.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Whatever happened to John Kurtz?
05-23-2011
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http://www.examiner.com/
"The trial was postponed due to officer not showing up or something like that." "The trial was continued as there are depositions the defense needs to take before proceeding."
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Toward a Police Reform Movement
An Excerpt from Down With Power
05-23-2011
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http://www.ncc-1776.org/
When you see three police cars pulled over at the side of a city street to deal with a single miscreant bicycle rider, you realize that there are too many cops.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Surveillance
Biometrics: Google Files For Patents On Internet Facial Recognition Systems
05-23-2011
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TheAtlanticWire.com/
One made public today, one in February, Google itself was very much looking into crossing the line, at one point. Teams of engineers in Mountain View appears to have filed at least two patent applications for facial recognition technology...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
Chris Hedges: Why Liberal Sellouts Attack Prophets Like Cornel West
05-23-2011
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TruthDig.com
It refuses to challenge, in a meaningful way, the decaying structures of democracy or the ascendancy of the corporate state. It glosses over the relentless assault on working men and women and the imperial wars that are bankrupting the nation.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
James Howard Kunstler: Get Real
05-23-2011
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Kunstler.com
Does it really matter if any pro athlete takes drugs? Why not throw Babe Ruth out of the Baseball Hall of Fame for drinking sixteen beers the night before a World Series opener? Or Ditto Mickey Mantle for that, plus smoking two packs of Marlboros...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Paul Craig Roberts: "The Whole Thing Is a Fraud"
05-23-2011
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Market-ticker.org
"We think we have democracy...... but where is the democracy?"
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Social Security
Social Security - The interest issue
05-23-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The Trustees (finally) acknowledged that the SSTF had entered a period of perpetual annual cash deficits. This is a very critical milestone and the Trustees of the Fund didn’t see it coming. They missed this tipping point by six years.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
A Closer Look At The Glut Of Distressed Homes In The Pipeline
05-23-2011
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Businessinsider.com/ & CalculatedRiskblog.com
The nation’s biggest banks and mortgage lenders have steadily amassed real estate empires, acquiring a glut of foreclosed homes that threatens to deepen the housing slump and create a further drag on the economic recovery.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
More Worries About the Foreclosure Overhang
05-23-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
It’s not uncommon for vacant homes to be stripped of copper and appliances. That’s why it isn’t nuts to keep homeowners in place even when they are severely delinquent if the local property market is so backed up that a home won’t be sold...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chicago Fed National Activity Index Drops To -0.45, Lowest Since Aug. 2010
05-23-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Another diffusion contraction confirms the stagflation thesis is playing out just as expected. "Led by declines in production-related indicators, the Chicago Fed National Activity Index fell to "0.45 in April from +0.32 in March.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold, Silver Coins to be Legal Currency in Utah
05-23-2011
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AP via Drudgereport
Utah became the first state in the country this month to legalize gold and silver coins as currency. The law also will exempt the sale of the coins from state capital gains taxes.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Immigration
"we are Mexicans and Americans stole our land."
05-23-2011
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MyFoxPhoenix.com via Minuteman PAC
"Dear Senator Russell Pearce, I am compelled to write to you about a recent event that occurred to me. I currently work as a substitute teacher in the west valley areas of Phoenix, Glendale, and Peoria."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Agriculture
New Class Insect Repellant
05-23-2011
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arclein
The tests were conducted as part of a major interdisciplinary research project to develop new ways to control the spread of malaria by disrupting a mosquito’s sense of smell supported by the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative funded by th
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Inflation Prospects With Ellen
05-23-2011
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arclein
Inflation fears have been fueled since 2009, when the Fed began its policy of "quantitative easing" (effectively "money printing"). The inflationists point to commodity prices that have shot up. The deflationists, in turn, point to the housing ma
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Fresh Evidence Cosmic Rays Seed Clouds
05-23-2011
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arclein
The latest experiment provides evidence for a major component of this theory " how ionization enhances cloud formation. To be converted into droplets and form clouds, water vapour in the Earth's atmosphere needs some kind of surface on which to cond
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State Banking Gathering Momentum
05-23-2011
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arclein
Now the Federal Treasury and Federal Reserve seem to be saying this to the states, which are slated to be the first ritual victims in the battle over the budget ceiling. On May 2, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that the Treasury would sto
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robert klein
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News Link • Government
Santorum Contradicts McCain On ‘Enhanced Interrogation’
05-23-2011
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http://www.theonion.com/
In a radio interview Tuesday, presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said he thinks torture critic Sen. John McCain "doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works." What do you think?
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • World News
Checkpoints, Physical Obstructions, and Forbidden Roads
05-23-2011
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http://www.btselem.org/English/
Israel's severe restrictions on Palestinians' freedom of movement in the West Bank are enforced by a system of fixed checkpoints, surprise flying checkpoints, physical obstructions, roads on which Palestinians are forbidden to travel.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Missouri officials say tornado killed at least 89
05-23-2011
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AP
The twister cut a path 6 miles long and more than a half-mile wide through the center of town, adding that tornado sirens gave residents about a 20-minute warning before the tornado touched down on the Joplin's west side.
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • Economy - Economics USA
Financial Repression: The New Buzzword
The International Monetary Fund
"Financial repression includes directed lending to government by captive domestic audiences, caps on interest rates, regulation of cross-border capital movements, and a tighter connection between government and banks." PDF download.
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Glenn Jacobs
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