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Date Sent: 2011-06-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, June 17, 2011 |
America Is Being Raped ... Just Like Greece and Other Countries
Worries Grow About Breadth of Debt Crisis -- House Democrats push for
vote on China currency -- Iran puts satellite into orbit: state TV --
Hackers Target Malaysian Government Sites -- Gates concerned by House
cuts in nuclear funds -- Mullen: U.S. will not leave Afghanistan -- Post-debate, Fox News personalities pile on Ron Paul -- Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords released from hospital -- Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces -- Deflated Weiner limps away -- Are You Ready For 3rd World America? -- NIST Seeks to Turn The Internet Into a Biometric Minefield -- Government 'may have hacked IMF' -- Francis Boyle - Libya War Illegal? / Drew Phillips & Gary Franchi: CopBlock.org -- Roots of Egypt’s Revolt -- Appeals Court Clarifies MERS Role in Foreclosures
-- Hits keep coming: sandstorms in Arkansas -- Europe Braces for
Serious Crop Losses and Blackouts -- Newlyweds miss out on dream
honeymoon after TSA agents... -- Israel’s Jewish Exodus -- ATF agent calls gun-tracking program a 'disaster' -- The Second-Best Time in 40 Years to Short the Bond Market -- E-Verify mandate bill adds biometric worker ID -- Arizona Police Officer Execute Man For Telling Them They Needed A Warrant -- The Bilderberg Agenda On War and Alternative Media -- Citing War Strain, Pentagon Warns Against Spending Cuts
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
America Is Being Raped ... Just Like Greece and Other Countries
06-16-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Well-known Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek wrote:
"Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Worries Grow About Breadth of Debt Crisis
06-16-2011
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NY Times
The tumult in the European monetary zone is spreading concern among investors of a broader crisis in financial markets from Ireland to Spain. The worry is that the worst case, a Greek debt default, would lead to damaging losses for European banks and
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
House Democrats push for vote on China currency
06-16-2011
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Reuters
The bill would clear the way for the U.S. government to consider currency undervaluation as a subsidy that can be offset with U.S. countervailing duties on Chinese goods.
While only a small portion of Chinese exports to the United States would lik
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran puts satellite into orbit: state TV
06-16-2011
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Reuters
Iran has successfully launched a second domestically built satellite into orbit, Iran's Arabic language al-Alam television reported on Wednesday.
The United States and its allies fear Iran is seeking to build nuclear bombs and are concerned that
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Hackers Target Malaysian Government Sites
06-16-2011
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PC Magazine
A number of Malaysian government Web sites fell prey to cyber attacks Wednesday night in a coordinated effort possibly organized by members of the clandestine Web group, Anonymous.
Ninety-one Web sites were attacked starting at 11:30pm local time,
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Gates concerned by House cuts in nuclear funds
06-16-2011
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Reuters
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday he was very concerned about plans in the House of Representatives to cut $1 billion from funding to upgrade nuclear weapons infrastructure.
Gates told a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committe
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Mullen: U.S. will not leave Afghanistan
06-16-2011
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AFP
The top US military officer is vowing long-term commitment to Afghanistan, touting progress in the war against the Taliban and its Al-Qaeda allies ahead of an American drawdown.
Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Post-debate, Fox News personalities pile on Ron Paul
06-16-2011
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Rawstory (video)
Fox News has a lot of contributors who seem pretty dead set on discrediting Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul.
In the video below, conservative opinion host Bill O’Reilly insists that he’s a “simple man” and came away from the recent Republica
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords released from hospital
06-16-2011
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AFP
US lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords was released from hospital Wednesday, doctors said, five months after she was shot in the head at point-blank range in an attack which shocked America.
A few days after the first photos of her since the attack were
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Another Isolated Incident
06-16-2011
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The Agitator
A Bellevue man whose home was searched in an FBI-led drug raid " apparently in an effort to find someone who had moved away " filed a lawsuit today alleging constitutional violations.
Gary Adams and his family were distressed, embarrassed and humi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces
06-16-2011
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Digital Trends
This feels like a Vonnegut plotline: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter. Absurd yes, but Japanese scientists have actually discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Deflated Weiner limps away
06-16-2011
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AP
Defiant and combative no longer, New York Rep. Anthony Weiner soberly announced his resignation from Congress on Thursday, bowing to the furor caused by his sexually charged online dalliances with a former porn actress and other women.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
NIST Seeks to Turn The Internet Into a Biometric Minefield
06-16-2011
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thirdfactor.com/
NIST is focused on the creation of two basic protocols that would eliminate the need for biometric devices to have dedicated connections and dedicated device drivers. If successful, users would be able to control any device from anywhere.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Government 'may have hacked IMF'
06-16-2011
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BBC
Hackers who broke into the International Monetary Fund's computer system may have been backed by a nation state, according to security experts.
They point to the sophisticated nature of the attack and the resources needed to develop it.
Malici
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Reported by:
Justin Tyme
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Alex Jones New Media Seminar Speech Video Posted (Hurry, limited time available)
06-16-2011
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talkers.com
In response to reader demand, TALKERS has posted the keynote address delivered by Genesis Communications Networks syndicated talk host and internet maverick Alex Jones this past Saturday, June 11 at New Media Seminar 2011 on Talkers.com
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
12 More Signs That Society Is Collapsing
06-16-2011
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lewrockwell.com
What we are now witnessing is the slow motion unraveling of America. Our economy is dying, the American people have lost faith in the government and in almost all of our other major institutions, and our society is collapsing.
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Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Roots of Egypt’s Revolt
06-16-2011
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http://www.thefreemanonline.org/
Egypt has been a pressure cooker for decades. Like others in the region, the Mubarak regime was sitting atop a simmering political crisis, simultaneously attempting to contain rising Islamist violence and snuff out pockets of political resistance.
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Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Housing
Appeals Court Clarifies MERS Role in Foreclosures
06-16-2011
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http://4closurefraud.org/
The ubiquitous Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, nominal holder of millions of mortgages, does not have the right to foreclose on a mortgage in default or assign that right to anyone else if it does not hold the underlying promissory note...
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Events: America
Hits keep coming: sandstorms in Arkansas
06-16-2011
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http://deltafarmpress.com/
Add sandstorms to the litany of severe weather events piling difficulties on Arkansas’ farmers this growing season.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • World News
Europe Braces for Serious Crop Losses and Blackouts
06-16-2011
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/
Record dry spring could drive up wheat prices, and lack of water may force nuclear reactors to shut down
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Newlyweds miss out on dream honeymoon after TSA agents...
06-16-2011
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
When newlyweds Michael and Kimberly Miranda arrived at their local airport in Columbus they were looking forward to a dream Caribbean honeymoon.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • World News
Israel’s Jewish Exodus
06-16-2011
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http://consortiumnews.com/
If the historical goal of the state of Israel is to provide the world’s Jews a secure national home, a place of refuge in a world of real or potential anti-Semitism, it seems to have failed.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Gun Rights
ATF agent calls gun-tracking program a 'disaster'
06-16-2011
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http://www.usatoday.com/
Three federal gun agents told a House committee Wednesday that dozens of gun traffickers suspected of working for Mexican drug cartels were "allowed to walk free" during an investigative operation...
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Second-Best Time in 40 Years to Short the Bond Market
06-16-2011
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http://www.dailywealth.com/
Who is left to buy? Anyone who owns Treasury bonds has to ask themselves that question. Or maybe a better question is, "Who's stupid enough to buy?"
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Surveillance
E-Verify mandate bill adds biometric worker ID
06-16-2011
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Chris Calabrese
Using current error rates, if E-Verify had been mandatory last year, 1.2 million Americans would have had to fix their records before they could start a new job.
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Reported by:
Sheila Dean
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Police Officer Execute Man For Telling Them They Needed A Warrant
06-16-2011
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youtube.com
Arizona Police Officer Execute Man For Telling Them They Needed A Warrant
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Sierra Hancock
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