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Date Sent: 2011-04-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, April 19, 2011 AM edition |
BRICS Make Move to Shove Dollar Aside -- Cuban communists approve landmark econ reforms
Evidence lacking for McChrystal allegations -- Justices Decline to Hear Appeal From Chinese Detainees -- Asian stocks fall after U.S. credit outlook cut -- Arizona gov. vetoes presidential 'birther' bill -- Syrian activists begin sit-in for Assad ouster -- AZ Governor vetoes bill allowing guns on campus right of ways -- Atlas Shrugged
Promotion ASU Phoenix Tea Party Arizona -- 4409: FRUIT POLICE SHOWDOWN
-- Nearly 50% Don't Pay Federal Income Tax: Let's Make it 100% -- The FBI and West Virginia University Team Up to Perfect Biometric Hell -- The Amazing Value of the Kindle in Homeschooling -- Biometric Hell: San Francisco Wants Venue Owners to Take Scan All Patrons -- James Howard Kunstler: Gaming Our Own Asses -- Ben Bernanke as a Three Card Monte Dealer -- Total US Debt Now Officially Above The Ceiling -- Visual Evidence to Disprove the “Gold Bubble” Theory -- Is the US Housing Market Making a Comeback? -- Borrow or Balance: The Feds’ Only Two Choices -- Gold and US Treasuries: The Bulls and Bears of Fed Policy -- Ron Paul: Budget Cuts are Meaningless Without Fed Transparency
AZ: This morning, Open Carry at the State Capital for Patriots Day
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
BRICS Make Move to Shove Dollar Aside
04-18-2011
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Yahoo Finance
China, India, Russia and Brazil just spent their entire summit meeting discussing the system that will replace the US dollar as the world's reserve currency.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Cuba
Cuban communists approve landmark econ reforms
04-18-2011
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Reuters
Cuba's Communist Party approved landmark economic reforms and voted for new leaders in a key party congress to chart Cuba's future, state-run media reported.
The Caribbean island's highest political body selected new First and Second Secretaries,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Evidence lacking for McChrystal allegations: report
04-18-2011
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Reuters
Evidence was lacking to substantiate allegations that retired Army General Stanley McChrystal had violated military policy standards, a Pentagon document said.
McChrystal lost his command of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and then retired from the mil
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Robert Mugabe Hounds Rivals in Zimbabwe, Parties Say
04-18-2011
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NY Times
More than a quarter of President Robert Mugabe’s opponents in Parliament have been arrested since agreeing to join the government in a shaky power-sharing arrangement, part of an intensifying campaign of harassment intended to drive them out of offic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Justices Decline to Hear Appeal From Chinese Detainees
04-18-2011
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NY Times
The Supreme Court said it would not hear an appeal from 5 Chinese Muslims detained at Guantánamo Bay who seek to be released into the United States. There were no noted dissents, but Justice Stephen G. Breyer, joined by 3 other justices
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Special Relationship
04-18-2011
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Foreign Policy
Exclusive new cables released by WikiLeaks reveal the United States' heavy-handed efforts to help Israel at the U.N. In the aftermath of Israel's 2008-2009 intervention into the Gaza Strip, Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, le
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian stocks fall after U.S. credit outlook cut
04-18-2011
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Reuters
Asian stocks fell after rating agency Standard & Poor's lowered its U.S. credit outlook to negative, prompting a global flight to other assets. The euro nursed heavy losses early in Asia while the yen gained across the board as worries about sovereig
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Video: Remote-Controlled Car That Runs on Aluminum Soda Can Tabs
04-18-2011
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
Their DAlH2Orean remote-controlled car runs on a combination of recycled aluminum soda can tabs and sodium hydroxide, creating a zero-emissions hydrogen vehicle
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona gov. vetoes presidential 'birther' bill
04-18-2011
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AP
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed a bill that would have required President Barack Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names could appear on the state's ballot.
The bill would have made Arizo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Syrian activists begin sit-in for Assad ouster
04-18-2011
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AP
More than 5,000 anti-government protesters in Syria took over the main square of the country’s third-largest city, vowing to occupy the site until President Bashar Assad is ousted and defying authorities who warn they will not be forced into reforms.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
AZ Governor vetoes bill allowing guns on campus right of ways
04-18-2011
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Arizona Republic
University officials and students are cheering a surprise veto from Gov. Jan Brewer, who refused to sign into law a bill that would have allowed guns on university and community college campuses. Higher education officials had lobbied heavily against
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Egypt Islamists Defiant Over Christian Governor
04-18-2011
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AP
Protesters led by hardline Islamists in southern Egypt held their ground Monday, saying they won't end their campaign of civil disobedience until the government removes a newly appointed Coptic Christian governor.
The protesters, many from the ult
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Atlas Shrugged Promotion ASU Phoenix Tea Party Arizona
04-18-2011
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Morpheus
Atlas Shrugged is opens 4/15/2011 Morpheus and Freedoms Phoenix takes upon themselves to promote the Release of the Movie. Atlas Shrugged illustrates the demise of a society because the ones who produce need to ask permission of those who produce NOT
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Nearly 50% Don't Pay Federal Income Tax: Let's Make it 100%
4-18-2011
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Free Patriot Press
Every year around this time, millions of Americans fill out a form 1040 " hoping they don't have to write a check to Uncle Sam. Millions more know they will be getting a “refund”; which is normally a return of some portion of “their money” that
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Surveillance
The FBI and West Virginia University Team Up to Perfect Biometric Hell
04-18-2011
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TheDaonline.com/news
Students can help to further this research by donating their data and helping to further identification research so they are more effective. Biometrics is the study of unique human traits that could be used by the FBI to identify individuals...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
The Amazing Value of the Kindle in Homeschooling
04-18-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
When I learned I could download nearly all of the books for free onto an e-reader, I chose a Kindle. In the long run, it lowers our cost because printing and binding comes out to be much more expensive.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Biometric Hell: San Francisco Wants Venue Owners to Take Scan All Patrons
04-18-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Scanning the ID’s of all attendees at an anti-war rally, a gay night club, or a fundraiser for a civil liberties organization would have a deeply chilling effect on speech. Participants might hesitate to attend such events if their attendance were...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
James howard Kunstler: Gaming Our Own Asses
04-18-2011
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Kunstler.com
I have never lived in a time when so many false narratives competed for supremacy of the collective mind-space. Omnipresent as it is, reality seems to elude us, and certainly its supposed interlocutors - figures such as presidents...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ben Bernanke as a Three Card Monte Dealer
04-18-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Keep an eye on excess reserves and the money supply, that's where the real action will be, not the QE3 card. That's just a Berenanke diversion
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Total US Debt Now Officially Above The Ceiling
04-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Total debt is now at $14,305,336,580,992.11. This is a problem because as anyone who rails against the broken US fiscal apparatus should be able to tell you, the debt ceiling is $14.294 trillion. In other words we have now officially breached...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Story of Timothy Bancroft
04-18-2011
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Chris Mayer for The Daily Reckoning
Gaithersburg, Maryland " Let me tell you the story of Timothy Bancroft. It’s a good one, and if you haven’t heard it, I think you’ll like it.
Bancroft was a smart and shrewd investor. He dodged the Panic of 1857, which he said was due to “easy mon
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Bill Bonner
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Visual Evidence to Disprove the “Gold Bubble” Theory
04-13-2011
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Addison Wiggin for The Daily Reckoning
Zurich, Switzerland " Precious metals are proving resilient after yesterday’s beat-down. Gold is back up to $1,461. Silver spent a few nanoseconds below $40 yesterday and as of this writing sits smartly at $40.56.
With regular runs at historic hig
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Bill Bonner
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News Link • Housing
Is the US Housing Market Making a Comeback?
04-12-2011
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Bill Bonner for The Daily Reckoning
Buenos Aires, Argentina " Buenos Aires is beautiful. We have been blessed with good weather.
The city is booming, too. Strong agricultural prices have done what they always do in Argentina " they’ve set off a boom.
“Property prices are up abou
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Bill Bonner
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Borrow or Balance: The Feds’ Only Two Choices
04-12-2011
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Bill Bonner for The Daily Reckoning
Buenos Aires, Argentina " The feds got over the first hurdle. They cut a deal to keep the government in business a while longer.
But that’s not the end of the story. It’s just the beginning.
The New York Times has the story:
Congressional Re
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Bill Bonner
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold and US Treasuries: The Bulls and Bears of Fed Policy
04-11-2011
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Addison Wiggin for The Daily Reckoning
Zurich, Switzerland " As we might have forecast, the government didn’t shut down. Gaddafi in Libya wants a ceasefire. And while another earthquake has hit northeast Japan, it doesn’t appear to have wrecked anything that wasn’t already destroyed.
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Bill Bonner
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