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Date Sent: 2011-04-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, April 20, 2011 PM edition |
Spot Gold Passes $1,500, Silver Approaches $45, As Dollar Plummets
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News Link • Precious Metals
Spot Gold Passes $1,500, Silver Approaches $45, As Dollar Plummets
04-20-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The DXY just took out a multiyear low below 74.50 - the lowest since December 2010, the EURUSD is trading above 1.45 and after gold futures touched upon $1,500, now it was spot's turn which cut through $1,500 like a hot knife...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Technology: Software
iOS devices log where and when you go, transfer that data to your pc
04-20-2011
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Boing Boing / Cory Doctorow
Security researchers have revealed a hidden, secret iOS file that keeps a record of everywhere you've been. The record is synched to your PC and subsequently resynched to your other mobile devices. [Wait'll your wife's attorney gets ahold of this]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Corruption
The Fundamental Injustice That Is Poisoning the Nation
04-20-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
The Central State, designed to protect the citizenry from an oppressive monarchy or Elite, now protects this Elite from the citizenry. That is how thoroughly the injustice has been institutionalized.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
Dollar Drama Weekend: China To Revalue Yuan 10% This Weekend?
04-20-2011
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Market-ticker.org
This has a high probability of forcing corrective actions by The Fed, perhaps even before the futures market reopens Sunday night. The risk for The Fed and United States is that the dollar winds up gapping down by hundreds of pips...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
In First U.S. Flight, 'JetMan' Will Fly Through the Grand Canyon
04-20-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
On May 6, Rossy plans to fly through the Grand Canyon in Arizona, notching what is sure to be a number of “firsts” for both Rossy and the Canyon.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • New World Order
Mayor Bloomberg and The New World Order's Global Control of Roads
04-20-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
The push for world domination of every nook and cranny of our lives, by a super elite, continues. It is being done by government operatives and the super-power hungry.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Israel
Michele Bachmann: America ‘Cursed’ By God ‘If We Reject Israel’
04-20-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
At a Republican Jewish Coalition event in Los Angeles last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann offered a candid view of her positions on Israel: Support for Israel is handed down by God and if the United States pulls back its support, America will cease...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Fluoride Killing Me Softly
04-20-2011
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http://pecangroup.org/
1) Fluoride is not an essential nutrient (NRC 1993 and IOM 1997). No disease has ever been linked to a fluoride deficiency. Humans can have perfectly good teeth without fluoride.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
More Delusional Housing Propaganda From The Arizona Republic
04-20-2011
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AZcentral.com
Metro Phoenix's housing market took a turn for the better last month, and if current trends continue, home prices could start to climb again before the end of the year.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
It’s Official: China Will Be Dumping US Dollars
04-20-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
In simple terms, China is done playing nice and is now actively moving out of US Dollar denominated assets. This is the beginning of the US Dollar’s end as world reserve currency.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
Overstock CEO: No More Sales Taxes
04-20-2011
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SmartMoney
Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne vows to keep cutting ties with marketing partners in states which require his company to pay sales tax for doing business with them.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Philosophy: Objectivism
An Attack Video About - Ayn Rand
04-20-2011
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The Wall Street Journal
Left wing interest group Think Progress has put out a video that includes some notable endorsements (Clarence Thomas, Rand and Ron Paul, Sean Hannity) and then attempt to “define” her. (Publisher: the left is very concerned... just like 5o yrs. ago)
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernard von NotHaus: Liberty Dollar Trial Update
04-20-11
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Reality Report
http://RTR.org | http://RealityReport.TV | Bernard von NotHaus joins Gary Franchi for an interview on the Reality Report to provide an update on his recent trial and unfortunate outcome.
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Crashing the Debt Ceiling
04-20-11
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Reality Report
Are you are paying attention? Obama's Change has finally arrived, but does your paycheck reflect it? Gary Franchi gets "mad as hell" about the Debt Ceiling and wishes Washington DC well in "the Rant." He presents good news about the Social Netwo
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Testing
China’s J-20 stealth fighter makes second test flight
04-20-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
China’s J-20 stealth fighter prototype had a second test flight on Tuesday at the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute’s airfield in Sichuan Province, according to witness accounts.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Secretly Funding Syrian Dissidents, Cables Show
04-20-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
Newly released State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks show that the State Department had funneled millions of dollars secretly into funding Syrian dissident groups.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Conspiracies
G. Edward Griffin: The Collectivist Conspiracy
04-20-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
In this exclusive 80 minute video interview for Prison Planet.tv subscribers, legendary conspiracy author G. Edward Griffin explains how his research.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Can We Make Mars Habitable By Pumping the Atmosphere Full of Oxygen?
04-20-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
In a roundabout way, yes. But first we must heat that atmosphere, since the surface of Mars is about "58°F. “We know how to warm planets; we’re doing it right now."
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Tapping Light's Magnetic Properties, Innovative Tech Harvests Solar Energy Without Solar Cells
04-20-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
One of the major barriers between solar energy and solar-derived electricity is solar cells themselves--commercial solar cells aren’t very efficient at converting sunlight to electricity, but they are the best thing we’ve got
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Police and Firefighters in the U.S. Get a Tiny, Throwable Recon Robot
04-20-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
U.S. military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have been making use of a tiny, tossable robot for recon and observation for several years
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Researchers Build a Transistor Out Of a Single Electron
04-20-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
University of Pittsburgh researchers have assembled a key piece of tech that will help enable a future generation of extremely powerful quantum computers.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tax Reform Again
04-20-2011
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arclein
This very elaborate and morally ambiguous law enforcement system is predicated on the government determining what your actions and intentions will be, often before you do. It's not all science fiction
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robert klein
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News Link • Surveillance
The Death of Open Data?
04-20-2011
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http://www.technologyreview.com/
The battle over budget cuts may gut the U.S. government's effort to make information more widely available.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Late to The Party...Once Again
04-20-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
The only thing more ridiculous than S&P's too little too late semi-downgrade of U.S. sovereign debt was the market's severe reaction to the announcement.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Economy - International
The Best Currency Is Gold and Silver
04-20-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
Marc Faber the Swiss fund manager and predicted the value of the dollar in the long term will be zero and advised investors to become "their own central banks and gradually accumulate gold reserves as a currency".
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • WAR: About that War
From Waco to Libya: 18 Years of Humanitarian Mass Murder
04-20-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
"The Davidian cult in Waco was dealt with by armored vehicles," remarked Muammar Gaddafi in February, defending his own crackdowns in light of the U.S. government’s April 19 marks eighteen years since
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Government
Feds to Supreme Court: Allow Warrantless GPS Monitoring
04-20-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to allow the government, without a court warrant, to affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Housing's Four Horsemen: Fed Slams Door After Horses Leave
04-20-2011
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Market-ticker.org
There's one problem here with these standards, if they're actually enforced: They make home price ramps impossible except through one means - the acceleration of household income.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Coming Soon From the Air Force: Mind-Reading Drones
04-20-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
Scientifically speaking, it’s only a matter of time before drones become self-aware and kill us all. Now the Air Force is hastening that day of reckoning.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Robogames 2011: Flame Throwers, Rocket Launchers and Endless Robot Mayhem
04-20-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
Walking into the arena, the first thing you notice are the noises: booming, clanging, the sound of metal crashing upon metal a short distance away. Followed by the smell of flames and burning rubber.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Eyes Wide Shut: Will Newt Gingrich Ever Recognize The Debt Bomb?
04-20-2011
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Market-ticker.org
"Grow the economy" and "avoid the debt bomb" eh? Listen to Gingrich. And listen to Kudlow: "growth, a strong stock market and budget surpluses." Oh really?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
Robert Scheer: The New Corporate World Order
04-20-2011
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TruthDig.com
It is time to admit that we are, in practice if not surface appearance, close to the Chinese communist model of state-sponsored capitalism that sacrifices the interests of ordinary workers, be they in the public or private sector, for the...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Casey Research Articles
David Galland: Major Policy Shift Ahead
04-20-2011
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LewRockwell.com
We’ve got a truly mind-boggling expansion of the reach of government into all aspects of society and the economy, with all that that implies in terms of regulation, taxation, controls over investments and finance, impact on personal liberty...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Satyajit Das: Dead Hand of Economics
04-20-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
“Mortmain”, derived from medieval French meaning “dead hand”, refers to legal ownership of property in perpetuity. Jurisprudence, to varying degrees, has sought to prohibit the control of property by the “dead hand”.
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Jack Gregson
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