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Date Sent: 2012-06-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, June 12, 2012 AM edition |
U.N. could tax U.S.-based Web sites, leaked docs show
North Dakota Considers Eliminating Property Tax -- Family Net Worth Drops to Level of Early ’90s, Fed Says -- Top Customer: Under Obama, Fed’s Holdings of U.S. Debt Have Jumped 452% -- UK Prime Minister forgets 8-year-old daughter in a bar -- Spain Told it Will be Under 'Troika' Supervision -- Olympic swimmer backs teammates who posed with guns -- Labor Department backs off plan forcing reporters to use government-issued computers --Peter King: Drones ‘carry out the policies of righteousness and goodness’ -- Flame super-virus has been ordered to self-destruct -- U.S., Florida face off over voter purge effort -- New Pacific Alliance Links Freer Latin American Nations -- Welcome to Debtors' Prison, 2011 Edition --
How to Invest Your Mother's Money – And Keep Your Peace of Mind -- Ned
Naylor-Leyland Reveals Actual Owner of Bob Pisani’s GLD Gold Bar
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News Link • United Nations
U.N. could tax U.S.-based Web sites, leaked docs show
06-11-2012
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cNet
The United Nations is considering a new Internet tax targeting the largest Web content providers, including Google, Facebook, Apple, and Netflix, that could cripple their ability to reach users in developing nations.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Property Rights
North Dakota Considers Eliminating Property Tax
06-11-2012
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New York Times
Since Californians shrank their property taxes more than three decades ago by passing Proposition 13, people around the nation have echoed their dismay over such levies, putting forth plans to even them, simplify them, cap them, slash them. In an ele
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Family Net Worth Drops to Level of Early ’90s, Fed Says
06-11-2012
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New York Times
The recent economic crisis left the median American family in 2010 with no more wealth than in the early 1990s, erasing almost two decades of accumulated prosperity, the Federal Reserve said Monday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Top Customer: Under Obama, Fed’s Holdings of U.S. Debt Have Jumped 452%
06-11-2012
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CNS News
Since President Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, the Federal Reserve’s holdings of U.S. government debt have quintupled, according to the Fed’s official monthly balance sheet.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
UK Prime Minister forgets 8-year-old daughter in a bar
06-11-2012
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AFP
David Cameron left his eight-year-old daughter at the pub for around a quarter of an hour following a family lunch, Downing Street confirmed Monday.
Nancy Cameron wandered off to the toilets while the prime ministerand his wife Samantha were arran
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain Told it Will be Under 'Troika' Supervision
06-11-2012
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Reuters
Spain faces supervision by international lenders after a bailout for its banks agreed, EU and German officials said, contradicting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy who had insisted the cash came without such strings.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Olympic swimmer backs teammates who posed with guns
06-11-2012
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Rawstory
Olympic swimmer Eamon Sullivan has backed his Australian teammates Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk, saying he saw “nothing wrong” with them posing with guns in images posted on social networking sites.
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said Satu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Labor Department backs off plan forcing reporters to use government-issued computers
06-11-2012
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FOX News
The Labor Department has backed off a plan to force news agencies to use government-issued computers and other equipment to report on jobless reports and other key economic data, following a GOP-led House hearing this week, according to several publi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Peter King: Drones ‘carry out the policies of righteousness and goodness’
06-11-2012
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Rawstory
House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King refused to confirm the existence of US drone strikes in other countries, but later insisted the drones were used to “carry out the policies of righteousness and goodness.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Flame super-virus has been ordered to self-destruct
06-11-2012
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AFP
US computer security researchers said Sunday that the Flame computer virus that smoldered undetected for years in Middle Eastern energy facilities has gotten orders to vanish, leaving no trace.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Books
He's a fan: One man's defense of Ron Paul
06-11-2012
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John P. Cochrane, Guest blogger csmonitor.com
A staunch libertarian, presidential candidate Ron Paul has always had interesting ideas about how best to run the American economy. From Austrian economics to the gold standard and free market money, a new book outlines and defends Paul's plans.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Voting and Elections
U.S., Florida face off over voter purge effort
06-11-2012
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reuters.com
The U.S. Justice Department and Florida exchanged legal salvoes on Monday over the state's controversial effort to remove non-U.S. citizens from its voter rolls ahead of this year's presidential election.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona special election: About Gabrielle Giffords or President Obama?
06-11-2012
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csmonitor.com Lourdes Medrano
The special election Tuesday to fill the House seat vacated by shooting victim Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is overshadowed by the memory of the tragedy, but the Republican has tried to make it about Obama's policies.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
iOS 6: A Deeper Look at Its 10 Coolest Features
06-11-2012
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Christina Bonnington wired.com
When it arrives on handsets and tablets this fall, iOS 6 won’t just be a simple operating system update " it will be Apple’s interpretation of exactly how a modern mobile OS should perform.
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News Link • Economy - International
New Pacific Alliance Links Freer Latin American Nations
06-11-2012
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Alex Newman thenewamerican.com
After coming under heavy criticism for pursuing so called “integration” with totalitarian-minded rulers in Latin America, the governments of Chile, Peru, Mexico, and Colombia " announced the formation of a new regional body known as the Pacific Allia
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News Link • Police State
Welcome to Debtors' Prison, 2011 Edition
12-12-2011
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WSJ
Some lawmakers, judges and regulators are trying to rein in the U.S. debt-collection industry's use of arrest warrants to recoup money owed by borrowers who are behind on credit-card payments, auto loans and other bills.
More than a third of all
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Precious Metals
Ned Naylor-Leyland Reveals Actual Owner of Bob Pisani’s GLD Gold Bar
06-11-2012
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silverdoctors.com
Things are not what they seem in GLD's vault, and it is revealed that the gold bar featured in CNBC's story on the vault did not even belong to GLD despite assurances of maximum security measures. Is there some re-hypothecation going on here?
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Syria
Implosion of The Houla Massacre Story -- Is Anyone Paying Attention?
06-10-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
A respected mainstream publication reported the infamous Houla massacre in Syria, which the US and NATO hoped would be the casus belli for their planned invasion, was in fact carried out by rebel forces.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
City officials: Detroit will go broke in a week if consent deal lawsuit isn't withdrawn
06-10-2012
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Detroit Free Press
Detroit will run out of cash a week from today if a lawsuit challenging the validity of the city's consent agreement with the state is not withdrawn, city officials said this morning.
Jack Martin, the city’s new chief financial officer, said the c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai: US failed to consult Afghans on airstrike
06-10-2012
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AP
Afghanistan's president said Saturday that the United States has put the two countries' security pact at risk with a unilateral airstrike that killed 18 civilians, while a Taliban suicide bomber killed four French soldiers responding to a tipoff abou
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Switzerland's refusal to adopt sanctions on Iran ‘disappoints’ US
06-10-2012
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Press TV
Switzerland’s refusal to yield to pressure from the United States in adopting the US-engineered European Union (EU) sanctions against Iran has “disappointed” Washington, the US envoy to Bern says.
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