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Date Sent: 2010-06-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, June 22, 2010 |
Top allied commander [McChrystal] apologizes for Obama magazine comments
30 International Offers Of Oil Spill Help Obama Has Thrown Out -- US Unveils Yet More Iran Sanctions -- Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs -- House of Representatives Will Not Pass A Budget In 2010
-- US Supreme Court lifts ban on sale of GM crop -- Paul Craig Roberts:
The USA is a "Failed State" -- John Birch Society to target illegal
immigrants -- China says "concerned" about South Korea-U.S. drill -- BP Lowballing Size of Leaking Oil Reservoir -- Calif. license plates might go digital, show ads
-- Illegal crossers are being attacked by gunfire in southern Arizona
-- Updating Lynne Stewart's "Love Struggle:" Part II - by Stephen
Lendman
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News Link • Afghanistan
Top allied commander [McChrystal] apologizes for magazine profile [Rolling Stone]
06-22-2010
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Ernesto Londoño, Washington Post
The top U.S. general in Afghanistan, McChrystal, apologized Tuesday for a magazine article in the Rolling Stone that portrays him and his staff as flippant and dismissive of top Obama administration officials involved in Afghanistan policy.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Obama Administration
30 International Offers Of Oil Spill Support Obama Has Thrown Out
06-22-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Nothing brings people together like a disaster, right?
Wrong. America has turned down help from around 30 countries and international organizations.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iran
US Unveils Yet More Iran Sanctions
06-22-2010
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AntiWar.com
Israeli DM Warns US to Place Time Limit on Sanctions
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Existing home sales slip 2% in May
06-22-2010
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CNN Money
Existing home sales slipped in May and missed estimates but sustained a strong pace as homebuyers who qualified for the expired tax credit moved to close deals ahead of the June 30 deadline.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Purchases of U.S. Existing Homes Unexpectedly Dropped in May
06-22-2010
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Bloomberg
Sales of U.S. previously owned homes unexpectedly fell in May as demand began to slip even before a government tax credit expires.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Kids
Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs
06-22-2010
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TedTalks
Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. At TEDxEdmonton, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish -- as kids and as adults.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Bug Out Bag Edition: The Rats Are Going Swimming
06-22-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.net/
But if this is any indication of the military's "rank and file" opinion of the Washington DC "establishment" one should be keeping a very close eye on the plans you made for "bugging out", especially if you live in a major urban center.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Remote-Control Tron Legacy Light Cycle Defies Gravity
06-22-2010
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Wired
A new remote-control light cycle toy scales walls just like the sci-fi vehicles do in the upcoming film Tron Legacy.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Disaster Alert: House of Representatives Will Not Pass A Budget In 2010
06-22-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
House Democrat leader Steny Hoyer will today announce that the US will not pass a budget in 2010 as “It isn’t possible to debate and pass a realistic, long-term budget until we’ve considered the bipartisan commission’s deficit-reduction plan...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Afghanistan
Gen. Stanley McChrystal Apologizes for Criticism
06-22-2010
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Yahoo News
Top general in Afghanistan is called to Washington for his disparaging comments.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell - Tuesday June 22nd 2010
06-22-2010
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LewRockwell.com
As the Global System Unravels - No Drilling = Higher Prices
So Jim Rogers wants to buy oil - Public School Is a 12-Year Jail Sentence - The Backyard Homestead - Why You Can't Defy Economic Law Forever
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Propaganda
School Kids Chant: "I Am An Obama Scholar"
06-22-2010
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Real Clear Politics
School Kids Chant: "I Am An Obama Scholar"
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Food
US Supreme Court lifts ban on sale of GM crop
06-22-2010
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AFP
The Supreme Court lifted Monday a four-year ban on the sale in the United States of genetically modified alfalfa, which farmers fear contaminates others crops
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • American History
Paul Craig Roberts: The USA is a “Failed State”
06-22-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Question: Dr. Roberts, the United States is regarded as the most successful state in the world today. What is responsible for American success?
Dr. Roberts: Propaganda.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Must-See Charts On America's Disastrous Level Of Federal Spending
06-22-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Politics aside, it's clear to see the federal budget has surged to unprecedented highs. The increase in spending in just the past ten years is shocking. Meanwhile, federal revenue has decreased and is projected to stay level or decrease for decades.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
Neb. city votes to restrict illegal immigration
06-22-2010
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Josh Funk Associated Press
This small Nebraska meatpacking town has joined Arizona at the center of a national debate about illegal immigration after voters approved a ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigr
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Housing
Freaking Ugly: Check Out The Huge Miss For Existing Home Sales
06-22-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Approximately 180,000 home buyers who signed a contract in good faith to receive the tax credit may not be able to finalize by the end of June due to delays in the mortgage process, particularly for short sales.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Religion: Believers
4th century icons of Peter and Paul found in Rome
06-22-2010
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AP
The earliest known icons of the Apostles Peter and Paul have been discovered in a catacomb in Rome. The images date from the second half of the 4th century, discovered on the ceiling of a tomb also includes the earliest known images of the apostles J
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Gather Your Armies (Now _this_ is a Political Commercial :)
06-22-2010
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YouTube
Rick Barber, running for Congress in a GOP primary runoff in Alabama's 2nd District July 13th, meets with three very important people to discuss the evils of the progressive income tax and its intersection with health care. Television ad, Internet pr
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
China says "concerned" about South Korea-U.S. drill
06-22-2010
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Reuters
China said on Tuesday it was concerned about reports that a U.S. aircraft carrier may join a military exercise with South Korea amid a tense standoff with North Korea over the sinking of a warship from the South.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
John Birch president to target illegal immigrants in Mesa speech
06-22-2010
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Arizona Republic
After more than 50 years of battling communists, the John Birch Society is adding a second front to its ideological war: illegal immigration. It has allies who believe illegal immigration is part of a vast conspiracy to destroy the United States as w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Next stop France for oldest baby mammoth
06-22-2010
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AFP
Discovered in the permafrost of northern Siberia just last year, this rare example of prehistoric monster is on its way to Paris to be analyzed, treated for the germs it's harboring and eventually placed on display. Mammoths -- slow, woolly and they
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars
06-22-2010
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Space
A group of seventh-graders in California has discovered a mysterious cave on Mars as part of a research project to study images taken by a NASA spacecraft orbiting the red planet. What looks to be a Martian skylight " a hole in the roof of a cave on
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Got Chickens? Book Review of the The Backyard Homestead
06-22-2010
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LewRockwell.com
On the back of the book, it tells you that on a 1/4 acre, you can harvest: 1400 eggs, 50 lbs of wheat, 60 lbs of fruit, 2000 lbs of vegetables, 280 lbs of pork, and 75 lbs of nuts.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Experts: BP Lowballing Size of Leaking Oil Reservoir
06-22-2010
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Washingtonsblog.com/
Oil industry expert Matthew Simmons also puts the number above one billion barrels (see this Bloomberg interview, for example, where he says that - unless stopped - 120,000 barrels a day will leak for 25-30 years...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Phoenix Real Estate: Anthem Foreclosures Increase at Frightening Rate
06-22-2010
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AZcentral.com
The number of foreclosures in Anthem quadrupled during the first five months of this year, according to numbers provided by a national firm that tracks the data. Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Services...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Bad Sign For Housing, As Lumber Prices Continue Their Total Free Fall
06-22-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Here is one ugly proxy for the housing economy. We wrote about lumber last week, but it's only gotten worse since then, and in fact it's fallen very hard in just the last couple of days.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Calif. license plates might go digital, show ads
06-22-2010
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Yahoo News
The move is intended as a moneymaker for a state facing a $19 billion deficit. The device would mimic a standard license plate when the vehicle is in motion but would switch to digital ads or other messages when it is stopped for more than four secon
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Science
Women and Math
06-22-2010
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arclein
The fact that women remain minorities in these fields is far more attributable to the findings of other, lessfeminist-friendly studies. Namely, studies which show a difference in mathematical aptitude between men and women and also a difference in li
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Starling Flocks
06-22-2010
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arclein
To watch the uncanny synchronization of a starling flock in flight is to wonder if the birds aren’t actually a single entity, governed by something beyond the usual rules of biology. New research suggests that’s true.
Mathematic
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Clot Removal Tool Extends Treatment Window
06-22-2010
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arclein
The SHELTER catheter would travel through the blockage to the far side of the clot where the net would be opened like an umbrella. An interventional neurologist would then carefully pull the debris into a cylindrical trap that caps the outer length o
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robert klein
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News Link • Immigration
Illegal crossers are being attacked by gunfire in southern Arizona.
06-22-2010
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Natl. Assn. of Former Border Patrol Officers
The Santa Cruz Sheriff's Dept., along the border with Mexico, has reported more than 50 attacks since April, 2008, to date. In these events, some 12 immigrants have received bullet wounds and at least three have died.
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Chip Saunders
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