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Date Sent: 2010-06-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, June 24, 2010 |
Alert Issued for 17 Afghan Military Members AWOL From U.S. Air Force Base in Texas
Surge replacing pullout? Lawmakers rush to confirm Petraeus anyway -- Ron Paul stands alone against spill subpoena power --
Police raid offices, home of retired archbishop -- Cap back after robot
nudge stalls oil collection -- Fear-eliminating Drug Works in Rats -- A Push for National ID? -- Central Banking in Crisis: Twenty Countries on the Verge of Insolvency --
The Coming U.S. Real Estate Crash -- Gassed in the Gulf (Parts I &
ll): New Gulf War Syndrome -- South Florida condo purchasers are buying
in bulk -- Cities Slap Fees on Everything: Flailing Desperation and Financial Hara-Kiri -- Gulf States In Catastrophic Depression, But Initial Claims Fall -- Bailout: BP Is Now Too Big To Fail -- Underwater Oxygen Levels Drop as Oil Continues to Flow -- "WACO": The major motion picture -- High Court Injustice - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: Magician and Psychologist Tony Barnhart: "The Psychology of Magic" tonight;
Richard Gage of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 to Speak in Tucson
Saturday (See bus ride offer); Tempe "Liberty on the Rocks" 6-29
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News Link • Afghanistan
Alert Issued for 17 Afghan Military Members AWOL From U.S. Air Force Base
06-17-2010
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Jana Winter, Fox News
A nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members of the Afghan military who have gone AWOL from an Air Force base in Texas where foreign military officers who are training to become pilots are taught English.
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Surge replacing pullout? Lawmakers rush to confirm Petraeus anyway
06-24-2010
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Rawstory
Even though the changing of the top guard might bring an enormous shift to Afghanistan war policies, lawmakers are rushing to confirm the new commander of the war effort chosen by President Obama to replace his "runaway general."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Too much government? Paul stands alone against spill subpoena power
06-24-2010
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Rawstory
When the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to grant subpoena powers to a presidential commission formed to investigate the BP oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, the sole "no" vote was cast by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX).
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
War uproots Iraq's signature date palms, and their tenders
06-24-2010
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McClatchy News
Fearful of being mistaken for a militant, he announces himself loudly at front gates and hides his ax when he makes a sales pitch. Every stop is a gamble in this new Baghdad, but Kadhim trusts that even the wariest and most traumatized Iraqis will pr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Police raid offices, home of retired archbishop
06-24-2010
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AP
Police raided the home and office of the recently retired archbishop of Belgium on Thursday, carrying off documents and a personal computer as part of an investigation into the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests, officials said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Cap back after robot nudge stalls oil collection
06-24-2010
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AP
A cap was back in place on BP's broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico after a deep-sea blunder forced crews to temporarily remove what has been the most effective method so far for containing some of the massive spill.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fear-eliminating Drug Works in Rats
06-24-2010
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LiveScience
Rats that are shocked when they hear a certain tone typically freeze up upon hearing that sound later. A drug injected into their brains can reduce this fear nearly as well as a fear-erasing training method. The work suggests scientists might be able
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Kagan Calls 'Israeli' Judge Dredd “My Judicial Hero”
06-24-2010
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InfoWars.com/
Kagan’s standpoint on free speech, that it is subject to regulation and definition by the government, has no place in America, completely violates the fundamental premise of the First Amendment, that even unpopular speech should be protected...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
Bloomberg, Murdoch Push for Immigration Battle: A Push for National ID?
06-24-2010
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RawStory.com
Chief executives of several major corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney and News Corp., are joining Mayor Michael Bloomberg to form a coalition advocating for immigration reform " including a path to legal status for all...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Central Banking in Crisis: Twenty Countries on the Verge of Insolvency
06-24-2010
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Blacklistednews.com/
It is this concept of interconnectivity that as the players are finding out it is a disaster. How can solvent European countries even contemplate a $2 trillion bailout for nations that really do not care if the debt is ever paid off?
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Eugenics
Gassed in the Gulf (Parts I & ll): New Gulf War Syndrome
06-24-2010
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revolutionradio.org
The military and FEMA are engaged in Emergency Plans for 36 urban areas from Texas to Florida due to the unstoppable Gulf oil volcano the size of Mt. Everest, as WMR reports, indicating evacuations. Some people are advised to relocate now.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
A Closer Look at the Second Leg Down in Housing
06-24-2010
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Ritholtz.com
One of the things that Markets are best at is price discovery " the determination of a price for a specific item through basic supply and demand factors. Without the heavy hand of the government intervening, the real estate market is about to ex...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
The Coming U.S. Real Estate Crash
06-24-2010
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com/
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history, and it is threatening to become one of the greatest economic disasters in U.S. history. Agents along the Gulf coast are reporting that the spill has completely kill
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
New World Order vs Useless Eaters: Are Americans Going To Starve?
06-24-2010
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usarmyguyretired.com
The people now find themselves at the abject mercy of an indifferent, disengaged government bureaucracy only intent on expanding their agenda and the population’s dependency. Listen to the rhetoric from the federal government.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Perfect Timing: South Florida condo purchasers are buying in bulk
06-24-2010
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miamiherald.com/
Backed by a multibillion-dollar private equity firm in New York, a team of Miami investors and strategists launched Lionheart Capital this year looking to scoop up choice South Florida condos at rock-bottom prices.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Cities Slap Fees on Everything: Flailing Desperation and Financial Hara-Kiri
06-24-2010
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
Mime permit: $25 ($15 surcharge if mime breaks silence) Toilet facilities in city parks: $2 per flush ($2 surcharge if you leave seat up) Food service permit for caterers: $150 per event Dispose of deceased cat or dog: $20
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Activism at The Freedom's Phoenix Workshop
06-24-2010
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Ed Vallejo Productions LOL
While Ernie is having a good time at PorcFest in New Hampshire, The Machine continues to grind back at home... (1 1/2 minute video)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Propaganda
Gulf States In Catastrophic Depression, But Initial Claims Fall
06-24-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Initial claims at 457k, statistically insignificant compared to expectations 463k, down 19k compared to the prior weekly revised number (476k, from 472k). We expect another upward revision here.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Events: Arizona
The Psychology of Magic TONIGHT
06-17-2010
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their last meeting in June, on the 24th Phoenix Objectivists will host a lecture by magician Anthony "Magic Tony" Barnhart on: "The Psychology of Magic".
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Corruption
The Media Campaign Begins: BP Is Now Too Big To Fail
06-24-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Bloomberg headline: "BP Demise Would Threaten U.S. Energy Security, Industry." Just as the failure of bankrupt banks was supposed to lead to the destruction of capitalism, so the bankruptcy of BP plc is now supposed to lead to the degeneration...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
ABC News Report: Underwater Oxygen Levels Drop as Oil Continues to Flow
06-24-2010
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afterdowningstreet.org/
Video. Biologists told ABC News that the entire food chain had been disrupted -- partly from the mass of oil and partly because the oil has sapped the water of oxygen. "What we're really witnessing may be a shift in the whole ecosystem feeding...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Methane One Million Times Above Normal in Gulf of Mexico Waters
06-24-2010
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Reuters.com/
As much as 1 million times the normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Archaeology
Ancient Structures in Africa
06-24-2010
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arclein
Seeing these magnificent ruined structures from the air, forces us to reconsider the size of the ancient population that lived in these part of southern Africa thousands of years ago. While some walls have remained, many of the lesser walls of the la
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Green Wall of Africa
06-24-2010
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arclein
It is envisaged that the belt would go through 11 countries from east to west.
The trees should be "drought-adapted species", preferably native to the areas planted, the Great Green Wall website says, listing 37 suitable species.
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Vietnamese Gardeners in New Orleans
06-24-2010
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arclein
Between Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne, a lagoon inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, and about 10 miles east, Chef Menteur Highway runs for almost 40 miles across the Rigolets (rig-o-lees), a wild and undeveloped tract of pine forests and swamp. Strip m
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robert klein
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News Link • TERRORISM
A Muslim Soldier Confesses
06-24-2010
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arclein
One has to understand where I’m coming from. I consider myself … a Muslim soldier.” With these words, would-be Times Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad made it abundantly clear that when he parked his explosives-laden SUV in Times Square on May 1, he w
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Sterile Neutrinos are Back
06-24-2010
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arclein
Cosmologists at UCL are a step closer to determining the mass of the elusive neutrino particle, not by using a giant particle detector, but by gazing up into space. Neutrinos are one of the top candidates for dark matter.
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robert klein
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News Link • Corruption
Major Union Bashes Sodexo, Gephardt Over Push For Renewal Of Wasteful Military Contract
06-17-2010
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Brian Beutler
What do you do if you're a union-hated company on the verge of losing a major controversial contract with the Marines? You hire former Rep. Dick Gephardt to lobby, in a last ditch effort to save hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Humor
Just be glad your child doesn't go to one of these schools
6-24-2010
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Cracked.com
A collection of hilarious and unfortunately true school stories from America and Britain. All examples are also public schools provided "free" by the government, so have fun please.
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Concerned Patriot
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