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Date Sent: 2011-04-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, April 24, 2011 |
9/11 First Responders To Be Screened By FBI's Terrorism Watch List
The Drone-ification of America -- US can’t afford to master the globe
-- The reality of airport insecurity! -- John Mauldin: Get Ready For
The "Miracle" Of Compound Inflation -- Scientists target drugs that
improve behavior -- With New Software, Drones Get Closer to Thinking Like Pilots -- Atomic Gardens, the Biotechnology of the Past, Can Teach Lessons About the Future of Farming -- Jesus Exposes the State for What It is Not -- Axel Merk: Why Is Anyone Still Waiting to Sell the Dollar? -- The Problem with the Tea Party -- Bilderberg Wants Gas Prices at $7 a Gallon -- Michigan Court Of Appeals Rules MERS Has No Authority To Foreclose -- Is The Play For Iran's Nukes The Endgame Of Ongoing MENA Violence? -- Nobel Peace Drones -- Pastor released from jail after being held on $1 'peace bond' -- Arpaio fires 2 top aides, including Hendershott, after probe
AZ: Individual Liberty and the Freedom Philosophy awards ceremony at the
Freedom Library, Yuma, Tuesday, April 26th.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
9/11 First Responders To Be Screened By FBI's Terrorism Watch List
04-23-2011
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Huffingtonpost.com
“This is absurd,” said Glen Kline, a former NYPD emergency services officer. “It’s silly. It’s stupid. It’s asinine.”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Drone-ification of America
04-24-2011
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John W. Whitehead
Police agencies around the USA soon could have a new tool in their crime-fighting arsenal: unmanned aircraft inspired by the success of such drones on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. Local governments have been pressing the Federal Aviation
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • Imperialism
US can’t afford to master the globe
04-24-2011
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Eric Margolis (America Angle)
In 2010, US military spending exceeded by 50 per cent the average spent in the Cold War years when America had a serious rival in the Soviet Union. Since 2000, US military spending has grown by 67 per cent (all figures adjusted for inflation). Yet t
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Events: Arizona
15th ANNUAL RECOGNITION AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARD CEREMONY
04-14-2011
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www.freedomlibrary.org
Tuesday, April 26, Yuma, AZ, help our youth and others understand the real meaning of Individual Liberty and the Freedom Philosophy in order to make a better, more peaceful world for all of us.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
The reality of airport insecurity!
04-24-2011
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The Political Commentator, Michael Haltman
Airport Security: Observations from the security line!
Can political correctness get you killed? It may or it may not by itself, but judging from airport security that I recently encountered courtesy of the TSA, that government entity is not doing
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Recent Graduates Not Only Move Back Home, But Stay There
04-23-2011
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Huffingtonpost.com
Nearly a year after graduating from college, Moore, 22, also never expected to still be waking up in her old twin bed every morning.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
John Mauldin: Get Ready For The "Miracle" Of Compound Inflation
04-23-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
What a roaring economy, except that gas would $8 a gallon (assuming current levels of supply and demand). In essence, you would need $2 to buy what $1 buys today. Don’t even ask about health-care costs.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists target drugs that improve behaviour
04-23-2011
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thehindu.com/
A pill to enhance moral behaviour, a treatment for racist thoughts, a therapy to increase your empathy for people in other countries " these may sound like the stuff of science fiction but with medicine getting closer to altering our moral state...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A Synthetic Brain Synapse Is Constructed From Carbon Nanotubes
04-23-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
In tests, synapse circuit functions much like a real neuron--neurons being the very building blocks of the brain. Tapping the unique properties of carbon nanotubes, their lab was able to essentially recreate brain function in a very fractional way
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Military
With New Software, Drones Get Closer to Thinking Like Pilots
04-23-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
A software company CEO who is trying to train drones to think like pilots promises he is not producing a cadre of mutinous rebel aircraft. He just wants to prevent collisions between drones and human-powered airplanes.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Food
Atomic Gardens, the Biotechnology of the Past, Can Teach Lessons About the Future of Farming
04-23-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
One look at the wedge-shaped rows of plants and anyone could tell the circular garden was not grown under normal conditions. Plants sown in concentric circles displayed wildly different vitality and viability.
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Good Friday - Jesus Exposes the State for What It is Not
04-23-2011
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Becky Chandler
Ever since Jesus exposed the great truth that the Emperor has no clothes, the State has struggled to establish the basis of its legitimacy....
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Corruption
The Great Con of the Recovery: The Stock Wealth Effect
04-23-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Since March 2009, stocks have doubled. However, oil has nearly TRIPLED in price.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Axel Merk: Why Is Anyone Still Waiting to Sell the Dollar?
04-23-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
So remarks Axel Merk, currency specialist and founder of the Merk Mutual Funds, who is perplexed by those waiting for additional warning signs to sell the dollar. In his view, we have all the evidence we need.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Our Only Hope - You
04-23-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
So long as the politicians and their willing accomplices in the media can construct straw men upon whom you can vent your anger, change will never come. Your politicians will distract your neighbors from focusing on the real problem...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Tea Party
The Problem with the Tea Party
04-23-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
In this video, delivered at a Mises Institute seminar, Jacob Heubert examines where we are on the road to liberty, the different directions that can be taken to get to a more libertarian society and what will work, and not work, to advance liberty.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Borrowing is one thing and paying it off is quite another! (Video)
04-23-2011
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The Political Commentator, Michael Haltman
The US debt ceiling debate is an interesting political sideshow, but just how serious could the actual problem be?
What do Americans think?
A recent CBS New poll that asked Americans whether or not the federal debt limit should be raised showed
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Reported by:
Michael Haltman
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Leftist Freakout at Oregon Tea Party Rally
04-23-2011
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TheBlaze.com
Three revealing videos of liberal/left-wing protesters at a Tea Party rally at Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon on April 5th. Among the curse words and racial slurs hurled, one protester yelled "I wipe my ass with the American flag!"
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
NASA Commercial Funding Ignition
04-23-2011
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arclein
NASA is awarding $269.3 million to four companies that plan to work on new spaceships capable of ferrying astronauts into orbit. The money is going to Blue Origin, the Boeing Co., Sierra Nevada Corp. and SpaceX.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
3D Movies of Living Cells
04-23-2011
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arclein
d Hughes Medical Institute that is able to non-invasively take a three dimensional look inside living cells with stunning results. The device uses a thin sheet of light like that used to scan supermarket bar codes and could help biologists to achieve
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Housing Boom And Bust
04-23-2011
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arclein
The much more persuasive case has been made that the combination of ultra low rates, shadow banking system, corrupt rating agencies, foolish lenders, irresponsible borrowers and dumb bond fund managers were the primary causes.
The DATA provides an
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Zero Degrees of Empathy
04-23-2011
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arclein
Lucy Adeniji " an evangelical Christian and author of two books on childcare " trafficked two girls and a 21-year-old woman from Nigeria to work as slaves in her east London home. She made them toil for 21 hours a day and tortured them if they disple
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
FHFA: Home Prices Fell In February
04-23-2011
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thehill.com/
Home prices fell 5.7 percent since last year as foreclosures flooded the housing market and dragged down prices, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) said on Thursday.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Report: Bilderberg Wants Gas Prices at $7 a Gallon
04-23-2011
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InfoWars.com/
“By the end of the year 2012,” Tucker told Jones, “they (the Bilderbergers and the elite) want us paying $7 a gallon for gasoline… what they want to do is bring the American standard of living down to the standard of the so-called third world…
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Gonzalo Lira: Shakedown Nation
04-23-2011
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Gonzalolira.blogspot.com/
How many counties and municipalities and States are doing what Mono County did"acting no better than thugs? Especially now, after they got themselves in the nightmare fiscal situation most of them are in"how many are retroactively...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Michigan Court Of Appeals Rules MERS Has No Authority To Foreclose
04-23-2011
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mfi-miami.com
The Michigan Court of Appeals handed down a ruling yesterday essentially saying MERS has no authority to foreclose in the state of Michigan...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Arizona: Realty Execs Have Not Made A Lease Payment Since October
04-23-2011
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AZcentral.com
Scottsdale-based Realty Executives Inc. has not made a lease payment on its Pinnacle Peak branch office building since October, according to a landlord complaint filed recently in Maricopa County Superior Court.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iran
Is The Play For Iran's Nukes The Endgame Of Ongoing MENA Violence?
04-23-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
When one factors in the ubiquitous presence of CIA operatives (flipflops on the ground) in the region (always disclosed well after the fact) one wonders just how staged this latest "revolution" truly is.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Nobel Peace Drones
04-23-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
Can someone who defends these drone attacks please identify the purpose? Is the idea that we're going to keep dropping them until we kill all the "militants" in that area? We've been killing people in that area at a rapid clip for many, many years
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Latest “New Normal” Sighting: Divorce Rebound
04-23-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
A Financial Times article discusses an unlikely indicator of recovery: divorce rates have risen. One divorce attorney commented, “There is huge pent up demand.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Pastor released from jail after being held on $1 'peace bond'
04-22-2011
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Oralandar Brand-Williams and Tom Greenwood
A controversial Florida pastor and his associate were released from jail tonight after being held briefly for refusing to pay a $1 "peace bond" after a jury ruled they would "likely breach the peace" with plans to protest a mosque.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Syria crisis, graphic video of murder in the streets and Obama strategy
04-23-2011
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The Political Commentator, Michael Haltman
Obama: Mubarak in Egypt must go, Gaddafi of Libya must go (although regime change is not our primary stated mission) and al-Assad of Syria should simply to stop the slaughter in the streets?
In what appears to be Middle East policy by either the s
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
GOP to use sleeping air controllers to push for privatization
04-22-2011
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The Raw Story
An uproar over lapses by U.S. air traffic controllers will spill into Congress where critics of organized labor see an unexpected opening to push their agenda into sweeping aviation legislation.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Easter 2011 - Freedom
04-22-2011
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Christine Smith's Blog
Easter commemorates the ultimate freedom given us by grace. My endeavor to love is paramount, my devotion to freedom and sharing its truth at a height, joy overflows. I share my Easter message & link to a fine Jacob Hornberger freedom piece, etc.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arpaio fires 2 top aides, including Hendershott, after probe
04-22-2011
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Arizona Republic
Sheriff Joe Arpaio fired Chief Deputy David Hendershott and Deputy Chief Larry Black Friday following a six-month investigation into allegations of misconduct that targeted those two top aides and Capt. Joel Fox.
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Powell Gammill
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