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Date Sent: 2011-08-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, August 17, 2011 AM edition |
Asian shares fall, euro shaky after summit let-down -- Fitch affirms US AAA rating
Democide Is Painless - by L. Neil Smith (Editor Recommended) -- Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands -- Lew Rockwell on Russia Today -- Putin sets sights on Eurasian economic union -- Ernie on Adam vs The Man 08/16/2011 -- Quartzsite police firings case to move to federal court -- Charles Goyette - In Studio - "The End Is Nigh" / Ryan Mott - at the Iowa Straw Poll -- Foreclosure-Gate: 92% of Foreclosures in NY Lack Proper Documents -- Are you ready for Big Brother 2.0? -- Corporate Media Admit They Censor Candidates Who Challenge the Status Quo -- A Decade of Punditocracy, Pathetic Edition
AZ: Jordan Page to perform in Quartzsite August 27th (donate) Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite,
AZ on August 27th, bring your cameras.
Nationwide civil
disobedience: Support your local lemonade stand, Aug. 20
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian shares fall, euro shaky after summit let-down
08-16-2011
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Reuters
Japanese shares fell on Wednesday, dragged down mainly by hi-tech firms, while the euro wobbled after French and German leaders failed to deliver a solution to the euro zone debt crisis and restore investor confidence after a global market rout.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fitch affirms U.S. AAA rating, disagrees with S&P
08-16-2011
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Reuters
Fitch Ratings confirmed the United States' top-notch credit rating and, in blatant disagreement with rival Standard & Poor's, gave a vote of confidence to Washington's deficit-reduction efforts. Fitch also kept a stable outlook on its U.S. AAA rating
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Democide Is Painless - by L. Neil Smith (Publisher Recommended)
08-16-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
Meet Audrey Tomason, Obama's Director for Counterterrorism. She has authored a report suggesting it would be more "humane" for our species to undergo a "planned and controlled genocide" rather than descend into the chaos it now enters.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands
08-16-2011
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The Lookout
Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters. Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereig
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Lew Rockwell on Russia Today
08-16-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
40 years ago today former President Nixon was fighting inflation and overwhelming war costs and with that he ended the last remnants of the gold standard. At that time Nixon claimed he was defending the dollar but his critics said it was one of the m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that
08-16-2011
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Ted.com
At TEDxMaastricht, Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient's bedside.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Putin sets sights on Eurasian economic union
08-16-2011
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www.ft.com
Twenty years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, may not, as is sometimes alleged, be trying to recreate it. But he is pursuing a different project " to build a “quasi-European Union” out of former Soviet sta
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Adam vs The Man
Adam vs The Man 08/16/2011
08-16-2011
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AdamVsTheManRTchannel
Adam explains the the next step for free market space exploration and talks to Ernest Hancock on the implications of cell phone shut downs and Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio exposes the gun in the room on national defense.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Death Penalty
Lethal Injustice
08-16-2011
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C.Smith/Future of Freedom Foundation
"...one of the major civil-liberty controversies present in our society is largely ignored by libertarians: capital punishment..."
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Christine -
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News Link • Constitution
There *IS* an Answer: The Constitution Lobby
08-16-2011
If anyone has a better idea to peacefully restore our Constitution without reliance on the corrupt political election process, let's hear it. This is an OPEN INVITE to join the Constitution Lobby national meet-up call WED. night (Aug. 17), 9:30 EST.
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Reported by:
Bob Schulz
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Stewart on Paul, Paul Not Fringe, Perry Backpedals on Mandate
08-16-2011
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RTR.org
http://RTR.org | Stewart on Paul, Paul Not Fringe and Perry Backpedals on Mandate.
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Positive News
Congress Hits Low, Spiderman Pat Down, Libyan Showdown
08-16-2011
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RTR.org
http://RTR.org | Congress Hits Low, Spiderman Pat Down and Libyan Showdown.
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Anthropology
PayPal founder’s next project: Libertarian island nations
08-16-2011
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www.rawstory.com
The bizarre experiment would be a way to test alternative theories of governance, he and associates told reporter Jonathan Miles. The micro-countries would be something like city-states floating the ocean on massive platforms, like oil rigs.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Quartzsite police firings case to move to federal court
08-16-2011
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www.parkerliveonline.com
An attorney representing the police officers called Police Chief Gilbert to the stand. The town’s attorney responded by saying that he was not present in the courtroom, which drew an audible response from the 60+ crowd sitting and standing in the cou
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Update!!! Quartzsite Liberty Festival- feat. Jordan Page
08-16-2011
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http://powerandpolitic.wordpress.com
Quartzsite, Arizona’s “Liberty Fest” is shaping up to be a historic event. The event will center around a non partisan August 27th 10 am banner and flag march to the steps of Quartzsite Town Hall, followed by speeches and a live radio broadcast by Er
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
President Bachmann: Another Mideast Messiah
08-16-2011
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TruthDig.com
I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel, that is the end of the United States. … [W]e have to show that we are inextricably entwined, that as a nation we have been blessed because of our...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: 92% of Foreclosures in NY Lack Proper Documents
08-16-2011
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Alternet.org/
In a three-month investigation, the New York Post found that in nearly all of the foreclosure proceedings, “banks have attempted to steamroll their way over sometimes-outgunned homeowners,” booting them out of their homes...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Are you ready for Big Brother 2.0?
08-16-2011
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BlackListedNews.com
The FBI is now instructing store owners to report many new forms of “suspicious activity” to them. According to the document, “suspicious activity” now includes… paying with cash
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
A Decade of Punditocracy, Pathetic Edition
08-16-2011
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Ritholtz.com
G. W. Bush: “Now, we’ve got a problem here in America that we have to address. Too many American families, too many minorities do not own a home. [...] Freddie Mac will launch 25 initiatives to eliminate homeownership barriers.” 6-17-02
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Jack Gregson
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Opinion • Obama Administration
Obama to Asians: Screw you!
08-16-2011
Menckens Ghost
Judging by what he says, it is apparent that pseudo-intellectual President Obama believes the half-baked notions propagated by academics, black liberation theologians, and neo-Marxist revolutionaries about social justice, oppression, fairness, divers
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Bonus: Ernest Hancock interview by Joyce Riley on The Power Hour
Talk radio host ERNEST HANCOCK regularly observes events that shape our daily world and shares what is highest on his radar screen so that we may try to stay out of the way. Governmental structure is imploding under its own weight, and its death rat
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