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Date Sent: 2012-06-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, June 1, 2012 |
Time Bomb? Banks Pressured to Buy Government Debt
Hugo Chavez's cancer has 'entered the end stage' -- Congress, rights groups still know virtually nothing about U.S. wiretap court -- Ex-president of Iran calls Facebook ‘a blessing’: report -- Police ‘violently’ arrest 14 protesters at Minnesota foreclosed home -- 06-01-12 - Ray McGovern - Bill Buppert - Foster Gamble - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.RM, M-F, 9-Noon EST -- Myths and Realities of Returning to a Gold Standard -- Worried About The Soda Ban? Fear Not, Bloomberg to Support ‘National Donut Day’ Tomorrow [Video] -- Edwards not guilty on 1 count, mistrial on others -- Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Will Land Soon -- FAA Clears Virgin Galactic to Begin SpaceShipTwo Rocket Test Flights -- SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down in Pacific, Ending Historic Test Flight
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club, Tomorrow, June 2nd, Drug
War and the Media; Protest AZ GOP Inaccurate Election And
Unethical Ballots - Tomorrow, June 2nd
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Time Bomb? Banks Pressured to Buy Government Debt
05-31-2012
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MSNBC
US and European regulators are essentially forcing banks to buy up their own government's debt"a move that could end up making the debt crisis even worse, a Citigroup analysis says.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Chavez's cancer has 'entered the end stage'
05-31-2012
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Dan Rather Reports
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma, an aggressive cancer that has "entered the end stage". The prognosis is dire and Chavez is not expected to live "more than a couple of months at most."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Congress, rights groups still know virtually nothing about U.S. wiretap court
05-31-2012
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Rawstory
At a House hearing on Thursday, members of Congress and representatives of two leading privacy rights groups concluded that they still know virtually nothing about a secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), originally
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Ex-president of Iran calls Facebook ‘a blessing’: report
05-31-2012
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AFP
Facebook is a “blessing” that helps freedom-seeking movements challenge tyranny, a former president of Iran " which routinely blocks access to the social networking site " was quoted as saying in a report by the ISNA news agency.
“We see that a Fa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Police ‘violently’ arrest 14 protesters at Minnesota foreclosed home
05-31-2012
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Rawstory
Members of Occupy Minnesota are accusing police of abusing their power by using physical violence to arrest demonstrators peacefully protesting at a foreclosed home in Minneapolis.
“In the latest incident in an ongoing showdown, officers violently
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Worried About The Soda Ban? Fear Not, Bloomberg to Support ‘National Donut Day’ Tomorrow [Video]
05-31-2012
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At Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s press conference touting his efforts to stop the sale of large soft drinks in restaurants, one reporter in attendance brought up the interesting fact that his administration also supporting “National Donut Day” tomorrow a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics
Edwards not guilty on 1 count, mistrial on others
05-31-2012
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AP
Former presidential candidate John Edwards was found not guilty on one of six campaign fraud charges, and the jury could not reach a verdict on the other counts, leading the judge to declare a mistrial on them.
Edwards was accused of masterminding
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Will Land Soon
05-31-2012
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Space
After more than a year in space, the U.S. Air Force's secretive robotic space plane, the X-37B, is coming down soon. Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the site where the reusable miniature space shuttle will land
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
FAA Clears Virgin Galactic to Begin SpaceShipTwo Rocket Test Flights
05-31-2012
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Space
The developer of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo suborbital space tourism vehicle has won U.S. regulatory approval to begin powered flight testing of the rocket-propelled craft later this year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down in Pacific, Ending Historic Test Flight
05-31-2012
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Space
The world's first commercial space cargo ship dove through Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean early Thursday (May 31), ending an historic test flight to the International Space Station.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Surveillance
One Nation Under Surveillance
05-31-2012
Chuck Baldwin
America prides itself in being called “the land of the free.” But, what, exactly, does it mean to be free? Does it mean owning a car and having a job? People in communist countries own a car and have a job. Does it mean going to a mall to shop
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
WikiLeaks and 9/11: What if?
05-31-2012
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www.911truthnews.com
If WikiLeaks had been around in 2001, could the events of 9/11 have been prevented? The idea is worth considering.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
America's murderous drone campaign is fuelling terror
05-31-2012
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www.guardian.co.uk
Obama's escalation of a war that's already caused thousands of deaths will only destabilise his own allies and bolster al-Qaida
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
It may seem painless, but drone war in Afghanistan is destroying the West's reputation
05-31-2012
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Peter Oborne
Drones, supposedly supported by the military establishment in the West, have sparked controversy in countries like Pakistan as they are being increasingly used to wage covert warfare.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain's Borrowing Costs Near Danger Level: Bailout Next?
05-30-2012
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CNBC
Spanish 10-year borrowing costs neared the 7 percent danger level and Bankia shares hit record lows on Monday after the government, struggling to sort out its finances, proposed putting sovereign debt into the struggling lender.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Were Nazi Soldiers Heroes?
05-30-2012
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by Jacob Hornberger (Future of Freedom Foundation)
Have you ever noticed that Nazi soldiers, especially those who died in World War II, are never celebrated as heroes? Why is that? Didn’t they answer the call of their government in time of war? Didn’t they serve their country by loyally obeying the d
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. Drone Policy: Standing Within 200 Feet Of A Terrorists Makes You A Terrorist
05-30-2012
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New York Times
"It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent," the Times reports. "Counterterrorism officials insis
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks
05-30-2012
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New York Times
New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts, in the most ambitious effort yet by the Bloomberg administration to combat rising obesity.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
The U.S. Military May Blanket Afghanistan in Tiny Spy Sensors That Last for Two Decades
05-30-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
During the Cold War, both sides liberally used the “bug”--the remote listening device--to surreptitiously get wind of what the other side was up to by listening in on a room, a building, or, in the case of East Berlin, an entire city.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Harrisburg mayor: will fight for bankruptcy right
05-30-2012
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Reuters
The mayor of Pennsylvania's debt-laden capital city said she will fight for the city's ability to declare bankruptcy after June 30. A state law that bars small Pennsylvania cities from filing for municipal bankruptcy is to expire then.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Obama Administration
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Moral Challenge of ‘Kill Lists’
05-30-2012
Ray McGovern
Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan has been called President Obama’s “priest” as they wrestle with the moral dilemma of assembling a “kill list” of “bad guys,” a role that recalls how established religions have justified slaughters over the centur
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Debt Crisis: A $46 Trillion Problem Comes Sweeping In
05-30-2012
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Telegraph(UK)
Bad stuff, they say, comes in threes. We've already got the banking and the eurozone sovereign debt crises. Next comes the corporate funding crisis.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Skipping Commercials On Your T.V. May Soon Be Illegal
05-30-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, John Bergmayer
As anticipated in our blog post from the other day, major television networks have sued Dish over its “Hopper” DVR.
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Robert Lee
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