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Date Sent: 2012-06-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, June 15, 2012 PM edition |
Some cry 'coup' as Egypt's highest court annuls parliament, military extends power
"Due To The Extreme Volatility Some Market Analysts Foresee..." by Glenn Jacobs -- Rand Paul and Why He Endorsed Mitt Romney For President -- Lawsuit filed in Federal Court to unbind all delegates -- Et Tu, Rand Paul? - by Charles Goyette -- Hugo Price and Max Keiser can save Greece -- Chaos in Egypt -- UK
unveils £140bn scheme to kick-start stagnant economy -- 06-15-12 -- Hr1 Adam Kokesh - Hr3 Charles Goyette - (MP3 Loaded) -- Heaven Help Us If The Rest Of China Crashes As Hard
As Wenzhou -- THIS USED TO BE THE 10TH RICHEST SHOPPING STREET IN THE
WORLD—Now Look At It -- China Is Desperately Reinflating The Real Estate Bubble --
CHART OF THE DAY: This Chart Destroys The Idea Of Peak Oil -- Italy
Trembles On The Brink Of The Impossible -- MARKETS WHIPSAW AFTER
COORDINATED CENTRAL BANK ACTION RUMORS -- Here's How You Can Back Up
Your Entire Facebook To Your Computer -- Now They've Invented
Laser-Guided Bullets So Snipers Can Kill You From 2 Miles Away -- Central Banks Promise To Save World On Monday If Greece Elects A Crazy Person This Weekend -- Unreal Color Photos From Shackleton's 1915 Antarctic Expedition -- STOCKS EXPLODE HIGHER AND RUMORS ARE FLYING -- Dear Ron Paul, We Will Not Quit! -- I Just Saw The Most Feared Man In All Of Europe -- Chavez reveals Venezuela has built first drone -- Presidential Medal of Freedom Hypocrisy -- JP Morgan Chase on Capitol Hill -- The Crazy DIY Spaceflight Project That Just Might Work
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News Link • World News
Some cry 'coup' as Egypt's highest court annuls parliament, military extends power
06-15-2012
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cnn.com, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Josh Levs
Egypt's highest court declared the parliament invalid Thursday, and the country's interim military rulers promptly declared full legislative authority, triggering fresh chaos and confusion about the country's leadership.
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News Link • Economy - International
"Due To The Extreme Volatility Some Market Analysts Foresee..."
06-15-2012
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ZeroHedge
...in the coming days, OANDA fxTrade will not accept any trading activity from 6:00 AM EST until approximately 3:00 PM EST, on Sunday, June 17, 2012. OANDA believes the convergence of a major market event during off-market hours represents a potentia
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand Paul and Why He Endorsed Mitt Romney For President
06-15-2012
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Ben Swann 'Reality Check' via YouTube
Ben Swann Reality Check talks one on one with Senator Rand Paul about his endorsement of Mitt Romney for President.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Lawsuit filed in Federal Court to unbind all delegates
06-15-2012
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last chance for liberty
There is a Lawsuit filed in Federal Court to unbind all delegates It’s not over till it’s over. Please read this statement from Richard Gilbert the Lawyer who filed the lawsuit in Federal Court Monday free of charge.
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Thomas Costanzo
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Opinion • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Dollar Meltdown
Et Tu, Rand Paul?
06-14-2012
Charles Goyette
Twice I was asked to host a Rand Paul Moneybomb, one time on his father's birthday. Out of respect for Ron Paul, I agreed. Once. But by the time the next opportunity came around a few weeks later, I declined.
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News Link • Archaeology
Birds Crushed Giant Insects
06-15-2012
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arclein
"Maximum insect size does track oxygen surprisingly well as it goes up and down for about 200 million years," Clapham said. "Then right around the end of the Jurassic and beginning of the Cretaceous period, about 150 million years ago, all of a su
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Mammoth Extinction Event
06-15-2012
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arclein
"With the mammoths, it was just a story of this almost continuous litany of challenges that they faced in terms of changing climate, huge changes in habitat and then the spread of humans and potentially human predation to new areas."
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Coal's Rapid Decline and Pending Demise
06-15-2012
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arclein
Utilities are aggressively ditching coal in favor of natural gas, which has become cheaper as supplies grow. Natural gas has other advantages over coal: It produces far fewer emissions of toxic chemicals and gases that contribute to climate change, k
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Colitis Genesis Clarified
06-15-2012
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arclein
“This is the first plausible mechanism showing step-by-step how Western-style diets contribute to the rapid and ongoing increase in the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease,” said study author Eugene B. Chang, MD, PhD, the Martin Boyer Professor o
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robert klein
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News Link • Currencies
Hugo Price and Max Keiser can save Greece
06-15-2012
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Max Keiser and Hugo Price
What can save Greece? Max Keiser and Hugo Price argue that a return to a silver drachma is one solution along with the firing of central bankers who continue to make the financial crisis worse.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Chaos in Egypt
06-15-2012
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CNN
Egypt's highest court declared the parliament invalid Thursday, and the country's interim military rulers promptly declared full legislative authority, triggering fresh chaos and confusion about the country's leadership.
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Economy - International
Osborne unveils £140bn scheme to kick-start stagnant economy
06-15-2012
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The Telegraph
The Bank of England is to offer money to high-street banks to kick-start mortgage and small business lending to prevent loans being rationed for many families and entrepreneurs, the Chancellor announced.
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • China
Heaven Help Us If The Rest Of China Crashes As Hard As Wenzhou
06-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Bloomberg
Jiang Xiangsong has 18 days to pay a 2 million yuan ($314,000) bank debt or his suitcase company in eastern China will go bankrupt.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
THIS USED TO BE THE 10TH RICHEST SHOPPING STREET IN THE WORLD"Now Look At It
06-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
In 2007, the real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield said that Ermou Street in Athens was the 10th most expensive shopping street in the entire world.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China Is Desperately Reinflating The Real Estate Bubble
06-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Also Sprach Analys
Chinese government has been, for years, telling everyone that they are serious in trying to curb home prices
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News Link • Energy
CHART OF THE DAY: This Chart Destroys The Idea Of Peak Oil
06-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
For 61 years, BP's annual Statistical Energy Review has been one of the most closely watched studies in the industry.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
The Two Biggest Surprises From My First 24 Hours In Greece
06-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
I've been on the ground here in Athens for about 24 hours, and at this point I have two surprise observations related to the situation Greece finds itself in.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Italy Trembles On The Brink Of The Impossible
06-15-2012
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businessinsider.com, Wolf Richter, Testosterone Pi
I believe, no,” is how Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti answered the question if Italy would seek a bailout..
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
MARKETS WHIPSAW AFTER COORDINATED CENTRAL BANK ACTION RUMORS
06-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Simone Foxman
Markets are shooting higher after rumors from G20 sources that central banks are planning for coordinated liquidity measures, according to Reuters.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Tiger Woods Looks Rock Solid While Bubba And Phil Crumble At The US Open
06-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Tony Manfred
Tiger played beautifully, and sits three back of the leader at -1.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How to Help
Here's How You Can Back Up Your Entire Facebook To Your Computer
06-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kevin Smith
Your Facebook holds a lot of personal information.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Now They've Invented Laser-Guided Bullets So Snipers Can Kill You From 2 Miles Away
06-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, The Economist
MILITARY snipers are competitive types. There is an ongoing and grisly contest between them to see who can kill an enemy soldier from the farthest distance away.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Central Banks Promise To Save World On Monday If Greece Elects A Crazy Person This Weekend
06-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Central banks from major economies stand ready to take steps to stabilize financial markets by providing liquidity and preventing a credit squeeze if the outcome of Greek elections on Sunday causes tumultuous trading, G20 officials told Reuters.
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News Link • History
Unreal Photos From Shackleton's 1915 Antarctic Expedition
06-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
Beginning on August 8, 1914, Englishman Sir Ernest Shackleton led a crew of 27 men on the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration in an attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
I Just Saw The Most Feared Man In All Of Europe
06-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
It's no exaggeration to say that Alexis Tsipras, the head of the left-wing SYRIZA party in Greece, is the most feared man right now in all of Europe.
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News Link • World News
Chavez reveals Venezuela has built first drone
06-15-2012
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com
President Hugo Chavez has revealed that Venezuela has made its first drone in partnership with Iran, Russia and China, and said Caracas plans to start exporting it soon.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
The Crazy DIY Spaceflight Project That Just Might Work
06-14-2012
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Dave Mosher via WIRED.com
In May 2008, two men climbed into a 40-ton submarine docked at an abandoned Copenhagen shipyard. One of the men had built the 58-foot-long sub in his spare time, and inside they chatted about the future. It involved rockets " big rockets.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable
06-14-2012
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Kyle Wiens via WIRED.com
This week, Apple delivered the highly anticipated MacBook Pro with Retina Display " and the tech world is buzzing. I took one apart yesterday because I run iFixit, a team responsible for high-resolution teardowns of new products and DIY repair guides
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernie Sanders releases explosive bailout list
06-14-2012
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Reader Supported News
"This report reveals the inherent conflicts of interest that exist at the Federal Reserve. At a time when small businesses could not get affordable loans to create jobs, the Fed was providing trillions in secret loans to some of the largest banks an
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • United Nations
Agenda 21: How Will It Affect You?
06-14-2012
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Farm Wars
A clean environment is important, but while the rhetoric took one route, the agenda took another. Explore this topic and discover how Agenda 21 will affect you.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A Silver Dime Card is an Alternative Currency (HISTORY)
06-14-2012
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wiki.mises.org
Wallet Voting began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010[1] to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for Austrian School concepts such as...
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News Link • Obama Administration
Executive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness
06-14-2012
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www.whitehouse.gov
Sec. 102. Policy. The United States must have an industrial and technological base capable of meeting national defense requirements and capable of contributing to the technological superiority of its national defense equipment in peacetime and in t
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Is Commerce Decent? by Tibor Machan
06-14-2012
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www.thedailybell.com
It is not a waste of time to revisit the topic of business bashing, especially in light of President Obama's current attacks on wealth creation. He says he prefers job creation, as if the latter were possible without the former.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • European Union
I Just Got A Ride To My Hotel In Athens, And BOY Was It Depressing
06-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
After about 20 hours of door-to-door traveling from New York, I've finally arrived at my hotel in Athens, which is about two blocks away from Syntagma Square, the square in the center of the city where you see all the protesting.
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Peter Thiel Is Paying These 20 Entrepreneurs Who Can't Even Drink Yet $100,000 To Drop Out...
06-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matt Lynley
Every now and then, you'll find a brilliant entrepreneur under the age of 20 that has, say, already created nuclear fusion.
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News Link • Housing
5 Compelling Reasons To Flee The Market And Rent Instead
06-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Emily Co
Rent is higher than ever and rising in many cities. In fact, recent data released by Trulia revealed that rents in May have increased by six percent year over year.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Mandated defense cuts could lead to war, top US military official says [with tongue in cheek?]
06-13-2012
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FoxNews.com
The top U.S. military official suggested Wednesday that scheduled Pentagon budget cuts could lead to war. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified before a Senate committee Wednesday alongside Defense Secretary Leon Panet
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The US Wastes Tons Of Money Keeping Harmless Old People In Jail
06-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
States could save taxpayers more than $66,000 per year each time they released one of the 246,600 elderly prisoners nationwide, according to a new ACLU report.
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News Link • General Opinion
These Are The 15 Most Peaceful Nations In The World
06-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Samuel Blackstone
Yesterday, the Institute for Economics and Peace released their annual Global Peace Index (GPI), ranking 158 nations based on their levels of peacefulness.
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News Link • Syria
The Drumbeat For An International War In Syria Is Building
06-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Dan Murphy
Yesterday afternoon CNN aired a series of heartbreaking images from Syria: Gruesome close-ups of toddlers alleged to have been killed by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
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News Link • Drug War
U.S. targets landlords in fight against medical pot
06-14-2012
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Reuters
Federal prosecutors are targeting medical marijuana shops in California, seeking forfeiture of the properties in which they do business.
The authorities are pressuring landlords to shut down the shops or face possible loss of the real estate throu
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosures up for first time in 27 months
06-14-2012
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Reuters
Foreclosure starts rose year-over-year in May for the first time in more than two years as banks resumed dealing with distressed properties after a mortgage abuse settlement earlier this year, data firm RealtyTrac said on Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • European Union
It starts: the government’s plan to steal your money.
06-14-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com, Simon Black
There are consequences to investing any level of confidence in a financial system underpinned by debt and the creation of paper currency.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul Festival is on - Tampa, FL - Aug 24-26 - Florida State Fairgrounds
06-14-2012
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communities.washingtontimes.com
Paul Festival will be three days of music, entertainment and activism featuring nationally-known musicians, comedians and other entertainers.
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News Link • European Union
The Chinese are getting out of Europe
06-14-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com
Last week we reported that European hedge fund managers were liquidating their European assets to reduce exposure. Now it appears that the lend-happy Chinese will be doing the same.
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News Link • Police State
U.S. military preparing for a war at home
06-14-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com
One of the greatest indictments to the idea of putting a physical fence along the U.S. border was that not only could it keep trespassers out, but it could also keep citizens in.
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News Link • History
Mission Accomplished.
06-14-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com, Simon Black
The concept of what we know today as “America” was alive and well in Venice during the Middle Ages; Venice was a place where, with guts, hard work, and a little bit of luck, you could become very wealthy and live the Venetian Dream.
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News Link • Syria
The Hubris of Meddling in Syria: Exporting Wahabism From Kabul to Damascus
06-14-2012
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http://www.antiwar.com, John Glaser
The status quo in Syria is that the rebel insurgency and the Assad regime continue to clash
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News Link • Military
The Ultimate No-Fly List
06-14-2012
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antiwar.com, Peter Van Buren and Tom Engelhardt
Last week, touching down in India on his way to Afghanistan, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta described reality as you seldom hear it in the confines of Washington
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News Link • History
Revolt in the Ranks
06-14-2012
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www.theamericanconservative.com, Chris Bray
Dissent in the armed forces is a patriotic tradition.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's drone wars and the normalisation of extrajudicial murder
06-14-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Michael Boyle
Executive privilege has seduced the president into a reckless 'kill first, ask questions later' policy that explodes the US constitution.
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Game of drones
06-14-2012
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http://washingtonexaminer.com, Gene Healy
Last week, in its report on the 2013 Defense Authorization bill, the Senate Armed Services Committee called for allowing drones to operate "freely and routinely" in U.S. airspace.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai Demands Full Halt to US Airstrikes on Civilian Homes
06-14-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
US Downplays Significance, Insists Civilian Deaths 'Rare'
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