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Date Sent: 2011-05-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, May 17, 2011 PM edition |
Pakistan protests bombing their Army post -- As US Military Exits Iraq, Mercenaries Enter
“Silver Price: The Least You Should Worry About” -- John Gibler - "U.S. Drug Demand Destabilizes Mexico" / Mish Shedlock - China & U.S. Debt
-- The Milk Police -- The Predator State Attacks Google – French
Neo-Colonialism Now Destabilizing Western Africa -- EU Dims Without
Strauss-Kahn? -- Individualism Isn't Ridiculous -- Raising the Roof on
Debt -- 'Sovereign citizen’ anti-government movement on the rise --
Local Grain Storage Bins Being GPSed -- San Francisco man becomes first
in history to be ‘cured’ of AIDS -- NATO helicopter attacks Pakistani
army post -- Israeli Navy Attacks Gaza-Bound Aid Ship -- NATO airstrikes pound Tripoli targets -- WikiLeaks cables show that it was all about the oil
-- Libyan oil minister Shokri Ghanem 'defects' -- New York Investigates
Banks’ Role in Financial Crisis -- John Gibler - "U.S. Drug Demand
Destabilizes Mexico" / Mish Shedlock - China & U.S. Debt -- Supporters credit Bradley Manning for helping spark Tunisia revolt -- Senate Democrats call for probe into suspected gas price fixing scam -- Police State: Cops Pull You Over And Take Your Cash -- TSA Responds To Texas: Resistance is Futile -- NATO Bombs Building Containing Files On Corruption of Libyan Rebel Leaders
-- The Gold Rush: Conservative Economists and States Push for Gold
Standard -- FCC Chairman sold out to become head of NBC Universal -- 10 ways 'the police state' tracks you: Predicting Your Every Move -- 10 Indications The United States Is A Dictatorship
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News Link • WAR: About that War
NATO helicopter attacks Pakistani army post
05-17-2011
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http://news.yahoo.com/
Pakistani troops and a NATO helicopter that crossed into Pakistani territory exchanged fire on Tuesday, wounding two soldiers, local officials said, and Pakistan protested, further straining relations with the West following the U.S. raid that killed
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
As U.S. Military Exits Iraq, Contractors To Enter
05-17-2011
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Tom Bowmanl. NPR
On the ground, it's the same story. American soldiers and Marines will leave. Those replacing them, right down to carrying assault weapons, will come from places with names like Aegis Defence Services and Global Strategies Group " eight companies in
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Government
The Milk Police
05-17-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
On April 20th, after a year-long undercover sting operation, armed federal agents acting on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raided the business of Pennsylvanian Amish farmer Dan Allgyer to prevent him from selling his unpasteurized m
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
The Predator State Attacks Google " For Big Pharma
05-17-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
The American pharmaceutical system is a highly controlled apparatus for restricting access to much-needed drugs and violating the rights of those who want to purchase them. This has long been true.
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News Link • World News
French Neo-Colonialism Now Destabilizing Western Africa
05-17-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Powerful elements in la Cote d'Ivoire are accusing President J.E.A Mills of shielding pro-Gbagbo dissidents and alleged war criminals still bent on overthrowing the new Ouattara government, the New Statesman reports.
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News Link • World News
EU Dims Without Strauss-Kahn?
05-17-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was shortly expected to leave the IMF anyway to fight for the French presidency, which very probably he would have won.
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News Link • Government
US government seizes pension funds, invades Pakistan
05-17-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
There are certain times in life when a man is faced with overwhelming adversity… times when he has no reason to adhere to society’s norms anymore. It is in these instances that the true quality of his character comes shining through.
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News Link • Positive News
Individualism Isn't Ridiculous
05-17-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Some critics of individualism propose an alternative social philosophy and defend it so it is then possible to compare their case to the individualist position.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Raising the Roof on Debt
05-17-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Today the U.S. government officially borrowed beyond its $14.29 trillion statutory debt limit. And even though the Obama administration has assured us that accounting gimmickry will allow the government to borrow for another few months....
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
'Sovereign citizen’ anti-government movement on the rise
05-17-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
CBS correspondent Byron Pitts reported on a group of Americans calling themselves “sovereign citizens” who don’t pay taxes, carry a driver’s license or hold a Social Security card.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
San Francisco man becomes first in history to be ‘cured’ of AIDS
05-17-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Timothy Ray Brown, a 45-year-old San Francisco man previously known to the medical community as “the Berlin patient,” has become the first person to ever be cured of AIDS.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Israeli Navy Attacks Gaza-Bound Aid Ship
05-17-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
The Israeli Navy attacked the MV Finch, an aid vessel bound for the Gaza Strip today, preventing the vessel from delivering a supply of plastic sewage pipes to the besieged enclave and forcing it to flee to Egypt.
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News Link • Conspiracies
WikiLeaks cables show that it was all about the oil
05-17-2011
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/
In 2006, three years after the Russian government had charged Mikhail Khodorkovsky " then the country's wealthiest businessman " with fraud and moved to break up his Yukos oil company, U.S. diplomats had had enough.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Mitt Romney’s money machine cranks up
05-17-2011
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http://www.politico.com/
LAS VEGAS " Mitt Romney, usually cautious and measured in describing his nascent campaign, allowed himself a minor indulgence in describing to reporters the fundraising call-a-thon that netted his presidential bid $10.25 million here Monday.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
New York Investigates Banks’ Role in Financial Crisis
05-17-2011
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http://www.nytimes.com/
The New York attorney general has requested information and documents in recent weeks from three major Wall Street banks about their mortgage securities operations during the credit boom.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
SNL: Barack Obama’s Osama bin Laden stand-up comedy act
05-17-2011
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RawStory.com
President Barack Obama performs stand-up comedy after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in the teaser of NBC’s Saturday Night Live.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Supporters credit Bradley Manning for helping spark Tunisia revolt
05-17-2011
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RawStory.com
The Bradley Manning Support Network has released a new web video trumpeting the results the Army private achieved by allegedly leaking U.S. government secrets to WikiLeaks.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Senate Democrats call for probe into suspected gas price fixing scam
05-17-2011
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RawStory.com
Democratic leaders in the Senate have sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting a probe into gas price fixing.
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News Link • Drug War
Police State: Cops Pull You Over And Take Your Cash
05-17-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Middle Tennessee Police Profiting Off Drug Trade?
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Responds To Texas: Resistance is Futile
05-17-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Agency perverts meaning of Constitutional protections in response to state’s new law against federal groping
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
While You Were Sleeping, They Abolished the Fourth Amendment
05-17-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Debate Over: The United States has official entered the annuls of history as a Soviet-style police state
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News Link • NATO
NATO Bombs Building Containing Files On Corruption of Libyan Rebel Leaders
05-17-2011
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prisonplanet.com
A security services building and the headquarters of Libya’s anti-corruption agency were on fire in the capital Tripoli early on Tuesday after apparently being hit by NATO air strikes.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday May 17th, 2011
05-17-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Sex, the Power Elite, and Funny Money - Eric Margolis on what's really going on. / How To Think About War - If you are a libertarian. Article by Murray Rothbard. /
A Bad Day for the New World Order - Pat Buchanan on the IMF and Ron Paul.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Gold Rush: Conservative Economists and States Push for Gold Standard
05-17-2011
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ABC News
South Carolina became the newest state to propose a bill that would make gold and silver coins a form of legal tender in the state. Utah started the trend. More than a dozen other states are considering similar moves.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - International
7,000 European McDonald's To Ditch Human Cashiers: Go Cashless
05-17-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The fast-food restaurant, known for its golden arches, Big Mac burgers and Happy Meals, will replace cashiers with touch-screen terminals and swipe cards at its 7,000 chain restaurants in Europe, according to the Financial Times.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Karl Denninger: What's Left Of The Constitution?
05-17-2011
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Market-ticker.org
Fiorino, 25, decided to walk to an AutoZone on Frankford Avenue in Northeast Philly with the .40-caliber Glock he legally owns holstered in plain view on his left hip. His stroll ended when someone called out from behind: "Yo, Junior, what are you...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
4th Amendment Disappearing: Supreme Court affirms police action
05-17-2011
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washingtonpost.com/
The court ruled 8 to 1 that Kentucky police who smelled marijuana at an apartment door, knocked loudly and announced themselves, and then kicked in the door when they thought the drugs were being destroyed did nothing wrong.
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic
05-17-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
Cornel West describes Obama as “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats. And now he has become head of the American killing machine and is proud of it.”
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News Link • Housing
Housing Starts Fall Over 10 Percent: Houses Under Construction At New Record Low
05-17-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
And the most interesting number was the number of houses under construction, which hit a fresh all time low on an annual, seasonally adjusted basis, or 418k.
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News Link • Surveillance
A Conflict Without End
05-16-2011
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New York Times
Republicans want to authorize the military to pursue virtually anyone suspected of terrorism, anywhere on earth, from now to the end of time. New bill allows the president to detain “belligerents” until the “termination of hostilities,” presumably at
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Marriage
Arnold Schwarzenegger Had Secret Love Child With Member Of Household Staff
05-17-2011
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LAtimes.com
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, separated after she learned he had fathered a child more than a decade ago " before his first run for office " with a longtime member of their household staff.
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News Link • Surveillance
10 ways 'the police state' tracks you: Predicting Your Every Move
05-17-2011
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times-standard.com/business
All of this is leading to Predictive Behavior Technology -- It is not enough to have logged and charted where we have been; the surveillance state wants to know where we are going through psychological profiling.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
10 Indications The United States Is A Dictatorship
05-17-2011
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ActivistPost.com/
3. Checkpoints: The slow acclimation of the populace to military-style checkpoints began first as border control operations up to 100 miles inland in what the ACLU calls the Constitution Free Zone. However, this has rather quickly morphed...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
US Living in Disney-Like Debt Bubble
05-17-2011
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CNBC.com
While its housing market collapses, the US lives in a Disney-like bubble on debt, according to Neil Dwane, the CIO of Investment management group RCM.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Propaganda
Paul Craig Roberts: Creating the bin Laden Reality
05-17-2011
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LewRockwell.com
The government has created another reality for us proles. We won again. Us white hats got the black hat, just like in the western movie. Fantasy is better than fact, and us good guys are on a roll. It makes everybody happy...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Indiana Supreme Court Dispenses With Magna Carta, Constitution
05-17-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Wait. Full stop. A citizen has no right to resist unlawful entry by police officers on his private property? Apparently we’re all supposed to lay down like two-toed tree sloths while these jackbooted monkeys turn private property into yet another...
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