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Date Sent: 2011-03-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, March 11, 2011 PM edition |
Senate panel approves Patriot Act extensions -- Japan Declares Nuclear Reactor Emergency
DHS Conducts ‘Drive-by’ Surveillance. What’s Next? -- Lessons from Argentina’s crash -- Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society": A Free Market Critique -- Why Not a Global Currency? -- Ron Paul: The Country Is Bankrupt and Congress Won’t Admit It --
Are The Prophets Of Doom Right About Major War -- Student Survives
Jump From Golden Gate Bridge -- Charlie Sheen Files $100 Million
Lawsuit Against Warner Bros., Chuck Lorre -- Illinois Governor Signs Amazon Internet Sales Tax Law -- Man in Tokyo office building captures moment of quake (Warning: Foul Language) -- Sen. Sanders introduces millionaire surtax to slash deficit
-- Is Glenn Beck Getting Fired? -- Video: Ron Paul on America's
Newsroom 3/10/11 -- Mother Jones Interview with Ron Paul - Hemp Hemp
Hooray! -- Video: Rand Paul EPIC rant at Energy Committee Hearing: "You restrict my choices!" -- CNN: Banks To Limit Debit Card Purchases At 50 - 100 Dollars -- Ron Paul floor speech on Libya: "A no-fly zone is an act of war!" -- Ron Paul on Glenn Beck with the Judge 3/10/11 -- Alaska: 5 arrests in alleged conspiracy to kill or kidnap judge, troopers -- Tsunami Edition of Morning Update: Retail Sales and Market Manipulation -- U.S. public prefers cuts to defense budget -- Japan: Photos From Earthquake Aftermath -- Pictures From The Earthquake And Tsunamis Across The Pacific -- Army Recruits Prisoners to Make Body Armor -- Justin Raimondo: The Return of the Witch-Hunters -- Corporate Coup d'Etat in Wisconsin
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News Link • Surveillance
Senate panel approves Patriot Act extensions
03-11-2011
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) " The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a three-year extension of three post-Sept. 11 surveillance practices but voted to end another one. The panel opposed an investigative tool, known as national security letters, that compels
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Surveillance
DHS Conducts ‘Drive-by’ Surveillance. What’s Next?
03-11-2011
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Pajamas Media
The government flouts the Fourth Amendment in the name of security.
“The system’s unique ‘drive-by’ capability allows one or two operators to conduct X-ray imaging of suspect vehicles and objects while the ZBV drives past,” says AS&E on its websit
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Homeland Security
Lessons from Argentina’s crash
03-11-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
There aren’t too many things in this world that I worry about" the way I have my life structured makes me feel confident and prepared to deal with whatever might come my way.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • American History
Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society": A Free Market Critique
03-11-2011
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dailybell.com
Fifty years separate us, now, from the 1960s. For many who are college-age students, today, it all must seem like ancient history. And even for those of us who are old enough to have lived a part of our young lives in that decade, it seems a long tim
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
Why Not a Global Currency?
03-11-2011
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dailybell.com
The time has come to make a change. The IMF can lead the way to global financial efficiency.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul: The Country Is Bankrupt and Congress Won’t Admit It
03-11-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Ron Paul predicts that the government won’t shut down next week and will keep on printing money until there is a dollar crisis.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Are The Prophets Of Doom Right About Major War
03-11-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Are The Prophets Of Doom Right About Major War, $200 Oil, $2000 Gold And Dow 5000 By The End Of 2012?
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Seriously?
Student Survives Jump From Golden Gate Bridge
03-11-2011
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www.nbcbayarea.com
A field trip that included a walk along the Golden Gate Bridge ended with a student jumping off the bridge Thursday morning.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Charlie Sheen Files $100 Million Lawsuit Against Warner Bros., Chuck Lorre
03-11-2011
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www.hollywoodreporter.com
The actor also sues on behalf of the "Two and a Half Men" cast and crew, and asks for punitive damages
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Illinois Governor Signs Amazon Internet Sales Tax Law
03-11-2011
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blogs.forbes.com
After two-months of fence-sitting, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn today signed controversial legislation requiring Internet retailers like Amazon.com and Overstock.com to collect Illinois’ 6.25% sales tax if they have affiliate sellers in the state.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Man in Tokyo office building captures moment of quake (Warning: Foul Language)
03-11-2011
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RawStory.com
As Japan reels from the massive 8.9 earthquake that struck off its east coast Friday morning, videos have begun to trickle onto the Internet showing what it was like to be there in the midst of it. Here’s one clip from inside an office building in To
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Sanders introduces millionaire surtax to slash deficit
03-11-2011
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RawStory.com
As Democrats and Republicans battle over how much spending should be cut to bridge the budget shortfall, one senator is focusing on the other side of the equation: revenues.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Is Glenn Beck Getting Fired?
03-11-2011
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dailypaul.com
Judge Andrew Napolitano is hosting the Glenn Beck show this entire week and there have been rumors that Fox will not renew Beck's contract at the end of the year.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Mother Jones Interview with Ron Paul - Hemp Hemp Hooray!
03-11-2011
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dailypaul.com
For the first time since I began writing about Paul and his movement more than three years ago, he agreed to speak with me over the phone yesterday. The occasion was his desire to talk about his support for legalizing industrial hemp.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Video: Rand Paul EPIC rant at Energy Committee Hearing: "You restrict my choices!"
03-11-2011
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dailypaul.com
Sen. Paul questions the Department of Energy's commitment to protecting consumer choice during consideration of Appliance/Light Bulb Energy-Efficiency Legislation
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CNN: Banks To Limit Debit Card Purchases At 50 - 100 Dollars
03-11-2011
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dailypaul.com
Banks To Limit Debit Card Purchases At 50 - 100 Dollars ? Yep, force everyone on to credit cards, oh wait not everyone can get credit cards..........
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul floor speech on Libya: "A no-fly zone is an act of war!"
03-11-2011
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dailypaul.com
Congressman Paul strongly cautions against military involvement in Libya, including establishing a no-fly zone.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
A Critical Battle Over The Sports Economics Model
03-11-2011
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blogs.forbes.com
A critical battle is underway challenging the very heart of the professional sports economics model " and it is not the NFL labor negotiations.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Propaganda
Alaska: 5 arrests in alleged conspiracy to kill or kidnap judge, troopers
03-11-2011
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Associated Press
Five people were arrested on warrants Thursday in the Fairbanks area in connection with alleged plans to kill or kidnap a judge and Alaska state troopers.
Federal agents arrested a man accused of threatening to kill a federal judge, U.S. Attorney
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Paul Ryan Tops the 2012 Tea Party Presidential Poll (Publisher: Paul Ryan who?)
03-11-2011
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Pajamas Media
A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds that more than half (53 percent) of those who plan to vote in the Republican presidential primaries are self-described Tea Party voters. The preferences of Tea Party voters will therefore have a great influ
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tsunami Edition of Morning Update: Retail Sales and Market Manipulation
03-11-2011
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EconomicEdge.blogspot.com/
My thoughts on the market are admittedly turning dark. I no longer value technical analysis because I know how subverted the markets have become with the “Fed” and large banks directly playing with them " they ARE the markets...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
The stark difference between the medical terms clinical and comparative!
03-11-2011
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The Political Commentator
I was forwarded an op-ed that was written by Peter Pitts, President of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, and published in the Washington Examiner.
In the piece he discusses "how federally sponsored comparative-effectiveness research
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scalable Graphene Production
03-11-2011
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arclein
As explained in a recently published study, a Penn research team was able to create high-quality graphene that is just a single atom thick over 95% of its area, using readily available materials and manufacturing processes that can be scaled up to in
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nature of End of Life Death Spiral Revealed
03-11-2011
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arclein
The scientists found that the basic cause of age-related health decline is malfunctioning telomeres " the end caps on cells’ chromosomes that protect them against DNA damage. As cells reach their predetermined limit of times that they can divide, the
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robert klein
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News Link • Precious Metals
Glencore
03-11-2011
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arclein
Sometime in the coming weeks, Glencore is likely to announce its Initial Public Offering. The firm currently operates as a privately held partnership, with staff sharing the profits according to a performance-based incentives scheme. Sources familiar
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Cuban Atlantean Bronze Age Evidence
03-11-2011
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arclein
While many may find the concept of sunken lands a trifle disturbing (or as an old college instructor of mine would say, when questioned about Atlantis, "continents made of granite don't sink into tectonic plates made of basalt"), the need to expla
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robert klein
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
U.S. public prefers cuts to defense budget
03-10-2011
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Allvoices
A Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that 51 per cent of Americans prefer cutting defense spending to reduce the deficit. Only 28 per cent supported cuts fo Medicare and Medicaid. Even less 18 per cent supported cuts to Social Security.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - International
Japan: Photos From Earthquake Aftermath
03-11-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Below are pictures summarizing just how dramatically the earthquake and following tsunami have impacted Japan.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Pictures From The Earthquake And Tsunamis Across The Pacific
03-11-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The 8.8 quake hit off the coast of Japan at 2:46 PM, followed by multiple smaller quakes. Now there are tsunami warnings as far as California.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Army Recruits Prisoners to Make Body Armor
03-10-2011
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Noah Shachtman, Wired
Building parts for Patriot missile systems was just a warm-up for a government-owned company that relies on prisoners making as little as 23 cents an hour. The U.S. Army announced that it handed Federal Prison Industries a no-bid, nearly $20 million
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Housing
Real Estate Assets Off $6.3 Trillion From Peak: Home Equity Falls From 60% to 38.5%
03-11-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The Fed estimated that the value of household real estate fell $260 billion to $16.37 trillion in Q4 2010. The value of household real estate has fallen $6.3 trillion from the peak - and is still falling in 2011.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Shear Genius: Arizona overbuilt during housing boom
03-11-2011
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AZcentral.com
Results from the 2010 census, released Thursday, show for the first time just how overbuilt the state's housing market became and which parts of the Valley were affected the most.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • NeoCons
Justin Raimondo: The Return of the Witch-Hunters
03-11-2011
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AntiWar.com
The new Enemy: Muslims. The Fifth Column: the many Muslim organizations, and the several thousand mosques in the US, along with the entire Muslim-American population. The witch-hunt was back on, and there was more money in it than ever.
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Jack Gregson
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