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Date Sent: 2010-05-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Covert US ops authorized in secret order -- ECB and The Fed Attempting to Crash the Markets

G. Edward Griffin: "What in the World are They Spraying?" -- Environmentalists’ $100,000 Bail for Civil Disobedience -- Drug Agents Seize Pot Legalization Petitions -- Obama administration backs Vatican in pedophile case -- Phoenix considers property tax hike - because the $ale$ tax increa$e i$n't enough -- US air strike kills Yemen mediator -- Miami Company Creates "Gringo Masks" for Illegals -- Climate Fears Turn to Doubts Among Britons -- Gold & silver prices get all the ink,...but is copper a better gauge of what is going on? -- How Low Will Silver Go? -- Private pay shrinks to historic lows: Government-Provided Benefits Soar

News Link • WAR: About that War
Covert U.S. operations authorized in secret order
05-25-2010 • Reuters
A senior U.S. military commander issued a secret order last year that laid the ground for an escalation of covert operations across the Middle East and the Horn Africa. Issued by General David Petraeus, authorized boosting military and intelligence a Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Conspiracies
Evidence Mounts: ECB and Federal Reserve Attempting to Crash the Markets
05-25-2010 • EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Thus, you have to wonder what is going. The Keynesians that are in control sure don't want this stock market or economy strong. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

Opinion  • Racism
In Defense of Bigots
05-25-2010
Larken Rose
   Those who shout about "tolerance" most often are the LEAST tolerant people around.
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News Link • Housing
Demographic Hell Awaits Housings True Believers
05-25-2010 • Businessinsider.com/
There are 80 million baby boomers retiring at the rate of 10,000 a day. Assuming that they downsize over time from an average 2,500 sq ft. home to a 1,000 sq. ft. condo, and eventually to a 100 sq. ft. assisted living facility, the total shrinkage... Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
24 Predictions For The Rest Of 2010
05-25-2010 • Rense.com
July and onward things get very strange. Revolution. Dollar dead by November 2010. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Conspiracies
G. Edward Griffin: "What in the World are They Spraying?" - Official Trailer
05-25-2010 • YouTube.com
G. Edward Griffin has signed on to work with the producers of a very scary movie about the conspiracy to spray the planet with materials which will not allow organic plants to grow. The build up of theses materials appear to reduce crop yields. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Politics
Barack Obama: Inaction as a Form of Governance
5-25-2010 • Jay Batman
After a year and a half of the Obama Administration, we may safely say certain things about the Obama way of governing. At the forefront of the Obama approach to any problem is the printing of money accompanied by a laissez-faire approach to the syst Read Full Story
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Reported by: Rich Hilts

News Link • Environment
This Is How Educated Elitists Handle Emergencies
5/25/2010 • Freedoms Wings
This morning has been a real education as I followed Carol Browner, Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy (Climate Czar), through her morning interviews this morning on both CNN and Fox News. My conclusion on how the Read Full Story
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Reported by: Rich Hilts

Feature Article  • Economy - Economics USA
US Debt Crisis the Result of Bad Behavior
Bill Bonner
   Today, the euro. Tomorrow, the dollar. The euro is taking a beating. Investors are worried that it won’t survive Europe’s debt problems.
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Opinion  • Environment
CONNECTING THE DOTS
PART 23: OVERPOPULATION IN 21ST CENTURY AMERICA�"EUROPEAN MODEL
05-25-2010
Frosty Wooldridge
   Today, 1,000 Indian children under 12 die every day of diarrhea, dysentery and other water borne diseases. That goes on year after year as they add 12-15 million people to their country net gain annually.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Environmentalists’ $100,000 Bail for Civil Disobedience
05-25-2010 • Green is the New Red
There is a bail reduction hearing this morning for two environmental activists who protested mountain-top removal coal mining and had their bail set at $100,000. EmmaKate Martin and Benjamin Bryant took part in non-violent civil disobedience to bl Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Bill of Rights
Drug Agents Seize Pot Legalization Petitions
05-25-2010 • Toke of the Town
Marijuana advocacy group Sensible Washington learned that a dozen signed copies of the marijuana legalization initiative for Washington State of which it is the sponsor, were seized last week by the federally-funded WestNET drug task force. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - May 25th 2010
05-25-2010 • LewRockwell.com
Nations Will Print Money, Go Bust, Go to War…We're Doomed - Nullifying Tyranny - Coercive Edicts Can't Solve Social Problems - Harry Browne on civil rights and the growth of government - Gun Control Insanity - The Big Gold Rally Beckons Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

Feature Article  • Casey Research Articles
Why Google Should Subscribe to Casey Research
Marin Katusa
   What do search engines and wind energy have in common? That’s the question a lot of investors were asking earlier this month, when Google made an almost US$40 million investment into NextEra Energy Resources, a North Dakota wind energy firm. The simp
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Obama administration backs Vatican in pedophile case
05-25-2010 • AFP
The Obama administration in a brief to the Supreme Court has backed the Vatican's claim of immunity from lawsuits arising from cases of sexual abuse by priests in the United States. The Supreme Court is considering an appeal by the Vatican of an appe Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix considers property tax hike - because the $ale$ tax increa$e i$n't enough
05-25-2010 • Arizona Republic
For the first time in 14 years, Phoenix leaders are expected to approve a property-tax hike to help pay the city's $150 million annual projected debt. The City Council today will likely sign off on a proposal to raise the primary property-tax levy 2% Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
US air strike kills Yemen mediator
05-25-2010 • Reuters
An air strike in Yemen targeting al Qaeda missed its mark and killed a mediator by mistake, prompting members of his tribe to blow up a crude oil pipeline in clashes that followed. Separately, a Yemeni government official said a U.S. couple, taken ho Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Immigration
Miami Company Creates "Gringo Masks" for Illegals
05-25-2010 • nbcmiami.com via DrudgeReport.com
"The product is simple. Choose from a cut out of a blue-eyed, sandy hair-colored white guy or a green-eyed, blond haired white woman." Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ed Vallejo

News Link • Economy - International
4 More Spanish Savings Banks"Merging" As Spanish Economy Unravels
05-25-2010 • ZeroHedge.com
Four new Spanish savings banks are considering a "cold fusion" which is another name for future bailout of one instead of four. The four banks are CajaMurcia, CajaGranada, Sa Nostra, Caixa Penedes and their assets amount to over €100 billion. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Going Broke: ZIRP and the Imploding Speculative Economy
05-25-2010 • OfTwoMinds.com/blog
The grand experiment of the State controlling the private economy has failed. The grand experiment was to eliminate capitalism (risk, loss, destruction of wealth via competition) from "Capitalism" and thus banish competitors to the Plutocratic Elites Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Economy - International
Debt-crisis explained through tearful laughter
05-25-2010 • YouTube via Boing Boing
Australia's brilliant political satire team of Clarke and Dawe do a great job here in exposing the fundamental and terrifying ridiculousness of the Euro debt-crisis and the world's teetering economic state. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Brock Lorber

News Link • Environment
Climate Fears Turn to Doubts Among Britons
05-25-2010 • New York Times
...environmental activists crammed into an auditorium here to ponder an anguished question: If the scientific consensus on climate change has not changed, why have so many people turned away from the idea that human activity is warming the planet? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Propaganda
Laughable Propaganda: Consumer Confidence Highest in More Than 2 Years
05-25-2010 • CNBC.com
U.S. consumer confidence rose for the third straight month in May to the highest in more than two years as concerns about the labor market continued to ease, according to a private sector report released Tuesday. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold & silver prices get all the ink,...but is copper a better gauge of what is going on?
05-25-2010 • moneycentral.msn.com
Whereas gold is seen as a store of value and a hedge against economic Armageddon, what some call "Dr. Copper" is said to be the metal with a Ph.D. in economics for its ability to presage the future of the global economy. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chip Saunders

Feature Article  • Precious Metals
How Low Will Silver Go?
Jeff Clark
   We released our 2010 Silver Buying Guide last week and the silver price promptly cratered. So does this change our view of gold’s shiny cousin? Hardly.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Private pay shrinks to historic lows: Government-Provided Benefits Soar
05-25-2010 • usatoday.com/money
The trend is not sustainable, says University of Michigan economist Donald Grimes. Reason: The federal government depends on private wages to generate income taxes to pay for its ever-more-expensive programs. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Housing
Case-Shiller Index: Six Consecutive Months Of Unadjusted Housing Declines
05-25-2010 • ZeroHedge.com
March Case-Shiller data has been released: the seasonally-unadjusted Case-Shiller index has now declined for 6 straight months after peaking at 146.7 in September of 2009, for the composite 20 index, and is now back to a level last seen in June... Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Military
Preparing For War: US expands secret military missions
05-25-2010 • RawStory.com
Defense officials also told the newspaper that the secret order, approved in September by top US commander General David Petraeus, permits reconnaissance ahead of possible military action in Iran if high tensions over its nuclear program... Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Corruption
10 Most Corrupt US Capitalists
05-25-2010 • Ritholtz.com
Whatever rationales Rubin’s conscious mind may have made about his role in the collapse, his subconscious knows better. And while no one else seems to be doing this, his subconscious is in the process of kicking his own ass. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
One Slice Of Commercial Real Estate Signals The Upcoming Slaughter
05-25-2010 • Businessinsider.com/
Apartment building loans are experiencing soaring default rates, in what could be a signal of things to come for the broader commercial real estate sector. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Obama Administration
BP Oil Gusher Going From Bad to Worse: Has Drill Casing Worn Thru?
05-25-2010 • businessinsider.com/
Yet-to-be-confirmed rumors are that the casing wall has finally worn through, about 300 feet below seabed, at an annulus (coupling), and the gas and oil are now finding a new way out to the seabed. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

Opinion  • Environment
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Part 3: The Next Added 100 Million Americans--Our Human Predicament
05-25-2010
Frosty Wooldridge
   “Pressures resulting from unrestrained population growth put demands on the natural world that can overwhelm any efforts to achieve a sustainable future. If we are to halt the destruction of our environment, we must accept limits to that growth.”
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Opinion  • Immigration
CONNECTING THE DOTS
SURRENDERING OUR COUNTRY: CALDERON’S INSULT AND CONTEMPT OF AMERICA
05-25-2010
Frosty Wooldridge
   Would you allow a bunch of strangers into your house just because they walked in unannounced? How about allowing them to use your refrigerator so they can help themselves to a better life? Drive your car?
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama to snatch up to 75% of your income - feds could confiscate more than half of everything earned
05/25/2010 • godlikeproductions.com
If President Obama repeals the Bush tax cuts and imposes a 20 percent value added tax, or VAT, on the U.S., Americans may be facing tax rates where more than half of everything earned is confiscated by the federal government in the form of income tax Read Full Story
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Reported by: Phennommennonn GLP

News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Brain's Operating System
05-25-2010 • arclein
Unlike computers, however, the human brain doesn’t crash. Yes, people have nervous breakdowns, but that has more to do with psychological stress than with data management Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Science
General Ocean Warming Confirmed
05-25-2010 • arclein
Combining multiple estimates of heat in the upper ocean - from the surface to about 610 meters (2,000 feet) down - the team found a strong multi-year warming trend throughout the world's ocean. Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Taking Back the Money Power
05-25-2010 • arclein
To avoid those unpredictable contingencies, municipal governments will keep a cushion of from 20% to 75% more than their budgets actually require. This money is invested, but not necessarily lucratively. One finance officer, for example, said that Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Climate Change
Arctic Sea Ice Decline Ahead of Record
05-25-2010 • arclein
We are going to lose the summer sea-ice cover. We can't go back.” In April, the centre published data showing that sea ice had almost recovered to the 20-year average. That ignited a flurry of interest on climate change skeptic blogs. But much o Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

Opinion  • Environment
Obama's Gulf Commission: Distortion, Obstruction and Whitewash Assured
May 26, 2010
Stephen Lendman
   Responsible government response, not another commission is needed
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News Link • Conspiracies
Barack Obama’s La Raza Ties
5/9/10 • Right Wing News
It turns out that El Presidente Obarrio "walks the walk" with the La Raza separatists. And from Michelle, "15 things you should know about 'The Race'": Read Full Story
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Reported by: Anonymous Watchman

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