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Date Sent: 2010-06-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, June 5, 2010 |
Black Friday: Stock Markets Tumbling -- Buffett Expects 'Terrible Problem' for Municipal Debt
Falcon 9 Private Space Rocket Successfully Launched (1st Video) -- Obama's Surge in State Terror -- Where are the deficit hawks who want to trim defense spending? -- Army Plans $100 Million Special Ops HQ in Afghanistan -- Secretive Bilderberg Club ready for protests -- Private Sector Hiring Is Non-Existent, Stocks Tanking -- To Double Spud Production -- Euro Falls Hard: Everyone Freaks Out About Hungary And SocGen -- Fresh Signs That Housing Is Already Double Dipping -- Oil and Florida Tourism
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club today on Afghanistan and war; SB1070 Protest
at capital this afternoon; Liberty on the Rocks Arrowhead Monday
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Black Friday: Stock Markets Tumbling
06-04-2010
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AP
Stocks fell sharply today after the Labor Department said hiring remains weak and Hungary became the latest European country to report its economy is in crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped nearly 250 points and fell below 10,000.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Buffett Expects ‘Terrible Problem’ for Municipal Debt
06-04-2010
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Bloomberg.com
Local governments rely on the $2.8 trillion municipal bond market to raise money for construction projects and fund other budget items. The financial crisis and recession battered governments across the U.S. by cutting into tax collections...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Arizona Breakfast Club - 1st Saturday of Month - June 5th 2010
06-02-2010
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ArizonaBreakfastClub.org
Look at the time...The United States has been in Afghanistan longer than Vietnam - PhoenixRising pro/anti SB1070 events - And we'll summarize the LPUS National Convention
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
IDF: 50 flotilla passengers were Turkish mercenaries
06-04-2010
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The Jerusalem Post
The members of the mercenary group were not carrying identity cards or passports. Each of them had an envelope in his pocket with about $10,000 in cash in which the funding for the mercenaries may have come from elements within the Turkish government
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Turkey PM: Hamas is not a terrorist group
06-04-2010
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The Herald Sun - Australia
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on Friday at a rally in the Turkish province of Konya that Hamas is a resistance movement and not a terrorist group.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Flotilla protesters threw guns overboard
06-04-2010
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The Jerusalem Post
Aside from the knifes, rocks, and slingshots found in a search of the Mavi Marmara, weapons were discovered leading Israeli defense officials to believe that there may have been weapons on board along with plans to kidnap an IDF commando.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Free Speech
Legislators fight corruption by silencing their critics
06-04-2010
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The Atlasphere
In an obvious attempt to hide their thuggery behind a veneer of paternalism, author Jacob Sullum points out some members of Congress are ignoring the phrase 'Congress shall make no law' when it comes to the First Amendment.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
David Boaz: Russel Crowe's ROBIN HOOD angers progressives, gives them fits
06-04-2010
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www.cato-at-liberty.org
The movie, critics lament, is “one big medieval tea party.”
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Media: Internet
LIVE video and chat TONIGHT!!!
06-04-2010
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Gary Franchi
Gary Franchi from the Reality Report is doing a live video stream tonight. You can call in, email, twitter him questions or comments. Also, if you want to share Youtube videos for everyone to talk about, simply send in the links, he will play it, an
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Israel
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday June 4th 2010
06-04-2010
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LewRockwell.com
Lift the Siege, Pat Buchanan on Gaza -
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Future Predictions
Are the world's industrial minerals threatened with extinction? (All things are finite after all
06-04-2010
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Asimovs.com
Everyone has heard of "peak oil" doctrine,...but "peak gallium"? Or "peak copper"?
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
EEStor Grid Patent Note
06-04-2010
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arclein
The explanation in the patent of how an EESU could benefit the grid is pretty straight forward, so this is really no surprise. But it’s nice to see the company beginning to accumulate a sizable stockpile of patents to protect its IP. Despite the sile
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Hubble Catches Star's Motion
06-04-2010
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arclein
By exploiting the exquisite image quality of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and comparing two observations made ten years apart astronomers have, for the first time, managed to measure the tiny motions of several hundred young stars within the
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robert klein
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News Link • New World Order
Bilderberg See People With Income As “A Threat” To Their Agenda
06-04-2010
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PrisonPlanet.com
By carrying out their promise of a “post-industrial revolution,” allied with a “green economy” that in reality will cripple once thriving economies, they hope to make the population all but destitute to the point where their main concern...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
BP to give $10 billion in profit payouts to shareholders, despite spill
06-04-2010
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RawStory.com
BP CEO Tony Hayward has indicated that he will go ahead with massive dividend payouts to shareholders in the aftermath of the worst oil spill in US history. $10 billion in payouts are scheduled for this year.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
War on the World: Obama's Surge in State Terror
06-04-2010
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Chris-floyd.com/
That quote comes from a remarkably candid story in the Washington Post on Obama's "surge" in America's secret war on the world, which now encompasses no fewer than 75 countries.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Humor
Billboard Just Outside of Tucson
06-04-2010
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e-mail from Tony Caputo (THANKS!)
Hat tip to John Forster of Phoenix who actually suggested this very thing on May 26th in the Opinions section of the Arizona Republic! LMFAO!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Humor
Late Night Joke Dump: June 4, 2010
06-04-2010
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Mondo Frazier
This week's Friday Late Night Joke Dump: slim pickins. The best political jokes and political/social commentary is almost always late at night. Here’s some of the best from the past week.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Where are the deficit hawks who want to trim defense spending?
06-02-2010
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Cynthia Tucker, AJC
Nearly 50 years after Eisenhower famously warned Americans about the military-industrial complex, it still manages to hold its few critics at bay, to thwart the designs of budget-cutters and to exert a peculiar pull on the American popular imaginatio
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Libertarians Vote to Stay True to the Past
06-04-2010
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St. Louis Beacon via LP.org
As Missouri delegate Julie Stone of St. Louis put it: "The big bone of contention is whether the party should remain as pure or become more inclusive."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Army Plans $100 Million Special Ops HQ in Afghanistan
06-04-2010
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Noah Shachtman, Wired
The Army is looking to spend as much as $100 million to expand its Special Operations headquarters in northern Afghanistan. From Kandahar Airfield to the Bagram jail, the U.S. military is on a building spree, spending hundreds of millions of dollars
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • History
Got Chickens: Making Ends Meet in the Great Depression
06-04-2010
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NYtimes.com/
In the winter the chickens would come up under the house and sit in the basement, so if we wanted a chicken we’d raise a plank up and reach down and get the chicken. (It was warm in the wintertime. The base of that chimney would be nice and warm...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
50 Statistics About The U.S. Economy That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
06-04-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Our greed and our debt are literally eating our economy alive. Total government, corporate and personal debt has now reached 360 percent of GDP, which is far higher than it ever reached during the Great Depression era.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Bilderberg 2010: Plutocracy with palm trees
06-04-2010
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The Guardian
It would be nicer if the interface between Bilderberg and the world could be softer " if it could turn an open face towards us, rather than the barrel of a machine gun. What I'm hoping is that this year, in the all-new spirit of openness and politica
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Secret Societies
Secretive Bilderberg Club ready for protests
06-04-2010
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London Times
Normally, every minute of their working lives is accounted for but, each year, a couple of hundred of the world’s financial elite and the more business-friendly members of the political class disappear from view; supposedly to save the planet from th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Your Arms Torn By Inflation While Your Legs Are Crushed By Deflation
06-04-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
We could be headed for a world torn in opposite directions, as if quartered, by very different monetary phenomena. As the developed world keeps interest rates low, in a bid to deep deflationary forces at bay, they will in turn be keeping interest...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
MV Rachel Corrie due to reach Gaza within hours
06-04-2010
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War in Context
The MV Rachel Corrie, a cargo ship in the Freedom Flotilla whose passage from Ireland was delayed by mechanical difficulties, is now hours away from its destination.
"I commend this courageous action of brave international civilians who are carryi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Propaganda
Birth Death Model Added 215,000 Fictitious Jobs For Obama
06-04-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
So much for that 700,000 expectation. At 431k, less 411k census, and 31k from temporary help services, it sure doesn't look good even without the 215k birth-death adjustment which only conspiracy theorists look at according to Mr. Liesman...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Huge Miss: May Private Sector Hiring Is Non-Existent, Stocks Tanking
06-04-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The market is tanking, as the new job creation came in at just 430K, with only 40k or so jobs created in the private sector.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Demographic Reality Bites: Fonzie Is Frontman For Reverse Mortgage Co.
06-04-2010
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thetruthaboutmortgage.com/
“Once I learned of the work One Reverse Mortgage was doing to help seniors, I was immediately interested,” Winkler said in a press release. “I have always been committed to helping others, and I see my work here as the next step in that effort.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Payrolls in U.S. Increase in May Less Than Forecast
06-04-2010
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Bloomberg.com
Payrolls rose by 431,000 last month, including a 411,000 jump in government hiring of temporary workers for the 2010 census, Labor Department figures in Washington showed today. Economists projected a 536,000 gain...
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Long Horned Dinosaur
06-04-2010
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arclein
A tubby dinosaur sporting horns each the length of a baseball bat roamed what is now Mexico some 72 million years ago.
Remains of the plant-eating dinosaur, now called Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna, were unearthed from the Cerro del Pueblo Formatio
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Trail of Oldest Man Made Structure Part III
06-04-2010
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arclein
He immediately retracted his statement when I suggested that this would put at least 1 million people living and working here some 200 - 400 years ago. By the middle of 2009 I realised that we are looking at probably around 200,000 stone ruins. The m
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News Link • Agriculture
To Double Spud Production
06-04-2010
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arclein
The researchers found that when the spit of the tuber moth caterpillar gets into a tuber, all the other tubers of the plant grow bigger, said co-author Andre Kessler, Cornell assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.
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robert klein
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Palin to Jindal - Hit the Beach
06-04-2010
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arclein
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is pushing Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal to ignore federal rules and build berms to protect his state's coastline.
According to The Hill, Palin tweeted Monday evening: “Gov.Jindal:to avoid ravished coast, build the
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robert klein
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News Link • Currencies
Euro Falls Hard: Everyone Freaks Out About Hungary And SocGen
06-04-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
We may break $1.20 on the euro today, which would be huge. The big twin fears: Hungary
and SocGen. Futures are off about 1%. France is getting hammered.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Retail Sales in May Underscores Uneven Path of Recovery
06-04-2010
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CNBC.com
Results were particularly weak in the West, which may not bode well for the sector, according to Wall Street Strategies analyst Brian Sozzi.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Oil and Florida Tourism
06-04-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
"It is already ugly," said John Fareed, a partner at Fareed Zapala Koepke. "When it hits, it will be real and will position itself in the psyche of consumers who are getting ready to make vacation plans. It is going to have a huge impact...
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News Link • Housing
Fresh Signs That Housing Is Already Double Dipping
06-04-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
“Mortgage applications to purchase a home began to sink. Now, four weeks later, mortgage purchase applications are down nearly 40 percent from a month ago to their lowest level since April of 1997.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Israel
Israelis kill American " Joe Biden says: "What's the big deal?"
06-04-2010
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AntiWar.com
This was no "accident." The Israeli government knew precisely what it was doing, it knew there were Americans on those ships, and chose to go in guns blazing: it was the equivalent of spitting in Uncle Sam’s face.
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