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Date Sent: 2011-03-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, March 26, 2011 |
Obama says he didn't inform Mexico of US gun smuggling operation because he didn’t know about it
Heicklen nullifies Judge's anti free speech order again -- Syrian Troops Open Fire on Protesters in Several Cities -- The
Accidental Activist -- Lawsuit pits Target against gay-rights
group -- The First Plastic Computer Processor -- Codex Alimentarius and
Food Irradiation in the U.S. -- A sign of the times? Luxury doomsday
bunker sales explode! (Video) -- Prosecutor
told Wisconsin governor to stage ‘false flag’
operation -- Simon Black aka "The Sovereign Man" - World Economy
- Dean
- In Studio - Militia (US) -- SYRIA: Government forces open fire on
protesters -- Iraq Vs Libya -
Where are the protesters? -- You're
invited to a special event with Michele Bachmann -- Gonzalo Lira: How
Likely is QE-Three? -- Five Days into
Operation Odyssey Dawn, Costs Mounting -- Housing Market
Desperation: Prohibiting Foreclosures and Short Sales As Comps -- Big
Data Keynote Focuses on Analyzing Geolocational Data for Insights --
Believe Nothing the Government Says About Radiation Or Anything Else --
Target Israel, Not Libya
AZ: Publisher of Freedom's Phoenix,
Ernest Hancock, turned 50....wake party tomorrow; "Atlas Shrugged"
the Movie, pt. 1
of trilogy, premiering in Phoenix, April 15 - 22
IA: SUNDAY, MARCH 27TH, 1:00 - 4:30
p.m. - FAIRFIELD ARTS & CONVENTION CENTER
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama says he didn’t inform Mexico of U.S. gun smuggling operation because he didn’t know about it
03-25-2011
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blog.mysanantonio.com
Under fire for an operation that allowed smuggling of U.S. weapons across the nation’s border with Mexico, President Obama said in an interview that neither he nor Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the controversial “Operation Fast and Furious.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Property Rights
'Anonymous' takes down UK Copyright Service website
03-25-2011
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Rawstory
The decentralized community of hacktivists known as "Anonymous" knocked the website of the UK Copyright Service offline. The copyright protection agency, known internationally as Copyright Witness, was targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Heicklen nullifies Judge's anti free speech order again
03-25-2011
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Libertarian News Examiner
For a second day libertarian activist Julian Heicklen flaunted Judge Belvin Perry's order that anyone passing out jury information around "his" courthouse in Florida's Orange Co. will be held in contempt of court for jury tampering. And for a second
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Syrian Troops Open Fire on Protesters in Several Cities
03-25-2011
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NY Times
Military troops opened fire during protests in the southern part of Syria and killed peaceful demonstrators hurtling the strategically important nation along the same trajectory that has altered the landscape of power across the Arab world.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
The Accidental Activist
03-25-2011
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NY Times
He had come with no medical expertise and no experience with N.G.O.’s. He did not speak Creole or French. He had two legal cases pending against him (a federal case relating to his embargo-breaking trips to Cuba and a criminal case relating to a viol
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Lawsuit pits Target against gay-rights group
03-25-2011
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Muriel Kane via TheRawStory.com
The retailing giant Target came under fire last year for its donations to run ads supporting an anti-gay rights candidate in Minnesota. Target insists that it is not anti-gay and has contributed to gay and lesbian organizations
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Making Targeted Cancer Drugs Work Better
03-25-2011
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Emily Singer via TechnologyReview.com
Targeted cancer drugs"those that selectively kill cancer cells"have been a revelation in cancer treatment, giving years of healthy life to some lucky patients.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
A Call for the Safer Handling of Nuclear Waste
03-25-2011
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Peter Fairley via TechnologyReview.com
Two weeks after the earthquake and tsunami, Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex continues to spread both radiation and distrust of nuclear power as the plant's situation lurches from hopeful to harrowing and back again.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Science
Geneticists create living human-animal chimeras
03-25-2011
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Terrence Aym
Shepherds today still exist. Unlike their European counterparts centuries ago, however, many of the today's American herders are tending human-sheep hybrids with human hearts, brains, livers, and a potpourri of other homo-sapiens attributes. The Gre
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Codex Alimentarius and Food Irradiation in the U.S.
03-25-2011
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Farm Wars
Codex pushes irradiation as if it were a great tool of disinfection with no adverse side effects at all, yet irradiated foods are not safe for human consumption and contribute to a host of health problems such as cancer and birth defects.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
A sign of the times? Luxury doomsday bunker sales explode! (Video)
03-25-2011
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The Political Commentator
With earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear accidents, the end of the Mayan calendar on the horizon and general global unrest bunker sales have skyrocketed!
And some of these bunkers are not your mothers bunker from the Cold War era with cots and just the
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Indiana prosecutor told Wisconsin governor to stage ‘false flag’ operation
03-25-2011
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RawStory.com
An Indiana prosecutor and Republican activist has resigned after emails show he suggested Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker stage a fake attack on himself to discredit unions protesting his budget repair bill.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke's Choice
03-23-2011
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Richard Duncan for The Daily Reckoning
For twelve years the US trade deficit financed the US budget deficit and held down US interest rates. From 1996 to 2008, the US trade deficit exceeded the government’s budget deficit every year. The dollars sent abroad to pay for the trade deficit we
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Reported by:
Bill Bonner
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
There's No Such Thing as Homemade Ice Cream
03-19-2011
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Jeffrey Tucker for The Daily Reckoning
In the freezer section of the grocery store, there’s Vanilla Bean, French Vanilla, and yet another vanilla flavor called Homemade Vanilla. Now, come on! I’m in the store here, looking at rows and rows of commercial products produced by a vast capital
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Bill Bonner
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News Link • Government
SYRIA: Government forces open fire on protesters
03-25-2011
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latimesblogs.latimes.com
Government forces opened fire on protesters in several towns as thousands took to the streets across Syria on Friday chanting "Freedom" in support of an uprising in the southern city of Dara, news reports said.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
The Virtues of Smallness
03-25-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Whenever something is wrong, something is too big. ~ Leopold Kohr. Recent events in Japan bring to mind Leopold Kohr’s book, The Breakdown of Nations, wherein he develops the "size theory of social misery."
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday 03/25/11
03-25-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Believe Nothing the Government Says About radiation or anything else. What Presidential War Powers? As Bad as Bush and Clinton Combined
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science
Study: Women with large breasts are smarter
03-25-2011
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Terrence Aym
A study by a Chicago university sociologist of 1,200 women found that large-breasted women tend to have higher intelligence. The study divided the women into five groups ranging from virtually flat-chested to extra-large breasts. The results revealed
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Gonzalo Lira: How Likely is QE-Three?
03-25-2011
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Gonzalolira.blogspot.com
The fact is, there is no one outside the United States that I can think of who would willingly buy Treasury bonds"not to the tune of +$75 billion a month.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Five Days into Operation Odyssey Dawn, Costs Mounting
03-23-2011
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Megan Scully, National Journal
Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the U.S. costs could “easily pass the $1 billion mark on this operation, regardless of how well things go.”
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Housing
Housing Market Desperation: Prohibiting Foreclosures and Short Sales As Comps
03-25-2011
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appraisalinstitute.org/
Four states are considering legislation that would prohibit or restrict the use of “distressed sales,” such as foreclosures and short sales, as comparable sales as a part of a residential real estate appraisal.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Buying Gold = Shorting Mankind's Wisdom: Analyst
03-25-2011
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CNBC.com
Commodities are not a good investment over the long term because of man's ingenuity in discovering new ways to use existing resources or new technologies to replace depleting ones, according to Dylan Grice, a research analyst at Societe Generale.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Stem Cells Reverse Heart Damage
03-25-2011
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arclein
That's the Holy Grail, the quest the whole field has been pursuing for close to a decade, and this is evidence we're on the right track," Hare told the Herald.
A participant in the small eight-person trial, Max Eaton, 68, seconded that emotion.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Carnivore in Madagascar
03-25-2011
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arclein
Durrell's vontsira (Salanoia durrelli), named in honor of the late conservationist and writer Gerald Durrell, was first photographed swimming in Madagascar's Lake Alaotra in 2004. Subsequent surveys by scientists at the Durrell Wildlife Conservatio
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
AMOC Stability
03-25-2011
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arclein
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is one of the most important large-scale ocean current systems controlling the Earth's climate. But just how stable will it remain as climate changes and how well do models represent its stabili
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
The Pesticide Epidemic
03-25-2011
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arclein
In the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and " most recently " bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level exposure to pesticides could be contributing to this rash of epidemics.
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robert klein
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Data Keynote Focuses on Analyzing Geolocational Data for Insights
03-25-2011
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eWeek
Anyone who carries around a smartphone or any mobile device with GPS enabled is constantly broadcasting where they are, Jonas said. Cell phones are generating a "staggering amount" of geolocational data, over 600 billion transactions per day in the
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Energy
Believe Nothing the Government Says
About Radiation Or Anything Else
03-25-2011
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LewRockwell.com
At a time when the decentralization of social systems has taken on great importance, it is timely to consider the advantages that could arise from a more localized " perhaps even individualized " source of electrical power.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Lack of data from Japan distresses nuclear experts
03-25-2011
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LAtimes.com
Nuclear scientists and policy experts say the quality and quantity of information coming out of Fukushima has left gaping holes in their understanding of the nuclear disaster nearly two weeks after it began.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima 'MOX Plutonium' Reactor #3 May Have Suffered Dangerous Breach
03-25-2011
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MSNBC.msn.com
Suspicions of a possible breach were raised when two workers waded into water 10,000 times more radioactive than normal and suffered skin burns, the Nuclear and Industry Safety Agency said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Obama Feels The Need For Housing Market Tap Dance Theater
03-25-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
The fact that HAMP was an embarrassment appears to have led to the bizarre conclusion that the remedy is better modification theater...
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