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Date Sent: 2011-05-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, May 1, 2011 |
Senate Sneaks RFID Drivers License, Internet ID into Transportation Bill
Yves Smith: Earth to Libertarians - Private Parties Have Coercive Power
Too -- Adjusted For Inflation, Dollar Hits Fiat-Era Low -- US
Intervention In Syria: CNN and Fox Are Leading the Charge -- We're Next: Fast Start for World's Biggest Biometrics ID Project -- America's New Middle East Agenda -- BOJ Shirakawa warns Japan economic outlook "very severe" -- Please Stop Bernanke’s Transparency – He’s Frightening the Children -- Foreclosure-Gate Arizona: 50% Principal Reduction Tied to Killing Foreclosure Rights Bill? -- Warren Buffett Disses Gold -- Banks to Lead U.S. Online ID Strategy --
Honeybees ‘Entomb’ Pesticide Tainted Pollen -- Immigrant Fingerprinting
Program Under Scrutiny -- Charlie Munger: Buy Gold If You Think Your
Country Is Going To Kill You -- Paul Craig Roberts: The Corruption of Law Leads To Tyranny -- The 15 States Where Gas Prices Are Soaring -- John Mauldin: And Here's How The Debt Story Will End... -- St. Louis Fed Admits QE May Lead To Rise Rather Than Drop In Unemployment -- Using Your Smart Phone as a Survival Phone -- The Business War Against Competition -- NHL sends $25 million bill to Glendale for Phoenix Coyotes' losses -- Arizona Representative Drops Chain of Title Notification Provision After Apparent Bribe by Service
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News Link • Surveillance
Senate Sneaks RFID Drivers License, Internet ID into Transportation Bill
04-30-2011
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Liberty Underground
The Florida Senate Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability on Wednesday approved an amendment to include “electronic authentication,” as well as “biometrics” to Florida Driver’s licenses. In addition, the amendment to SB 1150, which pa
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Yves Smith: Earth to Libertarians - Private Parties Have Coercive Power Too
05-01-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
I’m sick of the free pass given the libertarian blather, “The state is the only source of coercive power.” I doubt that many non-libertarians buy that assetion, but they too often remain silent because most libertarians are rabid on that issue...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Adjusted For Inflation, Dollar Hits Fiat-Era Low
05-01-2011
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CNBC.com
The Broad Trade-Weighted Dollar Index, which was created by the Federal Reserve, differs from the more popular “Dollar Index” because it includes a larger group of currencies and is weighted based on foreign trade.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US Intervention In Syria: CNN and Fox Are Leading the Charge
05-01-2011
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Rense.com
In other words, "constructive chaos" would be used to redraw the region according to US-Israeli "geo-strategic needs and objectives." The strategy is currently playing out violently in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Syria, and may erupt...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
We're Next: Fast Start for World's Biggest Biometrics ID Project
05-01-2011
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spectrum.ieee.org/
From each volunteer participant, the government collects 10 fingerprints, 2 iris images, and a photo, and if the new data don't match any identity already enrolled, it assigns the person a unique 12-digit number. After that, a single fingerprint...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
BOJ Shirakawa warns Japan economic outlook "very severe"
04-30-2011
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uk.reuters.com/
Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said on Saturday that the country's economic outlook was very severe and that the central bank would take appropriate action to support the economy.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Please Stop Bernanke’s Transparency " He’s Frightening the Children
04-30-2011
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mandelman.ml-implode.com
Oh my God. I think he’s trying to say that foreclosures breed foreclosures. That’s a clever phrase… now, where have I heard that before? And isn’t that an absolutely stunning revelation from the Chairman of the Federal Reserve?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Foreclosure-Gate Arizona: 50% Principal Reduction Tied to Killing Foreclosure Rights Bill?
04-30-2011
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Market-ticker.org
Trust me on this - you've not seen the last Ticker from me on this subject. Not by a long shot. If you're an Arizona lawmaker, did something wrong in this regard, and think this issue is just going to wither away and die, you're sadly mistaken.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Warren Buffett Disses Gold
04-30-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Buffett's comments on gold show an amazing lack of understanding of basic economics, namely the role a medium of exchange plays in a society and the difference between a medium of exchange that has emerged in the market and one forced...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bank of International Settlements
Banks to Lead U.S. Online ID Strategy
04-30-2011
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Bank Technology News
Banks and other payment providers are expected to take a leading role in the White House's revised strategy for securing consumer identities online.
The guidelines, which the Obama administration announced in mid-April, would create, under the Natio
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Environment
Honeybees ‘Entomb’ Pesticide Tainted Pollen
04-30-2011
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waronyou
Honeybees are taking emergency measures to protect their hives from pesticides, in an extraordinary example of the natural world adapting swiftly to our depredations, according to a prominent bee expert. Scientists have found numerous examples of a n
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War Onyou
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News Link • Surveillance
Immigrant Fingerprinting Program Under Scrutiny
04-30-2011
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Officer.com
Communities routinely send fingerprints taken from people booked into jails or prison to state agencies. The states forward the prints to the FBI to check criminal histories. Under Secure Communities, the FBI shares the prints with the Homeland Secur
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Precious Metals
Charlie Munger: Buy Gold If You Think Your Country Is Going To Kill You
04-30-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Becky Quick just Tweeted: Munger #BRK2011: If u think country u live in is going to kill u then gold is a good buy. Otherwise BRK shares are better.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Paul Craig Roberts: The Corruption of Law Leads To Tyranny
04-30-2011
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LewRockwell.com
The lawlessness and brutality associated with Guantanamo were pointless. The US government destroyed the reputation of the United States and the rule of law for nothing. It is a terrible experience to have years of one’s life stolen and to be...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Who's Right, Americans or Economists?
04-30-2011
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TheAutomaticEarth.blogspot.com
If US party politics is your thing (it definitely ain't mine), Gallup also dove into differences there. And even though 42% of Democrats see a growing economy, vs only 14% of Republicans, what strikes me is that even among Democrats...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
The 15 States Where Gas Prices Are Soaring
04-30-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The latest survey from AAA shows 7 U.S states with gas prices over $4 a gallon, and many very close to breaching that barrier.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
John Mauldin: And Here's How The Debt Story Will End...
04-30-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Now, whether this deleveraging is orderly, as now appears to be the case in Britain, or more resembles what I have long predicted will be a violent default in Greece, it will create a profoundly different economic world from the one we have lived...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
St. Louis Fed Admits QE May Lead To Rise Rather Than Drop In Unemployment
04-30-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
It is, in fact, as we have always expected: QE not only does not result in relative economic high performance, it simply leads to higher inflation, and subdued economic growth. And the Chairman of the Federal Reserve was not aware of this data?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Waking Up to Economic Realities
04-30-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
Last week the financial markets were roiled by Standard & Poor’s announcement that they will change their outlook on the fiscal health of the United States over the next two years from “stable” to “negative.”
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Business War Against Competition
04-30-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
Until relatively recent times, the symbiotic relationship existing between economic and political institutions has only been vaguely comprehended.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
40% Silver Sale. The Prices Are Magical.
04-30-2011
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http://www.apmex.com/
Today, $1,000 and $500 face value bags of 40% silver Kennedy halves minted between 1965 and 1969 are convenient and easy ways to own silver.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
NHL sends $25 million bill to Glendale for Phoenix Coyotes' losses
04-30-2011
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AZcentral.com
Glendale has until Monday to pay $25 million to the National Hockey League to cover this season's
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Representative Drops Chain of Title Notification Provision After Apparent Bribe by Service
04-30-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
I was told the bill was DOA in the House before it even got out of the Senate. It was “double-assigned” meaning it had to pass two committees instead of just one.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
"Its A Great Time To Buy A House" - But Realty Executives Files for Bankruptcy
04-30-2011
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AZcentral.com
In a reversal from statements a week earlier, Realty Executives Inc. confirmed Friday that it intended to file for bankruptcy protection "within the next 48 hours."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Spider Silk With Silk Worms
04-30-2011
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arclein
Last year, KBLB successfully created hybrid silkworms with randomly inserted spider genes. The creatures secreted hybrid "spidersilkworm" silk, that was stronger and more durable than silk from regular silkworms, but still not as strong as spider s
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News Link • Archaeology
Enormous Statue of Powerful Pharaoh Unearthed
04-30-2011
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arclein
The statue consists of seven large quartzite blocks and still lacks a head and was actually first discovered in the 1928 and then rehidden, according to the press release from the country's antiquities authority. Archaeologists expect to find its
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Serious Questions About Big Pharma
04-30-2011
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arclein
Marcia Angell, M.D., former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, looked at pharmaceutical companies’ profits in the Fortune 500 list of the world’s most profitable companies. She found that the top 10 pharmaceutical companies’ comb
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News Link • Militia
Brewer signs bill authorizing volunteer state militia
04-29-2011
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Arizona Capitol Times
The new state militia does not have a command structure defined, and the governor could put anyone in charge of the group.
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Chip Saunders
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
Petraeus: Can He Tell It Straight?
04-29-2011
Ray McGovern
The news that President Barack Obama has picked Gen. David Petraeus to be CIA director raises troubling questions, including whether the commander most associated with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will tolerate objective analysis of those two con
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