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Date Sent: 2011-06-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, June 22, 2011 PM edition |
David Stockman: Warns on U.S. “Bond Armageddon”; First Default Could Be to IMF
A Completely New Kind of Aircraft Propulsion System, Made of Rotating Cylinders -- Mayors to Obama: Bring War Dollars Home
-- "Growing Your Way Out of Debt" Is a Fantasy -- Offshoring Has Ruined
Income and Employment Prospects for America -- Who Is Gary Johnson? -- Big Brother To Further Propagandize The US Economy: Change The CPI --
Richard Koo: Get Ready For Two More Years Of Housing Market Nightmare
-- G. Edward Griffin on Inflation, Politics and the Power Elite -- Surprise! TSA Is Searching Your Car, Subway, Ferry, Bus, AND Plane -- Obama’s negation of ‘hostilities’ in Libya draws criticism -- Find Your News With DARPA-Powered Trapit Newsreader -- Obama's Food Police in Staggering Crackdown on Marketing to Kids -- Huge Marine Drill Confirms Ground Invasion of Libya -- Libyan reports: NATO helicopter shot down --
Police: Man Killed at Home by Police Shows Dangers Police Face Every
Day -- Rochester Police Arrest Woman For Videotaping Them From Her
Front Yard -- PIMCO head predicts Greece, others will default -- New graphic cigarette warnings unveiled -- GAO: Leaks at aging nuke sites difficult to detect -- Medicaid for the middle class? -- America's Barbaric Death Penalty -- Webster Tarpley: The Elite's Plan for Global Extermination
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Man flies US Airways in women's underwear (Photo)
06-22-2011
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www.sfgate.com
Six days before a college football player was arrested at San Francisco International Airport in a dispute that began when a US Airways employee asked him to pull up his sagging pants, a man who was wearing little but women's undergarments was allowe
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Las Vegas Sees Obama Second Term as Solid. Wanna Bet?
06-22-2011
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Sportsbook.com
Betting odds in Las Vegas have been a sports standard (and a tight one at that) for a long time. At this point, they have Obama hands down as winner in 2012. No one else comes close.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Analytical Method Used for Stock Market Helps Pinpoint A Possible Achilles Heel for HIV
06-22-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
A type of statistical analysis used to study high-energy physics and stock market fluctuations could yield a new angle of attack in the fight against the virus that causes AIDS.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Military
With High-Energy Lasers Too Heavy to Fly, Raytheon Plans Lighter Ones That Jam Rather Than Blast
06-22-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Lasers that can take down an aircraft or zap a boat in roiling seas are certainly the weapons of the future. But smaller lasers that disrupt rather than destroy could be an even simpler defense system.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
A Completely New Kind of Aircraft Propulsion System, Made of Rotating Cylinders
06-22-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
An Austrian engineering firm debuted a new type of hovercraft at the Paris Air Show this week, claiming it can take off and land vertically without using any rotor blades or fixed wings.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Energy
The Strongest Electrical Current in the Universe Spotted, 2 Billion Light Years From Here
06-22-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Looking for a source of renewable electricity? At 1018 amps, the current is the strongest current ever seen, equalling something like a trillion bolts of lightning.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mayors to Obama: Bring War Dollars Home
06-21-2011
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Peter Dreier, Huffington Post
The nation's mayors, desperate for dollars to keep their cities afloat, demanded: we want our money back! At its annual conference in Baltimore, the U.S. Conference of Mayors passed a resolution calling for an end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
"Growing Your Way Out of Debt" Is a Fantasy
06-22-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
A funny little feature of interest is that when people see you're at risk of default, they start charging you more to borrow their money. And it isn't a tiny bit more interest, it's a lot. Think subprime teaser loan at 3% shooting to 8%, or 28% if...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The 20 Cities Having The Worst Economic "Recoveries"
06-22-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
A new report by Brookings picks out 20 metro areas the think-tank believes have had the worst performance from the start of the recession, through the recovery. We've highlighted each city's employment levels and home prices and ranked...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Offshoring Has Ruined Income and Employment Prospects for America
06-22-2011
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InfoWars.com/
Among the serious consequences of offshoring are the dismantling of the ladders of upward mobility that made the United States an “opportunity society,” an extraordinary worsening of the income distribution, and large trade and...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Wednesday June 22nd, 2011
06-22-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Wal-Mart Wins! - The company beats the Marxist class-action lawsuit. Article by Lew Rockwell. / Good for the Greeks - They've thrown a monkey wrench into the European super-state, says Gary North. / Racial Racketeering for Fun and Profit - Tom DiLore
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Who Is Gary Johnson?
06-22-2011
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townhall.com
Someone was missing from last week's Republican presidential debate, and that's too bad. He's an announced candidate who was a two-term governor of New Mexico, and he makes a case for strongly limited government.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
The Cashless Society: NFC Giants Target Austin, Texas For Rollout
06-22-2011
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statesman.com
"Basically early adopters," he said. "Somebody that was willing to change, willing to see the future, willing to take that chance to do it differently. Austin came right to the top of the list."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Brother To Further Propagandize The US Economy: Change The CPI
06-22-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Joe Biden, who now has taken the Fukushima approach to (sur)reality, whereby one merely changes the terms of data measurement when the data does not cooperate. Enter the revised CPI:
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Richard Koo: Get Ready For Two More Years Of Housing Market Nightmare
06-22-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The U.S. should expect home prices to continue to decline through 2013, and that will have a devastating effect on the balance sheets of consumers, according to Nomura's Richard Koo.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Google and Facebook Are Secretly Feeding You Information Junk Food
06-22-2011
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TruthDig.com
In one troubling example, he has two demographically similar friends Google the word Egypt. One gets news about the revolution while the other gets travel-themed results and nothing about political upheaval.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
G. Edward Griffin on Inflation, Politics and the Power Elite
06-22-2011
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thedailybell.com
All they have to do is convince the American people is to say it's a good idea, supposedly because it will help fight terrorism or pornography or crime or drugs or something. They are always being sold some fear-based reason that control over the...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Stockman: Warns on U.S. “Bond Armageddon”; First Default Could Be to IMF
06-22-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
David Stockman, former Budget Director under Ronald Reagan, told CNBC's Nicole Lapin that the first default by the United States government could be a payment to the International Monetary Fund.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation
Surprise! TSA Is Searching Your Car, Subway, Ferry, Bus, AND Plane
06-22-2011
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Mother Jones
Think you could avoid the TSA's body scanners and pat-downs by taking Amtrak? Think again. Even your daily commute isn't safe from TSA screenings. And because the TSA is working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, you ma
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama’s negation of ‘hostilities’ in Libya draws criticism
06-22-2011
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Washington Post
The White House has officially declared that what’s happening in Libya is not “hostilities.”
But at the Pentagon, officials have decided it’s unsafe enough there to give troops extra pay for serving in “imminent danger.”
The Defense Department
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Find Your News With DARPA-Powered Trapit Newsreader
06-22-2011
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PC Magazine
DARPA spinoff Trapit on Tuesday released its next-gen newsreader, which, combining artificial intelligence and personalization, aims to do for news what Pandora has done for Internet radio, Mashable reports.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Obama's Food Police in Staggering Crackdown on Marketing to Kids
06-22-2011
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Human Events
Tony the Tiger, some NASCAR drivers and cookie-selling Girl Scouts will be out of a job unless grocery manufacturers agree to reinvent a vast array of their products to satisfy the Obama administration’s food police.
Either retool the recipes to c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Huge Marine Drill Confirms Ground Invasion of Libya
06-22-2011
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InfoWars
On Sunday, CNN reported on a huge Marine war exercise dubbed Exercise Mailed Fist.
“The exercise is designed to test the capability of every type of Marine Corps aircraft, including MV-22 Ospreys and F/A 18 Hornets, as well as some Navy ships and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Libyan reports: NATO helicopter shot down
06-22-2011
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Washington Post
NATO acknowledged Tuesday that it had lost contact with one of its surveillance drone helicopters, as Libyan state television broadcast pictures of what it said was an alliance attack helicopter that had been shot down.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police: Man Killed at Home by Police Shows Dangers Police Face Every Day
06-22-2011
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The Agitator
Another week, another man shot dead during a drug raid. William Cooper, 69, of Hampton, Virginia, was killed over the weekend after an informant told local police that he was selling prescription painkillers. Cooper apparently fired at the police as
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Rochester Police Arrest Woman For Videotaping Them From Her Front Yard
06-22-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A woman was arrested for videotaping police from her front yard in Rochester, New York. The woman was recording a traffic stop where police had a man handcuffed.
The cops noticed her recording and started hassling her with absurd notions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
PIMCO head predicts Greece, others will default
06-22-2011
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Reuters
The head of PIMCO, the world's biggest bond fund, predicted that Greece and other European economies would default on their debts to resolve their problems as the euro area faces a debt crisis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
New graphic cigarette warnings unveiled
06-22-2011
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Washington Post
The federal government unveiled nine graphic images that will be required on all cigarette packs. They will be accompanied by messages such as, “Warning: Cigarettes are addictive,” “Warning: Cigarettes cause cancer” and “Warning: Smoking can kill you
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
GAO: Leaks at aging nuke sites difficult to detect
06-22-2011
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AP
U.S. nuclear power plant operators haven't figured out how to quickly detect leaks of radioactive water from aging pipes that snake underneath the sites - and the leaks, often undetected for years, are not going to stop, according to a new report by
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Medicaid for the middle class?
06-22-2011
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AP
President Barack Obama's health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Drug Makes Hearts Repair Themselves
06-22-2011
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arclein
But a study in the journal Nature showed the drug, thymosin beta 4, if used in advance of a heart attack, was able to "prime" the heart for repair.
The British Heart Foundation described repair as the "holy grail of heart research", but said a
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Paris Toyko in 2.5 Hours
06-22-2011
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arclein
The low-pollution plane to carry between 50 and 100 passengers will take off using normal engines powered by biofuel made from seaweed before switching on its rocket engines at altitude.
The rocket engines, powered by hydrogen and oxygen whose onl
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robert klein
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News Link • Eugenics
Webster Tarpley: The Elite's Plan for Global Extermination (FL)
06-04-2011
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Webster Tarpley/Uploaded to YouTube by nwotaser
In this 55 minute video, historian and author Dr. Webster Tarpley discusses the ideology of population control advocated by neo-malthusian, eugenicist, and White House science czar, John P. Holdren. In addition to goals of reducing the world's six
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J. Michael Haggard
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