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Date Sent: 2011-06-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, June 23, 2011 AM edition |
Obama announces plan to bring home 33,000 ‘surge’ troops from Afghanistan
Police: Mobster Whitey Bulger arrested in Calif. -- Wrong Jason -- DEA head: A thousand dead children means we're winning war on drugs -- Rat Nation -- FBI Outrage -- Marine reservist linked to military building shootings -- Commercial Real Estate Prices Just Hit A New Post-Bubble Low -- Michio Kaku: They Put A Happy Face On Three Complete Nuclear Meltdowns -- African Alliances Challenge Introduction of GM Technology -- Obama versus Osama: guess who the Egyptians prefer? -- Fed to Maintain Stimulus as Bond Buying Ends --
Police killed at Afghanistan checkpoint -- Syria accuses EU of
fomenting 'chaos' -- Yemen: Over 100 Soldiers Killed in Failed Attempt
to Recapture Zinjibar -- NATO Member Italy Demands Immediate End to Libyan War -- Government layoffs slow U.S. cities’ recoveries -- U.S. conducting ‘mass surveillance’ against Arab world -- Turkish Actions To Trigger NATO Confrontation With Syria? -- PNAC Cabal Warns Congress To Back Off Over Libya -- Rasmussen: NATO Will Continue Slaughter in Libya -- The Hubris of George Soros -- Federal Reserve 'Embeds' Employees in Banks -- Greek voters could set off the chain reaction today -- US Defense Secretary to take his ball and go home
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News Link • Afghanistan
Obama announces plan to bring home 33,000 ‘surge’ troops from Afghanistan
06-22-2011
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Washington Post
President Obama charted a middle course Wednesday for ending the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, outlining a departure plan that will remove troops faster than his commanders had requested but more slowly than many of his political allies w
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police: Mobster Whitey Bulger arrested in Calif.
06-22-2011
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AP
James "Whitey" Bulger, a notorious Boston gangster on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list for his alleged role in 19 murders, was captured Wednesday near Los Angeles after living on the run for 16 years, authorities said.
Bulger, 81, was arrested alo
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Wrong Jason
06-22-2011
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The Agitator
A Midwest City woman has accused Oklahoma City police officers of raiding and ransacking her home in what appears to be a case of mistaken identity.
And it all happened while her 12-year-old son was home alone.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
DEA head: A thousand dead children means we're winning war on drugs
06-22-2011
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Salon
“It may seem contradictory, but the unfortunate level of violence is a sign of success in the fight against drugs,” said Michele Leonhart, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration. The cartels “are like caged animals, attacking one another,” she a
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Rat Nation
06-22-2011
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Simple Justice
You miss the main threat posed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s assuming the power to spy on all of us by physical surveillance, covert infiltration and even trash-picking, all without reasonable grounds for suspicion, much less the constitut
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News Link • Internet
FBI Outrage
06-22-2011
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Lew Rockwell
The FBI took out several racks of blade servers from a Maryland datacenter apparently serving a warrant against a hacker group with information coming from a single IP address hosted on one of the servers. This is stupidly heavy handed and unprofessi
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News Link • Activism
Marine reservist linked to military building shootings
06-22-2011
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Washington Post
A Marine reservist taken into custody last week under suspicious circumstances at Arlington National Cemetery has been linked to a series of shootings in the fall of military buildings, including recruiting centers, the Pentagon and the Marine Corps
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Commercial Real Estate Prices Just Hit A New Post-Bubble Low
06-22-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Index dropped 3.7 percent from March and 13 percent from a year earlier. It’s now 49 percent below the peak of October 2007 and at its lowest point in data going back to December 2000 ...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Michio Kaku: They Put A Happy Face On Three Complete Nuclear Meltdowns
06-22-2011
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inthearena.blogs.cnn.com
Famed physicist Michio Kaku says Japanese officials still don't have control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Future of Arizona home prices and foreclosures
06-22-2011
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AZcentral.com
The local NBC affiliate reported today on a new report out on the US housing market. In the report Tucson and Phoenix are noted as suffering from falling home prices, and pending home sales prices that have not been seen in over 10 years...
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News Link • Activism
African Alliances Challenge Introduction of GM Technology
06-22-2011
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Farm Wars
In a previously GM-free country, the alliance wants to base the assessment of GM crop safety on the precautionary principle, and state that ‘GM crops or animals are not the solution to poverty and hunger’ in the region.
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News Link • Humor
Indoor Gardening with Gladys and Bernie
06-22-2011
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Farm Wars
This year, Bernie and I are trying something new. We’re converting the spare bedroom into a year-round indoor garden.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
One Camera With 40,000 Lenses Helps Prevent Blurry Images
06-22-2011
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Robin Rowe via PopSci.com
For all its virtues, digital photography has yet to correct one age-old weakness: If you blow the focus, you’ve most likely lost the shot. An emerging lens system, known as plenoptics, will change that.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
'Manhattan Project' of Insects Will Sequence Bug Genomes to Help Make Better Pesticides
06-22-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Plant and human genome researchers have uncovered myriad pathways toward understanding health and longevity, determining genes that code for things like disease tolerance and nutrient needs.
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News Link • World News
Obama versus Osama: guess who the Egyptians prefer?
06-22-2011
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http://turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/
First the good news: U.S. President Barack Obama is more than twice as popular in Egypt as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed to Maintain Stimulus as Bond Buying Ends
06-22-2011
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http://www.bloomberg.com/
Federal Reserve officials decided to keep the central bank’s balance sheet at a record to spur the slowing economy after completing $600 billion of bond purchases this month.
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News Link • World News
Syria accuses EU of fomenting 'chaos'
06-22-2011
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http://english.aljazeera.net/
Syrian foreign minister says European Union wants to "plant strife", and calls for easing of tensions with Turkey.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Yemen: Over 100 Soldiers Killed in Failed Attempt to Recapture Zinjibar
06-22-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
Only yesterday Yemeni officials were claiming significant progress in their military effort to retake the southwestern town of Zinjibar. Today, officials have admitted the situation was far more grave than they were letting on.
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News Link • World News
Italy Demands Immediate End to Libyan War
06-22-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
The war in Libya has been extremely controversial for a number of NATO member nations, and US officials have taken to task a number of nations, including Germany and Poland, which outright refused to participate.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Government layoffs slow U.S. cities’ recoveries: report
06-22-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
The layoffs of thousands of government workers may threaten the already slow-motion economic recovery in many U.S. metropolitan areas, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Brookings Institution.
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News Link • World News
U.S. conducting ‘mass surveillance’ against Arab world: report
06-22-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
The former self-appointed spokesman for the collective of hacktivists known as "Anonymous" revealed Tuesday what he called a massive U.S spying program against the Arab world.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Turkish Actions To Trigger NATO Confrontation With Syria?
06-22-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Last week, a feature by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton excoriating the political leadership of Syria appeared in the London-based Arabic-language daily Asharq Al-Awsat.
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News Link • World News
PNAC Cabal Warns Congress To Back Off Over Libya
06-22-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
The chicken hawk neoconservatives that make up the Project For A New American Century cabal have written on open letter to House Republicans warning them not to reduce or cut funding for U.S. involvement in the military aggression against Libya
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Rasmussen: NATO Will Continue Slaughter in Libya
06-22-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Even as Italy calls for an immediate cease fire, NATO Secretary-General Anders Rasmussen made it clear today that the slaughter in Libya will continue unabated...
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Hubris of George Soros
06-22-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Quite a few well known rich people aren't satisfied with being rich and being able to do all the things they believe are important. They want to advertise this and to take up the role of teachers to the rest of us.
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News Link • Imperialism
Pippa Middleton Is a Superhero
06-22-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
We were surprised to see that the sister of Kate Middleton (married to the future King of England and now Duchess of Cambridge) is getting her own royal treatment.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Federal Reserve 'Embeds' Employees in Banks
06-22-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
More efficient regulatory endeavors will reduce the kind of financial crises that have been prevalent throughout the history of modern capitalism. Only more and better government regulation is the answer.
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News Link • World News
Greek voters could set off the chain reaction today
06-22-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
It is no small irony that the ill fated Greek government is facing a vote of [no] confidence today, potentially representing a renewal itself. The vote is essentially a referendum on Prime Minister George Panandreou’s....
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News Link • Obama Administration
US Defense Secretary to take his ball and go home
06-22-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
In a recent interview with Newsweek magazine, outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates lamented about not wanting to be part of a government that didn’t have the resources and gusto to support a trillion dollar military.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Fear of Terror Makes People Stupid
06-22-2011
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Washington Blog via Infowars.com
"Already, security measures"pervasive ID checkpoints, metal detectors, and phalanxes of security guards"increasingly clot the pathways of our public lives. It’s easy to overreact when an atrocity takes place"to heed those who promise safety if only
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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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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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