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Date Sent: 2011-08-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 16, 2011 PM edition |
ATF promotes supervisors in controversial gun operation
James Howard Kunstler: High Corn -- The Iowa Straw Poll Mystery -- They Died in Vain; Deal With It -- Ron Paul: Mainstream America Is Coming My Way -- Obama to Asians: Screw you! -- Palin: ‘I am still considering a run’ for President -- Markets
heading to new danger zone: Zoellick -- Swiss Ponder Battle Over Runaway
Franc -- As America’s Economy Collapses, “New Normal” Police State Takes Shape -- Krugman Calls On Government To Manufacture War To Save Economy -- BART spokesman blames protesters for cell phone service shut down -- Charles Goyette - In Studio - "The End Is Nigh" / Ryan Mott - at the Iowa Straw Poll -- Too Many Emergency Meetings in Europe -- Jon Stewart Scolds Media For Ignoring Ron Paul, the One Who "Planted the Grassroots!" -- Interview with Darryl W. Perry, Chair, Boston Tea Party -- Daniel
Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that -- Hot New TV Ad for
Ron Paul "The One"
AZ: PIZZA NIGHT TAKEOVER Support
Freedom Library, tonight August 16, 5-8PM (Yuma, Arizona) -- Jordan
Page to perform in Quartzsite August 27th (donate) Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite,
AZ on August 27th, bring your cameras.
Nationwide civil
disobedience: Support your local lemonade stand, Aug. 20
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News Link • Gun Rights
ATF promotes supervisors in controversial gun operation
08-16-2011
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LA Times
The ATF has promoted 3 key supervisors of a controversial sting operation that allowed firearms to be illegally trafficked across the U.S. border into Mexico. All 3 have been heavily criticized for pushing the program forward even as it became appare
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
James Howard Kunstler: High Corn
08-16-2011
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Kunstler.com
Looking every inch the Assistant Manager of a J.C. Penny, Rick Perry of Texas stepped on-board the touring evangelical freak show that the Republican pre-primary parade has turned into. I like to think of him as George W. Bush without...
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News Link • WAR: About that War
They Died in Vain; Deal With It - by Ray McGovern, August 09, 2011
08-16-2011
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http://original.antiwar.com/
Many of those preaching at American church services Sunday extolled as “heroes” the 30 American and 8 Afghan troops killed Saturday west of Kabul, when a helicopter on a night mission crashed, apparently after taking fire from Taliban forces.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Mainstream America Is Coming My Way
08-16-2011
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http://www.thedailybell.com/
Following the GOP debate on Thursday night in Ames, Iowa, Congressman Ron Paul was interviewed by Fox News' John Stossel.
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Opinion • Obama Administration
Obama to Asians: Screw you!
08-16-2011
Menckens Ghost
Judging by what he says, it is apparent that pseudo-intellectual President Obama believes the half-baked notions propagated by academics, black liberation theologians, and neo-Marxist revolutionaries about social justice, oppression, fairness, divers
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rick Perry's Ruthless Drive to Win
08-16-2011
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http://news.yahoo.com/
I first met Rick Perry in 1985. He was a Democratic freshman state rep, straight off the ranch in Haskell, Texas. He wore his jeans so tight, and, umm, adjusted himself so often that my fellow young legislative aides and I used to call him Crotch.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rick Perry's College Transcript: A Lot Of Cs And Ds
08-16-2011
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has pursued a controversial agenda that would gut Texas' vaunted public university system in favor of something that more closely resembles a business.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Markets heading to new danger zone: Zoellick
08-16-2011
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http://www.reuters.com/
The loss of market confidence in economic leadership in key countries like the United States and Europe coupled with a fragile economic recovery have pushed markets into a new danger zone...
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
10 Natural Remedies for Athletes Foot
08-16-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
Athlete’s foot is a fungal infection that usually thrives in warm, damp places. The fungus, Tinea pedis, grows between the toes, on top of the feet, on toenails and between the fingers.
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News Link • Currencies
Swiss Ponder Battle Over Runaway Franc
08-16-2011
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www.bloomberg.com
Switzerland, the nation that hasn’t gone to war with a foreign power since Napoleon, is reluctantly debating a generational taboo: ceding monetary independence to win a battle over its runaway currency.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
A Libertarian’s Take on the First Ever Ancestral Health Symposium
08-16-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
I just returned from California, where I attended the first Ancestral Health Symposium in Los Angeles on the UCLA campus, which Dr. Loren Cordain, an early advocate of the Paleolithic diet, has described as "the Woodstock of evolutionary medicine."
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News Link • Police State
As America’s Economy Collapses, “New Normal” Police State Takes Shape
08-16-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Forget your rights. As corporate overlords position themselves to seize what little remains of a tattered social net, the Obama administration is moving at break-neck speed to expand police state programs first stood-up by the Bush government.
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News Link • Government
BART spokesman blames protesters for cell phone service shut down
08-16-2011
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RawStory.com
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Chief Spokesperson Linton Johnson blamed protesters for leaving the agency “no other option” than to shut off cell phone service at some stations last week.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
Citizens of the American Constitution
08-16-2011
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www.citizensoftheamericanconstitution.org
Our purpose in discussing this treasured document is to inform the People of this Nation about their Constitution, the powers of and Rights guaranteed therein, and how most “public servants” in government today view, and most of the time ignore and p
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Too Many Emergency Meetings in Europe
08-16-2011
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lewrockwell.com
If the sovereign government debt situation in Europe is anywhere near a final economic solution, why do the heads of Germany and France keep meeting? These meetings are getting more frequent.
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News Link • Politics
Interview with Darryl W. Perry, Chair, Boston Tea Party
8/16/2011
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PoliticalContext.org
The Boston Tea Party was formed in 2006 by former Libertarian Party members dissatisfied with the LP’s “abdication of political responsibilities.” “Americans deserve and desperately need a pro-freedom party,” the BTP’s founders stated, one “that forc
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that
08-16-2011
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Ted.com
At TEDxMaastricht, Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient's bedside.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Hot New TV Ad for Ron Paul "The One"
08-16-2011
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ronpaul2012.com via all over the net!
Will we actually be seeing Ron Paul ads on TV!?! DAMN RIGHT WE WILL!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
8/8/11 Full Show - Mattie Corrao: Debt limit "deal" fallout, Anarchy in the UK yet?
08-16-2011
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youtube.com
Tonight on Adam vs. the Man with Adam Kokesh: Mattie Corrao, Government Affairs Manager for Americans for Tax Reform, breaks down the past week's fallout from the debt deal.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Further snowfalls expected tonight
08-16-2011
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www.nzherald.co.nz
The bitterly cold blast that has hit New Zealand this week should ease off over the coming days, but heavy snow is still expected overnight in many areas, including Wellington and Christchurch.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Sam Richards: A radical experiment in empathy
08-16-2011
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Ted.com
sociologist Sam Richards sets an extraordinary challenge: can they understand -- not approve of, but understand -- the motivations of an Iraqi insurgent? And by extension, can anyone truly understand and empathize with another?
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Control: Lessons from European Violence
08-16-2011
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mises.org
The recent outbreaks of indiscriminate violence in Europe highlight a disturbing trend of decivilization throughout Western society.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Devvy: My Fight Against The Smart Meter
08-16-2011
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devvy.com/
"Those wireless meters on every home and building will emit huge pulses of microwave radio frequency radiation as often as every few seconds throughout the day and night, seven days a week.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Housing Starts: How Can The MSM Read This Chart and See A Recovery?
08-16-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Privately-owned housing starts in July were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 604 000 This is 1.5 percent (±10 7%)* below the revised June estimate of 613,000, but is 9.8 percent (±10.8%)* above the July 2010 rate of 550,000.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank of America Death Watch: Unloading “Non-Core” Assets Aggressively
08-16-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
The problem is that everyone drank the Kool Aid and BofA didn’t take aggressive enough action, either on boosting its equity or shrinking its balance sheet, when times were better.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
A Rant for Ron Paul: The Media Fix is In
08-15-2011
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DayTradeShow posted by Trevor Lyman
This is truly quite a rant, but it's fun to listen to and sssooooo true!!!
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J. Michael Haggard
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cyber War Extent
08-16-2011
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arclein
In the case of the United Nations, the hackers broke into the computer system of its secretariat in Geneva in 2008, hid there for nearly two years, and quietly combed through reams of secret data, according to McAfee.
"Even we were surprised by t
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robert klein
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News Link • Anthropology
Human Evolution Grassland Based
08-16-2011
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arclein
Fossil soils can yield information about the vegetation that once grew in the regions and can provide clues to the type of ecosystem that existed in different time periods, a university release said Wednesday.
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robert klein
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Japan Tsunami Broke Huge Icebergs Off Antarctica
08-16-2011
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arclein
Icebergs have been reported to calve following earthquakes before, including after the magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb 22. But the new finding marks the first direct observation of such a connection between tsun
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