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Date Sent: 2012-04-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, April 14, 2012 |
The President Of Iceland Tells Us How He Had The Balls To Stand Up To Britain
Poker raid leads to officer-involved shooting -- Secret Service Agents
Relieved of Duty in Colombia -- Guinea-Bissau Premier, Election
Front-Runner, Is Deposed in a Coup -- U.S. Will Pay a Settlement of $1
Billion to 41 Tribes -- Romney tries to reassure NRA that he will
aggressively defend gun rights -- Documents provide rare insight into
FBI’s terrorism stings -- Ron Paul Sign Upgrade! Tucson Az 04/13/2012 -- Van Jones: Dishonest, Intolerant Slavery Advocate -- Render
to Caesar, Extraordinarily -- The Unsolved Euro Crisis -- 27 Statistics
About The European Economic Crisis That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
-- Maricopa County judge (John Buttrick) to rule on raises for pensions
of ex-officials -- Don't Believe Every Energy Dividend Story You Hear --
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News April 15, 2012 Edition -- Suddenly
Mitt Romney Is Obliterating Obama In The Polls -- Anonymous Has Declared
War On China -- The 'Special Collective Service' Is The US Spy Agency
Nobody Has Ever Heard Of -- An Incredible Return To Ground Zero
Of The Chernobyl Disaster -- EUROPEAN MARKETS JUST GOT CRUSHED -- This
New $7 Billion Warship Is Part Of The US Response To China's Military
Buildup -- Modern-Day Gold Seekers Are Still Staking Their Claims In The
Yukon -- SPAIN AND ITALY IMPLODE -- Ron Paul At Texas A&M Black
This Out -- “Money is no object. I just can’t find the right person” --
US Attempting to Trigger Color Revolution in Pakistan -- Debt Crisis
Plotted to Deliver the Euro to the IMF?
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News Link • European Union
The President Of Iceland Tells Us How He Had The Balls To Stand Up To Britain
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
The tiny country is unique not only in its stunning geography but also in its open democracy. This democracy was pivotal in the choice to let three giant banks fail during the financial crisis.
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News Link • Freedom's Phoenix
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine READY FOR DOWNLOAD!
04-13-2012
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Freedom's Phoenix Magazine
The April Edition will feature Environmentalism (from a libertarian perspective), and Native American Sovereignty (what would this country look like if Aboriginal American property rights had been respected).
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Poker raid leads to officer-involved shooting
04-13-2012
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NBC News
A high stakes poker game bust led to a police involved shooting Thursday night.
"We've heard $30,000 to $100,000 exchanges hands throughout a night," said Chattanooga Police Chief Bobby Dodd.
Police say 32-year-old Clifford Billups provided foo
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Secret Service Agents Relieved of Duty in Colombia
04-13-2012
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New York Times
12 Secret Service agents sent to Colombia to provide security for President Obama at an international summit were relieved of duty because of allegations of misconduct involved prostitutes in Cartagena.
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News Link • World News
Guinea-Bissau Premier, Election Front-Runner, Is Deposed in a Coup
04-13-2012
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New York Times
A grimly familiar sequence of gunfire in the capital, military communiqués on the radio and the arrest of government officials is repeating itself in the small coastal state of Guinea-Bissau " the latest West African nation to succumb to a coup d’éta
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News Link • Government
U.S. Will Pay a Settlement of $1 Billion to 41 Tribes
04-13-2012
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New York Times
In one of the largest financial settlements made to American Indian tribes, the federal government ended lawsuits by agreeing to pay tribes more than $1 billion for the mismanagement of funds the government holds in trust.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Romney tries to reassure NRA that he will aggressively defend gun rights
04-13-2012
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Washington Post
Former Massachusetts governor Romney worked to reassure the nation’s largest gathering of gun owners that he would be an aggressive defender of gun rights if elected president " and that President Obama would be the opposite if he wins a
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Documents provide rare insight into FBI’s terrorism stings
04-13-2012
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Washington Post
A mysterious man who spoke often of jihad had tried to interest Akili in buying a gun, then later introduced him to a second man, whom Akili was assured was “all about the struggle.”
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News Link • Activism
Ron Paul Sign Upgrade! Tucson Az 04/13/2012
04-13-2012
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Chris Haskell - Real News Tucson
Ron Paul Sign Upgrade! Tucson Az 04/13/2012 ...Oh and.....Ron Paul 2012! Nobody else! I got a lot of honks today!!!!!!
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Airline Travelers Choose Alternative Rewards: Space Travel, Anyone?
04-12-2012
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http://www.cnbc.com, By: Darren Booth
Having trouble finding available flights when you redeem your frequent flyer miles? Well there are some out-of-this-world options " pun intended.
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News Link • European Union
The Unsolved Euro Crisis
04-13-2012
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http://dailyreckoning.com
The Euro crisis is not “solved.” Not by a long shot. Yet Bloomberg reports this morning (i,e, March 2nd) that European leaders “declared a turning point in the Greece-fueled debt crisis.”
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News Link • European Union
27 Statistics About The European Economic Crisis That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
04-13-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, The Economic Collapse
The economic crisis in Europe continues to get worse and eventually it is going to unravel into a complete economic nightmare.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Maricopa County judge (John Buttrick) to rule on raises for pensions of ex-officials
04-13-2012
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tucsoncitizen.com
A Maricopa County judge is considering whether retired elected officials, who have the most generous public retirement system in Arizona, will again start receiving cost-of-living raises to their pensions.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Scientists Build First Working Quantum Network
04-13-2012
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http://www.pcmag.com, By Damon Poeter
...announced Wednesday that they have built the very first, elementary quantum network comprised of a pair of entangled atoms that transmit information to each other via single photons.
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News Link • History
An Incredible Return To Ground Zero Of The Chernobyl Disaster
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jana Kasperkevic
Three years ago, Timm Suess had the opportunity to visit what he calls "ground zero of the 1986 accident"
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News Link • European Union
4 Reasons We Won't See A Repeat Of Last Fall In Europe
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Simone Foxman
Goldman Sach's Francisco Garzarelli writes that four things have him convinced that Europe will not fall back into the crisis environment it saw between August and December of last year
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Judge Allows CIA, FBI Secrecy on Rendition
04-13-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
A British group seeking information on US-UK rendition says the decision is not for national security, but do avoid embarrassment
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Latin American Leaders to Question U.S. Drug Policy at Summit
04-12-2012
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http://online.wsj.com, By DARCY CROWE
A subtle revolt against U.S. antidrug policy is spreading within the top echelons of Latin American governments and promises to be on display this weekend at a hemispheric gathering at which U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with the rest of the
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Green Police? DHS Launches ‘Environmental Justice’ Units
04-12-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Audi’s 2010 ‘Green Police’ spoof commercial may not be far off becoming reality with the announcement that the Department of Homeland Security is creating new “environmental justice”
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News Link • How To
The Definitive Guide to Traditional Food Preparation and Preservation
04-12-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Mark Sisson
Before huge multinational corporations did it for us, humans had to figure out how to turn raw, unrefined formerly-living things into food that could be cooked or eaten.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin Galactic Granted License Exemption for Spaceflight Experience
04-12-2012
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http://www.spacenews.com, By Dan Leone
New Mexico-based Virgin Galactic, which now expects to fly its first paying customers in 2013, was told by the U.S. government that the company may fly non-U.S. citizens to the edge of space without first obtaining an export license from the State De
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News Link • Corruption
Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex
04-12-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by John W. Whitehead
Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today
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News Link • China
Seriously, These Chinese Malls Don't Have Any People In Them
04-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Christopher Pavese
This is a lesson China has chosen to ignore as signs of capital misallocation are widespread throughout the People’s Republic today.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul finally defeats the Fed in new video game
04-12-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Stephen C. Webster
For Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), 76, the 2012 Republican primaries are probably his last tango with presidential politics.
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News Link • General Opinion
Richard Branson's latest crusade is reforming the university system around the world.
04-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Gus Lubin
Richard Branson's latest crusade is reforming the university system around the world.
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News Link • Transportation
Young Americans Couldn't Care Less About Owning A New Car
04-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jill Krasny
The high cost of car ownership is driving Americans ages 18-34 to seek alternative modes of transport, a survey finds.
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News Link • European Union
Greece Is Using A Bartering System In Lieu Of The Euro
04-13-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Mark Lowen
As Greece wonders whether its debt crisis will eventually spell its exit from the euro, one town, Volos, has formed an alternative local currency.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Study: Autism Linked to Industrial Food, Environment
04-13-2012
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http://govtslaves.info
A new study by Clinical Epigenetics, a peer-reviewed journal that focuses largely on diseases, has found that the rise in autism in the United States could be linked to the industrial food system, specifically the prevalence of high-fructose corn syr
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
This New $7 Billion Warship Is Part Of The US Response To China's Military Buildup
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
Looking a bit like an old Civil War Ironclad, the $7 billion DDG 1000 USS Zumwalt will focus on land attacks, relying heavily on its advanced stealth technology to slip in close to shore before unleashing its massive onboard arsenal.
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News Link • European Union
Debt Crisis Plotted to Deliver the Euro to the IMF?
04-13-2012
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http://thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Spanish bailout 'impossible' for eurozone, says prime minister Mariano Rajoy ... The eurozone is not equipped to bail out Spain, the country's prime minister Mariano Rajoy has admitted
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
April 15, 2012 Edition
04-13-2012
John Semmens
Pelosi Confident Women's Votes Will Mean Democratic Sweep in November
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) says she is confident she will regain the gavel when Democrats sweep the November elections.
“Just looking at the top of the ticke
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News Link • Military
Pakistan Calls for End to US Interventionism
04-13-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
Drone strikes, troop incursions, and supply routes for NATO, among other things, must stop
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Harvard Law prof.: Charges against Zimmerman won’t hold up
04-13-2012
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MSNBC (video)
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz discusses the second-degree murder charges against George Zimmerman for Trayvon Martin’s death, and says the affidavit is “thin” and leaves out facts, and the charges won’t hold up in court.
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News Link • Welfare: Social
You’re on Your Own, Kids
04-13-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com, By Robert Scheer
Who will speak for the rights of the unborn now that Rick Santorum is gone from the race?
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News Link • Justice and Judges
This Tennessee Judge Had Sex And Bought Drugs During Courtroom Breaks
04-12-2012
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businessinsider.com, News Desk, GlobalPost
A Tennessee judge and alleged prescription drug addict stands accused of having had sex and buying pills during courtroom breaks
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
You Won't Believe The Things This High Ranking Navy Officer Did To Get Fired
04-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
Captain David Geisler was Commodore in charge of the logistics task force that supplied all naval assets in the 5th Fleet stationed in Bahrain
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News Link • Animals and Pets
State Seizes Property Under ‘Green’ Zoning Laws, Terrorizes Man To Death
04-12-2012
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prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
The shocking story of Andrew Wordes, who had his property seized and was terrorized to death by the city of Roswell, GA
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News Link • How To
Primal Prepping
04-12-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Rick Miller
In a recent interview with Lisa Bedford (Survival Mom), Lew Rockwell posed a question about prepping for those who choose a primal lifestyle.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Is a Water War between India and Pakistan Imminent?
04-12-2012
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Oilprice.com
A rising new element of discord threatens to precipitate a new armed clash between southern Asia’s two nuclear powers " water.
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News Link • Books
The Murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer
04-12-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Jacob G. Hornberger
The murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer is the subject of a fascinating and gripping new book by Peter Janney
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Predators of Marengo County
04-12-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
“What brings you to Demopolis?” The question seemed harmless, as did the questioner, Sgt. Tim Soronen of the Demopolis, Alabama police department. Diane Avera, the 45-year-old grandmother answering it candidly.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tidequistadors In Search of Sound Money
04-12-2012
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Reason magazine
It turns out that the detergent is not just good for making your clothes brighter than the imitation brand. It’s also street currency for buying pot and cocaine. Briefcases full of cash are being cast aside in favor of blaze-orange containers of laun
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News Link • Death Penalty
Connecticut becomes 17th state to repeal death penalty
04-12-2012
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Los Angeles Times
Connecticut has become the 17th state to repeal the death penalty, with lawmakers voting 86-62 on the measure after a marathon debate that stretched into the night and revived memories of some of the state's most heinous crimes.
Gov. Dannel Malloy
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