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Date Sent: 2013-03-19
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, March 19, 2013
 
Banking Chief Calls For 15% Looting of Italians’ Savings -- Newsroom staffing hits 34-year low

From hunter to the hungry: Fairfax County’s surplus deer are re-purposed -- The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery Shows That... -- After The Banksters Steal Money From Bank Accounts In Cyprus... -- Prison Profiteers - by William Grigg -- 17 Signs That A Full-Blown Economic Depression Is Raging In Southern Europe – Is The U.S. Next? -- Cyprus: The Next Blunder -- Will Cyprus Become Creditanstalt 2.0? -- The Cyprus File -- Gun control groups turn focus to ‘riders’ backed by NRA -- Pope Francis was often quiet on Argentine sex abuse cases as archbishop -- Is The CIA Trying to Kill Pro-US Venezuelan Opposition? -- MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD -- r3VOLution logo used at CPAC Ronald Reagan Dinner -- Arizona lawmakers back gold, silver as currency -- Mark Kelly's 'AR-15 Stunt' Provokes Giffords Photo Leak -- Cyprus savers to be compensated by shares, guarantee -- NATO chief says Karzai accusation "absolutely ridiculous" -- Former federal prosecutor guilty of murder, drug trafficking and racketeering -- Russia Sees Cyprus Plan as 'Unfair' Plot to Seize Money of Its Citizens -- STOCKS TANK: Markets Dive All Around The World Thanks To Tiny Cyprus

AZ: Silver Circle at Pollack Tempe Cinemas - April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ -- Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction with Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack, Apr. 13

 
Banking Chief Calls For 15% Looting of Italians’ Savings News Link  •  Economy - International
 Banking Chief Calls For 15% Looting of Italians’ Savings
03-18-2013  •  InfoWars 
The International Monetary Fund initially demanded to loot a shocking 40% of savings from the private bank accounts of Cypriots underscores how residents of the Mediterranean country could be the latest victims of the infamous “IMF riot,”  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Newsroom staffing hits 34-year low News Link  •  MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
 Newsroom staffing hits 34-year low
03-18-2013  •  http://newsosaur.blogspot.com 
The number of journalists working at U.S. newspapers today is at the lowest point since the American Society of News Editors began its annual newsroom census in 1978.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
From hunter to the hungry: Fairfax County’s surplus deer are re-purposed News Link  •  Gun Rights
 From hunter to the hungry: Fairfax County’s surplus deer are re-purposed
03-18-2013  •  Washington Post 
Short on food and space, the swelling deer population is a threat to man and nature alike. Animals leap in front of cars. They have upended the ecosystem by gobbling some plants to the point of extinction. Something must be done, the deer have  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery Shows That... News Link  •  Economy - International
 The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery Shows That...
03-18-2013  •  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com 
...No Bank Account, No Retirement Fund And No Stock Portfolio Is Safe  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
After The Banksters Steal Money From Bank Accounts In Cyprus... News Link  •  Economy - International
 After The Banksters Steal Money From Bank Accounts In Cyprus...
03-18-2013  •  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com 
...They Will Start Doing It EVERYWHERE  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Prison Profiteers - by William Grigg News Link  •  Criminal Justice System
 Prison Profiteers - by William Grigg
03-18-2013  •  Lew Rockwell blog 
No decent person has anything but contempt for Drug Kingpins " but it’s difficult to see how Prohibition Profiteers are any less contemptible. And they’re hardly the only people who have become wealthy by monetizing the misery generated in the prison  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
17 Signs That A Full-Blown Economic Depression Is Raging In Southern Europe News Link  •  Economy - International
 17 Signs That A Full-Blown Economic Depression Is Raging In Southern Europe " Is The U.S. Next?
03-18-2013  •  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com 
Confindustria, the business federation, said 29pc of Italian firms cannot meet "operational expenses" and are starved of liquidity. A "third phase of the credit crunch" is underway that matches the shocks in 2008-2009 and again in 2011.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Cyprus: The Next Blunder News Link  •  Economy - International
 Cyprus: The Next Blunder
03-18-2013  •  www.nakedcapitalism.com 
What is new is that bank deposits will be “taxed”. The proper term is “confiscated”. Like everywhere in the EU, bank deposits in Cyprus are guaranteed up to €100,000, only to be told that the guarantee has been changed ex post.   Read Full Story
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Will Cyprus Become Creditanstalt 2.0? News Link  •  Economy - International
 Will Cyprus Become Creditanstalt 2.0?
03-18-2013  •  www.nakedcapitalism.com 
Creditanstalt, an Austrian bank that collapsed in 1931, precipitated a financial panic that led to a series of bank failures and a currency crisis, a classic combination of contagion worsened by poor official responses. The Cyprus deposit-seizure sch  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
The Cyprus File News Link  •  Economy - International
 The Cyprus File
03-18-2013  •  www.nakedcapitalism.com 
Here is Das’s summary of the Cyprus deal points and possible outcomes. But first, the latest news snapshot:   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Gun control groups turn focus to ‘riders’ backed by NRA News Link  •  Gun Rights
 Gun control groups turn focus to ‘riders’ backed by NRA
03-18-2013  •  Washington Post 
Gun control advocates are hoping to reverse some of the political influence of gun rights proponents by urging the White House to strip the president’s next budget proposal of any provision that limits how federal agencies track firearms.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Pope Francis was often quiet on Argentine sex abuse cases as archbishop News Link  •  Religion: Believers
 Pope Francis was often quiet on Argentine sex abuse cases as archbishop
03-18-2013  •  Washington Post 
Today, Grassi is a convicted sex offender who remains free on a conditional release after being sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2009 for molesting a prepubescent boy in his care. Yet in the years after Grassi’s conviction, Bergoglio " now Pope   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Is The CIA Trying to Kill Pro-US Venezuelan Opposition? News Link  •  Central Intelligence Agency
 Is The CIA Trying to Kill Pro-US Venezuelan Opposition?
03-18-2013  •  Lew Rockwell blog 
Even though it sounds far fetched, Maduro singles out two men he claims are behind these plans, Otto Reich and Roger Noriega, who are well known in Latin America for their decades of dirty work there on behalf of the US government.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD News Link  •  Central Intelligence Agency
 MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD
03-18-2013  •  The Guardian 
A special BBC Panorama program will reveal how British and US intelligence agencies were informed by top sources months before the invasion that Iraq had no active WMD program, and the information was not passed to subsequent inquiries.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
r3VOLution logo used at CPAC Ronald Reagan Dinner News Link  •  Activism
 r3VOLution logo used at CPAC Ronald Reagan Dinner
03-18-2013  •  www.dailypaul.com 
Adam VS CPAC 2013 - Submitted by JO4RP on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 18:53  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Arizona lawmakers back gold, silver as currency News Link  •  Currencies
 Arizona lawmakers back gold, silver as currency
03/18/2013  •  abc 15 
PHOENIX - Arizona Republican lawmakers say privately minted gold and silver coins should be considered legal tender. The bill advanced in a 4-2 vote by a House committee Monday states that gold and silver is money and therefore shouldn't be subje  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ronald Bogner
Mark Kelly's 'AR-15 Stunt' Provokes Giffords Photo Leak News Link  •  Gun Rights
 Mark Kelly's 'AR-15 Stunt' Provokes Giffords Photo Leak
03-18-2013  •  www.breitbart.com 
Here are two photos of me that a conservative blog has dug up. I remember both of these days fondly.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Cyprus savers to be compensated by shares, guarantee News Link  •  Economy - International
 Cyprus savers to be compensated by shares, guarantee
03-18-2013  •  Reuters 
Cyprus's president said on Sunday that savers made to pay a tax on bank deposits as part of a sovereign bailout deal will be compensated by shares in banks guaranteed by future natural gas revenues.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
NATO chief says Karzai accusation News Link  •  Afghanistan
 NATO chief says Karzai accusation "absolutely ridiculous"
03-18-2013  •  Reuters 
The head of NATO said it was "absolutely ridiculous" for Afghan President Hamid Karzai to accuse the United States of colluding with the Taliban and said Kabul should recognize sacrifices made by other countries on Afghanistan's behalf.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Former federal prosecutor guilty of murder, drug trafficking and racketeering News Link  •  Criminal Justice System
 Former federal prosecutor guilty of murder, drug trafficking and racketeering
03-18-2013  •  Reuters 
A prominent New Jersey defense attorney was convicted by a federal jury on Monday of facilitating a laundry list of crimes through his law firm, including the murder of an FBI informant, drug trafficking and prostitution.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Russia Sees Cyprus Plan as 'Unfair' Plot to Seize Money of Its Citizens News Link  •  Economy - International
 Russia Sees Cyprus Plan as 'Unfair' Plot to Seize Money of Its Citizens
03-18-2013  •  www.nytimes.com 
Russians from President Vladimir V. Putin on down expressed fury on Monday over the European Union’s proposal to bail out the banking system in Cyprus in a manner seen in Moscow as specifically designed to extract money from Russian depositors  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
STOCKS TANK: Markets Dive All Around The World Thanks To Tiny Cyprus News Link  •  Economy - International
 STOCKS TANK: Markets Dive All Around The World Thanks To Tiny Cyprus
03-18-2013  •  Business Insider 
Markets are tanking all around the world thanks to the goings on in a country with a GDP that's less than Shreveport, Louisiana's.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
Whole Foods and the GMO Blame Game News Link  •  Food
 Whole Foods and the GMO Blame Game
03-18-2013  •  Farm Wars 
Whole Foods said out loud what just about every grocery store, supermarket, and big box health food store is really doing " selling GMOs disguised as “healthy” food. You can do it, just don’t talk about it.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Barbara Peterson
A Last-Second Appeal for Sanity Opinion  •  Iraq
 Ray McGovern: My Take
A Last-Second Appeal for Sanity
03-18-2013
Ray McGovern
   Ten years ago, the U.S. invasion of Iraq was only hours away, but the case for this unprovoked war was already falling apart with exposure of hyperbole, half-truths and even a forgery. On March 18, 2003, a group of U.S. intelligence veterans pleaded
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Afghans Demand Withdrawal of US Special Forces News Link  •  Afghanistan
 Afghans Demand Withdrawal of US Special Forces
03-17-2013  •  http://www.commondreams.org, Lauren McCauley 
Protesters marching on Kabul call for the release of 'disappeared' civilians  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee
Ten Years After the Invasion: News Link  •  Iraq
 Ten Years After the Invasion:
03-17-2013  •  http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Nicolas J.S. Davi 
The evil unleashed on the people of Iraq has been painstakingly obscured behind a tapestry of lies.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee
3D-printed gun maker now has federal firearms license to manufacture, deal guns News Link  •  Gun Rights
 3D-printed gun maker now has federal firearms license to manufacture, deal guns
03/17/2013  •  arstechnica 
On Saturday, Defense Distributed"America’s best-known group of 3D gunsmiths"announced on Facebook that its founder, Cody Wilson, now has a federal license to be a gun manufacturer and dealer. The group published a picture of the Type 7 federal firear  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ronald Bogner
Border Security Is Using High-Tech Equipment Like Never Before News Link  •  Drones
 Border Security Is Using High-Tech Equipment Like Never Before
03-17-2013  •  Business Insider 
Someplace else, the trio of compact aircraft hanging in mid-air might have been mistaken for shiny, remote-controlled toys.   Read Full Story
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Radioactive recliner chairs, apartment buildings and household goods News Link  •  Government
 Radioactive recliner chairs, apartment buildings and household goods
03-17-2013  •  naturalnews.com 
The American government has developed a solution for all the excess radioactive metal from the medical industry and military: Make it into belt buckles.   Read Full Story
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First Man Arrested Under NY’s Unconstitutional SAFE Act News Link  •  Gun Rights
 First Man Arrested Under NY’s Unconstitutional SAFE Act
03-16-2013  •  freedomoutpost.com 
Thirty-two year old Benjamin Wassell of Silver Creek has become the first victim in New York’s unconstitutional SAFE Act. That’s right, I used the term “victim” because these are completely unlawful laws being enforced.   Read Full Story
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Obama’s Advisors: Disarm America Through Taxation News Link  •  Gun Rights
 Obama’s Advisors: Disarm America Through Taxation
03-16-2013  •  freedomoutpost.com 
“The power to tax involves the power to destroy,” Chief Justice John Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819   Read Full Story
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Hagel: U.S. to Beef Up Missile Defense News Link  •  Military
 Hagel: U.S. to Beef Up Missile Defense
03-16-2013  •  youtube 
The U.S. will add 14 interceptors to a West Coast-based missile defense system, reflecting concern about North Korea's focus on developing nuclear weapons and its advances in long-range missile technology.  Read Full Story
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“What in the world is a Bitcoin?” News Link  •  Bitcoin
 “What in the world is a Bitcoin?”
03-16-2013  •  Sovereignman.com 
Earlier in the week, I wrote to you about an Argentine car rental agency that had started accepting Bitcoins as a means to bypass local capital controls.   Read Full Story
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America Destroyed Iraq, War Crimes Remain Unacknowledged and Unpunished News Link  •  Iraq
 America Destroyed Iraq, War Crimes Remain Unacknowledged and Unpunished
03-16-2013  •  Global Research 
The evil unleashed on the people of Iraq has been painstakingly obscured behind a tapestry of lies  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee
Cash for Doctors News Link  •  Healthcare
 Cash for Doctors
03-16-2013  •  weeklystandard.com 
With Obama-care poised to kick in to high gear next year, Dr. Brian Forrest routinely hears skeptics ask if the new laws and regulations will stifle his innovative primary care practice outside Raleigh, N.C.  Read Full Story
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Australian Government Set to Seize Money from Citizens Bank Accounts News Link  •  Economy - International
 Australian Government Set to Seize Money from Citizens Bank Accounts
03-16-2013  •  wakeup-world.com 
The ‘Australian Government’ is now set to ‘legally’ seize money from citizens bank accounts without their knowledge or approval.  Read Full Story
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The Iraq Disaster Haunts America News Link  •  Iraq
 The Iraq Disaster Haunts America
03-16-2013  •  Lewrockwell.com 
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War.   Read Full Story
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Ecuador Moves to Annul U.S.-Ecuador BIT, Denounces Investor-State System News Link  •  Bank of International Settlements
 Ecuador Moves to Annul U.S.-Ecuador BIT, Denounces Investor-State System
03-16-2013  •  citizen.typepad.com 
As global criticism of the investor-state dispute system mounts, Ecuador is taking concrete steps to secede from pacts that enshrine this system, which exposes the country to direct attacks on its public interest policies from foreign investors.   Read Full Story
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Egypt Opposes Women's Rights News Link  •  Egypt
 Egypt Opposes Women's Rights
03-16-2013  •  arclein 
The Islamist party of President Mohamed Mursi outlined 10 reasons why Muslim countries should "reject and condemn" the declaration, which the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women is racing to negotiate a consensus deal on by Friday.   Read Full Story
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Whole Foods announces Mandatory GMO Labeling News Link  •  Food
 Whole Foods announces Mandatory GMO Labeling
03-16-2013  •  arclein 
It's a brilliant move for Whole Foods, given that by 2018, anyone who wants to be certain whether they are avoiding GMOs will gladly choose to do all their shopping at Whole Foods. After all, if Albertson's (for example) doesn't require GMO labeli  Read Full Story
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How Iran Censors The Internet [Infographic] News Link  •  Internet
 How Iran Censors The Internet [Infographic]
03-16-2013  •  popsci.com  
Information wants to be free. It takes a lot of moving parts to chain it down  Read Full Story
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High-Ranking Syrian General Defects From Army, Citing Low Morale News Link  •  Syria
 High-Ranking Syrian General Defects From Army, Citing Low Morale
03-16-2013  •  Business Insider 
A high-ranking general in the Syrian army defected on Saturday with the help of rebels and said morale is low among those still fighting for President Bashar Assad as the civil war enters its third year.   Read Full Story
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