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Date Sent: 2015-08-03
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, August 3, 2015 |
GOP Debate party @ the Hancock's Thurs Aug 6th, 2015, from 5:30 p.m. PDT til ??
Venezuela Increasingly Looks Like A War Zone -- Are We Being Forced Into A "Second American Civil War"… If So, Who Will Win? -- Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 8/3/15: Politics Is Not the Path to Pro-Life Victory -- If Price Insensitive Buyers Become Sellers, Will The Entire Market Collapse? -- Trump campaign fires staffer over allegedly racist Facebook posts -- The Apache vs. Rio Tinto -- Obama Sends 'Memo To America' On The Biggest Thing A President's Ever Done On Climate Ch -- Varoufakis: Spain Could Become Greece if Austerity Persists -- Guatemalan Students Protest Government Corruption -- No strike, but talks between Verizon and unions stall -- CEO Hikes Minimum Wage To $70K, Capitalist Tragicomedy Ensues -- It Could Be Time to Say Bye-Bye to Medicare -- Washington tacks another 7¢ a gallon to state gas tax -- 8 True Benefits of Drinking Coffee You Didn't Know About -- Manly Grocery Shopping, Food Prices, Marketing?"Tactics and Tricks of the Trade -- Why Americans Believe That Bombing Hiroshima Was Necessary -- Oscar and Pulitzer Award-Winning Journalist Laura Poitras Sues U.S. Government .. -- My weekly; What is 'RIGHT' in the world! -- Jackalope is online... -- Empire State Building Highlights Cecil the Lion -- Malaysian Official Says Wing Flap is From Boeing 777 -- Georgia claims that publishing its state laws for free online is 'terrorism' -- China's 1929 Moment -- Israel's Genocidal War on Palestine Rages -- As China Admits It Lied About Its Local Debt Levels, Local Billionaires Are Quietly Liquidating -- CEO Hikes Minimum Wage To $70K, Capitalist Tragicomedy Ensues -- Assad Honors Syria's Army -- Joe Biden to Challenge Hillary? -- Syria's Refugee Crisis Just Got Worse --
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News Link • Economy - International
Venezuela Increasingly Looks Like A War Zone
08-02-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Over the years, we have repeatedly poked fun at the transformation of Venezuela into a "socialist utopia"
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Are We Being Forced Into A "Second American Civil War"… If So, Who Will Win?
08-02-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Divisions are along predictable lines: racism, police abuse, controversial social issues, and plenty of left vs. right, demographics and regional baggage to clash over as well.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 8/3/15: Politics Is Not the Path to Pro-Life Victory
08-02-2015
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popularliberty.com
During my time in Congress, I regularly introduced legislation forbidding organizations that perform abortions from receiving federal funding.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
If Price Insensitive Buyers Become Sellers, Will The Entire Market Collapse?
08-02-2015
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Zero Hedge
One narrative we've been building on for quite some time is the idea that both stocks and bonds have been propped up by a perpetual bid from price insensitive buyers.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Trump campaign fires staffer over allegedly racist Facebook posts
08-02-2015
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Anne Gearan
Donald Trump's campaign fired a staffer Sunday for what it said were racially offensive Facebook posts.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
The Apache vs. Rio Tinto
08-02-2015
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http://www.thenation.com, By Rick Kimbrell
The San Carlos tribe is fighting to block a massive mining project that would cut a two-mile wide crater through sacred land.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Sends 'Memo To America' On The Biggest Thing A President's Ever Done On Climate Ch
08-02-2015
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thinkprogress.org
Early Sunday morning, the White House shared a video message narrated by President Obama that announced the Monday release of the final version of the Clean Power Plan.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Varoufakis: Spain Could Become Greece if Austerity Persists
08-02-2015
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http://www.telesurtv.net
Politicians are using Greece's economic crisis to delegitimize anti-austerity policies, but Varoufakis says the opposite it true.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Guatemalan Students Protest Government Corruption
08-02-2015
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http://www.telesurtv.net
Guatemala has been rocked by a string of high-level corruption scandals in recent months.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
No strike, but talks between Verizon and unions stall
08-02-2015
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http://www.philly.com, Ben Finley
Nearly 40,000 Verizon workers on the East Coast are now working without a contract - but thus far have chosen not to strike after their contracts expired at midnight Saturday.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
CEO Hikes Minimum Wage To $70K, Capitalist Tragicomedy Ensues
08-02-2015
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Zero Hedge
Meet 31-year-old Dan Price.
Dan is the CEO of Seattle-based credit card payments processing firm Gravity Payments, and three months ago, he did a funny thing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
It Could Be Time to Say Bye-Bye to Medicare
08-02-2015
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http://www.foxbusiness.com, By Sean Williams
When it comes to the nation's most important entitlement programs -- the programs expected to be there for seniors when they get older after paying into the system for decades -- there are none more important than Social Security and Medicare.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: State
Washington tacks another 7¢ a gallon to state gas tax
08-02-2015
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http://www.oregonlive.com, AP
Washington tacked on another 7 cents to its gasoline tax as part of a $16 billion, 16-year package to pay for transportation projects across the state.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Self-Help: Rational Living
Manly Grocery Shopping, Food Prices, Marketingâ€"Tactics and Tricks of the Trade
08-02-2015
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LewRockwell
Odds are you are not crazy about grocery shopping. Regardless, we have to eat so here are a few things to look for or to avoid during your grocery store recon.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • American History
Why Americans Believe That Bombing Hiroshima Was Necessary
08-02-2015
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LewRockwell
August 6, 2015, is the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a civilian city that had minimal military value, despite the claims of President Truman when he announced the event to the American people.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Oscar and Pulitzer Award-Winning Journalist Laura Poitras Sues U.S. Government ..
08-02-2015
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eff.org
Poitras, Filmmaker Behind Snowden Documentary CITIZENFOUR, Searched and Questioned Every Time She Entered U.S. From 2006 to 2012
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Inspiration
My weekly; What is 'RIGHT' in the world!
08-02-2015
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popularliberty.com
It's so easy to see, only what is wrong in the world! So, I'd like to start a Post, dedicated to; "What is Right in the world".
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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Feature Article • Events: Arizona
Jackalope is online...
Donna Hancock
Pictures from a solar-powered Jackalope Freedom Festival at Baca Meadows, AZ from July 29th thru August 2nd, 2015...Pictures to be updated periodically thru out the event
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News Link • World News
Empire State Building Highlights Cecil the Lion
08-02-2015
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http://www.voanews.com
Photos of endangered wildlife and an image of Cecil the lion were projected on New York's iconic Empire State Building on Saturday as part of a promotion for the documentary film "Racing to Extinction."
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Malaysian Official Says Wing Flap is From Boeing 777
08-02-2015
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http://www.voanews.com
Minister Liow Tiong Lai said French authorities and plane maker Boeing were among those who have confirmed that the so-called flaperon came off a 777 jet.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Homeland Security
Georgia claims that publishing its state laws for free online is 'terrorism'
08-02-2015
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Los Angeles Times
The state of Georgia accuses Malamud of piracy -- and worse, of "a form of 'terrorism.'" He provides the public access to a searchable and downloadable scan of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated -- the entire body of state law.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China's 1929 Moment
08-02-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Anyone with a nose for markets will tell you that the Chinese government's attempt to rescue the country's stock markets from collapse is far from succeeding.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • China
As China Admits It Lied About Its Local Debt Levels, Local Billionaires Are Quietly Liquidating
08-02-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Their Assets. It was almost exactly two years ago, when during China's long-forgotten attempt to actively deleverage its economy (remember that? good times...) we commented on the country's s first attempt to estimate what its local government debt
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
CEO Hikes Minimum Wage To $70K, Capitalist Tragicomedy Ensues
08-02-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Dan is the CEO of Seattle-based credit card payments processing firm Gravity Payments, and three months ago, he did a funny thing.
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Gina Kynast
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