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Date Sent: 2011-04-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 21, 2011 PM edition |
The Biometric Elite: Travel group pushes 'trusted traveler' screening program
BP's criminal negligence exposed -- More NATO ‘Advisers’ Sent to East Libya --
Analysts: Libya War Could Drag On Indefinitely -- The Future of School
Choice: Arizona’s New ESA Program -- GARY JOHNSON ANNOUNCES HIS
CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT -- What’s In It For Me? - by Joseph Stedino with Dary Matera -- Ron Paul Is Starting to Make Sense: The Esquire Profile -- Are You Scared Yet? Big Sis To Beam Terror Warnings To Your iPhone
-- It’s Game Over For The U.S. -- Here's Your Sign: The 10th Sign That
The Economy Is Slowing Down -- Dirty Harry Reid Said "Make My Day" -
Why The Online Casinos Were Whacked -- Anatomy Of A Monetary Accident -- Initial Jobless Claims 400K Again: Confirming Consumer Metrics Institute -- Rumor: Fed To Confirm End Of QE At Next Week's Meeting -- Jim Rogers Does "Not See Who Will Buy With The Fed Gone" -- Poll Reveals: Americans Are Still In Deep Denial About The Deficit -- $6 Gas? Could Happen if Dollar Keeps Getting Weaker -- Freefalling Dollar Sends Silver Above $46 -- Musings on Plutocracy -- Mission Creep in Libya
AZ: FEE awards
ceremony at the Freedom Library, Yuma, April 26th.
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News Link • Surveillance
The Biometric Elite: Travel group pushes 'trusted traveler' screening program
04-21-2011
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LAtimes.com
Ads urging travelers to "tell Congress you want a trusted traveler program" will also appear at major airport terminals in June.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
UPDATE 2-Rebels will accept foreign forces to protect Libyans
04-21-2011
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www.reuters.com
* Rebel spokesman says NATO action improving
* Military leaders have approved arrival of military advisers
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
We No Longer Live In The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave
04-21-2011
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prisonplanet.com
10 Examples That Should Convince Anyone That We No Longer Live In The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Libyan War Gets Weird: Defending the Indefensible
04-21-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Even those who have studied for years the criminal consolidation of this planet under the global corporate-financier oligarchy may be noticing that the war in Libya is turning into something new and unprecedented.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Political Parties
Arizona Democratic Party chairman slams Republicans
04-21-2011
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RawStory.com
The chairman of the Arizona Democratic Party blasted Republican lawmakers led by Senate President Russell Pearce on Wednesday as the state's Legislature ended its 2011 regular session.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Oklahoma 4th state to ban abortions after 20 weeks
04-21-2011
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RawStory.com
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin on Wednesday signed into law a prohibition on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, making it the fourth state to ban such late term abortions.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Conservative activist: Bible, Ben Franklin, Pilgrims all opposed to net neutrality
04-21-2011
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RawStory.com
The idea that all Internet traffic should be treated equally is against the teachings of the Bible and America's Founding Fathers, according to evangelical Christian minister and political activist David Barton.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Military
West Takes Over East
04-21-2011
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dailybell.ch
Italy, France sending troops to advise Libyan rebels ... France and Italy announced Wednesday that they will send military officers to Libya to advise rebels fighting for the ouster of leader Moammar Gadhafi and his regime.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
21st Century Investing NOT Business As Usual
04-21-2011
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dailybell.ch
The challenges facing investors and investment professionals ... Personal investment is a goldmine for some but a minefield for most. The decade ahead is going to pose tough challenges for both personal investors and the investment professionals who
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Books
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday April 21st, 2011
04-21-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Don't Go to College, Miss V. - Even if it's "free," says Gary North, college will hurt your career. / I Never Thought I'd Like a Politician's Book - But Ron Paul's Liberty Defined is catnip for anarcho-capitalists, says Becky Akers. / 'I'd Rather Fig
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
The Future of School Choice: Arizona’s New ESA Program
04-21-2011
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www.nationalreview.com
Imagine how different public education in America would be if parents had real control of the $500 billion (more than $10,000 per child) that is spent on their children’s behalf.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GARY JOHNSON ANNOUNCES HIS CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT
04-21-2011
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www.cisionwire.com
Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson today announced that he is seeking the 2012 Republican nomination for President of the United States.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Books
What’s In It For Me? by Joseph Stedino With Dary Matera
04-21-2011
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www.amazon.com
AzScam: The true story of how the State of Arizona is run, and the corrupt politicians who profit.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
The truth about residency and citizenship in Paraguay
04-21-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
“You know, I really feel like the decline of the dollar is going to cause a lot of problems in the world" rising prices, currency imbalances, social unrest… I feel very safe here in Paraguay though because we have everything we need: food, water, and
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Is Starting to Make Sense: The Esquire Profile
04-21-2011
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esquire.com
Ron Paul is the most important politician in America today because he's the rare politician " maybe the only politician " who always says exactly what he really believes.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Are You Scared Yet? Big Sis To Beam Terror Warnings To Your Iphone
04-21-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Government will tell you when to stay indoors
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
First 3-D porn released in theatres beats ‘Avatar’ record in Hong Kong
04-21-2011
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RawStory.com
A Hong Kong movie billed as the world's first 3D porn film has broken the city's first-day box office record previously set by Hollywood blockbuster Avatar.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
G. Edward Griffin: The Collectivist Conspiracy
04-21-2011
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InfoWars.com/
His research, which spans no less than 5 decades, has revealed a banking elite obsessed with enforcing a world government under a collectivist model that will crush individualism and institute martial law as a response to the inevitable backlash
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
It’s Game Over For The U.S.
04-21-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
For the first time since the Great Depression, the US is now officially paying out more in benefits than it takes in via tax receipts.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Here's Your Sign: The 10th Sign That The Economy Is Slowing Down
04-21-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Today we got the 10th sign: Initial jobless claims are starting to stagnate, jumping above 400K now two weeks in a row.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Dirty Harry Reid Said "Make My Day" - Why The Online Casinos Were Whacked
04-21-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Anyone that knows how Washington D.C. works should have smelled a rat when online poker operations were recently busted.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Anatomy Of A Monetary Accident
04-21-2011
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Market-ticker.org
What we have is a Federal Reserve that has joined hands with Congress and the Administration, both present and previous, in an intentional act of debasement to finance profligate deficit spending.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Philadelphia Fed Massive Miss: Comes At 18.5 On Expectations of 36.9
04-21-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Here comes the first indicator that Q2 GDP is about to be mass revised by everyone, courtesy of Japan, and ongoing inflation pressures: the Philadelphia Fed collapsed from a revised 43.4 (a 27 year high) to 18.5, the lowest since November 2010.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
China Adds 18.9 GW of Wind Power
04-21-2011
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arclein
China has become the single largest driver for global wind power development. In 2010, every second wind turbine that was added anywhere in the world was installed in China.” said Steve Sawyer, GWEC’s Secretary General.
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
US CO2 Emissions Declining
04-21-2011
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arclein
n the same year greenhouse emissions fell, the EPA, which should be an acronym for Eternally Panicked and Alarmed, determined "that climate change caused by emissions of greenhouse gases threatens the public's health and the environment." Regardin
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robert klein
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News Link • Corruption
BP Still Being Awarded Lucrative Government Contracts
04-20-2011
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Jason Leopold, Truthout
BP continues to receive tens of millions of dollars in government contracts, despite the fact that the British oil company is under federal criminal investigation over the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and twice violated its probation late last year
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Obama Administration
The war complex
04-21-2011
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Tom Turnipseed, The News
Obama won the presidency campaigning as a peacemaker but approved $40 billion for arms sales to other countries in his first year in the White House compared to the $34.5 billion President G W Bush approved in his last year in office according to the
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Initial Jobless Claims 400K Again: Confirming Consumer Metrics Institute
04-21-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/ & consumerindexes.com/
The fact that Initial Jobless claims are rising once again should come as no surprise to those who watch The Consumer Metrics Institutes contraction watch. The economy is heading for new lows on a daily basis...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Rumor: Fed To Confirm End Of QE At Next Week's Meeting
04-21-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The outcome of next week's Fed board meeting isn't in doubt. It is likely to decide to allow a $600 billion program to buy Treasury bonds to run its course, as planned, in June. The debate will shift to how and when to begin raising interest rates...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Jim Rogers Does "Not See Who Will Buy With The Fed Gone"
04-21-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
He also said what we have been saying since about October of last year: "I mean the market is just going to give up. Once (the Fed) ... stops buying bonds I'm not sure who's left to buy bonds at that point."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
$6 Gas? Could Happen if Dollar Keeps Getting Weaker
04-21-2011
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CNBC.com
"If you get weakness in the dollar concurrent with the strong driving season concurrent with the impact of one or two hurricanes in the wrong place, prices could go up in a quasi-exponential manner."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Freefalling Dollar Sends Silver Above $46
04-21-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
At this rate the Hunt Brothers all time high to be taken out within a week...or a day, right about the time the dollar suffers terminal implosion. The DXY is now below 74.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Musings on Plutocracy
04-21-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
One of Hacker and Pierson’s complaints about the way we usually regard politics is that we miss what’s really going on by focusing on the show of elections and the competition between parties. This is the theatre of electoral politics…‘
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Pima County, AZ Loses Appeal in RTA Ballot Case: Libertarians Secure Legal Victory for Election Inte
04-20-2011
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Weekly Intercept
According to Attorney Bill Risner, the Arizona Supreme Court issued its order today denying Pima County's Petition for Review of the decision of the Court of Appeals. As a result, the Libertarian Party has completed the second half of its legal vict
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