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Date Sent: 2011-05-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, May 16, 2011 PM edition |
U.S. dipping into pensions as it hits debt limit -- Medicare to exhaust funds sooner
Army ‘Birther’ Lakin Released From Leavenworth -- Members of Congress question seizures of alleged pirate domain names -- May 17, 2002: Bush's Ownership Society Morphed Into Foreclosure-Gate
-- Ernest share's his weekend tour at GardenPool.org in Mesa, Arizona
-- New Details in IMF Sex Case -- 'Catastrophic' picture emerges of
Syrian towna -- China cuts holdings of US Treasurys for 5th month -- Japan purchased US debt in March despite crisis -- US Navy Drones: Coming to a Carrier Near China? -- Ron Paul suggests basic freedoms depend on property rights -- Saudi woman defies driving ban -- Imagine Access To The Internet Restricted To Registered "Trusted Identities" -- America Is Rapidly Bleeding Wealth And Jobs: $40 Billion A Month Offshored -- Empire State Manufacturing Index Plunges, Comes At 11.9 Down From 21.7 -- (4409) WalletVoting: How to vote with a Silver Bullet -- McDonald’s to shake up food ordering system -- Does Big Government Make People Happy? -- Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen -- Debt limit to be reached today!
-- Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything—for free. (Publisher
Recommended) -- Gilbert Political Sign Theft Story About to Get Much
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. dipping into pensions as it hits debt limit
05-16-2011
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Reuters
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress he would start tapping into federal pension funds on Monday to free up borrowing capacity as the nation hits the $14.294 trillion legal limit on its debt.
The Treasury will issue $72 billion in bon
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Social Security
Medicare to exhaust funds sooner, report finds
05-16-2011
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Reuters
Two of the government's most popular programs for the elderly, Medicare and Social Security, will run out of money sooner than thought earlier as a slow-growing economy saps revenues, a report on Friday said.
Trustees for the two funds said the Me
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Debt limit to be reached today! Watch the US national debt in real-time right here! (national debt t
05-16-2011
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The Economic Peephole
The US federal debt limit is about to be reached today at a dollar amount of $14.3 trillion and the debt ceiling needs to be raised or the US will face defaulting on its bonds
US debt limit is going to be reached today
Think ab
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Reported by:
Michael Haltman
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News Link • Obama Administration
Army ‘Birther’ Lakin Released From Leavenworth
05-16-2011
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CBS News
Terry Lakin is a leader among this fringe [birther] group and a controversial Maryland Army doctor who was just released from prison. He was released Friday after serving five months of a six-month sentence for refusing to go to Afghanistan.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Members of Congress question seizures of alleged pirate domain names
05-16-2011
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Rawstory
For the last several months, Democratic members of Congress have been asking the Department of Homeland Security/ICE to clarify the policy behind its seizures of the domain names of websites that are alleged to be involved in copyright violations.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
May 17, 2002: Bush's Ownership Society Morphed Into Foreclosure-Gate
05-16-2011
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truth-out.org/ & YouTube.com
Foreclosure-Gate poses a threat to Wall Street, the big banks, and the political establishment. If the public ever gets a complete picture of the personal, financial, and legal assault on citizens at their most vulnerable, the outrage will be endless
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
New Details in IMF Sex Case
05-16-2011
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Wall Street Journal
Police said a 32-year-old cleaning woman accused Mr. Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in the Sofitel Hotel near Times Square. The alleged victim, a native of Guinea and mother of two, said she entered room 2806, a $3,000-a-night luxury suite,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
'Catastrophic' picture emerges of Syrian town
05-16-2011
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AP
Carrying mattresses and bags of clothing, Syrians fleeing their homeland described a "catastrophic" scene in a besieged border town that has been largely sealed off as the army tries to crush a two-month uprising. At least 8 people were killed Sunday
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China cuts holdings of US Treasurys for 5th month
05-16-2011
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AP
China, the biggest buyer of U.S. securities, trimmed its holdings for a fifth straight month.
The Treasury Department said Monday that China cut its holdings by $9.2 billion to $1.14 trillion.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Japan purchased US debt in March despite crisis
05-16-2011
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AP
Japan increased its holding of U.S. Treasury securities in March, the same month it was hit by a devastating earthquake.
The Treasury Department says Japan, the second-largest foreign holder, boosted its holdings by $17.6 billion to $907.9 billion
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
US Navy Drones: Coming to a Carrier Near China?
05-16-2011
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AP
The U.S. is developing aircraft carrier-based drones that could provide a crucial edge as it tries to counter China's military rise.
American officials have been tightlipped about where the unmanned armed planes might be used, but a top Navy offic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Property Rights
Ron Paul suggests basic freedoms depend on property rights
05-16-2011
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Rawstory (video)
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) made waves by saying he would not have voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act if he had been in Congress at the time. Paul dismissed claims he is a racist as “outlandish” and would have voted to desegregate public facilities.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Saudi woman defies driving ban
05-16-2011
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AFP
A Saudi mother said she defied a ban on women drivers in the ultra-conservative kingdom by getting behind the wheel for 4 days without being stopped. Najla al-Hariri, a housewife in her mid-30s, said she drove "to defend her belief that Saudi women s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
AZ Judge says unlawful to ever resist cops in 1990
05-15-2011
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Phoenix New Times
The Indiana Supreme Court ruling stating cops can illegally enter your home and it is illegal to resist are not the first such ruling. I remember a currently siting U.S. District Judge in Arizona who so ruled in 1990.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Imagine Access To The Internet Restricted To Registered "Trusted Identities"
05-16-2011
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news.cnet.com
"Every time you log in, it reads your iris and creates a unique key, which is a series of numbers, and this key changes every time you log in, so no one can hack it," Tracy Hoyos, assistant marketing director, said in an interview with CNN.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
IrisGuard Makes Inroads, from Mideast Banks to U.S. Prisons
05-16-2011
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noir.bloomberg.com/
Deploying the world’s first iris-based border control system for the United Arab Emirates, where foreigners make up 60 percent of the population. Since its tracking system started operating in 2002, more than 37 million arriving passengers...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
America Is Rapidly Bleeding Wealth And Jobs: $40 Billion A Month Offshored
05-16-2011
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BlackListedNews.com
Red alert! Over 40 billion dollars of America's national wealth is being shipped out of the country every single month. Our economy is being gutted and we are bleeding wealth and we are bleeding jobs. This is a distress call. Is anyone listening?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Empire State Manufacturing Index Plunges, Comes At 11.9 Down From 21.7
05-16-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The just released Empire Manufacturing index has plunged nearly by half from 21.7 to 11.9 in May. The general business conditions index fell ten points to 11.9.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
McDonald’s to shake up food ordering system
05-16-2011
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Financial Times
McDonald’s is to change the way customers order its meals in Europe, partly replacing cashiers and the use of banknotes at its 7,000 fast-food restaurants in the region with touchscreen terminals and swipe cards.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Does Big Government Make People Happy?
05-16-2011
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LiveScience
In a time of vicious budget debates on Capitol Hill, a new study finds that the path to happiness might be through big government.
But the findings aren't likely to be the last word on the topic, underscoring the difficulty of answering the preva
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Counter-Economics
Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen
05-15-2011
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Launch
Bottom line: The world is going to be turned over by bitcoins unless governments step in and ban them by prosecuting individuals.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Politics
This Week In Paul #2 - Win a 1oz Ron Paul Silver Medallion!
05-16-11
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http://ronpaul2012.tv
http://RTR.org | Win a 1oz Ron Paul Silver Medallion! Spread the word about Ron Paul and win some silver, not a bad gig huh? CONTEST RULES: To enter your chance to win you must: Comment, Subscribe, AND Share this video. If you do not do ALL three you
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Corruption
Breaking News - Gilbert Political Sign Theft Story About to Get Much Bigger
5-16-2011
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www.abc15.com
Breaking News!
The recent Political Insiders having got caught stealing free speech campaign road signs story in Gilbert Arizona, is about to get considerably bigger.
Although insider Roberta ‘Bobbie’ Smith in Gilbert Arizona, got caught steal
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything - for free. (Publisher Recommended)
05-15-2011
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khanacademy.org
Help us change education - Our small team is on a mission to deliver a world-class education to anyone anywhere, and you can help. Take a second to get the word out, or read about how teachers, translators, donors, and everyone else can contribute.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Early nutrition has a Long-Term Metabolic Impact
05-16-2011
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arclein
The two other groups were randomized to receive either a low-protein formula with 1.8 grams of protein/100 kilocalories (g/kcal) or a high-protein formula with 2.7 g/100 kcal. The protein content of both formulas was within the recommended levels of
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Giant Squid
05-16-2011
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arclein
Scientists investigating the giant squid remains at the time found evidence of extensive bodily damage, including mantles reduced to pulp, bruised muscles, and lesions in statocysts. These fluid-filled organs rest behind the creatures' eyes and help
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Conductivity Control
05-16-2011
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arclein
A team of researchers at MIT has found a way to manipulate both the thermal conductivity and the electrical conductivity of materials simply by changing the external conditions, such as the surrounding temperature. And the technique they found can
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robert klein
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Feature Article • Activism
Marijuana Rally Phoenix Arizona
Thomas Costanzo
Activists from Norml and other individuals gather on Indian School and 3rd St to demonstrate for the rights of individuals to smoke pot. The Police State has no legitimate right to prevent what free people put int their bodies. The Declaration of Ind
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