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Date Sent: 2012-05-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, May 18, 2012 PM ed. |
House Rejects Effort to End Afghan War -- Ron Paul: Dangerous Legislation
Applying the Six-Day War to Iran - by Ray McGovern -- 05-18-12 - Geoff Neale - Ed Foster - David Fitzgerald - (Video & MP3 Loaded) -- Food Stamps and the $41 Cake -- Capital Monopoly and Agriculture -- Kiwi Pathogen Tracked -- Human Brain Evolution Cracked -- Methane Hydrate Successfully Produced -- What Does Ron Paul Want? -- Global Bondageddon? --
Hondurans Attack Government Buildings, Demand US Leave -- Phase I
Clinical Trial Shows Drug Shrinks Melanoma Brain Metastases -- Controversial ‘Smart’ Parking Meters to Debut in Santa Monica --
Romney on Rev. Wright: ‘I Stand by What I Said, Whatever It Was’ -- Spy
drone could have almost brought down a plane in Colorado -- Major CISPA opponent steps down, jeopardizing White House's veto promise -- US seeks extra $70m for Israel defence shield -- Spanish Banks’ Bonds Slide After Moody’s Downgrades Ratings --
FOREX-Euro at 4 month low against dollar as crisis spins -- Greece
Reflects Growing Economic Turmoil - by Stephen Lendman -- Ziyad Yaghi: Guilty of Being Muslim
in America - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: Save America Seminar - Phoenix
2012 - Tomorrow May 19th, 2012
NH: 30 days until PorcFest (schedule now online) smart phone app
Sunday: Solar Eclipse Visible from
National Parks
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
House Rejects Effort to End Afghan War
05-18-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
One of 142 different amendments to the House military spending bill for 2014, Rep. Barbara Lee (D " CA)’s amendment that would effective end the Afghan War, allowing spending only for the “safe and orderly withdrawal of US troops and military contrac
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Dangerous Legislation
05-18-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Rep. Ron Paul
I strongly oppose H Res 568, a resolution "expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the importance of preventing the Government of Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conferences
Save America Seminar - Phoenix 2012 - May 19th, 2012
05-15-2012
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www.truthattack.org
Seminar Teaches 1) the kind of federal government intended by the Founding Fathers and created by the Constitution; 2) how the government slipped its chains, escaped the castle and now runs amok through the village, trampling rights and liberty and r
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Palm Beach Sheriff targets deputies, blogger who expose corruption
05/18/2012
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Adrian Wyllie
Former Palm Beach County Deputy Mark Dougan was a law enforcement officer that upheld the oath he took to support and defend the Constitution of the State of Florida and the United States. That’s why, according to Dougan, “all hell broke loose” when
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Matt Schnackenberg
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
In Arizona, Corruption and Incompetence on a Breathtaking Scale at theGOP State Convention
05-18-2012
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Submitted by inspirit
This is from Pepper who was in the tally room observing the ballot counting.
May 12, 2012 AZ GOP
Part 1
Pepper Draper
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Shondean Coochise
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
Applying the Six-Day War to Iran
05-18-2012
Ray McGovern
With the 45th anniversary of the Six-Day War of June 1967 coming early next month, pro-Israel pundits like syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer are again promoting Israel’s faux-narrative on the reasons behind Israel’s decision to attack its neig
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
How to Win at Battleship
05-18-2012
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www.slate.com
Universal Studios hopes to rake in millions of dollars this weekend with the release of its new action film Battleship, and sales of the classic board game are expected to get a nice boost, too.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Agriculture
Capital Monopoly and Agriculture
05-18-2012
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arclein
The UN report was not the only study conducted recently favoring small-scale organic farming. Feeding the Future, a report released by the UK's Soil Association, confirmed the UN study with the added focus of organic farming for soil preservation.
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Kiwi Pathogen Tracked
05-18-2012
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arclein
When New Zealand reported the disease in 2010, the United States immediately banned all imports of kiwifruit plant material and pollen to keep it from infecting American crops, and so far, the bacteria have not been found in the America. However, if
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Human Brain Evolution Cracked
05-18-2012
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arclein
A partial, duplicate copy of a gene appears to be responsible for the critical features of the human brain that distinguish us from our closest primate kin. The momentous gene duplication event occurred about two or three million years ago, at a crit
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Methane Hydrate Successfully Produced
05-18-2012
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arclein
announced the world’s first successful field trial (in Alaska) of a technology that uses carbon dioxide to free natural gas from methane hydrates " the globally abundant hunks of porous ice that trap huge amounts of natural gas in deposits, onshore
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robert klein
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Global Bondageddon?
05-18-2012
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The Political Commentator
For some EU countries (i.e. Spain, Italy, Greece) the Doomsday Clock is ticking towards midnight!
Not the nuclear Doomsday Clock leading to global armageddon, but the Bondageddon of the financial kind. This potential outcome crosses the mind when
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Drug War
Hondurans Attack Government Buildings, Demand US Leave
05-18-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
American security forces are "persona non grata," say angry Honduran activists
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Getting in Tune
05-18-2012
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http://www.sciencedaily.com
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new way to fine-tune wireless power transfer (WPT) receivers, making the systems more efficient and functional.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Phase I Clinical Trial Shows Drug Shrinks Melanoma Brain Metastases
05-18-2012
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http://www.sciencedaily.com
An experimental drug targeting a common mutation in melanoma successfully shrank tumors that spread to the brain in nine out of 10 patients in part of an international phase I clinical trial report in the May 18 issue of The Lancet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Controversial ‘Smart’ Parking Meters to Debut in Santa Monica
05-18-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com
If you thought parking couldn’t get any worse in the Los Angeles area, think again.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney on Rev. Wright: ‘I Stand by What I Said, Whatever It Was’
05-18-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com
Did Mitt Romney, the likely Republican presidential nominee, just have his “John Kerry moment” of the 2012 campaign?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Spy drone could have almost brought down a plane in Colorado
05-18-2012
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http://rt.com
An airline pilot came close to crashing his plane near Denver, Colorado this week after encountering a mysterious object in the sky thought to be an unmanned drone aircraft.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Major CISPA opponent steps down, jeopardizing White House's veto promise
05-18-2012
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http://rt.com
The House-approved legislation that would erode Internet privacy for Americans might have just bypassed a major hurdle.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
US seeks extra $70m for Israel defence shield
05-18-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Pentagon requests Congress to provide Israel with additional funding for its "Iron Dome" missile defence programme.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Spanish Banks’ Bonds Slide After Moody’s Downgrades Ratings
05-18-2012
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http://www.bloomberg.com, By John Glover
Bonds of Spanish banks fell after Moody’s Investors Service downgraded 16 of the nation’s lenders and said it may cut seven of them again because of the state of the economy and the government’s deteriorating credit.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Watch This Weekend's Eclipse... Without Burning Your Eyes Out
05-18-2012
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http://www.popularmechanics.com,
This weekend, much of the U.S. will get to see an eclipse of the sun. Next month, Venus will transit in front of our star. To prepare to sight, you've got to learn how to look at the sun safely.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Solar Flares
Superflares 10,000 times more powerful than those in our solar system, observed on sun-like stars
05-18-2012
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http://www.zmescience.com,
Some stars, most often during their early life, exhibit an intense and energetic behavior, much greater than that of our own sun, despite a similar size, per say.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
FOREX-Euro at 4 month low against dollar as crisis spins
05-18-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Nia Williams
The euro hit a four-month low against the dollar and 3-1/2 month trough versus the yen on Friday as concerns about a chaotic Greek exit from the euro zone and instability in the Spanish banking system fuelled demand for safer currencies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Libertopia
30 days until PorcFest (schedule now online) smart phone app
05-18-2012
The PorcFest.com online schedule is shaping up, get the "EverNote" app to stay connected. or get more at http://happyporcupine.info
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Drew
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News Link • Economy - International
Everyone's Buzzing About This Cute Little Girl Who Slams Big Banks For Enslaving The People
05-17-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
GENERATION NEXT - Victoria Grant of Canada slammed her country's banking system during a lecture at the Public Banking in America Conference in Philadelphia last month. 'The banks and the government have "financially enslaved" the people
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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Philosophy: Political
Iron Ladies
05-17-2012
Chuck Baldwin
A recent movie starring Meryl Streep and depicting the life of Lady Margaret Thatcher was called “The Iron Lady.” And the movie was aptly titled, as Lady Thatcher’s grit and determination...
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News Link • Iran
The US Is 'Fully Available And Ready' For A Military Strike Against Iran
05-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
One week before the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China plus Germany " the P5+1 " meet with Iranian officials in Baghdad for nuclear talks, the U.S. ambassador to Israel went on that country's Army Radio and told the country America "fully available
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • China
Real Estate Crash In China: Foreign Funding Down 80%, Land Sales Down 57%, Starts Down 27%
05-17-2012
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businessinsider.com, Mike "Mish" Shedloc
Inquiring minds are reading an excellent report China Real Estate Unravels by Patrick Chovanec, a professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing, China.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
RNC, Romney Campaign Will Erect 'Shadow State Party' to Bypass State GOP in Nevada
05-17-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
The RNC has decided to create a new organization to bypass NV GOP because it's controlled by Ron Paul Republicans.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Food
LA County health enforcers conduct door-to-door raw milk confiscation operations
05-17-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
California food police gone wild
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
"I Am The Ron Paul Revolution" Daily Paul Sign Drive
05-17-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Ron Paul Swag and the Daily Paul have teamed up to introduce the Revolution Rip Sign! For every rip sign sold, a portion of the proceeds go directly to TheDailyPaul.com. They are VITAL to the movement and we support them 100%.
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Donna Hancock
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Feature Article • Currencies
Free Lakota Bank
Donna Hancock
In 2008 the Lakota people launched the Free Lakota Bank, in accordance with the demands of the treaty council, in partnership with the American Open Currency Standard and with protection from the Strong Heart Warrior Society.
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
Honoring a ‘Terror War’ Architect
05-16-2012
Ray McGovern
Since even readers of the New York Times are aware of deputy national security adviser John Brennan’s open identification with torture, secret prisons and other abuses of national and international law, Fordham University’s invitation to him to give
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News Link • Military
AMERICA SHIFTS GEAR FOR WAR ON IRAN
05-17-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, Finian Cunningham
The covert war on Syria is an integral part of the US-led covert war on Iran.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
New Hampshire legislator apologizes for taunting Speaker with “Sieg Heil”
05-16-2012
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Rawstory
A New Hampshire state representative sent the statehouse into chaos when he responded to what he regarded as an autocratic procedural maneuver on the part of the Speaker of the House by yelling out the Nazi salute, “Sieg Heil!”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
President Obama executive order gives Treasury authority to freeze Yemeni assets in U.S.
05-16-2012
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Washington Post
President Obama issued an executive order giving the Treasury Dept. authority to freeze the US-based assets of any US citizen who “obstructs” implementation of the administration-backed political transition in Yemen.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
If Cops Can't Taze a Pregnant Woman, The Terrorists Will Win
05-16-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Thanks to a misbegotten ruling from a divided 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, police in 9 states have been left at an insurmountable disadvantage when dealing with criminal suspects. At least, that’s what we’re told in a legal brief submitted to the Su
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