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Date Sent: 2011-05-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, May 19, 2011 AM edition |
Gates Denies US 'At War' With Libya -- Ron Paul: US may try to occupy Pakistan
Las Vegas TV Newscasters Go Gaga For "Big Brother" Iris Scan Technology
-- We Are Becoming the USSR: Says Nixon's 1972 Interpreter in China -- Foreclosure-Gate: Broward Chief Judge Victor Tobin Joins Foreclosure Mill --
David Stockman: Compares The Treasury Market To A "Roach Hotel" -- Is
Criminal Behavior a Prerequisite to Get a Job With the TSA? -- "You
are going to see riots in the streets" -- Ron Paul, Hookers, and Heroin -- What We’re Up Against: The elites, the blacklist, and the “mainstream” media -- How Totalitarian Police States Are Built -- IMF chief on suicide watch at New York prison -- Afghan rally over NATO raid turns violent; 12 die -- Senate kills bill targeting $2 billion in Big Oil subsidies -- Medvedev warns West of new Cold War over missile deal -- US, Losing the War, Seeks Further Talks With Taliban? -- Doug Casey on Ron Paul -- New Al Qaeda Leader Claims He Has Nothing To Do With Al Qaeda, Calls 9/11 A “Fabrication” -- Mass. bill would require divorcing parents to obtain judge’s approval for sex
Alan Bock Enters Hospice
CA: Jordan Page Concert, Thursday May 26th 8pm in Los Angeles
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Gates Denies US ‘At War’ With Libya
05-18-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
Speaking today on 60 Minutes, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates denied that the US was actually “at war” with Libya, saying he prefers to think of it as a “limited kinetic action” against Libya.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul: U.S. may try to occupy Pakistan
05-18-2011
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RawStory.com
GOP 2012 hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) thinks U.S. troops will soon be on the ground for an occupation of Pakistan " and he said so on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Wednesday morning.
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News Link • Media: Print
Alan Bock Enters Hospice
05-18-2011
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Lew Rockwell
His wife Jenn writes about the great libertarian journalist ["Orange Co. Register" columnist and book author], who has been suffering from cancer: I am very sad to tell you that Alan has suddenly become very weak as a result of the disease and not th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Go watch and support Jordan Page Thursday May 26th 8pm in Los Angeles, CA
05-18-2011
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www.jordanpagemusic.com
Go watch and support Jordan Page Thursday May 26th 8pm in Los Angeles, CA / Jordan Page Live in Concert at the historic nightclub "The Mint"
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News Link • Surveillance
Las Vegas TV Newscasters Go Gaga For "Big Brother" Iris Scan Technology
05-18-2011
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YouTube.com
Watch as these Las Vegas TV newscasters fall all over themselves in anticipation of the day when "Big Brother" technology will save them from the bother of passwords...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
We Are Becoming the USSR: Says Nixon's 1972 Interpreter in China
05-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
In some disturbing ways, Sino-American competition is beginning to parallel the contest between us and the Soviet Union in the Cold War. This time, however, the United States is in the fiscally precarious position of the USSR, while China plays...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Broward Chief Judge Victor Tobin Joins Foreclosure Mill
05-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
“Batter up,” he said as he finished one stack and eyed the next. With scores of cases remaining on the day’s “rocket docket” earlier this week and tens of thousands more awaiting judgment in this courthouse, there was little time to pause.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
David Stockman: Compares The Treasury Market To A "Roach Hotel"
05-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
We have had a rigged market that has been dominated by not just the Fed, but all the central banks. Today over half of the $9 trillion in publicly-held debt is in central bank vaults. I call it the 'Monetary Roach Hotel.'"
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Is Criminal Behavior a Prerequisite to Get a Job With the TSA?
05-18-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Why doesn’t Janet Napolitano’s TSA just start using prison inmates to conduct grope downs and naked porno scans of people traveling through US airports?
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Caging the Dogs of War
05-18-2011
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http://mises.org/
All wars end, but someone must bring them to an end: someone in authority must order the men to stop fighting, or the fighters themselves must decide to stop fighting even if doing so requires that they disobey standing orders.
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News Link • Surveillance
Assassination nation: Are there any limits on President Obama's license to kill?
05-18-2011
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http://www.csmonitor.com/
As part of its war against violent extremism, the Obama administration now claims a right to kill Americans without a trial, without notice, and without any chance for targets to legally object.
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News Link • American History
After America, There is No Place to Go
05-18-2011
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http://www.sodahead.com/
What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history books.I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What a Public Bank Could Mean for California
05-18-2011
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http://truthout.org/
The state's facing big debt, but also big opportunity. California is the eighth largest economy in the world, and it has a debt burden to match.
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Huckabee Not Running Highlights Polling Upside For Ron Paul
05-18-2011
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http://www.dailypaul.com/
Now that Mike Huckabee has decided not to seek the Republican Presidential nomination, it’s an appropriate a time as ever to mention the potential upside for Texas Congressman Ron Paul
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
NPR 5/16/2011: Ron Paul: Why The Young Flock To An Old Idealist
05-18-2011
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http://www.dailypaul.com/
Go to any Ron Paul event and it strikes you immediately. What's up with all the young people?
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Ron Paul, Hookers, and Heroin
05-18-2011
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/
The 2012 presidential candidate has gone off the deep end in defending the right to sell sex and drugs as personal liberty"and stretched libertarianism past the breaking point, writes Michael Medved.
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News Link • Free Speech
What We’re Up Against: The elites, the blacklist, and the “mainstream” media
05-18-2011
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http://original.antiwar.com/
“In the late 1990s my cartoons ran in Time, Fortune and Bloomberg Personal magazines and over 100 daily and alternative weekly newspapers. I was a staff writer for two major magazines.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How Totalitarian Police States Are Built
05-18-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
Totalitarian state powers grow by great leaps and bounds in the midst of obvious threats to the safety of the people, such as major wars and great financial crises.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Building Your Financial Storm Shelter
05-18-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
Sometimes we need a hole to crawl into. I recently spoke at a conference sponsored by a small rural church in Alabama. Several of the families had been in the path of one of the tornadoes that swept through the state.
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News Link • World News
Al Jazeera journalist released from detention
05-18-2011
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http://english.aljazeera.net/
Dorothy Parvaz, who disappeared on assignment in Syria 19 days ago, was sent back to Doha by Iranian authorities.
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News Link • World News
Afghan rally over NATO raid turns violent; 12 die
05-18-2011
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http://www.seattlepi.com/
Anger over a nighttime NATO raid flared into violence in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday as an estimated 1,500 people clashed with police and tried to storm a German military base in a protest that left 12 dead.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
NATO Helicopters Attack Pakistani Border Troops
05-18-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
The ever-rising tensions between the US and Pakistan have taken another major jump today, after two NATO helicopters, at least one of which was confirmed to be a US military helicopter, crossed into the North Waziristan Agency of Pakistan from Afghan
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News Link • Drones
Senate kills bill targeting $2 billion in Big Oil subsidies
05-18-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
WASHINGTON " The US Senate defeated a bill taking aim at some $2 billion in annual subsidies to some of the world's largest and most profitable oil companies amid deep voter anger at high gasoline prices.
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News Link • Agriculture
Feel like a radiated sitting duck? Things you can do to mitigate the problem.
05-18-2011
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Farm Wars
We are surrounded by radioactive contaminants in the air, water, soil, and in our food. What to do? We can start by collecting resources to lessen our exposure.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - International
The Amerikan Police State Strides Forward
05-18-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
The International Monetary Fund’s director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested last Sunday in New York City on the allegation of an immigrant hotel maid that he attempted to rape her in his hotel room.
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News Link • World News
Medvedev warns West of new Cold War over missile deal
05-18-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
President Dmitry Medvedev warned Wednesday Russia could pull out a new nuclear disarmament treaty and enter a new Cold War with the West if the two sides failed to agree on a new missile defence shield.
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House Blacklists Newspaper Over Romney Editorial
05-18-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
The White House Press Office has refused to give the Boston Herald full access to President Obama’s Boston fund-raiser today, in e-mails objecting to the newspaper’s front page placement of a Mitt Romney.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
A Mises Media Classic: Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve
05-18-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US, Losing the War, Seeks Further Talks With Taliban?
05-18-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
U.S. speeds up direct talks with Taliban ... The administration has accelerated direct talks with the Taliban, initiated several months ago, that U.S. officials say they hope will enable President Obama to report progress
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News Link • Political Theory
Politics-as-Usual Are Over in the US?
05-18-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
The Republican Presidential campaign is off to a slow start, but judging by the last week not slow enough. First Mitt Romney defends his ObamaCare prototype in Massachusetts, and now Newt Gingrich has decided to run against House Republicans on Medic
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News Link • Future Predictions
This too shall pass. So will this, this, this, this, and this too.
05-18-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
Take a moment and conduct a mini thought experiment. Imagine that you’re from the future many hundreds of years from now, researching what life was like in the early 21st century.
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News Link • World News
Lame Chilean Left Opposes Dam Project
05-18-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
This letter is from Dr. John Cobin, a long-time resident of Chile; it was recently published in Spanish as an op-ed piece in national Chilean papers such as Estrategia
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Feds To States: "Drop Dead." State Bank Movement Picks Up Steam
05-18-2011
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www.opednews.com
"Ford to New York: Drop Dead," said a famous headline in 1975. President Ford had declared flatly that he would veto any bill calling for "a federal bail-out of New York City." What he proposed instead was legislation that would make it easier fo
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News Link • Economy - International
Foreign Tourists Splurge on Dollar’s Drop
05-18-2011
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bloomberg.com
The price is right for foreign shoppers in the U.S. as the sagging dollar boosts their purchasing power on everything from jewelry to vitamins.
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News Link • Marriage
Mass. bill would require divorcing parents to obtain judge’s approval for sex
05-18-2011
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RawStory.com
The Massachusetts legislature is conducting hearings Wednesday on a bill that would bar divorcing couples with children from carrying on a sexual relationship while in their own home.
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News Link • Government
New Al Qaeda Leader Claims He Has Nothing To Do With Al Qaeda, Calls 9/11 A “Fabrication”
05-18-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Evidence suggests al-Adel figure is another intelligence ghost
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News Link • World News
The fight against terror goes on
05-18-2011
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www.eastvalleytribune.com
Just because it’s been over two weeks since the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of U.S. forces doesn’t mean Americans should let down their guard against terrorism.
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