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Date Sent: 2011-06-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, June 1, 2011 |
House rejects proposal to raise debt ceiling --
Supreme Court: Ashcroft not liable in detention of American Muslim post-9/11 -- List of cyber-weapons developed by Pentagon to streamline computer warfare -- 11 Things You Should Know About The U.S. Postal Service Before It Goes Bankrupt -- Russia says IMF Chief Jailed for Discovering All US Gold is Gone -- The News Cycle: Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing -- OathKeepers National, Arizona Libertarians March to Home of Slain Marine in Tucson -- People Who Do Everything Right Are the Ones That Really Get Screwed by
the Fed -- ASU hosts model North American Union legislature --
Paul Craig Roberts: Offshoring has destroyed the economy -- Med-Rare
Burgers Banned in North Carolina -- Money and the Arab Spring -- Japan pensioners volunteer to tackle nuclear crisis -- Charges dropped against man who ‘flipped off’ Colorado
state trooper -- Bangladeshi woman cuts off rapist’s penis and gives it
to police -- Egyptian general
admits soldiers performed ‘virginity tests’ -- “Main Recruitment
Sergeant For Al Qaida Is Barack Obama” -- Tracking How Mobile Apps Track You
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News Link • Bush Administration
Supreme Court: Ashcroft not liable in detention of American Muslim post-9/11
05-31-2011
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Washington Post
Former attorney general John D. Ashcroft cannot be sued personally for allegedly misusing his power to detain an American Muslim in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, crackdown on suspected terrorists, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
List of cyber-weapons developed by Pentagon to streamline computer warfare
05-31-2011
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Washington Post
The Pentagon has developed a list of cyber-weapons and -tools, including viruses that can sabotage an adversary’s critical networks, to streamline how the United States engages in computer warfare.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
House rejects proposal to raise debt ceiling
05-31-2011
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Washington Post
With an August deadline looming, the House overwhelmingly refused Tuesday to raise the legal limit on government borrowing, setting the stage for a long, sweaty summer of haggling over the shape of the largest debt-reduction package in at least two d
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drones
11 Things You Should Know About The U.S. Postal Service Before It Goes Bankrupt
05-31-2011
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Business Insider
The Postal Service is nearly $15 billion in debt. It has stayed afloat by borrowing $12 billion from the U.S. Treasury. The agency has lost $20 billion since 2007.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Conspiracies
Russia says IMF Chief Jailed for Discovering All US Gold is Gone
05-31-2011
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European Union Times
A new report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Federal Security Service(FSB) says that former International Monetary Fund(IMF) Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged and jailed for sex crimes on May 14th after his discovery that all of the g
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
The News Cycle: Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
05-31-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
The full quote from Macbeth (Act V, Scene V): It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Every "news event" is terribly important, until a few hours later it is unimportant.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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Opinion • Art
The Art of Thought
06-01-2011
Mike Renzulli
The next time someone tells you should "keep an open mind", politely tell them no thanks. The "open mind" argument is a fallacy that treats all ideas, values, behaviors, as worthy of consideration regardless if they are disconnected from reality.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
OathKeepers National, Arizona Libertarians March to Home of Slain Marine in Tucson
05-31-2011
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Ed Vallejo with a Freedom's Phoenix EXCLUSIVE!
Recent IN Supreme Court 4th Amendment decision, your God-given right to LIFE, Peace Keeping as opposed to Law EnFORCEment in a Totalitarian Police-State, having to become your OWN media, and this case - it's all CONNECTED, you know...
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Politics
DHS Thought Crime Tech, PBS and Lockheed Hacked, West in Libya
05-31-12
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Reality Report
http://RTR.org | In this week's Headlines, Angie Ress discusses Homeland Securities new Future Attribute Screening Technology and the discovery of Western forces on the ground in Libya. She also digs into the hacking of PBS and following the hack of
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Federal Reserve
People Who Do Everything Right Are the Ones That Really Get Screwed by the Fed
05-31-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
They aren't Austrian economists, so they don't understand the business cycle. When house prices were going up, the conservative thing, in their eyes, was to buy a house, since houses "always go up in value." They didn't understand it was a Fed scam..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
ASU hosts model North American Union legislature
05-31-2011
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BlackListedNews.com & ASU.edu
The sixth edition of the Triumvirate, the only trinational inter-parliamentary student simulation in North America, will take place from May 29 through June 3. Organized by ASU and the North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) from Montreal...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paul Craig Roberts: Offshoring has destroyed the economy
05-31-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
I have warned that US corporations, pressed by Wall Street and large retailers such as Wal-Mart, to move offshore their production for US consumer markets, were simultaneously moving offshore US GDP, US tax base, US consumer income, and...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Video
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Chris Hedges - World News, War, Obama, Economy, Middle East etc...
Chris Hedges - World News, War, Obama, Economy, Middle East etc... - column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.
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News Link • Food
Med-Rare Burgers Banned in North Carolina
05-31-2011
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Silver Underground - Silver Circle's Politcal
Flavor...now banned in the Tar Heel State
We've all heard of government wanting to regulate our health care, the Internet, and what kind of light-bulbs we're allowed to put into our homes. As infuriating as those regulations can be, the stat
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Megan Duffield
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Money and the Arab Spring
05-31-2011
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http://www.upi.com/
The Group of Eight summit exposed not only the financial weakness of the old industrial powers when faced with the challenge of the Arab Spring but also the crisis in its Middle East.
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Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Political Theory
2008? 2012 is so 2000-and-late
05-31-2011
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http://www.politico.com/
Talk to just about any political reporters, and they’ll tell you 2008 was the greatest presidential race they ever covered.It was also the longest.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Whale Sharks' Shared Feast Sets Record
05-31-2011
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http://www.livescience.com/
The whale sharks spied in one group off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico two years ago numbered up to 420 " the largest gathering of the mysterious behemoths ever recorded, scientists said.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • World News
Japan pensioners volunteer to tackle nuclear crisis
05-31-2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/
A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners are volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Steve Jobs to open Apple event, unveil iCloud
05-31-2011
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http://finance.yahoo.com/
Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs, who spent months on medical leave, will open an annual developers' conference next week showcasing the iPad maker's latest computer software and a new cloud computing service.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Environment
Japanese Employees Sweat Over New Dress Code
05-31-2011
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The Wall Street Journal
Tokyoites are bracing themselves for a scorching, sweat-filled summer, indoors and out due to a government decree to cut electricity usage by 15% this summer thanks to its now-crippled nuclear-power plants.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Charges dropped against man who ‘flipped off’ Colorado state trooper
05-31-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
The Colorado State Patrol dropped a harassment charge against a 35-year-old man who allegedly displayed his middle finger to a Colorado State Patrol trooper while he was driving.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Bangladeshi woman cuts off rapist’s penis and gives it to police
05-31-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
A 40-year-old Bangladeshi woman cut off a man's penis during an alleged attempted rape and took it to a police station as evidence, police in a remote part of Bangladesh said Monday.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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Opinion • Books
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Losing my best high school friend
05-31-2011
Frosty Wooldridge
Our dad said, “Fighting is not the answer, but if all else fails, you need to defend yourself. The other guy may get a meal out of you, but if you take a bite out of him, he won’t bother you anymore.”
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Egyptian general admits soldiers performed ‘virginity tests’
05-31-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
An unnamed Egyptian general has reportedly told CNN that so-called “virginity tests” were indeed carried out on some female protesters taken into custody during the massive protests that overturned former dictator Hosni Mubarak.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Whistleblowers
“Main Recruitment Sergeant For Al Qaida Is Barack Obama”
05-31-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Ex CIA intelligence officer turned whistleblower and activist, Michael Scheuer, has launched a blistering attack on the political establishment, over its handing of the so called war on terror.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Western Troops Disguised as Arabs Witnessed on the Ground In Libya
05-31-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Armed westerners have been filmed on the front line with rebels near Misrata in the first apparent confirmation that foreign special forces are playing an active role in the Libyan conflict.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Brother wants terror threat texted to your mobile
05-31-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
In America, ‘Big Brother’ has a mobile and he’s learnt how to text. The U.S. government now has a system which can send emergency alerts to everyone.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Google Wallet: Who'll Buy In?
05-31-2011
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http://www.technologyreview.com/
The company wants to play a key role in electronic mobile payments, but faces big challenges and big competition.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Chris Hedges - World News, War, Obama, Economy, Middle East etc...
Chris Hedges - World News, War, Obama, Economy, Middle East etc... - column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.
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