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Date Sent: 2012-03-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, March 30, 2012 |
3 Major Banks Prepare for Credit Downgrades -- Gingrich hits new low in Gallup Poll; 4th place
‘Occupy’ prank gives New Yorkers free subway rides -- Manila offers U.S. wider military access, seeks weapons -- Can Iranians Make YouTubes? -- How to win friends and influence people — to bomb Iran -- TSA Manager Arrested for Running Prostitution Ring -- Senate bows to House to extend transportation pork funding for 90
days -- House approves $3.5 trillion budget plan proposed by Paul Ryan -- Bee research details harm from insecticides -- Exposing Political
Lies -- Possible cure for diabetes discovered -- Health Care and the
Supremes: So Much for the Revolution -- Official Silver Circle Trailer
-- Rebel of the Week: Rina Goldberg - Reminding us all to dream big and
stay positive -- Energy-Sector Investment Traps
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Three Major Banks Prepare for Possible Credit Downgrades
03-29-2012
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New York Times
Some of Wall Street’s biggest banks are bracing for fallout from a possible cut in their credit ratings.
Moody’s Investors Service, one of the two big ratings agencies, has said it will decide in mid-May whether to lower its ratings for 17 global
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gingrich hits new low in Gallup Poll; 4th place
03-29-2012
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USA Today
Newt Gingrich likes to say he shouldn't be counted out of the GOP presidential race because he has bounced back before from low standings in public opinion polls. But the latest national poll from Gallup shows the former House speaker has hit a new l
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
‘Occupy’ prank gives New Yorkers free subway rides
03-29-2012
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Rawstory
Activists thought to be affiliated with Occupy Wall Street on Wednesday chained open as many as 25 subway stations in New York City, inviting commuters to ride without paying fares.
Signs with official Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) l
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Manila offers U.S. wider military access, seeks weapons
03-29-2012
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Reuters
The Philippines is offering the United States greater access to its airfields and may open new areas for soldiers to use, as the Pacific country seeks stronger military ties with its closest ally, moves likely to further raise tensions with China.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Can Iranians Make YouTubes?
03-29-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
There isn't a whole lot the American public can do to stop a war that its political class wants. Yet I wonder if the Iranian people themselves could contribute to the cause. The single most important thing for them to do is to speak directly to the W
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
How to win friends and influence people â€" to bomb Iran
03-29-2012
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But at Haaretz, Amir Oren says that Israel has put off an attack until 2013 because of a U.S. analysis showing that Iranian counterattack would kill 200 Americans at once. Oren doesn't say where these Americans would die, but that the analysis has sc
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Manager Arrested for Running Prostitution Ring
03-29-2012
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FOX News
A manager at the Transportation Security Administration has lost his job after being arrested on prostitution-related charges. According to court documents, the agency had received a complaint of "very similar" activities back in 2009.
Bryant Jerm
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Senate bows to House to extend transportation pork funding for 90 days
03-29-2012
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Washington Post
Angry Senators on Thursday bowed to the will of the House with a 90-day extension of transportation funding two days before a deadline that could have shutdown highway and transit projects across the nation.
“They run off on their vacation and lea
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
House approves $3.5 trillion budget plan proposed by Paul Ryan
03-29-2012
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Washington Post
The House of Representatives on Thursday approved a $3.5 trillion budget plan proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on a 228 to 191 vote, largely along party lines.
It was a dramatic departure from the night before, when lawmakers took up a plan bas
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Bee research details harm from insecticides
03-29-2012
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Washington Post
New research has begun to unravel the mystery of why bees are disappearing in alarming numbers worldwide: Some of the pesticides most commonly used by farmers appear to be changing bee behavior in small but fatal ways.
Two new studies found that h
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Exposing Political Lies
03-29-2012
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Marc Stevens
As long as politicians continue lying, I’ll keep pointing them out and exposing them. This is another video I did regarding the lies politicians and bureaucrats use everyday.
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Reported by:
Marc Stevens
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Possible cure for diabetes discovered
03-29-2012
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Terrence Aym
After 100 years of treating the killer disease diabetes with pharmaceutical drugs and insulin injections, surgeons had an unexpected and surprising breakthrough with the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Bariatric surgery beats the conventional medical t
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Reported by:
Terrence Aym
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News Link • Obama Administration
Health Care and the Supremes: So Much for the Revolution
03-29-2012
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Charles Goyette at American Breaking Point
... look at the education bubble instead. Student loan debt is now over a trillion dollars, even larger than total U.S. credit card debt. And it keeps growing. All that State guaranteed loan money has simply blown up the cost of higher education, tra
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Reported by:
Charles Goyette
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Official Silver Circle Trailer
03-29-12
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Silver Circle Movie
Silver Circle is coming to theaters in August!
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Reported by:
Megan Duffield
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Rebel of the Week: Rina Goldberg - Reminding us all to dream big and stay positive
03-29-12
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SIlver Underground
Rina Goldberg passed away in December of 2010 at just 15 years old, a victim of Mitochondrial Disease, a genetic disorder that prevents the body's cells from producing enough energy for the body to function. But even though Rina is no longer with us
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Reported by:
Megan Duffield
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Daily Paul Silver Dime Card Drive by Freedom's Phoenix
03-29-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Ernest Hancock of Freedom's Phoenix has created a special collectors edition Daily Paul Silver Dime Cards. Freedom's Phoenix is offering these amazing cards for $5.00 each as a fundraiser to support the Daily Paul.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
FBI Islamic training materials gave OK to infringe on targets' civil rights
03-28-2012
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The Guardian
Training materials used by the FBI for dealing with American Muslims and other Islamic communities have advised agents they can break the law and impinge on some of their targets' civil rights.
The instructions were contained in confidential mater
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
US acted to conceal evidence of intelligence failure before 9/11
03-28-2012
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The Guardian
The US government shut down a series of court cases arising from a multimillion pound business dispute in order to conceal evidence of a damning intelligence failure shortly before the 9/11 attacks, MPs were told.
Moreover, the UK government is no
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Waste
Where is my Federal Ammunition Subsidy?
03-28-12
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AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
I began to contemplate the benefit/cost analysis of subsidizing other goods and services we now currently fund as individuals. During this process, I came to the conclusion we need to start subsidizing ammunition...
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Reported by:
Fredy Riehl
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Suit: NYPD conducting illegal stops in private buildings
03-28-2012
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The Guardian
The ACLU filed a suit against the NY City Police Dept. alleging in addition to stopping primarily black and Latino residents in public spaces as part of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program, officers are illegally searching people in private buildings.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
DRONE WARFARE: US Military Releases Information on Drone Slaughter of Afghan "Non-combatants'
03-28-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca
Centcom.mil released on 22 March 2012 a declassified 2,100-page report on slaughter of 23 Afghan non-combatants â€" men, women, children â€" in February 2010, blamed on Creech drone pilots over-enthusiastically calling in Hellfires on a 3-vehicle civilia
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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Feature Article • Books
Obama Doesn’t Want You to Read This
Ernest Hancock
"No government will want its citizens to read this book. Because, in a nutshell, Goyette’s thesis for how individuals are to once again become prosperous: ‘The government must stop.’" - Powell Gammill, Freedom’s Phoenix
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