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Date Sent: 2011-05-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, May 3, 2011 PM edition |
The Covert Bailout of The Commercial Real Estate Industry By The Fed
Obama advisor: Waterboarding didn’t lead to bin Laden kill -- WikiLeaks Nuclear Bomb Story Preceded Osama Death -- Supposed Postmortem Photo Of Osama bin Laden -- Despite DNA evidence, some doubt bin Laden really dead -- Richard Morris - In Studio for 2 hours - Book: "God on Trial" -- And There Goes The Dollar As Weimar Rally Resumes -- Fed "Confidence"
Sandbaggers Out Again -- White House Changes Story Of How bin Laden Was
Taken Down -- Commercial
Real Estate: "Ghost Malls" in the Making? -- Food Stamp Recipients Hit New Record --
Plan B: Offshore Retreats, by Phil J. -- Osama bin Laden’s Second
Death -- Who will reshape the Arab world: its people, or the
U.S.A.? -- Surviving Foreclosure, by Cindy D. -- 'Atlas Shrugged': With
America on the brink, should you 'go Galt' and strike? -- Costly
Afghanistan Road Project Is Marred by Unsavory Alliances -- "1st Great
War of the 21st Century" -- Mayors Against Illegal Guns -- Can I Stop
Taking Off My Shoes Now? -- Lies, Damn Lies, and Bin Laden's Death - by
Stephen Lendman
AZ: Ron Paul Debate Party @ Ernest
& Donna Hancock's house Thursday 05/05/11 - BYOB; Arizona Breakfast
Club this Saturday
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Covert Bailout of The Commercial Real Estate Industry By The Fed
05-03-2011
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MyBudget360.com
Part of the success that the Federal Reserve has achieved with boosting up large banks stems from its secretive ability to forge shadow bailouts of residential and commercial real estate loans.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama advisor: Waterboarding didn’t lead to bin Laden kill
05-03-2011
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RawStory.com
White House deputy national security advisor John Brennan Tuesday knocked down the myth that waterboarding provided crucial intelligence that led to the location of Osama bin Laden.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
WikiLeaks Nuclear Bomb Story Preceded Osama Death
05-03-2011
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dailybell.ch
Capturing bin Laden 'would unleash hell' ... The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks warned. Also on that al-Qaeda has hidden a nuclear bomb in Europe which will unleash a "nuclear hellstorm" if Osama bin Laden is captured, leaked files revealed.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Warren Buffett Does a Disservice
05-03-2011
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dailybell.ch
Warren Buffett shuns gold as an investment ... The billionaire investor Warren Buffett has said he'd always bet on a good business to deliver better returns than gold over time, even as the precious metal sets fresh records.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday May 3rd, 2011
05-03-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Osama bin Laden's Useful Death - Paul Craig Roberts on why the regime is hoo-rahing. / Troops Home by Christmas - All of them. Article by Gary North.
Obama's Birth and Osama's Death - It's springtime for the regime, says Anthony Gregory.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Supposed Postmortem Photo Of Osama bin Laden
05-03-2011
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ZeroHedge.com & Liveleak.com
Supposedly this is a real one. Considering the administration's photoshop skills are rather rudimentary we hope readers will determine if this is a fake within minutes.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Canada's Conservatives win coveted majority
05-03-2011
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Associated Press
Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper won his coveted majority government in elections that changed Canada's political landscape, with the opposition Liberals and Quebec separatists suffering a shattering defeat.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Conspiracies
Despite DNA evidence, some doubt bin Laden really dead
05-03-2011
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The Seattle Times
Conspiracy theorists on the left and right were quick to insist bin Laden was either still alive or had been dead for years, pouncing on the government's decision to slide the body of the world's most wanted man off a board into the Arabian Sea.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Currencies
And There Goes The Dollar As Weimar Rally Resumes
05-03-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The dollar managed to stage another faux-rally to the just above abysmal level of 73.30... for about 3 hours. At last check, the dollar is plunging and everything else is once again surging, meaning all those hoping for some miraculous...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed "Confidence" Sandbaggers Out Again
05-03-2011
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Market-ticker.org
There are two possibilities: Either the market is sussing out extremely serious upcoming events that are on the same scale as the collapse of 2008 or The Fed is about to lose control of the interest rate curve.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
May Day 1971 and 2011
05-03-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
The American public are quiet about everything but their own perquisities. Unprecedented global interventions and manipulations of the economy are accepted without comment, with the implicit faith that it's all justified as long as my...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House Changes Story Of How bin Laden Was Taken Down
05-03-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Remember all those stories about bin Laden posing an armed threat and hiding behind a woman leaving the SEALs no other choice but to shoot him? Turns out they were not quite correct. Politico reports: "The White House backed away...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Circus Clowns And Sideshow Freaks
05-03-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Wars create fear, not to mention the thrill of tribal victory. Wars collectivize societies, dissuade and shame individualism, and bring everyone under a single banner and a single philosophy.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Torture
Paul Craig Roberts: Osama bin Laden's Useful Death
05-03-2011
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Rense.com
How many Americans will notice that the first paragraph of the "report" justifies CIA prisons and torture? Without secret prisons and torture "the terror mastermind" would still be running free, despite having died from renal failure in 2001.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Why We Crave Sugary Snacks... and Not Fruits and Veggies
05-03-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
Are urges to eat unhealthy food purely down to greed? We ask experts...
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Commercial Real Estate: "Ghost Malls" in the Making?
05-03-2011
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ElliotWave.com
As I drive down nice streets in nice parts of town, I see reminders of the boom that was.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Springtime for the Regime
05-03-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Politically speaking, the Obama administration’s double feature in the last week " first, the revelation of the long-form birth certificate and now the announced killing of Osama bin Laden " could not have come at a better time.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Food Stamp Recipients Hit New Record
05-03-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Today SNAP released the most recent food stamp numbers. Not surprisingly, we just saw another all time high 44.2 million poverty-level Americans relying on government funding for day to day sustenance.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Plan B: Offshore Retreats, by Phil J.
05-03-2011
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www.survivalblog.com
Little has been written inSurvivalBlog aboutmoving one's wealth andfamilyoffshore in planning for a US currency collapse. I can share a few insights since mywife and I have done this as a backup plan. (Plan B).
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Osama bin Laden’s Second Death
05-03-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool’s joke this morning’s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Government
Who will reshape the Arab world: its people, or the US?
05-03-2011
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Phase one of the Arab spring is over. Phase two " the attempt to crush or contain genuine popular movements " has begun
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Surviving Foreclosure, by Cindy D.
05-03-2011
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www.survivalblog.com
I wanted to write aboutmyexperience tohelp othersthat maybe facing the samesituation.Even thoughI maywrite thisverysimplyandfactually,itwas a very emotionalanddevastatingtime in my life. I learned a great deal but don’t want to ever go through itagai
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
'Atlas Shrugged': With America on the brink, should you 'go Galt' and strike?
05-03-2011
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http://www.csmonitor.com/
In the face of onslaught, the heroes of Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' (now in theaters) decided to stop working, retreat to a valley, and try to rebuild only when the country had collapsed.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Afghanistan
Costly Afghanistan Road Project Is Marred by Unsavory Alliances
05-02-2011
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nytimes.com
When construction crews faced attacks while working on a major American-financed highway here in southeastern Afghanistan, Western contractors turned to a powerful local figure named simply Arafat, who was suspected to have links to Afghanistan’s ins
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Politics - The Power of Nightmares
05-02-2011
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video.google.com
(Part 1/3), “Baby it's Cold Outside“ / (Part 2/3), “The Phantom Victory“ / (Part 3/3), “The Shadows in the Cave”
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mayors Against Illegal Guns " A Reality Check
05-02-11
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AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
Mayors Against Illegal Guns could not persuade a SINGLE mayor in 12 states to join in their conspiracy to subvert the Constitution.
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Fredy Riehl
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Can I Stop Taking Off My Shoes Now?
05-02-2011
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Simon Black -- SovereignMan.com
What few are brave enough to say about bin Laden's death:
Good citizens, whether in Ancient Greece or today, are expected to fall in line with what they’re told, and any measure of dissent or intellectual discourse is met with derision and public
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Sovereign Man
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News Link • World News
Why bin Laden’s Ghost Is Smiling
05-03-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
The assassination of Osama bin Laden by US Special Forces in Abbotabad, Pakistan will likely assure Barack Obama’s victory in the 2012 presidential race.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Too Bad Bin Laden Not Killed In 2001
05/02/2011
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Becky Chandler
Because bin Laden is dead, Americans are now united in the continuation of all the awful things we have done to ourselves because he was not quickly captured and killed after September 11, 2001.
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
High-Speed Video Shows How Hummingbirds Really Drink
05-02-2011
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Dave Mosher via WIRED.com
Researchers previously thought tube-like channels in their tongues sucked up fluid by capillary action. But the new analysis shows that their tongues actually trap nectar by curling around it.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Obama Administration
Inconsistencies of Obama's Fraudulent Birth Certificate
05-02-2011
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http://www.usavsus.info
Listed below are just some of the videos and web pages refuting the authenticity of the White House released Birth Certificate. Obama's Birth Certificate A Forgery
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Thomas Costanzo
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