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Date Sent: 2011-05-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, May 3, 2011 AM edition |
Army Corps Blows Up Missouri Levee -- ‘Doomsday scenario’ if Syria fails
Carriers Crack Down on Wireless-Tethering App for Android -- Bin Laden’s Online Fan Club Fumes at Death Reports -- Osama bin Laden’s Useful Death - by Paul Craig Roberts -- Springtime for the Regime - by Anthony Gregory -- Sony Hacked Again; 25 Million Entertainment Users’ Info at Risk -- CSI bin Laden: Commandos Use Thumb, Eye Scans to Track Terrorists -- No, Bin Laden's Death Does Not Justify Torture -- Fantastical 9/11 Lawsuit Could Lead to Sanctions for Lawyer, 2nd Circuit Says
-- Osama bin Laden’s Identity Confirmed With Biometrics Technology.
You’re Next -- The American empire created bin Laden and is killing
itself -- Mass Arrests, Tear Gas, Sound Weapons used Against WIU Students (video) -- Video of the Osama bin Laden kill zone -- Can I Stop Taking Off My Shoes Now? --
Osama Bin Laden: Experts Fear Revenge By Al Qaeda or 'Lone Wolf' --
Costly Afghanistan Road Project Is Marred by Unsavory Alliances --
Queen Elizabeth Fronts for Rothschilds ("Crown") -- “Queen Elizabeth II the largest landowner on Earth.” -- U.S. team's mission was to kill bin Laden, not capture
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 • Military
Army Corps Blows Up Missouri Levee
05-02-2011
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NY Times
As explosives tore open a protective levee Monday night, he waited for the news that his home has been destroyed.
“I can’t tell you how I feel, because there no feeling for that,” he said hours earlier, sitting in his daughter’s house " nearby, an
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News Link • World News
‘Doomsday scenario’ if Syria fails
05-02-2011
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Washington Post
In Syria, the fall of President Bashar al-Assad would unleash a cataclysm of chaos, sectarian strife and extremism that spreads far beyond its borders, threatening not only the entrenched rulers already battling to hold at bay a clamor for democratic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Carriers Crack Down on Wireless-Tethering App for Android
05-02-2011
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Mike Isaac via WIRED.com
The application, “Wireless Tether for Root Users,” is still available on the Android Market. But if you have a phone that’s on the Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile networks, you won’t be able to download or install it.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Bin Laden’s Online Fan Club Fumes at Death Reports
05-02-2011
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Adam Rawnsley and Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
In the hours after a team of U.S. Navy SEALs attacked Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan, the Facebook pages for the U.S. Navy, the SEALs, and U.S. Army all saw dramatic spikes in activity, as users flocked online to post about the event.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Osama bin Laden’s Useful Death - by Paul Craig Roberts
05-02-2011
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Lew Rockwell
In a propaganda piece reeking of US Triumphalism, two alleged journalists, Adam Goldman and Chris Brummitt, of the Associated Press or, rather, of the White House Ministry of Truth, write, or copy off a White House or CIA press release that "Osama bi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Springtime for the Regime - by Anthony Gregory
05-02-2011
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Lew Rockwell
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. The president’s appro
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Powell Gammill
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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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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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News Link • Military
Traffic Spikes on SEAL, Navy, Army Facebook Pages After bin Laden Kill
05-02-2011
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Sam Gustin via WIRED.com
In the hours after a team of U.S. Navy SEALs attacked Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan, the Facebook pages for the U.S. Navy, the SEALs, and U.S. Army all saw dramatic spikes in activity, as users flocked online to post about the event.
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News Link • Internet
Osama Takedown Sets Twitter Record
05-02-2011
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John C Abell via WIRED.com
As if a service with hundreds of millions of users needed to come of age, Twitter is said to have had its CNN moment Sunday night as the “place” where the news of the commando raid which killed Osama bin Laden was first shared.
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Sony Hacked Again; 25 Million Entertainment Users’ Info at Risk
05-02-2011
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Jason Schreier via WIRED.com
Hackers may have stolen the personal information of 24.6 million Sony Online Entertainment users, the company said on Monday. More than 20,000 credit card and bank account numbers were also put at risk.
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News Link • TERRORISM
CSI bin Laden: Commandos Use Thumb, Eye Scans to Track Terrorists
05-02-2011
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
Speaking at a White House briefing, counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said he had “99 percent” certainty the commando team killed bin Laden, thanks to “facial recognition, [his] height, [and] an initial DNA analysis.”
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
The Death of Osama bin Laden and the aftermath
05-02-2011
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Religion Press blog
ASU student of religion and conflict Page Gerrick gives her thoughts about the death of Osama bin Laden and some things you may not know about Islam.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Torture
No, Bin Laden's Death Does Not Justify Torture
05-02-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
There's a new meme widely circulating today claiming that torture was okay after all, because it helped us locate and kill Osama Bin Laden.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Fantastical 9/11 Lawsuit Could Lead to Sanctions for Lawyer, 2nd Circuit Says
05-02-2011
A onetime Pentagon worker and her lawyer who alleged in a suit that the Sept. 11 attacks were arranged or allowed by U.S. leaders could face sanctions as a result of their appeal.
In an opinion (PDF) issued on Wednesday, the New York City-based 2n
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Surveillance
Osama bin Laden’s Identity Confirmed With Biometrics Technology. You’re Next
05-02-2011
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blogs.forbes.com
Your iris will literally be your key to many things in the future. It will be your personal password to your computer and mobile device. The key to your car and house. Your access code to ATM machines. And who needs credit cards when...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Hooray: Residential Construction Is Rising Back To 1993 Level
05-02-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The Census Bureau reported this morning that overall construction spending increased in March compared to February (seasonally adjusted).
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Gonzalo Lira: Sorry, But I Don’t Believe This
05-02-2011
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Gonzalolira.blogspot.com/
The whole story smells: Where he was supposedly located; how he was shot twice in the head, rather than captured; how he was buried at sea; how there’s (so far) no picture of his corpse.
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Jack Gregson
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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 • Police State
BREAKING ALERT: Mass Arrests, Tear Gas, Sound Weapons used Against WIU Students
05-02-2011
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Speak Truth 2 Power
Students attending the Wheeler Block Party were met by a Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force who used tear gas, LRAD sound weapons and crowd suppression tactics to force students into their homes.
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Barbara Peterson
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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 • Obama Administration
I Could Not Make This Up: Osama bin Laden's body buried at sea
05-02-2011
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cbsnews.com
Editor note: Coffee almost flew out of my mouth when I read this... Osama bin Laden, the long-time figurehead of the al Qaeda terrorist network, has been buried at sea after being killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistan.
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News Link • Police State
BREAKING ALERT: Mass Arrests, Tear Gas, Sound Weapons used Against WIU Students (video)
5/2/11
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Youtube
http://RTR.org | Annual year-end block party at Western Illinois University ends with riot police. Students attending the Wheeler Block Party were met by a Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force who used tear gas, LRAD sound weapons and crowd suppression ta
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Military
Video of the Osama bin Laden kill zone
05-02-2011
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The Political Commentator, Michael Haltman
What the Navy Seals did and how they did it!
Video from inside the building where Osama bin Laden was caught and killed. (H/T Sister Toldjah)
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Michael Haltman
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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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News Link • WAR: About that War
Osama Bin Laden: Experts Fear Revenge By Al Qaeda or 'Lone Wolf'
05-02-2011
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abcnews.go.com
"Though bin Laden is dead, al Qaeda is not," said CIA Director Leon Panetta. "The terrorists almost certainly will attempt to avenge him, and we must"and will"remain vigilant and resolute. But we have struck a heavy blow against the enemy."
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
How to talk to kids about Osama bin Laden
05-02-2011
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www.washingtonpost.com
“Tell me what happened that is so important?” my 4-year-old asked this morning as my husband and I talked over her.
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News Link • Political Theory
THE FACTS BEHIND BIN LADEN'S "DEATH."
05-02-2011
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Swamp-Ass.com
While American's cheer in the streets and in the baseball stadiums, the fact remains that America is NO better off with the death of Bin-Laden, in fact, it's worse off.
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Kaptain Steve
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News Link • Military
Meet the Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden
05-02-2011
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The Raw Story
Officially, the team's name is classified and not available to the public, technically there is no team 6. A Tier-One counter-terrorism force similar to the Army's elusive Delta group, Team 6's mission rarely make it to paper much less the newspaper.
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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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News Link • Government
Who gets bin Laden's $25 million bounty?
05-02-2011
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money.cnn.com
The government has offered $25 million for information on the terrorist leader.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Waldo:1 - Bin Laden: 0
05-02-2011
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
Bin Laden's body cleansed before sea burial. The Al-Qaida leader was buried at sea from the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the north Arabian Sea after being washed according to Islamic custom.
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News Link • World News
Five bizarre GOP reactions to bin Laden’s death
05-02-2011
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Sahil Kapur via PopSci.com
News that Osama bin Laden was killed Sunday during a U.S. firefight in Pakistan led to heaps of praise for military service members and President Barack Obama, even from his biggest political adversaries. Some GOP responses have been pretty bizarre.
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News Link • Propaganda
Media Runs Fake Photo To Illustrate Bin Laden Death Propaganda
05-02-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Killing Osama bin Laden is a pretty big deal. You’d think that it would be in the interests of US forces to take a snapshot of the elusive terror leader to milk the propaganda value of such a momentous turn of events....
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News Link • Imperialism
Queen Elizabeth Fronts for Rothschilds ("Crown")
05-02-2011
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http://www.henrymakow.com/
It is accurate to posit that Australia, New Zealand and Canada are not independent, sovereign countries.
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News Link • Imperialism
“Queen Elizabeth II the largest landowner on Earth.”
05-02-2011
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http://www.whoownstheworld.com/
Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states and territories, is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth of the earth’s non ocean surface.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. team's mission was to kill bin Laden, not capture
05-02-2011
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http://www.reuters.com/
(Reuters) - The U.S. special forces team that hunted down Osama bin Laden was under orders to kill the al Qaeda mastermind, not capture him, a U.S. national security official told Reuters.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul: Success of the May 5th Debate + Moneybomb Crucial to my Decision!
05-02-2011
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dailypaul.com
This Thursday, May 5th, I have agreed to participate in the Fox News debate in Greenville, South Carolina. The debate itself will be a major factor in determining if we launch a full-fledged campaign later in the month.
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