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Date Sent: 2011-06-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, June 30, 2011 PM edition |
U.S. drone targets two leaders of Somali group allied with al-Qaeda, official says
Greece: Frazzled Eurocrats Play for Time -- Where Will You Go When the
Sovereign Debt Volcano Blows? -- Bailout Battlefield: Greeks Fight
Against Foreign Fiscal Take-Over -- Obama on Libya: “I Don’t Even Have
to Get to the Constitutional Question” -- Illegal Aliens Out of the
Shadows, Welcomed at Senate Hearing -- U.S. Monthly Combat Deaths in Iraq at 3-Year High -- Global Hypocrisy: France Arming Libyan Rebels -- Scholar cautions Dems on constitutional argument against debt limit
-- Skype introduces video calls on Android phones -- Obama: Questions
About War Powers Act ‘Defending’ Gadhafi -- Libyan rebels set up a
training program in Benghazi -- African concern over Libya arms drops
-- Radiation in Our Food -- SPECIAL REPORT: Political Organized Crime
-- Is government exempt from creative destruction? -- New government
warning labels -- The missing facts in President Obama’s news
conference -- In Deficit Plan, Taxes Must Rise, President Warns --
Security Breach At JFK Airport After Man Flies To L.A. Without Ticket
Or ID -- Ademo Caged for Felony “Improper Influence”
-- Massachusetts Case Will Set Precedent Regarding Videotaping Of Cops
-- Sen. Rand Paul challenges TSA chief -- Why the Left Fears
Libertarianism -- Can TSA's Scanning Machines Give You
Cancer? -- UK Family Living Off-the-Grid Facing Prison
Over Faux Environmental Issues -- Meaner Tougher IMF with Lagarde --
China's Struggle to Shift to Consumption Economy -- Mining Helium3 Will Transform the Moon
AZ: Arizona
Breakfast Club this
Saturday with Alan Korwin on "The Global Collapse"; POOL PARTY-Saturday, July 2nd, at Hancock's
PA:
Outreach Table - DECLARE
PEACE FAIR this Saturday in Philadelphia
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. drone targets two leaders of Somali group allied with al-Qaeda, official says
06-30-2011
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Washington Post
The airstrike makes Somalia at least the 6th country where the US is using drone aircraft to conduct lethal attacks, joining Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq and Yemen. It comes as the CIA begins flying armed drones over Yemen in its hunt for al-Qa
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Where Will You Go When the Sovereign Debt Volcano Blows?
06-30-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Today we find the United States and most of Europe in a similar situation. We risk an eruption and collapse of the mountain of unsustainable sovereign debt built up over the last two decades.
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News Link • Economy - International
Bailout Battlefield: Greeks Fight Against Foreign Fiscal Take-Over
06-30-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
As the government sits down to vote on tax hikes and spending cuts. It's viewed as the country's last chance to stave off default - something that could have ruinous consequences for the Euro.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama on Libya: “I Don’t Even Have to Get to the Constitutional Question”
06-30-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Speaking to CNN, Congressman Ron Paul reacted to Obama’s disregard for the Constitution by labeling his claim, “A horrible statement.”
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Illegal Aliens Out of the Shadows, Welcomed at Senate Hearing
06-30-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
It’s not unusual for politicians on Capitol Hill to recognize citizens during hearings on legislation that would have a positive or negative impact on their lives.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. Monthly Combat Deaths in Iraq at 3-Year High
06-30-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
The American military announced on Thursday that three more American soldiers had been killed this week, as the combat-related deaths for United States forces in Iraq reached a monthly toll not seen since 2008.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Global Hypocrisy: France Arming Libyan Rebels
06-30-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Brazenly violating a UN resolution it itself had help push through the Security Council, France has now admitted to arming Libya’s rebels with machine guns, anti-tank weapons, and RPGs.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Scholar cautions Dems on constitutional argument against debt limit
06-30-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley spoke to Current TV’s liberal host Keith Olbermann last night and revealed that top Democrats had approached him for advice on the argument that the country’s constitutional debt limit...
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Skype introduces video calls on Android phones
06-30-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Skype, which is being bought by Microsoft for $8.5 billion, introduced a new service on Thursday allowing users of Android phones to make free video calls to Skype contacts, including those on Apple iPhones.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Study: US Wars Cost $4 Trillion, Killed 258,000
06-30-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
A new study from Brown University’s Watson Institute has set an estimated that the post 9/11 costs of the assorted wars of the Bush and Obama Administrations has been in the realm of $4 trillion and has directly killed 258,000 people.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama: Questions About War Powers Act ‘Defending’ Gadhafi
06-30-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
Speaking today in a rambling press conference covering a myriad of topics, President Obama slammed the members of the House of Representatives for questioning the legality of the Libya War, saying Gadhafi was “somebody who nobody should want to defen
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pakistan Told US to Leave Shamsi Drone Base
06-30-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
Pakistan’s Defense Minister Chaudhry Mukhtar has confirmed today that the Pakistani government has ordered the United States to leave the Shamsi Air Base...
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Libyan rebels set up a training program in Benghazi
06-30-2011
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http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/
The scenes depicted in these pictures seemed pretty chaotic for military training, but it’s impressive that the rebels have begun to organize even while they continue to fight Gadhafi’s forces.
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News Link • Healthcare
Radiation in Our Food
06-30-2011
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http://www.foxnews.com/
Though the horrendous tsunami that hit Japan on March 12, 2011 seems like old news in the midst of today’s headlines, the crippled nuclear power plants at Fukishima Daichi continue to spew radiation into water, air and soil, with no end in sight.
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News Link • Police State
SPECIAL REPORT: Political Organized Crime
07-30-11
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Reality Report
Politicians going to prison is always a wonderful site to see. Is this a growing trend or the the beginning of the end of dirty politicians in the Windy City. In this special report we pose this question on the streets of Chicago.
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The missing facts in President Obama’s news conference
06-30-2011
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Washington Post
A feisty President Obama met with reporters Wednesday " a sure sign that the dispute over the debt limit has reached a critical stage. The president, clearly intending to increase pressure on the GOP, lambasted Republicans for, in his words, refusing
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
In Deficit Plan, Taxes Must Rise, President Warns
06-30-2011
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NY Times
President Obama pressured Republicans on Wednesday to accept higher taxes as part of any plan to pare down the federal deficit, bluntly telling lawmakers that they “need to do their job” and strike a deal before the United States risks defaulting on
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Security Breach At JFK Airport After Man Flies To L.A. Without Ticket Or ID
06-30-2011
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AP
Investigators say Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, a Nigerian, boarded Virgin America Flight 415 to Los Angeles without a valid passport or identification, using an expired boarding pass for a flight the day before that belonged to someone else.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Ademo Caged for Felony “Improper Influence”
06-30-2011
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copblock.org
Yesterday Beau Davis was held in “contempt” for not removing his hat when ordered by a stranger named Ed Burke in Keene district court.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Massachusetts Case Will Set Precedent Regarding Videotaping Of Cops
06-30-2011
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www.pixiq.com
Four years ago, Boston police officers arrested a man for videotaping them making an arrest in a public park.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
Sen. Rand Paul challenges TSA chief
06-30-2011
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blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) unmasked the inane nature of the standards guiding TSA checkpoint procedures during a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee meeting Wednesday.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Why the Left Fears Libertarianism
06-30-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Leftist criticisms of libertarianism have surged lately, a phenomenon warranting explanation. We libertarians could justifiably find it all quite confusing.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
Can TSA's Scanning Machines Give You Cancer?
06-30-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Can TSA's Scanning Machines Give You Cancer? New Fears After Claim Government Is Covering Up 'Clusters' of Disease Among Airport Workers
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
History You Might Have Missed
06-30-2011
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lewrockwell.com
The commander of the carrier group had decided to attack on Sunday morning because he knew that the officers slept late at Pearl Harbor. He had been running with no lights and in radio silence in heavy seas. Before sunup he launched 152 planes from h
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News Link • Drug War
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday June 30th, 2011
06-30-2011
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lewrockwell.com
The Tyrannical Drug War - And its Einsatzgruppen. Article by Will Grigg. / Revealing the State as Pure Evil - David Gordon on the work of anarcho-capitalist Sam Konkin. / TSA Naked X-Rays Produce Cancer in Its Own Agents - So there is, of course, a c
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
UK Family Living Off-the-Grid Facing Prison Over Faux Environmental Issues
06-30-2011
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thisisdevon.co.uk
The Masons have transformed what they described as a derelict four-acre plot into a haven of self-sufficiency boasting a 400 sq m allotment, a polytunnel and greenhouses to grow fruit and vegetables, chickens for egg production and an orchard they ha
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • China
China's Struggle to Shift to Consumption Economy
06-30-2011
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arclein
The rmb has actually risen by all of 5 percent against the dollar over the last year--doesn’t get the job done, because the dollar’s gone down against other currencies and there’s been virtually no change in the trade-weighted strength of the rmb. Th
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Lithium Indicated for Parkinson's
06-30-2011
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arclein
The War on Drugs, through interdicting street supplies of drugs, has only made the drug gangs wealthier by driving up the value of the drugs that remain readily available. And it is now admitted that the ATF actually placed tens of thousands of weapo
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mining Helium3 Will Transform Moon
06-30-2011
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arclein
Helium-3 is a non-radioactive hydrogen isotope with one neutron and two protons. It is carried through space via the Sun’s solar winds, but burns up as it enters Earth’s atmosphere, making it almost non-existent here on our planet. However, an abun
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Olive Oil Really Reduces Stroke Risk
06-30-2011
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arclein
Our research suggests that a new set of dietary recommendations should be issued to prevent stroke in people 65 and older."
Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Internet Stroke Center, which tracks t
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