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Date Sent: 2011-05-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, May 9, 2011 PM edition |
Pakistan outs CIA station chief in Islamabad -- Army embeds PSYOPS soldiers at local TV stations
Virginity tests for immigrants 'reflected dark age prejudices' of 1970s
Britain -- Quake shifted Japan; towns now flood at high tide -- How a
networking immigrant became a Chinese spy -- Cost of Bin Laden
Deception: US$3 Trillion -- FOX News' Juan Williams Worried That Ron Paul Might Actually Win GOP Nomination -- Biggest Market Rigger Is Government Itself -- War Criminals Pushing The Idea That Torture Is Vital To Our Security -- Chris Hedges: Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred -- Jim Grant: The Current Monetary System Is "Collectivist Top-Down Tyranny" -- ‘Debt, Deficits and the Demise of the American Economy’ --
Zillow: The Housing Market Just Had Its Worst Quarter Since 2008 -- The
BLS and Economic Propaganda: What's the Real Unemployment Rate? -- Tough Questions For CFTC Chairman Gensler On Last Week's Silver Manipulation
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Pakistani media 'name' CIA station chief in Islamabad
05-09-2011
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The Guardian
Fresh tension has erupted between the CIA and Pakistani intelligence after several Pakistani media outlets published the alleged name of the CIA station chief in Islamabad.
Two senior Pakistani officials said the name published, Mark Carlton, was
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Propaganda
Army embeds PSYOPS soldiers at local TV stations
05-09-2011
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BlackListedNews.com
I hope you realize these are only two examples of embedding military personnel into American newsrooms.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
Virginity tests for immigrants 'reflected dark age prejudices' of 1970s Britain
05-09-2011
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The Guardian
When a 35-year-old teacher arrived at Heathrow on 24 January 1979, she planned to marry her fiance, a British resident of Indian descent.
Instead she found herself at the centre of a "virginity testing" row that led to headlines in Britain and Ind
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Geography
Quake shifted Japan; towns now flood at high tide
05-09-2011
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AP
When water begins to trickle down the streets of her coastal neighborhood, Yoshiko Takahashi knows it is time to hurry home.
Twice a day, the flow steadily increases until it is knee-deep, carrying fish and debris by her front door and trapping pe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
How a networking immigrant became a Chinese spy
05-09-2011
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AP
Locked in a federal penitentiary in the Arizona desert, Tai Kuo spends his days helping with the cooking, teaching language classes and tennis, making new friends.
The convicted spy, it seems, has become a mentor.
This surprises no one. Not the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Band: Poker Face
05-09-2011
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www.pokerface.com
Poker Face is a solid and experienced band that writes and performs the soundtrack to political awareness for a national following
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Don't Let Doha Die, Pleads Columnist
05-09-2011
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dailybell.ch
History is locked on fast-forward. In terms of economic and financial news-flow, as last week showed, we live in turbo-charged times ... Allowing Doha trade talks to fail is a mistake, both politically and economically " UK Telegraph
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Cost of Bin Laden Deception: US$3 Trillion
05-09-2011
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dailybell.ch
As we mark Osama bin Laden's death, what's striking is how much he cost our nation--and how little we've gained from our fight against him.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Tina Fey returns to SNL to spoof Sarah Palin at RNC debate
05-09-2011
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RawStory.com
Appearing on Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey reprised her role as Sarah Palin for an RNC debate with the potential candidates that did not attend Fox News’ actual debate last week.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Today on LewRockwell.com - Monday May 9th, 2011
05-09-2011
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lewrockwell.com
How Perverted Have We Become? - Butler Shaffer on the celebration of government hit squads, and the persecution of Manning and Assange. / Want To Regulate Government-Wall Street Greed? - David Stockman on the case for the gold standard.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
FOX News' Juan Williams Worried That Ron Paul Might Actually Win GOP Nomination
05-09-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
"...incredibly, it is no longer out of the realm of possibility that this outcast of the GOP establishment may win the party’s presidential nomination."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Mission Impossible: The GOP's Wall Street Offensive Begins Today
05-09-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Tonight, John Boehner is in New York to convince to Wall Streeters that the house will be able to increase the debt ceiling and maintain its commitment to rein in spending at the same time.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Biggest Market Rigger Is Government Itself
05-09-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
With nearly complete secrecy, the Federal Reserve lately has been funneling hundreds of billions of dollars to private financial institutions, purportedly to stabilize markets.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Counter-Economics
Moneybomb each other, not politicians
05-09-2011
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PostPolitical
We are increasingly living in a peer-to-peer world thanks to the internet; we need to utilize this technology to cut out the political middlemen, by working on solving issues for ourselves.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Downgrade of US economy: It’s time to play the Wall Street version of follow the leader
05-09-2011
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The Economic Peephole
A dead Osama bin Laden is the great news from last week. It took almost ten years and as President Obama said on 60 MInutes last night it was no lay-up, but the United States got their man.
Unfortunately, weak economic data leading to a violent se
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
James Howard Kunstler: The Song of Spring
05-09-2011
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Kunstler.com
Their costume innovation du jour is the cholo hat, a super-deluxe edition of a baseball cap with special embroidered emblems and a completely flat brim -presenting a look of equal parts idiocy and homicidal danger.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Memories Observed Been Formed
05-09-2011
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arclein
scientists observed the brain modifying its structure and organization, making new connections while canceling some others out, Italian news agency ANSA reported Monday.
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robert klein
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News Link • Torture
War Criminals Pushing The Idea That Torture Is Vital To Our Security
05-09-2011
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washingtonsblog.com
Defenders of the Bush administration’s interrogation policies have claimed vindication from reports that bin Laden was tracked down in small part due to information received from brutalized detainees some six to eight years ago.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Viral Manufacturing of Solar
05-09-2011
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arclein
n this diagram, the M13 virus consists of a strand of DNA (the figure-8 coil on the right) attached to a bundle of proteins called peptides - the virus coat proteins (the corkscrew shapes in the center) which attach to the carbon nanotubes(gray cylin
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robert klein
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Those Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy They First Make Fed Governors
05-09-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
In the tragi-comic farce that is the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve plays the part of the hubris-soaked Hero whose overconfident meddling triggers ruin.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Propaganda
Chris Hedges: Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred
05-09-2011
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TruthDig.com
The portrayal of Muslims as mortal enemies serves the interests of the expanding security state and the war industry, which consume half of all federal discretionary spending.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Housing Demographic Hell: Seniors wait out the housing slump
05-09-2011
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milforddailynews.com
Many seniors who were going to sell their homes and move on to senior housing communities instead saw real estate values plummet. Their decision to stay put, in hopes that the market would rebound, then caused another shift, this time...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Jim Grant: The Current Monetary System Is "Collectivist Top-Down Tyranny"
05-09-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
He called the current monetary system a “collectivist top-down tyranny . . . The clever and the nimble play this system for what it is worth.” Gold he referred to as “the people’s money” and the dollar as “America's credit card.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
‘Debt, Deficits and the Demise of the American Economy’
05-09-2011
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CNBC.com
The goal is not gratuitous fear-mongering, but rather an effort to provide a warning that the real bills are about to come due for the excesses of the past decade and it’s better to be forewarned and forearmed.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Zillow: The Housing Market Just Had Its Worst Quarter Since 2008
05-09-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Nearly 75% of homes in the US lost value from Q1 2010 to Q1 2011. That's up from 69% the quarter before.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The BLS and Economic Propaganda: What's the Real Unemployment Rate?
05-09-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
The fact is, employment fell by 190,000 according to the Household Survey and another 131,000 people dropped out of the labor force last month or the unemployment would have been even higher. Fewer people (131,000 to be precise) wanted...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Tough Questions For CFTC Chairman Gensler On Last Week's Silver Manipulation
05-09-2011
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www.silverseek.com
Much of the trading was conducted by high frequency trading (HFT) computer bots whose clear purpose seems to be to cause disruptions to prices. These are the same disruptive traders that caused the flash crash in the stock market last year.
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Chip Saunders
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Feature Article • Just For Fun!
How to Make a Colored Smoke Bomb
Ernest Hancock
The classic smoke bomb is a great project for the home or lab, producing lots of safe smoke, with purple flames. If you get dye and consider the shape of your creation, you can make a smoke bomb that billows clouds of brightly-colored smoke. This pro
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