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Date Sent: 2011-04-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, April 29, 2011 PM edition |
Senate Hawks Push for Obama Move Against Syria--Petraeus: Can He Tell It Straight?-by Ray McGovern
Egypt to open Gaza border crossing -- Obama Working “Under The Radar” To Sneak Attack Second Amendment
-- Secret Silver Buying by Russian Billionaire, Chinese Traders, and
People’s Bank of China -- Another example of why only physical gold or
silver IN HAND is what to buy -- Space Adventures Plans Tourism Missions Around the Moon (for Just $150 Million!) -- Cornell's Thumbnail-Sized Satellites Are Headed to Space -- Pentagon Plots Comic Book Therapy for Troops -- Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two -- 1st Iraq, and Now Libya: Obliterating The Memory of A Civilized Society -- Venezuela's Chavez takes Syrian leader's side -- Egypt's Policy Upends Mideast Order -- Obama And His Co-Conspirators: Confiscating Libya's Sovereign Wealth Funds --
"Companies That Are Very Profitable Still Behaving As If Bankruptcy Is
Around The Corner" -- Power, Control, and Dominance: Raping A Country
Of It's Biologically Diverse Seeds -- Palestinian Unity Deal Announced
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Senate Hawks Push for Obama Move Against Syria
04-29-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
Three of the Senate’s most enthusiastic hawks, Sens. John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and Lindsay Graham have issued a joint statement on Thursday demanding that President Obama publicly order Syrian President
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
Petraeus: Can He Tell It Straight?
04-29-2011
Ray McGovern
The news that President Barack Obama has picked Gen. David Petraeus to be CIA director raises troubling questions, including whether the commander most associated with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will tolerate objective analysis of those two con
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News Link • World News
Egypt to open Gaza border crossing
04-29-2011
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http://english.aljazeera.net/
Egypt's foreign minister says Cairo will permanently open the Rafah border crossing to ease Israel's blockade on Gaza.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Working “Under The Radar” To Sneak Attack Second Amendment
04-29-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Administration has cited gun smuggling from U.S. to Mexico as reason to chill gun rights, despite the fact that federal government program deliberately delivered firearms to Mexican drug lords
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Secret Silver Buying by Russian Billionaire, Chinese Traders, and People’s Bank of China
04-29-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Gold rose to new record nominal highs at $1,540.85/oz in early Asian trading last night.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
China details plans for own orbital space station
04-29-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
BEIJING (AFP) " China will attempt its first space docking between two unmanned vehicles this year, the first step in efforts to build a Chinese space station, a senior official said Friday.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The Air Force Wants Tiny Drones That Can Squirt Their Prey With Trackable Sensor Goo
04-29-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Having a target painted on one’s back just took on a whole new literal meaning.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Another example of why only physical gold or silver IN HAND is what to buy
04-29-2011
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Denver Channel 9 News
"I placed a big order that was $325,000, basically my wife's entire IRA. Now we've spent the last two years checking with Jim [Burg], trying to find out, where is our gold?"
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Space Adventures Plans Tourism Missions Around the Moon (for Just $150 Million!)
04-29-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
If you’ve got a lust for space travel, a desire to go where only a couple of dozen people have gone before, and $150 million to spare, Space Adventures needs you.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Cornell's Thumbnail-Sized Satellites Are Headed to Space
04-29-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Cornell researchers are sending a tiny bundle to the International Space Station aboard the space shuttle Endeavour’s final mission
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pentagon Plots Comic Book Therapy for Troops
04-29-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
The fighting was furious " and entirely one-sided. While on patrol in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktia province in December 2002, paratroopers from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division had taken a wrong turn...
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News Link • Obama Administration
Fed Press Conferences Will Fail to Ease "Reformer's" Frustration
04-29-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
An unprecedented press conference was held in Washington on Wednesday " one that should have been convened a long time ago.
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News Link • Economy - International
An interview with Chris Martenson
04-29-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
First, long-time readers know that I don’t really do public speaking gigs or interviews. We get a lot of requests for these but usually turn them down with few exceptions. Chris Martenson is one of those exceptions.
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Two Letters Re: Cattle Raising Basics
04-29-2011
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http://www.survivalblog.com/
The author had mentioned some of the issues that may arise when raising cattle. Some treatment methods are important to understand.
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
My Bug Out Bag Was a Blessing When the Tornados Arrived
04-29-2011
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http://www.survivalblog.com/
Thank you for providing all the information in SurvivalBlog. It is truly a lifesaver. I live in Arkansas, and I’m sure you’ve seen the devastation the tornadoes have caused.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
ROYAL WEDDING WATCH: Expert: Crowd was a bit 'subdued,' but then came 'the kiss'
04-29-2011
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ca.news.yahoo.com
As Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot, Associated Press journalists are hunting down the most interesting details, from Westminster to points around the globe. Here's the latest on the big event.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Food
Healthy No Bake Chocolate Brownies " Yummy Superfood
04-29-2011
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SMCC
Recipe for delicious no-bake chocolate brownies using healthy ingredients and no sugar.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed & Idi Amin Dada Obama: Printing Money Like A Third World Banana Republic
04-29-2011
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OpEdNews.com
Paul Craig Roberts: In other words, the US, the great Super Power over-filled with hubris, has outdone the fiscal irresponsibility of third-world banana republics. Superpower America is financing itself by printing money.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday April 29th, 2011
04-29-2011
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lewrockwell.com
American Fascism - Butler Shaffer on big business vs. free markets. / Has the Militarist Right Found Its New Warlord? - Will Grigg on Allen West, the belligerent, double-dipping congressman. / Is There a Right To Live Where You Want? - Of course not,
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Food
Losing Faith (In The U.S. Economy)
04-29-2011
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TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com/
Back during World War II, "victory gardens" enabled Americans to grow 40 percent of all the vegetables that they needed. Those gardens greatly contributed to the war effort and helped Americans get through some very difficult times.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
04-29-2011
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youtube (h/t Wendy McElroy)
"Fight of the Century" is the new economics hip-hop music video by John Papola and Russ Roberts at http://EconStories.tv.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
The United States Will Face A 10 to 15 Year Real Estate Bear Market
04-29-2011
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MyBudget360.com
The bad news is that we are likely to face at least a 10 year bear market in real estate thanks to a lost decade in household income and the continued erosion of the middle class. Home prices can only reflect the underlying income of households...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Events: Arizona
FORECLOSURE DEFENSE SEMINAR FOR LAWYERS AND HOMEOWNERS
04-27-2011
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livinglies.wordpress.com
FORECLOSURE DEFENSE SEMINAR FOR LAWYERS AND HOMEOWNERS THIS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY IN CHANDLER (HILTON) ARIZONA
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
1st Iraq, and Now Libya: Obliterating The Memory of A Civilized Society
04-29-2011
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InfoWars.com/
Now the elite are doing the same thing to Libya, a country with the highest living standard in Africa. The country ranks 53rd on the HDI index, better than all other African countries and also better than Saudi Arabia. Libya has the highest GDP...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Venezuela's Chavez takes Syrian leader's side
04-29-2011
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Agence France Presse
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lent his support to embattled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Monday, blasting what he called attempts by western powers to oust him by force.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • World News
Egypt's Policy Upends Mideast Order
04-29-2011
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The Wall Street Journal
Egypt has announced it's intentions to eventually open its border to Gaza which will allow Rafah smuggling tunnels to continue operating while Egypt opens relations with Israel's enemies: Iran and Hamas.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama And His Co-Conspirators: Confiscating Libya's Sovereign Wealth Funds
04-29-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) manages sovereign wealth funds estimated at about $70 billion U.S., rising to more than $150 billion if you include foreign investments of the Central Bank and other bodies. But it might be more.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
"Companies That Are Very Profitable Still Behaving As If Bankruptcy Is Around The Corner"
04-29-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
"Companies that are very profitable still behaving as if bankruptcy is around the corner". And why wouldn't they: when in the history of human events has central planning every worked?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Marilyn Monroe spent her last night at Frank Sinatra's Cal-Neva lodge
04-29-2011
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dailymail.co.uk
There the gangster " with whom she was allegedly in love " apparently tried to persuade her not to go public about her affair with President John F Kennedy.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Arrogance: The Reason Why Obama Released
A Fraudulent Birth Certificate
04-29-2011
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Market-ticker.org
Maybe he was "really special" compared to the thousands of other births in Hawaii, and a lowly typist in 1961 "knew" he should have a "really pretty" typed certificate because he'd be President 40 years later.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Power, Control, and Dominance: Raping A Country Of It's Biologically Diverse Seeds
04-29-2011
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DeccanChronicle.com
The embodiment of our biological and cultural diversity, the link between the past and the future of evolution, the common property of past, present and future generations of farming communities who have been seed breeders, is being stolen...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Underwater Mortgages a Threat to Economic Recovery and The Deficit
04-29-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
The revenue projections of President Obama, Paul Ryan, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office are all hopelessly optimistic with obvious implications on the deficit, on interest on the national debt, and on long-term interest...
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News Link • World News
The Royal Wedding does little for most Americans
04-29-2100
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The Political Commentator, Michael Haltman
Nice diversion for some, but we have bigger fish (and chips) to fry in America!
Tradition, ceremony and history are all well and good, but when it comes to The Royal Wedding, Americans don't really seem to care. No matter how much the media try'
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Economic recovery? Would you like some fries with that? (Video)
04-29-2100
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The Political Commentator, Michael Haltman
McDonald's hires 62,000 people across the United States in one massive National Hiring Day!
This is great news right? A sign that the US economy is moving off the bottom and is finally showing signs of improvement? Finally an indication that the
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Metastasis Blood Test Possible
04-29-2011
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arclein
Melanoma is the fifth most common cancer in men and the seventh most common cancer in women. It is estimated that 68,130 people in the United States were diagnosed in 2010, and 8,700 died. With proper screening, melanoma can often be caught early eno
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News Link • Archaeology
Carib Glyphs Near Atlanta
04-29-2011
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arclein
Rock art specialists from around North America have finally solved this century old archaeological riddle. The stone slab is evidence that native peoples from Puerto Rico or Cuba once lived within the interior of Eastern North America.
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Three Economic Charts To Blow Your Mind
04-29-2011
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arclein
So, the top 10% of income earners pay 69.9% of the income tax while the bottom 50% of Americans pay 2.7%. Now, if we were actually going to make the tax code more “fair,” who would actually be paying more and who would be paying less? Maybe the ric
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
NASA Scientist Claims Extraterrestrial Life Evidence
04-29-2011
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arclein
Hoover a NASA scientist claims to have found evidence of life from beyond Earth within freshly-cleaved surfaces of rare meteorites from Mars. But some scientists maintain that the early Earth was so hostile to life that it must have begun elsewhere.
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