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Date Sent: 2011-05-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, May 25, 2011 |
NATO Ramps Up Libyan Campaign -- Government Internet Takeover Kicks Into High Gear
Medicare key to shocking Dem win in NY House race -- IMF chief may use tried-but-tricky consent defense -- Democrats join Republicans in questioning Obama’s policy on Israel
-- Pakistan returns U.S. helicopter from bin Laden raid --
Investigators unable to determine cause of crash that killed Ted
Stevens -- U.S. sanctions Venezuelan oil giant for Iran trade -- Northrop Grumman Wins Biometrics Order For Timely Identification of Individual Suspects -- Greek PM still seeks consensus, EU/IMF inspectors back -- In Saakashvili's Georgia, the Bloom Is Off the Rose --
Sarah Palin as Oprah -- Operations Security (OPSEC) Considering Family
And Friends When TSHTF -- This Important New Bill Could Transform
Health Care, if it Passes -- The Absurd US Stance on Israel’s Nukes: A
Video Sampling of Denial -- World record 26 terabits per second data
transmission achieved -- A Guide to Chemical Warfare Preparations -- Future of the Libertarian Political Movement -- Alan Greenspan had to be convinced that he existed before meeting Ayn Rand -- Netanyahu and the One-State Solution
CA: Jordan Page Concert, Thursday May
26th 8pm in Los Angeles
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
NATO Ramps Up Libyan Campaign
05-24-2011
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http://slatest.slate.com/
NATO on Tuesday morning unleashed its heaviest attack yet on the Libyan capital of Tripoli, bombing at least 15 targets during a 30-minute airstrike that was concentrated near Muammar Qaddafi’s compound.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Internet
Government Internet Takeover Kicks Into High Gear
05-25-2011
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InfoWars.com/
Lieberman’s vision for the Internet is less of an information superhighway and more of a government-controlled sanitized clone of cable television, where the web is purged entirely of dissent in a system even more draconian than that employed by...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Medicare key to shocking Dem win in NY House race
05-25-2011
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AP
Kathy Hochul told her supporters they had picked the right issue to fight a Republican on long-held Republican turf.
The Democrat rode a wave of voter discontent over the national GOP's plan to change Medicare and overcame decades of GOP dominance
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
IMF chief may use tried-but-tricky consent defense
05-25-2011
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AP
Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has shed little public light on his account of what happened between him and a hotel housekeeper who accused him of sexually attacking her. But one of his lawyers has said he doesn't exp
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Democrats join Republicans in questioning Obama’s policy on Israel
05-25-2011
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Washington Post
Top Democrats have joined a number of Republicans in challenging President Obama’s policy toward Israel, further exposing rifts that the White House and its allies will seek to mend before next year’s election.
The differences, on display as s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Pakistan returns U.S. helicopter from bin Laden raid
05-25-2011
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Reuters
Pakistan has returned to the United States wreckage of a U.S. helicopter destroyed during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a Pentagon official told Reuters on Tuesday, but the gesture was expected to do little to improve strained ties.
The U
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Investigators unable to determine cause of crash that killed Ted Stevens
05-25-2011
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Washington Post
A month before he flew a plane carrying former U.S. senator Ted Stevens into an Alaskan mountain last summer, pilot Terry Smith seemed so unfocused on one occasion that an aviation museum staff member worried that he was unfit to fly their planes, ac
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
U.S. sanctions Venezuelan oil giant for Iran trade
05-25-2011
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Reuters
The United States hit Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA with sanctions on Tuesday in a more aggressive bid to starve Iran of fuel, prompting fury and warnings from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government.
The sanctions are largely symbolic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Northrop Grumman Wins Biometrics Order For Timely Identification of Individual Suspects
05-25-2011
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govconwire.com
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a follow-on task order worth up to $141 million for continued work of the U.S. Department of Defense Automated Biometric Identification System, which provides military personnel with reliable and timely ID...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Greek PM still seeks consensus, EU/IMF inspectors back
05-25-2011
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Reuters
Greece's prime minister called again for consensus at a meeting with the country's president on Wednesday, declining to comment on reports that his government is considering a referendum on more austerity measures.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
500 Gigahertz Communication
05-25-2011
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arclein
The researchers layered graphene on top of a silicon waveguide to fabricate optical modulators. The researchers were able to achieve a modulation speed of 1 gigahertz, but they noted that the speed could theoretically reach as high as 500 gigahertz f
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News Link • Politics
Sarah Palin as Oprah
05-25-2011
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arclein
“She has a huge pop cultural capability,” he said. “I think that, in our country, if she aspired to be Oprah Winfrey instead of Barack Obama, she would have a 10-, 20-year reign as a person who could influence people in the middle of the day, speci
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News Link • Science
Super Flares in Crab Nebula
05-25-2011
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arclein
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is one of many that look for high-energy radiation sources, and recently the Crab Nebula has caught its eye. The past seven months have seen some rather dramatic variations within the nebula, with Fermi and othe
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robert klein
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News Link • Architecture
Concrete Canvas
05-25-2011
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arclein
A bag weighing 230 kilograms (approximately 500 pounds) inflates into a shelter with 16 square meters (172 square feet) of floor space. Cost is estimated at £1,100 ($2,100), while an equivalent-size Portakabin (a type of portable building widely used
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Operations Security (OPSEC) Considering Family And Friends When TSHTF
05-24-2011
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http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/
“This is a guest post by Sheri and entry in our non-fiction writing contest " where you could win $100 cash. (This contest ends on June 5 2011 so get busy)”
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News Link • Drones
This Important New Bill Could Transform Health Care, if it Passes
05-24-2011
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http://articles.mercola.com/
Consumers are largely kept in the dark about the potential health benefits of foods and supplements. Why? Because current law makes it illegal for food and supplement producers to share this information.
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News Link • World News
The Absurd US Stance on Israel’s Nukes: A Video Sampling of Denial
05-24-2011
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http://original.antiwar.com/
On Tuesday, at a rare joint session of Congress for a foreign leader, members of Congress will clap hands raw for Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel"a nation many members of Congress are incapable of speaking simple truths about.
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News Link • Technology: Software
World record 26 terabits per second data transmission achieved
05-24-2011
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http://www.gizmag.com/
With video content consuming ever more bandwidth, the need for faster data transmission rates has never been greater. Now a team of scientists at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology are claiming a world record in data transmission
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News Link • Political Theory
Future of the Libertarian Political Movement
05-24-2011
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http://www.lp.org/
The Libertarian Parties of New Hampshire and Massachusetts present a National one-day political conference "Future of the Libertarian Political Movement".
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Alan Greenspan had to be convinced that he existed before meeting Ayn Rand
05-24-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan once doubted his own existence. A friend had to convince Greenspan that he actually existed prior to a meeting with Ayn Rand in the 1950s.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Awesome Lego machine gun shoots Lego bullets
05-24-2011
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http://www.cbsnews.com/
(CBS) - Here's something you'll never see at your local toy store. Some Lego genius built a working machine gun out of Legos that shoots out little Lego pieces.
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News Link • World News
Netanyahu and the One-State Solution
05-24-2011
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http://original.antiwar.com/
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address U.S. legislators today. He will, no doubt, tell members of Congress that he supports a two-state solution, but his support will be predicated on four negative principles:
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Richmond Fed: More Bad News For The Economy
05-24-2011
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Market-ticker.org
Retail sales cooled in May, as shopper traffic fell sharply. The revenues index slashed twenty-one points from last month’s reading, ending the survey period at 3. The index for shopper traffic plummeted from 34 to -29 in May.
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Reference Link • Economy - Economics USA
Financial Repression: The New Buzzword
The International Monetary Fund
"Financial repression includes directed lending to government by captive domestic audiences, caps on interest rates, regulation of cross-border capital movements, and a tighter connection between government and banks." PDF download.
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