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Date Sent: 2011-05-31
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, May 31, 2011 PM edition |
Israel Minister: Strike on Iran Could Be Necessary -- Pentagon Declares Cyber Combat An Act of War
Spain's Giant Post Debt Hangover -- One Brain, Hundreds of Eyes: Darpa Plots Manhunt Master Controller -- Queen Worried About Empire's
Meltdown -- Giving the EU the Boot --
Here’s a radical idea: stop being a milk cow -- Bankrupt nations try to
stop the future from happening, fail -- Devaluation in Belarus causes a run
on toilet paper -- Case-Shiller Worse Than Expected: Home
Prices Fell 3.6% In March -- Together At Last: A Large Order
of Fries and The Death of Physical Currencies -- Totalitarian
Collectivism: NeoCon Hell on Earth -- Biometric ID and The Cashless
Society On One Chip: "Single Tap" Subservience -- UN Warns of Risk Of
“Collapse” Of Dollar -- James Howard Kunstler: Enter Hitler, Release
2.0 -- Richard Russell: Buy Silver, The Selloff Is Over -- Waging War
at Home and Abroad While Pledging Peace -- Public Banking: An Idea
Whose Time Has Come -- Canada Backs Israel’s Survival
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News Link • Iran
Israel Minister: Strike on Iran Could Be Necessary
05-31-2011
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http://www.foxnews.com/
MOSCOW " An Israeli Cabinet minister said the civilized world must take joint action to avert the Iranian nuclear threat, including a pre-emptive strike if necessary.
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News Link • Internet
Pentagon Declares Cyber Combat An Act of War
05-31-2011
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online.wsj.com
The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Sony Sets Its Sights on Augmented Reality
05-31-2011
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http://www.technologyreview.com/
The future of mobile gaming will merge the virtual and real worlds.Sony has demonstrated a new augmented reality system called Smart AR that can be built into the company's future gaming devices.
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain's Giant Post Debt Hangover
05-31-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
BARCELONA " Viva la revolution! Spain’s youth are staging boisterous but peaceful protests across the country that many call the Iberian version of the popular revolutions sweeping the Arab world.
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Chris Hedges - World News, War, Obama, Economy, Middle East etc...
Chris Hedges - World News, War, Obama, Economy, Middle East etc... - column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.
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News Link • Surveillance
One Brain, Hundreds of Eyes: Darpa Plots Manhunt Master Controller
05-31-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
Thought military tracking technology couldn’t get any creepier? Hold onto your tinfoil hats and hide behind the nearest curtain because the next generation of manhunting gear just took another step closer to reality.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Light Up Your Life With LEDs, Sewable Circuitry
05-31-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
In the future, we'll all be wearing glowing, light-up, circuit-laden fashions.
Wait, the future? You can do that now!
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Last Space Shuttle to Fly Headed for Launch Pad Tonight
05-31-2011
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http://www.space.com/
The space shuttle Atlantis will make one final trip to its Florida launch pad tonight (May 31) as NASA prepares the orbiter to launch the last mission of its 30-year shuttle program on July 8.
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News Link • Imperialism
Queen Worried About Empire's Meltdown
05-31-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
The Queen has expressed concern that she might be the last monarch of the UK and has asked Downing Street to keep her informed.
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Upcoming US Nuclear Event?
05-31-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
The stage has been set for a nuclear false flag in America. Many in the alternative media have wondered if a false flag nuke attack within America is a real possibility. Would they do it? Who would it be? What cities would be targeted?
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News Link • European Union
Giving the EU the Boot
05-31-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
They can try to 'delay and pray' but the euro is running out of time ... As a doomsayer from the start, who has written several times on the subject, I have recently been reluctant to burden my readers with more jeremiads about the euro.
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News Link • Economy - International
Bankrupt nations try to stop the future from happening, fail
05-31-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
Debt is slavery… or at least indentured servitude of the worst kind. That looming mortgage, the high interest credit card debt, the short-term car loan" these are the forces that keep people from breaking free and taking action.
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News Link • Economy - International
It’s “heads you win, tails you don’t lose” with this currency
05-31-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
One of the most interesting things going on here in Hong Kong at the moment is the gradual displacement of the US dollar, and even the local Hong Kong dollar, by the Chinese Yuan.
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News Link • Economy - International
Devaluation in Belarus causes a run on toilet paper
05-31-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/devaluation-in-b
The destruction of a currency is, without doubt, positively devastating for a society. History is generous with examples dating all the way back to 212 BC when Rome first devalued its denarius silver coin by 50%. Recent examples are also plentiful.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Destructive capability is no substitute for freedom
05-31-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
I had the opportunity to tour Chile’s national military school yesterday. As you may know, I spent some time in the military myself in places that were not especially pleasant, so the visit was quite meaningful for me.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Dressing for Self Defense
05-31-2011
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http://www.survivalblog.com/
This is a review of considerations for civilian dress for basic self defense in most areas. Be advised some of these suggestions may be illegal where you live, follow all laws when dressing defensively.
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News Link • Free Speech
The Dishonor of Militarism
05-31-2011
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http://www.fff.org/
What a blown opportunity! Glenn Beck gathered thousands of people at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to urge a restoration of American honor " but not once did he mention the most egregious assault on America’s honor: militarism.
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News Link • Housing
Case-Shiller Worse Than Expected: Home Prices Fell 3.6% In March
05-31-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
In March 2011, 12 cities - Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, PHOENIX, Portland (OR) and Tampa - fell to their lowest levels as measured by the current housing cycle.
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News Link • Housing
Case-Shiller Index: 'Double-Dip' in Housing Prices Even Worse Than Expected
05-31-2011
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CNBC.com
"This month's report is marked by the confirmation of a double-dip in home prices across much of the nation," David Blitzer, of the committee at S&P Indices, said in a statement. "Home prices continue on their downward spiral with no relief in sight.
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News Link • Housing
The Excess Vacant Housing Supply: A State by State Comparison
05-31-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
House prices depend on local supply and demand - and also on the number of distressed homes on the market (forced sellers). But the excess vacant inventory is important for forecasting when new construction will increase - assuming...
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News Link • Surveillance
Together At Last: A Large Order of Fries and The Death of Physical Currencies
05-31-2011
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shinyshiny.tv
"It's about the customer journey. It's quicker than the chip-and-pin transaction," he said.
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News Link • NeoCons
Totalitarian Collectivism: NeoCon Hell on Earth
05-31-2011
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batr.org
The noise we do hear screams of lies, deception and fraud. How can we as a nation allow another Patriots Act extension? How can we tolerate the TSA and federal government tyranny that threatens the Texas state legislature to halt legislation...
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News Link • Surveillance
Biometric ID and The Cashless Society On One Chip: "Single Tap" Subservience
05-31-2011
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prnewswire.com/
With integrated near field communication (NFC) technology, a secure processor and biometric capabilities all on one chip, the new SoCs isolate user authentication from the host computing system through a multi-factor, multi-choice authentication...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
UN Warns of Risk Of “Collapse” Of Dollar
05-31-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The United Nations warned on Wednesday of a possible crisis of confidence in, and even a "collapse" of, the U.S. dollar if its value against other currencies continued to decline.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
James Howard Kunstler: Enter Hitler, Release 2.0
05-31-2011
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Kunstler.com
So, the Sarah Palin campaign - and, make no mistake it is a campaign - trafficks in code and buzzwords about the shame of being losers. Her bus tour rolls heavy under the rubric: "One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
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News Link • Precious Metals
Richard Russell: Buy Silver, The Selloff Is Over
05-31-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
I wrote that silver’s upward post-crash correction might surprise most silver-haters and silver shorts. As I write silver has rallied to above 37. The bull market in gold is still very much intact, and I believe gold will take silver UP with it.
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News Link • Economy - International
Global Resource Consumption to Triple by 2050
05-31-2011
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arclein
Total world resource use has risen from about six billion tons in 1900 to 49 billion tons in 2000 and has already gone up to an estimated 59 billion tons now.
Currently people in rich nations consume an average of 16 tons of minerals, ores, fossil
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News Link • Israel
Canada Backs Israel’s Survival
05-31-2011
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arclein
But “the Canadians,” a European official told Reuters, “were really very adamant, even though Obama expressly referred to 1967 borders in his speech last week.”
Instead, the communiqué said:
Negotiations are the only way toward a comprehensive
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News Link • Science
Aussie Student IDs Missing Mass
05-31-2011
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arclein
Undergraduate Amelia Fraser-McKelvie made the breakthrough during a holiday internship with a team at Monash University's School of Physics, locating the mystery material within vast structures called "filaments of galaxies".
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robert klein
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Mysterious fund allows Congress to spend freely, despite earmark ban!
05-28-2011
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Cole Deines, CNN
The defense bill that just passed the House of Representatives includes a back-door fund that lets individual members of Congress funnel millions of dollars into projects of their choosing.
This is happening despite a congressional ban on earmarks
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Obama Administration
Karen Kwiatkowski: The Next Bubbles?
05-30-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Washington demands you heart Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, overwhelming even the incessant push for antidepressants, one can sense the concern that someone will find out about this house of cards, and observe that it struts...
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