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Date Sent: 2011-08-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, August 15, 2011 PM edition |
U.S. and NATO Arming Syrian Opposition, Plan Military Strike
Gold and the New Awakening of Colombia -- The Unloading of the
Economy Continues -- Ron Paul Iowa Straw Poll Speech “It’s Time We
Restore Freedom To America” -- Ernest talks about the Iowa Straw Poll "Results" -- Establishment Media Admits Conspiracy To Ignore Ron Paul -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Political activism needed to protect the Internet -- Attack Is Latest to Jolt a Usually Quiet Afghan Area -- Elite troops take sides in Mexican drugs wars -- New York Fed Director Shills for Bank of New York, Argues Against
Rule of Law -- Foreclosure-Gate: Mortgage Settlement Collapsing? -- The
Case for $25,000 per Ounce Gold -- Jordan Page in Iowa (video) -- On
Markets, Manipulation, Regulation,
and Nationalization -- ‘Hacktivists’
target San Francisco subway website -- Republican race
tightens into three-way brawl -- The Revolution Is Underway -- The
Rest Of The World Is Calling Even Louder For A New Global Currency
-- Why is George Soros selling gold
and buying farmland? -- Once A Fringe Candidate, Paul
Shaping 2012 Race -- Iowa Straw Poll: Ron Paul Statistical Tie for
First -- CNN And Politico:
"We're going to ignore [Ron Paul]" -- 40 Years Ago Today: The Day
Nixon Created Ron Paul - August 15, 1971 -- Google to Buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion -- Iowa Straw Poll Stolen from Ron Paul -- Ernest talks about the
Iowa Straw Poll "Results" -- Poverty in America: to become worse --
Bilderberg's Boy: Rick Perry schools Michele Bachmann in Waterloo -- New York Times Disinformation,
Denial and Suppressing Vital Truths
AZ: PIZZA NIGHT TAKEOVER Support
Freedom Library, August 16, 5-8PM (Yuma, Arizona) -- Jordan
Page to perform in Quartzsite August 27th (donate) Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite,
AZ on August 27th, bring your cameras.
Nationwide civil disobediance:
Support your local lemonade stand, Aug. 20
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Building, Launching, and Landing a Rover (All Before Going to College)
08-15-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Usually high-school rocket clubs launch an egg and try to have it land safely. But our teacher suggested that we do something harder: enter a competition to build a Mars rover that could be deployed from a rocket.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Patents an Airbag System To Protect Future Dropped Gadgets
08-15-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
If you have a smartphone, odds are you’ve experienced those few seconds of horror after your precious (and pricey) gadget slips out of your hands.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Driverless Car Drives 175 Miles on Busy Chinese Expressway, No GPS Necessary
08-15-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
According to China Daily, back in July, a Chinese driverless car traveled about 175 miles, at around 55 mph, on an expressway laden with other cars.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Military's Maple-Seed-Inspired Drone, Plus More to Come at UAV Show Next Week
08-15-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
After years of development and military funding setbacks, defense contractor Lockheed Martin is finally ready to debut its maple seed-inspired drone.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Soap Making In The Bush
08-15-2011
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SMCC
With hickory, sugar maple, ash, beech and buckeye as the best producers of lye plus a bucket of rain water and some left-over cooking fat " you can easily brew up enough soap to clean everybody and everything that need it.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold and the New Awakening of Colombia
08-15-2011
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http://www.thedailybell.com/
Today the sovereign debt and dollar crisis, plus rising energy and gold prices, are combining with Colombia's growing reputation for tourism, real estate investing and retirement to create an investment potential long delayed by past decades of civil
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Unloading of the Economy Continues
08-15-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Markets have certainly fallen quickly. It was only on 12,721 on July 21 and now we are looking at a low close of 11.269 after a 500-point PPT arrangement.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Ron Paul Wins Historic Vote Total In Ames Straw Poll
08-15-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Congressman Ron Paul won 4,671 votes in today’s Iowa Republican Straw Poll, topping Governor Mitt Romney’s vote total from 2007 and drawing a near statistical tie with today’s winner at 27.6 percent of the vote versus 28.5 percent.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. and NATO Arming Syrian Opposition, Plan Military Strike
08-15-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
On Friday, I wrote about a U.S. proxy busted in Lebanon attempting to smuggle weapons into Syria to be used against the al-Assad regime.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Internet
Rebecca MacKinnon: Political activism needed to protect the Internet
08-15-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Former CNN journalist Rebecca MacKinnon said during a TED Talk that new political innovations are needed to create a “consent of the networked” to protect the Internet from censorship and surveillance.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Afghanistan
Attack Is Latest to Jolt a Usually Quiet Afghan Area
08-15-2011
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http://www.nytimes.com/
The governor of Parwan Province, Abdul Basir Salangi, convened a meeting Sunday morning with his top aides to find out why security had not been improved around his offices, 10 days after reports that a group of suicide bombers was planning an attac
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Drug War
Elite troops take sides in Mexican drugs wars
08-15-2011
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http://english.aljazeera.net/
An infamous Guatemalan army unit is waging war on Mexico's cartels, but some of its soldiers have swapped sides.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Surveillance
Representation, Secession and Taxes
08-15-2011
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http://batr.org/
Now that the Super Congress drops any vestige of equal representation within the House or the Senate, many people ask what is next.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Food
A Libertarian’s Take on the First Ever Ancestral Health Symposium
08-15-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Certainly, libertarians and anarchists are drawn to this lifestyle because of our innate ability to see through the façade of conventional wisdom that is built by political interests and buttressed by an assortment of money trails.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
New York Fed Director Shills for Bank of New York, Argues Against Rule of Law
08-15-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
But what is even more disturbing than her disregard for the most basic facts is the underlying logic: that it’s perfectly OK to break the law if you make enough money at it to create employment.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Mortgage Settlement Collapsing?
08-15-2011
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Market-ticker.org
That's nothing new. The old "tanks in the street" argument is repeatedly trotted out - "the economy will collapse if you don't let us continue to loot!"
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
The Case for $25,000 per Ounce Gold
08-15-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
The printing in the U.S. will likely be enough to push gold much higher. If the ECB does the same, we could be very near global inflation---something never seen on this planet before. If global inflation occurs, $25,000 per ounce may be...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
On Markets, Manipulation, Regulation, and Nationalization
08-15-2011
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www.survivalblog.com
On August 12th the newspaper headlines had some exceptionally bad news: Four European Nations to Curtail Short-Selling. This is an ill-advised panic move, following some massive losses on the European stock markets.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Activism
‘Hacktivists’ target San Francisco subway website
08-15-2011
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RawStory.com
The international group of hackers known as Anonymous began a cyber attack on a website of the San Francisco subway, in retaliation for the agency's bid to shut down cellphone service to limit a protest over a fatal shooting.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republican race tightens into three-way brawl
08-15-2011
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RawStory.com
The Republican White House race has sharpened into a three-way brawl, pitting a moderate businessman and a Tea Party firebrand against a Texas governor promising the best of both worlds.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Revolution Is Underway
08-15-2011
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lewrockwell.com
The ongoing media blackout on all things Ron Paul is somewhat curious. One blogger calls the Meet the Press crowd knuckleheaded for their omissive reporting of winners and losers.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
The Rest Of The World Is Calling Even Louder For A New Global Currency
08-15-2011
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prisonplanet.com
For decades, the U.S. economy was so dominant compared to the rest of the world that nobody really even challenged the status of the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency of the world.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Why is George Soros selling gold and buying farmland?
08-15-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Food prices are skyrocketing all across the globe, and there’s no end in sight. The United Nations says food inflation is currently at 30% a year, and the fast-eroding value of the dollar is causing food prices to appear even higher (in contrast to a
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Once A Fringe Candidate, Paul Shaping 2012 Race
08-15-2011
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www.npr.org
Ron Paul, once seen as a fringe candidate and a nuisance to the establishment, is shaping the 2012 Republican primary by giving voice to the party's libertarian wing and reflecting frustration with the United States' international entanglements.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
40 Years Ago Today: The Day Nixon Created Ron Paul - August 15, 1971
08-15-2011
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dailypaul.com
This video shows Nixon announcing that the dollar will no longer be backed up by gold in international transactions. The alarming event sparked the political career of a doctor named Ron Paul.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Google to Buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion
08-15-2011
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Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG), maker of the Android mobile-phone software, agreed to buy smartphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion in its biggest deal, gaining mobile patents and expanding in the hardware business.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Iowa Straw Poll Stolen from Ron Paul
08-15-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
I have it from a very good source that virtually all the people involved in Ron's Iowa campaign, and who had worked for other candidates in previous straw polls, believe that Ron actually won, but the GOP establishment fixed the results...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
PIZZA NIGHT TAKEOVER (Yuma, Arizona)
08-15-2011
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www.freedomlibrary.org
ROUND TABLE PIZZA - BETWEEN 5 AND 8 PM ROUND TABLE PIZZA WILL CONTRIBUTE A PORTION OF ALL PIZZA SALES TO THE FREEDOM LIBRARY EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
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Sierra Hancock
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Feature Article • Constitution
Death By A Thousand Cuts
Bob Schulz
First Principle: Liberty, justice, wealth, safety and social order arise not by chance or force, but through the institutions manifest by our Constitutions. To permit government officials to abandon them is the death of the nation.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Empire State Index Resumes Downward Slide, Misses Consensus
08-15-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
What is surprising is not that the current outlook is deteriorating, but that for the first time, the future index finally cracked as the hopium has finally ran out: "The future general business conditions index fell twenty-four points to 8.7...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Crop Circles 'Created Using GPS, Lasers, Microwaves'
08-15-2011
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arclein
Prof Taylor, director of the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon, said the findings suggest that crop circle artists may be using magnetrons, found in microwave ovens, or similar technology to complete their detailed patterns in t
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
More Airship Development Underway
08-15-2011
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arclein
The new flying ship from the Aeros Corporation is called an Aeroscraft, and is designed to carry more than 50 tons of cargo and make deliveries thousands of kilometers away.
A demonstration model is being built outside Los Angeles, with funding f
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Phase Space
08-15-2011
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arclein
But did Einstein's revolution go far enough? Physicist Lee Smolin at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, doesn't think so. He and a trio of colleagues are aiming to take relativity to a whole new level, and
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
On Thin Ice
08-15-2011
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arclein
According to new research from MIT, the most recent global climate report fails to capture trends in Arctic sea-ice thinning and drift, and in some cases substantially underestimates these trends. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC
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robert klein
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