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Date Sent: 2011-05-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, May 6, 2011 PM edition |
Is This the Ron Paul Moment? -- Greece Threatens To Leave Eurozone, Reintroduce Own Currency
Silver's Bubble Has Burst? -- New Osama urges UK terror blitz -- Bin Laden Episode End of Empire? -- Liberal Democrats Routed in U.K. Local Elections -- Gaddafi Planned Gold Dinar, Now Under Attack -- More boots on the ground inflation observations -- Charting America's Transformation To A Part-Time Worker Society -- Memo to Bernanke: It's Called Blowback, Baby --
Surreal in South Carolina: A short ground report -- The dishonesty and
fraud of fractional-reserve banking and fractional-reserve Social
Security -- Day of the Dead: The Hit Man as Hero -- NFP Ex McDonalds And Birth Death Model: The USA Added 7,000 Jobs in April -- Justin Raimondo: Empire or Solvency? -- John McCain's Boy Uses Biometrics To Tame Arizona
AZ: Arizona Breakfast
Club this Saturday!!!
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Is This the Ron Paul Moment?
05-06-2011
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www.thenewamerican.com
Fox News' Sean Hannity told viewers immediately after the debate: "You're going to hear from four of the five candidates on this show, except for Ron Paul. He decided to go to the Tea Party rally."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • European Union
Greece Threatens To Leave Eurozone, Reintroduce Own Currency
05-06-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The debt crisis in Greece is getting worse. The finance ministers of the monetary union and representatives of the EU Commission will meet on Friday evening secret to a crisis meeting.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Will Bin Laden's Death Justify More War?
05-06-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Osama bin Laden killing: Victory in the war on terror is now within the West's reach After Osama bin Laden's death, we can finally destroy al-Qaeda and finish the job in Afghanistan.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Gaddafi Planned Gold Dinar, Now Under Attack
05-06-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Plans for attacking Muammar Gaddafi apparently go back some 20 years, and even US President Ronald Reagan tried to kill him, deeming him a threat to America power.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Surreal in South Carolina: A short ground report
05-06-2011
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dailypaul.com
Don't believe anything else you hear, believe none of the spin: Ron Paul owned Greenville, South Carolina tonight!! That debate was packed with supporters. The streets were packed with supporters. The Tea Party went wild over Ron Paul.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Memo to Bernanke: It's Called Blowback, Baby
05-06-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
But there is another kind of blowback brewing in the U.S.: the negative consequences of massive covert manipulation of the domestic economy by the Federal Reserve and agencies of the Federal government. A key feature of propaganda...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Silver's Bubble Has Burst?
05-06-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Silver loses shine in 20pc tumble The price of silver futures tumbled again on Wednesday, taking total losses to more than 20pc in a week amid fears that the precious metal represented a bubble bursting.
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News Link • TERRORISM
New Osama urges UK terror blitz
05-06-2011
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The U.K. Sun
Yemen-based Islamist Anwar al-Awlaki - tipped as Osama Bin Laden's successor - urged a Mumbai-style massacre after being duped by a U.K. Sun investigative reporter.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Institutional Gold Rush
05-06-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
I have worked on Wall Street my entire life, and one thing I've learned is that large institutional investors, like pension funds and endowments, rarely veer from the herd.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday May 6th, 2011
05-06-2011
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lewrockwell.com
America's Public Enemy #1 - He's far bigger and badder than Osama bin Who, says Gerald Celente. / Isn't It Time We Overthrew the State? - Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the legal case for anarcho-capitalism. / 'Government Cured the Great Depression' - Gary No
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
More boots on the ground inflation observations
05-06-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
As I travel throughout the world, I pay very close attention to price levels. I don’t believe a word of it when monetary authorities play down inflation concerns or tell me that rising prices are “transitory”.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul in 5/5/2011 Debate (Video)
05-05-2011
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Fox News
Ron Paul's replies in the 5/5/2011 Debate
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
The Unrealistic Mentality of the Modern Survivalist
05-06-2011
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http://www.survivalblog.com/
I am guilty of falling into the “Wolverines!” mindset from time-to-time, that being the image of going toe-to-toe with the insidious foreign invasion force and setting up ambushes to destroy the evil occupiers
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Charting America's Transformation To A Part-Time Worker Society
05-06-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Before we finally leave the topic of today's NFP data, we wanted to point out one last thing. While the total payroll number increased by 244,000, the household survey indicated a drop of 190,000. Editor Note: CNBC will never tell you this...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Libya's Golden Plan
05-06-2011
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GoldSilver.com
Some believe it is about protecting civilians, others say it is about oil, but some are convinced intervention in Libya is all about Gaddafi’s plan to introduce the gold dinar, a single African currency made from gold, a true sharing of the wealth.
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Up With the Fed?
05-05-2011
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lewrockwell.com
When people in Washington start creating fancy new phrases, instead of using plain English, you know they are doing something they don't want us to understand.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Day of the Dead: The Hit Man as Hero
05-06-2011
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chris-floyd.com
Besides, the question of whether the president could order an assassination was settled some time ago. They assert the right to keep prisoners in jail forever and kill American citizens, and nobody cares...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Gary Shilling: Sell Your House Yesterday
05-05-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Gary Shilling says you should have sold your house "yesterday" because prices still have a long way to fall.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Bureau of Lies and Scams (BLS): Who 'Ya Gonna Believe? (Employment)
05-06-2011
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Market-ticker.org/
This indicator, I remind you, is the one that matters in terms of the government being able to actually fund operations via tax collection. This indicator must be positive in order for government funding capacity to improve.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
NFP Ex McDonalds And Birth Death Model: The USA Added 7,000 Jobs in April
05-06-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Today's BLS of 244,000 is great... until you exclude the 62,000 from McDonalds hirings, and 175,000 from the Birth Death Adjustment, and end up with.... +7,000 jobs.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Participation Rate Unchanged At 25 Year Low 64.2% For Third Straight Month
05-06-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
One of the key metrics in today's report: April civilian non-institutional population at 239,146, a meager rise of 146k from March, and the Civilian Labor Force also barely growing from 153,406 to 153,421 means that for the 3rd straight...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
NFP +244,000, 9% Unemployment, Birth/Death Adjustment +175,000
05-06-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Editor Note: Two things to think about - Over 400,000 Americans are being laid off each week, there are 4.25 weeks in a month, which means over 1.7 million people are being laid off each month. Top it off with a Birth/Death # of 175,000...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Justin Raimondo: Empire or Solvency?
05-06-2011
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AntiWar.com
9/11 radically distorted our foreign policy, and handed it over to a cabal of neoconservative ideologues whose policies, however much they damaged America, are being faithfully carried out today under a Democratic administration.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
John McCain's Boy Uses Biometrics To Tame Arizona
05-06-2011
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AZcentral.com
Pinal joins dozens of sheriff's offices and correctional facilities across the nation using BI2 Technologies, a Massachusetts-based biometric intelligence company. The company gives local law enforcement iris-scanning capabilities and a database...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Vitamin D Deficiency is Associated with Different Types of Obesity in Black and White Children
05-06-2011
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arclein
while black and white children with vitamin D deficiency both had higher fat levels, black children were more likely to have higher levels of fat just under their skin and white children were more likely to have higher levels of fat between their int
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scorpion Venom as Pesticide Base
05-06-2011
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arclein
Past research identified scorpion toxin's usefulness in the development of insecticides. Its venom attacks various channels and receptors that control their prey's nervous and muscular systems.
One major target of scorpion toxins is the voltage-
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Water Currents of South Africa Could Stabilize Climate in Europe
05-06-2011
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arclein
The Agulhas Current, located in the southwest of the Indian Ocean, transports high density salt water to the southern tip of Africa, where part of it escapes to the South Atlantic, contributing to the strength of the global circulation of this ocean.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Gullible Mind
05-06-2011
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arclein
hese people, it turns out, are operating from what I called The Gullible Mind. It is a psychological processing malfunction that filters out information based on its source rather than its integrity. People who operate from The Gullible Mind tend to
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robert klein
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Opinion • Economy - Economics USA
Strictly Personal
05-05-2011
Chuck Baldwin
I celebrated my 59th birthday this past Tuesday, May 3. Accordingly, it is time for my annual “Strictly Personal” column. I think it only fair that readers should have an opportunity to learn a little something about the person who writes the words t
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Opinion • TERRORISM
Ray McGovern: My Take
What Has Bin Laden's Killing Wrought?
05-05-2011
Ray McGovern
The U.S. might finally begin to wind down a near-decade-long war in Afghanistan, there is the countervailing prospect of the USA consolidating an official policy of assassination and violence as the way to impose Washington’s will on the Muslim world
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