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Date Sent: 2011-05-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, May 8, 2011 |
US lawmakers urge terrorist label for Mexican cartels -- Marines trained on accepting gay recruits
How to Make a Colored Smoke Bomb -- Nathaniel Branden on the Atlas Shrugged Movie... -- Iran’s Ahmadinejad affirms Khamenei decision, tensions remain -- 12-year-old killed as Syrian forces seal city in crackdown on anti-regime protesters -- Chill from commodities rout -- Tunisian police break up fourth day of protests -- Abbottabad: A perfect place to hide in plain sight -- Officers and Inmates Are Killed in Iraq Jail Revolt -- The Illegal Herb that Fights Cancer -- Thoughts on a Surreal Depression -- Administration planning $1 billion debt relief for Egypt -- Cuban opposition says police killed dissident -- Hundreds of Christians, Muslims clash in downtown Cairo after mobs burn church -- bin Laden's compound facing the wrecker's ball -- Rand Paul vs. Obama Administration -- Cartoon Strip - Gun Control via the Drug Cartels and the Obama Administration -- Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death --
Phantom Jobs and Economic Recovery in America -- EU To Greece: We Want
To Own You After You File For Bankruptcy -- Facebook and Trusted
Identities: A Manhattan Project for online identity -- We're Next: Children of Guanajuato, Mexico in Biometric Database -- Geithner Blocked IMF Deal to Haircut Irish Debt
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News Link • TERRORISM
US lawmakers urge terrorist label for Mexican cartels
05-07-2011
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Yahoo News
Key US lawmakers urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a letter released Friday to support labeling Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups and craft a strategy to help Mexico defeat them.
"The Mexican drug cartels present a dangerous thre
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Reported by:
Justin Tyme
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Marines get trained on accepting gay recruits
05-08-2011
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Yahoo News
It's OK to disagree with letting gays serve openly in the military. It's not OK to disobey orders. He explained that the impending repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" is an order, one heard by generals and rank-and-file alike as the military tries to c
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Ernest Hancock
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Feature Article • Just For Fun!
How to Make a Colored Smoke Bomb
Ernest Hancock
The classic smoke bomb is a great project for the home or lab, producing lots of safe smoke, with purple flames. If you get dye and consider the shape of your creation, you can make a smoke bomb that billows clouds of brightly-colored smoke. This pro
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News Link • Iran
Iran’s Ahmadinejad affirms Khamenei decision, tensions remain
05-08-2011
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Washington Post
Apparently bowing to unprecedented pressure from Iran’s clerical establishment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomed an intelligence minister he had ousted in April back into his cabinet meeting on Sunday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
12-year-old killed as Syrian forces seal city in crackdown on anti-regime protesters
05-08-2011
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Washington Post
Gunfire and shelling rattled a city in central Syria on Sunday and killed a 12-year-old boy, as President Bashar Assad’s autocratic regime expanded its military crackdown on a seven-week-old uprising, activists said.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Chill from commodities rout
05-08-2011
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Reuters
A commodities sell-off is bringing a sudden chill to financial markets where investors were already turning cautious about the prospect of a slowdown in China and other emerging economies given steady monetary tightening.
Silver and crude oil saw
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Tunisian police break up fourth day of protests
05-08-2011
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Reuters
Tunisian police used tear gas on Sunday to break up a fourth day of anti-government protests by scores of youths in the center of Tunis.
The North African country has struggled to restore stability since leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted e
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Abbottabad: A perfect place to hide in plain sight
05-08-2011
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Yahoo! News blog
Tucked away in the Himalayan foothills, Abbottabad was Pakistan's best kept secret " until Osama bin Laden was killed within walking distance of the Pakistan Military Academy. So why Abbottabad? How was the world's most hunted man able to live near a
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
Officers and Inmates Are Killed in Iraq Jail Revolt
05-08-2011
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NY Times
An insurgent leader accused of plotting the deadly siege against an Iraqi church last autumn led a bloody, hours-long revolt inside a Baghdad jail, security authorities said. The jail holds some of the country’s most violent terrorism suspects.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
The Illegal Herb that Fights Cancer
05-08-2011
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articles.mercola.com
Medical marijuana is now a $1.7-billion market in the U.S. This means that sales of medical marijuana rival the annual revenue generated by Viagra, a $1.9-billion business.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Thoughts on a Surreal Depression
05-08-2011
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Pajamas Media
History’s revolutions and upheavals " whether the Nika rioting in Constantinople, the periodic uprising of the turba in Rome, the French upheavals, or the Bolshevik Revolution " are rarely fueled by the starving and despised, but by the subsidized an
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Administration planning $1 billion debt relief for Egypt
05-08-2011
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Washington Post
The Obama administration has decided to provide about $1 billion in debt relief for Egypt, a senior official said Saturday, in the boldest U.S. effort yet to shore up a key Middle East ally as it attempts a democratic transition.
The aid would
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Cuba
Cuban opposition says police killed dissident
05-08-2011
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Reuters
A Cuban dissident died on Saturday after he was beaten by police following a protest last week in the city of Santa Clara, fellow government opponents charged on Sunday.
They said former political prisoner Juan Wilfredo Soto Garcia, 46, was taken
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Hundreds of Christians, Muslims clash in downtown Cairo after mobs burn church
05-08-2011
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Washington Post
Hundreds of Christians and Muslims hurled stones at each other in downtown Cairo on Sunday, hours after Muslim mobs set fire to a church and a Christian-owned apartment building in a frenzy of violence that killed 12 people and injured more than 200.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
bin Laden's compound facing the wrecker's ball
05-08-2011
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The Age
PAKISTANI authorities are reported to be considering demolishing Osama bin Laden's hideout in the garrison town of Abbottabad to prevent it becoming a rallying point for extremists. The walled compound where bin Laden was killed when US forces raided
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Cartoon Strip - Gun Control via the Drug Cartels and the Obama Administration
05-08-2011
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www.daybydaycartoon.com
(In a nut shell)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Propaganda
Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death
05-08-2011
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www.guernicamag.com
"We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic."
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • European Union
EU To Greece: We Want To Own You After You File For Bankruptcy
05-07-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
"In other words, for the first time since Weimar, a country may soon be forced to collateralize superpriority debt issuance to foreign creditors: an exercise not really seen in international politics since the Weimar war reparations...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Facebook and Trusted Identities: A Manhattan Project for online identity
05-07-2011
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radar.oreilly.com
For one, the widespread adoption of Facebook's social graph and Facebook Connect by developers means that the enormous social network is well on its way to becoming an identity utility for the Internet.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
We're Next: Children of Guanajuato, Mexico in Biometric Database
05-07-2011
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singularityhub.com
However, of all countries, Mexico is really taking a step into the future when it comes to biometrics. It all started last September, when the residents of the city of Leon were due to be secured through iris scanning.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Geithner Blocked IMF Deal to Haircut Irish Debt
05-07-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
The Stockholm Syndrome point is important. Banks who have engaged in widespread looting and reckless behavior have nevertheless managed to persuade the public that acceding to their demands is virtuous.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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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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