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Date Sent: 2011-06-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, June 3, 2011 |
House Blocks Vote on Kucinich Libya Bill Fearing Passage -- 41 Killed as Syria Shells Protesters
SPECIAL REPORT: Symptoms of Tyranny, Oathkeepers in Arizona -- Moody's may cut BofA, Citi, Wells ratings -- Embedding YouTube Videos May Soon Be a Felony -- Yemen the Key to Middle East Uprisings? -- D-Wave
sells first commercial quantum computer -- Quartzsite, AZ Police Chief
Jeff Gilbert scandal -- Libyan rebels in a fight they don’t control -- Rep. Paul to Fed: Tell Us Everything, or Else --
Worms from Hell? Deepest Multicellular Life Found -- Russia Warns U.S.,
NATO Against Military Aid to Syria Protests After Libya -- Security
forces attack Bahraini protesters -- Pima County Sheriff Talks Briefly
About SWAT Shooting -- Pakistani journalist ‘tortured to death’ after warning of military’s ties to al Qaeda -- The Pentagon Has a Classified List of Cyber Weapons Approved for Cyber Warfare -- Keeping Your Communications Private
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Sat.
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News Link • Government
House Blocks Vote on Kucinich Libya Bill Over Fears It Might Pass
06-02-2011
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http://www.commondreams.org/
House Republicans postponed a Wednesday vote on Rep. Dennis Kucinich's resolution to end U.S. involvement in the bombing of Libya because they were afraid it would pass.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
At Least 41 Killed as Syria Shells Protesters in Rastan
06-02-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
According to a human rights lawyer familiar with the situation, a pro-democracy protest in the Syrian town of Rastan on Tuesday was attacked by the military, with tank shells raining down on protesters in the town’s center.
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News Link • Iraq
U.S. projects in war zones are unsustainable, study finds
06-02-2011
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Washington Post
Billions of dollars worth of U.S.-funded reconstruction projects in Afghanistan and Iraq could fall into disrepair over the next few years because inadequate provisions have been made to pay for their ongoing operations and maintenance, according
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Obama solicitor general: If you don't like mandate, earn less money
06-02-2011
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The Washington Examiner
President Obama's solicitor general Neal Kumar Katyal, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn't like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
SPECIAL REPORT: Symptoms of Tyranny, Oathkeepers in Arizona
06-02-2011
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youtube.com
An epidemic is sweeping the nation. In this special report, never seen on the mainstream news, we look at the symptoms of tyranny and take you to Arizona where the Oathkeepers converged to march for a fallen Marine.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Moody's may cut BofA, Citi, Wells ratings
06-02-2011
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Reuters
Moody's Investors Service said it may downgrade the debt ratings of Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc and Wells Fargo & Co, citing concerns about waning U.S. political willingness to offer support for the largest banks.
The sweeping Dodd-Frank f
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Embedding YouTube Videos May Soon Be a Felony
06-02-2011
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Kurt Nimmo
Techdirt reports that Senate bill 978 " a bill to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes " may be used to prosecute people for embedding YouTube videos.
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Andrew Strmic
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Yemen the Key to Middle East Uprisings?
06-02-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Foreign Office urges Britons to leave Yemen while they can ... Anyone with British relatives or friends in strife-torn Yemen is being urged to contact them and plead with them to get out of the country while they still can.
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News Link • World News
204. Police Epidemic
06-02-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
Paramilitary police are a relatively recent state invention. They’ve metastasized into a domestic occupation force, enhancing government, institutionalizing injustice, plundering with permission....
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Arizona Turns the Tide: Voters Demand the Recall of Russell Pearce
06-02-2011
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http://www.commondreams.org/
In a celebratory display of unprecedented organization, a bipartisan group of activists poured into the Arizona secretary of state's office yesterday with more than 18,300 signatures to demand the recall of State Senate president Russell Pearce.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Quartzsite, AZ Police Chief Jeff Gilbert scandal
5-31-11
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The DESERT FREEDOM PRESS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Quartzsite, Arizona Police Chief Jeff Gilbert is struggling desperately to maintain his position after three quarters of his own officers filed formal complaints against him with Arizona Conference of Police and Sheriffs (AZCOP
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J Jones
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Libyan rebels in a fight they don’t control
06-02-2011
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/
As part of their mission in Libya, the United States and its European allies have unleashed a high-tech assault from the air, deploying AWACS spy planes, unmanned aircraft and sophisticated satellite systems.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Rep. Paul to Fed: Tell Us Everything, or Else
06-02-2011
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http://www.foxbusiness.com/
The chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve demanded Tuesday that the Fed fully disclose details of billions -- perhaps trillions -- in secret emergency loans it made to almost every major bank in the U.S.
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News Link • World News
Russia Warns U.S., NATO Against Military Aid to Syria Protests After Libya
06-02-2011
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http://www.bloomberg.com/
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the U.S. and European nations not to encourage anti-government protesters in Syria by holding out the prospect of military support like they provided in Libya.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Pima County Sheriff Talks Briefly About SWAT Shooting
06-02-2011
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Fox11AZ.com via Yahoo! News
"...if too much info gets out the INFORMANT WHO IS HELPING THEM could get killed." (emphasis mine. I wondered how long it would take before we heard about the CI that is ever-present in 'Law EnFORCEment' - Ed)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pakistani journalist ‘tortured to death’ after warning of military’s ties to al Qaeda
06-02-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Grief-stricken relatives demanded Wednesday that Pakistan investigate the torture and murder of an investigative journalist whose disappearance was blamed on the country's shadowy intelligence services.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed Ready to Print More Funny Money on QE3 Rumors
06-02-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Simon Maughn, co-head of European equities at MF Global, has told CNBC that a third round of so-called quantitative easing is in the works. The private Federal Reserve will again become the marginal buyer of bonds.
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News Link • Adam vs The Man
Hitler versus Kokesh
06-02-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
The elites had taken near total control of every aspect of Americans lives, but when they tried to outlaw dancing, something went terribly wrong, and Hitler is pissed!
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Military Escalation: “Phase Two” of the War on Libya
06-02-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
A new phase of the war is unfolding leading to a process of military escalation as well the eventual landing of US-NATO commandos on Libya’s shores.
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News Link • Internet
The Pentagon Has a Classified List of Cyber Weapons Approved for Cyber Warfare
06-02-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
More news on the cyber warfare front today as more details leak out about the Pentagon’s ongoing efforts to produce a cyber operation framework.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Baltimore Officers Evade Jail Time in Kidnapping Case
06-02-2011
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Officer.com
Two Baltimore City police officers convicted of misconduct will not serve jail time.
Detectives Tyrone Francis and Milton Smith appeared Wednesday before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Timothy J. Doory, who sentenced them to 18-months suspende
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Michele Bachmann's Stance on Evolution Demolished by High School Student
06-02-2011
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The Huffington Post
Despite Michele Bachman flirting with possibility of running for President, what most don't know is that her educational policies are being openly challenged by a high school student from Baton Rouge, La.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Housing
The Rent Isn't Too Damn High
06-02-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
Today's news that national housing prices have double-dipped to a new recession-era low is grim for homeowners, home sellers, banks, builders, and the president.
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News Link • Currencies
After the Dollar: What Comes Next?
06-02-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
My readers are familiar with my forecast that the US dollar is in terminal decline. America is tragically bankrupt, unable to pay its lenders without printing the dollars to do so, and enmeshed in an economic depression.
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News Link • Government
In a Relationship, and It's Complicated
06-02-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
The idea that corporate interests, banking elites, and politicians conspire to set US policy is at once obvious and beyond the pale.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Chile: Buying, storing and transporting gold
06-02-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
We have had a lot of conversations about Chile as ‘the new America.’ In short, this is a country that is full of opportunities, open to foreigners, and where the government just leaves you alone.
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News Link • Immigration
The Tragedy of Immigration Enforcement
06-02-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Here's the problem. If you give government a job to do, even one that seems justified in the abstract, it will use its power to make a terrible mess in practice.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Keeping Your Communications Private
06-02-2011
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http://www.survivalblog.com/
In this age of continuing disregard for an individual’s privacy, it can be difficult to keep your communications private. Warrant-less phone taps, postal service mail tracking, RF scanners, and random roadside searches will appear fairly tame
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