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Date Sent: 2011-03-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, March 18, 2011 PM edition

Japan weighs need to bury nuclear plant -- Georgia State bill requires biometric ID

Obama announces new acts of war on TV (no online links yet) -- WAR: Allies Press Libya, Saying Declaration of Cease-Fire Is Not Enough -- Episode 1 Heather Lewis, liberty dollar trial (5 min. Podcast) -- Phoenix police, ATF agents to fight crime -- Why inflation hurts more than it did 30 years ago -- Yves Smith Interview: Obama's Foreclosure-Gate Fix and The Housing Market -- Messenger Arrives -- A Summer Meltdown of the Dollar? -- HyperSolar Concentrator -- Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media -- “iPod Patriot Act” New Law Puts Wiretaps Into Every Computer Suspected Of Downloading -- DHS Employee Demoted After Whistle Blowing; More of that Obama Admin Transparency! -- D.C. Mayor Coming Under Oversight Investigation - After 2.5 Months? -- QE3 May Be ‘Unavoidable Fact of Life’: Got Chickens? -- Fukushima Reactor 3 May Have A Leak: Loaded with MOX (Plutonium Mix) -- Aristide Heading Home -- Massacre In Yemen, Police Open Fire On Thousands Of Protesters, Dozens Dead -- Disturbing Similarities Between the Fall of Rome and Today’s America -- Diversity or Safety? Justice Dept. Orders Lower Standards for Police Exam -- Obama OK'd torture of Bradley Manning - by Stephen Lendman

News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japan weighs need to bury nuclear plant
03-18-2011 • Reuters.com
Japanese engineers conceded on Friday that burying a crippled nuclear plant in sand and concrete may be the only way to prevent a catastrophic radiation release, the method used to seal huge leakages from Chernobyl in 1986. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Surveillance
Georgia State bill requires biometric ID
03-18-2011 • ThirdFactor.com/
The Georgia State Senate has approved a bill that would require senior citizens in the state to acquire a biometric ID card to access Medicaid for health care, according to a WSBTV article. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host: Ernest Hancock
Marc J. Victor & Richard Morris - In Studio - Suing Jan Brewer for AZ Prayer Day
Marc J. Victor & Richard Morris - In Studio - Suing Jan Brewer for AZ Prayer Day
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Feature Article  • WAR: About that War
Obama announces yet another war
Powell Gammill
   [updated with links] Live on TV President Obama just announced we are going to war with yet another nation, Libya. Oh he didn't call it a war. And he used our puppet UN as a pretext for why we have to go to war. And amazingly there is not a word y
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Libyan rebels now being armed by Egypt, with USA's knowledge/blessing
03-18-2011 • Sofia News Agency
Egypt has a history of arming US-backed rebels,...such as in Afghanistan, during the 80's. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chip Saunders

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
N.M. Officers' Social Media Activities Monitored
03-18-2011 • Officer.com
Effective immediately, Albuquerque police officers will need approval from the department if they want to post anything work-related on social media websites like Facebook. After APD gang unit officer Trey Economidy was caught describing his job Read Full Story
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Reported by: Justin Tyme

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Fri. March 18th 2011
03-18-2011 • LewRockwell.com
Gold or Uniformed Goons With Badges and Guns - Our Enemy, the Fed, Ron Paul on Bernanke's latest crime spree - Robert Reich as Lap Dancer, Bob Wenzel on the Keynesian's plan to co-opt the Tea Party - Nuclear and Economic Meltdown in Progress Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona day of prayer in jeopardy
03-18-2011 • www.azfamily.com
A lawsuit says Arizona has no business in prayer but Governor Jan Brewer says, “This lawsuit is nothing more than an attempt to drive religious expression from the public square. I will fight it vigorously." Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • WAR: About that War
WAR: Allies Press Libya, Saying Declaration of Cease-Fire Is Not Enough
03-18-2011 • NY Times
The United States, Britain and France pushed forward against Libya on Friday as they declared that a cease-fire abruptly announced by el-Qaddafi’s government was not enough, at least for now, to ward off military action against his forces. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Arizona Laws and Arizona Founding Documents
Atheist group sues governor over prayer day
03-17-2011 • azcentral.com
Gov. Jan Brewer is being sued for issuing proclamations in support of an Arizona Day of Prayer. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Who Is Going To Buy Billions Of Dollars Of Debt The Government Is Pumping Out?
03-18-2011 • BlackListedNews.com
Japan currently holds about $882 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds and they are likely going to have to liquidate much of that in order to fund the rebuilding of their nation. So needless to say they won’t be accumulating any more U.S. government debt. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Phoenix police, ATF agents to fight crime
03-18-2011 • Arizona Republic
Agents from the BATF recently combined forces with the Phoenix Police Dept. to bolster their fight against the spate of drug-related home invasions and kidnappings in the city. The move will make 6 federal agents permanent fixtures within the Phoenix Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Feature Article  • Federal Reserve
Episode 1 Heather Lewis, liberty dollar trial (5 min. Podcast)
Ernest Hancock
   Drew Phillips interviews Heather Lewis, in attendance at the trial and gives her perspective of the last 7 days in court now that the closing arguments have been made. See Heathers day by day blogging at http://Liberty4free.com
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News Link • World News
Yemen forces open fire at protest, 30 dead
03-18-2011 • Reuters
Yemeni security forces and unidentified snipers opened fire at a protest in Sanaa after Muslim prayers Friday, killing at least 30 people and wounding 200 others. Security forces at first fired into the air to prevent anti-government protesters from Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Why inflation hurts more than it did 30 years ago
03-18-2011 • AP
Inflation spooked the nation in the early 1980s. It surged and kept rising until it topped 13 percent. These days, inflation is much lower. Yet to many Americans, it feels worse now. And for a good reason: Their income has been even flatter than infl Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Constitution
PROPOSING: AMERICA’S CONSTITUTION LOBBY
03-18-2011 WILL YOU JOIN WITH US TO MAKE IT HAPPEN? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Bob Schulz

News Link • Housing
Yves Smith Interview: Obama's Foreclosure-Gate Fix and The Housing Market
03-18-2011 • watch.bnn.ca
This was a wide-ranging talk on US housing with the very well informed hosts at BNN. Enjoy! Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Messenger Arrives
03-18-2011 • arclein
The spacecraft is carrying high-res imaging equipment and an array of spectrometers which are amazingly kept at room temperature by its heat shields despite the proximity of the Sun. On March 23 these instruments will be switched on and tested befo Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Federal Reserve
A Summer Meltdown of the Dollar?
03-18-2011 • EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Either something breaks (preferably the euro), or we are going to have a dollar meltdown/panic before the summer. Be warned, this might get really ugly. Especially since there has been little or no mention of the collapsing dollar in the media. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Energy
HyperSolar Concentrator
03-18-2011 • arclein
The California company claims that it has just completed the prototype design of “the world’s first thin and flat solar concentrator for direct placement on top of existing solar cells.” Each sheet will contain a matrix of optical concentrators that Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Energy
EROI of Algae
03-18-2011 • arclein
This experimental EROI value for energy from algae must be kept in perspective of the stage of development of the entire technology and process of inventing new energy sources and pathways. It is important that we understand how to interpret findings Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Science
Scott's Antarctic Data Confirms Carbon Sequestration Increase
03-18-2011 • arclein
The spurt in growth means that animals reach the size earlier at which ocean currents snap them off. As the animals topple over they bury carbon, therefore increasing the seabed's potential as a carbon sink. Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Abductions
03-18-2011 • arclein
While abduction cases continued to surface now and again in the 1960s, and more so in the 1970s, it was without doubt the 1981 publication of Budd Hopkins’ book Missing Time that really thrust the phenomenon into the public-arena, big-time. Then, wit Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Propaganda
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
03-18-2011 • guardian.co.uk
Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda Gen David Petraeus has previously said US online psychological operations are aimed at 'countering extremist ideology and propaganda'. Photogra Read Full Story
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Reported by: Justin Tyme

News Link • Government Waste
You Won't Believe Dept Of Energy Stimulus Spending
03182011 • www.drscoundrels.com
This was a great hearing about a goodly waste of a very large amount of money that didn't need to get spent, and should be stopped if there is anything left. This program originally gave the Dept of Energy 45.2 billion, but then soon robbed the p Read Full Story
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Reported by: Rich Hilts

News Link • Surveillance
“iPod Patriot Act” New Law Puts Wiretaps Into Every Computer Suspected Of Downloading
03-18-2011 • FireDogLake.com
The White house Copyright Czar proposed new law, that would allow corporations to dump a list of internet users into the justice department for the justice department to wiretap. I call it the IPOD patriot act. In my mind, it will allow “point an Read Full Story
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Reported by: Justin Tyme

News Link • Whistleblowers
DHS Employee Demoted After Whistle Blowing; More of that Obama Admin Transparency!
03182011 • www.drscoundrels.com
No matter how much Obama and his tag team of cronies pat themselves on the back for their transparency in their government, it has become evident that you had BETTER not let anyone know if someone or some department in his administration is misbehavi Read Full Story
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Reported by: Rich Hilts

News Link • Corruption
D.C. Mayor Coming Under Oversight Investigation - After 2.5 Months?
03182011 • www.drscoundrels.com
Wow - Mayor Gray of D.C. is ALREADY in trouble. And we aren't talking Chris Lee bad judgment trouble. This is already allegations of serious ethical issues. People not only getting paid 5 figures more than they made under their predecessor, bu Read Full Story
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Reported by: Rich Hilts

News Link • Federal Reserve
QE3 May Be ‘Unavoidable Fact of Life’: Got Chickens?
03-18-2011 • CNBC.com
The US Federal Reserve may have no choice but to introduce a third round of quantitative easing, or QE3, in light of the significant headwinds facing the global economy as well as problems at home... Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima Reactor 3 May Have A Leak: Loaded with MOX (Plutonium Mix)
03-18-2011 • ZeroHedge.com
Considering Reactor 3 was the one most devastated following its explosion earlier this week, this could be a truly disturbing development. This is especially true consider Reactor 3 is the only one at Fukushima whose fuel rods contain Plutonium. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

Feature Article  • Imperialism
Aristide Heading Home
Stephen Lendman
   Arriving March 18 PM unless last minute US efforts obstruct
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News Link • Activism
Massacre In Yemen, Police Open Fire On Thousands Of Protesters, Dozens Dead
03-18-2011 • BusinessInsider.com/
According to reports, more than 28 people have been killed. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Arizona's Top News
More Than Half of Arizona Homeowners Are Underwater On Their Mortgage
03-18-2011 • AZcentral.com
As many as 51 percent of Arizona homeowners are underwater, according to new data from CoreLogic. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumer Metrics Institute: Economic Contraction Hits 430 Days and Intensifies
03-18-2011 • consumerindexes.com/
The chart of the day Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • History
Disturbing Similarities Between the Fall of Rome and Today’s America
03-18-2011 • Pajamas Media
The parallels aren't perfect, but there is much to contemplate about America when reading about the fall of the Roman empire. Some of my recent background reading includes Christopher S. Mackay’s The Breakdown of the Roman Republic: From Oligarchy Read Full Story
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Reported by: Justin Tyme

News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Bruce Krasting: On the spin
03-18-2011 • ZeroHedge.com
Not one f#$%ing word of this is true. It will take years for those nukes to cool down. There is more risk in front of us than behind. The resources being brought to bear are inadequate. There is no quick fix, including borax. I truly hope the winds.. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japan nuclear plant: exposed to the elements - nuclear fuel in meltdown
03-18-2011 • telegraph.co.uk/news/
Close-up pictures of the devastated No 4 reactor building show the gaping hole through which radiation is escaping into the atmosphere as the rods break down. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Diversity or Safety? Justice Dept. Orders Lower Standards for Police Exam
03-18-2011 • Pajamas Media
But perhaps the worst consequence of Mr. Holder’s dumbing-down of the process is that the mere lowering of test scores sends a very powerful message: the financial resources of the federal government will be used to ensure that a quota of favored can Read Full Story
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Reported by: Justin Tyme

News Link • United Nations
If the battle in Libya had to be compared to a warehouse fire, what would it look like?
03-18-2011 • The Political Commentator
After weeks of delay, the U.N. Security Council authorized the use of force in Libya against Muammar Gaddafi! Using the analogy of a warehouse fire, it's almost as if the inferno in the picture above had been raging for days and it was only now, Read Full Story
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Reported by: Michael Haltman

Feature Article  • Environment
Full Core Meltdown in Japan?
Stephen Lendman
   High probability of multiple meltdowns ongoing
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Feature Article  • Torture
Torturing Bradley Manning
Stephen Lendman
   Obama OK'd torture of Bradley Manning
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