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Date Sent: 2009-02-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 20, 2009 PM Edition |
RNC Protesters Face Felony Terrorism Charges -- US claims 52,000 Americans hid UBS accounts
US soldier guilty of murder in deaths of 4 Iraqis -- Arizona Legislators introduce Internal Passports/ Real ID -- Zbigniew Brzezinski: ‘Hell, There Could Be Even Riots’ -- Google exposes US airbase in Pakistan used to launch drones -- Gold tops $1,000 as investors seek shelter -- So Cal Real Estate Lies: 58% of Existing Home Sales are Foreclosures -- BofA, Citi shares fall on nationalization fears -- National Guard unit to train for urban military - gun confiscation -- Nouriel Roubini Says Europe’s Banking Risks ‘More Severe’ -- US Secretary of State Begins Visit to China -- Kyrgyzstan hands U.S. air base eviction notice -- Alleged fraudster Stanford served papers in Virginia -- Atlantis ... spotted on ocean floor -- Surveillance cams help fight crime, city says -- Obama offers homeowners exploding mortgages
AZ: Don't forget Photoradar protest at 3PM today
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
BofA, Citi shares fall on nationalization fears
02-20-2009
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Reuters
Bank of America Corp and Citigroup shares plummeted for a 6th straight day, hammered by fears that the US government could nationalize the banks, wiping out shareholders. Both stocks have lost more than 90% of their value in the last year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Huge gamma-ray blast spotted 12.2 bln light-years from earth
02-20-2009
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AFP
The US space agency's Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say is the biggest-ever gamma-ray burst. The blast was stronger than 9,000 supernovae and the gas jets emitting the initial gamma rays moved at nearl
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Speed Cameras Spur Arrests; More Vans Coming to a Highway Near You
02-20-2009
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Phoenix New Times
DPS also says today that troopers arrested 3 Phoenix men on suspicion of criminal speeding [caught by cameras 3 months ago]." The men were recorded flying past 100 mph in the city on multiple occasions, DPS states.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US soldier guilty of murder in deaths of 4 Iraqis
02-20-2009
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AP
A US Army medic was convicted of murder for his involvement in the execution-style slayings of 4 bound and blindfolded Iraqi detainees shot in the back of the head in the spring of 2007. Sgt. Michael Leahy Jr. was found guilty on charges of murder
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • Police State
InfraGard: Don't Say You Weren't Warned
Wiki and the FBI
InfraGard is a United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Public-private partnership: 86 chapters and 23,000 InfraGard members in various businesses involved in critical infrastructure in the US, and in the event of martial law
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News Link • Police State
Arizona Legislators introduce Internal Passports/ Real ID
02-20-2009
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AZ Legislature
REFERENCE TITLE: enhanced driver licenses; border travel
amending sections 28-3001, 28-3002, 28-3101, 28-3165 and 28-3171, Arizona Revised Statutes; amending title 28, chapter 8, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 28-3007; rela
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Zbigniew Brzezinski: ‘Hell, There Could Be Even Riots’
02-20-2009
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finkelblog.com/
You sort of say to yourself: what’s going to happen in this society when these people are without jobs, when their families hurt, when they lose their homes, and so forth?
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Jack Gregson
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Opinion • Food
Farm Wars
Inside the Doomsday Seed Vault
02-20-2009
Barbara Peterson
So, we have a huge global seed bank that contains seeds that the average Joe hasn't a snowball's chance in hell of gaining access to, and no privately-owned personal seed banks. Watch the video and do the math.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Gravity
02-20-2009
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arclein
Check out the described experiments posted a couple of days ago and try them out. I have not done so yet but some are dead simple and no fuss at all. If we can all make the pyramid frame spin we will all be on his page knowing that fine geometric cur
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robert klein
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News Link • History
Crossing the Continent 1527
02-20-2009
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arclein
A book is out this past year titled Crossing the Continent 1527 " 1540 by Robert Goodwin and is reconstruction of the experiences of the four survivors of an ill fated Spanish expedition to land and penetrate Florida, just a couple of generations aft
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robert klein
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News Link • Obama Administration
Google exposes US airbase in Pakistan used to launch drones
02-20-2009
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RawStory
The photograph appears to confirm a seeming slip-of-the-tongue by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee who said that the US was launching strikes on Pakistani territory from inside Pakistan...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gold tops $1,000 as investors seek shelter
02-20-2009
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CNN Money
Gold for April delivery, which has surpassed February gold in trading volume, was up $21 to $997.50 an ounce in New York after climbing to a high of $1,000.30 earlier in the session.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
So Cal Real Estate: 58 Percent of Existing Home Sales are Foreclosures
02-20-2009
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thetruthaboutmortgage.com/
That pushed the median price paid to $224,000 last month, a 10 percent decline from $249,000 in December and a 41.5 drop from $383,000 in January 2008.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
BofA, Citi shares fall on nationalization fears
02-20-2009
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Yahoo! News
Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc shares plummeted for a sixth straight day on Friday, hammered by fears that the U.S. government could nationalize the banks, wiping out shareholders. Both stocks have lost more than 90 percent of their value in
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
National Guard unit to train for urban military - gun confiscation
02-20-2009
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carrollspaper.com/
Troops will spend Thursday, April 2, staging at a forward operations base at Carroll. The next day company leaders will conduct reconnaissance and begin patrolling the streets of Arcadia to identify possible locations of the weapons dealer.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Is Hulu rethinking its distribution strategy?
02-20-2009
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Cnet (which is CBS)
their content partners don't want their material to appear on the service. Hulu has more than 100 content providers, but my sources say the companies Hulu is referring to are its founders: NBC Universal and News Corp.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Nouriel Roubini Says Europe’s Banking Risks ‘More Severe’
02-20-2009
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CNBC.com
“The banking problem in Europe is becoming more severe,” Roubini said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “You have a series of countries that are really in trouble,” Roubini said, citing Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Hungary, Belarus and Ukraine.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
RNC Protesters Face Felony Terrorism Charges
02-20-2009
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Rawstory.com
Democracy Now's Amy Goodman talked to Luce Guillen-Givins who is one of the first people ever to be charged under the 2002 Minnesota version of the federal PATRIOT Act.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
US Secretary of State Begins Visit to China
02-20-2009
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Voice of America
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the debate with China over human rights should not get in the way of progress in other areas.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Kyrgyzstan hands U.S. air base eviction notice
02-20-2009
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Yahoo! News
BISHKEK (Reuters) " Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Ministry said on Friday it had sent the United States ambassador a formal notice demanding Washington close its military air base in the country and giving U.S. troops 180 days to pack up and leave.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Alleged fraudster Stanford found in Virginia: FBI
02-20-2009
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RawStory
Texas financier Allen Stanford, accused of a 9.2-billion-dollar fraud that prompted several governments to shut down his banks and seize assets, was on Thursday tracked down in the US state of Virginia, the FBI said. (no arrest)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Citigroup shares fall below $2 as U.S. banks plummet
02-20-2009
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Yahoo! News
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Citigroup (NYSE:C - News) dropped more than 20 percent to fall below $2 as bank shares plummeted shortly after the opening bell on Friday on fears the U.S. bank rescue plan might include nationalization.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
US claims 52,000 hid UBS accounts
02-20-2009
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Financial Times
As many as 52,000 American customers hid UBS accounts from the authorities in violation of tax laws, a US government lawsuit against the Swiss bank alleged on Thursday. The Department of Justice filed a suit seeking to force UBS to disclose the holde
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Atlantis ... spotted on ocean floor
02-20-2009
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The Sun
The site lies 620 miles off the west coast of Africa near the Canary Islands " a location for Atlantis seemingly suggested by the ancient philosopher Plato.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Surveillance cams help fight crime, city says
02-20-2009
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Chicago Sun Times
"...there will be a surveillance camera on every street corner in Chicago", Mayor Daily
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CAUTION: October 87 Re-Run On Deck?
02-20-2009
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Market-Ticker.Denninger.net/
The banking sector has suffered a thirty percent loss in two weeks, in the very sector that we were promised would be "saved" by our new President, and that two weeks has passed without one iota of a plan being actually released.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Depression
Obama offers homeowners exploding mortgages
02-18-09
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John Carney
The people whose mortgages the gov't will bailout this year will be saved ... until their mortgages reset in 5 years. This only delays the inevitable mass defaults/foreclosures (until after the 2012 elections -- coincidence?).
Notice the plan
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Lloyd Gaarder
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News Link • Drug War
Senator Claims Marijuana Makes Man Wear Same Trench Coat For 20 Years!
02-20-2008
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Reality Catcher
Rather than objecting to marijuana decrim on any rational basis, this dynamic duo of dimwits chose to resuscitate long-discredited Reefer Madness myths as valid reasons for the bill not to move forward. Sen. Hargrove said one of his former fraternity
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Steve Elliott
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News Link • Gun Rights
Where do you get your rights?
02-20-2009
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Mark Yannone
Shocking USA Today poll reveals nearly complete ignorance. Do YOU know?
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