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Date Sent: 2010-01-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, January 4, 2010 |
2010 MORTGAGE RESETS ARE DOUBLE 2008'S RESETS -- California default by March 2010
Montana 3rd state to allow doctor-assisted suicide -- Stocks fall sharply as investors close out 2009 -- Iraq civilian death toll down to 4,500 in 2009 -- TSA: Newark terminal locked down -- Health Risk Fears Raised Over Airport Full Body Scanners -- Court upholds police pointing gun at lawful carrier -- Domestic-Terrorism Incidents Hit a Peak in 2009 -- Ron Paul's Ideas No Longer Fringe -- New Hampshire legislators look to nullify federal gun laws
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News Link • Housing
***2010 MORTGAGE RESETS ARE DOUBLE 2008'S RESETS ***The US housing market is on implosion alert!
01/01/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Massive mortgage resets for 2010 & 2011 are near!
Okay, 2008’s biggest month of mortgage resets were in Sept 2008; $64 billion in mortgages reset that month, and the monthly average was $40 billion for 2008. For 2010, August is the biggest month w
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Trigger event! California default by March 2010
01/01/2010g
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godlikeproductions.com
I have been hearing anecdotally that the trigger event for THE meltdown will be a default by Ca in March. Any way you look at it they are screwed. The article in the link references $500 Billion in estimated total Ca debt ( State, local etc..) with t
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Spirituality
The End Does Not Justify The Means - The Newjurist International Law Magazine
01-03-2010
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by Christine Smith
Intention does not detract from the gravity of committing a wrongful action.
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News Link • Activism
Atheists challenge Ireland's new blasphemy law with online postings
01-03-2010
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Washington Post
Under the law a person can be found guilty of blasphemy if "he or she publishes or utters matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adhere
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Icelanders petition president to veto Icesave bailout bill
01-03-2010
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Reuters
[Governments are the same the world over.] Nearly a quarter of Icelandic voters have signed a petition asking their president to veto a bill on repaying $5 billion lost by British and Dutch savers when the island's banks collapsed, organizers said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Montana 3rd state to allow doctor-assisted suicide
01-03-2010
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AP
The state Supreme Court said nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, making Montana the third state that will allow the procedure. Patients and doctors had been waiting for the state's high court to step in aft
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stocks fall sharply as investors close out 2009
01-03-2010
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Washington Post
The stock market closed out a remarkable 2009 with a loss as investors bet the improving economy will lead the government to pull back on its stimulus measures. But stocks still managed their best year since 2003 as they recovered from the financial
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq civilian death toll down to 4,500 in 2009
01-03-2010
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Reuters
The number of Iraqi civilians killed in violence fell by half in 2009 to about 4,500 but improvements in security have slowed and large-scale attacks took a major toll last year. Human rights group Iraq Body Count put the 2009 civilian death toll in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. Transferred Detainee Before Hostage Release
01-03-2010
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NY Times
[We don't negotiate with terrorists.] Only hours before a British hostage was released, the American military turned over to Iraqi authorities one of the suspected leaders of a Shiite insurgent group believed to be behind the kidnapping, Iraqi offici
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Screening problem makes plane return to St. Louis
01-03-2010
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AP
A company official says a United Airlines flight headed to Chicago had to return to St. Louis because they had a problem with its computers, and manually checked in passengers. The computers started working after the flight took off and that’s when t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Solution to killer superbug found in Norway
01-03-2010
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AP
Aker University Hospital is a dingy place to heal. The floors are streaked and scratched. A light layer of dust coats the blood pressure monitors. A faint stench of urine and bleach wafts from a pile of soiled bedsheets dropped in a corner. Look clos
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop group's card played role in Times Square scare
01-03-2010
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AP
Police officials said traffic agents and officers apparently overlooked a van parked illegally for at least 2 days because of the windshield placard from a nonprofit group called the Detectives Crime Clinic of New Jersey and New York.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Geography
Relic of Antarctica's first plane found on ice-edge
01-03-2010
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Reuters
An Antarctic expedition has found what it believes to be remains of the first airplane brought to the frozen continent, on an icy shore near where it was abandoned a century ago. Australia has searched for many years for the old single-propeller Vick
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA: Newark terminal locked down
01-03-2009
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CNN
I would respond the same...
I was walking up to the terminal checkpoint
when
The government(TSA) sounded like a
Capitol One Credit Card Commercial...
What's in your Underwear?
I would look for the closest exit also...
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G Money
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News Link • Gun Rights
Your cap gun v. a tank
1-3-2010
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Patriot Activists of Colorado
As uncomfortable as it may make some, the founding fathers intended for the second amendment to be a last resort safeguard against tyranny where the people could throw off the shackles of a tyrannical government and rise up if all other checks and ba
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Steve Freedom
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News Link • Healthcare
Health Care Nullification: Things have just gotten underway
12-20-2009
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Tenth Ammendment Center
The real way to resist DC is not by begging politicians and judges in Washington to allow us to exercise our rights…it’s to exercise our rights whether they want to give us “permission” to or not.
Nullification " state-level resistance to unconsti
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Steve Freedom
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News Link • Gun Rights
NM Tea Partiers bring their weapons to thier protest and nobody is injured. Progressives bewildered.
01-03-2010
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Las Cruces Sun-News, New Mexico Independent
There were plenty of handguns and rifles on display, but no violence and no reports of arrests.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Health Risk Fears Raised Over Airport Full Body Scanners
01-02-2010
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Examiner.com
The health risks are of biggest concerns to airline crew members, frequent fliers, pregnant women, infants, the chronically ill and immune suppressed passengers. The producers of these radioactive ionizing machines have declined to sign any guarantee
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Joseph Goast
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News Link • Gun Rights
Court upholds police pointing gun at lawful carrier
12/31/2009
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Examiner.com
It's open season on gun carriers.
A case out of the First Circuit has some painful lessons for gun carriers in Georgia. A United States Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld the constitutionality of pointing a gun at any citizen daring to ca
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Joseph Goast
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Hole in the Moon Could Shelter Colonists
01-03-2010
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Space
"We discovered a vertical hole on the moon," an international team of scientists announced. The gaping, dark pit on the near side of the moon is as big as a city block and deep as a modest skyscraper. It is thought to be a collapsed lava tube,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Creepy Case: Tarantula Shoots Hairs into Owner's Eye
01-03-2010
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LiveScience
He was cleaning the glass tank of his pet, a Chilean Rose tarantula. While focused on cleaning a stubborn stain, he sensed movement in the terrarium and so turned his head. That's when the tarantula flicked a "mist of hairs" that hit him in the eyes
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Few called market turn, fewer predict it will last
01-03-2010
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AP
Few analysts forecast this year's remarkable stock market rebound as major indexes were plunging to 12-year lows last March. Now, with most experts predicting the pace of stocks' gains will slow in 2010, there's reason to believe they will be correct
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. has been trying to coordinate intelligence since 1955
01-03-2010
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McClatchy News
The US intelligence community's information-sharing problems are nothing new, and there have been repeated attempts to correct them since 1955, when a congressional panel recommended the CIA director take charge of US intelligence efforts.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
AzGOP "Victory Plan" shot down by grassroots - thanks to alternative media like FP
01-02-2010
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www.seeingredaz.wordpress.com
"The proposal was to take a vote on the adoption of the draft plan, something that never came to pass, since the general consensus was opposed to even voting on the measure..."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Propaganda
Time: Domestic-Terrorism Incidents Hit a Peak in 2009
01-02-2010
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Time.com
You may not have noticed, because most of the plots were foiled, but 2009 saw an unprecedented surge in terrorism events on U.S. soil.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul's Ideas No Longer Fringe
01-02-2010
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LA Times
For three decades, Texas congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul's extreme brand of libertarian economics consigned him to the far fringes even among conservatives...No longer.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • States' Rights
New Hampshire legislators look to nullify federal gun laws
01-01-2010
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Tenth Amendment Center
NH Legislators again raise the bar for the 10th Amendment Movement " felony charges proposed for federal agents violating gun rights in New Hampshire
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
David Brooks’ Failed Straw God
01-01-2010
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Mondo Frazier
David Brooks’, the New York Times’ house conservative, sets up, not a man, but a god made of straw. He then spends his latest effort telling Americans to cool it when this contraption fails. Brooks proposes that those who initially warned that large
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link •
CC2009 President Michael Badnarik in Serious Condition (continuous updates in comments - Ed)
1Your prayers are ne
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WTP via RonPaulForums.com
I just received word that... Michael Badnarik had a Heart Attack this morning and in an unconscious state. His condition is serious.
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Ed Vallejo
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