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Date Sent: 2010-02-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 12, 2010 |
US troops close escape route before wiping city out -- 911 comm Kerrey admits 911 was Pre-Planned
EU pledge on Greece fails to calm fears (+Video) -- Man sodomized with Taser will receive six-figure settlement -- Too
Dangerous to Plow, D.C., Area Governments Halt Snow Removal -- Cops
beat man to death at sobriety checkpoint -- Police want backdoor to Web users' private data -- Marvel Comics' depiction of anti-tax protesters inspires anger, apology
-- Denninger: 30 Year Auction a Solid "F" -- Google refuses to censor
Australian YouTube -- TSA detains Middle-Eastern Studies major for
carrying Arabic-English flashcards -- Internet Censorship: Alex Jones exposes ‘blacklisting’ dissent sites & licensing -- US Debt Is A Safe Haven Just Like Pearl Harbor Was A Safe Haven In 1941 -- Ridicule of Conspiracy Theories Focuses on Diffusing Criticism of the Powerful -- January Foreclosures 15% Ahead of 2009 -- CNBC, Protectors of the Power Elite Fairy Tale: Shout Down Marc Faber -- Guantanamo Detainee Deaths: Responding to the Defense Department's Whitewash - by Stephen Lendman
Valentine's Day: Nationwide Red Light Camera Protests
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Fallujah II: US troops close escape route before wiping city out
02-11-2010
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AP
U.S. and Afghan soldiers linked up with Marines on the outskirts of the Taliban stronghold of Marjah on Thursday, sealing off escape routes and setting the stage for what is being described as the biggest offensive of the nine-year war.
Taliban de
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Bob Kerrey (911 comm) admits 911 was Pre-Planned
02-11-2010
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AboveTopSecret
He stopped and talked for a few minutes to people of the "We Are Change LA "
They talked of 911 , and Kerrey claims 911 was a 30 year conspiracy.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
EU pledge on Greece fails to calm fears (+Video)
02-11-2010
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Financial Times
The leaders of the 27-nation bloc promised “determined and co-ordinated action if needed to safeguard stability” of the eurozone, which has been shaken by turmoil in bond markets amid fears that Greece’s debt problems could spread.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ruminating about the economy
02-11-2010
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Wendy McElroy
I never thought I would seriously study arcane economic mechanisms like "the carry trade" but I've become convinced that I cannot understand the world around me without grasping at least the basics of arbitrage and the like. Perhaps the world was alw
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Print
Marvel Comics' depiction of anti-tax protesters inspires anger, apology
02-11-2010
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Yahoo News
Since 1941, Captain America has been one of the most popular comic book characters around. The fictional super-patriot fought Nazis during World War II, took on those who burned the American flag during the Vietnam era, and raked in hundreds of milli
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G Cone
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man sodomized with Taser will receive six-figure settlement
02-11-2010
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The City of Boise wants to make it clear that they are not admitting guilt in the case of a man sodomized by Boise police with a Taser gun. But they are also dishing out an estimated $150,000 to prevent this matter from going to court. "hush money"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Another TSA complaint close to home
02-11-2010
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Philadelphia Enquirer
Last month's column on the TSA worker who jokingly planted a bag of white powder on a passenger at Philadelphia International Airport generated a half-million page views and scores of tips of other alleged abuses by those who work to keep us safe.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Too Dangerous to Plow, D.C., Area Governments Halt Snow Removal
02-11-2010
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FOX News
Washington, D.C., and neighboring Montgomery County, Md., may have just lived up to its reputation as "wimpy" weather warriors -- suspending snow plow operations as a blizzard bears down on the region. Or maybe not.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Cops beat man to death at sobriety checkpoint
02-11-2010
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The Eagle-Tribune
The man who died after being arrested at a police road block on Thanksgiving Eve died from blunt force trauma, the attorney representing his family said last night.
"The (medical) examiner's office informed us that the cause of death was blunt for
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Police State
Police want backdoor to Web users' private data.
02-11-2010
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Wendy McElroy
The Cato Institute's Jim Harper welcomes the idea of a police-only Web interface as long as it's designed carefully. "A system like this should have strong logins, should require that the request be documented fully, and should produce statistical in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
California appeals court rules that police were wrong to release photos of deceased
02-11-2010
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Photography Is Not a Crime
On a bright, sunny day in 2006, 18-year-old Nikki Catsouras took her father’s Porsche without permission and sped off down a California freeway at 100 mph before losing control and crashing into a toll booth.
She died instantly in a crash that dec
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Words of Consent
02-11-2010
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Simple Justice
State v. Meekins, 2009 WL 4876866 (Tex.App.-Amarillo 2009). where the validity of a consent search is ultimately determined based on the nuance of language.
A police officer stops a driver named Williams for a traffic violation. After checking
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Secret Societies
Plot thickens in the battle of "The Plunge"
02-11-2010
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New York Post
The Treasury Dept has records of the secret meetings that its President's Working Group on Financial Markets held to discuss the troubled financial markets, after all. That doesn't mean Washington wants us to know what was discussed,
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Karl Denninger: 30 Year Auction a Solid "F"
02-11-2010
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market-ticker.denninger.net/
The more-worrying factor here is that we've got this "mystery" direct buyers out here again taking nearly 25% of the offered amount (who is bidding for that undisclosed?) and another 11% taken down by The Fed for the SOMA account.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Officials seek policy change after tunnel beating
02-11-2010
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AP
3 unarmed security guards were following orders when they stood by without intervening as a 15-year-old girl was badly beaten in a downtown bus tunnel. Now the company they work for and government officials say those orders should be revised.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Public Meeting selling the FOOD TAX
02-11-2010
PHOENIX -- This is a perfect example of how the lame stream media is used to "SELL" the idea that you don't own your body and everyone needs to take a cut EXCEPT the police and firemen. What kind of job is a policeman going to do making more than $1
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Internet
Google refuses to censor Australian YouTube
02-11-2010
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BoingBoing
Google is seemingly bent on making a clean sweep of the Pacific Rim in its new anti-censorship campaign: first it refused to go on censoring its services at the behest of the Chinese government; now it has refused the Australian government's
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA detains Middle-Eastern Studies major for carrying Arabic-English flashcards
02-11-2010
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BoingBoing
A senior in Middle-Eastern Studies at Pomona College, was detained, handcuffed, and intensively questioned by the TSA while trying to catch a flight back to school from Philadelphia. The TSA guards found English-Arabic flashcards in his luggage
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Arizona Libertarian Party hoping to repeal Phoenix food tax
02-11-2010
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ABC15 (video)
PHOENIX -- Monday night, members of Arizona's Libertarian Party added the first of what they hope will eventually be thousands of signatures needed to potentially repeal the recently passed food tax in Phoenix.
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Internet
Censoring the Internet Moves to Silence Dissent?
02-11-2010
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canadafreepress.com/
At a Davos Economic Forum, the Chief Research and Strategy Officer for Microsoft said that ‘the Internet needed to be policed by means of introducing licenses similar to drivers’ licenses " in other words, government permission to use the web.’
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Internet Censorship: Alex Jones exposes ‘blacklisting’ dissent sites & licensing
02-11-2010
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Infowars.com/
In the United States, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, in continuing his family’s tradition of oppressing free humanity, has pushed forward Cybersecurity legislation that has already passed the House. He has done so in the name of warding off ghastly cyber “att
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
US Debt Is A Safe Haven Just Like Pearl Harbor Was A Safe Haven In 1941
02-11-2010
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FinancialTimes.com
Yet even a casual look at the fiscal position of the federal government (not to mention the states) makes a nonsense of the phrase “safe haven”. US government debt is a safe haven the way Pearl Harbor was a safe haven in 1941.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Judge Rules City of Phoenix Must Turn Over Public Records to Goldwater Institute
02-11-2010
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Goldwater Institute
So this is why Phx want a sales tax increase. To pay for lawyer fees and tax breaks???!!!...City originally refused to hand over records related to the Wyndham Hotel deal
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
Bill Hits `Luxury' Spending by Welfare Recipients
02-11-2010
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KTAR.com
An AZ lawmaker wants to put controls on people collecting welfare. Rep. Frank Antenori, R-Vail, says people who receive food stamps should not be using..things like alcohol, cigarettes..and cable television.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
LNC Disenchantment - By the Numbers
02-11-2010
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Liberty for All
[The] number of itemized donors dropped by nearly 50 percent this decade. All around us we see evidence of the forces of liberty moving ahead - with the Ron Paul campaign, with C4L, with YAL. But not with the Libertarian Party.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Corruption
Ex-Employees: Blackwater Charged US Taxpayers for Prostitutes
02-11-2010
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The old grey lady who is very close to death
You see....this is how this sh*t always starts. Now I want hookers every time I fill in for Ernest on "Declare Your Independence" under the “Morale Welfare Recreation” category of our agreement.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Housing
American Sharecroppers : Strategic Non-Foreclosure Becomes Official Policy
02-11-2010
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Ritholtz.com
Citigroup, to announce a pilot program on Thursday that would allow delinquent borrowers who don’t qualify for or decline mortgage relief the opportunity to stay in their homes without making payments for up to six months before turning over the keys
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Political Theory
Time for Obama to go 'gangsta' on GOP
02-11-2010
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CNN.com
CNN Political Analyst Roland Martin writes: "Channel your inner Al Capone and go gangsta against your foes. Let 'em know that if they aren't with you, they are against you, and will pay the price." Word to yo muthaf*ckin' Mama....Bizzatch!
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Conspiracies
Ridicule of Conspiracy Theories Focuses on Diffusing Criticism of the Powerful
02-11-2010
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washingtonsblog.com/
Pay attention, and you'll notice that criticism of "conspiracy theories" is usually aimed at attempting to protect the state and key government players. The power of the state is seldom used to crush conspiracy theories regarding people who are not p
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Did Housing Begin A Double-Dip In December?
02-11-2010
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HousingDoom.com
If these declines are sustained, as we expect to happen in many markets, the result will be a “double dip ” in home values, defined as two periods of sustained declines in home values separated by a brief period of stabilization or recovery.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
'Obama' Fiction Writer: 95,000 jobs to come each month
02-11-2010
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news.Yahoo.com
Indeed, even adding an average of 95,000 jobs each month, unemployment is likely to remain around 10 percent through this year and not fall below 6 percent until 2015.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link •
January Foreclosures 15 Percent Ahead of 2009
02-11-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
“If history repeats itself we will see a surge in the numbers over the next few months as lenders foreclose on delinquent loans where neither the existing loan modification programs or the new short sale and deed-in-lieu of foreclosure alternatives
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Propaganda
CNBC - Protectors of the Power Elite Fairy Tale: Shout Down Marc Faber
02-11-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Remember the Peter Schiff YouTube with the clips of analyst after analyst and commentator after commentator pounding him when he was warning about the coming housing crisis?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Solar Dynamics Observatory
02-11-2010
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arclein
"It's not even 11 years," says Guhathakurtha. "The cycle ranges in length from 9 to 12 years. Some cycles are intense, with many sunspots and solar flares; others are mild, with relatively little solar activity.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bad News for Mosquitoes
02-11-2010
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arclein
"We're now screening for compounds that interact with these receptors," Carlson said. "Compounds that jam these receptors could impair the ability of mosquitoes to find us. Compounds that excite some of these receptors could help lure mosquitoes
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Spray on Liquid Glass
02-11-2010
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arclein
The np-coatings are in principle pure, flexible , super-durable glass, albeit at the molecular level. These characteristics can protect glass surfaces and add extra functionality to the glass surface ,
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robert klein
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News Link • Corruption
Must See: Sweetheart deals with FDIC
02/11/10
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APFN Messageboard
You won't believe the sweetheart deal that the Indymac boys were given by the FDIC
Video: http://thinkbigworksmall.com:80/mypage/archive/1/29027
Article: Banks' sweetheart deals with FDIC are encouraging foreclosures http://cfcsux.blogspot.com/
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Anonymous Watchman
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