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Date Sent: 2010-02-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, February 20, 2010 |
Low-Cost Solar Cells: 90 Percent Quantum Efficiency -- School used webcams to spy on students
Obama to spell out new healthcare plan -- Time To Leave Citibank Folks -- Beleaguered US to blow up some chemical weapons -- Premiums jump 14 percent on Medicare private plans -- The Guard Labor Society
-- An Extraordinary Coup, Threatening the Very Existence of the Middle
Class -- Demagoguery of Violence - by Brock Lorber -- I Wish Joe Stack
Had Not Killed Himself! - by Chuck Baldwin -- FDIC Opens Chicago Office for Tidal Wave of Midwest Bank Closings
-- New underground economy; Key indicator: Avoidance of bank accounts
-- Rest in Peace, Mr. Stack - by Larken Rose -- Duke lacrosse accuser
charged in attempt to kill -- Dad accused in 'honor killing' will not
face death penalty -- Selling Out America to Wall Street - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: Declaration of Independence on display at capitol today
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News Link • Energy
Low-Cost Solar Cells: 90 Percent Quantum Efficiency
02-19-2010
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eeTimes.com
Caltech In tests, the experimental solar cells demonstrated over 90 percent quantum efficiency, compared with 25 percent for the best silicon solar cells.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
School used webcams to spy on students
02-19-2010
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AP
A school district used the webcams in school-issued laptops to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations. School District officials said the laptops "contain a security feature intended to track
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Fall of the Republic HQ full length version Video
2/19/10
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Youtube
Must see video....
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Reported by:
Anonymous Watchman
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Opinion • TAXES: Federal
Words Eye View
The Suicide of Joe Stack
02-19-2010
Greg J Dixon
My column today is dedicated to all of the people in America who are the victims of IRS harassment and persecution but choose to suffer the loss of all they have ever worked a life time for, rather than to do something as foolish as Joe Stack . . .
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News Link • Food
Spring food crisis could trigger economic collapse
02/20/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
This author knows his stuff, hes done the homework - The govt is lying about foodstocks
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Reported by:
Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link •
Electromagnetic Waves May Be (In Large Part) Responsible for ADHD, Autism, MS, and More
02-19-2010
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SMCC
Triggered by electromagnetic wave exposure, peptides (protein chains) bind to DNA in the brain. The bond between the peptides and DNA in the central nervous system cause genetic mutations and lead to brain cancer, ADHD, MS, and autism.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Are you required to produce ID if a cop demands it?
02-19-2010
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Photography Is Not A Crime
"However, several states have “stop and identify” statutes that require people to produce identifications if they are being legally detained. And police can only legally detain you if they have a reasonable suspicion you have committed or are about t
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Corruption
Big Pharma researcher admits to faking dozens of research studies for Pfizer, Merck
02-19-2010
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by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
It's being called the largest research fraud in medical history. Dr. Scott Reuben, a former member of Pfizer's speakers' bureau, has agreed to plead guilty to faking dozens of research studies that were published in medical journals
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Jeneen Zucker
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News Link • Camera Fraud
DPS: Criminal Photo Tickets Now Treated as Civil
02-19-2010
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CameraFraud.com
DPS has decided to treat all criminal speeding tickets detected by photo enforcement as civil violations instead of criminal.
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Reported by:
Ryan Denke
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Deficit Group: Will They Raise the Retirement Age to 91?
02-19-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
“we don’t dare put out a report before Election Day or it’ll be total cremation and we’ll have to move to the top of Mount Somewhere -- Erskine and I -- somewhere living up there like hermits.” Senator Alan Simpson
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Karl Denninger: Time To Leave Citibank Folks
02-19-2010
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market-ticker.denninger.net/
Seen on a recent Citibank (C) statement: "Effective April 1, 2010, we reserve the right to require (7) days advance notice before permitting a withdrawal from all checking accounts.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
Beleaguered US to blow up some chemical weapons
02-19-2010
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AP
Under the gun to destroy the US chemical weapons stockpiles " and now all but certain to miss their deadline " Army officials have a plan to hasten the process: Blow some of them up. The Army would use explosives to destroy some of the Cold War-era w
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Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • B.O.R.G.
The Census Is Getting Personal
Thomas Costanzo
This is an expose' of the Census Bureau. This video itemizes the fundamental legal questions that the Census Bureau refuses or fails to answer about its collection and use of personal information from every American (see questions below). This progra
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News Link • Healthcare
Premiums jump 14 percent on Medicare private plans
02-19-2010
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AP
Millions of seniors who signed up for popular private health plans through Medicare are facing sharp premium increases this year -- another sign that spiraling costs are a problem even for those with solid insurance.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
CPAC Poll: Who would you vote for as the next Republican nominee for president?
02-19-2010
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http://tolbertreport.com/
Well looks like the BORG Overlords are starting to take the temperature of the Slaves to see who thy would want for president in 2012. Wonder who is in front? We are going to so tear it up for the next election.
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Max Keiser's On The Edge: Samuel Bowles - The Guard
Labor Society
2-19-10
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MaxKeiser.com & YouTube.com
Professor Bowles makes the point that 24 percent of the US workforce is engaged at some level in the enforcement of an Elite ruled police state.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
The Coward (and Idiot) Joseph Stack
02-19-2010
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Fr33 Agents / Xaq Fixx
Not only does this bring him to the same moral level as the state, but actually makes him morally inferior to the individual agents. They don’t know that what they are doing leads to or is backed by violence
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • New World Order
An Extraordinary Coup, Threatening the Very Existence of the Middle Class
02-19-2010
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Alternet.org
The Economic Elite have engineered a financial coup and have brought war to our doorstep...and make no mistake, they have launched a war to eliminate the U.S. middle class.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Flashback: Do single-engine planes cause that much damage?
02-19-2010
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CBC News - Oct 2007
In Oct 2007 a single-engine plane crashed into an apartment building in British Columbia. Judging by the damage in Austin's crash, you'd guess the building would be totaled. Guess again.
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Reported by:
Trouser Chili
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Official Story of Austin Plane Crash Doesn't Add Up
02-19-2010
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Wakeup 1776
I think the ''official story'' is fishy. When one looks in to all the facts surrounding these sort of incidents, you have to conclude that our government is withholding information from the American people. The question remains, why?
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
EEStor Musings
02-19-2010
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arclein
A theory that a mechanism exists which can store more than 20,000J/cc is afoot at Penn State. But it cannot be talked about. Actually, it can be talked about but the talkers can't be named although if you read this blog, you would be in a proper pos
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Precious Metals
IMF Gold Sales v the Alchemy of Gold Futures
02-19-2010
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Underground Investor
The recently announced IMF sales of 191.3 tonnes of gold reserves, though it caused an immediate sharp knee-jerk reaction in gold futures markets, will have a negligible effect on the long-term price of gold. Here's why.
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Obama Administration
FDIC Opens Chicago Office for Tidal Wave of Midwest Bank Closings
02-19-2010
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BlackListedNews.com
Midwest about to see a massive wave of bank closings? That is apparently what the FDIC is expecting. The FDIC is opening up a massive new satellite office in the Chicago area that will be dedicated to managing receiverships and liquidating assets..
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
Rogues Gone Wild
02-19-2010
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Truthdig.com
If you’re looking for who is “in control” of our military and police forces, don’t look to the established chain of command and don’t look to constitutional provisions that mandate civilian authority over the government bayonet.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
New underground economy; Key indicator: Avoidance of bank accounts
02-19-2010
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BlackListedNews.com
People also avoid having bank accounts because they are vulnerable to asset seizure, judgments, levies, etc. Increasingly, bankers and others who provide financial services are forced by governments to spy and snitch on their own customers
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Middle Class Two Income Trap: Two Breadwinners = $ for Financial Sector
02-19-2010
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MyBudget360.com
The family in the early 1970s had more discretionary income than the family in the early 2000s even with a dual income. Yet if you look around, it isn’t immediately apparent because of the massive debt bubble financed by the banking sector.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Mr. Stack's body presumably found inside burned IRS building
02-19-2010
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AP
Emergency crews recovered 2 bodies from the wreckage. The pilot was presumed dead and one worker in the building had been missing. Austin Fire Department said Thursday night that authorities had "accounted for everybody."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Duke lacrosse accuser charged in attempt to kill
02-19-2010
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AP
Police have charged Crystal Gail Mangum, 31, with attempting to kill her boyfriend. Mangum wrongly accused 3 Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006. A judge ordered she remain in jail on a $1 million bond.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Dad accused in 'honor killing' will not face death penalty
02-19-2010
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Arizona Republic
The decision not to seek the death penalty comes after Almaleki's public defender asked a judge to take special precautions to ensure the County Attorney's Office wouldn't wrongly seek the death penalty because Almaleki is a Muslim.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Newt Gingrich: A Bob Dole for 2010
02-19-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Newt Gingrich accused Bob Dole in 1994 of being the “tax collector for the liberal welfare state.” With his recent advice to Republicans to hold hands and help drag ObamaCare’s rotting carcass across the legislative finish line, he’s become in 2010 w
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Energy
Planned Decadal Oil Production
02-19-2010
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arclein
Iraq oil production could increase by 9.5 million barrels of oil per day over the next six years.
Brazil is projected to add 2-3 million barrels of oil per day by the largest private owner of Brazillian oil, Eike Batista
The United States i
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - International
Free Trade and Modernization in Africa
02-19-2010
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arclein
These people were then asked to compete with some of the most efficient agricultural systems in the world, and they simply couldn't do it,"
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robert klein
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