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Date Sent: 2010-04-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, April 14, 2010 |
IMF Preps For Global Cataclysm: Expands Rescue Facility By $500 Billion
China tells Obama to butt out of its currency -- The Income Tax and American Servitude - by Jacob G. Hornberger -- ACTA: The most dangerous global trade agreement you've never heard of -- Stop Worrying About the Financial Crisis - by Bill Bonner -- NBC Admits Using "Behavorial Placement" In Popular TV Programs -- Karl Denninger: Did The Federal Reserve (Surreptitiously) Bail Out Europe?
-- Maryland Cops Beat the Daylights Out of a Guy for No Reason (Video)
-- Newsweek Claims Oath Keepers Are "Extremists" -- If Iran is
attacked, nuclear devices will go off in American cities -- Price of Gold and Silver is Being Manipulated by Major Financial Institutions -- 1,130,818 Green Cards Issued in 2009: While US Suffered 20% Unemployment -- Pakistan airstrike kills 71 civilians -- Fuel Sales to U.S. at Issue in Kyrgyzstan: Huge Profits for Their Leaders -- Israel ranks 6th with up to 300 nukes
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF Preps For Global Cataclysm: Expands Rescue Facility By $500 Billion
04-13-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The IMF has just announced that it is expanding its New Arrangement to Borrow (NAB) multilateral facility from its existing $50 billion by a whopping $500 billion (SDR333.5 billion), to $550 billion.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Horn Dog CONgressman seeks to button hole staffers
04-13-2010
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Washington Post
Just three months after Eric Massa was elected to Congress, his young male employees on Capitol Hill began complaining to supervisors that the lawmaker was making aggressive, sexual overtures toward them, according to new interviews and internal docu
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China tells Obama to butt out of its currency
04-13-2010
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Washington Post
Amid a clamor in Washington over the value of the Chinese currency, President Hu Jintao used a visit to the United States this week to address what, for any Chinese leader, is a more pressing concern: asserting his nationalist credentials in the face
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Quake in western China kills 300
04-13-2010
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Washington Times
Chinese state television says the death toll from a strong earthquake in a western province has risen to about 300, with an additional 8,000 hurt.
China Central Television said the toll from Wednesday's earthquake had risen as rescue workers strug
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
"HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE NATIONAL STRIKE?"
04-13-2010
ARE YOU SICK & TIRED OF WATCHING OUR COUNTRY BEING STOLEN BY BANKERS? HAD IT WITH UNLAWFUL TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION? WONDER WHERE OUR MONEY GOES?
TOO LATE TO WORK WITHIN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM,
TOO EARLY FOR SHOOTING,
WHAT DO WE DO? W
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Obama going off the deep end
04-13-2010
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The East Valley Tribune
A recent analysis maintains that Obama is showing signs of mental illness, is conceited and is demonstrating a serious disassociation from reality, and that Obama displays severe narcissism.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
The Income Tax and American Servitude - by Jacob G. Hornberger
04-13-2010
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Jacob G. Hornberger
With April 15 almost upon us, this would be a good time to remind ourselves of how the income tax contributed to the destruction of American liberty.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
ACTA - The most dangerous global trade agreement you've never heard of
04-13-2010
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Forbes
ACTA is a multilateral global copyright agreement backed by the big-content companies, originated in the Bush administration and now being pushed by the Obama White House. The fact that you know little or nothing about ACTA is not coincidental.
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Reported by:
Trouser Chili
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Pornographic magazine for the blind launched
04-13-2010
A pornographic magazine for the blind has been launched - complete with explicit text and raised pictures of naked men and women. "We're breaking new ground. Playboy has an edition with Braille wording, but there are no pictures."
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
NBC Admits Using "Behavorial Placement" In Popular TV Programs
04/13/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
NBC's 'cynical' mind-control games. The network admits it uses "behavior placement" on popular shows to encourage healthy, eco-friendly habits " and sell ads. First there was product placement. Now there's "behavior placement," the planting o
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Organic Amicus brief filed in GM Alfalfa Appeal
04-13-2010
An Organic Amicus brief has been filed in support of the Center for Food Safety’s case against Monsanto’s Supreme Court appeal of the lower court-ordered injunction against the selling of GM alfalfa.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Karl Denninger: Did The Federal Reserve (Surreptitiously) Bail Out Europe?
04-12-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.net/
No, not just Greece - all of Europe. Without Congressional authorization or notice, of course. That nice little vertical line is a gain of $421.8 billion dollars of outstanding loans and leases in one week's time.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Maryland Cops Beat the Daylights Out of a Guy for Absolutely No Reason Whatsoever
04-13-2010
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ABC7 News
McKenna stops when he comes face to face with a Prince George’s Maryland National Capital Park Police mounted officer. Note that McKenna actually backs away from the mounted officer. The tape shows two police officers, on foot and in riot gear....
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Reported by:
Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Misinformation
Newsweek Claims Oath Keepers Are “Extremists”
04-13-2010
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Newsweek
“We’re not a militia.” Oath Keepers do not run around the woods on the weekend shooting weapons or threatening the violent overthrow of the government. Their oath is to uphold the Constitution and defend the American people from dictatorship.
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Reported by:
Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Conspiracies
Tehran: If Iran is attacked, nuclear devices will go off in American cities
04/13/2010
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DEBKAfile, debka.com
This warning, along with an announcement that Iran would join the world's nuclear club within a month, raised the pitch of Iranian anti-US rhetoric to a new high Tuesday, April 13, as 47 world leaders gathered in Washington for President Barack Obam
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Precious Metals
Price of Gold and Silver is Being Manipulated by Major Financial Institutions
04-12-2010
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Blacklistednews.com/
Which is extremely alarming, because the size of this fraud absolutely dwarfs the Madoff or Enron scandals. In fact, this fraud is so gigantic that it is not even worth comparing to any of the other major financial scandals of recent times.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Martial Law
Geneva Conventions Redefined " Part 2: Militarization of the Coast Guard
04-13-2010
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Lt. Eric Shine
A convoluted series of legal, political, and extra-judicial machinations have taken place over a long period of time to bring about this troubling and unlawful coup d’état by the military-industrial complex to subjugate civilian populations.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Commercial Real Estate Delinquencies Rise Again, Data Ignored
04-13-2010
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SafeHaven.com
Commercial Real Estate delinquency rates for loans held >30 days rose to 5.69% (as REITs continue to hit record highs)
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
1,130,818 Green Cards Issued in 2009: While US Suffered 20% Unemployment
04-13-2010
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examiner.com
The Department of Homeland Security has just reported that during 2009, they issued 1,130,818 new Green Cards to foreign nationals, allowing them to work legally in this country.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pakistan airstrike kills 71 civilians: official
04-13-2010
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AP
Up to 71 civilians were killed in a weekend strike by Pakistani jets near the Afghan border, survivors and a government official said"a rare confirmation of civilian casualties that risks undercutting public support for the fight against militants.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Delinquencies Up 21 Percent: Arizona Third for Late Mortgage Loans
04-13-2010
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BizJournals.com
Delinquent loans jumped 21.3 percent in February compared with a year earlier, according to the latest Mortgage Monitor report released by Lender Processing Services Inc. Monday.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Some Housing Markets Won’t See Peak Home Prices Until After 2039
04-13-2010
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TheTruthAboutMortgage.com
In Sacramento, California, prices aren’t expected to return to their previous boom-time peaks until after 2039. Same goes for Orlando, Florida.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Survey Says: Small Businesses Say The Economy Sucked In March
04-13-2010
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Businessinsider.com/ & Calculatedriskblog.com
“The March reading is very low and headed in the wrong direction,” said Bill Dunkelberg, NFIB chief economist. “Something isn’t sitting well with small business owners.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Fuel Sales to U.S. at Issue in Kyrgyzstan: Huge Profits for Their Leaders
04-11-2010
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ANDREW E. KRAMER, NY Times
Senior leaders in the interim government of Kyrgyzstan that took power last week are accusing the US of allowing family members of the ousted president, to enrich themselves with contracts supplying fuel to Manas Air Base outside the Kyrgyz capital.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Agriculture
Self Sheering Sheep
04-13-2010
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arclein
The animals have been specially bred to shed their winter coats naturally when spring arrives, saving farmers thousands of pounds a year.
A new breed of self-shearing sheep shed their coats naturally in spring
Wool has fallen so dramatically i
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
America: The Grim Truth
04-13-2010
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arclein
Americans, I have some bad news for you:
You have the worst quality of life in the developed world " by a wide margin.
If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Confidential document reveals Obama's hardline US climate talk strategy
04/12/2010
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By John Vidal, guardian.co.uk
Document outlines key messages the Obama administration wants to convey in the run-up to UN climate talks in Mexico in November.
A document accidentally left on a European hotel computer and passed to the Guardian reveals the US government's incre
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Science
The Mothman
04-13-2010
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arclein
Eyewitnesses alleged that Mothman could fly without flapping its wings, and could match the speed of an automobile trying to flee at 100 miles an hour. The creature never seemed to flap its wings when rising from the ground"it evidently was able to r
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Canada Points Way for USA Bank Reform
04-13-2010
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arclein
The reformers have essentially lined up between two solutions.
One is to break up big American financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” whose possible collapse is a “systemic” risk to the entire system.
The other approach is to maintain the
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robert klein
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News Link • Israel
Why Israel's Netanyahu will skip Obama's nuclear security summit
04/09/2010
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By Howard LaFranchi, csmonitor.com
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will send a deputy to Obama's nuclear security summit next week. He decided not to attend himself after learning that some Arab countries planned to press Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Israel
Israel ranks 6th with up to 300 nukes
04/11/2010
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Press TV
Analysts for a reputable military journal have rated Israel as the world's sixth nuclear power, alongside Britain, with up to 300 nuclear warheads.
Citing comments by British security experts, the British Jane's Defense Weekly has revealed that T
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Conspiracies
Bizarre McCain Logo invokes Eye of Horus?
04-13-2010
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Internet
Just a simple, amusing observation for fellow Freedom's Phoenix readers... doesn't the new McCain 2010 logo remind you of the "Eye of Horus"?
If the design was intentional, it would raise some interesting questions considering the meaning of
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David Alpha
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