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Date Sent: 2010-05-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
Supreme Court Nominee in the Pocket of Goldman Sachs? -- Fed Audit Under Fire - by Ron Paul
Did Nassim Taleb Cause Thursday's Market Crash? -- Ron Paul on the Euro Bailout by the Federal Reserve: Inflation is Coming -- Ron Paul Commemorates Hemp History Week -- What Are The Odds: Goldman Has Zero Trading Loss Days In Last Quarter -- Kagan supported detaining terror suspects indefinitely without trial --
Trend of US Mortgages 'Underwater' Grows to 23.3 Percent -- Fannie Mae:
$11.5 billion loss, sees no profits for "indefinite future" --
California and Will Soon Join The PIIGS at The Slaughterhouse -- North
Korean women Sell for Less Than Used Car -- Using Alleged Terrorism to Escalate Wars and Homeland Repression - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Obama Administration
Supreme Court Nominee in the Pocket of Goldman Sachs?
05-10-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
From 2005 to 2008, Ms. Kagan was a paid member of the Research Advisory Council of Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute, according to financial-disclosure reports she filed after being appointed to her current job.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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Feature Article • Federal Reserve
Fed Audit Under Fire - by Ron Paul
Powell Gammill
For the first time since the Federal Reserve was created, they have hired an lobbyist to pound the pavement on Capitol Hill. This is a desperate effort to hang on to the privilege of secrecy and lack of accountability they have enjoyed for so long.
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News Link • Currencies
Ron Paul on the Euro Bailout by the Federal Reserve: Inflation is Coming
05-10-2010
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YouTube
This is a short interview of Ron Paul by Stewart Varney of Fox News.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Small Business hiring "Bleak"
05-10-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
April marked the 27th consecutive month in which small businesses either shed more or the same number of jobs that they added, according to a monthly survey to be released Tuesday by the National Federation of Independent Business...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics
Andy Stern leaves SEIU $85 million in debt, joins Obama’s Deficit Commission
05-11-2010
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JoAnne Moretti
This is one of those stories that makes it worthwhile for a blogger to get out of bed in the morning.
Andy Stern, Chief Thug President of the infamous Service Employees International Union, more commonly known as SEIU, left the union $85 million i
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Reported by:
Rich Hilts
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News Link • Immigration
LA Teacher Teaches Sedition To Students, Touts Revolution
05-11-2010
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DRScoundrels
This man is preaching sedition, not only against your country people, but against your whole way of life. To be substituted for what? Gang style neighborhoods and barrios? Such wealth, social programs, medicine, science, and of course green pow
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Obama Administration
Elena Kagan: The Latest on What is Being Unearthed
05-10-2010
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Mondo Frazier
President Obama nominated Elena Kagan--his version of Harriet Meiers for the Supreme Court. The new favorite parlor game in the beltway and in the punditocracy is What Does Elena Kagan Think? Here's the latest on what been found.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Did Nassim Taleb Cause Thursday's Market Crash?
05-10-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The nut is that a fund linked to Nassim Taleb -- Mr. Black Swan -- may have placed the initial trades that got the ball rolling for Thursday's violent selling.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
This is the United States of America. So, Stand UNITED!
05-10-2010
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www.drscoundrels.com
...In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against an
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Future Predictions
"Knowing" movie and the Oil Rig Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico 2010
05/10/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmgeA3dr2uY
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Reported by:
Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Is Photo Radar Affecting the Census for Arizona?
05-10-2010
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http://CameraFraud.com
Because of photo radar, many people now will not answer their doors for strangers. With 30% of AZ households not returning mailed census forms, census workers will now have to visit those homes... but will anyone answer the door? And will the under-c
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Ryan Denke
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News Link • Homeland Security
NY Times Missed the Mark on Native American Border Story
5-10-2010
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mediafreedominternational.org
The NY Times reported on the T.O. reservation and how bad the situation is/was this story was reported originally on January 24 of this year. But it is still true today. What the article does not cover however is just as important. That is the abuses
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Concerned Patriot
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News Link • Immigration
Bisbee Deportation
July 12, 1917
05-10-10
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Wiki
The Bisbee Deportation was the illegal deportation of about 1,300 striking mine workers, their supporters, and innocent citizen bystanders by 2,000 vigilantes on July 12, 1917. The workers and others were kidnapped in the U.S. town of Bisbee, Ariz
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G Money
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News Link • Economy - International
Update: EU Crafts $962 Billion Show of Force to Halt Euro Crisis
05-09-2010
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Bloomberg.com
The new war chest would be used for countries like Portugal or Spain in case their finances buckle. Deficits are set to reach 8.5 percent of gross domestic product in Portugal and 9.8 percent in Spain this year, above the euro region’s 3 percent limi
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Utter Madness: Federal Reserve to Bailout Europe
05-09-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Foreign central banks will print up any amount of money they want in their currency and the Fed will print up an equal amount of dollars that they will then loan to the foreign central banks who will then loan the funds to the banksters...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Inferno on the Gulf: Witnesses recount rig blast
05-09-2010
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AP
Oleander Benton was chatting with a friend in the laundry when the lights went out. The other woman had just gotten up to find a maintenance person when the deep-sea oil rig shook with an ear-shattering "BANG," followed by a long, loud "hisssss."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Ron Paul Commemorates Hemp History Week
05-10-2010
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The Atlantic: Chris Good
The libertarian-minded congressman entered this statement into the Congressional Record on Thursday, to commemorate Hemp History Week:
Madam Speaker, I rise to speak about Hemp History Week. To celebrate the American heritage of growing industrial
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Investingâ€"The New Rules: Get the Odds on Your Side
05-10-2010
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Rob Bennett
If you follow a Buy-and-Hold strategy, you are the gambler. Do gamblers sometimes win? They do indeed. But you don’t want to be the gambler, you want to be the house. Is there a way for the stock investor to get the odds on his side? There is.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - International
Euro Bailout Consequences: It's One of Three Doors
05-10-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
-The second is that that the market will see through the charade of debt that is again unfolding and by week’s end we will have retraced most of this morning’s moves. That is a scary outcome. There is no round two on this bailout. This is it.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Gerald Celente on the Summer of Terror: Defaults and Violent Protests
05-10-2010
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Infowars.com/
Gerald Celente explains in a very forceful manner just how ugly the summer of 2010 will be.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
What Are The Odds: Goldman Has Zero Trading Loss Days In Last Quarter
05-10-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
In the quarter ended March 31, Goldman made money on every single trading day. The firm did not record a loss of even $0.01 on even one day in the last quarter. That's 63 days profitable out of 63 trading days. The statistic probability of this...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Kagan supported detaining terror suspects indefinitely without trial
05-10-2010
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RawStory.com
Questioned as to whether she'd support the detention of al Qaeda suspects without access to US laws -- or even a trial to prove their guilt -- Kagan told Sen. Lindsey Graham last year she backed the Obama Administration's policy of "indefinite detent
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Death
Barrier-breaking jazz star Lena Horne dies at 92
05-10-2010
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AP
Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress who reviled the bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not socialize with them, slowing her rise to Broadway superstardom, has died. She was 92.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig: What Really Happened
05-10-2010
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RidesAPaleHorse
New graphic evidence of what really happened at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Chris Hedges: After Religion Fizzles, We’re Stuck with Nietzsche
05-10-2010
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Truthdig.com
Those who championed this radical individualism, from Confucius to Socrates to Jesus, fostered not obedience and conformity, but dissent and self-criticism. They initiated the separation of individual responsibility from the demands of the state.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Trend of US Mortgages 'Underwater' Grows to 23.3 Percent
05-10-2010
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CNBC.com
The percentage of American single-family homes with mortgages in negative equity rose to 23.3 percent in the first quarter from 21.4 percent in the fourth quarter, according to the Zillow Real Estate Market Reports.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Fannie Mae: $11.5 billion loss, sees no profits for "indefinite future"
05-10-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Fannie Mae reported that the rate of serious delinquencies - at least 90 days behind - for conventional loans in its single-family guarantee business increased to 5.59% in February, up from 5.52% in January - and up from 2.96% in February 2009.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California and Will Soon Join The PIIGS at The Slaughterhouse
05-10-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
But more importantly, beyond their debt, is that they don't have their own central banks, which turned out to be Greece's problem. The central bank distinction is key, as it's the reason that the UK hasn't found itself in a fiscal crisis yet.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Disemboweling The Logic Behind Europe's Bailout Fund
05-10-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
"Money is printed or created and thrown at people to actually cover their insolvency with waves of free money and waves of liquidity that we end up with fiat currencies being completely devalued in the eyes of people and gold at $7,000 an ounce...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • History
Early DNA Manipulation
05-10-2010
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arclein
Evidence of DNA manipulation in our distant past?
The Human Genome Project has dished up some real surprises to scientists. The first surprise was the vast percentage of the human DNA that is inactive. It is estimated that at least 97% of our DNA
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Two Problems Solved For Low Cost Solar Cells
05-10-2010
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arclein
For the electrolyte, entirely new molecules have been created in the laboratory whose concentration has been increased through the contribution of Professor Livain Breau, also of the Chemistry Department. The resulting liquid or gel is transparent an
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robert klein
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News Link • China
North Korean women Sell for Less Than Used Car
05-10-2010
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arclein
Korea estimates that anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 people from North Korea are currently living in China. Of those, about 80% are women. And of the women, almost 90% have been trafficked at some point or are currently victims of trafficking. For th
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robert klein
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News Link • Environment
Coyotes in New York City
05-10-2010
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arclein
A spike in urban wildlife in New York City is complicating pest control and creating a public health risk not normally faced by city-slickers, a wildlife expert says.
Already this year, six wild coyotes have been spotted across Manhattan, a signif
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robert klein
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