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Date Sent: 2010-06-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, June 8, 2010 |
Physicians allege US conducted illegal torture research on detainees
Primaries from CA to SC measure voter anger -- Obama Smiles While the Gulf Dies -- Senator Nelson: Casing Broke...Oil Leaking from Seafloor!! -- Bilderberg Wants Americans Disarmed And Dependent On Government -- Helen Thomas quits after Israel comments -- For Paul Family, Libertarian Ethos Began at Home -- HOMELAND SECURITY:" FOR WHAT AND FOR WHOM? -- Many Gulf federal judges have oil links -- Paper industry tests genetically altered trees" -- North Korea sacks PM; Kim Jong-il consolidates power -- Analyst: Buy Barbed Wire and Guns -- South Korean Ship Sinking: Another False Flag? - by Stephen Lendman -- $500 million spent on Guantánamo Bay renovations -- 10,000 protest flotilla attack in Israel
AZ: Jim Kaiser Sentencing This Morning
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News Link • Torture
Experiments in Torture: Physicians group alleges US conducted illegal research on detainees
06-06-2010
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Boing Boing
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) today released evidence it says indicates that the Bush administration conducted "illegal and unethical human experimentation and research" on detainees' response to torture while in CIA custody after 9/11.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
'Temporary Custody'
06-07-2010
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NOLA
According to the one-paragraph statement, Hartford police found an “unknown male subject on the third floor” of a Stony Creek townhome who was taken into “temporary custody” before paramedics treated him for a known medical condition.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
The Silent War: Israel's Blockade of Gaza
06-07-2010
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YouTube - MedicalAidPalestine
Contrary to propaganda originating in Israel, Gaza is not the land of plenty and Israel is not the great benefactor of the Palestinians. Rather, the people of Gaza are being made to suffer as few in the U.S. can imagine; all because of the illegal bl
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Reported by:
Mike Dugger
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Primaries from CA to SC measure voter anger
06-07-2010
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The Associated Press
How angry are Americans? People primed for change vote in 12 states Tuesday in contests that will decide the fate of two endangered incumbents while setting the stage for some of the races that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Hamas Halts Transfer of Aid to Gaza
06-07-2010
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Israel National News
The Hamas government in Gaza is apparently not interested in receiving the goods that were carried by the 'humanitarian' Turkey-sponsored flotilla Israel intercepted.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
What the media won't report about Gaza
06-07-2010
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National Post
Contrary to popular opinion, many Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza live a middle class (and in some cases an upper class) lifestyle that western journalists refuse to report because it doesn’t fit with their simplistic story.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Oil Guru: The Real Nightmare Will Be When A Hurricane Picks Up The Oil
06-07-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Must See Video: Matthew Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert says we basically have two options: Let the well run dry (taking 30 years, and probably ruining the Atlantic ocean) or nuking the well.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama Stimulus: "Magic elixir that has morphed into poison”
06-07-2010
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Bloomberg.com
Pimco's, Crescenzi wrote in an e-mailed note. Debt-fueled spending programs aimed at combating the global financial crisis of 2008 are among policy tools now “being seen as a magic elixir that has morphed into poison.”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
We Bought The Bullets
06-07-2010
The bullets used to kill 19-year-old Furkan Dogan, a Turkish-American college student born in Troy, New York, were fired by soldiers in a foreign army " but they were paid for with money extorted from U.S. taxpayers.
A post-mortem documented that
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War Onyou
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Monday June 7th 2010
06-07-2010
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LewRockwell.com
Justice vs. Government Lies - Judge Andrew Napolitano on the Articles of Confederation, Lincoln, Austrian economics, and more. / Rules for Libertarian Childrearing - Ron and Carol Paul / Government Desperate: Gold Tax Imminent?
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Are You Supporting a Hellish CAFO?
06-07-2010
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Farm Wars
This is a hellish life, and one that I wouldn’t wish on any creature. It is better to die than to live like this.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Conspiracies
BP's Use Of Corexit is Killing the Gulf
06-07-2010
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InfoWars.com/
This is death to all life within the fragile Gulf Coast ecosystems that are impacted by these Corexit plumes. Plant, animal, and marine life will die as these oily, Corexit plumes slip their broken oily gunk well under protective booms.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Propaganda
BP Buys Google & Yahoo Search Words To Hide Gulf Oil Disaster
06-07-2010
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examiner.com/
In their most tenacious effort to control the ‘spin’ on the worst oil spill disaster in the history, BP has purchased top internet search engine words so they can re-direct people away from real news on the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Obama Smiles While the Gulf Dies
06-07-2010
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Farm Wars
Let us focus on the greater and utterly provable crimes committed by US regulators and BP (British Petroleum) executives immediately following the blow-out of the Gulf of Mexico oil well.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Torture
Bush Administration conducted medical experiments on detainees
06-07-2010
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RawStory.com
The group's review, which examined Bush-era documentation, asserts that the administration violated laws set up in the wake of the Holocaust to prevent medical testing on prisoners of war. (Nazi doctors sometimes experimented on their prisoners.)
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Well Integrity Shot? Oil Could Be Leaking Straight Up From The Seabed
06-07-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
This may be the real nightmare scenario in the Gulf. Some have speculated that the inner integrity of the Deepwater well could be blown (not just the top) and that oil could be leaking out from the side, making it hard to imagine how you might...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Illuminati’s Biggest Crime? Suppressing Tesla Technology
06-07-2010
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waronyou
When we understand that Tesla’s “flying saucer” was powered by a so called “free energy system”, a.k.a. ‘over unity’-system (you get more energy out than you put in) at a time when the fledgling aviation and motor car industry was based on the oil an
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War Onyou
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News Link • Currencies
Dollar Spikes - 1933 and Today: Depression Anyone
06-07-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
In his latest note on comparisons between the current state of the economy and the Great Depression, Martin Armstrong provides a nice look at the dollar index between 1900-1950.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Senator Nelson:Casing Broke...Oil Leaking from Seafloor!!!
06/07/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
In an interview by Andrea Mitchell a few minutes ago on Mitchell’s MSNBC show, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, who has been one of the most informed and diligent, if not the most informed and diligent, Congressmen on the BP Gulf Oil Spill issue, stat
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Reported by:
Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Jim Kaiser Sentencing Tomorrow
06-07-2010
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Jim himself!
A Father that doesn't want his son drugged with pharmaceutical chemicals that visibly HURT the child - is that too much to ask?
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Precious Metals
Monday's Analytical Charts for Gold, Silver and Platinum by Jim Wyckoff
06-07-2010
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Kitco.com
Get ready to sharpen your trading skills with these useful tools as Jim brings it to you....Tecnically Speaking.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock Morning June 7th 2010
"I maintain that I am a sovereign flesh and blood man who possesses an unalienable right from my creator of LIBERTY. This liberty right includes my right to travel in the conveyance of the day without ANY government interference and or regulation."
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bilderberg Wants Americans Disarmed And Dependent On Government
06-07-2010
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InfoWars.com/
By encapsulating the gun grab within a treaty, the Obama administration could claim that no Senate approval is needed to authorize any such move against the right to bear arms " although whether a treaty trumps the Constitution is a very murky area o
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
LEAKED BP DOCUMENT!! GET IT NOW BEFORE IT DISAPPEARS
06/07/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
***DOWNLOAD IT BY RIGHT CLICKING TO SAVE
http://video.godlikeproductions.com/BP_Presentation.pdf
If the hotlink dont work copy/paste url above into your browser. Also go here for alternative download links in case it disappears others will be hos
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Reported by:
Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Israel
Helen Thomas quits after Israel comments
06-07-2010
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Yahoo! News blog (video)
Journalist Helen Thomas, who has covered every administration since Eisenhower's and occupies front-row center in the White House briefing room is taking heat for comments she recently made on Israel and has abruptly resigned from Hearst News Service
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Anti-speed camera activist nabs Bluff City PD's expiring web domain
06-07-2010
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Tri-Cities (h/t Tony Wall)
Brian McCrary found the perfect venue to gripe about a $90 speeding ticket when he went to the Bluff City Police Department’s website, saw that its domain name was about to expire, and bought it right out from under the city’s nose.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link •
Adam Kokesh Discusses Immigration, the Fed, Other Topics
06-07-2010
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Sharlene Holt, Musicians 4 Freedom
Adam is an honest and trustworthy leader who wants to bring a change to Washington. Alas, he was unsuccessful in this political bid, but last time I spoke with him, he described his plans for continuing to make a difference in the freedom movement...
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Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Apocalypse Near: Bernanke-Keynes-Japanese Experiment Comes To An End
06-07-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
“Gaius Julius Caesar instead gazed into the turbid waters of the Rubicon, and said nothing. And his mind moved upon silence. The Romans had a word for such a moment. “Discrimen,” they called it " an instant of perilous and excruciating tension.”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
"HOMELAND SECURITY" -- FOR WHAT AND FOR WHOM?
06-07-2010
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www.newswithviews.com
Why do so many Americans think that "homeland security" means what they think it means? Americans have learned the painful lesson that what "is" going on in politics and government these days all too often depends upon the secret,...
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
More leak control helps BP but spill menaces Florida
06-07-2010
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Reuters
Shares of BP Plc gained Monday after it announced progress in containing its Gulf of Mexico oil leak but the energy giant still faced tough questions from investors and U.S. lawmakers as the spill threatened more of the U.S. Gulf coast.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Many Gulf federal judges have oil links
06-07-2010
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AP
More than half of the federal judges in districts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pending have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, complicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases, an As
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
What Did YOU Do This Weekend?
06-07-2010
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Ed Vallejo Productions LOL
I went with some friends to Table Mesa Road to "Brush My Liberty Teeth".
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
James Howard Kunstler: Which Horizon?
06-07-2010
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Kunstler.com
The American Way of Life is not so charming, but its very sprawling character may prevent a political maniac from controlling enough of a base to hold all the states and regions together in a thrall of fascism -- and there are all those firearms...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Agriculture
Paper industry tests genetically altered trees
06-07-2010
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AP
The commercial paper industry's plans to plant forests of genetically altered eucalyptus trees in 7 Southern states generate cries from critics worried such a large introduction of a bioengineered nonnative plant could throw natural ecosystems out of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
North Korea sacks PM; Kim Jong-il consolidates power
06-07-2010
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Reuters
North Korea named a brother-in-law of leader Kim Jong-il to a powerful military post on Monday and sacked its premier in moves seen as consolidating Kim's grip on power and paving the way for his youngest son to succeed him.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
U.S.’s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP: Chart of Day
06-07-2010
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Bloomberg.com
Dan Fuss, who manages the Loomis Sayles Bond Fund, said last week that he sold all of his Treasury bonds because of prospects interest rates will rise as the U.S. borrows unprecedented amounts.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gun Rights
Austin, Texas: Police hand out $30,000 in grocery vouchers for guns
06-07-2010
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news8austin.com
"The line is very shocking to me. We had people in the parking lot at 7:30 a.m. waiting to turn their guns in, and the event did not start until 9 a.m," APD's Sgt. Ely Reyes said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Charting Bank Failures
06-07-2010
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Ritholtz.com
Hey, its Monday " and you know what THAT means: Let’s catch up with our old friends at the FDIC, and see who they’ve been wagging a finger at:
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Are Economic Numbers Artificially Juiced Due To Looming Tax Hikes In 2011?
06-07-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The basic gist is: The wealthy tend have a lot of flexibility in terms of when they realize their income, and so if they know that big tax hikes are coming down the road, they'll rush to realize income on various investments now, rather than later.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
On The Imminent US Debt To GDP Parity
06-07-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
"President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross called a “debt super cycle."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Analyst: Buy Barbed Wire and Guns
06-07-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
“I don’t want to scare anyone but I am considering investing in barbed wire and guns, things are not looking good and rates are heading higher,” he said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Chris Hedges: The Christian Fascists Are Growing Stronger
06-07-2010
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Truthdig.com
It champions the eradication of social deviants, beginning with homosexuals, and moving on to immigrants, secular humanists, feminists, Jews, Muslims and those they dismiss as “nominal Christians”" Christians who do not embrace their perverted...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Waste
At least $500 million has been spent on Guantánamo Bay renovations
06-06-2010
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Scott Higham and Peter Finn, The Washington Post
The spending is part of at least $500 million that has transformed what was once a sun-beaten and forgotten Caribbean base into one of the most secure military and prison installations in the world. That does not included construction bonuses, which
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
(Wake up, blind America) 10,000 protest flotilla attack in Israel
06-06-2010
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Mondoweiss
Not only was this one of the largest peace demonstrations for a long time, but also the first time that all parts of the Israeli peace camp - from Gush Shalom and Hadash to Peace Now and Meretz " did unite for common action. The main slogan was “The
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Mike Dugger
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel Navy Massacres Freedom Flotilla Passengers in International Waters
06-06-2010
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YouTube - justicentric
Unedited version of video that has been released previously, though heavily edited, by Israel in an attempt to back its version of the raid on the unarmed Gaza aid flotilla.
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Mike Dugger
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