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Date Sent: 2010-06-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, June 19, 2010 |
China Dumps Massive Fannie And Freddie Holdings? -- Ultimate BP Gulf disaster could kill millions
Dallas City Council considers charging a road-use fee -- Unrestricted
data exchange with feds turns AZ license into National ID - by John
Green -- The Slow Decay of a Healthy Economy - by Bill Bonner
-- How Halliburton is profiting from the Gulf oil spill -- Government
Fees Could Be Hindering the Rollout of American Solar Power -- Is China Secretly Stealth-Buying Gold? -- World's First Solar Sail Photographed in Deep Space -- FCC Moves to Regulate Internet -- BP Tells Cleanup Workers They’ll Be Fired If They Wear Respirators -- Obama's Cap and Trade Leads to $7 Gas -- Alan Greenspan: We're In Danger Of Being The Next Greece! --
Toxic Levels Of Methane Are Suffocating The Gulf of Mexico -- Southern
Poverty Law Center Reports a Satirical Wanted Poster of Chris Simcox as
Real -- ICELAND PASSES WIKILEAKS LAW
AZ: Central Phoenix "Liberty on the Rocks" 6-21; Magician and
Psychologist Tony Barnhart: "The Psychology of Magic" on 6-24; Richard
Gage of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 to Speak in Tucson 6-26;
Tempe "Liberty on the Rocks" 6-29
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News Link • Housing
China Could Dump Its Massive Fannie And Freddie Holdings
06-18-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Who is the largest foreign holder of mortgage bonds from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
China. The nation owns $300 - $400 billion worth, which comes to nearly 20% of China's official currency reserves according to unofficial estimates via China Daily
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A Gulf Tsunami: How the ultimate BP Gulf disaster could kill millions
06-18-2010
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helium.com/
The burgeoning toxic gas cloud will surface, killing everything it touches, and set off a supersonic tsunami with the wave traveling somewhere between 400 to 600 miles per hour.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Humor
Video Summary of BP CEO Questioning Evocative of Monty Python Skit
06-16-2010
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huffingtonpost.com
Other than correctly answering that "today is Thursday", not one substantive answer emerged from the lying, evading lips of the beleaguered BP CEO Tony Hayward during his Congressional Hearing 'testimony'. I have never seen a more brazenly contem
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Die Daily
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News Link • Police State
Police State New York: Video of Heicklen’s Arrest 6/14/2010
06-18-2010
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The International Libertarian
This is video of FIJA activist Julian Heicklen's arrest in front of the federal courthouse in Manhattan, NY on Monday, June 14, 2010.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Transportation
Toll Road Giant Makes A Move On Red Light Camera Company
Macquarie Bank makes an offer to buy phot
06-18-2010
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Newspaper.com
Toll road giant Macquarie Bank this week announced its intention to acquire the leading operator of red light cameras and speed cameras in the US.
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Transportation
Dallas City Council considers charging a road-use fee
06-18-2010
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By STEVE THOMPSON / The Dallas Morning News
One of the ideas being kicked around Dallas City Hall to raise more revenue in a lean budget year is to charge residents and businesses a road-use fee.
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
How Halliburton is profiting from the Gulf oil spill
06-18-2010
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Christian Science Monitor
Shortly before the Deepwater Horizon blowout, Halliburton bought an oil spill prevention firm. The oil-services industry is consolidating, which is not necessarily good news for quality, experts say.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Beyond the Gaza blockade: What drives Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu?
06-18-2010
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Christian Science Monitor
Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the Gaza blockade flotilla crisis has further isolated Israel in the world and strained relations with Washington. Can a tough nationalist emerge as a statesman?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
License To Drill
06-18-2010
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Mother Jones
Why did the Obama administration just approve more than 400 new leases for oil companies to operate in the Gulf of Mexico?
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Donna Hancock
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock Afternoon June 18th 2010
Shawn Dow - CameraFraud.com in studio to discuss the up coming toll roads in Arizona / Brad Friedman - bradblog.com / Coleen Rowley - an FBI whistleblower, was named one of Time Magazine's people of the year in 2002. She recently co-wrote the piece "
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News Link • Energy
Geothermal Plant Gets Funding
06-18-2010
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Technology Review
U.S. Geothermal will use a technology called supercritical binary cycle to convert geothermal heat into electric power.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • North American Union
Redflex â€" The Takeover Bid and Toll Roads
06-18-2010
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Camerafraud.com
Will Macquarie-Redflex goons find their way in to the 2011 AZ State Legislature session? It’s highly likely. What they’ll be seeking is for our cash strapped state to sell them the roads that the taxpayers have already paid for
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Energy
An Energy-Saving Air Conditioner
06-18-2010
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Technology Review
Evaporative cooling plus drying with desiccants equals cool air for less cost.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Writing Circuits on Graphene
06-18-2010
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Technology Review
This simple trick to control graphene oxide's conductivity could pave the way for etching electronic circuits into the carbon material, an important advance toward high-speed, low-power, and potentially cheaper computer processors.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Liquid Mirror Breakthrough Could Make State-of-the-Art Optics Cheap
06-18-2010
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PopSci
A breakthrough in deformable liquid mirror technology could drastically reduce the price associated with adaptive optics, making the best in high-tech telescopes more widely available.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
Government Fees Could Be Hindering the Rollout of American Solar Power
06-18-2010
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PopSci
A bureaucracy built for oil and gas leasing punishes the most efficient technology
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Demographic Hell: Housing will remain stagnate from 2010 to 2020
06-18-2010
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MyBudget360.com
Middle class young family is also delaying on having children so the necessity for a bigger home is also being pushed out. This demographic shift is happening at the same time that baby boomers start entering retirement age and will want to downsize
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Is China Secretly Stealth-Buying Gold?
06-18-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
'China is considered a stealth buyer of gold, said Boris Schlossberg, director of currency research at Global Forex Trading. As the world's largest producer of the metal, China often buys gold from its own mines and doesn't report those sales...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
San Francisco Requires Cell Phone Retailers to Display Radiation Output
06-18-2010
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PopSci
Never mind that the largest study ever conducted on the cell phone-cancer link found that your cell phone addiction isn't increasing your risk of cancer. San Francisco voted yesterday requiring that all cell phones sold in the city display the amount
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
World's First Solar Sail Photographed in Deep Space
06-18-2010
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Space.com
A tiny space camera has snapped amazing photos of the world's first solar sail spacecraft to voyage into deep space on an interplanetary mission for Japan.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
BP Tells Cleanup Workers They’ll Be Fired If They Wear Respirators
06-18-2010
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Prison Planet
We’re repeating the same catastrophe in the Gulf. You see pictures of people wearing regular clothes who are wading in and scooping oil off the water. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people, are going to get sick unnecessarily.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
FCC Moves to Regulate Internet
06-18-2010
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Prison Planet
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on Thursday to begin the formal process of bringing the Internet under greater federal control â€" a move sought by both President Barack Obama and FCC Chairnman Julius Genachowski.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday June 18th 2010
06-18-2010
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LewRockwell.com
I Refuse To Be Counted - Government Is Not Your Savior, Andrew Napolitano - Government Is a Cancer - The Angry Sea of Bankruptcy - Disrespect for Government - Why I Gave Up My US Citizenship - Harry Browne Was Right (Must be anti-Gov't Day :)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Artificial Corneas Now Ready
06-18-2010
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arclein
An artificial cornea (prototype shown here) could restore sight to thousands starting this year.
An expansive EU project to produce an artificial corneahas found success thanks to the work of Joachim Storsberg of the Fraunhofer Institute for Appli
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Police State
Seattle’s Blue Gang Extortion Racket
06-18-2010
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The International Libertarian
The incident with a Seattle Police Officer punching a 17-year-old woman in the face has caused much controversy. I commend the young women involved for their courage in standing up to legal plunder.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Humor
Arizona's older workers get training for new careers
06-18-2010
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AZcentral.com
These workers, typically 55 or older, aren't ready to retire. But their years of work experience don't make regrouping to find the next job any easier.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Tea Party
Natural Law vs Positive Law
06/18/2010
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Uncommon Sense
When the founders of America set out to form a better type of government they had a clear historical perspective of the type of government they did not want. They knew that monarchies and arbitrary power were the enemies of freedom. Using this knowle
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Dave Johannes
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News Link • New World Order
US Near Breaking Point Obama Prepares Martial Law Decree
05/15/2010
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http://www.stewwebb.com/us_near_breaking_point_oba
Tonight we bring you a special report by SoCal Martial Law Alerts (SCMLA), which details the horrendous catastrophe still occurring in the Gulf of Mexico and the insidious plans the criminal U.S. Government aka Obama and his Bush-Clinton Crime Family
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Stew Webb
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News Link • New World Order
Bush Clinton Mizel Organized Crime Syndicate
06/17/2010
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http://www.stewwebb.com
Murders, Narcotics, Blackmail and Control of U.S. Government
Breaking News Thursday June 17, 2010
http://www.stewwebb.com
By Stew Webb
25 Years Federal Whistleblower
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Stew Webb
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News Link • Humor
Late Night Joke Dump: June 18, 2010
06-18-2010
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Mondo Frazier
The best political jokes and political/social commentary is almost always late at night. Here's some of the best from the past week.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Energy
Oil Disaster Meets Opportunity: Obama's Cap and Trade Leads to $7 Gas
06-18-2010
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NYpost.com/p/news
The answer can be found in Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's now-famous words, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste -- and what I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Jon Stewart Explains How Eight Presidents Failed At Energy Independence
06-18-2010
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Afterdowningstreet.org/
Jon has to have a very good research staff to be this cutting and accurate at the same time.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Alan Greenspan: We're In Danger Of Being The Next Greece!
06-18-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
In February 2001 Alan Greenspan warned that the Federal Government was in danger of paying off the national debt too quickly (by 2010), and therefore it was more prudent to run deficits. He was afraid the US would buy equities with it's cash...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Toxic Levels Of Methane Are Suffocating The Gulf of Mexico
06-18-2010
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap
That means huge quantities of methane have entered the Gulf, scientists say, potentially suffocating marine life and creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Oil May Be the Nail in Florida Housing's Coffin
06-18-2010
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CNBC.com
What strikes me, though, in driving around here for the last few days is not the growing fear among the locals, but the sheer number of "For Sale" signs down the beach. They're literally almost every third house.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Free Speech
ICELAND PASSES WIKILEAKS LAW
06-17-2010
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truthdig.com
"The Icelandic parliament has approved a package of broad protections for journalists, making the island nation perhaps the safest place in the world to afflict the comfortable and speak truth to power.
Icelandic leaders wanted to create a
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Die Daily
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News Link • Climate Change
Ocean's Carbon 'Burp'
06-18-2010
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arclein
A giant "burp" of carbon dioxide stored under the ocean between South Africa and Antarctica may have helped end the last ice age more than 18,000 years ago, according to a new study.
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
A Host of Mummies
06-18-2010
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arclein
In the middle of a terrifying desert north of Tibet, Chinese archaeologists have excavated an extraordinary cemetery. Its inhabitants died almost 4,000 years ago, yet their bodies have been well preserved by the dry air.
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Looking for Alien DNA
06-18-2010
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arclein
the ultimate fate of all those theories would be decided by the DNA tests he wants done on Queen Puabi's remains. "I'm really risking my life's work on this outcome," he said.
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Silver Bull Rising
06-18-2010
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arclein
When one looks at the percentage of its market size, the naked short position in silver today is perhaps the largest short position in any precious metal in the history of all commodities.
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robert klein
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