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Date Sent: 2010-08-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, August 1, 2010 Weekend ed. |
House Floor Debate Pakistan War Powers Resolution -- AZ Gov. Brewer's pals profit from 1070
Discount Window Borrowings Plunge: Quantitative Easing 2 Comes to Bat
-- FDIC To Tap Into U.S. Treasury $500 Billion Taxpayer Lifeline? -- Army War Games Lure 13 year old Recruits For 'Real Thing' -- The SEC is exempt from the FOIA -- Researcher detained at U.S. border, questioned about Wikileaks -- Exercising One's Rights at a Las Vegas Sobriety Checkpoint -- Photographer Attacked by Govt. Security Guards for Taking Lawful Photos
-- Afghan War Documentary: RESTREPO - One year in a U.S. Army outpost
-- Negative Equity Breakdown: Nevada, Florida and Arizona Lead the List
-- 25% of Americans Have Bad Credit Scores -- 1 in 10 Banks: Unofficial Problem Bank List over 800 Institutions
-- Further Evidence Of Quote Stuffing Manipulation By HFT -- Memo
outlines backdoor 'amnesty' plan -- Japanese Say Oil Tanker Attacked
Near Hormuz -- US Treasury is running on fumes --
Former NSA Director: Countries Spewing Cyberattacks Should Be Held
Responsible -- Voters split on immigrants' U.S.-born children
AZ: Early balloting has started, Libertarian Primary Write-In Candidates need your vote
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Floor Debate on Pakistan War Powers Resolution
07-30-2010
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CongressmanRonPaul via YouTube.com
July 27 2010 Congressman Paul's portions of the floor debate on the Paul / Kucinich privileged resolution
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News Link • Immigration
KPHO: Brewer pals to profit from 1070?
07-30-2010
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KPHO TV 5 YouTube.com
July 22, 2010: KPHO investigates ties between the Brewer administration and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) - and how the governor's rhetoric on border security may be damaging Arizona's tourism industry for the benefit of CCA.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Insolvency: FDIC To Tap Into U.S. Treasury $500 Billion Taxpayer Lifeline?
08-01-2010
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MyBudget360.com
The FDIC is in deep trouble going forward and this means we are in deep trouble. The taxpayer is on the hook for the bill. The U.S. Treasury already extended a lifeline of $500 billion to the FDIC “in case” they need the money.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Discount Window Borrowings Plunge: Quantitative Easing 2 Comes to Bat
08-01-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
If the Fed has difficulty explaining why banks are unwilling to lend to consumers when there is over $1 trillion in cash sitting and collecting dust, the problem gets even thornier when Bernanke has to defend 4 times this number.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
The Committee to Defraud the World
08-01-2010
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JessesCrossRoadsCafe.blogspot.com/
This episode of fraud is still playing itself out now. And to fail to understand the depth and breadth of this madness is to place oneself in peril, and in the power of those who are twisting the Western economic and political system even now to...
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News Link • Military
Lusting for Blood at 13: Army War Games Lure Recruits For 'Real Thing'
08-01-2010
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npr.org/blogs/
At the center, teenage boys sit in a row of Army-green recliners facing flat-screen monitors. They square off in video war games like the popular Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Once visitors register and prove they're 13 years or older...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Military-Industrial Complex Got “Pwned”
07-28-2010
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GabeAquino
So, there was a president, whose administration initiated these 2 wars. During the administrations, the opposition party continued to finance these wars. Then, the so called “change” president was voted into office to end both wars. Nothing happened.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
Why the Intelligence Community Needs GAO Oversight: no way of measuring its success
07-29-2010
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Julian Sanchez
“Top Secret America”"the sprawling, often dysfunctional surveillance-industrial complex that has ballooned into a $75 billion cash cow for private contractors since the 9/11 attacks. It was a disturbing portrait of chaos and inefficiency in the secto
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Environment
Should we Release Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes into the Environment?
07-31-2010
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The Real News
Scientists in the US have managed to genetically engineer a malaria-resistant mosquito. The tremendous event has been hailed as the first of its kind and a breakthrough in the scientific community, but is all the speculation true? Is it a good idea t
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News Link • Media: Internet
Researcher detained at U.S. border, questioned about Wikileaks
07-31-2010
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cnet
A security researcher involved with the Wikileaks Web site was detained by U.S. agents at the border for three hours and questioned about the controversial whistleblower project as he entered the country on Thursday, sources said on Saturday.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The SEC is exempt from the FOIA - SEC Transparency Act introduced to change that
07-31-2010
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Ron Paul
Thanks to Al Franken and Chris Dodd, the Securities and Exchange Commission gets to hide what the hell they're doing (like watching kiddie porn);...Ron Paul seeks to change that.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 07-30-10
07-31-2010
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Injustice Everywhere
A now-former Choctaw County Oklahoma deputy has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison after convicted of violating the civil rights of three men in two different incidents and then falsifying reports to justify it. The first incident involved
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Transportation
Photographer Attacked by Security Guards for Taking Lawful Photos
07-31-2010
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Photography Is Not A Crime
"In front of a cable/satellite news team with cameras rolling, a Miami-Dade Metrorail security guard ripped my video camera from my hand, knocking it to the ground, before pocketing it and refusing to return it.
The guard then began pushing me agg
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Food
Food: The Ultimate Secret Exposed - PT 1/2 & 2/2
07-31-2010
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InfoWars.com - YouTube.com
Alex Jones addresses one of the darkest modes of power the globalists have used to control the population-- food. The adulteration of the planet's staple crops, genetically-altered species and intentionally-altered water, food and air all amount to a
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
The Big Bend Over: ObamaCare Will Redefine Your Taxable Income Higher
07-31-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com & Redstate.com
Starting in 2011, next year-the W-2 tax form sent by your employer will be increased to show the value of whatever health insurance you are provided. It doesn’t matter if you’re retired. Your gross income WILL go up by the amount of insurance your...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Cliff Diving: No More Slicing, Dicing, and Julienning Consumer Credit
07-31-2010
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Ritholtz.com
Barry Ritholtz "I honestly have no idea what this means, but jeez, how is this for some cliff diving" --- "I think it means we are seeing the $2.5 trillion dollar drop in credit lines Meredith Whitney has been warning of for 9 months." Jack Gregson
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Negative Equity Breakdown: Nevada, Florida and Arizona Lead the List
07-31-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
If you look at Arizona, 9.8% of homeowners (with mortgages) are more than 50% underwater, and another 20.5% are 20% to 50% underwater. These are the homeowners most at risk for foreclosure.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Gingrich the NeoCon: Roosevelt would have attacked Iran, N. Korea
07-31-2010
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RawStory.com
In a speech Thursday before the conservative American Enterprise Institute, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich charged that the United States had failed to take George W. Bush's 2002 "axis of evil" speech seriously when it ignored...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosures Continue To Increase Dramatically In 2010
07-31-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
In a very alarming sign for the U.S. economy, foreclosures have continued to dramatically increase in 2010. But there has been a shift. Back in 2007 and 2008, experts tell us that most foreclosures were due to toxic mortgages.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
25% of Americans Have Bad Credit Scores
07-31-2010
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Ritholtz.com
Why does this matter? Now that NINJA loans are verbotten, this pretty much means that “one in four Americans won’t be able to borrow money to make a major purchase in the foreseeable future.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Five More Failed Banks Cost US Government an Additional $334 Million in Losses
07-31-2010
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JessesCrossRoadsCafe.blogspot.com/
The public relations campaign promoting the idea that the bank bailouts are done and successful, and that the US made money on this egregious abuse of public monies is patently false, and probably can be described as corporatist propaganda.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
1 in 10 Banks: Unofficial Problem Bank List over 800 Institutions
07-31-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The list total finally pushes through the much anticipated 800 level and finishes the week at 808 with aggregate assets of $414.8 billion.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ECRI WLI in Negative Territory 8 Consecutive Weeks, Index Drops to -10.7
07-31-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Nonetheless, we can say there has never been a WLI plunge in history of this depth and duration, nor any dip at all below -10 that has not been associated with a recession.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
Everyone Can Stay: Green Cards Are on The (White) House
07-31-2010
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AZcentral.com
Increase the use of "deferred action," the most controversial proposal in the memo because it would involve the government formally choosing not to pursue the removal of certain illegal immigrants who are deemed to be worthy...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Averting the Crash: Nomura Sees Fed Issuing QE-Lite Statement On 8/10/10
07-31-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
They will change the statement to signal that the balance sheet will remain expanded, and change policy around the MBS program to start reinvesting paydowns." Should the Fed telegraph further easing, expect stocks to surge at least another 10%
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Rigged Game: Further Evidence Of Quote Stuffing Manipulation By HFT
07-31-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The fact that the market is so one sided in its quote stuffing patterns is sufficient reason to worry of a concerted effort to push stocks higher, initiated from the very top, and effected by not only the Primary Dealer community but by the end...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Slavery, Both Earthly and Cosmic: Tracy R. Twyman talks with Christopher Knowles
7-31-2010
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Liberty Cap Press/The Invisible Hand
In a two-part interview with The Invisible Hand, Tracy R. Twyman talks to Christopher Knowles, artist, blogger, psychonaut, and author of Our Gods Wear Spandex, as well as The Complete X-Files. Knowles publishes The Secret Sun, a website that analyze
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Tracy Twyman
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Wikileaks: Who's Hiding What and Why
07-30-2010
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Fred Reed
If you don’t think that contracts"money"have a great deal to do with wars, reflect that all those hundreds of billions of dollars end up in pockets, and those pockets do not belong to soldiers. Makers of body armor, boots, ammunition, helicopters, on
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Future Predictions
Hans Rosling on global population growth
07-30-2010
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Hans Rosling via TED
The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new
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News Link • Inventions
RIM Said to Plan Tablet for November to Take on Apple's IPad
07-30-2010
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Hugo Miller via Bloomberg
Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, plans to introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPad, according to two people familiar with the company’s plans.
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News Link • Internet
Facebook Said to Put Off IPO Until 2012 to Buy Time for Growth
07-30-2010
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Brian Womack, Ari Levy, and Douglas MacMillan
Facebook Inc. will probably put off its initial public offering until 2012, giving Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg more time to gain users and boost sales, three people familiar with the matter said.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Gingrich expects Palin to run in 2012
07-30-2010
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Michael O'Brien via The Hill's
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said Friday that he expects former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) to be among the crowd of GOP presidential candidates in 2012
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
IMF Says U.S. Financial System May Need $76 Billion in Capital
07-30-2010
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Sandrine Rastello & Rebecca Christie via Bloomberg
The U.S. financial system remains fragile and banks subjected to additional economic stress might need as much as $76 billion in capital, according to the results of International Monetary Fund stress tests.
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News Link • Afghanistan
US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs
07-30-2010
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Robert H. Reid via Associated Press
In a summer of suffering, America's military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in the grinding conflict. All signs point to more bloodshed in the months ahead, straining the already shaky internation
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News Link • Government
Former NSA Director: Countries Spewing Cyberattacks Should Be Held Responsible
07-30-2010
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Kim Zetter via Wired.com
Attribution is one of the biggest problems on the internet when it comes to cyberwarfare. How do you hold a nation responsible for malicious attacks if you can’t determine whether the activity was state-sponsored?
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Possible False Flag? Japanese Say Oil Tanker Attacked Near Hormuz
07-30-2010
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Kurt Nimmo via Prison Planet.com
Bloomberg is reporting this morning that an oil tanker owned by the Japanese company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., operator of the world’s second-largest oil-tanker fleet, may have been attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, a strategically important waterw
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News Link • Government
US Treasury is running on fumes
07-30-2010
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Paul Craig Roberts via Prison Planet.com
The White House is screaming like a stuck pig. WikiLeaks’ release of the Afghan War Documents “puts the lives of our soldiers and our coalition partners at risk.”
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
World Net Daily writer says Fluoride is good for you. An open letter to Phil Elmore
07-30-2010
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Rob Dew and Kurt Nimmo via Prison Planet.com
In order to make his argument about the safety of fluoride, Mr. Elmore cites a 1943 discovery made by Dr. H. Trendley Dean. According to Dean, 1 ppm (parts per million) of naturally occurring fluoride is an ideal concentration “to prevent cavities wi
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News Link • Immigration
Poll: Voters split on immigrants' U.S.-born children
07-30-2010
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Arizona Republic
Among 10 questions asked in the Republic poll about Senate Bill 1070 and related issues, none had a margin as narrow as the one about denying citizenship to non-U.S. citizens' children. (New Moms should expect,... "Papers Please")
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bioterrorism
GM Crop Contamination Insurance?
07-30-2010
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Farm Wars
Farmers whose crops have been contaminated by GMOs are suing. So, here comes the insurance industry to the rescue. Hey, they might as well get in on the act and make a buck off of the carnage.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Secret Societies
David Icke on the Bohemian Grove: Arnie's Big Speech is Tonight
07-30-2010
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Youtube.com
Arnold Schwarzenegger's big speech at Bohemian Grove will take place tonight in Monte Rio, California. Arnold is sure to speak with great pride of how he presided over the destruction of California's standard of living.
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News Link • Precious Metals
Financial Times Says European Banks Lent Their Customer's Gold to the BIS
07-30-2010
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JessesCrossRoadsCafe.blogspot.com/
BIS Gold Swaps Mystery Unravelled, the source of the gold provided in the dollar swaps with BIS is coming from customers of about 10 European banks who are holding their gold at the banks in 'unallocated accounts.'
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Marc Faber Questions if Dow Could Hit 1,000
07-30-2010
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CNBC.com
"The question here is really, with the Dow below 1,000, what kind of dollars " and especially what kind of dollar credits " will survive," Faber said. "It is safe to assume that almost all banks in the world, and almost all governments, will be bust.
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