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Date Sent: 2010-08-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 3, 2010 AM edition |
Obama Ends Iraq War . . . maybe -- Government Refi Wave Could Cost GSE Bondholders $350bn: KBW
In Restive Chinese Area, Cameras Keep a Watchful Eye -- Paul Craig
Roberts: Chelsea's Wedding Let Them Eat Cake -- Small Business Optimism
Plunges: Firms See More Layoffs Ahead -- Inflate Your Debts Away -- Joe
Arpaio's Goons Grab Salvador Reza Off the Street and Arrest Him, Again
(w/Update and Video) -- Mexican Drug Cartel Puts $1 Million Price on AZ
Sheriff's Head -- Ariz. Churches Mobilize Against Immigration Law --
Raul Castro Says State Will Reduce Economic Role -- Arizona Sheriff:
‘Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy’ -- Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone
Tower to Intercept Calls -- From Samizdat to Twitter: How Technology Is
Making Censorship Irrelevant -- US Has Plan to Attack Iran, Mullen
Admits
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama Ends Iraq War . . . maybe
08-02-2010
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Reuters
President Barack Obama vowed on Monday to make good on his promise to end U.S. combat operations in Iraq by the end of August, despite a dangerous political deadlock in Baghdad and a recent surge in militant violence.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Government Refi Wave Could Cost GSE Bondholders $350bn: KBW
08-02-2010
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HousingWire.com
"Since much of this is dispersed among mutual funds, hedge funds, mortgage REITs, banks, etc., the pain would be spread out. However, one obvious sector which would be negatively impacted is the banks," according to KBW.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • TERRORISM
Venezuela's Smoking Gun
08-02-2010
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The Independent Institute
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is unlikely to go quietly when he steps down from office. His successor is said to be similar to Hugo Chavez, but Uribe hopes to mount external pressure to end Chavez's support of the FARC and ELN terrorist groups.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Low-carb diet trumps low-fat on 'good' cholesterol
08-02-2010
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AP
Over the long term, a low-carbohydrate diet works just as well as a low-fat diet at taking off the pounds -- and it might be better for your heart, new research suggests.
Both diets improved cholesterol in a two-year study that included intensive
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
In Restive Chinese Area, Cameras Keep a Watchful Eye
08-02-2010
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NY Times
At the intersection with Shanxi Lane, a busy crossing in this northwest China metropolis, 11 surveillance cameras eye the bustle from a metal boom projecting over one corner. Still more cameras stare down from the other three corners " 39 in all, sti
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
1962 glass could be Corning's next bonanza seller
08-02-2010
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AP
An ultra-strong glass that has been looking for a purpose since its invention in 1962 is poised to become a multibillion-dollar bonanza for Corning. The 159-year-old glass pioneer is ramping up production of what it calls Gorilla glass, expecting it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
The Raw Arrogance of A Doddering Political Lifer: Bill of Rights is Meaningless
08-02-2010
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Blacklistednews.com/ & YouTube.com
If Obamacare was constitutional, added the attendee, then there was no foreseeable limit on what the federal government could do to dictate to Americans how to run their private lives.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Jim Rickards: "Son Of Helicopter" Reverse Psychology QE2 Plan Is Fatally Flawed
08-02-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
What will happen instead is they will print so much money in this effort and they won't get the traction, and then it will just tip, it will be like throwing a light switch and it will go from no inflation to hyperinflation instantaneously.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Demographic Bottom Line: West Is Halfway Through 20-Year Decline
08-02-2010
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CNBC.com
The West is only half the way through a 20-year secular downturn that will not end until the children of the US baby boomers begin to flex their financial muscle in about 10 years time, according to Robin Griffiths, a technical strategist at Cazenove
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Anthropology
Paul Craig Roberts: Chelsea's Wedding Let Them Eat Cake
08-02-2010
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Rense.com
The Great American Superpower, which is wasting trillions of dollars in pursuit of world hegemony, has 22% of its population unemployed and almost 17% of its population dependent on welfare in order to stay alive.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Small Business Optimism Plunges: Firms See More Layoffs Ahead
08-02-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The latest Wells Fargo/Gallup small business survey is out and it's UGLY.
In keeping with other indications that the state of small business is very bad, the survey indicates a level of pessimism about future results that's worse...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
The Impossible is now Possible
08-02-2010
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Derek Sheriff
An important revolutionary principle that American colonists learned from reading “Cato’s Letters” in the mid-18th century was this: Unjust laws must be resisted immediately, or they will set the stage for additional encroachments.
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Michael Boldin
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Joe Arpaio's Goons Grab Salvador Reza Off the Street and Arrest Him, Again (w/Update and Video)
08-02-2010
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Phoenix New Times
11 demonstrators were arrested by deputies and Arpaio came out to the street to talk to the media. Arpaio gestured in Reza's direction and 8 MCSO thugs rushed across the street to nab Reza, who was getting into his car. They cuffed him and hustled hi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Mexican Drug Cartel Allegedly Puts a $1M Price on Arizona Sheriff's Head
08-02-2010
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FOX News
On the day parts of Arizona's immigration law, SB 1070, went into effect, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is in the news for another reason: there's a price on his head - allegedly offered by a Mexican drug cartel.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Ariz. Churches Mobilize Against Immigration Law
08-02-2010
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NPR
Arizona's controversial immigration law went into effect this week, or at least parts of it. Despite significant support for the bill in the state, critics have been loud and organized. A big part of that opposition has come from the religious commun
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Raul Castro Says State Will Reduce Economic Role
08-02-2010
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Will Weissert via abcnews
Raul Castro said Sunday that his government will scale back controls on small businesses, lay off unnecessary workers and allow more self-employment " significant steps in a country where the state dominates nearly every facet of the economy.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Government
Arizona Sheriff: ‘Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy’
08-02-2010
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Penny Starr via CNSNEWS.com
Babeu told CNSNews.com that rather than help law enforcement in Arizona stop the hundreds of thousands of people who come into the United States illegally, the federal government is targeting the state and its law enforcement personnel.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Inventions
Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls
08-02-2010
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Kim Zetter via WIRED
A security researcher created a cell phone base station that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing someone to intercept even encrypted calls in the clear.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Internet
From Samizdat to Twitter: How Technology Is Making Censorship Irrelevant
08-02-2010
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Peter Kirwan via WIRED
To understand what the web has done for free speech, it’s necessary to think about how Natalya Gorbanevskaya and her fellow dissidents produced 65 issues of the samizdat publication Chronicle Of Current Events in the Soviet Union between 1968 and 198
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Geek Culture’s Fiercest Female Ass-Kickers, as Picked by You
08-02-2010
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Hugh Hart via WIRED
We left a few key names off last month's list of Geek Culture's 26 Most Awesome Female Ass-Kickers -- and boy, did we hear about it. Fans of fierce Matrix and Fifth Element heroines were especially outraged that their fave femmes fatales failed to ge
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla Subsidy Vanishing Amid Electric Vehicle Boom
08-02-2010
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Darryl Siry via WIRED
Twenty years ago the California Air Resources Board established the zero emissions vehicle mandate requiring the largest automakers to build and sell electric vehicles. Twelve states adopted the same aggressive targets, creating what remains the stro
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WIKILEAKS/WIKIPEDIA: TRUTH serving LIES (with CIA/MOSSAD oversight)
07-28-2010
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Kevin Boyle
So Wikileaks has exposed the truth about the Afghan/Pakistan war? 91,000 leaked documents expose the fact that war is a nasty, two-faced, dishonorable business with even (shock horror) covert operations set up to assassinate leaders of the enemy.
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Andy Adams
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News Link • Inventions
Cheaper, Better Satellites Made From Cellphones and Toys
08-02-2010
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Jess McNally via WIRED
Instead of investing in their own computer research and development, engineers at the NASA Ames Research Center are looking to cellphones and off-the-shelf toys to power the future of low-cost satellite technology.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Inventions
Biometric and Other Locks Fail to Foil Hackers at DefCon
08-02-2010
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Kim Zetter via WIRED
It wouldn’t be DefCon without a noted lock hacking team demonstrating the gross insecurity of some of the latest security locks, such as a biometric lock that could be easily cracked with a paper clip.
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News Link • Iran
US Has Plan to Attack Iran, Mullen Admits
08-02-2010
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Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com
Just weeks ahead of a planned P5+1 talk with Iran, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen announced on Meet the Press that the military has drawn up plans to attack Iran, though he insisted they would only do so ‘if necessary‘
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Kiss This War Goodbye
08-02-2010
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Frank Rich via The New York Times
Though the identity of The Times’s source wouldn’t eke out for several days, we knew the whistle-blower had to be Daniel Ellsberg, an intense research fellow at M.I.T. and former Robert McNamara acolyte who’d become an antiwar activist around Boston.
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News Link • Climate Change
Peru faces seventh cold wave of the year: In desperate need of "Global Warming"!
08-02-2010
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Isabel Guerra
Peruvians are currently undergoing the coldest winter in five decades, with the temperatures in large parts of the country dropping to record lows; temperatures in Lima have dipped to less than 8°C.
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Leon Felkins
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