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Date Sent: 2010-08-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 17, 2010 AM edition |
Reaganomics Founder: "Without A Revolution, Americans Are History"
Justice Department drops investigation of DeLay ties to Abramoff -- START expiration ends U.S. inspection of Russian nuclear bases -- Obama backtracks over Ground Zero mosque after furious 9/11 families label insensitive and uncaring -- Federal appeals court puts California gay marriages on hold
-- Judge Orders Man’s Release in a Three-Strikes Case -- China Favors
Euro Over Dollar as Bernanke Alters Path -- Man Shot by Police Is
Charged With Gun Possession -- Karzai wants private security firms out of Afghanistan -- Economic reasons these United States should restore the Articles of Confederation -- Banks to benefit most from White House program to help fight foreclosures -- Anonymous Mexican blogger safely posts unfiltered news from country's raging drug war -- "Terror blast" hits Japanese tanker in Gulf strait -- Attacks Against Mexicans Inflame Tensions in NYC -- Pastor Files Civil Suit Against Border Patrol -- China reduces holdings of Treasury debt -- Why The GSE Zombies Will Suck The US Middle Class Dry Forever, Amen -- China Diversifies Away from the Dollar -- Jim Willie: Missing Gold and Silver in London, Missing Trillions in The US
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News Link • Corruption
Founder Of Reaganomics: "Without A Revolution, Americans Are History"
08-16-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Whatever the size, the rest of the world will see that the dollar is being printed in such quantities that it cannot serve as reserve currency. At that point wholesale dumping of dollars will result as foreign central banks try to unload a worthless
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News Link • Corruption
Justice Department drops investigation of DeLay ties to Abramoff
08-16-2010
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Washington Post
Former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was both defiant and ebullient on Monday after hearing that the Justice Department had dropped its six-year investigation of his interactions with lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a host of other political co
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
START expiration ends U.S. inspection of Russian nuclear bases
08-16-2010
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Washington Post
For the first time in 15 years, U.S. officials have lost their ability to inspect Russian long-range nuclear bases, where they had become accustomed to peering into missile silos, counting warheads and whipping out tape measures to size up rockets.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Obama backtracks over Ground Zero mosque after 9/11 families label him 'insensitive and uncaring
08-16-2010
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DailyMail.co.uk
The U.S. President was hit by a furious backlash from victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks after he backed the highly controversial plans in a speech on Friday.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Marriage
Federal appeals court puts California gay marriages on hold
08-16-2010
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Washington Post
California's ban on same-sex marriages will remain in place until at least December, an appeals court ruled Monday, dashing the hopes of hundreds of couples who had hoped to wed as soon as Wednesday.
The action by a three-judge panel of the U.S. C
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge Orders Man’s Release in a Three-Strikes Case
08-16-2010
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NY Times
A judge here ordered the release of Gregory Taylor, who was serving a near life sentence under the state’s three-strikes law for trying to break into a soup kitchen 13 years ago. The case has been widely cited by those pushing to change the law, incl
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China Favors Euro Over Dollar as Bernanke Alters Path
08-16-2010
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Bloomberg
China, whose $2.45 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves are the world’s largest, is turning bullish on Europe and Japan at the expense of the U.S.
The nation has been buying “quite a lot” of European bonds, said Yu Yongding, a former adviser to t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Man Shot by Police Is Charged With Gun Possession
08-16-2010
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NY Times
A man shot roughly two dozen times in a storm of police gunfire in Harlem last week was charged with criminal possession of a weapon. But prosecutors said they were not at the moment pursuing more serious charges, including attempted murder, brought
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Karzai wants private security firms out of Afghanistan
08-16-2010
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Washington Post
American officials were stunned Monday by a surprise announcement from President Hamid Karzai's spokesman calling for the dissolution within four months of the private security companies that foreign armies and aid organizations in Afghanistan rely o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economic reasons these United States should restore the Articles of Confederation
08-16-2010
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Ron Holland via LewRockwell.com
How would you like to begin a peaceful, legitimate political action which could roll back the last 100 years of government growth and national debt along with the hated federal income tax and the Fed?
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Bailouts
Banks to benefit most from White House program to help fight foreclosures
08-16-2010
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The Hill
Banks will get the biggest benefit from an Obama administration housing program designed to help unemployed homeowners escape foreclosure.
Housing experts expressed concern that banks, not homeowners, will be helped by the White House's $3 billion
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Anonymous Mexican blogger safely posts unfiltered news from country's raging drug war
08-16-2010
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AP
An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere " an inside view of their country's raging drug war.
Operating from behind a thick curtain of computer security, Blog del Narco in less than six months has beco
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
"Terror blast" hits Japanese tanker in Gulf strait
08-16-2010
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AFP c/o Google News
Despite Japan being a non-participant in the war on terrorism since 2007, a Japanese oil tanker was the subject of a terrorist attack while docked at a port in the United Arab Emirates.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • China
China reduces holdings of Treasury debt in June
08-16-2010
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AP
China reduced its holdings of U.S. Treasury debt for a second straight month in June while the holdings of Japan and Britain rose.
China's holdings fell by $24 billion to $843.7 billion, a decline of 2.7 percent, the Treasury Department said Monda
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Mexico
Attacks Against Mexicans Inflame Tensions in NYC
08-16-2010
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AP
When Rodolfo Olmedo was dragged down by a group of men shouting anti-Mexican epithets and bashed over the head with a wooden stick on the street outside his home, he instinctively covered his face to keep from getting disfigured. Blood filled his mou
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Steven Anderson - Checkpoint Arrest
Pastor Files Civil Suit Against Border Patrol
08-16-2010
Pastor Steven Anderson was beaten and Tased at a Border Patrol checkpoint last year, and has since been cleared of all charges by a jury.
But now he's filing suit against the officers who Tased him.
The lawsuit was filed a few days before the j
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"The Third Jihad" Screening
08-16-2010
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their last meeting in August to be held tonight on the 26th, Phoenix Objectivists will host a free viewing of the documentary "The Third Jihad" which discusses the threat of radical Islam.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Housing
Why The GSE Zombies Will Suck The US Middle Class Dry Forever, Amen
08-16-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
While the road to housing hell may have been paved by the government, the road back will be built by the private sector.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
China Diversifies Away from the Dollar
08-16-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
China is buying in Europe, Social Security is about to go cash flow negative, who exactly is going to be buying the mounds of new debt securities that the Treasury will soon start to issue?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Jim Willie: Missing Gold and Silver in London - Missing Trillions in The US
08-16-2010
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MaxKeiser.com
"In just the last 45 months we have had $1.5 trillion dollars in extra treasury bonds, that have been sold after issuance, and I would like to know where the proceeds are being held"
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
COULD CLINT DIDIER WIN TOMORROW IN WASHINGTON STATE!
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www.varight.com
Only if every Tea Party/Ron Paul libertarian votes for him! The former football star for the Washington Redskins is running hard.
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Police State
Denver officials divided over punishment for officer in videotaped beating
08-16-2010
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Christopher N. Osher denver post
(Must see video)The video of Officer Devin Sparks repeatedly hitting Michael DeHerrera of Denver with a piece of metal wrapped in leather, picking him up roughly and slamming a car door on his ankle has prompted Independent Monitor Richard Rosenthal
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Corruption
Issa Outs SHILLS.... President Obama charged with illegally using taxpayer money to manipulate publi
08/16/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a scathing staff report today charging that the White House has "used the machinery of the Obama campaign to tout the president's
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Constitution
America 1950 Vs. America 2010
08/16/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
1950: The U.S. Constitution is deeply loved and highly revered.
2010: Federal authorities are instructed to be on the lookout for anyone who talks about the U.S. Constitution too much because they might be a domestic terrorist. More at url.
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Wi-Fi hurting children
08/16/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
TORONTO " A group of central Ontario parents is demanding their children's schools turn off wireless Internet before they head back to school next month, fearing the technology is making the kids sick.
Some parents in the Barrie, Ont., area say t
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Back to School? Bring Your Own Toilet Paper
08/16/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Schools across the country are beginning the new school year with shrinking budgets and outsize demands for basic supplies. And while many parents are wincing at picking up the bill, retailers are rushing to cash in by expanding the back-to-school ca
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News Link • Homeland Security
Senate bill would make airport body scanners mandatory
07-10-2010
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Daniel Tencer, The Raw Story
A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate requiring all airports to use full-body scanners lacks sufficient privacy safeguards, says a prominent watchdog group.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center says the bill, introduced in the Senate by
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Government
Threats of int'l BlackBerry bans echo US debate
08-16-2010
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Peter Svensson via PHYSORG.com
Customers enter a mobile phone shop as a billboard of a BlackBerry phone is placed at the entrance in Calcutta, India, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. India may ask Google and Skype for greater access to encrypted information, once it resolves security concer
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Pay-For Education Getting Slammed As Fed's Goes To War With Their Business
08-16-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The U.S. government is going to war with pay-for education companies, targeting their business models due to low repayment rates on government loans.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
South Korea sends mixed message with war games, unification tax
08-16-2010
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Donald Kirk via The Christian Schience Monitor
South Korea President Lee on Sunday emphasized coexistence and proposed a unification tax to prepare for any future collapse of North Korea. Monday, he expressed strong support for this week's war games with the United States.
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