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Date Sent: 2010-08-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 20, 2010 PM edition |
Despite new mission, US troops still fighting in Iraq
FYI: Are Organs Ever Re-Donated? -- Prosecutors: Snooki's behavior "criminally annoying" -- AZ Sheriff Outs Border Patrol Pullback ("It's Too Dangerous") -- Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over -- $5 Trillion More To Fix Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac? -- Ernest Hancock - Regarding Silver Circle The Movie -- Blogger Sued By Copyright Troll Argues He Had 'Implied License'
-- 15 Signs The U.S. Housing Market Is Headed For A Total Collapse --
DNA from transgenic plants found in milk and animal tissue -- More US
Workers Tapping Pensions Early: Fidelity -- Now We're Headed For The Greatest Depression, Says Gerald Celente -- Looks Like US Government Bonds Aren't Supported By China Anymore -- Justin Raimondo: All Lies, All the Time -- Leading Indicator ECRI Declines To -10.0 -- Israel Locked and Cocked
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Despite new mission, US troops still in the fight in Iraq
08-20-2010
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AFP
US troops will still be in combat and taking on Islamist militants in Iraq even as the American military moves to an "advise and assist" role with a smaller force, officials said Thursday.
The withdrawal of the last US combat brigade on Thursday w
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
FYI: Are Organs Ever Re-Donated?
08-20-2010
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Lana Birbrair via PopSci.com
A few transplants of the 28,000 performed yearly involve the same organ spending time in more than two bodies. The most common scenario arises when patient in late stages of a disease receives liver or kidney as a last-ditch effort to keep him alive.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Prosecutors: Snooki's behavior criminally annoying
08-20-2010
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AP
Prosecutors said at a hearing Wednesday that they will add the charge of annoying people on a beach to the two others the MTV reality show cast member faces after her arrest last month on the beach in Seaside Heights, where the show is based.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Best Jobs In Science: NASA Concept Illustrators Turn Raw Data Into Art
08-20-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci
We talked to the Spitzer Space Telescope's visualization team about the challenges and rewards of rendering the mission's reams of non-visual data into something that catches the public eye. Plus: a gallery of their all-time favorite works
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Newly Discovered Underwater Oil Plume Paints a Complex Picture of Gulf Leak Aftermath
08-20-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Oceanographers announced today the discovery of a wispy oil plume at least 22 miles long and 1.2 miles wide floating beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a sign that plenty of the oil from BP’s Deepwater Horizon leak remains in the environment.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
AZ Sheriff Outs Border Patrol Pullback ("It's Too Dangerous")
08-20-2010
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eyeblast.tv via e-mail from resistnet
Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Arizona told reporters this week that border patrol officials are pulling their men away from the border because it’s too dangerous.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
NASA Launches Unprecedented Drone Mission to Study the Mysteries of Hurricane Formation
08-20-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
An unmanned Global Hawk recon drone will join a team of aircraft--all equipped with advanced weather instrumentation--to observe the 2010 storm season closer than ever before
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News Link • Housing
Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over
08-20-2010
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finance.yahoo.com/news/
They've been called McMansions, Starter Castles, Garage Mahals and Faux Chateaus but here's the latest thing you can call them - History.
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Repug-na-cant's join in unity to kick off primary election
08-20-2010
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YouTube.com
http://ChangeArizona.Blip.TV -_- 30 plus Repug-na-cant's attended an event in Snobsdale to kick off the primary election in Arizona. see more @ http://WeAreChangeArizona.com
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
$5 Trillion More To Fix Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac?
08-20-2010
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com/
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become gigantic financial black holes that the U.S. government endlessly pours massive quantities of money into. Unfortunately, if the U.S. government did allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to totally implode...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Talk Radio Rant - Ernest Hancock - Regarding Silver Circle The Movie
08-20-2010
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Kuernodechivo via YouTube.com
Radio-Rant by Ernest Hancock from Freedom's Phoenix on 8/16/2010 regarding the upcoming movie Silver Circle. Ernie's show, Declare Your Independence can be heard weekdays on the Liberty News Radio Network.
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Charles Hugh Smith: Why Nothing Changes
08-20-2010
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
In every case, the fiefdoms' most powerful forces are directed at self-preservation and smothering or blunting any change with threatens their share of the swag.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Blogger Sued By Copyright Troll Argues He Had 'Implied License'
08-20-2010
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MediaPost News
A blogger sued for allegedly reposting a Las Vegas Review-Journal article has raised an argument that, if accepted, could affect a broad swath of copyright infringement cases. The blogger, Jan Klerks, who publishes the noncommercial site www.skyscrap
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Housing
15 Signs The U.S. Housing Market Is Headed For A Total Collapse
08-20-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
For decades, owning a home has been touted as the very heart of "the American Dream", but today that dream is out of reach for an increasing number of Americans. Why? It is because there are not nearly enough jobs for everyone.
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News Link • Bioterrorism
DNA from transgenic plants found in milk and animal tissue
08-20-2010
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Farm Wars
Traces of genetically engineered maize and soy in goats, fish and pigs. DNA fragments from transgenic plants are increasingly found in animal tissue such as milk, inner organs and muscles.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Phony Inflation-Deflation Debate
08-20-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
That said, we do have a mad scientist at the head of the Fed, Ben Bernanke, who likes new tools when he plays with his money printing machine.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
More US Workers Tapping Pensions Early: Fidelity
08-20-2010
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CNBC.com
Loans and withdrawals were highest among workers between 35 to 55 years old, Fidelity found, peak earnings years.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
It Looks Like U.S. Government Bonds Aren't Supported By China Anymore
08-20-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
This makes the U.S. government bond rally, or bubble depending on your view, even more peculiar. You can't blame it on China propping the market with its standard dollar-recycling activities anymore, it seems.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Justin Raimondo: All Lies, All the Time - Your tax dollars at work
08-20-2010
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AntiWar.com
Everything that comes out of this administration, from its pronouncements on the overseas front to its own unemployment numbers, is a lie: it’s all lies, all the time. Even in small matters, the default is a fib...
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Leading Indicator ECRI Declines To -10.0
08-20-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Either way, the weekly chart speaks volumes. And with all input signals into the ECRI once again deteriorating, we expect the second leg down in the ECRI to continue, revised or not.
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News Link • Iran
Israel Locked and Cocked
08-20-2010
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arclein
The Obama administration, citing evidence of continued troubles inside Iran’s nuclear program, has persuaded Israel that it would take roughly a year " and perhaps longer " for Iran to complete what one senior official called a “dash” for a nuclear w
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Black Swans Need Not Apply
Louis James
I was pounding pavement instead of kicking rocks recently, on Wall Street of all places. There were Suits hanging around outside the familiar iconic buildings, despondently smoking cigarettes. In my surely biased opinion, the feel of the place was di
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Brain as Internet
08-20-2010
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arclein
We started in one place and looked at the connections. It led into a very complicated series of loops and circuits. It's not an organizational chart. There's no top and bottom to it," said Swanson, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Brain Stimulation is Real
08-20-2010
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arclein
Cognitive tasks were initiated 5 minutes after the start of stimulation as it has been shown that 3 minutes of stimulation is the minimum duration of stimulation in order to induce significant after-effects changes in the cortical excitability
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News Link • Archaeology
Humans Said Innocent in Mammoth Extinction
08-20-2010
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arclein
Scientists at Durham University in England say the new findings challenge accepted theories that humans played a large part in the extinction of woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos and cave lions through hunting, co
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Jumping the Shark
08-20-2010
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arclein
If you saw this thing on your neighbor's trailer, you'd laugh at him. "What sort of pretentious man-child buys a boat shaped like a shark," you'd scoff into your mugaccino, secure in the knowledge that you'd never shell out for something so rid
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