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Date Sent: 2011-02-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, February 2, 2011 PM edition |
WikiLeaked cable tells of 3 previously undisclosed members of 9/11 plot
TSA Invades Roads & Highways With VIPR Checkpoints -- Goldman Sachs Whistles Past EU Graveyard? -- This Is Your Massive Snowstorm, America -- "New World Order" Gets Up Close and Personal With Iris Recognition -- The FBI "Kamikaze Pilots" Case -- Prepping for Urban Battle: Marines Building 5 Mock Mid-East Cities -- Freedom Of Information Not So Transparent In Obama Administration -- Bypassing the Obama Kill Switch -- China's "Borg Strategy" Seeks to Assimilate all Known Technology -- Fearing the Reaper (Drone) -- Here Comes QE3: Hoenig Says "More Quantitatve Easing May Be Discussed" -- The Coming Collapse Of Commercial Real Estate Is Already Here -- Fed now holds more Treasuries than China -- Arizona Senator "Sieg" Kyl May Retire -- Have Unions Become Irrelevant in the 21st Century? --
Newspaper Reporter Has Criminal Complaint Filed By Sheriff For Asking
Questions -- Videotaping Cop's L.A. Teen Charged With “Attempted
Lynching” Now Raided by Police
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this
Saturday on WalletVoting.com - Egypt
& CPAC - "One World Government?... Then One World LOVEolution"
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Leaked cable tells of 3 previously undisclosed members of 9/11 plot
02-01-2011
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Washington Post
A newly released U.S. diplomatic cable discloses the existence of previously undisclosed participants in the Sept. 11, 2001, plot: a group of Qatari men who conducted surveillance of targets in New York and the Washington area before leaving the Unit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
TSA Invades Roads & Highways With VIPR Checkpoints
02-02-2011
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InfoWars.com
If people think they can avoid the TSA by staying away from airports, they’re going to be in for a rude awakening. TSA is clearly engaged in a total takeover of society and plans to have its agents searching, patting down, scanning and harassing Amer
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • How To
Dale Dougherty: We are makers
02-02-2011
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Ted.com
America was built by makers -- curious, enthusiastic amateur inventors whose tinkering habit sparked whole new industries. At TED@MotorCity, MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty says we're all makers at heart, and shows cool new tools to tinker wit
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Fed and Job Creation
02-02-2011
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dailybell.com
Unemployment continues to plague our economy. In spite of constant claims that we have just turned the corner into recovery, the jobs reports remain grim with no real signs of improvement.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
A Mockery of a Sham
02-02-2011
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dailybell.com
Back in October of 2009, when Congress first announced the formation of a commission to investigate the cause of the 2008 financial crisis, I knew immediately that their ultimate conclusions would support the agendas of their respective political par
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Is Middle East Freedom the Bush Legacy?
02-02-2011
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dailybell.com
The West must shoulder the burden of providing freedom worldwide.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Future of Electronics: Single-Layer Molybdenite Transistors Trump both Silicon and Graphene
02-02-2011
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popsci.com
The discovery could allow for transistors that are smaller and orders of magnitude more efficient.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
This Is Your Massive Snowstorm, America
02-02-2011
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popsci.com
This January may have been the snowiest month on record here in New York, but it looks like the winter isn't anywhere near ready to stop vomiting snow all over the country.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Egypt restores Internet access [Updated]
02-02-2011
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LA Times
The Internet seems to be available again in Egypt after the country cut access to the Web and cellphone networks for a week amid mass unrest.
“Good news: Internet access being restored in Egypt,” Google wrote on its official Twitter profile earlie
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
"New World Order" Gets Up Close and Personal With Iris Recognition
02-02-2011
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Blacklistednews.com/ & Bloomberg.com
As key patents expire and costs fall, Hoyos wants to make the technology ubiquitous, installing it on mobile phones to verify online payments and cash machines to replace bank cards that require personal identification numbers...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The FBI "Kamikaze Pilots" Case
02-02-2011
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Boiling Frog(Sibel Edmonds)
In a public statement issued on Monday, January 31, members of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee demanded a prompt response from the former Chairman and Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission regarding Former FBI translator Behrooz Sarshar's
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Meredith Whitney Muni Bond Report
02-02-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Now, warning. This is a well-traveled document. It's clearly a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy. Much of it is totally illegible. But if you squint you can make out the arc of her argument.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chart of the Day: Meredith Whitney's Perpetual Cycle Of Weakness
02-02-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Why is Meredith Whitney so bearish on things?
Maybe because she sees the economy looking basically like this: A perpetual cycle of weakness.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Prepping for Urban Battle: Marines Building 5 Mock Mid-East Cities
02-02-2011
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MSNBC.msn.com
A mock city roughly the size of downtown San Diego has risen in a remote Southern California desert to train military forces to fight in urban environments.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
Freedom Of Information Not So Transparent In Obama Administration
02-02-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
According to Darrell Issa, who is quickly and painfully becoming a thorn in the side of the administration, there is a odor of impropriety at the Department of Homeland Security. In the summer of 2010, many people including lawmakers and reporters w
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Gun Rights
S. Dakota Lawmakers Have the Right of the Legality of Obamacare!
02-02-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
In a PERFECT illustration of the ludicrosity of Obamacare and its' mandates;
Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require any adult 21 or older to buy a firearm “sufficient to provide for their ordinary self-defense.”
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Positive News
Bypassing the Obama Kill Switch
02-02-2011
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RealityReport.TV
http://RTR.org | http://RealityReport.TV | The Egyptian Revolution triggered a government shutdown of the web. Could it happen here? Is the internet kill switch back on the congressional table? If the Feds shut down the web in the United States how c
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Housing
12 Signs The Worst Housing Collapse In U.S. History Is Getting Worse
02-02-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Right now there is a gigantic mountain of unsold homes in the United States. It is estimated that banks and financial institutions will repossess at least a million more homes this year and this will make the supply of unsold properties even worse.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
China's "Borg Strategy" Seeks to Assimilate all Known Technology
02-02-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
While the US is hell-bent on meddling (at tremendous expense) in the affairs of at least 140 countries where its troops are stationed, China seeks to assimilate technology at little expense.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Agriculture
Starling Eradication
02-02-2011
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arclein
After hundreds of starlings were found dead in the Yankton Riverside Park, concerned citizens began to investigate. Before long, a USDA official called the local police and admitted they had poisoned the birds. "They say that they had poisoned the bi
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Cold Jumps Arctic Fence
02-02-2011
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arclein
Yet while people in Atlanta learn to shovel snow, the weather 2,000 miles to the north has been freakishly warm the past two winters. Throughout northeastern Canada and Greenland, temperatures in December ran as much as 15 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Memory Science
02-02-2011
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arclein
Their study, published in Nature Neuroscience, provides new insights into the hugely complex process by which we store and retrieve deliberately acquired information -- learning, in short.
Earlier research showed that fresh memories, stored tempor
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - International
The Rise of Islamic Capitalism with Vali Nasr
02-02-2011
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arclein
Vali Nasr, in his outstanding new book “Forces of Fortune,” shows that Qutb was at least half wrong. Globalization, free trade and market economics aren’t a threat to Islam per se. What they are a threat to is the totalitarian vision of Islam that Qu
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robert klein
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Fearing the Reaper (Drone)
02-02-2011
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AntiWar.com
In the latest, probably eeriest example of civilian life imitating war, reports indicate that police all over the country want to employ high tech drones to engage in domestic surveillance operations.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Residential Housing Investment Components In Free Fall
02-02-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
If you look closely at this chart you will see the most dramatic drop of investment in single family dwellings in over 50 years. Stunning!
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Office, Mall, Lodging and Residential Components in Free Fall
02-02-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
If we look at just office, mall and lodging investment, non-residential structure investment continued to decline in Q4.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Here Comes QE3: Hoenig Says "More Quantitatve Easing May Be Discussed"
02-02-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
"The Federal Reserve could debate extending its bond-buying program beyond June if U.S. economic data prove weaker than policymakers expect, Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig said
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Coming Collapse Of Commercial Real Estate Is Already Here
02-02-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
From Wal-Mart to Sears to Target to Best Buy, if you look at what is happening in the retail space, "it looks pretty scary," says retail expert Howard Davidowitz.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
6-1-11: Fed will hold more Treasuries than China and Japan Combined
02-02-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
And get this. "By June [the Fed] will have accumulated some $1,600bn of Treasury securities, likely to be in the vicinity of China and Japan’s combined holdings,” Richard Gilhooly, a strategist at TD Securities, told FT.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
How Servicer Junk Fees Push Borrowers into Foreclosure
02-02-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
This problem is very much underdiagnosed because the servicer is judge, jury, and executioner as far as its charges are concerned. Borrowers find it a pitched battle to get the detailed payment records from servicers, even with a lawyer’s help.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
First GM, now states? Pros and cons of bankruptcy
02-02-2011
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AZcentral.com
But U.S. states aren't allowed. Now, a few policy makers and pundits are debating whether it's time to give states a court-sanctioned way to shed their debts.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Senator "Sieg" Kyle May Retire
02-02-2011
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AZcentral.com
"The old cliche is that it's really hard to give up that kind of power once you have it," said Bruce Merrill, a veteran political scientist and professor emeritus at Arizona State University.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
Have Unions Become Irrelevant in the 21st Century?
02022011
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www.drscoundrels.com
By Susan Hustwick
It is no secret that I am not a union sympathizer. I have long held the belief that unions will be the destruction of this great nation and have no place in our society. Whether or not you think that is a fair statement, I just h
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Newspaper Reporter Talks About Criminal Complaint Filed By Sheriff
02-01-2011
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The Shelby County Sheriff has prepared a criminal complaint against a newspaper reporter for asking him questions. Embattled Sheriff Dean Kimpel, who was already under fire for allegations of sexual assault, is now accusing a writer from the Sidney D
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
L.A. Teen Charged With “Attempted Lynching” Now Raided by Police
02-01-2011
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The Agitator
Jeremy Marks, 18, was arrested and bizarrely charged with “attempted lynching” last May after an altercation another youth had with a campus police officer in Los Angeles. Marks was among several students who watched Officer Erin Robles get into a ph
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Art
Google Art Project: 'Street view' technology added to museums
02-01-2011
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Washington Post
Google is bringing its "street view" technology indoors. With the launch of the Google Art Project, announced at a press conference in London this morning, Google jumps into the online art arena with tools that will allow web surfers to move through
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