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Date Sent: 2011-02-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 4, 2011 |
House Republicans propose $30B in budget cuts -- Internet Officially Runs Out of Addresses
Egypt Chaos: Dozens of Reporters Beaten, Arrested -- JPMorgan Hid Doubts on Madoff, Documents Suggest -- Senate probe faults Army, FBI for missing warning signs before Fort Hood attack -- The buck stops here? Virginia eyes switching off dollar
-- Renewing the Patriot Act While America Sleeps (video) --
Authoritarian governments start stockpiling food to fight public anger
-- IRS Lawyer Fail -- Glenn Beck and the NeoCons Are Pushing Us Towards A Religious War -- Freezing Spending Not Far Enough By Far --
Senators Admit: They Have NO Plans (Except to get Re-elected?!) -- Muni
Bloodbath: Who Has the Big Knife Out for Meredith Whitney? -- Critics in Congress Demand Meredith Whitney Explain Muni Bloodbath Call -- Gore: Global Warming Causing Record Cold, Snow -- WikiLeaks: US and China in military standoff over space missiles -- Companies Push For Ubiquitous Iris Scanning --
New GOP bill would deny abortions to women in life-threatening
situations: group -- December 2010: Phoenix Home Prices Drop 8% From
One Year Ago -- Two ways to survive system collapse -- British Foreign
Policy in American History (Part 1)
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club tomorrow on WalletVoting.com - Egypt
& CPAC - "One World Government?... Then One World LOVEolution"
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
House Republicans propose $30B in budget cuts
02-03-2011
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www.washingtonpost.com
House Republicans want to slice more than $30 billion from agency budgets over the next several months, a move aimed at making good on their campaign pledge to return federal spending to 2008 levels.
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Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Internet Officially Runs Out of Addresses
02-03-2011
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www.pcmag.com
Today the well of addresses on the Internet officially runs dry, but there's no need to panic. The exhaustion has been known about for years, and new addresses"which are designed not to run out for a long, long time"are already in operation.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Egypt Chaos: Dozens of Reporters Beaten, Arrested
02-03-2011
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AP
Menacing gangs backing President Hosni Mubarak attacked journalists and human rights activists Thursday in an ugly turn in Egypt's crisis as government opponents pushed supporters out of Cairo's main square in a second day of street battles. Organize
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
JPMorgan Hid Doubts on Madoff, Documents Suggest
02-03-2011
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NY Times
Senior executives at JPMorgan Chase expressed serious doubts about the legitimacy of Bernard Madoff’s investment business more than 18 months before his Ponzi scheme collapsed but continued to do business with him, according to internal bank document
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Senate probe faults Army, FBI for missing warning signs before Fort Hood attack
02-03-2011
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Washington Post
A Senate investigation of the Fort Hood shootings faults the Army and FBI with missing warning signs and not exchanging information that could have prevented the massacre. Systemic and cultural problems caused military officials to miss signs the sus
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
In a Shift, Cubans Savor Working for Themselves
02-03-2011
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NY Times
“I feel useful; I’m independent,” said Ms. Álvarez, who opened a small cafe in November at her home in this scruffy town 25 miles from the capital, Havana. “When you sit down at the end of the day and look at how much you have made, you feel satisfie
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Granny-knapping: One Iowa family fights to free their mother from a predatory guardianship
02-03-11
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The PPJ Gazette
This story recounted below, is being repeated across the country in every state of the union as predatory guardians, with the aid of banks, attorneys and corrupt courts and police departments, prey on the elderly. Using the aid of the courts, and
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The buck stops here? Virginia eyes switching off dollar
02-03-2011
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Kelly O'Meara
WASHINGTON " Virginia state Delegate Robert G. Marshall has introduced legislation to study whether the Commonwealth should make the preparations now to switch suddenly to an alternative currency in the event of an implosion of the Federal Reserve Sy
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"Postmodernism" Lecture Part 2
02-03-2011
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their first February meeting to be held on the 10th, Phoenix Objectivists will listen to part 2 of Stephen Hicks' lecture on Postmodernism.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday Feb 3rd 2011
02-03-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Ripping the Disguise Off Government - Housing Armageddon, 12 reasons we're in the midst of the worst collapse in history - Forget Hope, In business and investing, embrace cold, clear reality instead, says Richard Russell
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Muslims and Christians Join Hands in Egypt
02-03-2011
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LewRockwell.com Blog
Several weeks ago, following terrorist attacks on worshipers at Coptic Christian services, hundreds " perhaps thousands " of Egyptian Muslims volunteered their services as “human shields” as their Christian neighbors celebrated the birth of Christ.
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Police State
Renewing the Patriot Act While America Sleeps (video)
1/28/11
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Youtube
It's time to wake up America! In the name of fighting terrorism, everything from your personal records to your very movement is being watched"and it's all authorized by our decade-old "emergency" law, the Patriot Act. As parts of the Patriot Act
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Food
Authoritarian governments start stockpiling food to fight public anger
02-03-2011
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Telegraph.co.uk/news
Commodities traders have warned they are seeing the first signs of panic buying from states concerned about the political implications of rising prices for staple crops.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS Lawyer Fail
02-3-2011
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http://marcstevens.net
Calling the IRS's bluffs, there are no facts proving anyone is a taxpayer with taxable income.
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Reported by:
Marc Stevens
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News Link • NeoCons
Glenn Beck and the NeoCons Are Pushing Us Towards A Religious War
02-03-2011
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FrontPageMag.com
He is bringing before an audience of millions the message we have been sending from these sites for nearly a decade " that the global Islamic jihad against the West has formed a working alliance with the secular socialist left both at home and abroad
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Freezing Spending Not Far Enough By Far
02-03-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
token measures are a tired cliche that don’t work, act to placate voters and buy them back into sleepy time mode. Token gestures are what we have gotten since FDR and what we will continue to get until such time as we absolutely grab someone up and
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Senators Admit: They Have NO Plans (Except to get Re-elected?!)
02-03-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) and Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) unveiled a bill on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 that would cap all federal spending over a 10-year period. This bill, called Commitment to American Prosperity (CAP) Act, would as Senator C
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Rich Hilts
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Opinion • Death
CONNECTING THE DOTS
On a dark horse came death too soon
02-03-2011
Frosty Wooldridge
John Howard Wooldridge, dead at 51, may he rest in peace. Frosty, Rex, Howard, Linda and our mother Vivien bid John a fond farewell.May his transition into a new facet of the spirit carry him and his pursuits to limitless heights.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Muni Bloodbath: Who Has the Big Knife Out for Meredith Whitney?
02-03-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Whitney has put out a clear warning that may save many who have, because of her warning, sold their muni bonds. However, somebody else appears just as determined to move the chess pieces to crush Whitney for her warning, and silence her.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Critics in Congress Demand Meredith Whitney Explain Muni Bloodbath Call
02-03-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The intifada between Meredith Whitney and the rest of the world just got uglier. According to Gasparino, the one-time Citi scourge has been called in to testify before the House TARP committee and explain her less than favorable position on munis.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Climate Change
Gore: Global Warming Causing Record Cold, Snow
02-03-2011
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www.newsmax.com
The record-setting snow and cold afflicting much of the nation in recent weeks doesn’t seem to jibe with Al Gore’s dire warnings about global warming. But Gore has an explanation for what’s causing the wintry conditions: global warming.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science
True invisibility achieved
02-03-2011
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Terrence Aym
Two separate researcher teams at the University of Birmingham and MIT have made breakthroughs in the quest to achieve workable invisibility by using a material called calcite, a common crystallized type of calcium carbonate found in most seashells.
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • China
WikiLeaks: US and China in military standoff over space missiles
02-03-2011
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prisonplanet.com
The United States threatened to take military action against China during a secret “star wars” arms race within the past few years, according to leaked documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Minority Report: Companies Push For Ubiquitous Iris Scanning
02-03-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Expiring technology patent insures that you will soon have your eyes scanned everywhere you go
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
New GOP bill would deny abortions to women in life-threatening situations: group
02-03-2011
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RawStory.com
Engulfed by criticisms from women's advocates, House Republicans have reportedly given up on legislative language that would deny some rape victims the ability to seek federally-assisted abortion coverage.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
CES 2011: iCade Brings Retro Arcade Experience to iPad
02-03-2011
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wired.com
ION Audio, ThinkGeek and Atari teamed up to create an actual retro arcade gaming experience on the iPad.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Depression Hits Vegas: Hard Rock Hotel Fights Foreclosure Next Week
02-03-2011
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lvrj.com/
NorthStar's entity, NRFC HRH Holdings LLC, disclosed on Friday it had filed a notice of foreclosure against the hotel. A foreclosure auction has been scheduled for 1 p.m. PST on Monday.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
December 2010: Phoenix Home Prices Drop 8% From One Year Ago
02-03-2011
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AZcentral.com
The median price for homes in December was $114,000, down from $122,300 the month before. The median price had remained between $122,000 and $135,000 since 2009.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Two ways to survive system collapse
02-03-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
I think increasing one’s self-reliance is the better answer to reducing dependence on the system" this could mean a lot of things: having a second residence in a more stable place overseas; installing solar paneling; storing extra food and water; div
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Is this the end of times? Nibiru 2012
02-03-2011
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Real News Tucson
Miles of web covered the ground on mt. Lemmon az! What in the world are they spraying on us? Is the end near? Where is Nibiru right now?
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Chris Haskell
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New Model Says the Cosmos Is At Least 250 Times Larger Than the Visible Universe
02-03-2011
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popsci.com
So how big is it really? A new mathematical analysis says its at least 250 times larger than the visible universe. Which is really, really big.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Art
Google's Art Project is Street View for the World's Greatest Art Museums
02-03-2011
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popsci.com
Google’s Street View technology lets you stroll faraway boulevards and take in the architecture of distant cities.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Japan Teams Up With Fishing Net Maker To Haul In A Catch of Space Debris
02-03-2011
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popsci.com
The proliferation of space debris surrounding our planet isn't just a theoretical problem--flying extraterrestrial garbage can cause damage to satellites, manned and unmanned space missions, and even the International Space Station.
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Sierra Hancock
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