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Date Sent: 2011-02-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 8, 2011 PM edition |
Surveillance Blimps: Petraeus Builds Big Brother In Afghanistan
Rep. Kucinich challenges tea party to stand up for civil liberties -- Air Force: Members’ families can be prosecuted for reading WikiLeaks --
"We Won't Fly" Launches Nationwide Billboard Campaign against TSA --
Homeowners in
Foreclosure Were 507 Days Late in 2010: Up 25% From 2009 -- Biometrics and the Expansion of The North American Police State -- January Deficit Indicates Obama To Blow Thru $2 Trillion Mark -- Egyptian Central Bank Confirms Currency Intervention -- Gasparino On The Real Politics Behind The Meredith Whitney Report -- Expect Massive Chinese Gold Buying Using GLD -- US Housing Continues Freefall & Is Nowhere Near The Bottom -- Foreclosure-Gate: Will The SEC Ask, Whats That Smell? -- Muni Bloodbath: Michigan Prepares For A Tsunami -- One in 50 Troops in Afghanistan Is a Robot -- Silver Breaks its Golden Shackles -- The Congressional Show-Trial Of Meredith Whitney Begins Tomorrow -- George Bush: Preliminary Indictment for Torture -- Mubarak's Thirty-Year Dictatorship
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News Link • Afghanistan
Surveillance Blimps: Petraeus Builds Big Brother In Afghanistan
02-08-2011
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dvice.com
Just to give you one example " the blimps " you see two of them over Kabul now " we’ve gone from 8 to 68 of those just in the last several months, and we’re going to expand those further. Each one of those has very capable optics on it.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Rep. Kucinich challenges tea party to stand up for civil liberties
02-08-2011
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Rawstory
The House is set to renew key provisions of the PATRIOT Act today that expire Feb. 28. Liberal Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) issued a challenge to tea party supporters and lawmakers in the new Congress: time to show you're serious about liberty.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Air Force: Members’ families can be prosecuted for reading WikiLeaks
02-08-2011
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Rawstory
Almost anyone in the United States, and especially soldiers or the families of US Air Force members, could be under the threat of prosecution by the military, according to a recent "guidance" document issued by the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
"We Won't Fly" Launches Nationwide Billboard Campaign against TSA
02-08-2011
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WeWontFly.com
Taking its message beyond airports, We Won't Fly has
launched a nationwide billboard campaign to further raise awareness of and
activism against the TSA's ineffective, dangerous and invasive air travel
"scan and grope" procedures.
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Reported by:
Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Food
The Seedier Side of Alfalfa Contamination
02-08-2011
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Farm Wars
Phil Geertson is a conventional alfalfa seed grower who has been involved in efforts to stop GE (genetically engineered) alfalfa since 2003. Geertson said that deregulated GE alfalfa will contaminate all alfalfa plants!
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday Feb 8th 2011
02-08-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Regime Confusion, In Egypt and the US - Meredith Whitney Is Right About Munis - Do Tea Party People Oppose the Police State? - 5 Simple Ways To Prepare For the coming food crisis - A 30-Year Crime, Ron Paul on US evil in Egypt.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
CoreLogic: House Prices declined 1.8% in December 2010
02-08-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
This is the fifth straight month of year-over-year declines, and the sixth straight month of month-to-month declines.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Homeowners in Foreclosure Were 507 Days Late in 2010: Up 25% From 2009
02-08-2011
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Bloomberg.com
U.S. homeowners in the foreclosure process were an average of 507 days late on payments at the end of last year as lenders handled a record rate of mortgage delinquencies, Lender Processing Services Inc. said today.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Congressional Show-Trial Of Meredith Whitney Begins Tomorrow
02-08-2011
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Businessinsider.com/
Citing scheduling conflicts, Ms. Whitney has declined an invitation to appear before the panel of the House Oversight and Government Reform. But Rep. Patrick McHenry, R. of North Carolina, said that would not dissuade him from investigating her...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Muni Bloodbath: Michigan Prepares For A Tsunami
02-08-2011
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Businessinsider.com/
Dozens of Michigan's municipalities and school districts could soon face major financial problems and an unnamed handful are on the brink of becoming insolvent, warns State Treasurer Andy Dillon.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
US Housing Continues Freefall & Is Nowhere Near The Bottom
02-08-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
As you can see, it is the quintessential picture of a bubble gone bust. Notice the upticks throughout 2009 and 2010, the results of incessant .gov bubble blowing. Many truly believed that was the marked turnaround in the real estate market.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Expect Massive Chinese Gold Buying Using GLD
02-08-2011
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King World News
"The Asians, particulary the Chinese, want physical gold and they want it tomorrow. So the Chinese have a new method. They are now planning to buy tremendous amounts of the ETF GLD. They will then tender the GLD shares for immediate delivery of go
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Gasparino On The Real Politics Behind The Meredith Whitney Report
02-08-2011
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Businessinsider.com/
The left, obviously, is pushing for more Federal aide for the states, with the goal of bailing out the public unions
And the right is eager to cheerlead the demise of the states for the same reason.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Egyptian Central Bank Confirms Currency Intervention
02-08-2011
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Wall Street Journal Blog
Egypt’s central bank Tuesday said it intervened to support the pound after recent political unrest sent the currency to its lowest level in six years against the dollar. “Yes we did intervene,” Hisham Ramez, the deputy governor of the Egyptian centra
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
An unstable tower of breaking promises
02-08-2011
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TheAutomaticEarth.blogspot.com
Despite the continuing atmosphere of optimism and denial, we are witnessing a slow-motion crash of the juggernaut that is the real US economy. The unemployment situation is already the worst since the Great Depression and showing no signs...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US Navy tests bizarre bat-wing robo-bomber
02-08-2011
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Terrence Aym
Edwards Air Force Base, California: The US Air Force has nothing on the US Navy. While it's true the USAF has top guns slipping their superstealth aircraft through layers of enemy radar"snapping photos from 100,000 feet of the enemy enjoying an afte
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • North American Union
Biometrics and the Expansion of The North American Police State
02-08-2011
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windsorstar.com
Countries would develop programs to better verify the identities of travellers, including through common standards for the use of biometrics and shared information on travellers in real time, according to the early draft of the border declaration.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fractured GOP Budget Cut Messages Make It Seem Promises Are Broken
02082011
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www.drscoundrels.com
There is a lot of confusion in the ranks, and it is something that the GOP leadership might want to clear up before it gets out of hand and develops into that loveliest of lovelies " conservatives beating up on each other.
Right now there are a lo
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • TAXES: State
PUBLIC PENSIONS, A SOARING BURDEN
02/08/2011
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azcentral.com
Even as local governments and the state are slashing budgets, Arizonans are propping up public-pension systems that allow civil servants to retire in their 50s, receive annuities that can exceed $100,000 a year, and collect pensions while staying on
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Michele Power
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Finally, The FED getting Proper Public Recognition
02-08-201
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MatrixUSA.org
For too many years the Federal Reserve Bank(The FED) has operated under the cloaks of anonymity and mis-perception. Most people didn't even think The FED was a subject worthy of consideration much less giving them the proper recognition they deserve
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Robert Fisher
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Here's Another Ugly Jolt To The Labor Market
02-08-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The new JOLTS (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey) are out, and they don't look too pretty.
First of all, the number of job openings apparently fell in December.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
January Deficit Indicates Obama To Blow Thru $2 Trillion Mark
02-08-2011
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Market-ticker.org
As I pointed out in my annual Ticker, we are on a path toward a $2 trillion deficit this calendar year, and I have no expectation, and neither should you, that we'll get away with that.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
France Sees First 'Saviour Sibling'
02-08-2011
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AFP via Yahoo! News
...first birth of a "saviour sibling," selected at the embryonic stage to be a close genetic match to save a brother or sister suffering from a fatal inherited disorder.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Science
Growing Blood Vessels
02-08-2011
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arclein
"The inability to grow blood-vessel networks -- or vasculature -- in lab-grown tissues is the leading problem in regenerative medicine today," said lead co-author Jennifer West, department chair and the Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering
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robert klein
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Nonnie Darwish on Dictatorships and Revolutions
02-08-2011
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arclein
he pressure in Egypt has been building for a long time and has now finally exploded " inspired by the events in Tunisia. The fact that the Egyptian government has been taken by surprise is a sign of how disconnected the regime has become from the re
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Solar Output Calibrated
02-08-2011
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arclein
Historical and geological records reveal that the Sun has remained relatively stable for the past 250 years, with the total solar irradiance (TSI) fluctuating by less than 1% over the roughly 11-year solar cycle. And since the first space-based radio
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
First STEREO Image of Sun
02-08-2011
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arclein
The solar sphere as observed by STEREO and the Solar Dynamics Observatory on January 31, 2011. Because the STEREO separation was still slightly less than 180o at that time, a narrow gap on the far side of the Sun has been interpolated to simulate t
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics
Obama Proudly Displays his Socialist Tendencies to Chamber of Commerce
02082011
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www.drscoundrels.com
The man never fails to amaze me. And disturb me deeply. We have been saying for 2 years that Obama is a Socialist. That his policies are socialistic and horribly destructive to a Free Market America. Considering the shape we’ve fallen to during t
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • European Union
IS VOTES FOR PRISONERS A BRIDGE TOO FAR FOR EUROPEAN GLOBALISTS?
02082011
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www.varight.com
As the UK awaits the decisive Thursday vote to defy the ECHR on the votes for convicted prisoners, there are signs that the UK is seriously reconsidering whether UK should remain in the ECHR.
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Reported by:
Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Will The SEC Ask, Whats That Smell?
02-08-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
What is particularly interesting is that the SEC seems to be targeting specifically the sort of abuses that we have chronicled at length on this blog: failure to convey mortgages to the securitization trusts in accordance with the pooling...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Afghanistan
One in 50 Troops in Afghanistan Is a Robot
02-08-2011
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Wired.com/
There are more than 2,000 ground robots fighting alongside flesh-and-blood forces in Afghanistan, according to Lt. Col. Dave Thompson, the Marine Corps’ top robot-handler. If his figures are right, it means one in 50 U.S. troops in Afghanistan...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Silver Breaks its Golden Shackles
02-08-2011
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Market Force Analysis
On Friday silver closed in complete backwardation on the Comex. Spot silver closed at $29.075/oz while FEB 2011 closed at $29.064/oz and DEC 2015 closed at $29.026/oz. I believe this is the first time in history that this has happened. Silver trad
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • PC: Political Correctness
The Kid From Brooklyn: Irreverent, over the top and the epitome of political incorrectness and relig
02-08-2011
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The Political Commentator
Warning: Video content is politically incorrect, religiously insensitive and contains extremely strong and offensive language.
A friend of mine sent me this video a couple of days ago, and although it is not new, The Kid from Brooklyn is always en
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Precious Metals
Richard Russell: What Do the Chinese Know That We Don't?
02-08-2011
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321Gold.com
According to my favorite newspaper, the Financial Times, the Chinese people are buying gold like theres no tomorrow.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government
Insider Spills Guts - Teleconference Call with informant 'Contact 2'
02-04-2011
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www.rumormillnews.com
(unverified) Alleged Informant "Contact 2" explains what's going on behind the scenes in world politics and economics. What to watch for?
Listen to all 4 parts and judge for yourself.
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David Forty
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News Link • Drug War
Why can’t the US legalize drugs? There’s ‘too much money in it,’ Clinton says
02-07-2011
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Rawstory.com
In what will likely be seen as something of a Freudian slip by the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton recently in a Mexican news interview that the US cannot legalize drugs as a means of fighting the black market because "there is just too much mone
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