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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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Surveillance Blimps: Petraeus Builds Big Brother In Afghanistan News Link  •  Afghanistan
 Surveillance Blimps: Petraeus Builds Big Brother In Afghanistan
02-08-2011  •  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.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Rep. Kucinich challenges tea party to stand up for civil liberties News Link  •  Police State
 Rep. Kucinich challenges tea party to stand up for civil liberties
02-08-2011  •  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.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Air Force: Members’ families can be prosecuted for reading WikiLeaks News Link  •  Whistleblowers
 Air Force: Members’ families can be prosecuted for reading WikiLeaks
02-08-2011  •  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  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
News Link  •  Transportation: Air Travel
 "We Won't Fly" Launches Nationwide Billboard Campaign against TSA
02-08-2011  •  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.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Darren Wolfe
The Seedier Side of Alfalfa Contamination News Link  •  Food
 The Seedier Side of Alfalfa Contamination
02-08-2011  •  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!  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Barbara Peterson
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday Feb 8th 2011 News Link  •  Foreign Policy
 Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday Feb 8th 2011
02-08-2011  •  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.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
CoreLogic: House Prices declined 1.8% in December 2010 News Link  •  Housing
 CoreLogic: House Prices declined 1.8% in December 2010
02-08-2011  •  CalculatedRiskBlog.com 
This is the fifth straight month of year-over-year declines, and the sixth straight month of month-to-month declines.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Homeowners in Foreclosure Were 507 Days Late in 2010: Up 25% From 2009 News Link  •  Housing
 Homeowners in Foreclosure Were 507 Days Late in 2010: Up 25% From 2009
02-08-2011  •  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.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
The Congressional Show-Trial Of Meredith Whitney Begins Tomorrow News Link  •  Government Debt & Financing
 The Congressional Show-Trial Of Meredith Whitney Begins Tomorrow
02-08-2011  •  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...  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Muni Bloodbath: Michigan Prepares For A Tsunami News Link  •  Government Debt & Financing
 Muni Bloodbath: Michigan Prepares For A Tsunami
02-08-2011  •  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.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
US Housing Continues Freefall & Is Nowhere Near The Bottom News Link  •  Housing
 US Housing Continues Freefall & Is Nowhere Near The Bottom
02-08-2011  •  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.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Expect Massive Chinese Gold Buying Using GLD News Link  •  Precious Metals
 Expect Massive Chinese Gold Buying Using GLD
02-08-2011  •  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  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau
Gasparino On The Real Politics Behind The Meredith Whitney Report News Link  •  Government Debt & Financing
 Gasparino On The Real Politics Behind The Meredith Whitney Report
02-08-2011  •  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.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Egyptian Central Bank Confirms Currency Intervention News Link  •  Economy - International
 Egyptian Central Bank Confirms Currency Intervention
02-08-2011  •  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  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Glenn Jacobs
An unstable tower of breaking promises News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
 An unstable tower of breaking promises
02-08-2011  •  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...  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
US Navy tests bizarre bat-wing robo-bomber News Link  •  Military Industrial Complex
 US Navy tests bizarre bat-wing robo-bomber
02-08-2011  •  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  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Terrence Aym
Biometrics and the Expansion of The North American Police State News Link  •  North American Union
 Biometrics and the Expansion of The North American Police State
02-08-2011  •  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.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Fractured GOP Budget Cut Messages Make It Seem Promises Are Broken News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
 Fractured GOP Budget Cut Messages Make It Seem Promises Are Broken
02082011  •  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  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Rich Hilts
PUBLIC PENSIONS, A SOARING BURDEN News Link  •  TAXES: State
 PUBLIC PENSIONS, A SOARING BURDEN
02/08/2011  •  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   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Michele Power
Finally, The FED getting Proper Public Recognition News Link  •  Federal Reserve
 Finally, The FED getting Proper Public Recognition
02-08-201  •  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  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Fisher
Here's Another Ugly Jolt To The Labor Market News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
 Here's Another Ugly Jolt To The Labor Market
02-08-2011  •  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.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
January Deficit Indicates Obama To Blow Thru $2 Trillion Mark News Link  •  Government Debt & Financing
 January Deficit Indicates Obama To Blow Thru $2 Trillion Mark
02-08-2011  •  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.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
France Sees First 'Saviour Sibling' News Link  •  Healthcare
 France Sees First 'Saviour Sibling'
02-08-2011  •  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.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ed Vallejo
Growing Blood Vessels News Link  •  Science
 Growing Blood Vessels
02-08-2011  •  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  Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein
Nonnie Darwish on Dictatorships and Revolutions News Link  •  Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
 Nonnie Darwish on Dictatorships and Revolutions
02-08-2011  •  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  Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein
Solar Output Calibrated News Link  •  Science
 Solar Output Calibrated
02-08-2011  •  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  Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein
First STEREO Image of Sun News Link  •  Science
 First STEREO Image of Sun
02-08-2011  •  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  Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein
Obama Proudly Displays his Socialist Tendencies to Chamber of Commerce News Link  •  Politics
 Obama Proudly Displays his Socialist Tendencies to Chamber of Commerce
02082011  •  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  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Rich Hilts
IS VOTES FOR PRISONERS A BRIDGE TOO FAR FOR EUROPEAN GLOBALISTS? News Link  •  European Union
 IS VOTES FOR PRISONERS A BRIDGE TOO FAR FOR EUROPEAN GLOBALISTS?
02082011  •  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.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sandy Sanders
Foreclosure-Gate: Will The SEC Ask, Whats That Smell? News Link  •  Housing
 Foreclosure-Gate: Will The SEC Ask, Whats That Smell?
02-08-2011  •  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...  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
One in 50 Troops in Afghanistan Is a Robot News Link  •  Afghanistan
 One in 50 Troops in Afghanistan Is a Robot
02-08-2011  •  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...  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Silver Breaks its Golden Shackles News Link  •  Precious Metals
 Silver Breaks its Golden Shackles
02-08-2011  •  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  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau
The Kid From Brooklyn: Irreverent, over the top and the epitome of political incorrectness and relig News Link  •  PC: Political Correctness
 The Kid From Brooklyn: Irreverent, over the top and the epitome of political incorrectness and relig
02-08-2011  •  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  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Michael Haltman
Richard Russell: What Do the Chinese Know That We Don't? News Link  •  Precious Metals
 Richard Russell: What Do the Chinese Know That We Don't?
02-08-2011  •  321Gold.com 
According to my favorite newspaper, the Financial Times, the Chinese people are buying gold like theres no tomorrow.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Insider Spills Guts - Teleconference Call with informant 'Contact 2' News Link  •  Government
 Insider Spills Guts - Teleconference Call with informant 'Contact 2'
02-04-2011  •  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.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: David Forty
George Bush: Preliminary Indictment for Torture Feature Article  •  Torture
 George Bush: Preliminary Indictment for Torture
Stephen Lendman
   A first step but a long way from getting him in the dock
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Mubarak's Thirty-Year Dictatorship Feature Article  •  Police State
 Mubarak's Thirty-Year Dictatorship
Stephen Lendman
   Mubarak's 30-year US-backed thuggish reign of terror
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Why can’t the US legalize drugs? There’s ‘too much money in it,’ Clinton says News Link  •  Drug War
 Why can’t the US legalize drugs? There’s ‘too much money in it,’ Clinton says
02-07-2011  •  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  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
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