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Date Sent: 2011-02-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 15, 2011 PM edition |
Obama Pencils In $37 Billion Budget Increase For DHS, Naked Body Scanners
Bill Gross Slashes Government Bond Holdings Again -- Ron Paul on Morning Joe (video) -- Paul B. Farrell: Fed dictator Bernanke needs to be toppled -- Global Exchange: NYSE, Deutsche Boerse Agree to Historic Merger -- New Uncontacted Tribe in Amazon -- Foreclosure Volume Soars 50% In California and Arizona, As The Moratorium Ends -- Independence of Southern Sudan and East Africa Oil Boom
-- Karl Denninger: The Retail Sales Whiff and The Negative Growth Rate
-- Cocoa Shortage Crisis Looms -- Wisconsin DATCP: A rogue agency
continues its assault on milk producers -- Bernanke Blames Blogosphere For Itemizing His Disastrous Actions -- Sci Fi Soldiering Here Today – The Punisher - With A GREAT Video -- Bill Bonner: Where to Be When Black Swans Appear -- The Trouble With Selling Biometric ID To The Public: ‘There is no demand’ --
Lawmakers Resist Bankruptcy for US States: Muni Bloodbath Awaits --
Illinois Postpones Bond Sale So That Investors Can Hear Speech By
Governor
AZ:Join GATA Fri./Sat. at the Phoenix
conference; Moving the
Freedom's Phoenix warehouse this weekend
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News Link • Homeland Security
Obama Pencils In $37 Billion Budget Increase For DHS, Naked Body Scanners
02-15-2011
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InfoWars.com/
The Obama administration is to propose a $37 billion increase in federal spending for the Department of Homeland Security, earmarking funds for more radiation firing naked body scanners in airports around the country.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
The U.S. Corporation and the Maritime Flag
02-15-2011
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Zen Gardner
Gerald Celente has an excellent piece on the Superbowl entitled Are Americans Sure Their Flag Is Still There? Good stuff. But I'm wondering, not just if there's a flag still there, but which one? And who notices?
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Bill Gross Slashes Government Bond Holdings Again
02-15-2011
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blogs.wsj.com
Bond fund giant Pacific Investment Management Co. slashed the U.S. government-related holdings in its flagship bond fund in January to multi-year lows.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul on Morning Joe (video)
02-15-2011
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YouTube via CampaignForLiberty Tweet
Ron says yes, and anti-war candidate does have a chance to unseat Obama.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Paul B. Farrell: Fed dictator Bernanke needs to be toppled
02-15-2011
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MarketWatch.com/
Fed boss Ben Bernanke is the most dangerous human on earth, far more dangerous than Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s 30-year dictator, ever was. Bernanke rules a monetary dictatorship that will trigger the coming third meltdown of the 21st century.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Global Exchange: NYSE, Deutsche Boerse Agree to Historic Merger
02-15-2011
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CNBC.com
Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext announced the creation of the world's largest exchange operator on Tuesday, dodging political issues that could threaten completion of a deal.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
New Uncontacted Tribe in Amazon
02-15-2011
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arclein
A previously uncontacted tribe has been found in Amazon jungle, with aerial photographs giving a glimpse of people who've had no known contact with anyone except their tribal neighbors.
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure Volume Soars 50% In California and Arizona, As The Moratorium Ends
02-15-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Analysts have been warning for months that the decline in foreclosures was due to the robosigning moratorium, and did not signify an improving housing market.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Independence of Southern Sudan and East Africa Oil Boom
02-15-2011
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arclein
A few days ago, 98 percent of Southern Sudan voted for independence from the North. This is an offshoot of the 2005 Bush sponsored peace treaty, which will be effective on July 9, 2011.
Sudan is the largest country in Africa and has suffered throu
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Karl Denninger: The Retail Sales Whiff and The Negative Growth Rate
02-15-2011
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Market-ticker.org
When debt accumulation becomes negative to economic outcomes you're in big trouble and I believe there's an argument to be made that we're either there or damn close.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Agriculture
Cocoa Shortage Crisis Looms
02-15-2011
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arclein
Today they treat him like a guru. An influential set of senior industry heavyweights flew to Ghana last week to hear him speak; the talk ended with an unprecedented agreement between industry competitors and the government to establish a working grou
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Wisconsin DATCP: A rogue agency continues its assault on milk producers
02-15-11
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The PPJ Gazette
Unable to afford or procure competent counsel and lacking the ability to represent themselves left them with little choice, after all the state run education system falls grievously short of providing scholars of the necessary information to obtain d
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke Blames Blogosphere For Itemizing His Disastrous Actions
02-15-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Ben Bernanke "There are people identified -- and the trouble is -- and particularly in this blogosphere we live in now -- at any given moment, there are people identifying 19 different problems, crises."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
Sci Fi Soldiering Here Today " The Punisher - With A GREAT Video
02152011
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www.drscoundrels.com
What an incredible weapon. The techs have out done themselves this time - this thing darn near shoots around corners - check it out - if you haven't seen this video yet - you'll want to. This will save lives - on our side.
If you enjoy weapons
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Bill Bonner: Where to Be When Black Swans Appear
02-15-2011
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LewRockwell.com
There are no subsistence farmers living in cities. Nor do urban populations “live off the land.” Instead, they depend on complex networks of commerce. The typical city dweller produces neither food nor energy. He sits all day in an office...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Jupiter May Have A Much Bigger Brother: A Gas Giant In The Outer Oort Cloud
02-15-2011
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dailymail.co.uk/
Scientists believe they may have found a new planet in the far reaches of the solar system, up to four times the mass of Jupiter.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Short Story of How We Lose
02-15-2011
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TheAutomaticEarth.blogspot.com
After the most potent "winning streak" in human history, the majority of American society has been blindsided by equally potent losses, which continue to mount and show no signs of abatement:
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
The Trouble With Selling Biometric ID To The Public: ‘There is no demand’
02-15-2011
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gcn.com/
“How do you get people to buy what they don’t want?” Lewis asked Thursday during a conference on ID management hosted by the Digital Government Institute. “There is no demand for better identity.”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Lawmakers Resist Bankruptcy for US States: Muni Bloodbath Awaits
02-15-2011
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CNBC.com
US lawmakers have expressed opposition to the idea of allowing US states to seek bankruptcy protection to alleviate pension underfunding and other debt burdens.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Judge Finds MERS Invalid
02-15-2011
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Ritholtz.com
“MERS and its partners made the decision to create and operate under a business model that was designed in large part to avoid the requirements of the traditional mortgage-recording process. The court does not accept the argument...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Illinois Postpones Bond Sale So That Investors Can Hear Speech By Governor
02-15-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
This doesn't sound good.
Illinois, which is probably the most stressed-out state financially, is postponing a bond sale that was scheduled for Thursday to next week.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Swimming Pool Aquaponics System
02-14-2011
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SMCC
This family turned their old, run-down pool into a thriving aquaponics system, which feeds four. This is food self-sufficiency!
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Join GATA next weekend at the Phoenix conference
02-11-2011
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cpowell, GATA.org
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
With so much of North America frozen solid, there may not be a more prospective place than the Phoenix Resource Investment Conference and Silver Summit next Friday and Saturday, February 18 and 19.
In
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Hugo Tellez
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