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Date Sent: 2011-02-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, February 24, 2011 PM edition |
Obama requests $1.3 billion in military aid to post-Mubarak Egypt
What does “social justice” mean? - by Craig Cantoni -- US charges Saudi national for trying to build bomb to kill Bush -- Brent backs off $120 a barrel oil, eyes on Libyan, Saudi supply -- Kathleen Sebelius Issues ObamaCare Waivers to…HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES!! -- Foreclosure-Gate Whitewash: $20 Billion “Get Out of Jail Free” Settlement Floated -- AZC4L Tickets to Special Private Briefing with Dr. Paul -- UK court approves extradition of WikiLeaks' Assange -- Stagflation 2011: Why It Is Here And Why It Is Going To Be Very Painful -- Foreclosure Homes Sold at 28% Discount Last Year as Supply Grew -- Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
-- New Home Sales Plunge In January To One Of The Worst Months On
Record -- Congress May Pull Plug on Three Programs Designed To Save
Housing -- Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda -- Bakken Revolution and End of the Oil Age -- Seattle restaurant puts TSA workers on no-eat list -- Anti-government extremist groups on rise in US: study -- Harley-Davidson To Build Bikes In India -- MERS Set To Savage The American Homeowner Once Again -- Housing: Warnings Aplenty From the 'Father' of Securitization -- Geithner: U.S. economy much stronger position than it was two years ago -- The $220 a Barrel Oil Call and the Risk Trade -- Union Busting in America
AZ: Ron Paul speaks in
Phoenix, Sat., Feb. 26 for Tea Party event; "Iranium" Screening tonight
Christine Smith USTREAM Show -
Friday, Feb. 25
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama requests $1.3 billion in military aid
to post-Mubarak Egypt
02-23-2011
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World Tribune
WASHINGTON " The United States has approved the launch of its first military project in Egypt in wake of the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • Bush Administration
US charges Saudi national for trying to build bomb to kill Bush
02-24-2011
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Reuters
U.S. authorities have arrested a 20-year-old Saudi national on charges he tried to use a weapon of mass destruction and potentially targeted former President George W. Bush, the Justice Department said on Thursday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Brent backs off $120 a barrel oil, eyes on Libyan, Saudi supply
02-24-2011
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Reuters
Oil surged more than 7.5% to its highest since August 2008 on concern that uprisings in Libya could spread to other major oil producers in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia. Brent crude oil for April spiked up $8.54 a barrel to a peak of $119.7
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Kathleen Sebelius Issues ObamaCare Waivers to…HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES!!
02-24-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
Is there something inherently ironic about this scenario? Scary Kathleen Sebelius, AKA The White Witch, in her capacity as Director of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued waivers to TEN health insurance companies. These wa
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Reported by:
Rich Hilts
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate Whitewash: $20 Billion “Get Out of Jail Free” Settlement Floated
02-24-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
The mortgage “settlement” trial balloon floated in the Wall Street Journal this evening is an offense to common sense and decency. Notice how the word “fraud” is pretty much verboten in the MSM; the latest code word for what went awry is “breakdown”.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Whistleblowers
UK court approves extradition of WikiLeaks' Assange
02-24-2011
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Reuters
A British court gave the go-ahead for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited to Sweden where he is accused of sex crimes. Lawyers for Assange, who has angered the US government by releasing thousands of secret US diplomatic cables on his w
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stagflation 2011: Why It Is Here And Why It Is Going To Be Very Painful
02-24-2011
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TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com/
Are you ready for an economy that has high inflation and high unemployment at the same time? Well, welcome to "Stagflation 2011". Stagflation exists when inflation and unemployment are both at high levels at the same time.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure Homes Sold at 28% Discount Last Year as Supply Grew
02-24-2011
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Bloomberg.com
Homes in the foreclosure process sold at an average 28 percent discount last year and may continue to drive down U.S. housing prices as the supply of distressed properties grows, according to RealtyTrac Inc.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
02-24-2011
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Rollingstone.com
"My job in psy-ops is to play with people’s heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave. I’m prohibited from doing that to our own people. When you ask me to use these skills on senators and congressman, you’re crossing a line."
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
New Home Sales Plunge In January To One Of The Worst Months On Record
02-24-2011
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CNBC.com & BusinessInsider.com
The Commerce Department said sales tumbled 12.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted 284,000 unit annual rate after a downwardly revised 325,000-unit pace in December.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday Feb 24th 2011
02-24-2011
Want an Offshore Account? - Who's Behind the World's Current Revolutions? - Much Higher Inflation Is Coming - Understanding the Power Players -
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Congress May Pull Plug on Three Programs Designed To Save Housing
02-24-2011
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CNBC.com
"In an era of record-breaking deficits, it's time to pull the plug on these programs that are actually doing more harm than good for struggling homeowners," Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus said in a statement.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Propaganda
Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda
02-24-2011
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PCworld.com & BlackListedNews.com
It's been revealed that the U.S. government contracted HBGary Federal for the development of software which could create multiple fake social media profiles to manipulate and sway public opinion on controversial issues by promoting propaganda.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cellphone Radiation Increases Brain Activity
02-24-2011
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arclein
“It’s a really even-handed look at this problem, and it shows a small effect that scales with exposure,” said Kabat, author of the book Hyping Health Risks.
Cellphones use ultra-high-frequency radio waves to connect with telecommunications network
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Carlin Trend Model Advance
02-24-2011
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arclein
The deposits, known as Carlin-type gold deposits, are characterized by extremely fine-grained nanometer-sized particles of gold adhered to pyrite over large areas that can extend to great depths. More gold has been mined from Carlin-type deposits in
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Bakken Revolution and End of the Oil Age
02-24-2011
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arclein
New horizontal multifrac drilling is expected to raise U.S. production by at least 20 percent over the next five years. And within 10 years, it could help reduce oil imports by more than half, advancing a goal that has long eluded policymakers.
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Kenyan Fishery Recovery
02-24-2011
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arclein
Dr. Caleb McClennen, Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Marine Program, said: "This important comparison of various fisheries management systems over time demonstrates the critical need to move past unregulated open-access fishing in r
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • United Nations
United Nations is Ineffectual Where They are Needed Most!
02-24-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
The United Nations has recently decided that they need to establish a Social Protection Floor for the 80% of the entire worlds’ population that are evidently suffering from abject poverty. They have decided they can do this with a minimal contributi
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Reported by:
Rich Hilts
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Security Budget vs. the Necessities of Americans
02-22-2011
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Kevin Zeese, Huffington Post
President Obama and the Congress have taken 66% of discretionary spending in the federal budget off the table -- the Security Budget -- while proposing a freeze to the rest of the budget and deep cuts to some programs that provide necessities for the
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Seattle restaurant puts TSA workers on no-eat list
02-24-2011
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Rawstory
A restaurant near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is so tired of the way the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been treating their customers that they've actually banned agents from eating at the establishment.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Anti-government extremist groups on rise in US: study
02-24-2011
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AFP
Membership in anti-government extremist groups continues to explode in the United States amid frustration over the lagging economy and the "mainstreaming of conspiracy theories," a study released Wednesday found.
After nearly tripling in 2009 in t
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Harley-Davidson To Build Bikes In India
02-24-2011
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financialexpress.com
In what could be construed as triumph of corporate interest over national interest, the iconic Harley-Davidson bike will now not just be merely assembled, but fully built in India " lock, stock and barrel.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
MERS Set To Savage The American Homeowner Once Again
02-24-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
In short, this man, is confident that the government will do all it can in its power, regardless of the evidence, to assure that MERS and its members are allowed to proceed as they wish because of the potential financial costs.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Housing: Warnings Aplenty From the 'Father' of Securitization
02-24-2011
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CNBC.com
“If we go from 1.2 to 2.5 million foreclosures, the system will come apart at the seams. Putting that many people out of their houses, causing that kind of destruction…because remember, we have hundreds of thousands of vacant houses…a vacant...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Geithner: U.S. economy much stronger position than it was two years ago
02-24-2011
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Bloomberg.com
“By really almost any measure you look at, the economy is just gradually getting stronger,” Geithner said.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
The $220 a Barrel Oil Call and the Risk Trade
02-24-2011
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CNBC.com
Oil could hit $220 a barrel if "Libya and Algeria were to halt oil production together," analysts at Nomura investment bank predicted.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Your Biometrics and High End Fashion: Selling The Emotional Connection
02-24-2011
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NYtimes.com
Here on the outskirts of Milan, I.B.M. is working on a way to mesh retail and technology that, if successful, will produce a new market for its technology and place biometrics " in the forefront of retail marketing.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • United Nations
The United Nations Imposing SOCIAL JUSTICE on the World!
02-23-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
February 20, 2011 was "World Day of Social Justice". Of course, this was marked and celebrated by that factory of "Social Justice", the United Nations.
The U. N., according to a CNSNews.com article from today, is calling for a "new era" in
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Reported by:
Rich Hilts
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News Link • Iran
"Iranium" Screening
02-23-2011
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their last meeting in Feburary, Phoenix Objectivists will host a free screening of the controversial documentary "Iranium".
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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