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Date Sent: 2011-08-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, August 24, 2011 PM edition |
With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas
Sen. McCain promised to help Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware -- Adam vs The Man Canceled... FEC - Foreign Corporations - Ron Paul Support etc. -- US Government Asset Seizures On The Rise -- BofA Threatens Foreclosure On Elderly Couple Who Paid Mortgage Early -- Freedom delayed for years for prisoners deemed wrongfully convicted -- Mass. Bankruptcy Judge Voids Foreclosure Of MERS Mortgage -- More on
the Opacity of Bank of America’s Financial Statements -- Germany May Want PIIGS Gold as Security for ‘Bailouts’ -- TED Spread: 3-month LIBOR greater than 2 year treasury yield! -- Obama's Wars on Humanity -- Libya War: It Ain't Over Till It's Over -- Family Awarded $333K After Police Killed Dog --
AZ: Freedom Musician JORDAN PAGE at Hancock's Friday night 6 p.m. Potluck; Jordan Page to perform in
Quartzsite August 27th (donate) Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite, AZ on August 27th,
bring your cameras; RON PAUL 2012, Street Demonstration, Street Signing
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas
08-24-2011
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AP
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the New York Police Department has become one of the nation's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies, targeting ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware
08-24-2011
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Rawstory
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) promised to help former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware, as one of the United States' partners in the war on terror, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable released Wednesday by anti-secrecy website
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Freedom Musician JORDAN PAGE at Hancock's TONIGHT 6 p.m. Potluck
08-24-2011
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Meetup.com
Freedom Musician JORDAN PAGE will be in town Friday night at the Hancock's before traveling to Quartzsite on Saturday for the Oathkeepers Liberty Fest.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bill of Rights
US Government Asset Seizures On The Rise
08-24-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Look, this is the new reality in America. The entire country has become a nation of criminals" there isn’t a single man, woman, or child alive who is not in violation of some obscure regulation or cannot be ‘suspected’ of wrongdoing.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Big Banks: Under-Capitalized, Overexposed, Opaque
08-24-2011
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Ritholtz.com
The massive injection of liquidity temporarily salved the day-to-day operations of banks, but they did not repair what ailed our financial institutions.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
Operation Mermaid Dawn and the Myrmidons
08-24-2011
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Liberty Cap Press
The name of the Tripoli take-over, "Operation Mermaid Dawn," contains several layers of mythological symbolism, not the least being because "Mermaid Dawn" sound so similar to "Myrmidon," the "ant-men," a race of robotic soldiers. According to
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Tracy Twyman
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Devastating U.S. Jobs Famine Is Going To Suck The Hope Right Out Of America
08-24-2011
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InfoWars.com/
Do you have friends, neighbors and relatives that can’t find work? Well, unfortunately the current U.S. jobs famine is about to get a whole lot worse.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
The Gap Between Americans Who Want To Govern Themselves And...
08-24-2011
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Washingtonsblog.com
“The Gap Between Americans Who Want To Govern Themselves And Politicians Who Want To Rule Over Them May Be As Big Today As The Gap Between The Colonies And England During The 18th Century...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
BofA Threatens Foreclosure On Elderly Couple Who Paid Mortgage Early
08-24-2011
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Businessinsider.com
ABC News reports that the bank made a mistake earlier this year, by initiating the foreclosure process on an elderly couple that had the audacity to submit a mortgage payment a week early.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
The Type of Food that Will Slow Nearly EVERY Inflammatory Disease...
08-24-2011
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Mercola.com
Enzymes drive biological processes necessary for your body to build raw materials, circulate nutrients, eliminate unwanted chemicals, and the myriad of other biochemical processes that go on without your even thinking about it. Videos included...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Relief delayed for prisoners deemed wrongfully convicted
08-24-2011
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LA Times
U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson failed for years to rule on a number of eligible habeas corpus petitions. In one case, the prisoner died in the sixth year of the judge's inaction.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
The Myth of the Voluntary Military - by Jeffrey A. Tucker
08-24-2011
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Mises Institute
Every society includes people willing to act as the coercive arm of the state, those who are willing to use violence and freely risk their lives as they administer the law. The state has no great trouble recruiting policemen and prison guards.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Mass. Bankruptcy Judge Voids Foreclosure Of MERS Mortgage
08-24-2011
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Ritholtz.com
A federal bankruptcy court on Monday issued a ruling calling into question the very ability to foreclose upon a MERS-held mortgage.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
US Mortgage Purchase Applications at 15-Year Low
08-24-2011
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CNBC.com
U.S. home mortgage applications for purchases fell to a nearly 15-year low last week as resurgent worries about the strength of the economy kept buyers at bay, an industry group said on Wednesday.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Amnesty for the Indefensible
08-24-2011
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TruthDig.com
They will get away with it, at least in this life. “They” are the Wall Street usurers, people of a sort condemned in Scripture, who have brought more misery to this nation than we have known since the Great Depression.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
More on the Opacity of Bank of America’s Financial Statements
08-24-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
Amusingly, BofA took issue with my post yesterday, but they didn’t contact me. Instead, they hectored Henry Blodget. Rather weird and frankly a bit cowardly...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • European Union
Germany May Want PIIGS Gold as Security for ‘Bailouts’
08-24-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
All major currencies are lower against gold today with the Japanese downgrade and concerns about global growth taking their toll on Asian stock markets. While European indices have eked out gains, some selling of peripheral European debt...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
TED Spread: 3-month LIBOR greater than 2 year treasury yield!
08-24-2011
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The Political Commentator
TED Spread revisited as the yield of 3-month LIBOR and the 2-year US treasury invert!
What is the TED Spread? This from The Political Commentator back in July:
"As a barometer of the "flight to quality" of funds around the world, the TED Sprea
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Food
Will Allen's Food Freedom
08-24-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Will Allen is the Joel Salatin of the urban landscape. He's a worm farmer, and a hero for independence, voluntaryism, and self-sufficiency. He inspires inner city young folks to break their dependency on food convenience and become self-sufficient.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Surviving an earthquake
08-24-2011
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The Political Commentator
Surviving an earthquake takes on new meaning after 5.8 magnitude quake hit's Virginia!
We expect a lot of things on the east coast, but an earthquake is typically not one of them. I was sitting at my desk on the first floor of a five story buildi
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Family Awarded $333K After Police Killed Dog
8-24-2011
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NBC
A jury awarded a Chicago family $333,000 for the death of their dog at the hands of Chicago police.
In February 2009, Thomas Russell III and his brother, Darren, claimed they heard several police officers executing a narcotics warrant in their
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News Link • Science
Why Giant Bugs Roamed
08-24-2011
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arclein
becoming terrestrial adults. Higher concentrations of oxygen in air would have meant higher concentrations dissolved in water.
I hate to be picky, but this is unlikely to be true at all.
The results showed that juvenile stoneflies are more sens
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Whole Spectrum Invisibility
08-24-2011
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arclein
The usual approach to designing an invisibility cloak works on the basis of bending light ― using highly specific materials ― around an object that you wish to conceal, thereby preventing the light from hitting the object and reveali
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Life Giving Deep Sea Hydrogen
08-24-2011
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arclein
When seawater interacts with hot rock and rising magma, it becomes superheated, dissolving minerals out of the Earth's crust. At hydrothermal vents, this superheated energy-laden seawater gushes back out into the ocean at temperatures of up to 400
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robert klein
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News Link • Libya
End of An Arab Dictator
08-24-2011
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arclein
The seizure of the compound sparked celebrations by the rebel fighters, who fired their weapons in the air before raiding the armoury and seizing ammunition, pistols and assault rifles.
"It is an incredible sight," the correspondent said, addi
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robert klein
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
'The Anarchists Are Coming! The Anarchists Are Coming!'
08-23-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Tthe City of Westminster published a warning to the general public, urging them to report persons with anarchist views. "Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary and harmful, and instead promotes a statel
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Compiled Terrorism in USA Database points to FBI
08-23-2011
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Mother Jones
The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic attack. But are they busting terrorist plots"or leading them?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
FBI organizes almost all terror plots in the US
08-23-2011
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Russia Today
The Federal Bureau of Investigation employs upwards of 15,000 undercover agents today, ten times what they had on the roster back in 1975.
If you think that’s a few spies too many " spies earning as much as $100,000 per assignment " one doesn’t ha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
SUPREME COURT RULED OFFICER GAINS PROBABLE CAUSE AFTER CONSENSUAL ENCOUNTER WITH CITIZEN
07/29/2010
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Google Scholar
Under appropriate circumstances, a law enforcement officer who previously lacked even reasonable suspicion to detain, by discovering a valid warrant, gains probable cause not just to detain, but to arrest. If an officer engaging in a consensual enco
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Michele Power
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