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Date Sent: 2009-10-13
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 12, 2009 PM edition |
States: Should We Talk About Secession? -- Dollar Reaches Breaking Point as Banks Shift Reserves
The Allegory of the Swamp by Prester John -- I Nominate Charles Manson
- by Larken Rose -- How to repair Ariz.'s 'broken' government -- Update
on 'Ammo Shortage' - by Alan Korwin -- The Great Global Warming Swindle
-- Flood of foreclosure resales overshadow data -- October Surprise -
Peace Prize to a War Criminal - by Stephen Lendman -- 2012 Isn't the
End of the World, Mayans Insist -- Central Banks Are Dumping Dollars --
Radio eyes peer through walls and darkness -- Global Central Banks Join
The "Short Dollar" Bandwagon -- Money Squandered on the Drug War -- The
Difference Between a Thief and a Congressman - by Walter Williams
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News Link • Economy - International
Govt unveils huge asset sale to cut debt
10-12-2009
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AFP
Prime Minister Brown announced a 16-billion-pound sale of state assets including a high-speed railway and a betting service to cut soaring debt. The 16-billion-pound figure was equivalent to only a weeks' worth of borrowing
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News Link • World News
Biometric tests for Olympic site workers
10-12-2009
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The Observer
London's Olympic Park construction site is to be turned into a "virtual fortress" protected with state-of-the-art biometric security measures that will allow only scanned workers into the compound. Machines capable of hand and iris recognition
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
A Paper Money Horror Story
10-12-2009
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The Business Insider
You better spend your money or else we will Inflate it Away
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News Link • Depression
The 1920 Depression Ended In One Year When Government Did Nothing
10-12-2009
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The Business Insider
In this fascinating speech, economist Thomas Woods explains why you've never heard of the Depression of 1920. Because it was over within a year, as the government let it run its course.
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News Link • Depression
The Next Stage Of Deleveraging Means Return Of The Great Depression
10-12-2009
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The Business Insider
At the FT, economist Thomas Palley goes metaphor crazy arguing that we're heading for a double dip, and that the possibility of a Second Great Depression should not be written off.
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Is The Dollar Doomed?
10-12-2009
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The Market Ticker
When Bloomberg runs articles like this, you have to wonder....
Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing dollars in favor of euros and yen, further pressuring the greenback after its biggest two-quar
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News Link • Energy
Energy crisis is postponed as new gas rescues the world
10-12-2009
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Telegraph
America is not going to bleed its wealth importing fuel. Russia's grip on Europe's gas will weaken. Improvident Britain may avoid paralysing blackouts by mid-decade after all.
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News Link • Environment
What happened to global warming?
10-12-2009
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BBC
This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Uninvited Ombudsman - Update on 'Ammo Shortage' - by Alan Korwin
10-12-2009
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pagenine.typepad.com
"As expected, the end of the ammo shortage is a spotty affair, with readers writing to say that their neck of the woods is still sparse or barren."
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
How to repair Ariz.'s 'broken' government
10-12-2009
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AZCentral.com
That's the question being posed by civic and business leaders, politicos and members of the public as they confront a state Capitol defined by gridlock, distrust and dysfunction.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Flood of foreclosure resales overshadow data
10-12-2009
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AZCentral.com
Home-foreclosure activity has spilled across every geographic and socioeconomic border this year, proving that no community was too cautious, clever or well-funded to remain unscathed.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Environment
The Great Global Warming Swindle
03-10-2007
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YouTube - BBC Television
But just as the environmental lobby think they've got our attention, a group of naysayers have emerged to slay the whole premise of global warming.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • History
Ancient Chinese Contact
10-12-2009
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arclein
Several ancient Chinese literary documents indicate that in pre-Columbian times contact was established with the indigenous people of the Americas. One such encounter is recorded in the Shan Hai King, which was written about 2250 BCE. This document t
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Earthsong
10-12-2009
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arclein
Mapping the mantle
The geophysicists measured the speed of sound in the mantle to depths of 340 km beneath Asia, North and South America and Australia. By combining a large set of data in a form of tomography, they were able to build up velocity m
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News Link • Activism
More than 6000 rally for liberty at Tucson’s Last Stand! with video
10/12/09
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Tucson Tea Party
Thanks to you, Tucson’s Last Stand was a huge success, with the Arizona Daily Star reporting more than 6000 people in attendance! It was one of the biggest political rallies in Arizona history.
(See the end of this article for a roundup of pictures
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News Link • Religion: Believers
God is Not the Creator, Claims Academic
10-12-2009
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Telegraph.co.uk via Rense.com
Professor Ellen van Wolde...claims the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" is not a true translation of the Hebrew.
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Central Banks Are Dumping Dollars
10-12-2009
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The Golden Truth
This should send fear into the hearts and minds of anyone who does not own physical gold and silver - and I'm I don't mean GLD, which is nothing but a pure derivative of gold:
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News Link • Future Predictions
2012 Isn't the End of the World, Mayans Insist
10-12-2009
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MyWay via Rense.com
Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Continental Congress 2009
Barney Frank Is GREAT For Gold!
10-12-2009
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The Golden Truth
Simply stunning, too-insane-to-be-believed, statements from Barney Frank concerning the Government's hopelessly futile attempt to stop the housing market collapse - i.e. override the LAWS of economics
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Obama appoints federal judge too liberal even for Wisconsin
10-12-2009
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American Thinker
He's just getting started. And if this fellow is any indication of the kind of judges we can expect to populate our federal courts, I guarantee you we will spend the next decade or more scratching our heads at the idiotic leftist decisions that will
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News Link • Climate Change
It's Not Just That Global Warming Is Fake. What Matters Is Why This Fakery Is Being Promoted.
10-12-2009
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Gary North
Global warming is based 100% on junk science. The most vocal promoters are not interested in the details of physical science. They are interested in two things: political control over the general public and the establishment of international socialis
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News Link • Humor
Big Bird Calls Bullcrap on Michelle Obama and her Husband the President!
10-12-2009
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YouTube
Conan O'Brian hits one out of the park with this Sesame St. Parody featuring Michelle Obama.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Surveillance
Radio eyes peer through walls and darkness
10-12-2009
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Russia Today
A method of tracking of people’s movements behind walls or total darkness has been developed. Its inventors have come up with dozens of applications, from dealing with hostage crisis to taking care of elder people.
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News Link • Healthcare
Wait for benefits is 3 years if health care passes
10-12-2009
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Yahoo
Under the Democratic bills, federal tax credits to help make health insurance affordable for millions of low- and middle-income households won't start flowing until 2013 " after the next presidential election. But Medicare cuts and a sizable chunk of
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Global Central Banks Join The "Short Dollar" Bandwagon
10-12-2009
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Zero Hedge
A recent piece by Barclay's Steven Englander demonstrates how everybody and the kitchen sink is soundly amused by Geithner's call for a strong dollar. "The IMF Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves data suggest that central banks are doin
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News Link • China
The Mother Of All Bubbles: Lending In China Hits New Low In September
10-12-2009
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Zero Hedge
Some ominous moves out of the Hang Send and the Shanghai Composite overnight which may have everything to do with the latest piece from Caijing, which notes that according to banking sources September lending by China's four largest banks was the low
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News Link • States' Rights
To The States: Should We Talk About Secession?
10-12-2009
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The Market Ticker
'm going to go back to this quote by Barney Frank of the US House, because it says everything those in state and local governments need to know:
Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, sa
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News Link • Drug War
Money Squandered on the Drug War
10-12-2009
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War on Drugs Clock
The U.S. federal government spent over $19 billion dollars in 2003 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $600 per second. The budget has since been increased by over a billion dollars.
Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy
State an
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News Link • Healthcare
Walter E Williams - Patients Need Patience
10-12-2009
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You Tube
Professor Williams explores the wait times for health services patients must endure in countries that have government-run health care.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Ayn Rand - In Defense of Capitalism
10-12-2009
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Liberty Pen
The brilliant mind of Ayn Rand at work explaining the necessity of capitalism to a truly free society.
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Milton Friedman - Socialized Medicine
10-12-2009
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Liberty Pen
Nobel Laureate Economist Milton Friedman explores the unsettling dynamics set into motion when government imposes itself into the health care system. (1978
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
The Difference Between a Thief and a Congressman - Walter E Williams
10-12-2009
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Liberty Pen
The Difference Between a Thief and a Congressman - Walter E Williams
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News Link • Humor
PJTV Salutes Mr. Faithful-Like-A-Trial-Lawyer
10-12-2009
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BlueLoriBlogSpot
What makes these types of things funny is the truth being portrayed in a humorous light that is until you REALIZE what scum bags our politicians are and unless or until you can join together with others to rid us of these vile creatures all you can
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News Link • Race Baiting
Sunstein: Americans too racist for socialism
10-12-2009
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Freedom's Fight/Hat Tip Liberty Pulse
The U.S. should move in the direction of socialism but the country's "white majority" opposes welfare since such programs largely would benefit minorities, especially blacks and Hispanics, argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cas
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News Link • Obama Administration
Warmonger Wins Peace Prize
10-12-2009
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Buchanon Hat Tip Liberty Pulse
It took 25 years longer than George Orwell thought for the slogans of 1984 to become reality.
“War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” “Ignorance is Strength.
I would add, “Lie is Truth.”
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News Link • Obama Administration
Living Colour Cult of Personality
10-12-2009
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Living Colour/Liberty Pulse/W.C.Varones
Neon lights, a Nobel Prize
The mirror speaks, the reflection lies
I sell the things you need to be
I’m the smiling face on your t.v.
I’m the cult of personality
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dollar facing 'power-shift': analysts
10-12-2009
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BreitBart.com
A report last week in The Independent claiming that China, Russia and Gulf States are among nations prepared to ditch the dollar for oil trades has heightened the uncertainty surrounding the US currency's future.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Hip-Hop Gold Bugs Against the Fed
10-12-2009
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Reason
From a blog titled "Where Hip-Hop and Libertarianism Meet," a rapper's case against the Federal Reserve:
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dollar Reaches Breaking Point as Banks Shift Reserves (Update2)
10-12-2009
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Bloomberg.com
Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing dollars in favor of euros and yen, further pressuring the greenback after its biggest two- quarter rout in almost two decades.
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News Link • Humor
Obama joker masks for Halloween
10-12-2009
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Acorn Souveniers (HT Liberty Pulse)
Perfect for Halloween, Town Hall Events and all your Community Organizing needs! Why so Socialist? Stimulus priced....NO JOKE
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Predictive programming (Brain Washing) in advertising
10/12/2009
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Godlikeproductions.com
predictive programming in advertising - deception - control - attention - mindset
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News Link • Free Speech
Hate Crimes Bill sneaks through U.S. House.
10/12/09
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Mission Network
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a controversial Hate Crimes Bill late last week in a 281-146 vote, with 131 Republicans and 15 Democrats objecting to the measure.
The legislation adds sexual orientation to the list of groups under the prot
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News Link • Humor
PJTV: Andrew Klavan asks, 'Is Barack Obama Jesus Christ?'
10-11-2009
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You Tube
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