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Date Sent: 2010-02-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 19, 2010 |
Austin Plane Crash: Was This a Deliberate Act? -- China Will Keep Trimming Treasurys: Jim Rogers
FBI Knew Austin Plane Crash Was Coming -- Hazmat Teams In Place Before Austin Plane Crash -- Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Federal Currency -- Ruin Your Day with Bumper Hornberger and AntiWar's Scott Horton -- Report touts benefits of marijuana -- Alex Jones Predicts Austin False Flag Weeks Ago -- Jim Rogers: The US And China Are on a Serious Political Collision Course -- France Steps Closer to Internet Police State -- Unemployment Claims Increase to 473,000 -- Toyota and the Union-Backed, Government-Led Witch Hunt -- The Mysterious Death of Bush's Cyber-Guru, Michael Connell -- U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer to step down -- Clintons plotting tea party counter attack?
AZ: Paint Barry Hess' campaign bus in time for the DOI
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News Link • TERRORISM
Austin, Texas Plane Crash: Was This a Deliberate Act?
02-18-2010
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Fox News
A small plane crashed Thursday into a multistory office building in what what authorities said may have been a deliberate act by a man upset with the Internal Revenue Service.
(READ SUICIDE NOTE HERE)
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
China Will Keep Trimming Treasurys: Jim Rogers
02-18-2010
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CNBC
China's move to reduce its holding of US debt is likely to continue in the long term while the "euro scare" may last a while, legendary investor Jim Rogers told CNBC.com Wednesday.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
"Only 21% Say U.S. Government Has Consent of the Governed
02-18-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
He adds that “the gap between Americans who want to govern themselves and the 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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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Ruin Your Day with Bumper Hornberger and AntiWar's Scott Horton
02-18-2010
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AntiWar.com
Scott Horton and Jacob "Bumper" Hornberger discuss terrorism trials, torture, extraordinary rendition, assassination, and their implications on American life going forward.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
South Carolina Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Federal Currency
02-17-2010
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CBS News
South Carolina Rep. Mike Pitts has introduced legislation that would mandate that gold and silver coins replace federal currency as legal tender in his state.
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Matt Hendley
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News Link • Obama Administration
College Acquaintance: Young Obama Was ‘Pure Marxist Socialist’
02-16-2010
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WOR-AM/WTNT-AM
"He definitely saw America as the enemy."
Editor's note: The B-Cast conducted an hour-long interview with John C. Drew last Friday. That extended interview can be found in the related links section below.
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Reported by:
Matt Hendley
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News Link • Activism
Ballad of Muffler Marv Video: Muffler Marv Marvin Heemeyer’s Armored Plated Bulldozer Rampage
02-18-2010
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RidesAPaleHorse
A modern-day tale of Komatsu populism. The saga of “Muffler Marv” Marvin Heemeyer, the man who went on a rampage against the town of Granby Colorado in June of 2004. Two videos a year in the making.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Alex Jones Predicts Austin False Flag Weeks Ago
02-18-2010
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Alex Jones/Staff at Infowars
Alex Jones announced on February 8, 2010 that a false flag would occur in Austin in order to demonize the T-Party and patriotic movements. As usual, he's right. Readers are taking bets in the Comments Section of the article posted at Infowars.com.
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Reported by:
Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Karl Denninger: This Is How It Begins (Wanton Violence)
02-18-2010
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market-ticker.denninger.net/
Should the people come to the conclusion that The Government is in fact a felon - should there be no enforcement at the state level, no real move to "take back" authority vested in The Constitution, returning it to the states and to rein in the crook
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Simon makes $10 billion hostile bid for General Growth
02-18-2010
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Google Search
Simon Property Group, the nation's largest shopping mall owner, announced Tuesday a hostile $10 billion bid for General Growth Properties. (Worthless Commercial Real Estate comp. buying more worthless real estate????)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Report touts benefits of marijuana
02-18-2010
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AP
The first U.S. clinical trials in more than 2 decades on the medical benefits of marijuana confirm pot is effective in reducing muscle spasms associated with multiple sclerosis and pain caused by certain neurological injuries or illnesses, according
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Plane hits: 'Whoosh, a roar and a boom'
02-18-2010
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KXAN Texas - Austin
A small plane crashed into a business tower that houses some federal offices in Austin on Thursday morning, engulfing the entire front half of the seven-story building in flames.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • China
Jim Rogers: The US And China Are on a Serious Political Collision Course
02-18-2010
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businessinsider.com/
In a grainy, video interview with Russia Today, Jim Rogers expresses his fear that the US and China are on a permanent collision course -- the latest Dalai Lama fracas being the latest example.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
China Dumping US Treasury Bonds!
02-18-2010
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Charles Goyette CNBC.com
What Message is China Sending with a $34 Billion Drop in it Holdings of US Government Debt? A lesson needs to be learned about what happens when the government get in the practice of doing favors....
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Charles Goyette
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Aldous Huxley: The Ultimate Revolution
02-18-2010
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InformationClearingHouse.info
There has been a definite improvement in the, even in the techniques of terrorism. But then we come to the consideration of other techniques, non-terroristic techniques, for inducing consent and inducing people to love their servitude.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
France Steps Closer to Internet Police State
02-18-2010
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spiegel.de/international/
For civil rights activists and politicians from opposition parties, it is a plan for censorship that excites fear and loathing -- and even conjures up the specter of Big Brother and the surveillance state.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
No Housing Boom This Decade: 5 Factors Will Drag Housing Down
02-18-2010
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DoctorHousingBubble.com
Many college grads are moving back home because they have no job. Forget about buying, these recent grads can’t even afford a rental. So the vacancy rate in rentals and housing units is at record levels.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Taibbi: "Goldman Raped The Taxpayer, And Raped Their Clients"
02-18-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
They simply took the money they borrowed from the government at zero percent and lent it back to the government by buying Treasury bills that paid interest of three or four percent. It was basically a license to print money
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Increase to 473,000
02-18-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
In the week ending Feb. 13, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 473,000, an increase of 31,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 442,000.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Beware July
02-18-2010
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www.economicpolicyjournal.com
If there is one month to fear this coming year, it would have to be July. The financial sector is very unstable and all hell could break loose at anytime, but July has special problems.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Propaganda
Toyota and the Union-Backed, Government-Led Witch Hunt
02-18-2010
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by Brian Johnson for LewRockwell.com
Toyota suddenly becomes the target of a government-led witch hunt? Toyota’s U.S. operations are extremely successful, not saturated by inefficient union monopolies, and are in direct competition with the now government-owned General Motors.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
The Mysterious Death of Bush's Cyber-Guru " Michael Connell
02-18-2010
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by James aka adap2k via LewRockwell.com
But it was while serving as tech guru to Karl Rove that Connell developed his deepest and perhaps most problematic professional relationship. Recruited in the late ’80s, Connell became Rove’s most trusted cyberlieutenant: a Web wizard who could turn
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TAXES: State
States Must Fill $1 Trillion Pension Gap
02-17-2010
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AP
States may be forced to reduce benefits, raise taxes or slash government services to address a $1 trillion funding shortfall in public sector retirement benefits, according to a new study that warns of even more debilitating costs if immediate action
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer to step down in July
02-18-2010
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Washington Post
"Copenhagen did not provide us with a clear agreement in legal terms, but the political commitment and sense of direction toward a low-emissions world are overwhelming. This calls for new partnerships with the business sector and I now have the chanc
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • History
Early Waterway links Atlantic and Pacific
02-18-2010
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arclein
An explorer claims to have found evidence of another, more ancient, water route between the oceans " one that existed hundreds of years before the Panama Canal was conceived.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Flying Dragons
02-18-2010
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arclein
hey show an amazing species of gliding lizard which basically looks like a miniature dragon. Fans of the film Avatar will be reminded of the flying Toruks.
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Greenland Ice Loss Attributed to Warming Seas
02-18-2010
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arclein
They found deep water streaming into the fjord was 3.0-4.0 degrees Celsius (37.4-39.2 degrees Fahrenheit), warm enough to cut into the base of the glaciers and hasten their plunge into the sea.
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robert klein
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News Link • Bill of Rights
The Restore America Plan
02-18-2010
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Author
Visit http://guardiansofthefreerepublics.com/front-page.html . Read and listen to the information offered. If you agree then volunteer.
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Jim Palmisano
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Clintons plotting tea party counter attack?
02-18-2010
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Breitbart & unknown source
Big Government has learned that Clintonistas are plotting a “push/pull” strategy. They plan to identify 7-8 national figures active in the tea party movement and engage in deep opposition research on them. If possible, they will identify one or two t
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Found Zero
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