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Date Sent: 2010-12-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 1, 2010 PM edition |
US Senate passes the Patriot Act for Food, S510, by a vote of 73 to 25
Afghan president Hamid Karzai pardoned cops dealing heroin, cable reveals -- Big Polluters Freed from Environmental Oversight by Stimulus -- CIA implanted electrodes in brains of unsuspecting soldiers, suit alleges -- More than 8 million drop out of credit card use -- Authoritarianism in the US: Land of the Free? Maybe Not for Long... -- Greenpeace takes ‘corporate spies’ to federal court -- New Jersey man serving 7 years for guns he owned legally -- Pakistan tribesman ‘to sue CIA’ over drone deaths --
Leaked cable reveals US-Israeli strategy for regime change in Iran --
Foreclosure-Gate: Bank of America Mortgage Morass Deepens -- New US Army rifles uses radio-controlled smart bullets
-- Anonymous Cowards Quiet Brave Blogger John Tyner -- Karl Denninger:
Debt Overhang and Collective Realization -- Case Shiller Confirms
Housing Market Deterioration Accelerates -- WikiLeaks Hit By Powerful Cyber-Attack
-- Foreclosure-Gate: Is Servicer-Driven Foreclosures The Perfect Crime?
-- Foreclosure-Gate and The Fed: You Will Pay To Be Raped --
Lockheedville 2010 Anti-war Protest -- The New York Times Again Censoring WikiLeaks - by Stephen Lendman -- Corporate Bond Sales Collapse -- Wikileaks Next Target: "A Big US Bank"
AZ: 2010
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News Link • Food
US Senate passes the Patriot Act for Food, S510, by a vote of 73 to 25
11-30-2010
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thepeoplesvoice.org
"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt." ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Senate Passes Overhaul of Food Safety Regulations
11-30-2010
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GARDINER HARRIS, The New York Times
The Senate on Tuesday passed a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s food-safety system, after tainted eggs, peanut butter and spinach sickened thousands and led major food makers to join consumer advocates in demanding stronger government oversight.
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan president Hamid Karzai pardoned cops dealing heroin, cable reveals
11-30-2010
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AFP
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered the release of numerous dangerous criminals and drug traffickers detained by US-led coalition forces, leaked American diplomatic cables revealed Tuesday.
American officials said they repeatedly rebuked the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Big Polluters Freed from Environmental Oversight by Stimulus
11-30-2010
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Center for Public Integrity
In the name of job creation, the Obama administration doled out billions of dollars in stimulus money to some of the nation’s biggest polluters and granted them sweeping exemptions from the most basic form of environmental oversight,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
CIA implanted electrodes in brains of unsuspecting soldiers, suit alleges
11-30-2010
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Rawstory
A group of military veterans are suing to get the CIA to come clean about allegedly implanting remote control devices in their brains. It's well known that the CIA began testing substances like LSD on soldiers beginning in the 1950s but less is known
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
More than 8 million drop out of credit card use
11-30-2010
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AP
More than 8 million consumers stopped using credit cards over the past year. The decline stems from a combination of consumer choices and bank actions.
An analysis by credit reporting agency TransUnion found that use of general purpose credit card
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Authoritarianism in the US: Land of the Free? Maybe Not for Long...
11-30-2010
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Elliottwave.com
Socionomist Alan Hall’s research shows that an authoritarian/anti-authoritarian battle is brewing around the world, and that participants are choosing sides. Eventually, he says, the conflict will turn incendiary.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Authoritarianism in the US: Land of the Free? Maybe Not for Long...
11-30-2010
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elliottwave.com
Socionomist Alan Hall’s research shows that an authoritarian/anti-authoritarian battle is brewing around the world, and that participants are choosing sides. Eventually, he says, the conflict will turn incendiary.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Greenpeace takes ‘corporate spies’ to federal court
11-30-2010
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Rawstory
The American branch of an international environmental group is suing two chemical companies, their PR firms, and the private investigators they hired allegedly for spying and racketteering.
“The message of this lawsuit is: when companies engage in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
New Jersey man serving 7 years for guns he owned legally
11-30-2010
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Philadelphia Daily News
No one blames Sue Aitken for Brian's arrest, except herself maybe, but his father and attorney claim the County Prosecutor's Office and the former Superior Court judge who tried the case ignored evidence that proved Brian had the guns legally.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
If This Be Treason …
11-30-2010
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C4SS / Thomas L. Knapp
[Wikileaks is] not a state, nor do its principals evince any intention of making it one. Truth is its entire portfolio, and this drives the Hillary Clintons of the world insane.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Pakistan tribesman ‘to sue CIA’ over drone deaths
11-30-2010
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AFP
A Pakistani tribesman is seeking $500 million dollars in compensation from the CIA after his son and brother were killed in America's covert drone war against Al-Qaeda, his lawyer said. Kareem Khan said his house was hit by US missiles on December 31
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Leaked cable reveals US-Israeli strategy for regime change in Iran
11-30-2010
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Rawstory
According to a diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks, in August 2007 the head of Israel's intelligence agency urged US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, R. Nicholas Burns, to join with Israel to implement regime change in Iran.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Bank of America Mortgage Morass Deepens
11-30-2010
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Bloomberg.com
Linda DeMartini, said during a U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearing in Camden last year that it was routine for the lender to keep mortgage promissory notes even after loans were bundled by the thousands into bonds and sold to investors
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
New US Army rifles uses radio-controlled smart bullets
11-30-2010
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dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/
Weapon hailed as a game-changer that can fire up and over barriers and down into trenches
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Abigail Doolittle: Something's Gotta Give
11-30-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
- The phenomenon of “monetizing the debt” is nicely captured by the combined and long-term picture of the dollar and the 10-year Treasury yield. Specifically, it looks unsustainable.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Anonymous Cowards Quiet Brave Blogger John Tyner
11-30-2010
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der Blaustrumpf
Recognize the familiar pattern: those who challenge authority must be feminized and then destroyed.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Karl Denninger: Debt Overhang and Collective Realization
11-30-2010
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Market-ticker.org
The people responsible for this know what they're doing is not only wrong, they know factually that it cannot work in the intermediate and long run. They don't care. They're only interested in their ability to loot.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Case Shiller Confirms Housing Market Deterioration Accelerates
11-30-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The national index is down 1.5% from the third quarter of last year and 15 of 20 cities are down over the last 12 months.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
WikiLeaks Hit By Powerful Cyber-Attack
11-30-2010
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CBS News
The WikiLeaks website says it’s under a forceful Internet-based attack, and the site was inaccessible to some users in U.S. and Europe throughout the morning Tuesday.
The site, which just distributed a trove of U.S. diplomatic documents, said in a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Is Servicer-Driven Foreclosures The Perfect Crime?
11-30-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/
One thing they stress is that a significant number of their clients facing foreclosure has made every single mortgage payment. Read that again.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Foreclosure-Gate and The Fed: You Will Pay To Be Raped - Part 2
11-30-2010
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Nytimes.com/
Now, despite mounting evidence of borrower mistreatment, the Federal Reserve has proposed a rule that would disable the most effective legal tool that borrowers have to fight foreclosures.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Foreclosure-Gate and The Fed: You Will Pay To Be Raped -Part 1
11-30-2010
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Market-ticker.org
In short, what this means is that if the bank violated black-letter law in making a loan to you the change would require you to pay off the entire principal before you could assert your rights and remedies.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Lockheedville 2010 Anti-war Protest
11-30-2010
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The International Libertarian
The Brandywine Peace Community held a protest on November 27, 2010 at the defense contractor, Lockheed Martin, property in King of Prussia, PA, outside of Philadelphia. About ten protesters attended.
This libertarian had some good conversations wi
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Just For Fun!
WOW - This is cool......
11-30-2010
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YouTube
Take 3 minutes to enjoy this young boy play Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs. Robinson. Anyone who plays guitar knows this style of playing is very difficult, but he does it with ease. It will quiet your soul (at least for a few minutes)....
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Plastisoil to Displace Concrete
11-3
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arclein
A new cement-like material that could be used to form sidewalks, bike and jogging paths, driveways and parking lots, may be able to lessen two environmental problems, namely plastic waste and polluted rainwater runoff. The substance is called Plastis
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Controled Defects in Graphene
11-30-2010
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arclein
A computational study by Rassin Grantab and Vivek Shenoy at Brown University and Rodney Ruoff at the University of Texas at Austin reveals that graphene sheets with highly misaligned boundaries are actually stronger than slightly misaligned ones. As
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Brain Mirroring Discovery
11-30-2010
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arclein
Only recently, however, with the discover of mirror neurons, has it become clear just how this powerful sharing of experience is realized within the human brain. In the early 1990's Giacomo Rizzolatti and his colleagues at the University of Parma di
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Aging Directly Reversed
11-30-2010
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arclein
"What we saw in these animals was not a slowing down or stabilisation of the ageing process. We saw a dramatic reversal " and that was unexpected," said Ronald DePinho, who led the study, which was published in the journal Nature.
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robert klein
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News Link • Homeland Security
Sealed With a Kiss
11-30-2010
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Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers
Unbeknownst to most Americans, I'm sure, people outside of the USA can no longer mail you packages if that package weighs more than 1 pound (453 grams). That's the total weight including packaging. One pound is not very heavy.
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Corporate Bond Sales Collapse
11-29-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Bernanke's QE II policy did nothing for jobs, nothing for bank lending, nothing for the real economy and had negative benefits for small businesses. However, the Fed did ignite a rally in the stock market and corporate bonds.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Wikileaks Next Target: "A Big US Bank"
11-29-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
When will it happen?
Early next year. I won’t say more.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Karl Denninger on Russia Today: The Coming Austerity
11-29-2010
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YouTube.com
In this Russia Today interview Karl Denninger talks about the austerity that is soon to be unleashed on an unsuspecting American public. An austerity that will crush them like Robert De Niro was in the classic Raging Bull...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
"California Dreaming" A Film By Bregtje van der Haak
11-29-2010
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Maxkeiser.com & YouTube.com
In this Russia today interview by Max Keiser, Bregtje van der Haak explains the mindset of Californians suffering thru the worst economy in over 70 years. They believe that the people who destroyed them are winners, and they are losers...
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Jack Gregson
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